Star Wars: The Old Republic

[Guest strongarm85]

So the guys at Lukas Arts and Bioware finally let the worst kept seceret in the gaming industry out of the bag today when they announced when they finally announced Star Wars: The Old Republic.

http://pc.ign.com/articles/922/922115p1.html

The game takes place 300 years after Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2. The game has been in development for years already. According to what has been revealed so far, this game, despite being an MMO with be heavily story driven and featuring the branching dialog trees that Bioware games have been known for. There is also companion character system where you can bring along other characters to basically form a party with you even while your playing by yourself. These are not your generic NPCs either as it would appear that influence system from previous KoToR games is making a return in some form. These NPCs will interact and even judge you based on your actions.

One thing is for sure, this is not going to be a typical MMO.

[AnnIQ Edison]

Oh man another one of these is making me really excited. I loved the last two KOTOR's and I hope this won't be an exception.

[EddieRuckus]

This may be the first MMO I get into, we'll see. Honestly though I probably will as it's The Old Republic setting of Star Wars ^_^

[Reddaye]

Just something to note about this game is that it's being made by a team in Bioware Austin. The Bioware Edmonton team who made Mass Effect worked on the original game and Obsidian worked on the second so I wouldn't let the past totally determine the quality of the future.

I knew this MMO was coming but it still stings like a bitch. Essentially the way the interviews have sounded makes me believe there will never be a KOTOR 3 proper (aka single player - character driven experience). They neatly tossed away all the cliff hangers following the second game (Revan failed - now you know...so here's a MMO set 300 years after...enjoy). Obsidian has begged LucasArts to let them finish the KOTOR series but they keep getting refused. Seems like this is what we're getting stuck with.

Not excited for this one...but hopefully it's a good game that the people who ARE interested will be able to enjoy.

[The Kraig]

This might be old news, but I just saw a recently released trailer for this...and it's fucking amazing. If I wasn't sold already, I am now.

Deceived Trailer

Sets the stage for the beginning of the game I believe. The sacking of Coruscant. Epic flavour!

[EddieRuckus]

That was just...wow. Got goosebumps and everything, so stoked for this game!

[GoGo Yubari]

Holy crap. First new MMO I'll have given a shot since my flirtation with WoW in 2006.

[Hugar Twriker Eats Spam]

Holy Shit, I just nutted all over my room.

[Captain Eo]

That trailer was amazing.

I just finished Force Unleashed today, and after doing some backstory research I've once again become fully immersed in this universe.

[Slide]

They released a video documentary last week talking about the story and all the voice over work being done on this.

http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/video-documentary-3

[KevinStorm]

Personally I'd rather just have KOTOR 3 than a game I have to pay monthly for.

[Slide]

20 minutes of developer walkthrough video has been upped to IGN. They glance over the Smuggler, Bounty Hunter, and Sith Warrior classes, look at 4 different planets, with branching dialog options that also cover quite a bit of the "Killing the captain".

http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/816935/bioware-mmo-project/videos/gcom09_oldrepublic_spc1_082109.html

http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/816935/bioware-mmo-project/videos/gcom09_oldrepublic_spc2_082109.html

http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/816935/bioware-mmo-project/videos/gcom09_oldrepublic_spc3_082109.html

http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/816935/bioware-mmo-project/videos/gcom09_oldrepublic_spc4_082109.html

[Thornburr]

The stuff on IGN showing 20 mins of footage looks great, can't wait to see what happens with this.

[Dont Fear The Reaper]

Im trying not to get too excited about this game but looking at all the trailers and gameplay footage so far its hard not to get excited.

[Lj.]

Yea, I'm getting really excited myself, don't want to be let down. But so far, looks great.

[GoGo Yubari]

They just busted out gameplay footage of the Republic Trooper class for the first time ever at PAX. A whole lot of big guns and fire grenades going on, it's awesome.

[GoGo Yubari]

Here's some videos of the stuff that was debuted over the last weekend at PAX;

The Trooper class (including some hilarious demo fail).

Planet Coruscant revealed.

@ 5:15, /dance!!!

@ 5:55, the only way you can make /dance more awesome.

[mystikz]

I'm glad this is going to have something WoW doesn't... an actual story. still disappointed there's no kotor 3 yet but I'm definitely looking into picking this up.

[Dont Fear The Reaper]

Is there any word on if this will be a subscription based MMO or is it free to play online?

[GoGo Yubari]

Is there any word on if this will be a subscription based MMO or is it free to play online?

I have to think a game this big is going to be subscription-based, honestly.