The Old Republic won't break any "WoW rules"

Meh. I'm still keen for this one - especially with the concentration on voice acting etc. As long as it's character centered and not a mindless grind withoutactual mandatory / storyline / character development quests then I'm cool with it.

oh and Tincan, you made a bit of a chronological blunder:

we can understand BioWare wanting to take advantage of certain design principles which have kept millions of gamers coming back to WoW for the past 10 years.
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Vanilla WoW was releases in 2004 if I'm not mistaken. :)
 
Every MMO that comes out, I play and look at it. And if they break any of the WoW rules, in my book that’s pretty dumb
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So ... WOW clone but using a Star Wars theme. Nice ... reskinning job.

That statement of his though, it's so retarded it doesn't bear thinking about. The last thing you need after 7 years' worth of a single game's dominance and a market that's suddenly becoming saturated, is a clone. Gamers are demanding something new.

Bring it on ArenaNet - they're breaking all the rules on this one, and if the amount of drool coming through my network cable is any indication, then breaking the mould isn't dumb.
 
Bioware, are going to use the same design principals but I really hope they use their epic story telling skills. I would like to play through a mmo game where I don't need to grind to make levels, where it feels like I am actually playing a story line.
Quite excited about this, and hey if it fails you just cancel the subscription :)
 
I'll wait for previews or reviews before casting my stone. His statement could have been used out of context or something.
 
OmegaFenix said:
I'll wait for previews or reviews before casting my stone. His statement could have been used out of context or something.
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True enough - and urdu is right in that Bioware has epic story-telling skills. But thus far, Bioware has only been tested in the general RPG arena, an MMO is a whole different monster.

I might have been a little over-cynical in branding it a reskinning job :p My interpretation of his statement is simply telling me that Bioware isn't going to go out and challenge anything, try and break new bounds, or anything like that. And that's dissapointing from a developer who is arguably the best at doing RPGs and who pretty much defined the genre as we know it today.
 
let me just clarify my stance, the only reason i had some interest in the game. Bioware doing the dev work. that's it, because i hate the source material.

yes i said it, I hate Star Wars. i also hate Star Trek.
 
shadowfox said:
True enough - and urdu is right in that Bioware has epic story-telling skills. But thus far, Bioware has only been tested in the general RPG arena, an MMO is a whole different monster.

I might have been a little over-cynical in branding it a reskinning job :p My interpretation of his statement is simply telling me that Bioware isn't going to go out and challenge anything, try and break new bounds, or anything like that. And that's dissapointing from a developer who is arguably the best at doing RPGs and who pretty much defined the genre as we know it today.
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We will have to wait and see.
 
Tank said:
let me just clarify my stance, the only reason i had some interest in the game. Bioware doing the dev work. that's it, because i hate the source material.

yes i said it, I hate Star Wars. i also hate Star Trek.
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my introduction to sci-fi was Big Stompy robots with enough firepower to level a city three times over
 
As always I wait. Like I have mentioned about Rift, if this game becomes more of the same (see WoW), I will get bored - FAST!

Right now many games are hitting the right notes, but they lack something. For me this continual streamlining of games is actually watering them down. And then we have this malady whereby genres are being mashed together forming these odd hybrids that seem to excel at nothing. But anyways, back to topic.

I will wait and see, like I do for every game for the past few years. I do not allow myself to get excited pre-reviews. Simple as that.
 
I have to state that I have been following this MMO very closely and I haven't been excited about an MMO since WoW and this, this game has me excited. These are the same developers that brought us Dragon Age and Mass Effect. The same people that made the first KoTOR and from what I have seen in videos and from some of the game play finally brings in something that I feel has been missing from MMORPG's and that is the RPG part. Will it succeed? I hope so with those titles behind their name and EA spending over $300 million dollars on all the speach and voice acting. I can't wait for it. It is also one of the few Sci-Fi MMOs I hope they deliver on what they are promising. If they give you a story and a plot in the same way as all their other games and it is fully voice acted you can expect me to be the first on the servers I am counting the days :).

Regards
Cerberus SA
 
in order of preference:

0) world of darkness
1) rift
2) secret world
3) guild wars 2
4) knights of old republic
 
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