Star Wars: The Old Republic info released - official website

Genie · Post by **Genie** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:32 am

So bioware and lucasarts finally released info on the new up and coming SW mmo, the old republic.
http://www.swtor.com/

Takes place 300 years after KoToR2. If you like Jedi, this game is for you. Otherwise....meh, SWG > SWTOR as of right now

shiram · Post by **shiram** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:02 am

http://kotaku.com/5066929/star-wars-the ... now-so-far

yea hold of your horses there
we get the first annoucement and your already decided?
i for one think the premises and idea sound ok, but unless they can work out a decent paying system, ie not per month, its not for me

Genie · Post by **Genie** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:41 am

For my defense, I did say "As of right now"

Post by **Crow** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 12:08 pm

SWG blows dick.

If they want this game to draw huge numbers they need to stay the fuck away from anything "iconic". They should put in shit like, swordsman, pikeman, fencer, TKM, pistoleer, rifleman, carbineer, ranger, squad leader, bounty hunter, commando, medic, doctor, combat medic, smuggler, jedi, sith, armorsmith, tailor, weaponsmith, droid engineer.

If they made a game where you could pick and choose what you wanted to be and not limit you I would definatly play it.

shiram · Post by **shiram** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 1:42 pm

how about jedi / sith scoundrel, scout, soldier, noble? and maybe some prestige class later on...
do we really need a swordsmand and a fencer?

ZoSo · Post by **ZoSo** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:19 pm

I always thought that was the charm of the old SWG..

anyways, will be interesting to see how this shapes up.

StormCrow · Post by **StormCrow** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:12 am

not sure if i'll want to play this, I like Bioware, but Lucasarts sure fucks up a lot of things. If it turns out good, it may be something fun to do instead of WoW or whatever.

Bane · Post by **Bane** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:50 pm

"After hours of waiting you finally get to meet the Jedi council, the mightiest jedis in the universe. Why have they summoned you, what is they need you to do, you ask yourself. You wait in awe fore their request...

Kill five dire rats and bring us the tails and you shalt be rewarded with five copper coins."

MMORPG = SUCKS, Super Uber Crappy.. something.

shiram · Post by **shiram** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:55 pm

Bane wrote:"After hours of waiting you finally get to meet the Jedi council, the mightiest jedis in the universe. Why have they summoned you, what is they need you to do, you ask yourself. You wait in awe fore their request...

Kill five dire rats and bring us the tails and you shalt be rewarded with five copper coins."

MMORPG = SUCKS, Super Uber Crappy.. something.

yea they are saying the quest system wont be like that, and that it will have a story to tell
we'll see

RoamingMadness · Post by **RoamingMadness** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 3:14 pm

Bane wrote:"After hours of waiting you finally get to meet the Jedi council, the mightiest jedis in the universe. Why have they summoned you, what is they need you to do, you ask yourself. You wait in awe fore their request...

Kill five dire rats and bring us the tails and you shalt be rewarded with five copper coins."

That might have just summed it up for me..

lol

Bane · Post by **Bane** » Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:26 am

shiram wrote:
Bane wrote:"After hours of waiting you finally get to meet the Jedi council, the mightiest jedis in the universe. Why have they summoned you, what is they need you to do, you ask yourself. You wait in awe fore their request...

Kill five dire rats and bring us the tails and you shalt be rewarded with five copper coins."

MMORPG = SUCKS, Super Uber Crappy.. something.
yea they are saying the quest system wont be like that, and that it will have a story to tell
we'll see

If I'm not mistaken, didn't Bliz say that about WoW as well? The only thing that brings the story forward in their case, is their buttload of expansions, heh..

Still, I would love to have a great MMORPG, expecially one in the SW setting, but to be honest, I don't think it's really possible to combine real RPG elements into games that require power gaming to be fun.. It's just not a feasible combo unfortunatly.

Currently I have a good computer, enough money and also time to spend, so if indeed a really good MMORPG or similar was released, I would actually play it.