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    Escapist Podcast: Bonus: Star Wars: The Old Republic Round 2

    I realized in my comments on the review that I'm not entirely clear on how different people view roleplay in MMOs, so I'm hoping you can share your thoughts (given that they seem to differ from my own). You differentiate the "more free form" RP of other MMO's from TOR's, but I'm not clear on the...
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    Star Wars: The Old Republic Review

    Please direct me to that "blow by blow." The first response I got from you was this one where you responded to one of my points before addressing someone else. Perhaps you need to explain; how do roleplayers interact with an MMO's story while they're playing? Do they follow every event to...
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    Star Wars: The Old Republic Review

    You didn't really read my first post. The story in TOR is just as easy to ignore as in any MMO. You can skip right past all the conversations, ignore what you're really saying and just do the objectives and collect your experience and move on. Yes, BioWare provides a story, but that's the...
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    Star Wars: The Old Republic Review

    Right, but I trust you got my point: RPers must always contend with the game's story when it conflicts with their character concept. TOR's conflicts with such RP are no more egregious than any other MMO's, they're just better presented and more central to the storytelling, as well as more...
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    Star Wars: The Old Republic Review

    I think it's worth considering how it affects players who don't usually RP though. I myself very rarely think much about an MMO character's backstory because there's simply no reason in many games to do so. For instance, I could come up with some grand tale of a loss to a rival and a desire for...
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    [UPDATE] Players Banned for Breakdancing in Star Wars: The Old Republic

    Such a shame people will resort to libel over a game. I don't know what's happened to this generation.
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    Misc: My Favorite Skyrim Mods So Far

    This makes me kind of glad I haven't picked Skyrim up yet. By the time I do, bugs in the main game will have been mostly rooted out and mods will be plentiful. Looking forward to trying this later on.
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    Jimquisition: How Skyrim Proves The Industry Wrong

    Weren't we already fellating Skyrim all over the internet? Eh, who am I to play devil's advocate; proceed.
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    Games you want to replay until you remember "that one part."

    That crystally rock-beast boss thing in DA2. It's such a crazy difficulty spike, I'm just not sure I can mathematically do it on hard or more. The stats just aren't there. I sometimes dread the desert on Breath of Fire 3, but it's only because it's sort of tedious compared to everything else...
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    So the SW:The Old republic, NDA is down. (linked in some beta vids)

    I played in the last beta weekend and couldn't stop. There's really nothing hugely groundbreaking about it, but it just works. For me, at least. Maybe it's the sci-fi or maybe it was the enthusiasm and helpfulness of the other players (only had to /ignore maybe 5 people the whole time). Anyway...
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    Questions Still Swirl Around EA's Origin Bans

    TOR can be purchased digitally through Origin, but it's not required to log in or play. Bioware likes to make that clear. I sense even they don't want to deal with gamer aggro surrounding Origin.
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    Hellboy Director Hates Game Cutscenes

    There are many ways to make a game and tell a story in a game. Good for Del Toro for picking a way and staying with it, but no one sit here and act like "he's right because he's a director." No. There's no one way to tell a story in a game and that's what's so great about them. I've played...
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    The Real Deal on Zero Punctuation

    For me, the problem is people agreeing with him too readily. His Extra Punctuation column seems to me like his chance to drop the fast-talking, snarky persona of his videos and get real about what he thinks and that's where I tend to disagree with him, if I disagree at all. I think those...
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    New Space Marine DLC Blasts Down In December

    Good news. I've been enjoying the Exterminatus DLC despite it being late (on 360). I'll probably get this too. I seem to be buying a lot of DLC with little remorse these days. I should probably avoid that because the lack of a physical transaction is keeping me from thinking frugally.
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    Zero Punctuation: Batman: Arkham City

    Weird. Maybe it's because I fucking love this game, but it felt like his heart wasn't in it. Like he found some things to pick on, but they don't really hang together in the same compellingly negative way that some of his other videos have.