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Star Wars: The Old Republic had a $200 million budget. Have you played one of the most expensive MMO ever made?
- Thread starter hwarang
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I played it. It was, at best, mediocre for an MMO. They touted this whole 'solo play is possible because you get NPCs!' angle....but then made elite mobs almost impossible to beat with said NPCs.
I dropped it pretty quickly after that revalation, as there was nothing else in the game that set it apart from the million other WoW clones at the time.
I dropped it pretty quickly after that revalation, as there was nothing else in the game that set it apart from the million other WoW clones at the time.
Played it in 2011 when it came out. Finished the Imperial Agent story (which was fantastic) and stopped after I finished the first real raid. It's a pretty neat game, and some of the stories are great, but I imagine it could feel a little dated these days.
I played it, insanely mediocre and the game honestly would have lost nothing by making that main attack auto.............especially with how long the GCD was.
Had some fantastic writing though.
Had some fantastic writing though.
Tried it out years ago. Was a generic MMO with Bioware dialogue system. Combat and quest design was just so dull I couldn't commit.
It's the only other MMO I've played and enjoyed besides WoW. The story is worth anyone's time. Highly recommend a light side sith warrior.
Bought into the hype and got the game and 1 month sub at launch. It felt OK, like comfort food that I can turn to once in a while. Problem was, I would never pay a subscription for it.
Haven't been back since it went F2P
Haven't been back since it went F2P
The way party dialogue worked is unmatched in an mmo. The free version was limited in a very frustrating way.
Was fun until they immediately abandoned what made it unique. Seems every Star Wars MMO will suffer the same fate. Too Ambitious, Galaxies required a near full team at all times just to keep it balanced etc not even going into expansion teams etc. TOR gave each class its own unique progression which again would require way too much development assets.
I still dip back in every once in awhile. Every line being voiced continues to be impressive, in a game of that scope.
I wanted a proper Knights of the Old Republic III and have less than zero interest in MMOs, so have not played it with prejudice.
Such a shame we never got a proper ending to that brilliant single-player duology, but I'm happy that some fans of MMOs enjoyed The Old Republic. Not the game for me by any measure, but maybe it was a fun game for them.
They could pay me to play it, and I still wouldn't play it.
Such a shame we never got a proper ending to that brilliant single-player duology, but I'm happy that some fans of MMOs enjoyed The Old Republic. Not the game for me by any measure, but maybe it was a fun game for them.
They could pay me to play it, and I still wouldn't play it.
I played the open beta and after 3 quest of getting 10 of these and 5 of these and 15 of those I uninstalled it.
I wanted a grant SW game but no way I was going to grind that kind of BS for it.
I wanted a grant SW game but no way I was going to grind that kind of BS for it.
I played it when it first came out. They screwed up by launching with waaaaay too many servers and I didn't realize until I was pretty far in that I was on a dead server. I'm talking within a week or two of launch I was on a mid level planet that was entirely empty.
also, I eventually got to an absurdly long fetch quest and had to spend like 15-20 mins backtracking to turn it in. When I turned it in, the NPC didn't even have dialogue. It literally just marked the quest as complete. I was so pissed off at the empty worlds and bad quest design that I just quit right then.
I just completely NOPED out and never went back.
also, I eventually got to an absurdly long fetch quest and had to spend like 15-20 mins backtracking to turn it in. When I turned it in, the NPC didn't even have dialogue. It literally just marked the quest as complete. I was so pissed off at the empty worlds and bad quest design that I just quit right then.
I just completely NOPED out and never went back.
I played like 30 hrs of it. I actually dug the story stuff but goddamn was the gameplay mediocre as hell
I tried the free trial and stopped playing after about an hour. It was such a terrible example of bog standard, boring MMO design.
I played the open beta in 2010-2011? or when ever it was..
I really liked the idea - open world star wars story? how is that not great.
And it wasnt.. I bet it's improved by now ofc but still, I was left with meh in my mouth hehe
I really liked the idea - open world star wars story? how is that not great.
And it wasnt.. I bet it's improved by now ofc but still, I was left with meh in my mouth hehe
I kinda liked it, but since everyone dropped it I ended up quitting.
Agent and BH stories were the best, Smuggler also up there.
I think I only went back for the first Hut expansion and it was kinda bad if I remember correctly?
Tried logging in a year ago or so after some hype CGI trailer but the MTX store turned me off.
Agent and BH stories were the best, Smuggler also up there.
I think I only went back for the first Hut expansion and it was kinda bad if I remember correctly?
Tried logging in a year ago or so after some hype CGI trailer but the MTX store turned me off.
I've tried to get into it a few times, the cool aspects of the story are overshadowed by the comically oversized world (everyone's house has ginormous rooms), the microtransactions, the minor quest design, and the fact other players are running around with identical party members.
It'd be great if they could just take the story content and transplant it a single player RPG but that won't happen
It'd be great if they could just take the story content and transplant it a single player RPG but that won't happen
I played it last year after all the hype about the Imperial agent storyline
Unfortunately, the MMO gameplay that I had to go through in order to play this game was god awful and boring. It was really tough to get through, simply because the quests and combat were so mind-numbing.
Unfortunately, the MMO gameplay that I had to go through in order to play this game was god awful and boring. It was really tough to get through, simply because the quests and combat were so mind-numbing.
