If it was a nice tight single player KotOR 3 then they have my money any day, but I played the beta and it's a game being dragged out into an endless rinse and repeat experience...
Do Not Want.
Do Not Want.
Are you buying Star Wars the Old Republic?
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Wife bought me the Collectors Edition (its on its way to my house now, pre-orderers check your shipments) I got into the early release. I'm on Krayt Dragon server.
Like most MMOs it copies elements of other MMOs such as WoW though Wow copied Neverwinter Nights, which copied D&D. Funny how things are. It is less aggressive gameplay, but you'll still run into great friends and great assholes. Its online after all.
I love the game, the story elements, audio dialogue, and cinematics make this game very refreshing. It also feels like Knights of the Old Republic, so much so that during the beta I kept pushing spacebar (to pause combat) as well as hitting F5 (quicksave).
My only complaint and keep in mind this has only happened to me once. I just slaughtered a bunch of NPCs and was in a cinematic. When I finished it all the NPCs I killed had respawned and I was right in the middle of them. I managed to kill them all, but I can see this as foreshadowing events of future problems. Still the game is absolutely worth it.
Like most MMOs it copies elements of other MMOs such as WoW though Wow copied Neverwinter Nights, which copied D&D. Funny how things are. It is less aggressive gameplay, but you'll still run into great friends and great assholes. Its online after all.
I love the game, the story elements, audio dialogue, and cinematics make this game very refreshing. It also feels like Knights of the Old Republic, so much so that during the beta I kept pushing spacebar (to pause combat) as well as hitting F5 (quicksave).
My only complaint and keep in mind this has only happened to me once. I just slaughtered a bunch of NPCs and was in a cinematic. When I finished it all the NPCs I killed had respawned and I was right in the middle of them. I managed to kill them all, but I can see this as foreshadowing events of future problems. Still the game is absolutely worth it.
I preorderd the collectors way back in august when I was still playing wow, I quit MMORPGs in september, sadly my preorder was nonrefundable and I'm somewhat stuck with it. But from the beta I really wasn't impressed, I might just play the 30 days free and not touch it again.
I played in the beta up to level 25 and loved it.
The heavy focus on an individual story is refreshing in a mmo. I would consider it worth the purchase based on the strength and sheer amount of content available - 8 stories that are at least 100 hours each. I have no idea what endgame is like but I love what I experienced so far. I enjoyed leveling which is rare for me in an mmo and I love the range of choices available. Being able to play a light side sith for example.
The one thing stopping me is that they havn't even announced a release date for it in Australia. I understand wanting a staggered release to make it as smooth as possible but the lack of news regarding when we are going to get it has been seriously disheartening. Even a rough eta or an explanation of the factors that will determine when they start opening it up to other territories will be appreciated.
It is ironic that the only time I have ever considered purchasing a game on Origin, a store I despise in many ways, I have been unable to. I can't think of any other time EA has refused to take my money. I'm sure when they finally open it to Australian's we will be price gouged as usual and expected to pay $100.
The heavy focus on an individual story is refreshing in a mmo. I would consider it worth the purchase based on the strength and sheer amount of content available - 8 stories that are at least 100 hours each. I have no idea what endgame is like but I love what I experienced so far. I enjoyed leveling which is rare for me in an mmo and I love the range of choices available. Being able to play a light side sith for example.
The one thing stopping me is that they havn't even announced a release date for it in Australia. I understand wanting a staggered release to make it as smooth as possible but the lack of news regarding when we are going to get it has been seriously disheartening. Even a rough eta or an explanation of the factors that will determine when they start opening it up to other territories will be appreciated.
It is ironic that the only time I have ever considered purchasing a game on Origin, a store I despise in many ways, I have been unable to. I can't think of any other time EA has refused to take my money. I'm sure when they finally open it to Australian's we will be price gouged as usual and expected to pay $100.
Not only that but they actually had the sheer gall to say that making TOR is equivalent to making KoTOR 3-10 and shipping them all at once! How can that be the case, I ask you, when - from what I've seen and read about it so far - TOR doesn't even acknowledge the existence of KoTOR 2?putowtin said:
http://www.swtor.com/news/bwblog/developer-blog-how-content-team-makes-it-happen Second paragraph.
