Level 12 and I am enjoying it quite a bit.

 

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I LOVE this aspect of it. The world is beautiful, and I like having to hoof it. In my opinion, WoW was in a steady decline since they allowed mounts to be obtained earlier and earlier, and required flying mounts for Cata. The world got too small. Having to hoof it for a bit (does Star Wars even have mounts later on?) is a refreshing change of pace.

I had no glitches, no lock ups, no technical problems at all so far this weekend. Jedi Consular (awesome class, right up my ally). Voice acting is top notch, and how they tell the story is engrossing as hell.

Only thing I have against it is that I really don't like the Star Wars universe. (I never was able to sit through a single movie without falling asleep, and I'm a sci-fi fan!) So while the story-telling is great, I really can't give two $hits about the story. For that reason alone, I'll be passing on this one in retail.

Same here. And I was also relieved when Bioware stated there would be no flying mounts in their game. And considering how the game is designed, it's pretty obvious that there will never be player controlled flying mounts.

 

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Way to miss the point.

This is like going through old STV, where you get some quests run all the way over to X, return and then get sent back for more or right next door. Its having the "Sith" HQ being a giant U shaped building where quest targets seem to always be at the furthest point from they can be and still be in the same building, best yet, you get to do this over and over.

So there is a major difference between travel for a purpose and travel that is nothing more than a pointless exercise, likely some of the developers sat around their tables when they made that HQ and laughed their ass off about how far they could make players walk from point to point over and over and watch them profess to like it.

I am quite fine with no air travel in the game but try to feed me the amount of bull that is required to explain away my lack of a ground mount when I have my own star ship.

 

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Much anger in this one, relax, he should.

 

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Of course they do this. The longer it takes you to travel the longer it takes you to level. Developers do this because there are actually moron fanbois whole LIKE this kind of thing in their quests.

 

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I disagree with the notion there is no strategy--maybe it's the class. BH/Commando seem like run in and shoot classes. I played both a consular and smuggler past 10, and you will die if you play that way on some of the harder quests. I had a blast, and I'm sold for sure--I recommend playing smuggler if you get a chance. The running on Jedi Consular seemed a bit much but tolerable. On the smuggler, it was much less. There were only 2,3 group quests (saying there were far too many of these is simply not true)--and you could skip them if you wanted, but I did them. My son and I duo'ed the Esseles Flashpoint on the trip to Coruscant, and I thought that was excellent. Anyway, I see a lot of potential here--more than I do with Pandas & Pokemon (AKA MOP). It's just beta (if you are complaining about a few bugs go look up what beta is)--and a beginning. I truly hope the dev team is more like Trion and less like Blizz.





I didn't experience near as many of the bugs you did--not sure which weekend you're referring to, but I played this weekend and I crashed 2 times in 2 days. As for moving the genre forward, the criticism seemed a bit harsh, but it is a fair point that there isn't anything revolutionary here--that said, they started development years ago when Wow was in its prime. I think all of us are so burned out on Wow now, we all want something a lot different and new--but there is a lot of different opinions on what that should be. Guild Wars 2 and Secret World are trying to achieve this, but they won't be coming out any time soon.

My hope is they will be aggressive in making strides post launch. Also, I do have to give them kudos on the "choose your own adventure" type cutscenes, which have a real impact on the game. And I also like the fluidity of the combat pressing buttons to fight--vs Wow's too high dependency on auto-attack. Time will tell, but there is definitely enough there to keep me busy for awhile (at least until D3 and/or GW2).

Some people obviously got spoiled by WoW and its easy mode traveling. At level 15 I got a nice run speed buff. There are ground mounts too. But you can't fly over everything, for the greater good of the game.

 

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The running isn't too bad in swtor because you aren't going back to the same place every time.

 

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I'm trying to figure out how a game that doesnt get released for another month wins any awards, nevermind "best game" award for 2010 (i mean.. its 2011 isnt it? ). seems kinda like a president winning a nobel peace prize before he takes office. oh wait..

i guess it happens a lot with games but it seems silly

 

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