Ostriig on 16/6/2009 at 14:48
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
it's never a representation of the actual game.
Who said it was? It's just something pretty to get attention in general, and in particular that of those previously unaware of the title so as to get them clicking onwards to the official site. And if you wanna start splitting hairs, those cut trailers you linked aren't
accurate representation of the game either, but rather of carefully orchestrated situations in it with the HUD turned off.
As for this particular SW:TOR trailer, I think most of the accolades it's been getting are on account of it appearing more interesting than Hayden Christensen's emo rage.
JediKorenchkin on 17/6/2009 at 02:36
Quote Posted by Ostriig
Who said it was? It's just something pretty to get attention in general, and in particular that of those previously unaware of the title so as to get them clicking onwards to the official site. And if you wanna start splitting hairs, those cut trailers you linked aren't
accurate representation of the game either, but rather of carefully orchestrated situations in it with the HUD turned off.
I believe the point that was being made, which I agree with, is that these trailers actually used ingame assets. It didn't necessarily show gameplay, but it does show the engine itself. In the case of this Star Wars trailer, it's a fucking rendering that they spent who knows how much time on that seems like a complete waste of time and resources. Something to get attention could just have easily and much more simply been done.
belboz on 17/6/2009 at 03:02
Apparently its a single player game but loads of people will be playing at the same time, so you have auction houses to sell stuff you find, but all quests are single player instances, you can't make stuff like armour and weapons as in gather the raw materials then make them, but you can modify your weapons from drops and buying stuff. There's no in game space travel/battles like with x-wings, you just board shuttles that go between the planets you can go to. Apparently there's no pvp but you can duel other players.
It actually sounds kind of crap, but all the star wars junkies will probably give it a go.
Ostriig on 17/6/2009 at 12:26
Quote Posted by JediKorenchkin
Something to get attention could just have easily and much more simply been done.
Well, yes, I do agree on that one. Revealing robes on a female Jedi could've probably been used to the same effect.
EvaUnit02 on 19/7/2009 at 11:52
(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FTYew4a2bU) New featurette on how SWTOR will be fully voiced.
Let me get this straight, the playable characters in Bioware's MMO are fully voiced, yet for Dragon Age we're back to having a f*cking mute that communicates solely through text?
Makes their (
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/05/dragon-age-origin-devs-talk-high-low-tech-narratives/) whole argument for why PC's in DA:O are mute vs. how Mass Effect being fully voiced to be a total crock of shit.
The real reason? I'm guessing that it's because Dragon Age is too far along in development now, having started back when their game design philosophy were still in sync with KotOR and Jade Empire. The project is much older than ME1 after all.
That or well, disc space.
EvaUnit02 on 30/9/2009 at 12:52
Beta sign-ups are open.
(
www.swtor.com)
Sulphur on 30/9/2009 at 15:06
Quote Posted by Ostriig
Quote:
For over thirty years what's made Star Wars so appealing is this element, this rich story and these deep characters.
Bioware: 'We had to have professional voice directors...'
VD: 'If you can do sort of a Darth Maul thing
and a Welsh thing...?'
polytourist97 on 1/10/2009 at 02:22
Thanks for the heads-up about the beta sign-up. I'm really curious about how the game will turn out.
