Star Wars: The Old Republic

[bilwit]

Over-hyped, generic, cliche, boring, etc.

Discuss.

[Earthdforce]

Already pre-ordered.

[bilwit]

I just played the beta for a total of like 12 hours starting Friday. Underwhelming to say the least, though I already did suspect it was a generic MMO with generic combat with the Star Wars theme before I played.

[Earthdforce]

Not every generic mmo has full voice acting

[Xant]

Over-hyped, generic, cliche, boring, etc.

Discuss.

Yes, your generic boring-as-fuck MMO.

[Ganner]

Not groundbreaking yet... but so far what I've experienced in the beta is enough for me to preorder it. 

[B3RS3RK]

Ill wait for it to go f2p

[Earthdforce]

Ill wait for it to go f2p

You'll be waiting until the next Star Wars saga comes out mate

[B3RS3RK]

Nah I dont think so.The Way it is know, SWTOR wont be "Better" than WoW or any other generic MMO(Cept for the Story, which noone will stay Years for), so it will come down to hardcore Star wars fans etc. in a Year or two, meaning that other than closing down the game the Devs have only the chance to make it f2p.

2 years is my guess.

[Digglez]

game is hugely flawed design from the beginning.  Trying to make an expansive universe & canon into a theme park game is just utter fucking fail.  Then throw that on top of antiqued server sharding system and you've managed to trivialize the best scifi backdrop in history.  Then to top it off, recycle the unimaginative class sytem that pigeon holes players into unrealistic and unfun terms.

oh ya, the map design and models are queer too

[bilwit]

Not every generic mmo has full voice acting

That's a pretty trivial gimmick, not something to hang your hat on for originality or trend-breaking. All they really did was take the EQ/WoW standard MMO format and threw some cute gimmicks here and there under the Star Wars flag. It's pretty pathetic really. It's also funny that the linear story-aspect of the game which is supposed to be the main focus (still not original, as LOTRO and GW were main-story based) completely eliminates the Massively Multiplayer Online factor.

What gets me the most is the outdated and skill-less EQ combat where you spend 90% of time staring at your skill bar waiting for cooldowns instead of actually playing the game. Come on now, this is 2011 not 1998.

As for its future success, I believe it will be pretty successful and popular. It will have a stable release and it's a solid cookie-cutter MMO backed with legions and legions of rabid fanboys while having probably the most identifiable and popular IPs of all time. However, like WoW, just because its "successful" doesn't make it a good game.

[Earthdforce]

Who said it was supposed to be original? I like it, if you don't that's fine.

[Babelfish]

The amazing thing about this game, is that leveling does not feel like a grind. I had a blast leveling to 20+ during this weekend, never once felt like i was farming anything.
 Cant wait for the honeymoon period of this game, going to be awesome, and hopefully stay that way.

[Banok]

its a complete complete wow clone, but the voice acting is quite nice. if you can stand generic mmo's you'll like it.

Who said it was supposed to be original? I like it, if you don't that's fine.

me? bioware usually make good original games not just copy and paste another games mechanics 99%

also they ruined a great series (kotor).

seriously I'm getting sick of developers re-selling other peoples game design and being sucessful. they need to get patenting on game designs or something, all dota genre games are just reskins and its the same for most mmos. it just feels so unacceptable to me even tho I am not paying for it.

[Christo]

seriously I'm getting sick of developers re-selling other peoples game design and being sucessful. they need to get patenting on game designs or something, all dota genre games are just reskins and its the same for most mmos. it just feels so unacceptable to me even tho I am not paying for it.

Welcome to the MMO Industry. I.. guess.