I'm not expecting a revolution, but I'm hoping for a cool game. I do wonder if combat will be slower since you'll be waiting for all these elegant little flurishes every time you swing your light saber.

I'd be very happy if they can pull it off, that was always one of the things that bugged me about KOTOR.

I remember in an early interview with the developer of Lord of the Rings Online that they mentioned utilizing a stamina meter instead of a health meter. Basically, during combat, your character wouldn't actually get hit. Instead, he would be parrying and countering, just like in the movies. Only when his stamina bar depletes does he actually take a hit and receive damage.

Obviously that little feature didn't make the cut, but I can imagine Bioware adopting something similar.

It does bother me that people generally just whack each other with deadly weapons over and over again in MMOs.

*Insert fanboy comment here.*

I bet 3,000 quadrogaggaaaabijilionzillion that it doesn't make it to the full game. This was in Matrix and Heroes & Gods. Ya they didn't make it very far. It's a feature that can't be implemented in MMOs and there is a very very clear reason why. The amount of players in MMO is to high to have precisely time events like these. No one is where they actually appear at any given time the server only syncs up every so often making sure your in your correct location. If they did this that would make people teleport in order to engage with the other. Not to mention this automatically means the game is locked down between two characters. Making it less of an MMO in my opinion.

Not only this but the only alternative is to make the game HIGHLY instanced with dedicated server power to each instance making it more like an FPS aka low numbered 4 vs X mobs type situation.

In which cast again it's HIGHLY instanced and will resemble more of a SINGLE player game.

It's either these two of the "EXEC" is full of bullshit and doesn't know what he's talking about.

It's going to be nothing but canned animations to try to make the combat look better, when there's nothing actually going on but boring click-kill MMO gameplay. Big woop. Wake me when someone actually tries to innovate with the genre again.