The Old Republic
When LucasArts revealed that it was partnering with BioWare for a Star Wars MMO, millions of people (including Rodians, Mon Calamari, and Twi’leks) paid attention. Star Wars: The Old Republic promises to be like no other MMO to date. At PAX 2009, producer Jake Neri revealed how the game’s story and combat will distinguish it from the pack.
“What we’re really trying to do with The Old Republic is introduce the idea of story into an MMO. The genre has a ton of good games — games that focus on combat and exploration and progression, but when we came together with BioWare to make this game, we wanted to focus on story and what that means in an MMO.
When we looked at the combat and we started out, the goal was to make it heroic and cinematic. One thing that’s interesting — I don’t know if everybody knows — is that everything that we’ve shown is up to level eight. At level eight, most classes you see are pretty impressive. We’ve got cool bounty hunter abilities that people look at and say, ‘Wow, I can’t wait to do that!’ Our Sith warrior flipping through the air and rocking people to the skull — people want to do that, right? It’s cool. It’s unique. It’s exciting. It’s heroic. From the beginning of the game, we’re trying to deliver that experience.”
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Focus on story?
From all I’ve been reading, it sounds like this game could end up being very linear and play out like a console game. I hope not.
Not to mention the dialog in the films is absolute crap. And from “proudly” released videos showing the voices (which every single character has — dialog seems to happen in console-style cinematics), the creators are sticking to the same style of shit Lucas gave us for 13+ hours.
Whatever the case, I plan on playing it at launch. My hopes are not up. Have you seen the actual gameplay? Pretty basic/straightforward. As for visual appearance, the gameplay looks bad… It looks to be on par with games released a decade ago. But it’s still in development so maybe it’ll get cleaned up. If not, I’ll lose interest really fast. A game’s play can be phenomenal, sure, but when I’m looking at it for hours a day, it needs to be appealing to the eye.
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