My take: First game in a long time that you could potentially consider as a WoW killer with a straight face. Although I think we all know WoW's not going anywhere soon. Bioware seems to have gotten things right for the most part. More options in character creation would be nice, as would more playable races (Rodians, Nautolans, Ithorians I'm looking at you), but I guess you gotta save something for expansion packs down the road. The characters are, as one poster said on the SWTOR forums "basically humans with different paint jobs".
Games interface looks clean and functional and it's actually nice that they made a point of going with a non-cartoony look for the game. I played a Jedi Knight and the first 10 levels were about standard MMO fare. Learn the game get your inital skills and gear and prep yourself for venturing out into the wider galaxy. The big difference was the writing and story. NPCs don't give you a general "go kill x number of y critters" or "gather so many of z type flowers/rock/whatever". There's on-going story and how you complete a guest, the choices you make and the things you say and do all affect your character and your relationships. I actually cared about what I was doing and why. Lots of voice acting and cinematic cut scenes make it feel like you're playing a Star Wars movie.
I managed to get my Jedi up to level 17 and still didn't get a chance to try crew skills (crafting). But apparently you send your companions out to gather resources and craft, while you sit back and reap the benefits and profit. They will also take you trash loot to a vendor and sell it for you, so you don't have to break from questing and hoof it back to town. Thumbs up for those last to ideas.
Overall, I'm down for playing this one. Who's with me?
Vin~ fucked around with this message on 11-30-2011 at 06:42 AM.
Tarquinn fucked around with this message on 12-01-2011 at 02:01 AM.
Edit: Correction: I've played DCUO for 18.4 hours after it became free to play. The gameplay is quite refreshing. For a while.
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Mortious impressed everyone with:
Of course I'll be playing.
Heh, my application to your guild seems to be gone.
Guess I'll get in touch with you after the game has launched.
Edit: Can't type for shit. Tarquinn fucked around with this message on 12-01-2011 at 02:21 AM.
They're having a few issues right now with login server and some of the long term characters were not able to be played over the last weekend. Hopefully this close to launch, they'll have those final kinks worked out. Will be a month or so until I can get my new computer built so I'll have to slog along as best I can in the game...
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Everyone wondered WTF when nem-x wrote:
I didn't really care much for the beta since it was not a multiplayer kotor, but maybe I just don't like mmos now.
Yeah, that's what I am afraid of.
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Mr. Parcelan thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
SWTOR cannot kill WoW. Only WoW can kill WoW. And WoW has been regularly stabbing itself deeply in the chest every month for the past year.
I was about to disagree..
Then I remembered that, yeah... last year about this time I was embarrassing myself at the midnight release by absurdly dominating the trivia. At least I got a window decal for it. Sadly I've just recently thrown it away.
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Mr. Parcelan said:
SWTOR cannot kill WoW. Only WoW can kill WoW. And WoW has been regularly stabbing itself deeply in the chest every month for the past year.
I'd love to see WoW's subscriber numbers over the next 6-12 months. Not that I expect to see millions of subscribers suddenly cried out in terror and then were silenced (ha!), but to see if there's a continued erosion of WoW's subscriber numbers and how steep it is.
---Which I am wondering if I am the only one feeling like they must have had some shift in management that has them pushing their product out too quick? I mean they left the story line in Vashj'ir hanging as far as I know, and said fuck it all to putting in the raid zone they planned. Same kind of feeling I got with Uldam, after the awesome Indiana Jones quest line in the zone it felt like there was supposed to be more to it, and the events in at least some of the 5 mans there are kind of unexplained. To Me Cataclysm had the same feel playing it as did Earth and Beyond, kicked out the door to soon with too little. Peter fucked around with this message on 12-03-2011 at 07:49 PM.
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Callalron had this to say about dark elf butts:
I'd love to see WoW's subscriber numbers over the next 6-12 months. Not that I expect to see millions of subscribers suddenly cried out in terror and then were silenced (ha!), but to see if there's a continued erosion of WoW's subscriber numbers and how steep it is.
I don't think you will see that until after 12 months due to the Diablo 3 deal they have going. There will be some, but that is going to retain quite a few subscribers.
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nem-x wrote this then went back to looking for porn:
I didn't really care much for the beta since it was not a multiplayer kotor, but maybe I just don't like mmos now.
Yeah, if you're looking for something that plays nothing like WoW, SWTOR ain't it.
On the other hand, I still like the way WoW plays, and really liked the different feel SWTOR had to it.
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SWTOR cannot kill WoW. Only WoW can kill WoW. And WoW has been regularly stabbing itself deeply in the chest every month for the past year.
And SWTOR will likely benefit from this greatly.
Sometimes I wonder if Blizzard actually understands why people liked LK and BC. The design stance they've taken over the entire course of the Cataclysm expansion and moving on to Pandaland says to me that they do not.
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Addy had this to say about John Romero:
early access starts on the 13th instead of the 15th just an fyi ~~
Yep, that was a pleasant surprise in my email!
The Bioware/EA/Lucasarts guys are the most paranoid MMORPG providers I have ever seen. 
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Tarquinn had this to say about Duck Tales:
Preloading right now.The Bioware/EA/Lucasarts guys are the most paranoid MMORPG providers I have ever seen.
This surprises you?
However, in the light of this year's hacking-bonanza, I think I have to approve of their paranoia.
