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Extreme voice acting, Not an mmo in my OPINION.
delete5230
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"Yes".....The voice acting is too extreme.
I'm not playing the bata yet. I will be come friday......What gives me the right to even give my opinion ?....Well, I have a real time web site to watch others play Video games. So I've been watching several people playing SWTOR for the past few days.
This web site gives perfect quality along with great audio. In every case the players are trying to maintain a great attitude. There all mmo players and StarWars fans. They are narrating every move, some are even doing questions and answers using a side chat built into the web site.......They are playing as if they had been playing this mmo for years.
IN EVERY CASE THEY ARE GETTING EXTREMELY TIRED OF THE VOICE ACTING. There trying not to bitch. There trying to maintain a good experience, but many comments are coming out anyway. Every two minutes they are going into dialog, at times they last several minutes. You can see that there adrenalin is flowing, yet BAMMM another long dialog. Lots of frustration.
Theme Park, Sandbox, Bull crap in my OPINION :
The game seems to be on rails, they tell you how to play. It's not an open world of do what ever. I don't call it an mmo if you have to instance into PvP or Dungeons to play with others. Some would, but not me. Once they add a dungeon finder it will really be over. Guilds will become worthless and you could just wipe out your friends list because you will not be playing with them anymore......just like Rift......In two months time all will see are the hardcore StarWars fans !....BioWare will call it a success because they made millions off box sales.
My game plan :
As with all bata's, I always play a character class that would not be my first choice, along with the opposed faction, so I don't kill my experience after release.
But In the case of SWTOR I'll be playing my first choice. And skip the game. It will be like a fun, short single player game, with a little bit a grouping for dungeons and PvP....Just like Rift !
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*shrug*
Maybe you should give the game a fair chance and start playing it open minded....
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Wait a minute. You haven't played to game, so you have no point of reference, but you have come to all of these conclussions? Based on your experience with what exactly?
UNBELIEVEABLE!
"If half of what you tell me is a lie, how can I believe any of it?"
Out of curiosity, can you turn the V.O. and cutscenes off...?
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Do yourself a favor and don't play on this weekend because it wil only add to your frustration. The reason for which you hate SWTOR (V.O and story telling) is exactly why so many want to play it.
Also the title confuses me, SWTOR is not a MMO due to extreme voice over so reading text is the only staple of MMORPGS? i didn't know that definition of MMOS was set in stone?
I played nonstop pretty much for my entire weekend and did not get tired of the voice acting or dialog. I actually looked forward to the next one and learning more about the story. So not sure what to tell you... I hit level 20 just in that short weekend. And the leveling is slow, but awesome.
You can hit spacebar to skip the chatter.
There is a "skip cinematics" setting, but I've never tried it, so I'm not sure what it does, or if it worlks.
Thanks for that. Had wondered about that. Definitely makes that aspect of the OP's complaint irrelevant then. Thanks again.
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That was his only point too. lol.
I didn't even know you could skip. I never tried or wanted to.
Let's see here:
You haven't even played it and your making baseless claims with no experience of the game.
Massive? Check
Multiplayer? Check
Online? Check
Role playing? Double check.
Game? Check
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While I don't necesarly agree with OP in many things, and I enjoy story in game - I don't see why VO has such appeal, actually I prefer reading over VO, kinda leave many things to imagination which I like, not to mention that paraphrasing and some voices just getting on my nerves, especially if game VO my own character. (if this case with Swtor?)
Yes your character has a voice. Which is awesome...
Maybe use the spacebar....
In Bioware we trust!
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I'm curious OP, what does it take to make a game an MMORPG that this game doesn't have? And if it's not an mmorpg, then what is it?
As far as having to instance to do dungeons or pvp...umm...damn near every themepark MMO has that. You know what SWTOR also has? World PVP of several different varieties, World raid bosses (not instanced) and an absolute crapload of non-instanced world PvE content.
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I can allready see me leaning on the spacebar by accident, and then cursing the whole world because i missed some very important information....
Ireally hope we can set that to a less used key like the ~ or the |
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See, I would not find that awesome. It's my character - it should be the voice I imagine. I get what fen was saying about things being left to the imagination - there have been several discussions on how games with graphics have less immersion than text games - because in a text game, so much of it is going on your imagination. Kind of like how many enjoy the book better than the movie.
It's one thing to have others have a voice...but for my character to have a voice - er - makes it less my character.
Can see where folks would enjoy it - but can see where folks might not.
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If you ever do that you can hit esc and it backs you out of the conversation and lets you start over. same goes for picking a wrong choice.
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There are always this two kind of games, the one like good storytelling the others just want to jump in action.
I for myself love story, love cutscenes in games, games like MGS are my favorite and when there is a one hour cut scene in game I love it. What I dont like is reading blocks of text, so I always have skipped the quest textes in MMOs. So this game combines the most awsome features on game industry, storytelling and MMO.
If you dont like it, dont play it. {mod edit}
I have come to the conclusion that I do not like Korean made cars and they are obviously not actually cars. I have not tried driving one yet, but they look just similar to most other cars out there. Why is my opinion relevant? Because I watch movies of other people driving Korean cars. So even though I have no vested interest in the cars I am seeing, I can tell that Korean cars are bad from what I see. They drive similar to every other car out there and I do not like how their radios work just like almost all other cars either. Oh and they use fossil fuels just like most other cars too. I'm just tired of cars, but Korean cars are the worst made in all the world, even though many of them are made in other countires.
"If half of what you tell me is a lie, how can I believe any of it?"
Its alot better then most mmo's where you get to read the quest and kill 10 boars etc etc.
Its a new step wich i appriciate alot.
Check GW2 its almost the same style of quest explanation.
Wanting to skip the VO is not the same as wanting to skip the story.
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In what way?
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I like story. I read books. I do not listen to audio books.
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