SWTOR (was game=268)Follow

I'm curious if any life long fans of Final Fantasy are going to give this game a shot. I've always enjoyed Star Wars and I'm very encouraged by this message:

"While it may not be quite as soon as many fans were hoping for, the extra time gives Bioware a chance to add all those final touches and roll out a nicely put-together game for 2011."

No not really. I never got into Star Wars.

I literally haven't played a Star Wars game since Dark Forces.

Well, just because it's based on something that is legendary, doesn't mean the current writers will do the lore justice. They have big shoes to fill, sure, but I don't know if it's fair to automatically assume they will be better than SE at storytelling just because of the foundation they are building on.

You do realize LoTRO absolutely butchers Tolkien's works, right? And I don't know if you can call LoTRO a good story based game when the developers didn't have to think up any of the basic lore. With Final Fantasy SE created the lore, not a novelist. SWTOR is the same. Bioware doesn't have to create a story, it's already there. I can see pros and cons for both styles, but I don't think it's fair to compare a game with a unique story background with a game that draws upon an IP as huge as the Star Wars universe.

I'm going to give it a shot. It seems like its actually going to focus on both solo and group play, storyline focused, with a wide variety of classes. Yes I'll have to reroll to try them, but since (they've said) each class will have a unique storyline, I don't think I'll mind.

I don't buy that so called whistleblower's post. Its an annonymous and bitter open letter by a guy ******** about getting fired. I don't find it reliable in any way. I'm sure they're a bit more concerned about what they have developed so far, and are going to try and put in as much effort as they can in the next 6-9 months until release because they've seen whats happened with XIV. A bit of black humor here, but I think FFXIV's biggest achievement could be the increased quality of every other MMO release.

Star wars TOR takes place 300 years after the Xbox games, and 5000 years before the movies, in a period with very little if any lore. Basically bioware's free to insert any story they want in there. Basically everyone should be mostly familiar with the setting, but not know what to expect from the plots, unlike LOTOR.

If you're serious about your LoTRO question, the vast majority of the leveling-up quests are vague references to the books at best, but most are typical MMO style quests (My kids are hungry, go get me 10 boar haunches). The epic (main story) quests roughly follow the fellowships journey to Moria. After Moria things get vague again (because Turbine became more interested in subscription number than staying true to LoTR) and that's when I quit.

Turbine only has access to the LoTR books and The Hobbit, and zero access to anything else (like The Silmarilon). This means that they hands are tied with certain content.

In summary, if you're a Tolkien expert, you'll be disgusted with LoTRO (ordinary people have "magic" for example). But if you just watched the movies and thought they were cool, you'd probably like LoTRO.