Out of Pod Experience

Confirming that SWTOR is fundamentally flawed.

not directly, more like a medium neut...
sucking off some of the curious for a couple of weeks

Weeell… it it's a competitor for time, much like the batch of shooters that were released a couple of weeks ago, and as such, and being an MMO, it's a bigger time thief than most. But it's not in the same genre and doesn't offer any similar gameplay, so no.

I hope WoT in Space is not a Threat because Star Conflict looks good. It is made by Russians and you know Russians make good stuff.

I tried the Beta... the amount of fail involved in their loader/patcher made me stop just there.

Downloaded 18GB of data for it to claim I didn't have enough space, further to that when freeing up even more space it decided to delete all downloaded data and start the 18GB download again... Suffice to say I promptly closed the loader and removed all trace, raged on the SWTOR forums and explained why if a long running game company can't even clone a loader/patcher from their other games I would hate to be able to log in and see how badly they will have raped the Star Wars franchise.

The voice acting is the only reason why the game got so hyped and that is the only thing I have heard about the game.

I can't speak for anyone on here, but I know a couple of people who were in beta who gave me a heads up a while back.

In short they said it was a subpar WoW clone wrapped in a Starwars skin.



(TBH, I'm surprised Bioware didn't just use pre-NGE Galaxies as a template, because that game was pretty good back then).

Lol i've said the same thing! When the only really new thing aboutthe game was choices in certain quests and voice acting. There has been voice acting in MMO's before so that's nothing new. On top of that every single player game since 1998 has had voice acting so...

But yes this is nothing new it's world of star craft wars. The only reason it gets such a pass is because it has the words star and wars in it.

well, where to start...

ok granted its beta.

Graphics are sub-par, not even wow quality
Avatars are just weak, basic cookie cutter hero, bean pole or fatty.
and all the NPCs have stupid Anime eyes.

Voice acting is there, a ton of it, but its often flat and sometimes just silly
the dark/light thing just seems to be a timesink, more chances to select snappy comebacks to dialog but little else
sure your alignment moves, but then you have light sith and dark jedi with no impact of those decisions on the game it seems outside of scripted quests.

pets... everyone has a ******* pet, or companion... the SAME companions
my companion as a sith inquisitor was a big lummox who I had to fight in a quest.
he drones on and on about how he will devour my soul and how many planets he destroyed and so on, meanwhile he constantly pesters me about wanting to talk, but he'll only talk to me when I'm in a personal ship (you get these halfway through the game at lvl 25....) or a cantina. Who's got time to run across the map to a cantina so your companion will tell you in no uncertain terms that one day he will kill me....

now someone was asleep at the switch when they decided to give you a bigger companion in a 3rd person shooter who always stays behind you. news flash, when you put a large object in front of the camera it obscures smaller objects further away...

try and attack or loot something and fatso tells me he wants to talk in some alien language resembling German

the UI sucks, combat is clunky and overly complex.
everything is done with a right click, but if you go to equip that new 1000 credit item you purchased from a vendor without stepping away first, you just sold it back to them for 40 with no warning or confirmation.

its a typical greedy timesink MMO, I have never understood Lucas Arts aversion to people using vehicles in starwars mmos but its pretty damn weak to have to spend 70% of your game time slow walking across a planet, or paying to take a taxi to a location you could quickly walk to but the art assets make it impossible (seriously, pay to take a taxi to a location in your visual distance, but you had to run across the map for 10 minutes to get here...)

the maps are ok, but the insane scale of the maps just eat up your time.
and as I see it time sinks are there to make up tor content that's too easy to power level through

and I didn't even get past level 10, just left the noob area and saw more "go do this task 500 miles away and if you are too low a level to do it go kill things until you aren't"

Lucas knows the biz, hes given up on the dream and now just wants the merch money, and his fortune was made on licensing products sold to 6-14 year olds. and that is pretty much what TOR is, it will be huge with the kiddies, but there isn't enough intelligence or depth for a serious gamer. its just level up to 50 and craft or duel for an endgame.

I could come up with more but nobody reads OOPE anyhow

LucasArts pillaged the star wars franchise. They sell you broken games, lame story's, refuse to patch, or make money grabbers. They're a lousy publisher and developer, and constantly flop their games.

Bioware (main devs of SWTOR) have their elites focused on Mass Effect 3 and other franchises that req. higher resource and expertise than a reskinned/modified WoW engine. This is a side project that was hyped by cinematics and is LucasArt's only hope to get money. So long as the contract between BIOWARE and LUCASARTS lasts, your MMO is abandoned after contract (NO bioware is probably not going to be interested renewing it). SWTOR will last a year or two at most, then bleed out.

Then lucasarts will make their own MMORPG and reincarnate SWG like they plan to do so after SWTOR dies. << true

I see nothing more and hear nothing but disappointment of SWTOR. It's truely just a game for SW fanboys and WoW alternative.


EVE kills SWTOR and forever.