SW: The Old Republic, Will you Buy it?

[Eventidal]

Ha, pay a subscription fee to play a Star Wars extended universe game, which also happens to be a WoW clone MMORPG with Bioware dialogue attached?

Guild Wars 2 is coming soon. Beta can't be far away now, and I'm willing to bet it'll be out in 6 months or so. GW2 is a MMORPG that fixes everything I hate about MMORPGs, or at least IS TRYING TO. Which earns it a hell of a lot of credit, especially when its competition is a ton of games that are blatantly ripping off the same gameplay style WoW popularized, and happily in step with all the things I hate about MMORPGs. GW2 doesn't even have a subscription fee. I like owning my games, and I'll happily own GW2. But ToR is to me as Final Fantasy 14 was. Dead on arrival.

 

[Ledan]

Nope. I have skyrim and i am waiting for the better game: GW2.
When/If swotor goes free to play ill try it. Just like wow.

 

[iFail69]

Yes. Basically.

Been waiting for Bioware to release an MMO for a while now, and now they are.

 

[Filiecs]

Nope, I'm waiting for The Secret World right now. To me, it looks better than both TOR and GW2 combined.

 

[karkar]

Subscription fee = dealbreaker for me. No matter how much I'd want to play a subscription MMO, using $15 a month to fund playing one game is simply too impractical for me. Although the Star Wars fan in me is dying a little inside

 

[Jedoro]

I'd love to, even after playing WoW for years and eventually just getting sick of it. I've tried going back to WoW but just don't find it fun anymore, yet I'm loving TOR. But, with full-time classes and a full-time job, I don't have the time to justify paying for it.

 

[ecoho]

Hell yeah I am going to buy it.

Loved the beta weekends.

Why? The game is an utter rip of WoW, from the combat to the stylisation of the graphics. Just play WoW and buy Mass Effect for when you want a story.

Hellz ya. I'm in my second weekend test right now, and it kicks ass.

Same question to you - why?
It is just running, talking, and a tiny bit of combat.

you know i doubt theyll answer you i will TOR is what wow should still be..... FUN!
WOW is now ether too casual or too hardcore theyve lost their balance and well its just not fun to play anymore.....

 

[Korten12]

Looks dull and boring, the art style is decent, but feels old... Not because it's bad graphics, it just looks dull and the gameplay looks like WoW, which is fun, for a bit.

I am looking forward to GW2 tho.

 

[Jimbo1212]

Hell yeah I am going to buy it.

Loved the beta weekends.

Why? The game is an utter rip of WoW, from the combat to the stylisation of the graphics. Just play WoW and buy Mass Effect for when you want a story.

Hellz ya. I'm in my second weekend test right now, and it kicks ass.

Same question to you - why?
It is just running, talking, and a tiny bit of combat.

you know i doubt theyll answer you i will TOR is what wow should still be..... FUN!
WOW is now ether too casual or too hardcore theyve lost their balance and well its just not fun to play anymore.....

Well from what I saw, neither is SWTOR. The missions are so far apart with such a large area that the majority of the game is spent running, then listening to shitty little side missions arcs which no one could care about, and then maybe, just maybe, you might level and the combat changes ever so slightly from very dull to less dull.

Hell yeah I am going to buy it.

Loved the beta weekends.

Why? The game is an utter rip of WoW, from the combat to the stylisation of the graphics. Just play WoW and buy Mass Effect for when you want a story.

Because I played WoW and it is better than it.

In some areas it is, but in others it is not.
The levelling slows horribly making the game very tedious.
Also, the end game looks identical to WoW - pointless about about whos dressed up barbie makes the biggest numbers.

Looks dull and boring, the art style is decent, but feels old... Not because it's bad graphics, it just looks dull and the gameplay looks like WoW, which is fun, for a bit.

I am looking forward to GW2 tho.

I beg to differ. The art style is a completely rip from WoW and utterly misplaced.
Every aspect of the game is serious, from the storylines to the combat, so why the fuck do the characters look straight out of a kids cartoon?
Also, the graphics are very poor and before anyone cries "But it is meant to be low specs so everyone can play", they could just add in more option settings for the graphics eg DX10/11 options, HD textures etc.

 

[Googenstien]

Gameplay wise its super easy, especially with companions.. usually MMOs are tossing in the towel when they add NPCs that aid you to make it a SOLO game.

Classes seem very typical, nothing you havent seen before..specs and talent trees very unoriginal.

Storymode is ok, but its Mass Effect 2 all over again and you get sucked into longass speeches where you look for Red (Evil) or Blue (Good) responses not caring what they say and the few words that they have you chose arent even what you actually say to the NPC (Dragon Age2) This is also bad if you happen to be in a group, your group mates are stuck waiting as you "converse"

PVP.. seems to be an afterthought and its the same old typical modes thrown in once again like any FPS game. I am sure they will be in a constant balancing mode with classes and people will of course focus on 1 vs 1 and not the overall team aspect balance.

That being said.. the game will sell alot to start and we shall see if there is enough content there to support the masses.. I doubt it tho.

