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KOTOR goes MMO
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
i ing hate MMOs. you bioware and you too EA.
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Ever since it was announced in 2006, BioWare's massively multiplayer role-playing game has been shrouded in mystery. Though the Canadian developer opened a satellite studio in Austin, Texas, just to develop it, its cofounders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk maintained an iron wall of silence. However, Electronic Arts knew enough about the title to help convince the company to buy BioWare/Pandemic for $860 million last year.
Today, as E3 2008 wound down, the fog hanging around BioWare's MMORPG appears to have dissipated. Less than 72 hours after presiding over EA's own press event--where the project was nowhere to be found--CEO John Riccitiello almost casually revealed the MMORPG in question is a sequel of sorts to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
"We've got two of the most compelling MMOs in the industry in development," Riccitiello told Conde Nast Portfolio magazine. "The first title, based on the Warhammer property, will launch soon. And the one that people are dying for us to talk to them about in partnership with Lucas [Arts is] coming out of BioWare, which is, I think, quite possibly the most anticipated game, full stop, for the industry." When contacted by GameSpot, BioWare reps declined to comment further.
BioWare's first Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic game was released in 2003 for the original Xbox and PC, and was named the year's top RPG by GameSpot. An Obsidian Entertainment-developed sequel was released in 2004 and 2005 on the same two respective platforms. Both critically acclaimed games are set several thousand years before the events of the Star Wars films, and cast players as adventurers who eventually become powerful Jedi Knights.
Currently, the Knights of the Old Republic MMORPG is set for release sometime in 2009. Once it launches, it is unclear what will happen to LucasArts' current massively multiplayer title, the Sony Online Entertainment-developed Star Wars Galaxies. |
oooooh, yay. a bunch of dicks running around with lightsabers yelling "owned!" :rolleyes:
and seriously, why create more than one class? who will want to be anything but a jedi?
MMOs are gay. |
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| Moongoose |
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Coudnt they just make KOTOR 3 instead :whip: Im not touching any MMO, but i can just see the hordes of people that will grab this and make it one of the most successful MMOs ever, bioware will get loads of money and they will forget about making KOTOR 3 for those of us that cant stand MMOs.
Seriously i cant stand this fixation on MMOs anymore, i would like nothing more than to start my own game studio and focus on making proper RPGs.
perhaps after uni. |
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| Rodrico |
| Im on the fence about this, since I have played MMO's and I really do like the idea of a properly done (let us hope...ugh SWG) MMO set in the Star Wars universe...but why ruin the KOTOR franchise when its proven to be such a great RPG game to begin with. I guess most other studios/publishers want to cash in on the blizzardisque-MMO domination once WoW starts to die out. |
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| Project-K |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moongoose
Seriously i cant stand this fixation on MMOs anymore |
Same here, but MMOs are what bring the big bucks. |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| Why the hating? Obviously u guys are not RPG fans, or are still stuck with the old turn based style RPG's of 15 years ago. If they can pull off the star wars world to anything close to how WoW is, this will be a great game. Finally its been announced! RJT...I told u there was going to be another release to this game biatch! |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
Why the hating? Obviously u guys are not RPG fans, or are still stuck with the old turn based style RPG's of 15 years ago. |
you fail at reading comprehension. we hate MMOs; that hardly means we dont like RPGs. especially since most MMOs arent RPGs at all, but merely dungeon looting and XP grinding. no choices, no story, no repercussions for those choices, asides from combat there's no role to be played at all.
so really, it is YOU that doesn't like RPGs. |
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| KiNeTiC ENeRgY |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
you fail at reading comprehension. we hate MMOs; that hardly means we dont like RPGs. especially since most MMOs arent RPGs at all, but merely dungeon looting and XP grinding. no choices, no story, no repercussions for those choices, asides from combat there's no role to be played at all.
so really, it is YOU that doesn't like RPGs. |
lol, score pretty high on the SAT with your reasoning and logic skills? Shuffle off now and go play some metal gear solid. The word clueless never has applied so well to someone. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by KiNeTiC ENeRgY
lol, score pretty high on the SAT with your reasoning and logic skills? Shuffle off now and go play some metal gear solid. The word clueless never has applied so well to someone. |
empty rhetoric is no substitute for a proper argument champ. show me how i am wrong or bugger off. |
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| Sunsnail |
| They did this already. Star Wars Galaxies |
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| Krypton |
Boringest game I have EVER played...
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| Darkarbiter |
| No ones going to mention how star wars: galaxies failed? |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Darkarbiter
No ones going to mention how star wars: galaxies failed? |
irrelevant. do you think galaxies failed because it was star wars or because it was a bad game? |
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