-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Star Wars: The Old Republic [Releasing Date: Dec 20 NA/EU - NDA Lifted]
- Thread starter Blackface
- Start date
- Status
Ignis Fatuus
Banned
You don't need money to say nice things about this game. You just need to play it.bjaelke said:
I'm also curious to see how far he got and how much he will reveal.
BattleMonkey
Member
Xamdou said:
Doesn't really matter, even with larger scale betas, the amount of players who want in for both is going to be more than the amount who will get in to play unless they just do the glorified demo/beta nonsense.
Yaska said:
Please let it be me this time! Please let it be me!
About those diablo 3 invites? Meh, seriously. That game is looking crappier by the year (which is about their content update cycle) Everytime they show me something new it makes me less and less excited.
I used to think Diablo 3 would drag me away from WoW. Besides the fact that Blizzard themselves have pretty much scared me away, I'm pretty damn sure it's TOR that will have a nice needle in my veins the coming years.
CcrooK said:
They'll probably allow Mike to tell us about a few minor yet unseen features of the game to keep it believable.
But I don't really believe that they'll let 'm say whatever he wants to say. With the NDA that they have going on and all the articles and videos that are hunted and taken down seconds after they're put up, I just don't believe he has complete freedom.
I am super excited though. Really curious what he has to say about this game.
Mister_Bubbles
Member
CzarTim said:
Just general impressions, but it's nice to hear those impressions are very positive.
Confused101
Member
Well that's pretty good news. I'm disappointed that he didn't dive a little deeper for us, but at the same time I'm sure he wanted to respect the wishes of BW/EA and not go too crazy even though they didn't put any restrictions on him.
All I can really say at this point is that the wait really, really sucks!
All I can really say at this point is that the wait really, really sucks!
Ignis Fatuus
Banned
He's a Bounty Hunter.CzarTim said:
I'm going to have to see if I can track him down in game.
Looks like the only bit of new information he spilled was the holoprojector, which is indeed a really neat feature.
Ignis Fatuus said:
Been mentioned a bunch of times at E3 by the dev team + walkthough
He's a casual PvE WoW player for about five years, so I think what he says has a lot of value. Interestingly enough, EA are looking for community representatives with quite a bit of WoW experience behind them - so clearly looking at cutting the WoW playerbase in the first year.
You don't, but it certainly helps for a lot of games.Ignis Fatuus said:
I don't want to hear glowing praise in a review. I want to hear the negatives.Giolon said:
Why wouldn't I like it? Why would I? Having criticisms in a product being a bad thing offends me more than if whatever they were reviewing was bad or not.
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
Gvaz said:
He did have criticisms, he said it was a little ridiculous the setting was almost identical to the one presented in the movies.
Kotor had a pretty original story that still felt like Star Wars to my recollection, I'm replaying it now and it really seems that way. But TOR needs to expand to a huge audience and part of that is basically having the same exact story and setting as the movies to appeal to everyone. It sucks, but I'm sure we'll manage, hopefully the individuals stories aren't as cliched and predictable as the prequels.
I'll wager the usual complaints for a MMO are there and are being glossed over because people don't even realize they're there anymore. It's probably still "go collect 10 gaffi sticks" "go collect 12 flowers" "go kill 5 dark acolytes" and stuff like that. Criticisms of WoW right now are mostly all of repetition and the fact the game is so old it's just re-hashing stuff. You can't really get complaints like that from a brand new game like this, and it's so varied if there's part of a game someone doesn't like they aren't going to play that particular part.
The original KOTOR still had the Hutts as crime lords, a bleeping droid companion, Boba Fett armor, a Yoda race Jedi, a wise talking street smart character with a Wookiee companion, and plenty other similarities to the movies. It doesn't seem like they're changing much for TOR that wasn't there in KOTOR, since that game was pretty Star Warsy to begin with. What KOTOR had was a compelling and deep story that explores the universe beyond what we get in the movies, and hopefully TOR will have that.LAUGHTREY said:
Shrennin
Didn't get the memo regarding the 14th Amendment
KOTOR to me was like its own different movie series using all the same ideas of the original movies but putting its own unique spin and twist on it. The twist in KOTOR, in my opinion, seems just as shocking as the twist in the OT. It was a very well done storyline that was able to give that feeling of the Star Wars films while still feeling unique all at the same time.
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
Knox said:
You're right, but that means that Kotor and Tor will be a little more opposite story wise. Characters in kotor were the same as the movies with the settings and plot being different, while plot and settings in tor will be similar with your character being your own.
Anasui Kishibe
Banned
Dmax3901 said:
if you get one, let me pretend to be you
- Status