Star Wars: The Old Republic

[Draegan]

Originally Posted by Arakkis

Source for this info please.

The only problem I have with voice overs is if MY character sounds gay as fuck. I want to read his lines in my voice.

I mean in my head of course. Only nerds would read it out loud. Haha, nerds.

I will probably read the lines out loud.

Just a theory that's been stitched together with the limited information released. I can't substantiate it, but they are talking a lot of instancing with their story telling and replayability.

[Arakkis]

Theories are fine, but please present them as one. You are a writer for a MMO website, and your words are taken with much less salt.

Also, take that fucking autoplay video down off of Rerollz. FFS, who thought that was a good idea at Bioware?

[dy fey]

Originally Posted by Salshun

That's the problem, 2 million subs and 1.9 million have that attitude going in. You want people going "man, fuck Jedi/Sith, I want to be class X!".

i don't understand. are you saying that 1.9 million lightsabres is a problem?

[Runnen]

Originally Posted by dy fey

i don't understand. are you saying that 1.9 million lightsabres is a problem?

Yes, because a lightsaber is a lot more fun when you have a couple hundreds Stormtrooper players to decapitate with it.

The cinematic was absolutely jaw-dropping, in my humble opinion, not just the graphics (which is expected by today's standards) but the action and storytelling looked good too. This game looks very promising, but I'm going to be very, very cautious about it, because back in its earliest reports, SW:G looked promising as well.

I do think however that the setting in the Old Republic era is by far the best choice, because it allows so much more flexibility with unknown regions, species, factions, villains and heroes. The SW:G setting was far too limited because you were unable to kill the important characters or change anything remotely significant in the game as that was saved for the canon movies.

[Salshun]

Originally Posted by dy fey

i don't understand. are you saying that 1.9 million lightsabres is a problem?

No, not if 10 million people are playing, but if 99% of the subs are the SAME class, how lame would that be? I mean imagine it, every idiot and his mom playing the same class just because it was powerful, that would be so



...um. Never mind, I'll go.

[Caocao]

Ahh...Ahh.... I see what you did thaaaaaar~

[Sinter1]

One positive... if this game is shit, least they have Ashen Temper to spin and pick up the pieces... he has a decent amount of experience with that

I'm not getting into it, but hopefully it is more WoW/WAR as opposed to DDO and Guild Wars which when it comes to instancing. I can live with a fair amount, especially in the beginning like AOC. Also, they state pvp will be in, but have pretty much hinted towards no RvR, planet/city sieging. I'm assuming since there's a "tenuous" peace, that pvp will be more like WoW instanced pvp mini games rather than WAR where you can sack a city and siege.

[Itzena]

Originally Posted by dy fey

i don't understand. are you saying that 1.9 million lightsabres is a problem?

Clarification: This is technically known as a 'target-rich environment', meatbag.

[Ilex]

Originally Posted by Itzena

Clarification: This is technically known as a 'target-rich environment', meatbag.

Well played.

That said, I haven't seen anything yet that says you can play a 'droid. Here's hoping.

[dy fey]

if you think for a moment that there won't be a metric shit-ton of lightsabres and force chokes, regardless of class balance, then ok. what i'm saying is, why give a fuck... because a metric shit-ton of lightsabres and force chokes would be both amazing and awesome.

[Korioni]

Really the only way I'm not going to be disappointed with this game is if they create a gigantic, intricate, involved Coruscant game world spanning something like 11 Spiderman'esque New York City's, but taller and with more robots, put super-amped up Jedi Outcast gameplay into it, put it all onto a single server where all 1 million subscribers reside and let the whole thing dissolve into massive jedi turf wars.


As we know this isn't going to happen, I'll probably buy this game, level to the cap and quit immediately before it charges me another 15 dollars.

[mac35g]

Demo impressions:

Star Wars: The Old Republic Impressions - Combat, Bounty Hunters, Smugglers, and Gameplay - Preview GameSpot E3 2009

IGN

[Greyskye]

Looks awesome. And less and less like a MMO.

[Big W Powah!]

Originally Posted by Greyskye

Looks awesome. And less and less like a MMO.

I dont know that the article from gamespot made it sound like less of an MMO.

It sounded like they were in an instance and had a complex encounter.

[Qhue]

I took the appearance of the astromech droid in the cinematic trailer to indicate that Droids would be a playable class in the game...but maybe that was just wishful thinking.

Like KOTOR I'm gonna bet we have several different types of Jedi and Sith classes so there will be multiple classes on each side with lightsabers. Then we also have Trooper vs. Bounty Hunter. Scoundrel vs. Smuggler and then maybe HK droid vs Astromech?