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A WoW player's guide to Star Wars: The Old Republic - ARTICLE
DeaconX
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http://www.gamesradar.com/pc/star-wars-the-old-republic/preview/a-wow-players-guide-to-star-wars-the-old-republic/a-2009120311143445069/g-20081021163120143024
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[Mod Edit- Please don't re-print entire articles, a link will suffice.]
Why do I write, create, fantasize, dream and daydream about other worlds? Because I hate what humanity does with this one.
BOYCOTTING EA / ORIGIN going forward.
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That is *so* different from WoW you can't really call this a WoW clone at all.
I mean, the quests are fully voiced. That is like, so different.
And you can take cover behind an objective. It's like comparing Fallout 3 to Monopoly.
No druids.
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Hey we have droids! Isn't that almost as good?
Seriously, DeaconX, a thread starting "a WoW player's" must catch flame, or not? Lol, I hope not tho.
People don't ask questions to get answers - they ask questions to show how smart they are. - Dogbert
To Troll or not to Troll that is the question or the quest?
If you can get past the WoW in the title then the article is a good read for thoughs that do not know anything about the game. I like watching that video on the last page as well. When I watch it, I know I will be playing this game for a long time.
How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?
R.A.Salvatore
I have just 2 problems with this:
1) They are copying Massively.com's great series of "WoW Players Guide To"
www.massively.com/tag/wow-players-guide
2) How the hell do you make a guide to a game that's not out and not even in closed beta.... if it is in closed beta and I missed it (possible) then it hasn't been in closed beta long enough to make a guide and an NDA would eliminate any part of the guide that was worth anything. Making a guide on speculation is very unprofessional.
PS: I don't blame the OP.
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It's story-driven game. in WoW you can just load up an addon and not even bother reading the quest text that crops up. Here you have to take a dip into the SW universe. You can't just swig a beer and make off-color jokes in general chat channel while grinding xp.
It's story-driven game. in WoW you can just load up an addon and not even bother reading the quest text that crops up. Here you have to take a dip into the SW universe. You can't just swig a beer and make off-color jokes in general chat channel while grinding xp.
You don't know that, the people who wrote that article don't know that and I don't know that. Nobody knows anything about this game other than it's called "Star Wars:The Old Republic" and the VERY limited information given on their site about it.
Unless I went into a coma and it's really 3yrs after what day I really think it is. Wtf? This thread really does make me feel like that.
Jumping to conclusions FTL. And this thread's full of it. Sure, it's fully voiced. Big deal. You can fully voice WoW, FFXI, or ANY game with quests, regardless of how story driven, or even linear they are. You can voice out EVE's missions if you want.
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Voiced quest is a bad thing, so i agree with blizzard.
Voiced quest makes it so much harder to go back if you need to change a quest.
The sad part is that they even have to dumb down an article for the player's to understand.
Sorry, but I dont know a dam thing about Star Wars. So I (like many) wont get into the (Role Playing)game because we know very little.
It's story-driven game. in WoW you can just load up an addon and not even bother reading the quest text that crops up. Here you have to take a dip into the SW universe. You can't just swig a beer and make off-color jokes in general chat channel while grinding xp.
Things can and will change a lot during developement.We don't know how the game will end like, so let's wait until we actually see the classes in action.
Looking at the classes, I think there will be a pretty enormous faction imbalance.
I'm interested
How so?
I'm interested
How so?
Well, for starters I think the dark side already has the advantage just for being evil. It's not often that mmorpg games give the player the option to play as evil characters so I think a lot of people will be interested in that.
Aside from the Jedi knight, the light classes seems to be rather dull.
The Jedi Knight is fine, no complaints here.
The smuggler is based on Han Solo. Han Solo was an awesome character in the movies, but not a character a lot of people would want to be. If players want to play a part in the star wars universe as a hero, they want to be as a Jedi.
The Trooper has the problem of being just that. A trooper, a person with no real sense of individuality which I think is what a lot of people are looking for.
The Jedi consular is a really good idea, and I think it would be really popular if it didn't look so...stupid. The clothes that are shown in the screenshots just look silly. If that is an indication of what the character will look like in the game, I think a lot of people will pick the Jedi Knight instead.
The big problem here is that this is a game based on movies. The movies spend a lot of time making Jedi look awesome and everyone else rather dull.
The dark side is treated better as far as classes are considered.
The Sith Warrior is pretty much a dark side Jedi, Sure to be very popular.
