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The most exciting thing about Star Wars the Old Republic is the fact that LucasArts and BioWare are both actively working on the project. The video above is the first documentary for the game. The developers spend a great deal of time talking about story elements, choice and the process of making a wicked rad MMO. The most revealing portion of this documentary isn’t the audio – it is the pre-production footage of the game in action.
You can really get a sense of the choreographed fighting mechanic that BioWare was talking about when the game was first announced. With lightsaber combat, it seems to focus around wild flourishes and fancy Jedi footwork. The speed of combat is actually fairly surprising. The dueling scenes seem hectic, but also very characteristic of George Lucas’ vision of Star Wars combat.
What do you guys think of the combat footage? Are you digging what BioWare has to say about the choices and companion characters?
[Update: The video has been placed after the break. The content is good, but it autoplays.]
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3:35 PM on 12.12.2008
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Combat just looks like KotoR with more animations, which isn't terrible either.
Can something be not online for once, or at least break the MMO mold (not spraypaint the WoW mold a different color)?
And since they already said Jedi and Sith are not the only classes, I'm hoping for some Mandalorian, Bounter Hunter, and maybe even some Han Solo-esque Smuggler/Scoundrel classes.
@mrsatan
In that time period (which is pretty much considered canon and was not created by this game) there were a shit load of Jedi. Hell even when Vader was a child there were a shit load of Jedi. How is that not Star Wars?
either way, wether it's good or bad i won't be playing it, or any other MMO game.
For the Sith, there is the rule of 2. One Master, One Apprentice.
And, The Jedi only number in the hundreds at best.
You make a MMO, and suddenly there are 3,000,000 Jedi and Sith running around. It's no longer Star Wars. And, if you take away Jedi and Sith as playable classes to make the game truer to the source, then all the whiny little fanboys will bitch and refuse to play it.
The rule of 2 wasn't enacted in the timeframe of Kotor/ToR. Darth Revan made a holocron with the basis of the info, and thus it was found by Darth Bane years and years and years later.
Also, if you played Kotor, you'd know that there are Jedi and Sith Academys, training new force users everyday.
I'm genuinely excited for this game, but we'll see how the Jedi/Sith work out. I bet it'll be like, "Do ____ mission to unlock". Yeah...
Also, I watched this without the audio, so if they explained it... my apologies.