Level Up - Level Up Episode 28 - Star Wars The Old Republic | Closed Beta Review!

[Davitofrito]

Balmorra is huge compared to dromund kass. Also The later worlds all get bigger and are full of quests. If anything the voice acting and story gives you a reason to care. Example: On hutta you go find five power cells. Seems like every other fetch quest save that the beginning is an old starving couple begging you for food. You get the five power cells and then go into the power plant to charge em. All of a sudden the plant manager begs you to place a tracker on the batteries or his family dies.

[ihateidz]

This game looks real lame.

[latinstuff1]

@ihateidz thought the same until i played the beta last weekend haah lets just say my game has been pre ordered ahah amazing game ... i sold my wow account already with 5 85s

[edwinorc]

This is the best review I've found. Thanks.

I don't think I'll play....It looks like this game added things on to the WoW model.

I think most of the WoW model needs to be ripped apart and replaced rather than added to.

[swgabesz]

hmm..

- You said that the graphics could be better..Then why did you set it on low ?? I played with the beta, it looked much better. You set shadows OFF too....

[LUGOEntertainment]

@swgabesz I was playing on high settings with shadows on low at 1360x768. Plus you got to understand Youtubes encoder is very quality killing so it did look better than what the video shows xD

[carmangasper]

Am a question is this video illegal becouse as much as I have readed the terms of agreement thay do not allow you to post video or anything from beta like on youtube etc.

[LUGOEntertainment]

@carmangasper NDA has been dropped since the week before the beta weekend thus this does not conflict with the terms of use.

[carmangasper]

@LUGOEntertainment ah didn't read this one thans for telling me maby I will be able to do a video whan todays 3h maintainance ends btw a question on what server did you play?

[LUGOEntertainment]

@carmangasper Not sure... the one that wasnt full at the time xD

[maltonbranch]

Epic game, beta weekend starts again in a few hours...cant wait. Best MMO to date!

[Sarnius26]

wow you just basically shat on it to death, go take some review lessons dickhead.

[LUGOEntertainment]

@Sarnius26 Go take some listening lessons you pathetic troll.

[MainstreamChicksSuck]

Bad character creation, bad graphics, mediocre combat, stickin with skyrim

[FeIdrance]

Your vids are so clean and well structured, i hope someday you get a big fan base/subscribers.

Cool channel bro

[LUGOEntertainment]

@FeIdrance I hope so to, and ty man ive been trying to improve and improve. =) Welcome to the slow but growing LUGO Nation =D

[mitchelld8vies]

Are you going to play any more Skyrim? Would like to see that...

[LUGOEntertainment]

@mitchelld8vies Yeah Im planning on doing a Review for it sometime this week. Ive played it about 10 hours now or so... so I think I can review it pretty good for you guys as a whole for its voice acting, story, and drive.

[GMOSU22]

How has blizzard not sued these guys yet? Virtually every single concept of the game is a direct ripoff. The only thing that is different and done much better really is the dialogue and story telling for each class. Everything from combat to the taxi system is so similar it's astounding how they are getting away with it. I bet Blizzard will sue them once its officially released..

[flymolo]

@GMOSU22 I guess they didn't sue Bioware for the same reasons Sony (Everquest) didn't sue Blizzard.

[GMOSU22]

@flymolo Indeed. But seriously. SWTOR is not unique whatsoever when it comes to game-play, interface, player interaction, items, everything.... I played EQ back in the day and wow did copy/paste some things, but its so much different.. played SWTOR to lvl 30 and it was EXACTLY the same as playing wow to lvl 30, but with some cheesy dialogue storytelling that to be honest, you really have to love the universe to enjoy.. I play game for good gameplay, and SWTOR is like vanilla wow..

[flymolo]

@GMOSU22 You think so? In terms of the overall experience I really wouldn't have compared swtor to vanilla wow at all. I get that they're similar, but the developers did a lot of things very, very differently from wow. Runes of Magic is the only game that I ever felt truly deserved the title "WoW Clone" although even that had a pretty cool dual class system that distinguished it a bit. Rift comes close to clone, but I like Rift better than WoW.

[Sarnius26]

@GMOSU22 It is so. Play it and you'll find out, it's unexplanable.

[GMOSU22]

@Sarnius26 I have played it... I was in the beta for a solid 7-8 months. I reached level 40 with imperial agent, and lvl 29 with Jedi Knight. It was cool and all. But honestly, i cant see a big end game for SWTOR. The story is great to follow, but in between is the same old WoW tedium of doing random quests that have nothing to do with the big picture. It feels so absurdly similar in gameplay as WoW and other generic mmo's. The best thing SWTOR has going for it is probably the sci-fi setting.

[spuddragg]

@GMOSU22 Well it's not a WoW tedium it's an MMO tedium that there is no way of getting around.

[GMOSU22]

@Sarnius26 Whoops meant to say lvl 30 not 40.

[soysoy98]

May be better than Skyrim cause Bethesda isn't known for their writing like Bioware. I'll tell you this, the writing/dialogue is way worse than Dragon Age and Mass Effect. But writing doesn't get better than Dragon Age.

I think my biggest problem is the design of these zones. As you said they feel empty, the republic and sith home city are basically clones. the zones feel so empty because they have too much empty stuff.  Wow beats SWTOR in that sense.

[LUGOEntertainment]

@soysoy98 Yeah the writing styles of both Bethesda and Bioware are really different. Bethesda puts more money into scripts than voice acting... Biowares the other way around.

And yeah WoW has great world design, feels alive and well.

[Moby228]

Good review.

[LUGOEntertainment]

@Moby228 Ty.

[notebookplayer]

sweet

[flymolo]

Nice video! You definitely think much more highly of the game than I do, but this review is a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to seeing more of your perspective as you have an opportunity to play more.

[LUGOEntertainment]

@flymolo Yeah ill be doing a follow up on it soon so stay tuned! =D

[TOGcommunity]

Where the graphics maxed out in this vid ? Because i'm missing some Shadows o.O

Game looks fun though, i might get it aswell

[LUGOEntertainment]

@TOGcommunity Yeah I maxed em out... could be my new because I had to get this footage out quick xD

[Improstor]

Thank you for in town footage, now I toldly understand your opinion about lifeless world. We will have to see how much it may affect gameplay experience after a while mainly since the combat seems very fluid and not as boring is seemed time ago, all the talking will also drag you in. Can't wait for the release. Nice review!

[LUGOEntertainment]

@Improstor Thanks man and yeah we will have to wait and see. =D

[krullboll]

Game of the year, all I need to say.

[nerdhead45]

most disappointing game i've played this year.

[LankanCasanova]

There seems to be some pathing of NPC's in this video. They might need to add more but in many different areas there are several NPC's participating in activities.

[LUGOEntertainment]

@LankanCasanova Yeah they dont have enough though... the areas are SUPER big... like the towns are like labyrinths from level 1-10... if they had more NPC movement it would be hard for me to find something wrong with this game xD

[LankanCasanova]

@LUGOEntertainment Agreed, i remember in GW1 the NPC's in towns would move around so much it did feel alive, but what they should do is if someone is playing a certain instrument that sound should be heard as u pass them by

[LUGOEntertainment]

@LankanCasanova Exactly... or atleast if they are talking to one another at least have sound to it lol.