The Old Republic: Overall Impressions

[tanner1ie]

The main question, you need to ask yourself is... do you want to pay 15 euros/dollars/pounds a month, just to be allowed to play ONE game?

The 60 odd you pay, when you buy the game should be enough.

[rabbitofterror]

@tanner1ie poor much?

[geoffreyromain]

@lawkjokes we don't pay for dlc... The game comes with 1 free month..and I only plan on playing a while take a break and then come back on

[LawlJokes]

12 x $15 = $180 per year + the game + dlc . How do you people spend so much on one fucking game?

[rabbitofterror]

@LawlJokes poor much?

[LawlJokes]

This is like WoW, no thanks. :)

[miscriant]

Nipples in My Mouth!!

[Baldoxxx4000]

gw2 rules, this will die like wow....

[geoffreyromain]

@Baldoxxx4000 1.68 mill sold first couple of days and still not dying...sadly though...haters like you arent dying......for now....

[lifeward21]

this is a role laying game with fucking multilayer the most funn mmo to date

[MegaAndy93]

Thumbs up if you don't give a shit about other people's opinions and you play what you want.

[recon500]

$15 per month? looks like fun but the priiice

[seanmurray2010]

skyrim pwns this thats why skyrim was goty on xbox

[skaionex]

@seanmurray2010 skyrim was boring after a week...

[seanmurray2010]

@skaionex still goty

[AnorexichippoMC]

@seanmurray2010

You cant honestly compare this game to skyrim due to this is an mmo

[shaid1111]

@seanmurray2010 yeah its a good argument that skyrim was goty on xbox when you compare to a Pc game xD

[hollow44771]

you know i didnt want to get into this game,but a friend of my talked me into it and now im glad he talked me into

[pwnpants]

2:11 absorb the blow

[TheGammaGaming]

PvP Looks boring

[BADKID748]

@SApcGUY sorry but skyrim suck 

[Prodigiousguy8]

@BADKID748 They are both good games.

[GalsolPhD]

0:37 HOW CAN THEY SEND YOU AN ANGRY MESSAGE IF THERE DEAD

[SApcGUY]

will be playing too busy playing skyrim to give a crap about this kiddy-game

[Nintendo129]

@SApcGUY Oh yeah , because skyrim is a manly game...

[fabiocool874]

shitty review

[SemiEpicPenguin]

@fabiocool874 Are you retarded?

[mynameisethan182]

@fabiocool874 this isnt a review -__-

[TheImSolid]

@fabiocool874 Can't tell if trollling, or just another retard...

[joshua23671234]

Am I the only one who thinks that there really needs to be a star wars fps.I think it would be amazing to be a clone in 1st person.

[jedisax]

@joshua23671234 dude....republic commando

[MrQZWarrior]

@joshua23671234 clearly you've never played star wars battlefront and battlefront 2 :D amazing game and the third one.....it never came out :(

[MrLaser77]

@joshua23671234 They did...its called Republic Commando for the xbox.

[rdrakken]

I agreed with much of what was said here outside of the crafting. The crafting in this game would have been called cheap/generic 8 years ago...today it just seems like the threw it together just so the game would have crafting. There isnt a single thing you can make that stands up to quest rewards. Not one piece of armor or weapon can match any modable item reward and the mods you can make are the same as given as rewards as well. The space combat is great for what it is, a side game.

[MrEsperanzo1]

@maxbarrass1 OMG I HAD THE SAME IDEA! If only skyrim was MMO... Than dragon slaying will be so cool!!!

[axellink13]

How did he get it to run so fast

I just got a new pc just for this games and it can run way better and yet it does not run as good as his why?

[maxbarrass1]

Just imagine a starwars game made to look like Fallout or Skyrim. That would be cool I guess.

[DereckFortySeven]

OMG!! Mordin from Mass Effect 2 is doing the review!!! O.O

[TH3USUALSUSPECT]

@DereckFortySeven

LOL! he does talk kinda fast indeed

[superford500]

wooow really shitty game.... homing laser beams WTF fucking shit fuck ass"like AVGN would say" get rid of the targeting shit and base the game on aming skill ffs. . .

[sangolt88]

Anyone else want a new Matrix Online?

[KilgoreTrout92]

This game deserves a 9.0. Enough said.

[dtanobo]

IF ign score it down for familiarity to WoW, then that would be an extremely flawed review. The people you are reviewing to must be viewed as people who have never played an MMO and experienced MMO players.

