Thread 713450240

>Star Wars the Old Republic
>Considered to be "KotOR 3"
>One of the greatest Star Wars games pre-Disney
>The most friendlist free-to-play MMO ever
>Has "very positive" reviews on Steam
Is SWTOR really that good?

>>713450240 (OP)
some of the character storylines were genuinely fun to play through. The writing is ok at times.
As an MMO it's trash though, and the MMO mechanics and conventions do a lot to ruin the singleplayer experience. Overall, compares poorly to KOTOR

They should just make KOTOR 3

The class stories are good, yeah, and having an MMO with an actual single player story was neat as the FFXIV fags rant and rave about. But SWTOR has a story for each class and offers a bit more interactivity.

Everybody should play SWTOR's Imperial Agent story at the very least.

Is it just one shill/autist spamming these threads for the past week or so, or did a semi-well-known youtuber make a retrospective and incite a surge of popularity?

Just because you put the Trolley Problem in Star Wars five hundred times does not make it an interesting moral dilemma.

It felt outdated in 2011 at launch. The recent "overhaul" was the bare minimum of acceptable and since it's entering the sunset era. They should just make it completely free to play if their subsidiary studio is so desperate to pretend it should be appreciated.

>>713451637
Graphically, it was extremely dated. I have no idea what they were thinking with the art style.

>>713451704
All they had to do was updated the textures from the Aurora engine which is the best star wars has ever looked.

>>713450240 (OP)
Very much like ESO it's a gay as fuck MMO, but is a surprisingly good entry in the series if you treat it like a bloated single player game.

>>713450240 (OP)
>Considered to be "KotOR 3"
Only by the mentally ill people
>One of the greatest Star Wars games pre-Disney
Much, MUCH worse than the 1998-2004 generation of SW games.

KYS

>>713450240 (OP)
You have to pay for hotbars and the game has no official addon support.

>>713451831
What single player games do you play that have a 2500 level requirement for most of the content in the game????

>>713451938
A lot of the writers and the staff are the same from KOTOR though

>>713452234
Funny how they butchered both games as a result.

>>713452532
>KOTOR is now bad
4chan contrarianism is a hell of a drug

>>713452993
This. So much this.

>>713452993
>>KOTOR is now bad
Nice strawman, faggot.

>>713453174
I'm not sure if you can't read or you're just a thirdie but I'm gonna go ahead and nip this in the bud here. No more (You)s for (You)

>>713450240 (OP)
As a big fan of the tab-target MMO genre I think SWTOR is very good at what it is, that being a story-driven MMO set in Star Wars. It's outshined by the more popular MMOs and is slowly dying.

People calling it bad aren't fans of the old MMO genre.

>>713453284
>KOTOR good
>TOR bad because they didn't respect KOTOR1 and 2
Here, I just explained it for your IQ 3 brain.

Unalive yourself, by the way.

>>713453556
>TOR bad because they didn't respect KOTOR1 and 2
Wait.. The game that isn't called kotor 3.. isn't kotor 3??? WHAAAAAT

>>713450240 (OP)
>>The most friendlist free-to-play MMO ever
LMAO.
>That atrocious leveling curve that is only "normal" if you play for two weeks in May (the 4th event) period.
No.

>>713453802
>BioWare's Senior Community Manager Stephen Reid remarked that he could tell me SWTOR wasn't KOTOR 3 but rather KOTOR 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8
This shit has long since become a meme in SWTOR community.

>>713454167
He's right. The way the class stories play out feels like a Kotor 3. The pacing and storytelling is like any other Kotor 3 but it's def not kotor 3.. If it truly was Kotor 3, they would call it that, deadass.

>>713450240 (OP)
It has decent enough story (class stories) for an mmo, and also not annoying subscription model (that you don't even need for the class stories anyway). But gameplay is shit as with most mmos. I wish those class stories were part of singplayer game(s).
Unironically, I have to say that sith class stories and portrayal is better than in all of the movies and much of the Extended Universe material. And yes, that's how low I hold Star Slop that some simple mmo is better at doing sith.
Lord Palladius from Sith Inquisitor story line is more nuanced and logical than whatever crap Gorgie boy or the Mouse could do.

>>713453869
>>That atrocious leveling curve
There is no curve, if you do most of planetary and exploration missions you will overlevel quickly and if anything trivialise anything that is single player.

>>713450240 (OP)
>The most friendlist free-to-play MMO ever
ffxiv's free trial has it beaten by miles simply by how much content you get

>>713454357
>It's totally KOTOR3 but it's totally not KOTOR3
Cool story, asswipe

>>713455628
You're so fucking god damn annoying. If it was a DIRECT continuation of Kotor 2, it would have been called Kotor 3, but it isn't. What they meant by it being a Kotor sequel is the way it follows the Bioware storytelling. Fat fuck.

>>713455765
So, you admit TORshit is a "what-if" parallel universe scenario? Good.

>>713456025
Holy fuck I never wanted to punch my monitor more than ever. I'm done.

