Developers of licensed Star Wars products who decide to stray from the franchise's immutable canon often find themselves suffering the slings, arrows and extendible plastic weaponry of their target audience. Fortunately, it looks like the team behind BioWare's upcoming far-far-away MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic, are keeping the Word of Lucas firmly in their minds as they build the title's virtual environments. Check out the video above to see BioWare's incredible attention to detail in action!
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Posted: May 3rd 2009 7:16PM Batzarro The worlds WOrst Detect said
It's got some pretty good graphics and design. Love Ord Mantell.
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Posted: May 3rd 2009 7:31PM MystileArmor said
How is it "kinda" offtopic? It's completely offtopic!
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Posted: May 3rd 2009 7:33PM TheDarkWayne said
wtf hax at 4 seconds, he isnt even out of cover when he fires. But yeah reported
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Posted: May 3rd 2009 7:33PM MystileArmor said
Watching that video makes me hope with every Star Wars-loving-molecule in my body that this will come to consoles.
I know the possibility is there, I just hope they'll actually do it.
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I know the possibility is there, I just hope they'll actually do it.
Posted: May 3rd 2009 8:19PM TheDarkWayne said
it just makes me want to play a real KOTOR 3 even more, but yeah this is looking pretty sweet
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Posted: May 3rd 2009 8:20PM (Unverified) said
How about a one off up front fee of $200?
Should about cover a few years of sub's n expansions.
Or you want a freemium model?
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Should about cover a few years of sub's n expansions.
Or you want a freemium model?
Posted: May 4th 2009 6:12AM Snowblind said
I'd rather pay for expansions/DLC every so often, rather than one set monthly fee for everything. That way, even if I'm paying *more* in the long run, I'm only paying for the things I actually want, when I'm playing the game and when I want the content.
It's not so much the price of the subscription I dislike, just the fact I'd constantly be paying for one single game, even if I'm not playing for it for a few months.
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It's not so much the price of the subscription I dislike, just the fact I'd constantly be paying for one single game, even if I'm not playing for it for a few months.
Posted: May 3rd 2009 8:23PM Avolii said
The detail is all and good, but I'm really hoping for large, vast areas. Adding to that, no restrictions on where you can and cannot go (terrain wise). The detail looked good, and the players looked less cartoony, all good there.
Was anyone else freaked out by the shemale at the very beginning? At least I know where they are getting the Hutt inspiration.
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Was anyone else freaked out by the shemale at the very beginning? At least I know where they are getting the Hutt inspiration.
Posted: May 3rd 2009 8:37PM TheDarkWayne said
Im kinda worried about the terrain. I want it to be more open than WoW, but i dont want it to be like SWG where you walk, literally walk without any change in animation directly up 90 degree angle cliff faces
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Posted: May 3rd 2009 9:03PM Powerlord said
I just hope that they don't make the game's graphics pretty enough that only the highest end computers can play it when it launches
One Star Wars MMO already made that mistake (and its developer repeated said mistake with the launch of its next MMO, Everquest II).
Also, this is going to be an MMO, and not an instance-everything game like Guild Wars, right? It almost sounds to me like it isn't...
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One Star Wars MMO already made that mistake (and its developer repeated said mistake with the launch of its next MMO, Everquest II).
Also, this is going to be an MMO, and not an instance-everything game like Guild Wars, right? It almost sounds to me like it isn't...
Posted: May 3rd 2009 9:46PM Powerlord said
They weren't that bad when they came out in 2003; the game pre-dated Half-Life 2, the measuring stick for graphics for the last 5 or so years.
The other shoe was the number of textures it loaded into memory. SWG loaded a LOT of textures... As I understand it, every clothing item for every NPC in a city area was loaded separately.
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The other shoe was the number of textures it loaded into memory. SWG loaded a LOT of textures... As I understand it, every clothing item for every NPC in a city area was loaded separately.
Posted: May 3rd 2009 11:24PM The Bodyguard said
They have been reporting on SWTOR since it was announced.
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Posted: May 4th 2009 6:20AM (Unverified) said
This video gave me chills. As a huge SW fan, I am so very excited for this game.
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Posted: May 4th 2009 8:07AM commonperson said
I have to say I'm getting really really anxious on this. It looks like it's going to be great, the graphics are stylaized sort of like Team Fortress 2 kinda thing to keep the spec down so it can run on anything but at the same time look good in a sort of cartoonish kinda way. As for PC Gaming not being covered that's not entirely true, MMO details are covered (I just wish they would talk about PC games some more.)
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Posted: May 5th 2009 11:24AM Misfit Toy said
This game is looking better all the time...and that is a very good thing. Looks like I'll be sweeping back and forth between LOTRO and this game.
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