Star Wars: The Old Republic - Online

I couldn't find a thread about this game, so I decided I'd make one myself.

Anyone here but me who keeps a close eye on the updates of the next MMORPG Star Wars game, who's release is yet TBA (2010)? As a massive Star Wars fan who have played both KotOR 1 and 2, as well as the Jedi Knight series, seen all the movies and read many of the books and comics, I am more than just a little excited, since it seems like it will be pretty awesome.

Since Galaxies was and is a totally fail SW game, my hopes are even higher than they should be, and I might kill myself if the game isn't any good when I try it -_- Having major "this-seems-like-an-epic-game" orgasms and the SW soundtracks running through my head all the time, I might even die before I get to play it, to much anticipation...

If you're a SW fan and haven't noticed it yet, CHECK IT OUT!

Link to official website: http://www.swtor.com/

Also, the trailer! (in the spoiler)


Anyone who doesn't get the shivers when hearing that theme even just at the beginning doesn't deserve to call himself a man.


I'll have that song playing on my funeral ;_;

Can't say I'm watching it closely, but I'm following it nontheless. It'll be the first MMO I've picked up in a while.

Also, I take offense to that SWG comment. I loved that game to death except for the $15 a month sony was trying to leech off of it.

Well, I would be exaggerating if I said that I'm checking the site every day, or even every week, but my anticipation isn't lower than if I would. For the moment I'm just waiting for the next and last class to be revealed. Will be the first for me as well since I dropped WoW a couple of years ago.

Haha, sorry, but I just played it a little, and lets just say that it was enough for me. And yea, the tab on that game is ridiculously high.

The trailer is pretty impressive. To bad the gameplay will be nothing like that.

I'm sort of interested, but won't be picking it up.

In short I feel the same.

Ofc the gameplay won't be like it, pretty impossible. That does not mean that it will be bad though. Well, one should at least try the beta or the Free Trail that will probably be available.

I actually check the site every day. I could rant about how I'm annoyed that they made 4 out of 8 classes force users or how it seems like you won't be able to play droids if you like. I'm a pretty big Star Wars geek, though I can't say I've played every game (for example I never played Galaxies because the first thing I ever heard about it was that it sucked) but some of my favorite games are Star Wars ones (Kotor, Battlefront, and Republic Commando for example). I also have recently been reading some of the Star Wars books and once a friend and I designed our own Star Wars D20 system because another friend wanted to run a Star Wars game but we all knew Star Wars D20 blew goats (I'm talking about the 3rd Edition one, though the 4th Ed one isn't that great either) and he dared us to do better...so we did over the course of a summer.

First MMO I've ever been really interested in. And knowing BioWare, there's hope for this to be quite awesome.

Yea, they haven't released the last Sith class yet, but since the Republic one was a Jedi Councilor it seems likely that it will be a Sith counterpart. I've never really cared about playing as a droid, never had them with me in Kotor and never enjoyed to play as the Trade Fed. in Battlefront either, so that doesn't bother me as much.

I recommend that you read some of the comics then, are really good, and interesting, and expands the SW universe a lot, since you get to know a lot about the earlier universe and shit. Damn, I wish I still had my old collection on the computer, were so many and so high quality scans... Anyway, if you wanna take a look, here's a link to a torrent with many, if not all SW Comics you could possibly find: http://extratorrent.com/torrent/1555505/Star+Wars+Comics+Collection+-+ALMOST+COMPLETE.html. They should be in a chronological order, if you're unsure there's many sites where you can find out in what order they're supposed to be read (or rather, which is where at the timeline).

Since you have played Kotor you will probably recognize many of the names in the earlier comics that you maybe didn't know much anout before =) Is very interesting.



Indeed, Bioware seldom disappoints. I recommend watching some of the behind the scenes movies at the site as well if you're interested, the game seems even more awesome afterwards =)

Last Sith one is called the "Sith Inquisitor"

Ara, hontou da! Seems like they just haven't updated the official info on site, even though it's in the forums an shit. Ah well, awesome.

Looks pretty cool if you ask me (and Republic Solider is the way to go), I hope they have a close beta sometime! :3

I'm watching it very closly, and i'm somewhat active on their forums. I'm very interested in this mmo because PvE / Story driven MMO seem to be the best idea. All the last few mmos are so heavly driven by PvP that they get very boring.

I want to get back into my first few months of WoW when everything was casual, i would show up to raid maybe like 5 hours a week and still have fun. Until i decided to go 5x the number of hours per week for hardcore raiding.

Anyway this game seems to be the perfect casual MMO coming out. Something I can take slowly and enjoy. I'm not a SW geek though, but i'm interested in the lore and the world.

Yea, the story seems like it's pretty good, and the gameplay seems very interesting. I'm wondering a bit about this full voice-acting they have for each characters; in Wow, when you get a quest, you've maid the text to come instant, so when you get it you just check the loot and then close it, reading the details as you run to the location. This will be like "Blahblahblahblahblah - accept quest- blahblahblahblah - Choice - blahblahblah...", the questing will take forever, especially if you're in a party.

Anyway, as I said, the gameplay seems cool, and weird. Like the fact that you don't have to be evil when playing a sith and cn choose to go rampage when playing a Jedi, all based on these choices... And I still really don't get the battle system in this game, seems freaking random xD
Anyway, as you might have noticed, I'm buying This game, 100%.

Oh, and GJ putting up that video, I was gonna do it myself but I forgot about it xD

The dialogue choices remind me of ME.

How is the combat confusing to you? If seems pretty basic mmo stuff, but with a cover system.

Yea, it seems to be pretty much the same, I mean, the interface even looks almost the same. I'm just wondering how well it will work with an mmo if you have to watch through all the sequences. I don't wanna seem like the impatient gamer, but there seems like it's gonna be a lot of standstills waiting for the quest to be explained. Seems more fit for single play, so I'm interested in seeing how it will turn out.

Also, the choices. If they said it, I didn't catch it, but it seems pretty random if different choices leads you to different play. Pretty awesome, all players will experience the game differently, but I'm wondering: if one player (in solo) makes one choice in a quest while the other player (also in solo) makes another choice, can they later form a party? Since they don't have the same storyline I mean...

Basic mmo? Wll, sure, except for the fact that the target lock doesn't seem to matter, you can still shot whoever gets in the way, while in most other games the attack passes right through the chars not selected (unles it's an AoE ofc). Confusing isn't the right word perhaps, but at least I haven't played a game with this sort of combat.

Close related perhaps, but not the same, it's not the system in Wow, not the system in Lineage, and most other mmo's use the same system as either one of those. While the usual systems is said to be real-time, this would be more like super-real-time with high-reality?



Nah, this game takes place 300 years after KotOR, so I guess it's more like a sequel.

Check the updates once every once in a while, not going to actively play though.
Not right after the launch at any rate.

They'll probably have a skip voice button or something in place.

It sounded like the choices you make don't affect the storyline that much. It just spawns different mobs for you to fight and gives your party members different dialogue to react to what you're doing. Of course I could be wrong about that, but that's the feeling I got from watching the video.


Oh, I didn't see the attack thing in the video. Still it seems like the basic stuff though.

Maybe I'll give this a try, but I probably won't get it on release.

It is right after launch it's the most fun to play D=



Maybe =/ Ah well, we'll see when it gets out, I'm gonna keep being pumped for its release. And as I said, it's more fun at launch imo. So it was with WoW, so it'll be with this.