Will this be the sci-fi WoW that breaks the genre out of its seemingly eternal medieval/fantasy mindset?

I'm not getting my hopes up but I think this game may do really really well.

 

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It's getting good hype anyway. I'm not sure how I feel, but overall I'm looking forward to trying it out.

If done right it could be pretty cool - I hear it's pretty much more of the same, but on a pretty decent scale. So maybe it'll be the couple million NA subbed sci-fi MMO after all.


I'm looking forward to the day when there are more than a couple of those.

Plus, I'm a pretty big fan of Bioware. And Blizzard really. It would be great to see those two contending against each other for the prime MMO slot in the future. We can only win from something like that.

 

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no. all the preview stuff i have seen so far looks bad. and bioware has lost my confidence with recent titles...its been too long time since their great works like baldurs gate and nwn.

Just like the original SW broke the mold too..

 

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If it was any other publisher then Electronic Arts I would be really looking forward to it. Ever since Bioware was aquired by them their titles have a really rushed unfinished quality to them. See Dragon Age 2 for exhibit A. Honestly, EA seems to be the place where good companies get strip mined for quick cash and then quickly implode as all the talent and good ideas leave. Unless its a sequel-conveyor belt like the Maddens or The Sims where you can modify or add a feature or 2 and pop another one out in time for the next quarterly reporting EA just seems to be the place where a successful original release gets picked up, they either cancel the next product or rush and turn out a steaming pile of poo.


I would also like to see a sci-fi themed title really take off, other then Eve Online I know there are some free to play/spend $ for phat l00tz ones out there with modest crowds but most are forced open world PvP. I loved everything about Anarachy Online except the stability wish that had been alot bigger. Anything exciting about that upcoming Warhammer 40K MMO?

It'll be popular initially, for sure. It seems to be more story based and if you've seen mission videos the ADD instant gratification gang will probably zone and tune right out during their first mission dialog. This isn't gonna be instant queue...

Based on the intellect and attention span of your average MMO player these days, it'll be interesting to see how it flies.

Ultimately it looks typical MMO with a sci-fi wrapper and SP RPG dialog lengths so they're really going to have to kill on character development and content to make it remotely worth sticking with.

IMO, fantasy simply works better for RPGs, and thus MMORPGs - especially MMORPGs. There's a few reasons for this.

People buy into magic easier than they do whatever magic-like mechanism (psionics, the force, whatever) you have in sci-fi, and it's always something screwy.

People buy into elves, gnomes, orcs, spiders - more recognizable races and bad guys than you'll typically find in sci-fi. Even with star wars, most people are familiar with a few simple stories and "mobs" from movies, not the whole star wars lore catalog or with biowares KOTOR SW stuff - so a lot of people will be totally lost in an alien environment.

The scale of sci-fi is hard to do justice too if you're going with more than one world, whereas the scale of fantays is always just one world, one continent, or evne a small region on map somewhere.

 

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Bioware -> they are not the same company today as in the past...thanks to big brother
Lucas Arts -> anything that man touches in the last decade or two stinks.....

Wow. I have to agree. Lucas and Spielburg both seem to have lost their "magic" since the new Star Wars movies came out.

 

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I loved the SW prequels, and specially "Revenge of the Sith", very good movie... there are not that many good Sci-Fi movies in the last decade.
About Spielberg, I loved Minority Report.
And about both, I didn't think Indiana Jones 4 was that bad... I have it in Blu-Ray and I enjoy watching it again, until Lucasfilm decides to release the others in Blu-Ray too.

And I'm eagerly waiting for "Tintin".

And I'm waiting for SW:TOR of course, but I'm afraid it will be another "three monther" MMORPG which you play through the levels once and then quit. The storytelling talent of Bioware will definitely make it worth playing, but for how long? Guild Wars 2 look way more promising concerning innovation, Bioware seems to head for a high quality "WoW in space with a story" clone.

 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfBhi6qqFLA&feature=related
http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith/

 

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