[SMGDUDE3017]

I thought bioware was know for its RPG's..... Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Starwars Knights of the old republic 1&2. And isnt The old republic a mmoRPG.

[stillbornband1]

@ethenlovesblackops So why waste you're time trolling

[stillbornband1]

It's pretty much sucks how it isn't on the mac. But I wouldn't have a lot of time to play it because am with the band a Lott plus my relationship- Ajay

[ethenlovesblackops]

I hate ign!

[TheLegokid5678]

wat console can u get it on

[Tele3champion]

@TheLegokid5678 atari 2600

[narutofan9423]

@Tele3champion LOLOL

[brookersfanggg]

I got your point, the game is sucks.

[lvl102cbman]

Three star wars games that need to be made ASAP: Battlefront 3, Republic Commando 2, Knights of the Old Republic 3.

[BioticBeach]

@lvl102cbman

There won't be a KOTOR3. Swtor is the KOTOR 3.

[ImperiousKnight]

@lvl102cbman Amen to that. But no, what we'll get is more lego star wars/clone wars shite.

Ps you forgot .....A NEW JEDI KNIGHT GAME! - Wipes a single tear -

Imagine a Star wars rpg made using the mass effect engine! Maybe when this dies on its arse they'll give the MAJORITY what they want. I'll start holding my breath...........nowish.

[TheFitz02]

@lvl102cbman and FORCE UNLEASHED 3!! .... oh wait.... those games sucked.

[WrestlerTakeo]

@TheFitz02

>KOTOR, Republic Commando, Battlefront

>sucked

Personally I loved the fuck out of them.

[Lorfmor]

@lvl102cbman Battlefront 3 with Frostbite 2 engine :D

[matony19]

@lvl102cbman I´d rather see jedi academy or jedi knight 2 instead of KOTOR

[Spartan76745]

@lvl102cbman battlefront 3 is made but its for the PSP

[imatooltoo]

@lvl102cbman this is knights of the old republic 3

[SMGDUDE3017]

@lvl102cbman I agree really would want to see those, Especially battlefront 3 and Commando 2 ( the first one left off on a HUGE cliffhanger)

[totitool]

@lvl102cbman This is semi Knights of the Old Republic 3. But i would never say no to another one :)

[yermommy777]

@lvl102cbman couldn't agree more!

[TeamSystem32]

@lvl102cbman

Battlefront can't be made. It's developer has been long gone. I am almost positive Republic commando was at least co-developed by the same people. KOTOR3 will NEVER see the light of day because SWTOR is out. (Le Herp Derp)

[1337Tobias]

@lvl102cbman SWTOR is KotOR 3....

[TheOrangebeater]

@lvl102cbman i couldn't agree with you more

[russelltynes]

@lvl102cbman according to the Bioware devs at their panel at Penny Arcade Expo The Old Republic IS KOTR 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, etc, etc. That's from their mouths directly.

[begeura]

@lvl102cbman This sort of accounts for Knights of the Old Republic 3-4-5 with the amount of kotor content :P

[MegaAndy93]

@lvl102cbman The people that made Battlefront 3 disbanded, KOTOR 3 is SWTOR,and I've never heard of Rep Commando 3.

[MegaAndy93]

@MegaAndy93 correction: 1

[suprempuk]

@lvl102cbman you wont get kotor3

[Ryudo700]

@lvl102cbman Swtor is knights of the old republic 3....

[HatersGonnaHate1000]

@Ryudo700 No, no it is not.

[Ryudo700]

@HatersGonnaHate1000 Do you not know the lore? kotor 1+2 lead into this

[rabbitofterror]

@Ryudo700 swtor is thousands of years before kotor....

[Ryudo700]

@rabbitofterror What are you retarted? Swtor is set 300 years AFTER kotor 1. It also ties up how kotor 1 and 2 ended! God!

[rabbitofterror]

@Ryudo700 lol get a life. now that i have proven how much of a nerd you are, get laid by that chimp that you sadly call "Your MOM". have a nice night, 40 year old pedophile virgin. ^_^

[Ryudo700]

@rabbitofterror it's ok I'll just go back to my wife, she'll keep me happy

[rabbitofterror]

@Ryudo700 if that's what you call him ^_^

[madarse52]

@lvl102cbman true, especially kotor 3

[jhapoen]

Can you people help me? I have tp choose wich game i'm going to buy. My choices are : Saints Row The Third, F1 2011, MW3 or AC: Revelations

[BrownSugar977]

@jhapoen i wouldnt get mw3 i got bored of that after 2 weeks and i would only get saints row the third if you had a friend to play with, its like 10x funner with a friend, havnt played the other games so i cant speak on those

[Luciferdesrea]

@jhapoen AC is your best bet.

