Comments on: Old Republic: Jedi Planet Development Vid

By: Scarves

Scarves — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:36:13 +0000

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.

By: Binho

Binho — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:07:39 +0000

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.

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:17:32 +0000

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.

By: Dan Harris

Dan Harris — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:24:46 +0000

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.

By: Dan Harris

Dan Harris — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:20:14 +0000

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.

By: Johnson

Johnson — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:13:45 +0000

I am also excited, STFU INTERNET HATE BRIGADE.

By: John Walker

John Walker — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:03:21 +0000

I’m excited about this too.

By: SuperNashwan

SuperNashwan — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:53:27 +0000

You are.
Look at those gorgeous, carefully laid out environments. Now imagine your typical ADD MMO kiddie bunny hopping and h4xsp33king their way through it, people begging you for money and RPers peddling their bad fan fiction and getting pissy at everyone else.

By: NegativeZero

NegativeZero — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:29:00 +0000

I feel like I’m the only person on earth who is genuinely excited about this. :(

By: Michael Bay

Michael Bay — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:30:06 +0000

I wish I was George Lucas.

By: John Walker

John Walker — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:41:32 +0000

RobH, certainly by the time of the announcement it had become a poorly kept secret. However, for an MMO to go from announcement to release as quickly as this might, is unusual, as Jim observed. It doesn’t seem too difficult to comprehend.

Of course, if you weren’t being such an odious individual, you might have taken the time to notice we’d been covering the KotOR MMO rumours since this site began.

Kieron called it in October 07, here:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2007/10/30/sith-and-make-up/

Take your attitude elsewhere, please.

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:31:51 +0000

You know, back when gaming journalism consisted of more than linking YouTube videos.

Oh, right yes. I really must do better. What was I thinking? We should probably post huge amounts of original material every month, or something.