I love KoTOR 2 because it boldly attempts to evolve beyond the tired, clichéd, 2-dinentional light vs dark moral choice system that games in general are now steadily outgrowing (ala The Witcher 2!) and have been for a few years now, even though this is undermined by still being - at heart - a game in which you, as soon as you start, have to decide whether you're going for a saint or Satan playthrough and stick with it throughout since you only get the best gameplay bonuses when you're all the way good or evil but nevertheless it was a step forward! That's the advance that Bioware should be capitalising on, not burying their heads in the sand of the 70's but then, since EA are the masterminds behind this, I'll just say FUCK YOU EA!!
And just to be more nit-picky, why the FUCK is it that the dueling animations are worse than in KoTOR 1-2? http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/designing-light-side 1:40-2:10
I'm definitely going to be playing it, but I'm gonna wait. I never applied for the beta and didn't pre-order. So I'll probably play it next month some time after the initial hype dies down a bit.
The community is absolutely unbearable. A complete turn off and it actually does affect the game itself. It's far worse than WoW's. It's one thing to be passionate about the game, but the level of whining and crying on the SWTOR forums is the worst I've seen. And I played WoW for six years. Part of it is BioWare's fault for not doing a better job of communicating, but it seems as though the majority of the SWTOR playerbase are petulant children.
I can't imagine what's going to happen after people have been playing for a while and FOTM classes are identified and you start seeing the inevitable nerf/buff threads. Every MMO has that, but in SWTOR it will look something like this:
"Wife left me because of how OP powertechs are. She said I'm too emotionally distraught. I also may lose my job because of the depression powertechs are causing me. BW you failed at class balance and have lied to us. It's also false advertising. Worst MMO in history."
I am dead serious.
The community is absolutely unbearable. A complete turn off and it actually does affect the game itself. It's far worse than WoW's. It's one thing to be passionate about the game, but the level of whining and crying on the SWTOR forums is the worst I've seen. And I played WoW for six years. Part of it is BioWare's fault for not doing a better job of communicating, but it seems as though the majority of the SWTOR playerbase are petulant children.
I can't imagine what's going to happen after people have been playing for a while and FOTM classes are identified and you start seeing the inevitable nerf/buff threads. Every MMO has that, but in SWTOR it will look something like this:
"Wife left me because of how OP powertechs are. She said I'm too emotionally distraught. I also may lose my job because of the depression powertechs are causing me. BW you failed at class balance and have lied to us. It's also false advertising. Worst MMO in history."
I am dead serious.
I'm still on the fence about it. I've never played a subscription-based MMO before, and while I did play through the stress test and thoroughly enjoyed it, I'm just not sure if I'm willing to pay $15 a month for it. It'll probably rest on whether or not my MMO-playing friends switch over.
Yes, currently playing the early access and I really enjoy it. I never liked the grind of mmo's but It never gets bad in swtor, and the story elements are enjoyable. Its quality is top notch and pretty much major glitch free.
It is really nice that healers or tanks aren't necessary. Though they make it a lot easier you never need one and it makes finding groups a lot easier.
It is really nice that healers or tanks aren't necessary. Though they make it a lot easier you never need one and it makes finding groups a lot easier.
Speaking as someone who's been playing it for 2 days now and was hoping the exact same thing, you can enjoy it that way just fine.Poerts said:
Plenty of issues where they actually designed it like an mmo in the sense that you might get sent off on a quest that you to be much higher level for if you don't want to work with a group, but that's less of an issue as you get Companions, and doesn't really apply to the main quests which from what I've seen so far are scaled just fine in difficulty for a single person.
But yeah, anyways. Ignoring the mmo elements as much as possible, it holds up pretty well if all you waneted out of it is Kotor 3, as I did.
I'm definitely looking forward to it. Sucks that the release date here in Aus is sometime in January.
I would, but MMOs with subscriptions are gross wastes of money. In a year of playing one game I've bought it three times over.
Then they make me pay for expansions.
Yeah, no thanks.
Sucks because it looks pretty good, but no game is worth over a hundred dollars a year.
Then they make me pay for expansions.
Yeah, no thanks.
Sucks because it looks pretty good, but no game is worth over a hundred dollars a year.
