The Old Republic: The 50-novel MMO

its an easy enough thing to ignore games that you have no interest in, so yea keep posting i guess?

I think this game will be good. As far as a flop out of the box like say, AION, not likely. The game looks solid, lore is solid, lightsabers and bounty hunters! many buckets of nerd drool will be filled on this here game.

Yes, SWTOR will be the greatest video game experience of all time. Of All Time.

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DarthNub: "Excuse me lol, but can anyone tell me where the thing is I'm supposed to get for this quest? lol"

DarthFader: "Read the f&@$ing novel, nub!"

If this were any company other than Bioware, I might be skeptical. But given how well they did story with Neverwinter Nights, I'd say this might be more than just boasting on their part. I'm hoping they do pull this off. I love a good interactive novel.

It is really hard to speculate with out actually playing the game. I wish them luck.

First to clarify, I believe this game will do well. I just need to get that out of the way before I get painted as a hater.

I think Daniel Erikson needs to worry more about writing the next 50, 100, 1000 novels then taking jabs at other MMO developers. I bet it takes less than a month from release for all the major stories to be completed. Not by a single player, but by enough people that the stirring sound of the hungry mouths demanding more. Who then drown out anything positive coming from the community. While I have no doubt they will kill in the Box sells, they have not presented anything to me to suggest that this game has long term playability.

Don't get me wrong, I want them to succeed because failure would lead to EA gutting the studio.But they need to focus on the longer term and figure out how to capture an audience in a new way.

World of Warcraft did this by creating a very solid foundation on which they continued to build upwards. This can worked because they managed to keep the light at the end of the tunnel burning bright. Giving a little something for everybody. The players who enjoy the journey find the experience aged and now lacking but they long since been removed as a key demographic.

But this is why I don't see Kotor being much different. They stuck with a traditional combat system, character advancement, and content system. All wrapped up in a gated and linear experience. While the story and delivery may be innovative, the fact remains that your playing a on the rails RPG.

Now if they had a more open system that threw traditional experience and levels out the window. Advancement that was truly measured by the amount of the story you accomplished, reflected by changes in your characters appearance. Like say new equipment, abilities, and emotes then I would tip my hat and say keep the novels coming. But really how many players would like a system where completing a story arc rewarded something like a interesting scar, battle worn armor, or title?

Just to clarify a final point, I'm not suggesting that Bioware would of been better off using a skill based systems or pure sandbox. But I do believe that they should of started on this end and refined their game to give a unique experience versus copying whats considered the norm.

Huh, first thing from TOR that actually piqued my interest. If they're going to throw down the gauntlet regarding end-game rush and storyline then good on them. Now give me crafted space combat.

it all sounds awesome, and I trust Bioware more than any other company in the industry - along with another one- but I really wish they'd start talking about the MMO aspect of the RPG

so is this game going to play like a standard rpg with social elements? All I keep hearing about is all the questing and you can easily solo your way to max level with quests and everything will have a voice over. But what about the Massive Multiplayer stuff. is this an mmo? Dont take it the wrong way. Im not trying to bash. If anybody can pull off a good starwars game its bioware. I have faith in them. I just dont want a single player game that pretends to me an mmo. Maybe I missed an article?