[SRKIKI902]

@jhapoen Well , it really depends on what kind of game you want to play . They are all very different . MW3 is a great multiplayer shooter , F1 2011 is an alright racer and AC:Revelations is , an adventure/hack n slash / 3d platfirner . Saints Row is , in my opinion the most fun game , as its an extremly fun sandbox 3d person shooter , a GTA clone that , at times , is more fun than GTA itself

[FallenKNIGHT101]

@jhapoen saints row the third!! i have all the games u listed and in my opinion saints rows the best.

[bobear69]

@CainCrimsonCreation amen brother....growing up has never been so time consuming

[TheMagical4321]

is there goin to be a star wars battlefront 3?? lol

[tkoizumi]

i dun care wat others say but western rpg is boring and easy as hell for me. i dun even call it rpg just because they slap a level up feature on an adventure/fps game.

[Leclwrd]

@tkoizumi i believe you are talking about MMO's

[graceofbleach]

@CainCrimsonCreation you know that MMO means massive multiplayer online right? which does not include Elderscrolls or Assassins Creed or GTA, dont know about transformers or Illuminati....

[CainCrimsonCreation]

@graceofbleach I was listing games currently in mmo form as well as games that will eventually get mmo treatment.

[MaTZaSMetalMaNiAC]

Y THE F*CK UR CHARACTER SO FAT?

[00po]

when a lightsaber hits you, you're supposed to die instantly...this game is a lie

[BrokenXboxProduction]

@CainCrimsonCreation also blizzard is making a cod mmo >_<

[manciuxl1]

they made this piece of shit instead of kotor 3?

biggest fucking fail of 2011

[greek909]

is there only online

[Hannibal457]

This game is so repetitive. All the voice acting and exposition in the world can't make up for boring missions. And before any of you fanboys start bitching I own this game and I do not own World of Warcraft.

[Lightlylost]

@Hannibal457 Sounds like you went in expecting a single player game. Welcome to MMOs. Sorry to hear it didn't work for you.

[Hannibal457]

@Lightlylost I wasn't expecting a single player game. I was expecting a fun multiplayer game with interesting missions and fun combat. If this is what I'm supposed to expect from an mmo then mmo's as a whole are dated and need to be changed. Which is why many people are interested in Guild Wars 2.

[BXisAWOL]

Star Wars Battlefront 2 had the best space gameplay IMO.

[narutoson666]

@CainCrimsonCreation Elder scrolls mmo?!?? where?????

[TheSuperRatt]

@CainCrimsonCreation Wtf? Theyre is no assassins creed mmo or elderscrolls mmo even a gta mmo for that matter.

[doneystoney]

They need to port this to the PS3 and 360.

[Stumigod]

@doneystoney what is with all these idiots wanting mmorpgs on their shitty consoles.........I wish these kids could someday realize....its not possible.

[doneystoney]

@Stumigod have you ever heard of DC universe online? YEAH. IT HAPPENED. ON CONSOLES.

[pizzaisfuntoeat]

end game?



[home2ideas]

Wait.. he said sometimes they even send you angry letters when you kill them. Is he serious or joking?

[tr4d3m4rk44]

@home2ideas Serious. Sometimes a relative or something will send you mail.

[ptahkhu15]

@CainCrimsonCreation did you say illuminati?

[Gamer1990100]

IGN is going to give this between 7.0-8.5

[CooltownMayor]

I think this guy sounds like the quintessential nerd! LOL!

[TheACGProduction]

Do you think Star Wars: The Old Republic will ever come to console?

[SKinnyPete93]

@TheACGProduction simple answer: no

[TheACGProduction]

@SKinnyPete93 :( but the Knights of The Old Republic did

[Arkturazz]

@TheACGProduction MMO's are not built for consoles what so ever, most if not all MMO's fail on console

[Thesniped13]

@TheACGProduction NO it's impossible with 8 year old hardware and limited networking.

