@Ulain said:
@warxsnake: It's good that you actually realize you aren't an MMO gamer; I think even most people who aren't still play just to have a timesink.
Single player games where gaining levels is more of a indirect factor of playing, it is not a driving force like it is in an MMO. While it may be great to enjoy the class storylines, you still have to fill in the blanks with fetch quests and the like, as well as the fact that playing online requires balance and your character cannot be all-powerful, relatively speaking to the area you're in.
Sorry for the rambling, but the main point I'm trying to make is that MMOs reward players who have that "patience" to feel relatively powerful. It's definitely not for everyone. I will probably get to 50 on 1 or 2 characters and also head back to single player :|
Really I'm fine with the leveling, that's not my issue with the game. Already spent 4 days on it apparently (sigh). My issue is that you get the star wars license but you literally have one single mission type across all the planets' quests (collect/activate/disable y and kill x). I think I remember seeing one escort mission on Balmorra but that's about it. The quest-type variety is my issue. It's really a single quest type, only things that change are location and the NPC types. I don't know if that's a symptom of being an MMO but I'm pretty sure other quest types could have easily been implemented in this, such as more in-depth escort missions, survival/defense missions, missions involving more 3rd party NPCs (like assisting to a small warzone), stealth or recon missions, environment-based missions (navigating an environment for a goal), and so on.
So when you think about it in a purely game design sense, its a 10~20-minute gameplay loop that gets repeated for the entire length of leveling to 50.
Variety in quest types and also things on the side could have been cool, like I mentioned having Swoop racing or pod racing arenas, or anything thats not just shoot the things and use Death From Above and Tracer Missile on everything.
I'm guessing stuff like the swoop racing and freeform/PVP space flight can be implemented in the future, I'll be looking forward to that if true.
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