Showing posts with label KOTOR MMO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label KOTOR MMO. Show all posts

Friday, October 24, 2008

Star Wars Old Republic - We will be different

“When World of Warcraft came out, everybody thought, ‘No, the market is only this big, because that’s as big as EverQuest was.’ Blizzard showed that it could be much larger. Our goal is to show that by bringing storytelling to the genre that we can attract an even wider audience. Plus, we have the benefit of this huge brand, which has done very, very well for nearly 30 years.”

LucasArts executive Tom Nichols

Who in their right mind says they ARE competing with World of Warcraft...

THAT is TOTALLY different.

Holy Crud!

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Mass Effect - Really love this...

I have about 10 hours into this now, and all I can say is...how fun.

I am a big Bioware fan since Baldurs Gate. But, lately their stray to Sci-Fi and the Oriental love of Jade Empire (a really fun title as well), Bioware has been on game.

This shows thanks to the new conversation system.

It seemed after a while that the conversations in the other games got slightly tedious, and you wanted to move on to the action.

Here, it is quite interactive. And sometimes you can interrupt the other parties conversation.

But, as well, the combat is not standard run and gun. You really have to think on it. And what is not fun about changing out the gear, your party members...just like the old days.

If the discussion of the new KOTOR MMO includes any of these advances in Mass Effect though, I think we may finally get a real Sci-Fi MMO that is worth a darn.
I would like an MMO that has a conversation system that means something (like the Diplomacy system in Vanguard, and AoC's discussion system, which actually makes me read the text...too bad it has no effect what answer you choose there.)

Ok, back to more game time.

Cheers