[TheFitz02]

It'll get an 8.0 for "feeling familiar" and "lackluster space combat". Honestly, BioWare shouldn't get punished for adding the space combat. I view it as something to keep me occupied in my ship while my companions are off crafting. It's fun for what it is, and it's a cool addition to the game

[maccajoe]

@TheFitz02 Hope your not implying 8 is a bad score

[TheFitz02]

@maccajoe No, its pretty close to what I would give it personally. I'd like to see an 8.5, but anything over an 8 is alright

[davidbecks81]

@TheFitz02 It won't get an 8.0 but because of the story elements. IGN is a sucker for that sort of thing and throughout the review they never mentioned feels familiar. my guess is an 8.5 at the lowest but I wouldn't go so far as to rule a 9.5.

[maikal22]

I've been playing this for about a week now and am having a lot of fun.

[klawz]

I'll wait for Diablo III. Although I love starwars, this just looks too much of a kiddy version of the SW universe for me to get into.

[coolguy5772]

LOL I saw the advertisement of FreddieW. before this clip. Didn`t know it would actually appear.

[JokkeBorge]

It looks good but sry I'm having too much fun in Azeroth atm..

[FXIX]

Bioware could just use the Mass Effect engine and concept and use the Star Wars license, people will not complain much.

[Mad0x817]

They should better have made a new Knights Of The Old Republic.

[Se7enBeatleofDoom]

@CainCrimsonCreation Their sorta already is a GTA MMO. It is called APB online. Also you forgot about Fallout Online.

[Go4TheKneez]

Does EA think by making incredibly loud and obnoxious BF3 advertisements it's actually going to make me want to buy the game?

[MacDiver11]

Those BF3 adverts.. they aren't working I still don't feel the need to buy the game.

[Jaynuss13]

Ppl that still play WoW are completely stupid. Keep on feeding Blizzard. No way that WoW has 12 million subs now. The only reason most ppl are playing SWTOR is because there are no new MMO's out there. Ppl are bored and looking for their MMO fix.

[GloomFate]

@Jaynuss13 What are you talking about, If some one has fun playing a game it does not make them stupid.

Spending ones leisure time on something that they do not find fun would be stupid.

People still play Counter-Strike, Magic the Gathering, D&D and all sorts of old games because they have a great time playing them with their friends.

And there are heaps of new great new MMO's out there.

[Jaynuss13]

@GloomFate I understand the nostalgic nature of something like D&D or Magic the Gathering. Those were game changing. WoW might have been one of the most popular games in the day. But, nothing about it is memorable or original. My grandma played the game and she isn't the most computer literate. It's easy, generic, and graphics are horrible. It's just a money making machine for players that are followers (play games because of popularity rather than quality). Name a good MMO out now? IDK of any

[MrThepoliceman]

@Jaynuss13 Some of that may be true but if one still has fun playing it it does not make them stupid as it is their leisure time. While I agree a lot of MMO's are mostly mind numbing they still offer challenge's in the way of PvP and Hard Modes. Artistically WoW looks a lot better than a lot of modern games.

A good MMO is a matter of opinion, recent ones are that are any good are Rift, Forsaken World and SWTOR but of course they are not original or game changing.still fun tho. A

[blackknght82]

@stbays CDKEYHUNT is really the cheapest store,and that price of swotor is cheap comparing to origin and other stores + you get 30 days subsctiption

[SotNist]

man, it looks so great... feel like i need to jump into it. i need to a time sink, but not a monthly bill yet.

[Kelnar7]

@CainCrimsonCreation dc universe sucks that's one less mmo you have to play....what transformers mmo are you talkin about? a gta mmo? wtf?

[jackDevy]

i wish this was for xbox/:

[albertok2323]

@jackDevy haha dont have a pc bro? u mad?

[MrJack452]

I said this for Rift and I will say it now. The only thing that is going to kill WoW is Blizzard and they are already working on doing that with Titan. Fan boys need to calm their tits.

[addisababa10169]

I still don't see whats so good about world of Warcraft I don't think it's that good

[DaGleese]

looks awesome... now i really wish bioware had given me the job as a moderator! the european hub is based in galway where i go to university and everything!

[gamingdonnie]

lol freddie wong in the bf3 add

[0omitcho0]

pfft... wait for the real WoW killer - Guild Wars 2

[Kelnar7]

@0omitcho0 no, blizzard are making a new mmo so, no matter what comes out, people will trust blizzard's new IP Titan to be a true next gen mmo

[0omitcho0]

@Kelnar7 It's too bad it will take them a thousand years to release it, blizzard is terrible for release dates.

