Star Wars: The Old Republic to be the First Fully-Voiced MMOGs Ever

[Virgil]

Tired of scrolling through pages of text in your favorite MMOG? Star Wars: The Old Republic developer BioWare Austin may have the solution: Record unique dialogue for every single line of text in the game.

I don't think the common complaints about MMOs usually include "too many words". That has to be waaay down the list - you're definitely nitpicking by the time you're complaining about not having enough voiceovers.

Unless by "fully voiced" they mean "lots of voice work" and not actually that every line of dialogue is voiced. Off the top of my head, even single-player RPGs don't generally voice every single line of dialogue in the game - just the important ones. Unless they also mean "dialogue trimmed down to the bare essentials".

That also seems like a real pain when it comes to adding additional content to the game after launch, both in the work required and the download sizes.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Shouldn't be too hard, just give the republic troops all the same voice. White Armor + Helmet = You all sound the same.

 

[obisean]

Shouldn't be too hard, just give the republic troops all the same voice. White Armor + Helmet = You all sound the same.

That's racist.

 

[Deef]

Well, thats cool. But how bout some game play?

Indeed, I'd rather have a fun game than a game that I don't have to read in.

Dont jump to the conclusion that the game sucks just becuase they havent released a gameplay trailer yet. I for one, am gonna buy this game. Im glad the MMO market is Really taking off. We actually have more choice now than WoW, WoW, Wow, guild wars, WoW expansion No. 1, Runescape (Sucks?) Wows expansion no 2, and wow.

Now we have, um...WoW, SW Ye olde repulic, AoC, Champions online,DC univserse Tabula rasa (Dying, but free for a few months until it dies) Star trek online, Eve (Biggest load o' bullshit...)LotrO, and so on, W/e, I missed a bunch but hey.
Hmm...I think Im gonna get this Star wars one, and I might try out the Star trek one. ive tried AoC, but its pretty much WoW (Which I played for a year and a half until I realised I was addicted and am currently taking a break. Ya gotta be careful with that game not to be addicted.) with a graphics upgrade and a gameplay downgrade. Also played LotrO. Its very fun actually - the PvP is pretty fun and not a grindfest. In fact the game isnt all that grind based compared to several others. Although My six month subscription ran out and I havent bothered playing it. As for guild wars, I like the whole one-off-purchase thing and no subscriptions, but the game itself well...pretty much sucks, and the classes are very limited. in fact ive played every one of those games that is currently been released, becuase MMO's are one of my fav game genres. Also played eve, and hated it.

So, judging by that wall of text you didnt read, I know about MMO's - and im really quite hyped for Star trek and Star wars MMOs. Although SW galaxies was, well, a disappointment. Though hopefully this will be far better <3. And I know its unoriginal, But I am so gonna be a jedi.

I never said that I thought it would be bad, I was merely stating a fact.

Also, tl;dr

 

[Kiutu]

I'm just curious if it will be the 3rd MMO on the 360 or not.

 

[Deguasser]

Its going to be awesome...


I can see no other possible outcome.

It's either going to be Awesome or so shitty it's Awesomely funny.

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

I'm interested to see how it will work, but at the same time I will play it no matter what. It's Star Wars. It's KOTOR. It's going to be AWESOME. All I can hope for is cusomisable clothing, armor and some awesome lightsabers. I want my silver and or black lightsaber, and I will kill for it.

 

[I III II X4]

Shouldn't be too hard, just give the republic troops all the same voice. White Armor + Helmet = You all sound the same.

That's racist.

Haw-haw! Good one! ...even though it's true.

Anyway, I just hope that they don't have NPCs with the same dialogue, I mean, the least they can do is give them different topics and not have them all placed in one area, but talking to a NPC blathering on in the same tone and accent about a topic which you you discussed with them at least ten times already is just a wee-bit annoying.

 

[Sevre]

One problem I can see with this is the amount of space the voiceovers are going to take up on my already limited HD.It seems like an expensive perk, I don't even have my sound on when I play games.

 

[Avatar Roku]

Joy... a lot of bad repetive and over used voice work.....why?

Dude, it's Bioware. If there's one thing they can handle, it's good voicework. Jennifer Hale, anyone?

 

[mattttherman3]

Well hopefully they will have more than 4 voice actors, unlike Oblivion(different developper i know).

 

[dirk45]

Fully voiced is not exactly what I am looking for. But the trailer looks amazing.
My personal opinion: SW:TOR will be a great game but I will probably have to quit it ten minutes after starting because I had to click away a million dueling challenges. I guess I'd prefer an Over 18 server there (Not because people under 18 are often disturbing but because disturbing people are often under 18).

 

[Anachronism]

1. Hell yes. This is pretty much the only MMO, released or unreleased, that I'm actually interested in, and we all know BioWare always do good voice work.

2. I see no way of doing this without it taking up an unholy amount of space on your hard drive.

3. The title of the news posts suggests ToR is going to be more than one game. Observe: "the first fully voiced MMOGs ever". Pretty sure that's not right.

 

[FoxParadox]

Statement: Damn, they have been making us hooked for months now before telling us what it's gonna cost.

Wishful thinking: One-time payment, One-time payment, One-time payment, One-time payment!!!

 

[Go on]

Bioware + Starwars The old republic = Camping outside Gamestop.

 

[PhoenixFlame]

Hm, EQ2 claimed somewhat the same thing a while back:
http://www.vgln.com/pc/108089646565444.shtml

This is nice, but as an MMO player, I've learned to set my expectations accordingly, and that means, more realistic. Bioware has a lot of developer equity built up, but they've never developed an MMO nor dealt with the - well, let's just say "interesting" aspects of the MMO community. It'll be interesting to see how it turns out, and I'll be cautiously optimistic for its success.

 

[Simriel]

I messed my underwear at that intro. This and Star Trek Online are the only MMOs I shall pay for.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Joy... a lot of bad repetive and over used voice work.....why?

Dude, it's Bioware. If there's one thing they can handle, it's good voicework. Jennifer Hale, anyone?

Mass Efffect and even KOTOR had good sounding voices (but not Jade empire,better script worse sounding voices) but a script that was basically sound bits of whole conversions and a good bit of the non main stuff was reused a lot.

Look at Morrwind and Oblivoin, theya re going to use the same tactic to spam voices onto everything they can and this just takes away from the whole experience unless you hire 100 voice actors who can do 4 voices each its just not going to work or sound right for a HUGE MMO or even a huge RPG.

Then again if you are happy and safaried with action flicks and the crap the game industry shovels out yearly you wont care about qaulity so much as "OOOoooo pretty"....... I hate modern game design........

 

[Asehujiko]

Its going to be awesome...


I can see no other possible outcome.

I do. I see the same outcome as every single other mmo loudly proclaiming to be the best at anything.