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Old Republic: Jedi Planet Development Vid

Posted by Jim Rossignol on February 2nd, 2009 at 11:29 am.

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The Jedi planet of Tython will apparently feature rather heavily in Bioware’s Star Wars MMO, The Old Republic. The developers have talked in some detail about the development of this region in a new video, which I’ve posted after the jump. The brief segment on “reveals” in level design, is lovely indeed. And is it me, or is that game looking rather far along, considering how recently it was announced?

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57 Comments »

  1. John Walker says:

    I’m excited about this too.

  2. Johnson says:

    I am also excited, STFU INTERNET HATE BRIGADE.

  3. Dan Harris says:

    Me: excited, definitely going to play it, still annoyed about the ‘lightsabres are supposed to cut through everything’ thing, used to this from KoToR, wish this wasn’t an MMO.

    Also, really, REALLY wish people would lay off Obsidian. You think they wanted to make an incomplete game? You think they had a sudden talentectomy after developing the first half and thought ‘oh well, we’ll just churn out some unfinished nonsensical effluence instead?

    It was LucasArts’ fault. As always. They gave Obsidian a 13-month ‘development schedule’ to make a game as grand, deep and engaging as the original, which took three years to produce.

    Bunch of dicks. Sorry.

  4. Dan Harris says:

    Oh, and much the same as for the excellently excellent Vampire: Bloodlines, the Not Angry But Helpful Internet Men (NABHIM!) are undergoing a Sistine Chapel-esque restoration project for KoToR II. See http://www.team-gizka.org/ for excellence.

  5. Erik says:

    Instead of a Kotor 3 we get another generic fucking mmo, someone put a quarter in the jukebox and play that new age ewok shit from the montage in the updated version of return of the jedi whilst I analy rape myself with one of the oversized lightsabers.

  6. Binho says:

    This does unfortunately look very generic. My main gripe is how the “town” they show looks like a town in WoW, with half-timbered houses replaced by primitive looking steel houses. And how very WoW like the whole world just feels. You could quite easily put a WoW gnome in those environments without it looking out of place.

    It’s Star Wars for god’s sake! Let’s be a bit more futuristic and alien! I want to see more interesting, hi-tech sci-fi locations, not generic northeren european/desert/snow/ocean worlds. Check out stuff like Wayne Barlowe’s Expidition, or Nemo Ramjet’s Snaiad as interesting examples. Hell, even Entropia Universe is more imaginative than most main stream MMO’s, when it comes down to creature and environment design!

    I guess they want to play it “safe”. That’s not really something you can do with MMO’s at the moment if you want to take WoW on head to head.

  7. Scarves says:

    Looks cool, but I don’t think I’ll be buying it. As a jaded sort who thinks the last awesome Star Wars product was Empire Strikes Back, I just feel a bit disconnected from the whole thing.

    I did like KOTOR 1 and 2, but they could have had the words Star Wars removed and not suffered a bit.

    If I did play this thing, I would definitely not play a jedi… Han > Luke every day of the week.

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