No. I have no interest in the MMO aspect and I refuse to pay mothly to play a singleplayer game. So if/when I can play it to experience the story without the added hassle of having to deal with monthly payments or other players, I'm in.
Are you buying Star Wars the Old Republic?
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It's a spiritual successor to the KOTOR in a similar way that Dragon Age: Origins is a successor to Baldur's Gate. If you've enjoyed KOTOR's storytelling, then there should be enough in SWTOR to justify the entry fee and possibly an extra month of time to punch through the story.
As far as the whole "I forgot to unsubscribe thing", I typically pay only through time cards, which in turn requires me to make an affirmative action to keep paying for it. In short, I get to choose when I want to play and how often I want to pay for the game.
In the meantime, I'm hoping my online retailer hasn't canceled my pre-order for my collector's edition.
As far as the whole "I forgot to unsubscribe thing", I typically pay only through time cards, which in turn requires me to make an affirmative action to keep paying for it. In short, I get to choose when I want to play and how often I want to pay for the game.
In the meantime, I'm hoping my online retailer hasn't canceled my pre-order for my collector's edition.
Nope, ditched my pre-order, closed my guild, and closed my account. Not worth it, and I was in love with KOTR 1 and 2 and thought I would love any game set in the era, but after beta-ing I found that there i nothing enjoyable about the game that would make it worth whatever they want/month.
Nope I generally hate anything bioware makes due to a rather bland story and unlikeable characters. With what I've seen from Jessie Cox and Total Biscuit I was only interested in watching the video for their commentary and when they were silent I just skipped the story.
Mainly, because I'm staying as far away as I can from subscription based MMOs, even some so called F2P that sooner or later ask you for a monthly fee *glares at Age of Conan*.
I would if it weren't an MMO; that's not a 'it should have been KOTOR 3' stab (although I would really have liked that more). The reason I'm not getting it is because its an MMO, which are kind of pointless where I live because the internet quality is just... urgh.
Okay, I put my hands up there but you do kind of prove my point; since this is apparently KoTORs' 3-10 condensed into one box, shouldn't it refer to KoTOR 2 first and foremost, to make the continuation clearer if nothing else?animehermit said:
As for the animations, what threw me is how they talked about the quality of said animations totally straight-faced whilst showing that sub-par footage, which rather gave me the impression that they're somehow satisfied with it.
Ultimately though, whatever the merits of the game, I'm automatically biased against it because I'm still bitter from Star Trek Online; in every mission, I had this nagging knowledge in the back of my mind - which spoiled my fun - that elsewhere, in another instance aka pocket dimension, someone else was doing the exact same thing and that I was making absolutely no difference to the game universe at all! And my suspicion is that TOR will just be the exact same tired old start-finish-reset quest model, despite the inclusion of Mass Effect-style branching dialogue, especially since I found that the Guild Wars 2 website already describes, in detail, how it's Dynamic Events System works and that game isn't even at the beta stage yet, while the TOR site still seems rather tight-lipped about how it's own system works.
That and, STO also taught me that paying more than once (or worse, buying a lifetime subscription) for a game is never worth it (except for the eventually-upcoming Infinity: The Quest for Earth), another reason I'm going for Guild Wars 2 instead.
Sorry to be disappointing OP, but it's really not that different from WoW... the grind is worse (the first 5 hours of play were ok, the next 15 were like pulling teeth, and I swear Coruscant was the WORST experience I've ever had in any mmo. Imagine the very bland and repetitive dungeons from Dragon Age 2 but without the interesting characters and sense of progression and story and the usual mmo-ish "kill x number of y"). And you have to do that with EVERY new character on the republic side.
The story and dialogues are meh, I stopped giving a crap and started skipping through the dialogues after the first 10 or so quests.
The character classes are really dull, and I found the gameplay for the ranged ones to be really really bad. The smuggler for example is like playing a Siege Tank in starcraft... go there, "deploy" (aka get in cover), use ability, kill enemy, get out of cover, move there, deploy, kill, move out of cover, deploy, and so on.
I did like the fact that, even while playing solo, the game focuses on fighting groups of enemies at a time. That manages to make combat *slightly* less boring.
I was really hoping for this game to be the "WoW-Killer".... but all I could think while playing TOR was "sigh, I was I could play WoW instead" for the entire 40+ hours I spent playing
And no, I will not be buying it.
The story and dialogues are meh, I stopped giving a crap and started skipping through the dialogues after the first 10 or so quests.
The character classes are really dull, and I found the gameplay for the ranged ones to be really really bad. The smuggler for example is like playing a Siege Tank in starcraft... go there, "deploy" (aka get in cover), use ability, kill enemy, get out of cover, move there, deploy, kill, move out of cover, deploy, and so on.
I did like the fact that, even while playing solo, the game focuses on fighting groups of enemies at a time. That manages to make combat *slightly* less boring.
I was really hoping for this game to be the "WoW-Killer".... but all I could think while playing TOR was "sigh, I was I could play WoW instead" for the entire 40+ hours I spent playing
And no, I will not be buying it.
I got to Taris in the Early Access, and my nostalgia meter went off the charts.
So yes, I am getting it.
So yes, I am getting it.
If you thought Coruscant was bad, you should've seen Tatooine. That's when you get your first mount (90%) and the zones are scaled to compensate (and then some). Tatooine is enormously huge and almost completely empty. Fair enough, I guess, it is a desert planet, but it's probably 3 Northrend zones in size and something like 20 quests (not counting bonus quests/series). You don't even visit half the planet's territory, because it's for the other faction.VladG said:
The first 3 contested planets you visit after your faction's planets (starter, Coruscant/Dromund, Taris/Balmorra) have around a couple hours of actual content per planet, while travel time increases dramatically between them. Difficulty also increases, so your gear, class, spec, and companion choices start to actually matter. A tanky class is gonna have fun, while a squishy DPS will have a slower, more grindy experience. I'm gonna wait a couple months and see if they rebalance the solo content before even considering buying the game.
Nah. I am not a big fan of Star Wars at this point. I liked it a lot better before the universe expanded to the point it is now. It also looks to be a very mediocre MMO, which is par for the course for an MMO.
It's World of Warcraft with less content and KotOR side-mission quality writing and voice work.
I played a couple weeks of the beta, but I won't be getting the game, it's far too simplistic and button mashy with very little mechanical innovation. The story additions are great but it feels like I'm playing WoW which I'm totally sick of.
I played a couple weeks of the beta, but I won't be getting the game, it's far too simplistic and button mashy with very little mechanical innovation. The story additions are great but it feels like I'm playing WoW which I'm totally sick of.