Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG by Bioware

[darthviper107]

I could see this becoming a really big MMO, simply because it is so much more fun than the other MMO's out there right now. Even WoW.

 

[Fanboy]

Gotta about a year wait. Wake me in 2011

Guess it's going to be a race between this and DC Online to see who takes my money first. Been looking forward to both for some time and need my fix since I've burnt out from City of Heroes/Villains.

 

[daikkenaurora]

*waits patiently for this game to come out*

 

[Kibishii]

My wife and I played EQ1 in a hardcore raiding guild from launch until 2005 when we started having kids. We also played wow, Swg, ddo, and Vanguard casually, but we didn't care for those very much. I wonder how this will play out...

In MY opinion, there are several aspects that make up a good MMORPG:

1. a focus on small group/group content: these can be "camps" where a group can go and farm better gear, get xp, get faction, or complete quests (these can be instanced to avoid fights between groups/players)
2. progressive raids: this is critical for keeping hardcore players coming and creating a "guild" atmosphere
3. being able to use experience to get other skills once you are at the "max" level...this is critical to keep people from having just an army of alts
4. NOT, I repeat, NOT being tied up by a strict story line with strict rules...this is one of the main things that ruined SWG and is one of the best things about EQ and WoW. In SWG, people should have been able to raid to fight the named NPCs and the lack of worthwhile bosses sucked
5. Better weapons for harder content; people should have to work hard and together to get the good stuff
6. faction grinding and tradeskills; again, to stop armies of alts
7. some solo quests, but the focus should be group based or else you will have a person do 90% of the game by themselves and just have a ton of alts and mules

Again, these are my opinions and, as stated earlier multiple times, there are SOOOO many different ways people like to play. I just think my ideas are required for a game to be lasting. Vanguard had the potential to be the best MMORPG out there, but SoE didn't commit the resources to fix the widespread bugs, it was FAR to graphic heavy at the time of release, and SoE just stopped adding content.

 

[OSCORP]

SWG was so awesome in the first couple years.

My love for that game and the SW universe has me dreaming about this game literally. ( i am playing LOTRO right now and it's holding me over till this, it's a nice casual MMO)

 

[hairlesswookiee]

SWG was so awesome in the first couple years.

My love for that game and the SW universe has me dreaming about this game literally. ( i am playing LOTRO right now and it's holding me over till this, it's a nice casual MMO)

Agreed, but I didn't make it past a month or so playing Galaxies.

 

[Crimsonbob]

This is 1 of a few MMO's im looking forward to playing. Star Trek online was a let down, its not crap its just run of the mill again.

 

[darthviper107]

I like how close it is to KOTOR even as an MMO, that really sells it for me.

 

[OSCORP]

Such a long wait still

 

[darthviper107]

They had a preview of the new Blur cinematic on GTTV that will be shown at E3 next week--still very awesome. Hopefully we'll get a date for this soon.

 

[plasmid303]

E3 trailer: https://kotaku.com/5563339/old-republics-e3-trailer-takes-the-fight-to-alderaan

will update with an embedded trailer when one appears.

 

[Karma]

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[Crimsonbob]

So cool, cant wait to play this with my guildies

 

[Shropt]

Frickin 5 minute trailer is better than the whole damn prequel trilogy.

 

[lerath666]

... am i the only one getting a clone wars vibe from this?

 

[Sachiel]

Aren't they supposed to be working on a video game not an animated movie?

 

[OSCORP]

Frickin 5 minute trailer is better than the whole damn prequel trilogy.

You can say that again.

 

[azurepred]

the Chick in that trailer was hella bad ass. A very awesome trailor indeed

 

[FQRizzo]

Aren't they supposed to be working on a video game not an animated movie?

I know. The gameplay will be in such stark contrast to these awesome trailers.

 

[lerath666]

Looks net, as far as story goes, but visually, i liked it MORE when it had it's own style, and didn't borrow so heavily from the prequel trilogy and the clone wars cartoon.

Clone armor?
Destroyer droids?

Come on bioware, you're better than this.