New Star Wars: TOR planet revealed - Coruscant, galaxy's 'greatest civilization'

During yesterday's completely packed Star Wars: The Old Republic demo at PAX, fans were rewarded for their hours of waiting (seriously, you had to be there really early) with not only a free copy of Knights of the Old Republic but with the very first glimpse of an entirely new area, located at hyperspace coordinates 0,0,0! If you looked that up on Wikipedia you may have learned those coordinates belong to Coruscant, the Star Wars galaxy's "greatest civilization." If you didn't look it up on Wikipedia and just knew it, well ...

While news that Coruscant will join dozens of other planets in the BioWare-developed MMO is about as surprising as the presence of Jedis ("Really?") and lightsabers ("No way!"), we're certain that being at the nexus of the galaxy's main trade routes will come in handy ... did you know that a bunch of fictional trade routes ran through Coruscant before reading Wikipedia? Be honest, we won't judge you.

SW: TOR fansite Darth Hater managed to snag some shakicam footage of the reveal (in less than twelve parsecs?) which we've smuggled over after the break. Not a Dagobah that we don't get even more Hoth and bothered, adding Kashyyyk to our piggy banks to buy a brand Naboo copy of Star Wars: The Old Republic, what's sure to be the Endor-be-all of Star Wars-based MMOs. Also, what planets could they possibly add next?

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This can very easily be the first MMO I actually get into....(unless DC Universe manages to come out first)...I damn sure cant wait....

Same here. I hope it's a large enough area of the planet.

the way they are talking you will have multiple planets...and my guess is they will all be massive...

im sooooo pumped for this game. its not even funny

Just to cool off, consider that Star Wars are nothing more than a rip off of traditional Japanese samurai fairy tales.

Including the masked man who changed sides.

That's like saying A Bug's Life is a rip off of Seven Samurai. Same BASIC outline, and then that's it. You know, you should stop talking.

Those puns were bad and you should feel bad Chris.

i hope these guys don't get paid much...

Personally I found his comments to be very punny.

Oh. My. Gosh.

*giddy scream*

A little off-topic. One of the things that I stopped visiting another gaming blogs was because of those annoying background ads and now Joystiq is starting to implement them ... oh well.

Back on topic, this MMO seems pretty interesting, the last MMO I played was Ragnarok Online seems it's time to play another MMO could be this one or Aion which looks pretty sweet.

um, Adblock?

adblock doesn't work on the background. it works on all the other ads on the site, but doesn't affect the BG at all.

> adblock doesn't work on the background.

AdBlock doesn't. But AdBlock was depricated eons ago in favor of Adblock Plus and there it works fine.

In FireFox, main menu's 'View' - 'Adblock Plus: Blockable Items'. Click once on 'Type' column and then check for the 'background' items.

But my case is different: I have temporarily whitelisted joystiq.com to enjoy the ad in all its beauty. Ad is simple and not so annoying like many other full page ads. So I can't complain.

the puns...they hurt my little fanboy brain....

I don't know why it wasn't revealed sooner, quite frankly. It would be hard to make a Star Wars MMO without it.

They should put Myrkr in, just for the lulz of having a planet where all force-using classes are useless.

now that you mention that, i wonder if non jedi classes will ever get access to a yslarmi, maybe as a high end pvp item or something

I want to be a Jedi with a yslarmi, just to mess with people.

That's awesome... my only concern is, how much of the planet are they actually going to create? It would be annoying to be artificially limited to such a tiny fraction of the planet's surface, but I don't see how else they could do it and have any legitimate launch date for this game. Populating that world within any sense of realism alone would probably amount to more than all other MMO games' landmass combined, especially if you start allowing people down into the undercity (which you have to... I mean come on!).

i have no clue what anything in this post says

Then you just suck at reading

I just hope it has lasers that go pew pew

Agree meledeo: how much are they gonna populate Coruscant?

The easy way out would be to not let you get down to street level, as it would also help to enhance the "citied planet" thing. I guess that wouldn't be as much fun, though...

I am truly excited for this game. Wish they showed more.

im so excited that i dont want them to show anymore because it will make waiting for it even harder

If we're going on wishes, I wish it was released. NOW!

Did Ludwig hack into Chris's account?

Agreed, very good Ludwig impression indeed. Could you say "fook!" for me? Has District 9 even come out in i's motherland yet?

"If you didn't look it up on Wikipedia and just knew it, well ..."

Well, well what?!

I just wanted to thank Joystiq for the heads-up on the free KOTOR codes - went to their panel this morning and am downloading the game as I type

I heart Joystiq

I'm such a fangirl that I totally got goosebumps and otherwise nerded-out at that footage. I will totally give up WoW to play this. I've always liked scifi more than fantasy, anyway.

It needs to be released NOW.

/agree

minus the fangirl part.

but are you fat...

That's the question.

Puns rock.

pause at 1:03 and you can see master chief!

Good catch!

Oh...my...god...

*shivers down my spine*

I am so ridiculously excited for this game! ITS SCARY! BUT I LOVE IT!

erm master cheif at 1:03?

I look at this and see how great KotOR III could be...stupid LucasArts.

Maybe they should call Trantor the galaxies best civilization, Lucas stole so much from Asimov in the Foundation Trilogy. I wont list them all but man there are like 15 real things in those books he stole, like the force, hyperdrive, Trantor, jedi, i think even lightsabers.

Man, someone else knows about the Asimov "homage"! Trantor pwns Coruscant, though, the city/planet being fully enclosed and miles high.

However, I wouldn't say Lucas stole lightsabers, as Asimov stuck with good ol' projectile-esque blasters and neuronic whips. Even the Force is a stretch, or at least Lucas heavily expanded on Foundation mentalics, as they really only had Jedi mind trick.

Ya I meant blasters I havent read it in awhile maybe I will now.

PUNSPLOSION!

New Star Wars: TOR planet revealed - Coruscant, galaxy's 'greatest civilization'

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