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The Mysteries of The Old Republic's Jedi Knights

We highly recommend that you watch this trailer, meatbag.

Sep. 7 2010

Posted by: Brad

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Star Wars: The Old Republic

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@Besetment said:
" What WAS Revan's final fate? I played KOTOR 1 and 2 but kind of forgot. "
Turned good (though Kreia suggests he may have been good all along, and turned on the Republic to prepare it for what was to come), killed Malak, went to Unknown Regions of soace to find the 'True Sith' who he believed were the real threat to the Republic.
 
What happened to him after he leaves alone I don't think was ever talked about.
 
At least that's all I remember.
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Cool for MMO people, but I have trouble accepting a game featuring lightsabers that don't own people in almost one hit.  I could understand it in KOTOR (which makes it kind dumb for me to not be pumped about it in this game) but the Force Unleashed series really bums me out.  My heart wants what it cannot have.  It wants Jedi Knight.
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I can't help but feel this game is just reducing the characters to meaningless item grinders.
I think Bioware is trying to fit a square peg in a round hole with this game. You just can't get meaningful story arcs from an MMO. The gameplay doesn't lend well to that kind of individualisation.
 
I'd much rather see this game as a well-fleshed-out single player game with an epic story. You could just do episodic content for the different races and characters and build an entire saga from that. I really wish they hadn't gone down the MMORPG route.

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The shape of HK's head looks a little odd, it's a little rounder than in the Kotor games. 
  
The combat is looking really fast and instense.  Just hope the mission structure isn't the same as in every other MMO. 

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Imma buy this game. I would buy it just to find out what happened to Revan, that extra stuff with the MMO is just icing on the delicious cake of Star Wars stories.

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Yo, I'm gonna camp the Revan spawn. His rare's a  Krayt Dragon Pearl 'saber crystal!

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@Zol said:
" Too bad animations in this game suck greatly because it's an MMO, also there is no physics and destructability, again because it's an MMO.  That's why people want KOTOR 3. "

Yeah, because KotOR 1 and 2 had all those things...

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Ahhhhhhhhhh I can't wait!

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That entire battle scene I was waiting for someone to yell out "YOU'RE DEAD!" "NUH UH I SHOT YOU FIRST! YOU'RE DEAD!"

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God dammit Bioware dont tease us with the Revan stuff! It makes me hate you, which in turn makes me love you even more! And yet I cant break this love-hate relationship.... i need to go see a psychiatrist.....

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This would be the only MMORPG that im looking forward to.
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Edited By Beechbone

With all that voice-overs and cinematic conversations it really redefines "massively" part in MMO genre name.

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Having no interest in this game, I suffered through the whole thing just for HK-47.

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Lady Fett has a badonkadonk

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@PlasmaBeam44 said:
" That entire battle scene I was waiting for someone to yell out "YOU'RE DEAD!" "NUH UH I SHOT YOU FIRST! YOU'RE DEAD!" "
This made me laugh way too hard. I need to go to sleep.
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Why is the framerate so bad?

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The environments look cool, the armor looks pretty sweet too. From what little they show of story, not bad. If only the character style didn't look so damn stupid.

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Just makes me want KOTOR3. I would get this if my laptop was good enough to play it.

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@Brendan:  Amen, brother, amen.
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I wasn't really feeling it until I was called a meatbag.

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Edited By BounceDK

All footage released for this game is all about jedis .. So allow me to say ZZZzzZzzZz

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@RE_Player92 said:
" @eXists: How do you know it's crappy?  "

Hey, I've been watching every single video that's out there about it and I've also tried out WOW for the full trial period which bored me to death and what they're doing is really mostly the same. Do I want it to fail? No, but I can see it NOT appealing to the KOTOR crowd at all, maybe some of the story elements...  My 2 cents and hopefully I'm wrong.
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@CL60 said:

" @sfighter21 said:

" They referred to Revan as "He".  I thought 'ol George stated that Revan was indeed female...or at least, that was canon.  I'm confused.  lol. "
According to Canon Revan is a male. "
 Hmm...ok.  Maybe I dreamed that I heard Revan was a female, lol.
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I've been in the camp defending Bioware's choice to turn this into an MMO.
But the more I see of this, the more disappointed I am.
 
They way they talked about the game made it sound like a totally new breed of MMO that could possibly even take down WoW.  The more we see of it, the more it looks like a typical MMO.  The combat looks dull, the animation is poor and the voice acting is all over the place and there's heavy restrictions on classes, races and play-styles.  I'm still keen to find out what happens to Revan, etc, but this could have just as easily been done via a proper KotOR 3 and this doesn't seem to be something single player fans will enjoy at all, which is what they originally told us.
 
Guild Wars 2 on the other hand seems to be succeeding in doing everything that this is failing to.

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@pbhawks45 said:
" I still wish they were making KOTOR 3 :( "
Ya, me too. I'm not a MMO fan.  I like the idea of the player turning out to be something special (like Revan) instead of one in a million players.
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Can't...wait...and so far as others have said lower group numbers? Amazing.

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It's Bioware! It's KOTOR! But ... it's a fucking MMO. So, no.

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@dprabon said:

" @pbhawks45 said:

" I still wish they were making KOTOR 3 :( "
Ya, me too. I'm not a MMO fan.  I like the idea of the player turning out to be something special (like Revan) instead of one in a million players. "
I tend to agree, sort of. I was intrigued by a story focused MMO, but it's starting to feel like this concept should've never exceeded the realm of a small scale co-op game, which would've been fantastic. Isn't that what story quests are going to be like anyway? This has to be full of instances.
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looks like an mmo...

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@dprabon said:
" @pbhawks45 said:
" I still wish they were making KOTOR 3 :( "
Ya, me too. I'm not a MMO fan.  I like the idea of the player turning out to be something special (like Revan) instead of one in a million players. "
SPOILERS!!!!
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I would indeed like this videogame.

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Edited By Astras

Trailer seems lame tbh, the fighting looked ambiguous and unclear, and the content references to KOTOR 1 and 2 seemed pointless.

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I want KOTOR 3, not an MMO that I'll never be able to play because my computer is pathetic. Is that too much to ask?

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No matter how often or how urgently they try to claim otherwise, the combat in this looks just as boring and awkward as that of any MMO. And actually worse than a couple of others.

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The goodness of Shadow Broker has reignited my interest in this for some reason.

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@WolfmanJenkins said:
" I want KOTOR 3, not an MMO that I'll never be able to play because my computer is pathetic. Is that too much to ask? "
...The possibility of being able to run an MMO on a computer is much higher than a single player game.
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Hate MMOs, love Star Wars, mumble mumble...  
 
Also, bioware kicks ass, damnit.
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it is lookin cheesier and cheesier closer it gets to release

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It would be so great if they put that assassin droid in both the film trilogies instead of 3p0 & r2 (hell replace most of the droids in the films with that assassin droid), might have made the whole series lots more interesting.

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If this trailer represents the gameplay : dialog ratio, it'll probably be very much like kotor. Being 85% stupid banter and 15% shoddy combat in the interest of driving some generic shyte story. 
 
If I wanted to watch cutscenes 85% of my subscription time, I'd probably spend my time on netflix rather than in a game.

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@elko84 said:
" @dprabon said:
" @pbhawks45 said:
" I still wish they were making KOTOR 3 :( "
Ya, me too. I'm not a MMO fan.  I like the idea of the player turning out to be something special (like ...) instead of one in a million players. "
SPOILERS!!!! "
Quote edited to remove Spoiler 
 
I thought this was set a few hundred (or thousand) years before KOTOR 1, or is it after? If it is set before why are they talking about Revan's rebirth?