Star Wars: The Old Republic - Initial Impressions Commentary

Early access play is underway in The Old Republic and the IGN editors were lucky enough to get in on the fun. Watch the video for over twenty minutes of footage and our thoughts on how the game is shaping up so far.

And be sure to leave us a comment telling us what you think of the game! Are you excited to join the fray or do MMO's make you feel sleepy? Will you join the Light Side or will you give in to your hate and join the Dark Side? Will you immediately go Jedi or will you give some of the other classes a try?

For more SWTOR info, make the hyperspace jump to IGN:
http://pc.ign.com/objects/816/816935.html

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[zachdennett]

Anyone else come here instead of watching the vid directly at IGN because of the awful video player?

[unclearimage]

@sarkonak lol... no it doesn't bud. I've gone into PvP against crappy players with high resiliance that have won because they're farmed honor. Having a 40-50% bonus because you farmed something isn't skill. Nothing about wow requires skill, don't even kid yourself. 1-2-3-4, move out of the fire, 5-6, move back, 1-2-3-4, move out of the AoE.... wow.... so much skills.... OH MY GOD! He almost did 1-2-5-4 omfg! The skills!!

[broncestat]

Since pvp bombed hard in this game I am guessing they are working hard on improving?

[911SuperGT]

@gearsofwarlord77 its p2p :) its worth the buy :)

[911SuperGT]

@MightyManotaur22 give me the name of laptop please :)

[1Meepman]

CAN"T WAIT TO GET THIS GAME ON MY BDAY! :D:D:D:D:D:D

[GiggleB00ts]

I am pissed off at how good this game looks with shadows. Damn it. :(

[orginallos]

@unclearimage

You only did PvE. PvP at high level does take some skill and shit, but its not an esport anymore, not like sc2.

[redplague]

@unclearimage Skill is over rated in most computer games. I can see the skill in something like Starcraft online play with the best players but most games don't require skill. It's about fun, not skill.

[TheTelv]

@Serpheos EvE online was very original.... GW 2 does very little original by the way... it takes mostly stuff other games use as their selling points like public quests and mash them together...but I will give it the fact that it does have some originality in it. just like the story telling in this game and VO. Other games have had it but not this in depth. The problem is that when Devs aren't making a game like WoW they get flamed and when they do make a game like WoW it still happens

[Serpheos]

@rawnzii You are very welcome. How do you like what you have seen so far? Pretty damn impressive is it not? ;)

[rawnzii]

@Serpheos Great. Thanks a lot for the reply :)