[freakonsteak]

@0omitcho0 lol.



[TheLightMatters]

@0omitcho0 HahahahahahHahahahahahahahahah yeap guild wars. The game that has 2 million fans against 12 million wow subs. Plus wow gets better reviews and overall has better nostalgia. You fail faggot

[CMahan95]

Kevin sent me.

[coolguythinking]

@CMahan95 Really? I sent you? My name is Kevin after all. Or are you talking about another guy with the same name? Well if you're just following orders from anyone with this name then would you kindly KILL ANDREW RYAN!

[5dscardcrazy]

@coolguythinking its a rooster teeth thing.

[coolguythinking]

@5dscardcrazy oh

[Yakko77]

For those of you considering playing it or want or play a new character. Put aside your desire to play some typical character with a glow bat or a tree trunk sized cannon (not that they're bad characters or anything). On the Republic side at least I highly recommend the Smuggler. A bit more tactical to play and lots of funny dialogue. Plus, my main, a "Sawbones" (healer) is instrumental in the Heroic/Flashpoint group battles. In the Master Zhar Lestin server, look for "Alexandria".. \m/

[diego5060]

It looks fantastic! Let's see if can be the best game of the genre.

[Designandrew]

we NEED a new star wars space shooter! PLEASE!

[SKYRIMSKYRIMSKYRIM]

@Vleesball SWTOR is a great game and your right it'll never kill WOW. And $15,000,000 is nothing to blizzard. Just give SWTOR another 5 years and then you can judge how good it is.

[TehBirddCage]

@SKYRIMSKYRIMSKYRIM That's such a joke to say, you don't give a game 5 years to be looked upon. From the day it releases to the day it dies it should be looked upon, if you think it's unfair to judge a game on it's release...then it probably shouldn't be released yet.

[SKYRIMSKYRIMSKYRIM]

@TehBirddCage I was talking to a person saying this is a wow killer, it is a great game. But I meant give it 5 years and see if it's still going. I meant wait 5 years before judging if it's a wow killer.

[halo6534]

I know that mmos are all the same at its core. But we seriously need someone to revolutionize mmos again. I have no doubht this game is fun to play....but its not very special in any way. It all follows the same formula. Much like how fps games were back in the 90's all it was is go from point a to point b shooting anything in your way. The half life 1 and 2 came out and change fps shooters forever. I hope they do it with half life 3 as well.

[Bigmanjon2112]

I really love this game.

[Gilgamesh417]

@tidus814 No, the mechanics aren't exactly similar. SWTOR is definitely more click happy - attacks aren't auto attack unlike in WoW. But, for the most part, nothing really changes.

[Nomoreusernames113]

I love that despite the huge amount of competition in the MMO industry, absolutely no fucking progress is made at all in game quality. Gimmicks aside, all of this shit is effectively identical, I don't even fucking understand how this keeps happening.

[cartmanschili]

@Nomoreusernames113 cause they get the feeling of accomplishment. like you said its all the same and formulaic. do this for that guy do this for this guy. give this to a guy or robot thats 2 feet away. besides combat is all the same too. you dont see it but its all random if you were gonna hit them or not. its like risk but you dont throw dice you hit 1 through 9

[Finaratto]

To bad this game will kill WoW and its pandas. The game is amazing people just cant accept minor flaws

[shadowcharmy]

so, where the hell is the review?

[Snowbau5]

SWTOR is a great game, but it will not kill WoW, but it will stay competitive but eventually reach to F2P.

[EcHoRenegade]

*cough* guild wars 2 *cough*

[Bushflare]

What find odd is that people never tend to review the RP if the game... this is Star Wars for god's sake, the pinnacle of nerd-dom. Not going to comment on the guys running around pretending to be Jedi?

I was looking forwards to that.

[ShadowsSpawn]

why do people keep thinking that there can only be 1 MMO? lets look at other game types with multiplayer content: big successfull fps's (1st person): 4, CS:S, CoD, BF, TF2. RPG's:3, Dragon Age, MassEffect, Witcher. RTS:4+, Starcraft, warcraft, Total war series, DoW2. +moba games.

A MMO dosent need to "steal" customers from another. such stupidly narrow thinking is only the bias views of fanboys and retards. there is no reason why more than 1 mmo can be popular or that you cant play more than 1.