nomore7734

@Graill440

"I do not do alts, i do not play content over again, regardless of what nifty idea wet behind ears developers think they created, fail."

Do you play MMOs? because it sounds like you don't. :o

This isn't directed at any one person.. but how come let's say 7/10 people who want to complain about TOR seem to be playing a game that doesn't exist? It's like when the worst kind of projection: in most cases people are complaining about things that are the exact opposite of the situation/features that I found in playing TOR.

Just reads like propaganda. 90% of them don't leave any evidence, either. To those of you leveling valid criticisms, no worries. I get it. I'm not saying TOR is perfect but this is the first time I've seen piles and piles of people complaining about elements of a game that sound more like lies then even half-hearted criticism. wtf?

Does possibly existent soon count? Starbound (playstarbound.com) sounds pretty much exactly like my dream MMO, though it's a little more not quite MMO then MMO from what they're describing. But it has all the facets I'd like to see:

Multiple worlds/universes/realities you visit from a 'centeral' hub that you bring back things you've collected/stolen/pirated from these other 'locations' and use to build a sandbox style town/space station/planet/reality. Multiplayer consists of joint raids (for co-op), vs (arena pvp), raiding another user's domain (aggressive vs passive or tower defense vs pirate raiding style pvp).

The above listed doesn't have all of that.

Features like:
-Genetic engineering/breeding a population for your 'center'
-reverse engineering and research based on tech stolen from living civilizations or artifacts liberated from dead ones
- social engineering decisions building a small Sim like meta-game on the 'center'
- Sandbox style build-your-own reality + solo or group exploration/combat of unlimited realities.
- maybe even the ability to 'teraform' 'dead' worlds that other players could visit/raid either intentionally or randomly via their travel/exploration system. more passive than what you can do in your hub. Allows the generation of specific or new resources to be exploited later.

Not sure what kind of MMO this would be, but it's my personal sandbox MMO fantasy.

I'm boycotting due to the massive numbers of swag DLC. Just makes me feel like I'm supposed to pay $500+ for the whole game. Not happening.

That's 10% more WUB than I expected.

Mmphtiss, mmphtiss, WUBWUBWUB!

Side Note: This is probably the closest i'll ever see to a multiplayer game that I can pretend is really Shadowrun the way me and my friends played it. (the game with the actual name being a terrible, terrible appropriation of the name)

Well... that's 10% more WUB WUB than I expected.

@Oldtaku

3 would have been better.. if the load times were not so so absolutely horrible. SKIII goes down as the only game I got bored with playing due to load times. For real.

5 was a lot of fun, but I honestly don't even remember what the story was about. They brought the gameplay back to it's roots, and I did enjoy the story it just wasn't that memorable for me.

I still hold out hope that Konami hasn't abandoned this series, but I'm also afraid the 'next' iteration needs to be much more than a straight up sequel but too much/too strange innovation might ruin it for me. I don't know.

@liquidsoap89

That is 100% true. A good villain can carry an otherwise lackluster story, but a bad villain will kill even the most heroic epic.

Games with ambiguous or at least morally gray villains have always been the best. Chrono Trigger had a version of this which drew in lots of fans. Most of the praise for Final Fantasy Tactics comes from this notion as well. I have always loved the original wild arms for it's story and part of that is because it does take the time to show you the perspective of the supernatural evil you have to defeat. And not all of them are necessarily forces of evil nature.

Luca Blight though.. best video game villain ever, hands down.

@Buhallin
Personally, what they have done with SW:TOR is really amazing. I've been a gamer for 20 years now, and this is exactly what I've wanted from a game.

You really hit the nail with that one comment. If TOR fails, innovation in video games, which is already a stagnant cesspool of recreations and sequels, will probably go with it. I've seen barely anything new in the last 10 years other than shinier graphics.

I'm not a fanboy or anything, I know EA is a terrible, terrible company that has been ruing Bioware for the last 2 years at least, but if this goes down fast and hard I don't think gaming will be worth crap for the rest of my lifetime, and that's just sad. Maybe i'm just cynical. TOR was the first game in a long time to make me feel like there was hope for 'big' gaming in a long, long time.

@AceUnbound

Super Mario Brothers 3. On release date: 59.99. Months later 59.99. Year later? 59.99.

The 60 dollar price was set by the NES a long time ago and has pretty much stuck as the magic price. It goes up and down, but so far has always floated back to 59.99.