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Peep The First Footage Of Star Wars: The Old Republic

Take a look at the next massively multiplayer game poised to consume years of your life.

LucasArts and BioWare have dropped this new video piece for Star Wars: The Old Republic, featuring a gang of folks from both companies (including the good Drs. Ray and Greg) dishing on the design direction of the game. Oh yeah, the first publicly available footage of the game is in there too. You might be interested in seeing that.

  


This video comes just days after BioWare announced it's using an off-the-shelf MMO engine, the HeroEngine, to power the game. How does this footage strike you, in light of that news? Are you ready to surrender a couple years of your life to this juggernaut?
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"There needs to be a paradigm shift with MMO's for me to get interested again. You know this is going to be the same old crap."

what he said, they can talk it up all they want. It's just another MMO, why another mmo WHY! Not everything needs to be an mmooooo T___T

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Looks, good, but need to see/hear some more of whats going on with it.  Least is cant suck as bad as the one Sony did. 

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I wanna play a Sith Yoda creature.

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As with most MMOs, it doesn't look all that great visually... not very crisp or detailed. But this IS a way early build, so hopefully they polish it up. I'll be buying this if it's for a console, but not if it's for the PC (which I'm assuming it is).

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As with most MMOs, it doesn't look all that great visually... not very crisp or detailed. But this IS a way early build, so hopefully they polish it up. I'll be buying this if it's for a console, but not if it's for the PC (which I'm assuming it is).

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Not sold.  Not at all.

They should have ended with a money shot of Revan.  That'd get the fanboys drooling.

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it is a shame that the game is an MMO

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I guess it all depends for me when this comes out.  Im fairly interested in the game itself and will probably be willing to try an mmo out again by the time its released.  The only problem will be if D3 comes out before or around the same time because my life will be sucked away after bliz finally decides to let D3 go out on store shelves.  I suppose I will just have to be patient.

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I hope they will have Diolouge like the KOTOR franchise!
I really want to play this game having choices that make impacts on what quests you get sounds like a good idea.
I just hope that there will be other stuff apart from Combat and Questing.

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I hate videos that begin on their own. Three times now, on different sites, I've opened a link in a tab and had this god damn trailer start playing and scare the shit out of me. Fuck you trailer!

Yeah. Decisions that will change the world and the very core of your character blah, blah, blah. Sorry, but I'm not going to accept that as anything more than standard "This MMO is going to be revolutionary" hype.

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Lol at MMOs on console.

MMOS CAN'T BE ON CONSOLE, IT DOESN'T WORK.

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Edited By Kartraith
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on Dec. 12, 2008
There was some hint in the video of each player being able to shape the way the world appears to them. If they pull this off in a way that still allows player-player interaction, I'd definitely be interested in it.

One of the worst immersion-breakers in WoW is the fact that, no matter how many wolves you kill, there will always be more, and that even after you kill a boss, the region that they had been corrupting still appears the same.

Of course, this exists to facilitate repeat play and player-player interaction. If they can solve this problem, they'll make a cool game.


Actually, in Wrath of the Lich King, there are several points where a zone is sort of sneaky-instanced, and the zone evolved after you have completed a quest. For example in Icecrown, one of the last zones you visit(this feature is present early on but Icecrown is where it really shines in my opinion) you help both the Argent Crusade and the Knights of the Ebon Blade improve their foothold in the zone against the Scourge, resulting in new bases being build as you finish quests, and these bases will not be there if you have not done the quests.
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I believe BioWare can bring some ACTUAL story and gameplay to an MMO.

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I have a job but I will still not go for anything that has a monthly subscription.  Make it microtransaction based.

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i agree, if its monthly subscription based, count me out.  and that sucks because i really like Star Wars.

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I have very high hopes for this, it looks fantastic!  I think they have some good ideas on what to do with this, im sure Bioware can do it if anyone can.

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I have never played an MMO before mainly because games like WoW don't appeal to me much, but The Old Republic would definitly be a game I would play

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Video ought learn not to auto start foe she finds out mah pimp hand is strong, kno what I'm sayin?

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Can this video just shut up whenever I visit this page!

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Video did not impress.

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It looks promising, but there wasn't much gameplay shown besides random scenes of lightsaber dueling.

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They should have done a KOTOR 3 on the next gen consoles which would have crushed sales etc. Instead they go with an MMO, besides no one having the time to play an MMO (except for the WOW ppl who will resist change), how many people have pricey PCs?!. I happen to have one but I don't see myself replacing gaming on a console for it. Bad call in my humble opinion! Really dissapointed that there's no KOTOR 3, KOTOR was arguably one of the best games ever created but Bioware decided to have a deal with EA... booooooooooooo

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FORCE LIGHTNING IS BLUE NOT WHITE DAMNIT

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This looks really awesome. This might be the MMORPG to take down WoW. I think that if they're able to get you to change your environment and characters, but still interact with others players, then we'll have stumbled upon something special.

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After what happened to Star Wars Galaxies i'll stay quietly optimistic  that it dosen't get destroyed and end up being nothing more than Ghost servers.  The art direction is really kewl , i like where they seem to be going with it . 

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They are already taking the WoW mainstream route keeping it light on the graphics.  They say its more for art but really it was probably more for $$

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Sounds great.. but I think I'm starting to out grow both MMO's and Starwars.

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If its free, than I might consider it, otherwise pass

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KOTOR 1 = best star wars story since ESB
KOTOR 2 = solid expansion pack that needed another 6 months dev time

KOTOR Online = so far looks like absolute rubbish