GW1 I forget why I only played it for a weekend. It seemed good, was free after initial purchase. Can't freaking remember why I didn't buy it. Think I got sidetracked in DAOC or WoW. I remember a desert, and nothing but solo play with scorpions or something, had fun.

 

You can't jump. That was what got me the most.

That, and the classes weren't very intuitive for me, the controls were odd, and I couldn't really socialize while doing anything. Making ALL types of encounters instanced made me literally incapable of finding other people to party with. Almost all chat was either recruiters or people selling something, and the low level cap (20) but ridiculously long levels made everything feel like a grind to me. Sure, I could hire a minion (or four) of some sort to party with me whenever I wanted, but I play an MMORPG for the people I can meet, otherwise it's just an RPG with some multiplayer.

 

Yeah, that was GW1 ;] It was amazing fun once you got used to it, but it was definitely a shock to the system compared to just about everything else.

GW2 has changed just about all of that. From no jumping to jumping/climbing, and the reason they are taking so long with release is they will have full underwater areas.

Also, I'm not sure what you're talking about lol. Level 1-20 took me about 5 hours or so last time I did it. It was probably one of the only MMOs at the time that required absolutely no grind, ever. There wasn't even anything to grind ON...

 

I'm defo keeping an eye on GW2, I liked GW1 but didn't love it, but this definitely has potential.

 

Problem with this shit, is that if you make shit complicated, it just makes it even MORE of an issue to balance.

I mean, look at WoW these days, the major issue is balance, not making something way better than anything else, and they just have SO many fucking variables to keep track of. :/

 

PvE balance isn't hard at all. It's PvP that fucks games up. PvP has ruined more game balance from users crying over how their rogue can't take down a full plate wearing paladin, then possibly anything else.

Asheron's Call from the example above, balanced it's self. You took item magic to buff your weapons to get around life magic protections, the games just got to have mechanisms to cancel the other shit out.

 

Sup Meatbags

 

... Holy fuck. I approve of this. Although I'm not entirely certain about this "reborn" shit.

Also they got a new voice for HK. This is displeasing.

 

New voice for HK sounds shitty. The reborn stuff is probably either Revan choosing to be neither, and his own thing, or after his mind got wiped in the games and you had to choose for yourself.

 

I actually got a little tingle down my spine at the end of that video. On another note, it seems we might actually find out Revan's final fate then.

 

In before Revan is resurrected and becomes a raid boss of some sort. lol

Now that I think about it, this is disturbingly possible.

 

I would rather have them leave Revan alone, to be honest. There's no way they can come up with a satisfactory ending for him. Better to just leave that stone unturned.

HK-47 is fine for cameos, in fact I believe he became a boss in Star Wars Galaxies?

 

Seems like Revan's fate will be unraveled. I only hope they don't fuck it up.

And HK's cameo after the video was hilarious.

 

I really want to try this game out however I don't know if I'll be able to handle the toony graphics, they kill games for me (only toon game I've been able to play was WW).

GW2 and FFXIV hold my attention right now, but I'll keep on reading news about TOR, I know Bio Ware will make a great game.

 

In what world are those toony graphics?

 

They're reminiscent of that movie that came out The Clone Wars.

Linkage.

 

Even the cartoon/CGI movie doesn't look cartoony.



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Compared to this bullshit




SWTOR looks state of the art realistic.

 

I love the art style for the game, I think it looks pretty great.

 

I don't play WoW for the graphics...but LOL.

As to the game itself, I think people are upset(me included ) that it's not closer to the KoToR. We expected a bigger tie-in, but that's just the fanboi coming out. Also, hated the style for the Clone Wars.

Personally, the graphics one can adapt to, but it's the gameplay where it comes through, and bioware has had problems balancing, not against each other, classes. Mages doing every-fucking-thing in DA comes to mind.

 

They're tieing the whole story of KOTOR games into this, and they've said they plan on having story arcs, and judging from the videos in the jedi archives, Reven's first up. HK's there already, what the hell bigger tie in do you need?

Bioware, as does every game dev that's even done RPGs, always have balancing issues with magic, always. Risen I'm playing now, and if you take the correct path, you're a beast, if you waver slightly, you're getting assraped by Ashbeasts. Trying to blame just Bioware is nonsense.