Analyst Calls The Old Republic a "WoW Clone"

[SimpleJack]

I wouldnt be surprised considering that almost every other mmo that claims to be a "game-changer" or whatever turns out to be almost exactly the same as WoW.

But if you can get a lightsaber in the old republic then I'd be cool for that.

 

[Blayze]

Well, we always knew Bioware can't do moral ambiguity to save their lives. Even in Jade Empire, we only got a tiny amount of "Open Palm" being tyranny and "Closed Fist" being freedom--the rest of the game, it was clear that it was just Good vs Evil. Well, Nice vs Nasty at any rate. Hell, you couldn't even finish the game as Closed Fist without choosing the Evil option at the end of the game--and when you choose one of the options, the game slams you straight to that end of the alignment scale at 100%, regardless of everything else you've done during the game.

In Dragon Age, however, they seem to have gone with the approach of "Every choice you make is wrong, so you might as well not play this game because you're not going to have an impact at best and ruin the game world completely at worst."

 

[XUnsafeNormalX]

This game may go down as one of the biggest gaming flops of all time.

Although i'm sure it will still sell well on the shelves because Star Wars is on the front.

 

[The Lugz]

well, this is kind-of obvious.. an mmo is a genre so they're going to share allot of features and ideals

and from all the stuff that's leaked everywhere they look practically identical game-play wise, which should be obvious really as-well

Spoiler

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=Y6GZ437U 'alterswtor' pw

see for yourself if you want

 

[Jadak]

Honestly, I gave up on hoping that it it would be worth much on it's merits of a game the moment I learned they were going the mmo route rather than say, Kotor 3. My only hope was that (being someone who doesn't find much appeal in WoW) the gameplay would at least me tolerable enough to allow me to experience the story, which would hopefully be a worthy continuation of what came before.