>>713455628
It's called nuance, dipshit. Nobody said it's literally KOTOR 3, they're saying it spiritually carries the torch in terms of narrative structure, themes, and certain plot threads. You'd know that if you actually played past the intro and weren’t terminally allergic to reading dev interviews. But sure, keep crying because the title didn't match your headcanon.

>>713456495
THANK YOU!!! HOLY SHIT.

>>713456495
>Nobody said it's literally KOTOR 3
Sure thing, mr. Nobody.

>>713450438
>>713450513
>>713454459
Always heard good things about the imp agent story but never ended up trying it. Played Sith warrior and loved being knock off Darth Vader, Sith lightning/force choke every chance available, and corrupting the cute padawan to become obsessed with you.

Darth Bane and rule of two were a mistake and why most star slop sucks.

>>713456495
>Nobody said it's literally KOTOR 3
It might as well be because that's what it pretty much is in mass-consciousness.
>it spiritually carries the torch in terms of narrative structure, themes, and certain plot threads
>spiritually
It's quite obviously a chronological in-universe continuation of KOTORs and was always marketed as such, and it does an exceptionally shitty job at "carrying the torch"; more like it rapes its predecessors' themes and plot threads, burns and stomps them into the ground.

I swear TORfags really are some of the most disingenous faggots out there.
>>713457328
>not playing SW the LS way
You missed out

>>713458614
>It might as well be
Not an argument

>>713452993
It was never good. The RPG format just fucking sucks when it comes to Star Wars. You want action, and it has many action games that are so much fucking better. Retarded lorefags have ruined every goddamned thing, nobody gives a fuck about your saber crystals or what aliens are hermaphrodites, less information and exposition is unironically better. Environmental storytelling was always king, being mysterious and NOT having every little detail on a wiki was what made them good in the first place.

>>713459241
Nice of you to ignore the next part. Typical TORfag disingenuity.

>>713459408
Don't care.

>>713450240 (OP)
Playing through the class stories can be very enjoyable but it should've been a proper singleplayer game, not an MMO.

>>713459596
I wholeheartedly accept your concession then.

>>713450240 (OP)
It's definitely worth experiencing at least once for.
>Honorabu Sith Warrior
>Literally everything about Agent
>Seeing General Garza's giant badonkadonk and then playing a better class
And if you enjoy the above, then consider:
>Smuggler hijinks, such as femSmuggler offing her first nemesis by seducing him, giving him the best blowjob of his life, and then kicking him in the balls while he's in sage mode.
>UNLIMITED POWER (rented) and ghost hijinks
>Counselor story where you actually lay the groundwork and do the important stuff for everyone else behind the scenes
And if still want to play at that point
>Jedi Knight story where you take advantage of the Counselor's work to swoop in, beat up the big bad, and get fellated and called a hero
>Keep playing after seeing General Garza's glory and get Mass Effect lite
>Bounty Hunter where you LARP as a Mandalore and bounty hunt. Best thing about was dunking on force users who think they're untouchable.

>>713460187
I especially like the Sith Warrior, Imperial Agent, and to a much lesser extent, the Sith Inquisitor story for how they portray the failings of the Sith Empire. It should, statically and logistically, be able to absolutely decimate the Republic, but the machinations of the Sith hinder their war machine to the point that they're stalemated against an inferior opponent.
There's just not much the actual backbone of the empire can do when competent and decorated military generals are executed on the spot for serving a Sith guest a calzone instead of a Strombolli for dinner or when an imperial intelligence agent is retasked with recapturing Darth Rapius's sex slave or assassinating another uppity Sith when they were on the verge of disabling the local republic base's automated defenses.

>>713454578
>if you do most of planetary and exploration missions you will overlevel quickly
Not with that nerfed F2P exp outside of two weeks in May, you won't. Hence: Curve.

>>713454753
TORtanic gives you up to the last two expansions to go through the shitty story.

FF14 only gives you the first two expansions past base.

It's the one area I'll give TORtanic props in: You can get 80% of the game for free if you're willing to suffer the shitty exp curve.

>>713455765
>>713456495
It's not KotOR3-8 like Bioware advertised though.

>>713461371
>Ignoring the point

lol

>>713450240 (OP)
WTF? Is this Gen-Z brainrot? ToRtanic was considered a massive fucking failure when it first came out

>>713462050
SWTOR is one of the biggest comeback stories in the history of gaming. It went from being an unprecedented financial disaster to being one of the most profitable entries in its genre, only topped by juggernauts like FF14 and Dungeon Fighter.

>>713462050
>WTF? Is this Gen-Z brainrot?
Zoomers don't play fucking MMO's. The people who play it are mostly 30+ in the game

>>713462050
And after all that the game wasn't even a flop. The push for other games to be the next TORtanic when its origin wasn't even that.

>>713462050
>ToRtanic was considered a massive fucking failure when it first came out
It had a shitty launch but they basically fixed it. But by that time, no one cared and then the Disney Star Wars acquisition happened and people just kinda got sour over Star Wars