I played the Smuggler storyline late last year and mostly enjoyed it. I want to play some of the other class stories along with the expansions but it's not so good that it's easy to justify setting aside that much time for it.
Yeah I played it for about 2 years (most of my gaming buddies left after about 3 months). I played SIth tank BTW.
I had fun... but not going back TBH. I feel like the game is "done" for me personally.
I had fun... but not going back TBH. I feel like the game is "done" for me personally.
lmafao what?
SWTOR was developed by BioWare Austin, a completely separate team from the Edmonton one.
It was great but flawed. I personally would have liked them to go in the SWTOR direction for endgame instead if chasing wow.
My WoW guild played it for a month until we went back to WoW because the raids and dungeons were shit.
Played it when it first released but dropped it pretty shortly after finishing the Jedi Knight story as there didn't seem to be much to do at endgame and I couldn't be bothered levelling another character.
Decided to give it another go when it was released on Steam a while back and have been surprised by how much I've been enjoying it, you can level characters by just doing the class stories for the most part now so you don't have to bother with the shitty MMO filler quests.
Decided to give it another go when it was released on Steam a while back and have been surprised by how much I've been enjoying it, you can level characters by just doing the class stories for the most part now so you don't have to bother with the shitty MMO filler quests.
I did play it, with my wife at launch. The storytelling structure was excellent and, with full support from Bioware/EA, could have been even better. What really fucked the game over was two things:
1. It was targeted at World of Warcraft Burning Crusade's feature set but launched against Cataclysm at its midway point. So the gameplay felt extremely dated.
2. The combat had very perceptible delays. One thing Blizzard nailed with WoW, and of course they've since ruined this in their incompetence by putting a bunch of CDs on the GCD, but it was the brisk and immediate impact of combat. SWTOR... had none of that. It was stodgy and slow.
Also, let's do this- when the game went F2P the restrictions were very, very dire.
This game captured the perfect storm of both Bioware's decline and EA's corporate culture. Just an absolute disaster but you could see where it had good ideas. Just never salvaged them.
1. It was targeted at World of Warcraft Burning Crusade's feature set but launched against Cataclysm at its midway point. So the gameplay felt extremely dated.
2. The combat had very perceptible delays. One thing Blizzard nailed with WoW, and of course they've since ruined this in their incompetence by putting a bunch of CDs on the GCD, but it was the brisk and immediate impact of combat. SWTOR... had none of that. It was stodgy and slow.
Also, let's do this- when the game went F2P the restrictions were very, very dire.
This game captured the perfect storm of both Bioware's decline and EA's corporate culture. Just an absolute disaster but you could see where it had good ideas. Just never salvaged them.
I don't see why they don't port this game to consoles, it would be a great success here I'm sure of that.
Got the PC version at launch played the Sith Inquisitor story which was very good but to me it's more a solo game (let's say with coop) than a "true" MMO specially for 2011
Today the "MMO" genera is a bit wider so I insist that it should have been ported on console. I would have love to play it on my Xbox with a controller (like a KOTOR game) common BioWare it's easy money and surely it can't be that hard to do that. We have a lot of MMOs on consoles today.
Got the PC version at launch played the Sith Inquisitor story which was very good but to me it's more a solo game (let's say with coop) than a "true" MMO specially for 2011
Today the "MMO" genera is a bit wider so I insist that it should have been ported on console. I would have love to play it on my Xbox with a controller (like a KOTOR game) common BioWare it's easy money and surely it can't be that hard to do that. We have a lot of MMOs on consoles today.
If a game world could benefit with a GaaS model instead of a true Wow-like MMO structure, Star Wars is it. I had friends playing this but couldn't get into it at they dropped it pretty soon too. I just imagine something like Destiny in the Star Wars universe would have had a lot more success.
Played it with a group of friends and had a blast. Came back a couple of times but did not click anymore. Wish this would come to console.
Played it and loved it! Went through pretty much all of the stories! My guild fell apart shortly before it went F2P though and I left it at that.
I'm aware which team made it and Greg Zeschuk, one of the two main founders of Bioware was the GM of Bioware Austin btw. Bioware was sold to EA in order to fund SWTOR. Look at the price tag in the OP, it's not a coincidence. SWTOR was a failure in design in a number of ways but that's a bit off topic. It wasn't long after the initial release of SWTOR when it released with very disappointing subscription numbers, and eventually went free to play, that the two main founders of Bioware stepped down and again, Bioware was now tethered to Electronic Arts. It's very clear, SWTOR was the game that in many ways led to the decline of the company. Dragon Age had already been in developed for like 10 years or something and released in 2009 and Mass Effect 2 came out before SWTOR was released. It is pretty widely accepted around here that Bioware hasn't been the same since ME 2 even though I still like most of their output.
Played it because I love SW. It wasn't enough to get me past all the things I can't stand in MMO's : gameplay consisting entirely of waiting for a square to fill up and then click on it, while your character does basic attacks on its own with lame animations, corridors so ridiculously huge (yet deserted) that you feel like a character from Toy Story, level gating everywhere that puts you on a linear path... Nothing to see there.
Wasted 20h of my life on this and three times as many euros unfortunately.
Wasted 20h of my life on this and three times as many euros unfortunately.
