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French and German versions promised.

LucasArts president Darrell Rodriguez has declared Star Wars: The Old Republic is "the biggest MMO project ever developed".

He was joined on stage at EA's gamescom conference by BioWare's Ray Muzyka, who confirmed the game will feature "more than 40 novels' worth of content".

Rodriguez went on to announce that LucasArts is "completely localising the entire game in German and French". In other words, "Every character will have his, her or its own German, French or English voice."

To emphasise the point, they then played the SWTOR trailer from E3 again - but this time with a voiceover in German. Ja.

A release date for SWTOR has yet to be announced.

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PlugMonkey #1 3 years ago

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Is this unusual? I'd assumed all games of this type were translated into all the major european languages.
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Redeye #2 3 years ago

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*desperately trying not to be cynical about anything Star Wars*

Lucas: "Hey, guys! Look how much we're throwing at this baby, it's going to be the best thing ever!"

World: "Yeah, right...that's what you said about Phantom Menace, remember?"

/fails

Damn. Still want this to be awesome, though.
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RexRunti #3 3 years ago

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Hopefully this means there will be British, French and German servers, not European servers.

@PlugMonkey
It's a fully voiced MMO, so yeah it's unusual or at least a massive job.
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redneon Verified Programmer, SUMO Digital #4 3 years ago

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@RexRunti:

Hahahahaha. "Massive Job".

God I'm so childish
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Gl3n #5 3 years ago

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Still a bit dicey, could really pay off mind. The cynic in me is winning though.
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Wyrm #6 3 years ago

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Some novels are shit though.
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shamblemonkee #7 3 years ago

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it all sounds good until you start thinking about adding extra content...
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spenner #8 3 years ago

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la force est avec vous.

Sie k�nnen nicht verstehen, die Macht der dunklen Seite
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Orange #9 3 years ago

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Far too much focus on the voicing, what about the gameplay, the variation of quests and the endgame? That's far more important.

If it's kill 10 droids by pressing hotkey 1 and 2, then I couldn't give a **** if it had Eliza Dushku reading the quest text in her lingerie, I still wouldn't be interested.

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Thorgrem #10 3 years ago

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@RexRunti

Hopefully no European servers?
That means no SWTOR for the Italian, spanish, Dutch ect ect? What nice of you...
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Silvervein #11 3 years ago

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@Orange

Exactly.
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paulf #12 3 years ago

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best game ever

probably
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qoobah #13 3 years ago

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Yep, they focused on gloating over herculean voiceover many times now. I still can't shake the feeling that in case of an MMO this money (and there's quite a lot of it I'm sure) would be better spent on developing interesting gameplay and content.
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moshegy #14 3 years ago

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I'm looking forward to this game but I can't say that I'm not worried about the level of interest the various lines quests will be able to bring. If I look back at games like KOTOR and Mass Effect, I've really indulged their main story lines, yet at the same time been fairly bored with the majority of their side quests.
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SlipstreamDrifter #15 3 years ago

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i really really hope that one of the early quests for a sith player is to kill a couple hundread babies. cause you just know that everyone and their cat is gonna want to be a darth mandelson or something or other.
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r4z0rbl4d3 #16 3 years ago

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After seeing the walktrough, I'm sold. Not so much for smuggler, but either Jedi/Sith or BH.
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