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Title: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: Beefcake on November 23, 2011, 06:11:09 PM
I'm wondering if I should invest in a collectors edition for this game? There is a lot of hype about it right now but I just want to make sure I don't buy a golden turd.
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: minke on November 23, 2011, 06:14:21 PM
I really really want to like this game. The videos online and on the website arent exciting me though. I'd go for the collectors edition if it had more zing to it
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: Ack-Ack on November 23, 2011, 06:37:39 PM
I pre-ordered the collectors edition.

ack-ack
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: Tyrannis on November 23, 2011, 06:49:33 PM
With the quality of the past Star Wars games, i think im going to pass on this one.


I really wish Lucas would give the go-ahead for Star Wars:Battlefront 3. But for some dumb reason he canceled it back in 09. :rolleyes:

Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: minke on November 23, 2011, 06:57:45 PM
Still play battlefront 2, great game.

Also like replaying Empire at war:forces of corruption. Jumping into a rebel stronghold with the Death star, Vader's Executor, Thrawn, Piett and a swarm of Tie defenders - good times
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: Wiley on November 23, 2011, 08:38:13 PM
Why they have not done x vs tie with modern graphics and at least 64 v 64 multiplayer is completely baffling to me.

Wiley.
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: Ack-Ack on November 23, 2011, 09:13:23 PM
Why they have not done x vs tie with modern graphics and at least 64 v 64 multiplayer is completely baffling to me.

Wiley.

LucasArts are hiring programmers and artists with experience in working on space flight sims for an upcoming flight sim.

ack-ack
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: Beefcake on November 23, 2011, 09:59:07 PM
Well if Ack-Ack endorses it then it must be good.  ;)  :aok

Normally when I get these games I go all out and get the big collectors items but at $150 that's a helluva chuck of change for me so it better be worth it.

I guess the next question is will we create an AH clan/guild/squadron/whatever over there?
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: Saxman on November 23, 2011, 10:38:08 PM
LucasArts are hiring programmers and artists with experience in working on space flight sims for an upcoming flight sim.

ack-ack

It's probably going to turn into another Secret Weapons Over Normandy. Or the MAJOR disappointment of X-wing: Alliance.
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: Tyrannis on November 24, 2011, 04:58:51 AM
Im just preying that Fallout doesnt go MMO and Bethesda wins its court deal.  :pray
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: coombz on November 24, 2011, 05:07:30 AM
Why they have not done x vs tie with modern graphics and at least 64 v 64 multiplayer is completely baffling to me.

Wiley.

+100
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: coombz on November 24, 2011, 05:08:14 AM
LucasArts are hiring programmers and artists with experience in working on space flight sims for an upcoming flight sim.

ack-ack

:x :x :x
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: WYOKIDIII on November 24, 2011, 11:23:38 AM
Beta Test tomorrow . I don't know if my rig will even run it but gonna try .
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: 1701E on November 24, 2011, 12:32:52 PM
I got 2 Beta codes for it (expired now) but never even signed up for the thing. I don't even have an account on the site for the game. Is it a "Everyone gets a code" thing or an error they're having?
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: Nathan60 on November 24, 2011, 12:48:42 PM
I played the open weekend beta  a cpl weeks ago and thought the game  was fun. The story lines  we fun for the class I played. It is an mmo tho so your  gonna sink a lot of time into it to get anywhere.  Think Kotor online. Not a  very sandbox game but I suppose they dumbed it down some  to make it accesible  to  more people. If you're not sure of playing it  wait a little while for  a trial to be offered. If you rregistered on the website before nov get in this weekends beta. Only thing I really want them to add is  a bounty hunting system like  star Wars Galaxies had.
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: FiLtH on November 24, 2011, 09:13:55 PM
  Id think HTC could make a space game out of AH. Turn off the gravity and have black space. He already made some spaceships.
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: Ack-Ack on November 25, 2011, 12:22:00 AM
Im just preying that Fallout doesnt go MMO and Bethesda wins its court deal.  :pray
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Fallout is going the MMO route, regardless if Interplay wins the lawsuit or not.  The only reason Bethesda is trying to stop Interplay from making it isn't so it will never see the light if day, it's because Bethesda wants to do it themselves.

ack-ack
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: Tyrannis on November 25, 2011, 06:32:37 AM
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Fallout is going the MMO route, regardless if Interplay wins the lawsuit or not.  The only reason Bethesda is trying to stop Interplay from making it isn't so it will never see the light if day, it's because Bethesda wants to do it themselves.

ack-ack
Todd howard has already said they would never make fallout into an MMO because he felt it would take attention away from the games, as well as screw up the "Fallout bible".
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: Tac on November 25, 2011, 09:52:17 AM
I played the open weekend beta  a cpl weeks ago and thought the game  was fun. The story lines  we fun for the class I played. It is an mmo tho so your  gonna sink a lot of time into it to get anywhere.  Think Kotor online. Not a  very sandbox game but I suppose they dumbed it down some  to make it accesible  to  more people. If you're not sure of playing it  wait a little while for  a trial to be offered. If you rregistered on the website before nov get in this weekends beta. Only thing I really want them to add is  a bounty hunting system like  star Wars Galaxies had.

That game IS a clone of SWG post- NGE that tries to put some pre-NGE features in (and fails) along with updated graphics and console-like shooter gameplay.

Its not a boring game its just... nothing new, nothing original. A rehash of what has come before re-marketed with better graphics.
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: soda72 on November 25, 2011, 10:04:10 AM
It looks pretty good.  Bioware has done some great things in the past, so I wouldn't be to worried about it being a turd..
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: Wiley on November 25, 2011, 05:16:10 PM
That game IS a clone of SWG post- NGE that tries to put some pre-NGE features in (and fails) along with updated graphics and console-like shooter gameplay.

Its not a boring game its just... nothing new, nothing original. A rehash of what has come before re-marketed with better graphics.

Question-  You mention shooter game play...  Do they actually have to aim their shots, and can you get out of the way of them?  Or is it the old style like WoW where they activate the 'shoot' power and dice decide whether they hit or miss?

Wiley.
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: WYOKIDIII on November 26, 2011, 02:19:10 AM
Kotoro=6/10 , it offers nothing new or unique...doesn't mush feel like the Star Wars universe to me...looks right , just something missing . And worst of all no space fighting . how can you have a Star Wars game with no space battles ? But I have to admit I didn't think much of KOTOR to begin with . Technically speaking the game is very well done . I could play the game on a computer far below recomended specs , didn't run well but it did run well enough to play with not too much trouble . I did like the interface after I got used to it , very easy to use . Not a bad game , but not one I want to spend any money on . My recomendation , wait fo it to go FTP .
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: Nathan60 on November 26, 2011, 03:03:40 AM
No game is  great on launch day. It's the foundation of the game on launch that will make or break it  and  the  speed at which the devs make  updates/changes or add content. Look at APB $120 Million was spent on it nothing was added now its free to play.
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: WYOKIDIII on November 26, 2011, 03:47:35 PM
I'm sure millions will flock to it. Not bad game , just not the game for me .
Title: Re: Star Wars The Old Republic
Post by: jollyFE on November 27, 2011, 11:37:18 AM
been doing the beta test all weekend..............doesn't seem too bad.  My son has already made the call to leave WoW for it.