It's Official Bioware announces Star Wars MMO

**GreyMountain** · 10/22/2008 04:17:39

I've hated anything to do with "traditional" Star Wars for around a year now. Ever since my old housemate watched and rewatched (numerous times) Blue Harvest and then tried to get me into SWG (I lasted around 5 hrs). Then came the Clone Wars cartoon film. I was sick of it.

KOTOR and stories from around that era though still enthrall me. They are much better, and I haven't been flooded by it either.

I'm seriously looking forward to this. I do promise not to be a Jedi. That is soo cliche.

**Asna**

jl10899 wrote:

enjoy! can i have ur stuffz's

LOL

/as

**odj**

I love how the quote for this image is 'The fights are thrillingly cinematic.'. Personaly that image looks boring to me.

privaronT

odj wrote:

I love how the quote for this image is 'The fights are thrillingly cinematic.'. Personaly that image looks boring to me.

The first thing I saw that I didnt like was jedi's wearing armor and the lightsabers look distorted the hilts are way to fat it looks like their holding a giant PVC pipe.

**AltDimension**

Its been official for a while now, but its nice to see some details on it.
I just hope this turns out better than AoC was.

Still its nice to see a new Star Wars MMO, and since I enjoyed KOTOR 1+2 I'll definitely be giving this a try

Croesis

Yeah, I'm hoping that the picture is just a taster and elements like the lightsabers will be sorted appropriately. They are fine in KOTOR and SWG so no reason to have big fat versions, unless it's an option for the player to choose. Personally I like the small versions or the slightly curved versions.

**Gerik**

Got this in my email today lol

Ebola

I don't think anyone has said this, so I will...

Impressive... most impressive.

**Cadsuane** · 10/22/2008 15:20:34

The link in that email goes here: http://www.swtor.com/info

**phi** · 10/22/2008 17:28:08

Clearly they're going for something that can run on a phone by the look of those graphics.

On closer inspection I may be mistaken... not a fan of the armoured spandex jumpsuit look though. Jedi Adventurer robes and Sith robes/training garb should be the norm.

**phi**

Jedi Academy and Force Unleashed are the kind of flavour I like in StarWars games.

KanoR

I was really really stoked to hear about this, then I saw the screenshots. What is this Star Wars: Toontown Online? Look at the lightsabres. TOO BIG.

Should of gone with an improved KOTOR engine, this cartoon *CENSORED* is not cutting it anymore. Every game doesn't need to look like a *CENSORED* cartoon. I want graphics that push the limit in a Star Wars MMO. Not that remind me of WoW but even worse.

**Shinryu**

I'm not a SW fan by any means, and on the surface this doesn't appeal to me much at all.. after reading some of the proposed details, however, I wouldn't mind giving it a try. Can't see grabbing it straight off the shelf though.

And I agree the graphics are a little.. actually a lot of meh at this point. While I realize "realistic" graphics don't age as well as cartoony graphics, and thus tend to fare better in an MMO due to it's extended creation time and hoped for life length after release, they just don't look very good. Okay, we get it, it works in WoW, that doesn't mean it's a good design choice. While MxO isn't anywhere near as popular as it should be, it still looks great even now compared to pretty much any (every?) other MMO out there and *gasp* it has a more realistic graphical style. Do it right, and you don't need to comprimise.

Canbus

Shinryu wrote:

I'm not a SW fan by any means, and on the surface this doesn't appeal to me much at all.. after reading some of the proposed details, however, I wouldn't mind giving it a try. Can't see grabbing it straight off the shelf though.

And I agree the graphics are a little.. actually a lot of meh at this point. While I realize "realistic" graphics don't age as well as cartoony graphics, and thus tend to fare better in an MMO due to it's extended creation time and hoped for life length after release, they just don't look very good. Okay, we get it, it works in WoW, that doesn't mean it's a good design choice. While MxO isn't anywhere near as popular as it should be, it still looks great even now compared to pretty much any (every?) other MMO out there and *gasp* it has a more realistic graphical style. Do it right, and you don't need to comprimise.

Shinryu, I hope you're not insinuating that the MMORPG be restricted to only players that have $5,000+ to get a recent top-of-the-line PC hardware compatible with the game. I mean, I have a three-year-old PC that I spent $4,000 on just to play MxO when it was under Monolith's control, and the recent technical decisions made by the powers that be for MxO really dwarfed my PC in half (i.e. "ZOMG, combine nine small servers into three large ones!" being the main problem), and I am not interested in shelling out a similar amount of money to get another top-of-the-line PC to deal with the pain in the rear problem that is Windows Vista, and/or suffering with a similar fiasco for the Old Republic should relationships with LucasArts and BioWare get sour. I really want the game to be as accessible as WoW in terms of being able to play the freaking game without having to steal a PC from NASA (I'm looking at FEAR, Company of Heroes, and Crysis for being that problematic). As it is, I've already abandoned PC gaming mainly because of Vista, lack of time for extensive gaming, and money problems.

**Paschendale**

Vinia wrote:

I loved KOTOR 1&2 and, as long as Bioware don't rush this, I think it should be a superb game. Definitely one to look forward to.

i completely agree with everything said here