Comments on: SWTOR: Bounty Hunter Scum Confirmed

By: TooNu

TooNu — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:17:32 +0000

Accurate predictions from P42 then…or not and your cynical life will be turned into random chaos leaving you with no fkn clue what to do next and you will qq moar!

By: karthik

karthik — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:25:04 +0000

Oh, just make KOTOR 3 already.

We’ll even forgive the lightsaber beat-sticks.

By: PC Monster

PC Monster — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:07:12 +0000

Adventurous Putty: “Again: why go through all this trouble when they could’ve just made KOTOR III?”

Constant. never-ending source of revenue a la WoW? There’s gold in them thar digital hills!

Skalpada: “You mean like.. WoW? :)”

*PC Monster grins*

By: Adventurous Putty

Adventurous Putty — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:20:52 +0000

Plant hit it right on the nose.

Plus, the story angle seems really cheap — it’s a glorified series of tutorial questlines, which everyone of your class will have gone through anyway. So it won’t make thematic sense for an MMO, since there’ll be thousands of “saviors of the galaxy” running about.

Again: why go through all this trouble when they could’ve just made KOTOR III?

By: skalpadda

skalpadda — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:00:11 +0000

@PC Monster: “How’d you feel if you had to sit down and stitch together all your character’s clothes, too? And any time they wanted to eat, you had to gather the ingredients and utensils, light a fire…?”

You mean like.. WoW? :)

If there’s a profession/crafting system in this game I do hope they tie it in with the whole telling of stories idea rather than the WoW model of “kill a thousand mobs for cloth/essences/leather, then go mine another thousand mineral veins for ore, spend two hours smelting and hammering.. get a skill point, repeat”.

If they could pull off neat little stories around how you collect materials and learn to craft things rather than make you perform arbitrary grinds to level skills it could be sweet.

A fun quest exploring interesting caves to get your first lightsaber crystal or an assassination mission that nets you parts for building a flame thrower for your bounty hunter.. or whatever. They could make things like that fun.

During my WoW time I really enjoyed the quests that were telling little self-contained stories (there are quite a few, the Tirion Fordring quest line you got to do close to level 60 was ace, for example) and if they can make a whole MMO like that I’ll be amazed. I really doubt they’ll have enough fun ideas for that, but one can always dream, right?

I’m still wondering where the MMO bit of MMORPG comes in here.. maybe I should go trawl the interwebs myself rather than count on RPS to do all the hard work for me :)

By: TariqOne

TariqOne — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:40:58 +0000

I want to believe, so I am choosing to believe.

So yeah, unlike every other MMO that broke my heart like Fredo did to Michael, this MMO is going to live up to my incredibly naive and overinflated expectations.

Crank up the home fires, SW:TOR, Tarqy’s coming home to stay for a while. Or the first 30 days. One of those.

By: cHeal

cHeal — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:25:43 +0000

Looks shit?

By: Mad Doc MacRae

Mad Doc MacRae — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:18:25 +0000

plant42 – metacritic just gave that a 93%

By: Pantsman

Pantsman — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:57:53 +0000

@plant42
;_;

By: plant42

plant42 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:15:54 +0000

My incredibly safe prediction:
– This game will launch 1-2 years early due to investor pressure due to a struggling economy.
– Exactly 0% of the game will stray from the ‘reskinned WoW business model’.
– It will feature 1/5th of the expected content with the only polished experience being the first two hours of gameplay.
– Each planet will be its own instance to manage server load, and consequently underpopulated.
– 70% of the population will be noticeably overpowered jedi and sith, followed by 27% bounty hunters.
– The ‘story’ will be a linear dialogue-heavy Mass Effect style galaxy romp to uncover an ancient threat from the Sith that players will skip over to see what loot drops they’ll get.
– You’ll be disappointed by cartoony graphics, choppy animations, low-poly characters and how you have to whack a swamp rat 12 times with a lightsaber to kill it.
– They’ll screw up crafting.

P42

By: Jog

Jog — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:59:11 +0000

Great, just great… So there are ever player out there is gonna be a jedi or a sith. That’s just wrong. SW Galaxies approach was much better because you had to work hard to become a jedi…

By: Dan Harris

Dan Harris — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:46:49 +0000

@Pempt:

“I’m sick of “creating my own story”. I want to immerse myself in a story put together and told by professionals.”

I laughed out loud.

FWIW, so do I. Specifically, a massive, branching range of stories, each beautifully detailed and honed to perfection, with such a range of choices that it makes me vomit onto my keyboard.