Bounty Hunter seems to be the counterpart to the Trooper. Unlike the Trooper, The Bounty Hunter has a lot of individuality and a lot more iconic weapons and attacks.
The Imperial Agent isn't quite as iconic as either the sith warrior or the bounty hunter, but he still looks a lot better than the Smuggler.
Sith Inquisitor seems to struggle with the same issues the Jedi Consular is.
I think this game will have to struggle with a lot of population imbalance issues not just in faction imbalance, but class population imbalance as well. I think Jedi Knight and Sith Warrior will be by far the most played classes. The thing is, fighting with a lightsaber is just much cooler than shooting a laser pistorl. There are lots of ways you can wield a sword, but there is only so much you can do with a blaster. Shooting a ranged weapon isn't nearly as cool or iconic as wielding a lightsaber.
I'm interested
How so?
Well, for starters I think the dark side already has the advantage just for being evil. It's not often that mmorpg games give the player the option to play as evil characters so I think a lot of people will be interested in that.
Aside from the Jedi knight, the light classes seems to be rather dull.
The Jedi Knight is fine, no complaints here.
The smuggler is based on Han Solo. Han Solo was an awesome character in the movies, but not a character a lot of people would want to be. If players want to play a part in the star wars universe as a hero, they want to be as a Jedi.
The Trooper has the problem of being just that. A trooper, a person with no real sense of individuality which I think is what a lot of people are looking for.
The Jedi consular is a really good idea, and I think it would be really popular if it didn't look so...stupid. The clothes that are shown in the screenshots just look silly. If that is an indication of what the character will look like in the game, I think a lot of people will pick the Jedi Knight instead.
The big problem here is that this is a game based on movies. The movies spend a lot of time making Jedi look awesome and everyone else rather dull.
The dark side is treated better as far as classes are considered.
The Sith Warrior is pretty much a dark side Jedi, Sure to be very popular.
Bounty Hunter seems to be the counterpart to the Trooper. Unlike the Trooper, The Bounty Hunter has a lot of individuality and a lot more iconic weapons and attacks.
The Imperial Agent isn't quite as iconic as either the sith warrior or the bounty hunter, but he still looks a lot better than the Smuggler.
Sith Inquisitor seems to struggle with the same issues the Jedi Consular is.
I think this game will have to struggle with a lot of population imbalance issues not just in faction imbalance, but class population imbalance as well. I think Jedi Knight and Sith Warrior will be by far the most played classes. The thing is, fighting with a lightsaber is just much cooler than shooting a laser pistorl. There are lots of ways you can wield a sword, but there is only so much you can do with a blaster. Shooting a ranged weapon isn't nearly as cool or iconic as wielding a lightsaber.
You do know that the real Dark Side Jedi is not the Sith Warrior....but the Dark Side Jedi, right? You pick whether you are good or evil while you play. I hate playing evil guys, but I'm certainly going to try out a Light Side Sith Warrior who wants to stop the Sith from being an Evil Empire, probably play a Bounty Hunter and such similarly.
They also have a good bit of ranged weapons, such as grenades (even the Smuggler has them), so I wouldn't worry about that. Yeah, probably be a lot of Lightsaber users, but that's not really a problem.
What movies?
"" Voice acting isn't an RPG element....it's just a production value." - grumpymel2
I stopped reading here, as this single line exposes just how poorly informed you are on the subject.
Smuggler is one of the most sought after classes from the Star Wars universe and have been ever since the inception of SWG. The amount of players wishing to play a proper Smuggler is staggering to say the least. Jedi, despite being the obvious "hook" for the universe, are not the only thing the universe has to offer.
Jedi only appeal to certain types of players, the same goes for Smugglers. Attempting to discerne what number of players will play either class in terms of faction balance is useless at this point because you don't have all the variables regarding how things will come to play out during the course of development.
Pretty much disagree with everything you wrote.
Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen this article. It's probably not really accurate since we know so little of the game, but it was an amusing read.
Isn't it too early to predict which is the FOTM class?
The early months of a new game is sweetest b/c we do not know what class will be good, now or in the months ahead. So most people play for fun, and for progression. After all there is not end game in sight, or finalised yet.
I will say I will try out each class, and see how each goes for me. I am an alt-holic, and the alt that gives me most fun gets my effort to level up first.
Its too early to worry about the game, let alone the end game.
Latest Sith or Republic poll.
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=21942
Latest class poll.
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=91624
All seems pretty even but take polls with a grain of salt cause if there is an OP class or easier class to play/level then people will flock to it.