Circle of Kakis

Finally the news of Bioware + Lucasarts joint project is here! Here's the update to the secret announcement posted back then:
http://www.circleofkakis.com/forum/index...topic=5762

I have been waiting for this news from 4am yesterday! It is like the excited geek boy in me again come alive!!! Kyaa!!

Official site: http://www.swtor.com/

News links, articles and previews:

Official Community Site Forum

IGN: SWTOR First Details
Gamespot's Sneaks

Updates and Juicy Details:

• There will be no KotOR 3 - SWTOR will replace it
• You get can companions (like KotOR and Guild Wars)
• Players will be able to engage in dialogue trees with their companions, and the decisions made in those trees will have irreversible implications

Reserved

its nice :) especially the story-driven aspect. hopefully they can pull that off.

early days, but does anyone else think that the lightsaber is freaking huge??? like cardboard tube....

Quote: early days, but does anyone else think that the lightsaber is freaking huge??? like cardboard tube....

Maybe the size depends on each individual user

hmmmmmmmmmmmm

it's bioware, let's hope they will do a good job

Wasted ! from The looks of It Its not gonna be a SWG Killer ( Not a KOTOR MMO Like Most of The People Predicted it to be .. ) i was hoping for One Starwars MMO to Kill off SWG for Good =(

More updates from IGN:

Story Details of Jedi vs Sith!
http://pc.ign.com/objects/816/816935.html

Quote: Wasted ! from The looks of It Its not gonna be a SWG Killer ( Not a KOTOR MMO Like Most of The People Predicted it to be .. ) i was hoping for One Starwars MMO to Kill off SWG for Good =(

Sorry I was Wrong It is MMORPG afterall !

Quote:

Quote: Wasted ! from The looks of It Its not  gonna be a SWG Killer ( Not a KOTOR MMO Like Most of The People Predicted it to be .. ) i was hoping  for  One Starwars MMO to Kill off SWG for Good =(

Sorry I was Wrong It is MMORPG afterall !

What happen??? I put a big MMO word not enogh??! Hahahha....

Grinding professions, looking for holocrons and hiding from BHs!! :P

All the SWG diehards will probably switch once there is a Star Wars MMO alternative!

The fact that this one focuses on storyline and its with Lucasarts should already automatically make it better than SWG haha.

LOL..because of this, I went to get The Force Unleashed just to get into the spirit :D

A few more tidbits here and there:
Source:
http://www.massively.com/2008/10/24/the-ol...g-and-questing/
http://www.massively.com/2008/10/24/swto...es-part-2/


GAME DETAILS

• Fairly standard levelling system with level cap. They did mention that might be introducing some innovations here and there. Core xp, etc will be there.
• Sides choosing levelling. Dark side, Light side path. "You can also try to go for more of a grey path like Qui-Gon Jin, a more balanced path. "
• No stupid killing quests like "kill 20 rats". No rats, bunnies, snakes or what not.
• Mentoring system to level or help lower level players.
• Classes: Jedi, Bounty Hunter, Sith
• Crafting: Yes - including Lightsaber crafting!
• Each class will have 100% unique storyline of their own. Sith will have completely different story/quests that they go about. When you play another class, it will feel different.
• Graphic engine will not be the most high end. Can run on most systems. Looks cartoony and artistic (from SS). Same philosophy as WoW, I guess.

Hahaha, below is one funny screenshot

WoW is the target for The Old Republic, says LucasArts and EA

Yup, and ... in a bold move...

Quote:LucasArts online boss Tom Nichols concurred, saying that the firm is banking on The Old Republic’s storytelling component to bust through WoW’s 11 million subs record.

Yeah ... definitely a huge hype. Better deliver or fail and eat your words. Initially WoW was overhyped and received immense criticism, including CoK community who was sort of bashing the game (We were EQ2 fanboys then). Then when it came out, the same bashers got addicted to WoW.



Article:

Both EA and LucasArts have confirmed to VG247 that the target for BioWare’s newly announced Star Wars: The Old Republic is to make an MMO with a larger userbase than World or Warcraft.

“We have very high expectations for this,” said EA Games president Frank Gibeau, speaking this week at LucasArts’ HQ in San Francisco.

“Just look at the base of Star Wars fans, plus what BioWare can do. Trust me: we want to win. EA’s reputation is for wanting to win.

“This is going to be a powerful category and there’s lots of ways to compete in this category. [Blizzard] created a much larger opportunity for everybody else, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to stay that way.”

LucasArts online boss Tom Nichols concurred, saying that the firm is banking on The Old Republic’s storytelling component to bust through WoW’s 11 million subs record.

“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,” he said.

“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.”

When asked specifically if he believed the game will be bigger than World of Warcraft, Nichols said all the ingredients were in place.

“I think this game has that potential, with a premiere developer behind it; with a clear differentiating feature being story and something that’s very compelling, and being a feature that’s true to BioWare’s expertise as well as the Star Wars brand; plus the power of the Star Wars brand, which is still doing very, very well 30 years after it started,” he said.

“The opportunity is there for us to do that.”

Star Wars: The Old Republic is a PC-only MMO set in the KOTOR Star Wars timeline, and was shown for the first time in California earlier this week.

The game has no release date.


Source: http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/10/24/w...casarts-and-ea/

First gameplay movie and developer's words

http://www.swtor.com/media/vidcasts/viddoc...sourceid=ea2830

When come out???? Sorry office blocked games sites ahha and too lazy to unblock plus don't wanna my boss to see this.

More updates on SWTOR.

Check out the video on Coruscant!
http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/coruscant-revealed

If the video is any representation of what the MMO world would be like sign me up!! Finally a Star Wars world come alive in what SWG cannot do!!

Image links:
http://www.swtor.com/news/news-article/20090911_002

(27-10-2008 11:28 AM)Xrande Wrote: [ -> ]A few more tidbits here and there:
Source:
http://www.massively.com/2008/10/24/the-ol...g-and-questing/
http://www.massively.com/2008/10/24/swto...es-part-2/


GAME DETAILS

• Fairly standard levelling system with level cap. They did mention that might be introducing some innovations here and there. Core xp, etc will be there.
• Sides choosing levelling. Dark side, Light side path. "You can also try to go for more of a grey path like Qui-Gon Jin, a more balanced path. "
• No stupid killing quests like "kill 20 rats". No rats, bunnies, snakes or what not.
• Mentoring system to level or help lower level players.
• Classes: Jedi, Bounty Hunter, Sith
• Crafting: Yes - including Lightsaber crafting!
• Each class will have 100% unique storyline of their own. Sith will have completely different story/quests that they go about. When you play another class, it will feel different.
• Graphic engine will not be the most high end. Can run on most systems. Looks cartoony and artistic (from SS). Same philosophy as WoW, I guess.

Hahaha, below is one funny screenshot

Yeah.. the lightsabre handle is MASSIVE... sad its going to be another cartoon game thou... its the very reason why i hated wow so much.

some updates

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/starwarst...ws;title;6

To Sith or not to Sith, that is the question

I rather they start Dragon Age Origins MMO :p

Looks similar to SWG's Tatooine :D Not that the design Tatooine can vary much....

Looking forward to this game man. Been a huge star wars fan and I missed out on SWG so guess I can't miss this!

More updates! Republic Trooper!

TOR definitely won't be coming this year. They are estimating it sometime to be 2011, probably towards the end?

Taking way too long but I'll probably have more time then!

The new combat video looks nice!
No more big cartoon lightsabers.

They look more realistic now.

http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/video-documentary-4

The trooper looks like a kick ass killing machine