Five Reasons Why The Old Republic Is a Threat to WoW

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Five Reasons Why The Old Republic Is a Threat to WoW

The reign of a king can?t go unchallenged forever.

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tmujir955

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Er... you meant dual-wielding lightsabers for that last one, right?

Also, I think you're right. If any game can topple WOW, or at least steal a chunk of its fans, it will be TOR. I mean, have you seen that trailer!? It's fucking epic.

 

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John Funk said:
John Funk still can't make up his mind about being a Jedi Knight or a Sith Inquisitor.
Join us...you know not the power of the Dark Side

Ahem...moving past that, this is a great article, I never really got into the WoW scene, as I was never a big fan of Warcraft [don't hit me] I am however a huge fan of Kotor and so i'm very excited to see this game
 

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I'm happy that you added lightsabers as an option.
That's my second strongest reason for why the game will be awesome.
My first? Well, there's jedi.
Seems like a fantastic idea for a game to me.
 

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John Funk said:
John Funk still can't make up his mind about being a Jedi Knight or a Sith Inquisitor.
Jedi Knight, baby. You know all the 13-year-olds are going to approach this game with LOL IM A BADASS SITH LIEK DARTH MAUL.

Republic is gonna be where it's at.
 

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Psychosocial said:
kementari said:
John Funk said:
John Funk still can't make up his mind about being a Jedi Knight or a Sith Inquisitor.
Jedi Knight, baby. You know all the 13-year-olds are going to approach this game with LOL IM A BADASS SITH LIEK DARTH MAUL.

Republic is gonna be where it's at.
Have you played World of Warcraft? All of the 13 year olds are all "LOL IM A BADASS HERO LIEK ARTHAS". I'm fairly sure it will be this way in The Old Republic too, because they all want to be Obi-Wan or Yoda.

Join the dark side!
Oh come on dude, you don't think Horde has its share of 13-year-olds? Only difference is they're all Undead Rogues or BElf Death Knights.
 

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Yeah I'll be there for ToR. I don't think it'll dethrone WoW, unless ToR gets lucky enough to serve as a replacement for the social environment that WoW has become, but it's always possible. I'm still concerned about the whole microtransaction thing, though; I had to stop playing DDO because it's too easy to spend much more than $15 a month on a game with microtransactions if you're not careful. Without a flate fee option, it could be a deal-breaker for me no matter how much I want to play the game.

@kementari: Yes, Republic is going to be the only place to go!
 

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10 Day trial me up! The trailer speaks for itself. And what it speaks is "IM TEH F'ING EPIC TWAILIER OF ALL MMO BEACH!" Eh hm.

More on topic though, it sounds reasonable. The lightsabre part I agree with but its really hard to capture it. Also, this sounds a bit fan-boyish. Its not my fault! In a issue of Play Magazine, someone did a whole article on why Resistance is better then Halo. You heard me.
 

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John Funk said:
Psychosocial said:
kementari said:
John Funk said:
John Funk still can't make up his mind about being a Jedi Knight or a Sith Inquisitor.
Jedi Knight, baby. You know all the 13-year-olds are going to approach this game with LOL IM A BADASS SITH LIEK DARTH MAUL.

Republic is gonna be where it's at.
Have you played World of Warcraft? All of the 13 year olds are all "LOL IM A BADASS HERO LIEK ARTHAS". I'm fairly sure it will be this way in The Old Republic too, because they all want to be Obi-Wan or Yoda.

Join the dark side!
Oh come on dude, you don't think Horde has its share of 13-year-olds? Only difference is they're all Undead Rogues or BElf Death Knights.
That's pretty much how it was with the Night Elves when WoW first came out, though.
They just fluctuate to all of the interesting looking races/classes.
 

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John Funk said:
#5 - Lightsabers: Fwp-shhhhsssss... wronnnn, worrrarrang. Wrorr-K-SHH! K-SHHkrilkrklkkrlk, wrooonn, wroaonng.
...yup. Heard every sing syllable of those sounds in my head, in front of the always epic lightsaber dueling music, and even had the fight scene. If there was ever an MMO to get me into MMO games, it would be this.
 

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tmujir955 said:
Er... you meant dual-wielding lightsabers for that last one, right?

Also, I think you're right. If any game can topple WOW, or at least steal a chunk of its fans, it will be TOR. I mean, have you seen that trailer!? It's fucking epic.

yeah, but also a complete lie.
 

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Psychosocial said:
kementari said:
John Funk said:
John Funk still can't make up his mind about being a Jedi Knight or a Sith Inquisitor.
Jedi Knight, baby. You know all the 13-year-olds are going to approach this game with LOL IM A BADASS SITH LIEK DARTH MAUL.

Republic is gonna be where it's at.
Have you played World of Warcraft? All of the 13 year olds are all "LOL IM A BADASS HERO LIEK ARTHAS". I'm fairly sure it will be this way in The Old Republic too, because they all want to be Obi-Wan or Yoda.

Join the dark side!
Both factions since launch, and yes, at launch, all the kiddies were on Alliance. The reverse was true at BC, though, and despite the headcount getting a little messy now due to all races being able to be Death Knights, I have strong beliefs that playing the "evil, cool" side will land you in the midst of a ton of children come TOR.

The Republic looks to be the underdog in this game, and I like playing the underdog. If you want to be on the LOL IM SO BADASS side, though, that's your choice. I'll enjoy killing you.
 

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I want it simply because i can't stand fantasy bullshit that WoW uses and the fact that it seems you can play as a Mandalorian bounty hunter? FUCKING SOLD!!
 

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Psychosocial said:
I'll buy the game regardless of if I have my new computer or not. :p
ooh, interesting point. As a die hard KOTR fan i really want this game, but i don't want to shell out truckloads of cash to upgrade my system. have they listed any requirements yet?
 

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I'd think of switching to it from WoW... Except it's more than likely my experience will look far less awesome than that shown in the trailers. If I can even play the game at all. :/
 

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factualsquirrel said:
tmujir955 said:
Er... you meant dual-wielding lightsabers for that last one, right?

Also, I think you're right. If any game can topple WOW, or at least steal a chunk of its fans, it will be TOR. I mean, have you seen that trailer!? It's fucking epic.

yeah, but also a complete lie. and this game is going to be fuckin awesome.
Heheheh.