Anybody playin' SWToR?

[LikesToTrip]

A couple of friends and I have started our journey into the world of SWToR. So far I'm pleased with the game overall. It definitely needs a few patches, but it's a solid foundation for an MMO. It's definitely a WoW clone, but that's a good thing. It seems like it was released earlier than it should have been. Another 6 months in development and it would be a lot more polished. I'm sure EA forced an early release date cuz that's what they do. I enjoyed the only instance I've run so far. It's long if you watch all the dialogue though. I also enjoyed the only PvP battleground I played. I don't have enough moves yet to make it really interesting, but it was still quite fun. I'm looking forward to the later content. Anybody else playing/planning on playing SWToR? What are your thoughts?

[Solarflare]

hmm.... that sounds familliar.... what does this stand for

[Vertebrate]

hmm.... that sounds familliar.... what does this stand for Star Wars: The Old Republic I read some reviews of the beta. I don't see what really sets it apart from world of warcraft... other than it's star wars.

[Original Poster]

KOTOR is one of my favorite games of all time but if the combat is like WOW then I'm not interested.

[Vertebrate]

KOTOR is one of my favorite games of all time but if the combat is like WOW then I'm not interested. I really do enjoy wow's combat system as far as MMORPG games are concerned. But I don't want to raid. I don't want to dredge through random 5 person dungeons with assholes I don't know. I don't want to laugh through dungeons with assholes I do know. I just want to have fun. I don't find progression in wow to be any fun, and I don't find easy dungeons and raids to be any fun either. So at the end of the day, I'm just looking to mix it up. I've leveled to 70, 80, 85 enough times. I don't honestly see myself going back and playing before or after the "Mists of Pandaria." That being said, I think KOTOR was a great game. I also liked KOTOR 2.

[LikesToTrip]

The big differences it has with WoW is how the classes are set up. I'm a rogue who heals, and there's also a tank who can stealth. The moves and setups are familiar, but different. Everybody has a set amount of mana so your rotation isn't based on your mana pool. But overall the games are extremely similar, it just comes down to preference. I rerolled on WoW to see if I wanted to play that for a bit about a month ago and I was bored within a few hours. I'm ~20hrs into SWToR and still lovin' it.

[Vertebrate]

From what you're saying it sounds fairly interesting. I might check it out once I've gone and beaten skyrim. I'm ~20hrs into SWToR and still lovin' it. I think I'm about a total of 180 days into WoW. No one of my characters has more than 30 days either. I know a girl who has over 500 days of Diablo II. Now that's dedication.

[LikesToTrip]

I honestly don't know how many days I've logged in WoW. I think it was 200 or so, honestly can't remember. It was too much, that's all I know. I got bored when WotLK came out and every single 2v2 arena past 1600 was DK/HP or double DK. It was completely impossible to beat icemage/rogue which was a really fun CC burst setup in BC. Haven't been back since except for that mini excursion into questing boredom.

[Eonnn]

I played the beta and hated it, mostly because I dislike the graphics. I was really looking forward to the game but it just felt so lame playing it with outdated kiddie graphics. I would much rather play Rift instead.

[LikesToTrip]

I played the beta and hated it, mostly because I dislike the graphics. I was really looking forward to the game but it just felt so lame playing it with outdated kiddie graphics. I would much rather play Rift instead. Lolololol. Gameplay > Graphics. SWToRs gameplay >>>>> Rift.

[Eonnn]

Yeah I know you can have games with bad graphics but good gameplay but swtor isn't one of them, at least not for me.