I played it this weekend and really enjoyed it, the ship parts especially zipping about shooting stuff, even though I have quit wow I'm not willing to commit to another mmo at this point but if I had to chose one it would be this.
Exactly. Before, it was imperative that you were in a guild with people you got along with to be able to defeat the greater challenges. Nowadays you can pick up a number of randoms and do the same.krellen said:Really? I quit WoW because I couldn't do anything unless I had five to twenty "friends" with me (and most of those were only "friends" in the most superficial terms).Nimcha said:Endgame needs to be impossible to do solo. And needs to be focused on doing it with friends/your guild. I quit WoW because that game went the way of the antisocial Puggers, and I really don't want to see that happen again.
Wow... so I can play the story by myself, just with NPCs, without any other meatbags interfering? Now that's something I've been wanting to hear for a long time. If this is accurate they just need to ditch the monthly payments and I'll buy the damn thing without hesitation. I'm really interested in the story aspect, the MMO aspect can go suck on a fireball for all I care.Blindrooster said:I have some thoughts.
I palyed the beta this weekend, and what shocked me was that I did it ALL SOLO! Seriously, it felt like I was playing one of the old kotor games with new combat animations.
Sure, there were ppl running around in the main cities,but main story areas are blocked and only I can enter them! It's great!
That being said, I could care less now that it's an mmo. The story was very rich, the options were great, and the voice acting was wonderful. This will consume my life for awhile.
Maybe people should stop making every RPG an MMO.Keava said:Maybe You shouldn't play MMOs then?
Not really sure how accurate that is, considering how many times on my Inquisitor I heard Mako or Vette without really being close to other players. Then again story phases have their issues with emotes working cross-phase...ravenshrike said:Since this never happens in story instances or flashpoints/group instances with only one compainion, you're hearing the companion voices of other players. Yes, I too played the beta. That said, the stretchy back of the head bug is always funny.Keava said:, companion voices bugging out making You hear voices of companions You don't even have...
Actually yeah. I did pretty much everything solo. (except 1 flashpoint, but those are fun as hell.)Whispering Cynic said:Wow... so I can play the story by myself, just with NPCs, without any other meatbags interfering? Now that's something I've been wanting to hear for a long time. If this is accurate they just need to ditch the monthly payments and I'll buy the damn thing without hesitation. I'm really interested in the story aspect, the MMO aspect can go suck on a fireball for all I care.Blindrooster said:I have some thoughts.
I palyed the beta this weekend, and what shocked me was that I did it ALL SOLO! Seriously, it felt like I was playing one of the old kotor games with new combat animations.
Sure, there were ppl running around in the main cities,but main story areas are blocked and only I can enter them! It's great!
That being said, I could care less now that it's an mmo. The story was very rich, the options were great, and the voice acting was wonderful. This will consume my life for awhile.
You could have signed up for the beta testing and let the game try to prove itself to you. Go into it as pessimistic as you want, but at least give it a shot. They'll probably let people have trial weeks or something after launch.archvile93 said:Not interested even slightly interested. I already have little interest in MMO, which is only further discouraged by having to continue paying for a game I already paid for. I also heard it plays pretty much like WoW, which has, IMO, one of the most boring and uninteractive combat systems I can think of. Having voiced characters doesn't change everything else.
I did sign up for the beta and did try it out, and it is, mechanically, pretty much identical to WoW. Why does everyone have to do it individually? Why can't they take the word of others who have?WouldYouKindly said:You could have signed up for the beta testing and let the game try to prove itself to you.
Because everyone's personal likes and perceptions are different. Some people genuinely like the genre of music called noise. I don't see how they like it, but at one point they gave it a shot and they liked it. If you close yourself off to new experiences, you become an incredibly boring person.krellen said:I did sign up for the beta and did try it out, and it is, mechanically, pretty much identical to WoW. Why does everyone have to do it individually? Why can't they take the word of others who have?WouldYouKindly said:You could have signed up for the beta testing and let the game try to prove itself to you.
No, it just means that he knows it plays like WoW and doesn't like games that play like WoW.WouldYouKindly said:Because everyone's personal likes and perceptions are different. Some people genuinely like the genre of music called noise. I don't see how they like it, but at one point they gave it a shot and they liked it. If you close yourself off to new experiences, you become an incredibly boring person.krellen said:I did sign up for the beta and did try it out, and it is, mechanically, pretty much identical to WoW. Why does everyone have to do it individually? Why can't they take the word of others who have?WouldYouKindly said:You could have signed up for the beta testing and let the game try to prove itself to you.
Also, of course the mechanics are the same, they are trying to steal people from WoW and people like the familiar.
EDIT: It's not like it wasn't freaking free to sign up, I mean come on, if you won't give something a shot even if it's free then you're just being close-minded.
Any hotkey MMO would be regarded as the same if you use that definition. I think people should do it individually because people will ultimately get different experiences from it. For example my brother treated it as the next big MMO but for me it was more or less KOTOR 3krellen said:I did sign up for the beta and did try it out, and it is, mechanically, pretty much identical to WoW. Why does everyone have to do it individually? Why can't they take the word of others who have?WouldYouKindly said:You could have signed up for the beta testing and let the game try to prove itself to you.
I'm not telling the guy not to like it. I'm telling the guy the mechanics are like WoW. He's deciding, based on the fact that he's played WoW and doesn't like the mechanics, to avoid SWTOR, now confident that he won't like the mechanics. He's probably got better things to do than to try out every game just because it's free.WouldYouKindly said:Because everyone's personal likes and perceptions are different.
What definition? Aside from, maybe, the cover mechanics of the Smuggler and Imperial Agent (and that's just a variant of stealth anyway), how are any mechanics (not story) in SWTOR different from WoW?Windcaler said:Any hotkey MMO would be regarded as the same if you use that definition.