Essential linkage: Get the low down on the next big MMO, The Old Republic, straight from the floor of E3.
If there's one game that might break my addiction to Lord of the Rings Online, it's going to be Bioware's Star Wars: The Old Republic. Hell, it might even be the first game to give World of Warcraft a run for its money!
The game was shown off at the recent E3 event, and the guys over at MMO Gamer got some time with the game and its developers. There's an epic four page interview over at their site, and it's packed with pants-wettingly cool teases of what's shaping up to be a great game:
One of the things we always talk about is we are trying to cover multiple camps... The two big ones are the MMO players, who may not care about story at all. A lot of the people, for example, who played Baldur's Gate to death were not story people. They were people who liked the D&D combat, you know, and especially on their second playthrough they were like "Groooaaaaaan." And we've always known that those people have to be comfortable there, as well. If they want to form guilds, and have groups, and go after the best loot, and run around together... we have to make all of that available, we never want to take that away from them. At the same time, if you are a big BioWare fan, and you love the single-player RPGs, this really is the RPG forever. You can play through this game, your actual story mode to the end, all of your characters, single-player. You can play solo all the way through if you want. Then you can stop, and you can reload, and you can play another BioWare game, all the way through solo, totally different content.
One of the things we always talk about is we are trying to cover multiple camps...
The two big ones are the MMO players, who may not care about story at all. A lot of the people, for example, who played Baldur's Gate to death were not story people.
They were people who liked the D&D combat, you know, and especially on their second playthrough they were like "Groooaaaaaan."
And we've always known that those people have to be comfortable there, as well. If they want to form guilds, and have groups, and go after the best loot, and run around together... we have to make all of that available, we never want to take that away from them.
At the same time, if you are a big BioWare fan, and you love the single-player RPGs, this really is the RPG forever. You can play through this game, your actual story mode to the end, all of your characters, single-player. You can play solo all the way through if you want.
Then you can stop, and you can reload, and you can play another BioWare game, all the way through solo, totally different content.
There's no doubt yet for this game to come out, which is probably a good thing. You know, so we don't try and hold our breath to make it come any sooner!
Issue: 106 | November, 2009