I think that any fan of this genre of games—even a fan that wasn’t following the massive pre-launch marketing blitz—would have gleaned enough information to have a pretty good idea of what kind of game this was going to be. Nonetheless, I think it is perfectly reasonable to have hoped to be pleasantly surprised and to be a little let down that it turned out to be just another typical MMORPG—albeit a very polished one.
In other words, it’s going to be a very good game but not that innovative dream game that too many of us keep looking for.
The game is amazing. It also is NOT a WoW clone. I appreciate the fact that they made a lot of the controls the same, so it made jumping right into the fray a lot easier. But a WoW clone? HARDLY. Waiting 10 days for it to go live is gonna suck. I don't even want to play WoW in the meantime. Oh well...I guess I'll risk bursting aflame by going ......outside!!! /scream
Those of you who know me have probably seen that I've been fairly critical of SWTOR since I played the beta weekend. I played Jedi Knight to level 10 and was kind of turned off by the experience.
But in thinking about it, I realize that maybe I just expected too much from the game. There is a lot of hype surrounding this game, it's developed by a major AAA developer, and it's no secret that tons of money and time went into it. I don't think I was really hyped for the game, I just expected it to be very high quality because of its developer cred.
So even though I knew the game was going to follow the WoW formula (which I dislike), I expected it to be an "awesome" example of a WoW formula game, but found it to be only "decent." This was a let down and basically caused me to view the game negatively.
But in retrospect, I think that if this wasn't a Bioware game with five bajillion dollars behind it, I probably would not have been nearly as critical, and may have enjoyed the game much more. Does anyone else feel the same? Do you feel like the hype that has been generated on this game raised your expectations too high?
The hype didnt raise my expectations...i didnt believe the 'epic space combat!!!!' etc but the amount of money put into it and although it has ea/lucas all over it i was excited with bioware making it.
I got to level 40 on several toons over a few beta builds and yes i was extremely dissapointed with the product.
I am not sure how ToR does things better than say WoW, Rift or LotRO for anything apart from voice acting ..crafting/housing/pvp/companions?? i think they are all super shallow and kinda suck but i guess everyone is entitled to their opinion - personally i find little great about ToR apart from storyline which is meh for me as i prefer making my own story in a game...if i want to follow someone elses vision then ill read a book.
So OP yep i agree with you (and so what if he only made it to lvl 10? its enough to form a valid opinion unless mine is invalid because i only made it to level 40)
I purposely only leveled to 12 or so on each class...just to get a feel of the abilities/stories/etc. Why level any characters to lvl 40+, just to have to do it all over again in a few weeks? Some of you have WAY too much wasted time on your hands...
Someone name a better mmo than swtor that is available to play right now...im waiting.
Lets see...
Themeparks off the top of my head?
1. WoW
Better classes, game world, crafting, dungeon content and combat.
2. Lotro
Better game world, graphics, quest content, crafting and dungeon design
3. RIFT
Better Graphics, classes, Combat, Dungeon design and the world actually feels alive due to dynamic content
SWTOR has nice voice acting but the actual mmo features and the quality of the quest content (The tasks not the voice acting) is average at best.
^ /signed
TOR has not launched lets make this clear. We will not know what Bioware can or will do until we have a evaluation period. It does not have 12 million subs yet, so lets be realistic. It certainly will not fail on launch, but is anyone here willing to guess after what we have seen happen before with games we thought we would be good or bad.
Technically Rift is supposed to be down to 2 servers according to some of you and Aion is supposed to be at 100. So yes some people can be wrong. Remember what WoW stands for? Waiting on WARHammer?
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I am looking for the same "Decent" let down with GW2.
I think that any fan of this genre of games—even a fan that wasn’t following the massive pre-launch marketing blitz—would have gleaned enough information to have a pretty good idea of what kind of game this was going to be. Nonetheless, I think it is perfectly reasonable to have hoped to be pleasantly surprised and to be a little let down that it turned out to be just another typical MMORPG—albeit a very polished one.
In other words, it’s going to be a very good game but not that innovative dream game that too many of us keep looking for.
The game is amazing. It also is NOT a WoW clone. I appreciate the fact that they made a lot of the controls the same, so it made jumping right into the fray a lot easier. But a WoW clone? HARDLY. Waiting 10 days for it to go live is gonna suck. I don't even want to play WoW in the meantime. Oh well...I guess I'll risk bursting aflame by going ......outside!!! /scream
^ /signed
TOR has not launched lets make this clear. We will not know what Bioware can or will do until we have a evaluation period. It does not have 12 million subs yet, so lets be realistic. It certainly will not fail on launch, but is anyone here willing to guess after what we have seen happen before with games we thought we would be good or bad.
Technically Rift is supposed to be down to 2 servers according to some of you and Aion is supposed to be at 100. So yes some people can be wrong. Remember what WoW stands for? Waiting on WARHammer?