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E3 09: Every NPC talks in Star Wars: The Old Republic photo

Chew on this for a second:  every non-playable character in BioWare’s upcoming PC MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic talks. Every single digital denizen BioWare has created to populate the game’s universe will have something to say. Useful dialogue or not, this is an impressive feat -- an industry first, as we were told during Electronic Arts’ E3 press conference this afternoon.

We’re not exactly sure how big the BioWare’s version of George Lucas’ galaxy is, but we’re guessing it’s not going to be small. The expansiveness is one of the big draws for fans.

Couple this with the suggestion that fetch quests (“Go here, get 20 of this”) won’t be included in the game and you’ve got yourself an MMO to look forward to.


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seigfreid's Avatar
seigfreid at 06/01/2009 18:03
wow.
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MrSadistic at 06/01/2009 18:03
Well it's going to be annoying hearing the same person voice 20 NPCs.
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CallMeRotten at 06/01/2009 18:04
That's gonna be a lot of recycled voice acting, but still a nice addition.
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Danmartigan at 06/01/2009 18:05
great... but did they figure out how to make a lightsaber smaller than a can of pringles?
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Chronic Logic at 06/01/2009 18:10
Oh how i miss the oversized lightsabers. They were truly a sight to behold.
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Noah at 06/01/2009 18:14
It'll be a handful of recycled dialogue
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Reien at 06/01/2009 18:17
SOE was the first to attempt this feat with EQ2 but failed in the end. "All NPCs" resulted in only had a handful per zone with a voice.

I truly hope Bioware succeeds at this milestone.
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HerosPlayDumb at 06/01/2009 18:34
Even though this will probably mean a bunch of recycled voices and recycled lines its still quite an accomplishment. Can't wait for this game.
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madninja at 06/01/2009 18:41
Now this will be the first MMO I will play. That is all I want from MMO developers is to put voices to the stupid quests they give me but the characters will make it sound like the greatest mission of my characters life.
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Arttemis at 06/01/2009 18:44
Is this really necessary? I'm not illiterate, and I'd much rather read a somewhat detailed quest description/introduction/anything than a streamlined greeting hundreds of times from the same group of voice actors.

Realistically, I imagine this means there will just be unique short greeting voice-clips for each NPC. That's still excessive, and sounds like it'll take up far more harddrive space than it's worth.
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ikiryou at 06/01/2009 18:57
Well, they can always add a floating companion droid which repeatedly says "Hey! Hey! Dude, come on! Hey! Hey! Listen! Hey! Hey!". That would go well with the garbage can-sized lightsaber handle.
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Corak at 06/01/2009 19:20
Interesting...I haven't played an MMO in a while now, gave up the WOW crack a while ago, and this sounds like something I'd want to play being a Star Wars fan too.
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Mr Kite at 06/01/2009 20:04
Every NPC said something in KOTOR too, kinda. And no fetch quests? sounds like liez.

Also , I can't wait for this game.
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metromapper at 06/01/2009 21:12
Wait, didn't every NPC in Oblivion talk, or is that just my imagination. Even so, I'm sure most of them did, and it was the same 10 actors trying different voices on, which was ok. But after a while, it broke the illusion. Like, hey, this blacksmith is voiced by the same guy that was that orc I just killed, which is great... he's my favorite voice actor in Oblivion!
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Kris S at 06/02/2009 02:24
Go to the site and look at the first trailer for it, nothing else to say but whoo fucking hoo :) Can't wait
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hardwareguy at 06/02/2009 08:24
15% of them say "I am Error" but that's still pretty impressive.
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