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MMO PC News by Ellie Gibson

18 August, 2009

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
18/08/09 @ 15:40
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Is this unusual? I'd assumed all games of this type were translated into all the major european languages.
Redeye
18/08/09 @ 15:42
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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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18/08/09 @ 15:58
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Hopefully this means there will be British, French and German servers, not European servers.

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It's a fully voiced MMO, so yeah it's unusual or at least a massive job.
redneon
18/08/09 @ 16:14
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@RexRunti:

Hahahahaha. "Massive Job".

God I'm so childish :(
Gl3n
18/08/09 @ 16:29
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Still a bit dicey, could really pay off mind. The cynic in me is winning though.
Wyrm
18/08/09 @ 16:43
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Some novels are shit though.
shamblemonkee
18/08/09 @ 16:53
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it all sounds good until you start thinking about adding extra content...
spenner
18/08/09 @ 17:20
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la force est avec vous.

Sie können nicht verstehen, die Macht der dunklen Seite
Orange
18/08/09 @ 18:33
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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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18/08/09 @ 20:14
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@RexRunti

Hopefully no European servers?
That means no SWTOR for the Italian, spanish, Dutch ect ect? What nice of you...
Silvervein
18/08/09 @ 20:19
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@Orange

Exactly.
paulf
18/08/09 @ 20:36
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best game ever

probably ;)
qoobah
19/08/09 @ 07:54
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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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19/08/09 @ 11:32
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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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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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After seeing the walktrough, I'm sold. Not so much for smuggler, but either Jedi/Sith or BH.

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