Space Combat In Star Wars: The Old Republic

Dude at the beginning's shoulder pads are fucking FABULOUS.

It looks like a freakin mini game! Space combat is a HUGE part of the Star Wars narrative, and their giving it about as much importance as the arcade machine in Raynors ship! Still, I'll totally buy this game. Weak sauce though Bioware, weak sauce.

" Star Wars Fox: The Old Republic: Adventure: Slippy's Ransom "

Looks like a Wii Version of Tie Fighter

I reckon it looks alright.
Its not the part of the game I'm most interested in - but it looks decent enough to add a bit of variety when playing.

" wait wait wait, an mmo with space combat that looks like rogue squadron?!? ok you win this round bioware. "

Are there only asteroid fields in space?

I guess for my ideal Star Wars MMO, I'd basically want Shadowbane-style battles (i.e. players fight and take control of other players' cities, or, in this case, planets) combined with Battlefront-style combat, somehow balanced to include the ridiculous number of Jedi and Sith that'd be running around, and simultaneous ground and space battles that you could move between (as in defending forces might start on the ground, hop in a ship, and fly out into orbit to do space combat, or stay on the ground and wait to duke it out on the battlefield).
 
Seems to me that that's not the game we're talking about, so while I still may be interested in playing (it is Star Wars, after all), I'm not sure exactly how good this game's gonna be.
 
Space combat also seems like a skip for me, especially since I've played Rogue Squadron I, II, and III, and Jedi Starfighter II, and Battlefron II, all of which had excellent space combat.

Seems like a wasted opportunity to include a "x-wing / tie fighter" view. I guess people wanna play dress up with their ships tho.

wait a minute, that actually looks kinda fun

where did all these vids come from!!

wait wait wait, an mmo with space combat that looks like rogue squadron?!? ok you win this round bioware.

I didn't say anything bad about the LEGO Star Wars games, not as far as i know. I said the animated series "clone wars" was bad, and the games based on them.   Its fine that you enjoy the newer Star Wars stuff, i just don't. I'm one of those idiots who thinks of Star Wars as a Trilogy still, and disregards everything after the movies 4,5,6. The same way as i see Indiana Jones.   But i really don't see that space combat fitting in the main game, looks way too arcady, but if more people share your opinion Bioware succeeded by adding it to TOR, and i'm in the minority. But i can live with that. "

" I didn't say anything bad about the LEGO Star Wars games, not as far as i know. I said the animated series "clone wars" was bad, and the games based on them.   Its fine that you enjoy the newer Star Wars stuff, i just don't. I'm one of those idiots who thinks of Star Wars as a Trilogy still, and disregards everything after the movies 4,5,6. The same way as i see Indiana Jones.   But i really don't see that space combat fitting in the main game, looks way too arcady, but if more people share your opinion Bioware succeeded by adding it to TOR, and i'm in the minority. But i can live with that. "

Star Wars Fox: The Old Republic: Adventure: Slippy's Ransom

Smoke trails in space? Fires in a vacuum?  God that looked terrible.

Yes!!! This is Galaxy's true revival!

" Sorry, but those just crying out Star Fox (!!!) should just play that then. Star Fox isn't Star Wars or vica versa. Seriously, one gets the notion that those who played Star Fox never played the proper Star Wars space combat games. "

for all you stupid ass haters go play on ur xbox 360/ps3 this game isn't out for another year sooooo i would think that they fix the "issues" ... also did i mention you should go play on ur xbox 360/ps3?

" Framerate was super dodgy for a trailer "

They should have just copied the space combat from the Rogue Squadron games, i don't see why that wouldn't have worked.  Either way I'm glad space combat is in the game :)

Rebel assault. In an MMO. 
 
Were people asking for this?

On rails shooters can be fun they can make more things happen on the path your on.

That was kinda painful.

Looks... like... ass
Please god don't be mandetory.

This is just got instances right? 
 
I mean, its a linear path. No way this is multiplayer.

Yeah, it's on rails but I'm okay with it since it's a launch feature.  I don't think Bioware needs to burden the player with every minute potential game play component right from the start.  They should make sure what they have in the game works well first then add on more abilities to the game including more varied space combat.

DUDE!  I have been waiting SOOOOOOOOOOOOO long for a Rogue Squadron MMO!!!!
 
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Sorry, but those just crying out Star Fox (!!!) should just play that then. Star Fox isn't Star Wars or vica versa. Seriously, one gets the notion that those who played Star Fox never played the proper Star Wars space combat games.

Framerate was super dodgy for a trailer

I'm a bit skeptical of how this fits into the structure of an mmo, but I'm going the wait and see route before passing judgement. It could turn out awesome if implemented well.

I appreciate the attempt .

" Meh, still has nothing on Guild Wars 2.  Maybe if the space combat was like the X-Wing games on the Gamecube :). "

They nailed using the laser sound.... meh. Would be nice variety but hopefully it ends up being fun and not something you have to do every time you travel between destinations.

" The more I see of this game the more boring it looks. "

So, the space combat is basically Rebel Assault? That's weird, but I don't know if it's weird-good or weird-bad.

" At least it's not another pre-rendered bioware trailer. Kind of getting sick of them not revealing gameplay or ingame graphics. It's one thing to build up your game with hype, but when you compare the E3 pre-render trailer to this gamescom trailer, you're kind of left with uncertainty towards the game's polish.  Their budget for Blur Studio creating them these beautiful pre-rendered trailers has to come close to the budget for the rest of the game. "

Finally some modestly interesting gameplay. Gummy fighters MMO.

What is the big live show thing all about

Playing FFXIV instead.

THE SPACE COMBAT IS STAR FOX.
 
FUCK YES.

Looks very arcade for MMO

Star Fox did it better

Rogue Squadron!

Space Combat indeed! Damn this game is going to be epic

Ok, 
 
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