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http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/hope-cinematic-trailer
Also, they announced that everybody gets a ship, KOTOR style.
I generally hate MMOs, but man...if this one is available without having to go out and buy a windows PC to play it, I'm not going to be able to resist.
Okay, so.... wow!!!
Video games of ANY kind rarely hold my attention for very long (in complete contrast to my husband, heh, who dances in joy at the mere mention of 'bioware') ....but that. Well. That just got me a little bit excited!
Go Alderaan!
Has anyone seen the latest Force Unleashed Trailers? They're on par with that TOR one and look amazing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs_kkJRNbf0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgvzSDcCH4g
One of my World of Warcraft friends sent me a link to that trailer...I clicked, I drooled, I signed up to hopefully become a beta tester. SWTOR has an excellent chance to actually steal me away from Blizzard- and that's saying something as I've been a diehard WoW player since '07.
That said, I'll be playing on the Sith side...Oya Manda!
I am amazingly unmotivated when it comes to mmos...
When Galaxies came out I had an entertainer that was strictly an image designer... Thats it... I paid every month to redesign other characters... And made a boat load of creds doing it and had nothing to show for it...
On Wow I never made it to level 40... just sat at level 39 forever and wandered around looking at things... I had members of my guild ask me if I needed help leveling because I seemed stuck and I refused and wandered off into the barrens...
We will see with the new TOR, probably be an image designer type thing again wandering around at level 7... :P
Drig, I totally hear you. I was a Musician on Kettemoor, and loved it, until Sony made it very clear that players like me were not in their 'target demographic'.
I don't expect to be playing this game (I like roleplaying, after all), but I do enjoy watching the videos! :)
It would be a perfect game to roleplay in.. The rich storylines will give you the opportunity to make your character who they are, rather than what you think they should be... An excellent way to Roleplay and not have control over the consequences of said actions later on. Since the Storylines do that for you...
I'm looking at TOR as the actual first RPG in Star Wars... SWG wasn't really an RPG so much, since there were no mechanics in place for what kind of person you ended up being, you could just decide to switch personalities and no one would know a difference, in TOR you will have consequences for everything you do "IC" ... It's going to be SWEET!
That's certainly what made KotOR I and II so great, but I'm having trouble understanding how they plan to marry that experience with an MMO. With everyone playing the same missions, I just see players going around saying:
"I am the hero of Glognor!"
"I'm the hero of Glognor, too! But in my case, the Glognor-beast dropped this kick-butt bazooka... didn't you get one?"
"Aw, snap! I'm gonna make an alt and go play that mission again!"
"When you do, make sure you insult the Glognor-beast's hairstyle - that's what triggers the bazooka drop."
"Will do, thanks!"
Hopefully I'm way off base and it'll be great, but I'm having trouble getting my head around it, given the prevailing MMO mentality...
I have literally a litany of complaints against this TOR trailer, and I don't expect to like the game. At all. I have similar complaints against Force Unleashed, too.
I've realized something recently that I think explains why I've been so disappointed with so much recent Star Wars content. The original trilogy was inspired by certain genres and pulled very heavily from those tropes (westerns, old action serials, WWII war films), and I loved every bit of it, because I also love those old genres. But the new Star Wars takes its inspiration from other genres (like high fantasy, and apparently some Asian genres) - genres that I have never liked.
They're alienating fans of the OT by changing the nature of Star Wars. Like Drig told me the other day, at this point Han Solo is an anomaly in Star Wars. Star Wars of today is Jedi and superpowers and thousands of lightsabers. Lame.
Boshuda
Hopefully the upcoming live-action show will give guys like you and me what we crave... :)
I like to take an "if you cant have your way, enjoy theirs" view point of it. I would love more OT funsensicalness but honestly, I'm just glad star wars products are still being released with the american economy not that great and the recent lack of popularity of the star wars series. The Force Unleashed on occasion gives me some feed to my OT junkie side at least... Some day someone is going to tap that OT feel again... I just know it... *crosses fingers*
Those movies though aint nothin to scoff at though! Damn Pretty!!!
In SWG, prior to Sony's NGE crap that drove me to quit, I was a die-hard commando; I had two commandos on different servers (one Rebel, one Imperial), was a very...*vocal* member of the commando community, and was in the running to be the class correspondent for a while.
I saw the new TOR trailer and instantly needed clean underwear.
They can call the class 'Trooper' if they want, but *that* was my definition of a commando.
I couldn't care less about being Jedi or Sith, regardless of how superpowered they may be; I will be a commando and I will blow the living crap out of anything and everything that moves.
And Asok, I think I have to agree with you about Force Unleashed. Several of my friends loved the original and can't stop singing it's prasies, and they're eager for part 2...and yet I was the only one who felt disgusted by the game. Jedi/Sith shouldn't be that strong or even close to it; it makes them seem invincible and kills the original feeling and mystique that made me a fan of Star Wars in the first place. I get irritated seeing so many Jedi/Sith characters everywhere anymore; while they can be interesting, their powers/strength has become absurd, and everyone seems to be forgetting that you don't *need* the Force to be a bad ass.
Han is still my favorite over Luke; who needs the Force when you're an ace-shot with an 8 foot tall Wookiee backing you up?
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I think part of the reason why Obi-Wan was so cool in the OT (aside from being a classy Scottish actor) was that he never used his force powers. Let's count the many amazing uses of Obi-Wan's prowess:
1. Mind-tricked a stormtrooper.
2. Had a lightsaber, used twice.
3. Became a ghost.
That is the entire extent of Obi-Wan Kenobi's force use in the entire original trilogy. Yoda's list is even shorter: he moved the X-wing and also became a ghost.
All these new Jedi with their powers feel like a pathetic friend - trying to be cool to impress us so we'll like them. It's lame. Cool Jedi don't need powers. Just mystical wisdom.
Boshuda
Amen, brother!
To be fair, even if you are looking at just the original series you really need to include Luke, Vader and the Emperor.
All told they don't display a ton of powers but the list is a little bit longer than just what Obi-Wan does.
Lucas has said that the Jedi in TOS are basically washed up old men and one barely trained kid and he was trying to show that the old school Jedi could do a lot more in the prequels. I don't know, it kinda makes sense to me.
Whatever Lucas may say, the result is the same: Original trilogy = Rockage. Prequels = borderline suckage.
Lucas cannot rationalize away that little fact.
I think that if the prequels had been produced on a twelve dollar budget, Lucas would have had to resort to actual story-telling to tell his story. Thus, less crazy-force battles. More Han Solos!!!
But that's just me.