Starwars Old Republic Dev Video

[Bigfish]

I noticed you left the just-kidding smiley out of my quote. Do you have them turned off or something?

Oh, no, I just have... issues with faces and face like constructs. So uh, if that wasnt serious, my apologies for flipping out.

[d0z3rr]

Have any of you played the KotOR games? I obsessively played both 1 and 2 many times through. I definitely played the hell out of 2. I remember one day I was home sick with the flu and managed to finish the game and was blown away. Even though everyone complains that the 2nd was buggy, finished early, crapping ending, unpolished, blah blah blah, it was still amazing to me. The gaming experience while playing the KotOR games easily matched my experience when I played Phantasy Star IV, Final Fantasy 7, and Shadowrun (genesis).

I'm almost positive no other game made me laugh as much as KotOR 2.

[pinotnoir]

One question... Can we multibox that game? I played swg and would be interested in another star wars mmo. SWG turned into shit so I left.

[Redbeard]

I liked KOTOR 1 and 2.. i liked the stories and i liked the combat / character building.

I dont get how you can make a star wars game and have people playing as non jedis.

Either the jedis are weak so as to balance them with other character classes, or the other classes are stupid powerful, or the game is imbalanced. Which then takes the fun out of being a jedi. Donno.

At any rate, I wish theyd stop announcing games so far in advance. I want 6 months of hype, tops.

[heffner]

I liked KOTOR 1 and 2.. i liked the stories and i liked the combat / character building.

I dont get how you can make a star wars game and have people playing as non jedis.

Either the jedis are weak so as to balance them with other character classes, or the other classes are stupid powerful, or the game is imbalanced. Which then takes the fun out of being a jedi. Donno.

At any rate, I wish theyd stop announcing games so far in advance. I want 6 months of hype, tops.

Bah! Boba Fett gave Luke a run for his money!! Down with the Jedi's, go go go Bounty Hunter!! I suppose it's really just a Batman vs. Superman argument. I don't see why they can't make non-Jedi's justifiably powerful.

[Redbeard]

Hehe thats true Heff,

Though arguably Luke was still a noob at that point, eh? Been a while since ive seen the movies.. anyways.

Will be interesting to see how it turns out

[Kenspeckle]

I liked KOTOR 1 and 2.. i liked the stories and i liked the combat / character building.

I dont get how you can make a star wars game and have people playing as non jedis.

Either the jedis are weak so as to balance them with other character classes, or the other classes are stupid powerful, or the game is imbalanced. Which then takes the fun out of being a jedi. Donno.

At any rate, I wish theyd stop announcing games so far in advance. I want 6 months of hype, tops.

Bah! Boba Fett gave Luke a run for his money!! Down with the Jedi's, go go go Bounty Hunter!! I suppose it's really just a Batman vs. Superman argument. I don't see why they can't make non-Jedi's justifiably powerful.

So now we have several million boba fetts and several million skywalkers. Them's some pretty hefty troops. How are they going to get players to play the scout class, the trooper or healing classes when you can be bobba fett or darth maul? Bioware makes great games....it'll be interesting to see what they concoct.

[warwizard]

If you read any of the starwars books that followed return of the jedi or clone wars books. Jedi might have lots of cool powers but they can still be hit with a blaster bolt in the back of the head. Look at the purges, noobie clone troopers tookout most of the jedi in a matter of minutes.

[Malekyth]

The movies were written with Jedi protagonists in mind. In the power fantasy that is Star Wars, of course the Jedi are the baddest buggers around. In a Star Wars MMO, the fantasy is written from everyone's perspective! So a Trooper will have to be as much of a bad-ass as the every one of the six hundred extremely rare and precious Jedi knights who live in his apartment building, but in a different way, and the Jedi will just have to live with that. It's not a brilliant shifting of reality, but it goes some way to justifying a balanced game even before the developers take their necessary mechanical liberties.