Comments on: [SWTOR] I find your lack of excitement disturbing

By: Brent McCreesh

Brent McCreesh — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 07:12:53 +0000

I played wow since 04 and also DOAC. I played multible character on DOAC it was a pretty decent game …. wow was a blast I hear alot about mmo players complaining about leveling and things taking to long but thats pretty much the point of a good mmo why dont you play consol games for that??? WOTLK wow really has ruined the game in that sense you used to always have something to do in wow pretty much to grow learn and improve your character pvp was to limited in wow but it didnt matter the game was just fun in everyway after TBC I can barley play the game now its gone ppl say it will live on for a much longer but im not so sure… from what I have seen of SWTOR it has some aspects of wow in it and alot that wow doesnt have and what it has of wow it sure seems alot better so if they cloned it and made it better I dont think thats a bad thing lol….WoW really is a joke to date. first 3 years it was pretty good. SWTOR is toony but it looks good… wow is to toony and to realistic doesnt work …. I hope SWTOR takes along time to lvl fun in the process and has a good social aspect to the game like wow does I know 4 couples met and married in wow lol…. also lots of grouping pve and raids… it should have much better pvp then wow being its Star Wars< I dont even like Star wars but what I have seen so far I can say I might like this mmo and switch from wow wow sucks but its the best atm….

By: spinks

spinks — Sat, 15 May 2010 06:49:51 +0000

I did play KOTOR and I liked it a lot. I just don’t buy that 3000 years of robotics technology separate HK-47 and C-3PO.

If it had been set a couple of hundred years previous to the films, then no problem. I just see all the same star wars characters running around, with some political changes. Also playing resistance in an imperial run universe just sounds cooler than playing republic to me.

I can’t really explain why but, the old republic just doesn’t reach out to me as a setting.

By: Dwism

Dwism — Sat, 15 May 2010 06:35:21 +0000

@longasc & Spinks
Have you played the first old republic game? Like one of my friends said: This [period in sw, and game] proves just how awsome Star wars can get when that jarjar-binks loving George Lucas stays the hell away from it.

Story-wise “star wars Knights of the old republic”, proved that the best bits about the star wars universe, where not set in the era of Darth vader.
For the story, at least, my excitement is still very much intact.

By: Simon Jones who is blogless

Simon Jones who is blogless — Sat, 15 May 2010 05:21:18 +0000

I think part of the issue is that what we’ve seen just hasn’t been that exciting or innovative, beyond the IP.

What I suspect we’re going to end up with is a slightly action-ier, very solidly produced WoW, that might make WoW look a little dated. With star wars. Which isn’t a bad thing but it’s not going to set the world on fire.

By: Dblade

Dblade — Sat, 15 May 2010 02:25:12 +0000

If I were them I’d just stop trickling information and let the hype build back up. In one sense it’s bad that Bioware is doing this because they are predictable otherwise with their combat and type of storytelling. To show even more predictable tank/dps talent tree behavior isn’t going to generate buzz.

By: sente

sente — Fri, 14 May 2010 23:19:01 +0000

I generally do not follow any future game in detail; most of the time it is about mechanics in various forms and mechanics are not exciting as separate entities.

If a game is good then its mechanics brought together will support playing the game and not get in the way. But that is typically not obvious until one has played the game a bit.

So no reason to bother with this game for the next year or so.

By: Hatch

Hatch — Fri, 14 May 2010 18:23:13 +0000

It doesn’t help that it was hyped as being innovative, but the more we learn about it the more it looks like a WoW clone. Talent trees, holy role trinity, even hotkey-based combat. The worst is the reports that “pulls” of stormtroopers will look on as you kill their friends because you haven’t quite gotten into range to aggro them yet.

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t need any more reskinned WoWs. I want something different.

By: River

River — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:19:47 +0000

Plus us gamers are sick of getting burned on the hype.

By: Bri

Bri — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:19:26 +0000

SWTOR has been stoking the hype machine for too long, too early, for a game that won’t release until sometime after fiscal 2011. They’re doing all the right things: the Holonet, the timelines, the cinematic trailer… but way, way too soon.

I think people are just wearied of being excited about it, and that’s a dangerous place for a PR department to find themselves in IMO.

By: spinks

spinks — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:16:37 +0000

I know what you mean. The Old Republic period is curiously banal to me. I was commenting to Syp via twitter yesterday that I’m never really convinced that it’s thousands of years before the film. I just think the universe and the people and factions and technology in it would change more in 3000 years.