Comments on: Twenty Minutes Of The Old Republic

By: no

no — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:31:57 +0000

Star Wars… *YAWN*

By: Carson

Carson — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:22:50 +0000

This game looks awesome! I can’t wait to play it! This game blows that stupid world of warcraft crap out of the water. Woot! Star Wars is so bomb!

By: Sonic Goo

Sonic Goo — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:13:38 +0000

I wonder how many MMO players have ever thought ‘man, I wish this quest text was fully voiced, that would be so much better’…

By: Adventurous Putty

Adventurous Putty — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:06:22 +0000

It doesn’t help that they butchered their own setting. The original two KOTORs were set 4000 years before the Original Trilogy/Clone Wars precisely so that they could explore avenues not allowed by the cliched “Empire versus Rebels” thing. So we got to see a lot of different dynamics that, while reminiscent of the movies, were clearly different/predecessors.

This, on the other hand, has literally returned to the same exact Empire vs Rebels formula, including the symbols for the Empire and the clone troopers. It doesn’t make any sense within the grander scheme of the universe and feels horribly contrived — they should’ve made it Star Wars Galaxies 2, then.

By: Concept

Concept — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:37:48 +0000

Meh, I have mixed feelings about this.

Firstly, the characters look horribly cartoonish. What’s with all the anime hair?

Animations aren’t the best, but a big improvement from what I saw a while ago. Voice acting looked very sluggish in parts.

But then again, this still is looking like an awesome game, the co-operation looks well thought and combat still has a hope of being slightly more interesting than press this to hit then 10000 times.

By: Half-evolved Primate

Half-evolved Primate — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:25:03 +0000

If the game provides many an opportunity to grief, I will be all in. Quite simply, NOTHING in an MMO has brought me the ecstatic joy and hilarity I experienced in SWG, convincing poor saps I was a jedi (and gaining ‘shelter’ in their homes), then robbing the place blind. It was so glitched at some point you could do quests over and over and I would peddle ‘unique’ quest rewards for dough. One can make fun from the shittiest of games, says I!

By: Hillbilly jimbo

Hillbilly jimbo — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:13:52 +0000

Regarding how innovative this game will be, Bioware said it themselves. They are simply adding the extra ‘pillar’ of storyline to the other foundations of an MMO. Nevermind that those other pillars are made of steaming piles of Sith. What matters is that the game is cartoony, will retain a couple million users, and generate revenue. DAS IST ALLES!

By: Legionary

Legionary — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:11:27 +0000

>>“WOW is the peak for graphics detail even in todays world without instancing. ”

>Someone has never played EVE…

Or just about any MMO released after WoW and one or two released before it.

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:43:30 +0000

You know, aside from the fact that they’ve not stated that the whole-game-aside-from-cities is instanced, there’s more to an MMO than an uninstanced overworld.

Oh wait, I forgot, Morrowind isn’t an RPG because it doesn’t have moral choices.

Not to mention that Men of War isn’t a strategy game, because it doesn’t have base building and tech trees,

By: neoanderthal

neoanderthal — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:42:41 +0000

The combat looks, hmm, interesting. I noticed the bounty hunter had a WAR-type action point equivalent (in terms of player resources that recharge during combat), and that the Sith Warrior uses something akin to a rage mechanic. I also noticed the game uses a global cooldown timer for abilities. Auto-attack didn’t seem to be present, unless it’s like WAR and is just something that runs in the background while you’re hammering on your abilities.
As for the items that are not combat mechanics, I think that the cutscenes for the instances (sorry, flashpoints) might be cool the first time you run one, but would get really old if you are doing the thing for the nth time. I feel that might also be a problem with the dialog – I noticed it’s possible to skip through the dialog after a bit, but the player is still required to listen to at least a portion of the NPC talking. If you’re rolling your 4th bounty hunter and listening to the character creation dialog, this would be tedious to say the least.
From the Sith starting area, it’s evident that “kill x of y quests exist in this game, and who knows what else. I also find the idea that every member of the same class starts on the same world to be faintly ridiculous.
Who knows what they’ll pull out of their collective hats before release date, though. I’d certainly be interested to see what they have in mind for Player vs Player, which I hope goes beyond the duels and battlegrounds in WoW. I also hope if there are collection-style quests, the completely abandon the drop-rate-as-a-percentage mechanic that WoW uses to full effect.

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:20:21 +0000

“WOW is the peak for graphics detail even in todays world without instancing. ”

Someone has never played EVE…

By: JKjoker

JKjoker — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:07:56 +0000

rule number 1 of a pnp rpg dungeon master : do not give a player special powers, it pisses everyone else off

rule number 1 of mmo marketing : try to get customers to think they can be special and better than everyone else playing the game

uh…