Oh its hard to judge graphics in these public weekend betas where things are cranked down and many features such as AA arent even on. To me there was hardly a difference from lowest settings to max settings other than shadows filling things out more. Spell effects did stand out to me tho, they can look pretty good cranked up.

 

[The Human Torch]

It's basically WoW with a Star Wars skin and voice-over, and I am so done with MMO's of that kind. Eagerly awaiting Guild Wars 2 though.

If your expecting something radically different from GW2... oh dear. Certainly the Eurogamer Expo demo that was playable wasn't that special or different.

To the people bitching about SW:tOR needing Origin... only if you buy it from Origin...

I am not expecting Guild Wars 2 to reinvent the wheel, however, the changes it has made, do speak to me.
Mainly; dynamic combat, ever-changing world, quests are given on the fly (no need to find an NPC) and it's a monstrous improvement when it comes to the graphics.

 

[Ickorus]

I tried it a couple days ago at a friends house, I will not be getting it.

It's pretty much a WoW clone with better cutscenes.

 

[Crayzor]

I wanted to buy it at first,but after checking my online shop where I usually buy games from here's something I found out:

"The game won't be released at launch in Romania because the producers didn't put it in the list and decided to release it at a later date." And then on the site it says it will be released in March.

I have a guild friend in WoW which asked if he could buy the game for me and send me the code(his country is eligible at launch).You guys think it would be possible? If it's a legal code of the game it should work right?

Would like a reply to this.

Don't worry, the game isn't region locked, so you should be fine.

 

[Raddra]

No.

It looks more like Star Trek: The Old Republic.

The entire species selection is 5 different colored humans.. where's my Wookie dangit?

 

[VladG]

No.

It looks more like Star Trek: The Old Republic.

The entire species selection is 5 different colored humans.. where's my Wookie dangit?

Seconded. I also find the body types hilarious. for males it's : skinny midget, skinny guy and The Tick.

Also the Cyborg's racial animation is a very Borg-like eye scan

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

No, not initially at least. It's reasonably good fun and the story/dialogues is quite engaging, but it's a single player game, extremely linear, and once you get your companion combat is just broken completely.

Add to that there's a few small but singificant failures that surprise me because they're so obvious and avoidable - like weather effects where you can see rain falling in the sky but it has no effect on the ground, or on nearby pools of water. Why even put it in if you're going to half ass it that much? Then there's the conversations you overhear as you pass by NPCs... only if you keep running you can be hundreds of metres away and yet the scripted conversation continues to play out, at full volume, with no sense of distance or direction. It's only 'beta' for one more month, and somehow I doubt things like this will be getting fixed.

No day/night cycle, no exploration worth a damn, dozens of clones of 'your' companion running around, and graphics that are clean and neat but so bland I haven't wanted to reach for my screenshot command once all weekend. I'll play it some way down the line, perhaps, but I won't be in the launch queue.

I agree, though the strange voices in a glitch. They'll fix that. I do wonder about the lack of changing daylight/night. Come on every MMO has that. The companion thing is just stupid. We should of been able to custom make our character not because it makes sense story wise (it doesn't) but because nothing zapped me out of the game more than having 30 of the same guy running around.

I played galaxies for a while, so I'm used to the whole rain thing. And they technically have exploration. You earn points for walking into new places. But I get what you mean there was tons of goodies in SWG to explore. I once spent a day just wondering around the planets looking for new places.

I'm still going to buy it, for many reasons, but mostly because I woke up on sunday and thought I wonder what happens next. I've never "wondered what happens next" with an MMO before.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

No thanks, I've already got World of Warcraft.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

Maybe if they go F2P. I've never played games on a subcription basis. Yeah, I get that there is probably enough content to justify it, but it still doesn't seem like a worthwhile investment. And the series really should have stayed single-player. No one played KotOR I and II and then thought it would be so much better to do it with other people.

Unlike other KotOR I and II fans, I don't really think there was a massive cliffhanger. KotOR II ended poorly because LucasArts had unrealistic development time expectations for Obsidian, not because the plot for a third game was well set up. Kreia speaks some about what Revan did after the events of the first game, and it does sound intriguing. But there's not much more to it than that.

Still, I would probably play the game if they did away with the subscription.

If you go on the OR website and watch the timeline videos they actually explain what happened. Apparently he ran into the Emperor during his Starforge mission and after the Starforge was destroyed he went out to hunt down the Emperor.

Bioware usually really good with their stories. Though I must admit I will get pretty pissy if I don't see HK-47.

 

[RuralGamer]

Maybe when my local hub gets upgraded so that playing multiplayer games is possible again; recent growth in users has not been met by growth in capacity and as far as I'm aware, it'll be years before that's rectified. Of course with my course hopefully ending this summer (providing I pass everything), I'll likely be moving in search of work. I don't like MMOs with subscriptions, but if it were good enough, I might consider it.

 

[Tohuvabohu]

Already prepurchased. I enjoyed the beta quite a bit, had some minor technical issues (Although load times seemed to be pretty goddamn long at times) but I'm really looking forward for it's full release.

I also really liked what the Cutscenes do for the game. It must have been a hell of a job to have so many cutscenes with so much voice acting, but I think it really paid off.