Star Wars: The Old Republic (MMO)

[Mr Hat and Clogs]

Should probably take this too PM's heh.

[Keroko]

Which reminds me, as soon as servers are announced we really should try and pin a server for all us Asuki players to get together and have fun. Or bite eachothers heads of, depending on faction.

Probably goin' Republic just because everyone else is going Sith myself.

[MeoTwister5]

Jedi Consular, once they actually allow non NA and EU players.

[Kyero Fox]

I'm going to be the Official Jedi Knight or trooper of these forums!

[Kyral]

Well I already promised to go with a friend on a server playing sith... so nothing against being part of the republic somewhere else... trooper power! òÓy

[cheyannew]

Originally Posted by Keroko

Which reminds me, as soon as servers are announced we really should try and pin a server for all us Asuki players to get together and have fun. Or bite eachothers heads of, depending on faction.

Probably goin' Republic just because everyone else is going Sith myself.

Beh, goody two shoes republic! haha

I want to play a Sith Inquisitor; there's just something about shooting lightning from my fingertips

I'll probably roll a Jedi Consular as an alt, though; healing is my niche...

[MeoTwister5]

I'm actually excited to see the final skill trees before I make a decision which class I'd like to play, but mostly it's likely going to be a Consular.

[synaesthetic]

Originally Posted by Solace

What players want from a MMO: a persistent world that feels alive, where your actions have consequences and make a difference in the world and your experience in it. The sky's the limit, and not a limited sandbox with virtual boundaries of cans and cant's.

What we have in MMO's now: a glorified numbers based progression system with superficial events/choices that don't really affect the world at all. Your "hero" is just as heroic as all the other players, which would be fine if it didn't feel so homogenous and "mathy" all the time.

You pretty much hit the nail on the head with this. I'd be lining up with my pocketbook wide open if someone released an online RPG that played exactly like Fallout 3/New Vegas.

Give me a big, wide-open sandbox where I can do anything, kill anything, blow anything up. I don't want to be a "hero," I just want to be another wanderer or adventurer in the grand scheme of things.

MMORPGs really need to take some cues from tabletop role-playing games. Most of those old-school AD&D games, our characters weren't epic Lord of the Rings-style heroes. We were just adventurers, mercenaries, people living in a vast world that was much larger than ourselves, trying to scrape by and make our fortunes. Kind of like how you feel throughout the first half of both FO3 and FONV--you're nothing amazing yet, just another wastelander, struggling to get through the next challenge.

[Kyero Fox]

Originally Posted by synaesthetic

You pretty much hit the nail on the head with this. I'd be lining up with my pocketbook wide open if someone released an online RPG that played exactly like Fallout 3/New Vegas.

Give me a big, wide-open sandbox where I can do anything, kill anything, blow anything up. I don't want to be a "hero," I just want to be another wanderer or adventurer in the grand scheme of things.

MMORPGs really need to take some cues from tabletop role-playing games. Most of those old-school AD&D games, our characters weren't epic Lord of the Rings-style heroes. We were just adventurers, mercenaries, people living in a vast world that was much larger than ourselves, trying to scrape by and make our fortunes. Kind of like how you feel throughout the first half of both FO3 and FONV--you're nothing amazing yet, just another wastelander, struggling to get through the next challenge.

I bet you just cant WAIT for Fallout mmo

[JagdPanther]

Originally Posted by Kyero Fox

I'm going to be the Official Jedi Knight or trooper of these forums!

Jedi Knight.

I'LL be the trooper.

[Keroko]

Just saw a bit of raid footage in EA livestream. The demo-group wiped on the first mid-boss, which sounds encouraging for the difficulty of raids in SWTOR.

[SaintessHeart]

Smuggler. I am always the hit-and-run type.

Originally Posted by Keroko

Which reminds me, as soon as servers are announced we really should try and pin a server for all us Asuki players to get together and have fun. Or bite eachothers heads of, depending on faction.

Why don't you create a female Jedi Consular and name her Sayaka Miki?

[LoweGear]

The "Operation" shown in EA's Gamescom live stream just now:

[Keroko]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

Why don't you create a female Jedi Consular and name her Sayaka Miki?

Because my consular is going to be as old a geezer as the character creator is going to let me get away with.

[Xion Valkyrie]

It's kind of lame that you can 'jetpack' or 'force leap' to the turret, but can't actually land on it.

[MeoTwister5]

Damn the Eternity Vault player demo looks pretty fucking impressive.

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by Keroko

Because my consular is going to be as old a geezer as the character creator is going to let me get away with.

Then I am going to be female smuggler who's as loli as she could get, so I can follow you around and make you look like a perverted oyaji lolicon jedi.

[Keroko]

Latest news: Star Wars the Old Republic just got Blood Bowl.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/08...oduces-huttba/

Okay, so they call it Huttball. But come on, a game that looks like rugby filled with deadly traps and the clearance to kill your opponent? Yeah, Blood Bowl.

Can't wait to try it.

[Firefly00]

Originally Posted by Keroko

Because my consular is going to be as old a geezer as the character creator is going to let me get away with.

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

Then I am going to be female smuggler who's as loli as she could get, so I can follow you around and make you look like a perverted oyaji lolicon jedi. :D

Thanks a lot guys; already snickering at that mental image. Should you chaps actually pull this off, do share the imagery, please.

[Keroko]

A longer presentation of the Eternity Vault: