What annoys me about the "MY CHARACTER IS THE ONLY ONE WHO MATTERS" mentality that rojo6934 is touting is that THIS IS AN MMO!
MMOs by nature already make you a one out of hundreds of thousands of people, so your personal importance in the grand scheme of things is pretty much nonexistent.
You are an average joe, that random guy down the street, a nobody, in the MMO universe.
if you read my comment again you notice i did not say "my character is the only one who matters"......
i said its the most important. Why? because thats the only character that YOU as a player is rolling and building through the story of the game and the progression overall. Theres no question about it.
Yes you are right that the main character is just another random dude in the game because its massively multiplayer. But you are just playing 1 toon that interacts with the entire world... your own created avatar so thats your most important part of the game. Actually whats more annoying is the fact that developers make a game with in depth story and where everyone can talk, except the player. Thats plain lazy. Give voice overs to everyone or dont add VO at all. For that reason i skipped all cinematics in TSW beta weekends and actually read the quest box instead.
I want to hear my character speaking with npcs, not just looking around like muted dumbbutts while the npcs are talking to themselves..... specially since TSW is a dang realistic modern day mmo. Plain lazy devs
EDIT: when i say lazy devs im refering to every developer that does that.
I have to agree that TSW's are worlds better than SWTOR. SWTOR you did end up just wanting to skip them all. Every cutscene in TSW I get excited to watch because I know I'm going to meet some incredibly memorable character and hear a great script. As someone mentioned previously, there are a bunch of really great lines in TSW that you end up laughing at or just thinking they were clever.
"...all those hours spent playing Left 4 Dead and they still won't let me use a gun!"
"...they're interested in your kind of talent. F-ing stuff up."
"You never saw this in any of the cop shows...well, maybe on cable. Not the network ones."
"I won't tell you Kingsmouth was a slice of heaven in a snowglobe..."
Like others, I don't mind watching the scenes again, they're really well VO'd and present information about the game in a really engaging way. I've never felt so involved in a game's lore and story before as TSW without even trying.
There are huge differences within TOR when it comes to voicework and storytelling quality. Between Republic and Empire (Empire wins out by far) and between different classes: the Trooper story really flatlined after Act 1 for me, while the Bounty Hunter and Smuggler kept up being awesome to the end.
Several of the more run-of-the-mill world quests are also of poor quality in TOR, the alien dialogue in particular got really annoying.
As for TSW, I only have limited Beta experience, but the dialogue didn't appeal to me at all. It was well done, well written, but in almost every conversation I felt like "Oh come on, no one is ever going to talk like that to another person", it always seemed like the characters were describing something in an excessive "shakespeare" kind of way, instead of actually talking to you.
An exception would be certain of the Illuminati NPC's, I really enjoyed some of those.
Feel free to use my referral link for SW:TOR if you want to test out the game. You'll get some special unlocks!
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if you read my comment again you notice i did not say "my character is the only one who matters"......
i said its the most important. Why? because thats the only character that YOU as a player is rolling and building through the story of the game and the progression overall. Theres no question about it.
Yes you are right that the main character is just another random dude in the game because its massively multiplayer. But you are just playing 1 toon that interacts with the entire world... your own created avatar so thats your most important part of the game. Actually whats more annoying is the fact that developers make a game with in depth story and where everyone can talk, except the player. Thats plain lazy. Give voice overs to everyone or dont add VO at all. For that reason i skipped all cinematics in TSW beta weekends and actually read the quest box instead.
I want to hear my character speaking with npcs, not just looking around like muted dumbbutts while the npcs are talking to themselves..... specially since TSW is a dang realistic modern day mmo. Plain lazy devs
EDIT: when i say lazy devs im refering to every developer that does that.
I have to agree that TSW's are worlds better than SWTOR. SWTOR you did end up just wanting to skip them all. Every cutscene in TSW I get excited to watch because I know I'm going to meet some incredibly memorable character and hear a great script. As someone mentioned previously, there are a bunch of really great lines in TSW that you end up laughing at or just thinking they were clever.
"...all those hours spent playing Left 4 Dead and they still won't let me use a gun!"
"...they're interested in your kind of talent. F-ing stuff up."
"You never saw this in any of the cop shows...well, maybe on cable. Not the network ones."
"I won't tell you Kingsmouth was a slice of heaven in a snowglobe..."
Like others, I don't mind watching the scenes again, they're really well VO'd and present information about the game in a really engaging way. I've never felt so involved in a game's lore and story before as TSW without even trying.
There are huge differences within TOR when it comes to voicework and storytelling quality. Between Republic and Empire (Empire wins out by far) and between different classes: the Trooper story really flatlined after Act 1 for me, while the Bounty Hunter and Smuggler kept up being awesome to the end.
Several of the more run-of-the-mill world quests are also of poor quality in TOR, the alien dialogue in particular got really annoying.
As for TSW, I only have limited Beta experience, but the dialogue didn't appeal to me at all. It was well done, well written, but in almost every conversation I felt like "Oh come on, no one is ever going to talk like that to another person", it always seemed like the characters were describing something in an excessive "shakespeare" kind of way, instead of actually talking to you.
An exception would be certain of the Illuminati NPC's, I really enjoyed some of those.
Feel free to use my referral link for SW:TOR if you want to test out the game. You'll get some special unlocks!