Exclusive Star Wars: TOR trailer

Published 29 April, 2011 Duration 2:41

Sith warrior progression shown.

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  • MaxiSleep #1 1 year ago

    Combat still looks very stilted

  • MaxiSleep #2 1 year ago

    Combat still looks very stilted

  • romelpotter #3 1 year ago

    re skinned Jedi!
    Edited by romelpotter at 29/04/11 @ 15:19

  • Eldritch #4 1 year ago

    The lack of dismemberment is simply ridiculous.

  • actionfitz #5 1 year ago

    agree. lightsabres would be slicing everything the hell up. Even the 'Jedi Knight' games got that right.
    knocking the crap out of something with a lightsabre just to have it fall over without so much as a scorch mark...

    unconvincing.

  • silversun #6 1 year ago

    This trailer for the game was not great , it was good as showing how the sith would look in different progression , but the trailer did not really show the gameplay off very well at all , it looked way to much like trying to cinema in game graphics.
    The game still will still be fun to try out though.

  • Inmediasress #7 1 year ago

    They would have been better of with KOTOR3.
    If it is to be believed that the developing cost is really as high as the rumors said this will be a major fuck up.
    Then again SW fans will buy it though I don't think it will stand its ground on the MMO market.
    Watching these trailers I got the feeling I am seeing wow with light sabers and I don't mean that in a good way.
    Wow is alredy a boring MMO. I don't think the 10 million people wasting their time will care too much about 'star warcraft raiders of the old instances'.
    Edited by Inmediasress at 29/04/11 @ 17:29

  • patrollin #8 1 year ago

    After the disaster that was DA2 I can't say that I have complete faith in bioware like I used to. Combat and graphics straight up looks like ass. And if story is supposed to be a main selling point why even bother with an MMO?

  • Lukree #9 1 year ago

    Glowing baseball bats are ridiculous = no sell

  • AOFanboi #10 1 year ago

    Star Wars with all the MMO genre peculiarities applied, like whittling hitpoint bars, power timers and static animations is bound to disappoint fans. After all it has done so before, in the form of Star Wars: Galaxies.

    +1 vote for "they should have focused on KOTOR 3 instead".

  • curtlikesmeat #11 1 year ago

    Hmmm. It looks better than WoW at least, but I agree with everyone else on the whole collision thing. Does this even represent gameplay anyway? It reminds me of WoW machinima cut scenes, i.e. it in no ways looks anything like actual combat.

  • Felwyn #12 1 year ago

    Who decided to put money into this?

  • Daeltaja #13 1 year ago

    My god this is looking complete and utter rubbish. Lightsaber battles are meant to look and feel epic.. not flat and un-inspired.

    Bioware REALLY need to recruit better video editors too. Christ on a bike, they're trying to sell the game to us. This is just completely laughable, particularly from a studio of they're caliber.

  • sirtacos #14 1 year ago

    I'm just going to echo the naysayers.

    What the shizz? Combat looks totally uninspired. Animation isn't fluid. etc. After DA2 - which wasn't a disaster, but most certainly a letdown - and these promotional videos, my reserve of optimism regarding TOR (and BioWare in general) is depleting.

  • JoeBlade #15 1 year ago

    I had fairly high hopes for this but the animation and combat indeed look dated by at least 10 years and haven't improved one bit since the fist previews either.

    /waves hand

    This is not the MMO I'm looking for.

    :(

  • Ryboy #16 1 year ago

    I am going to hold out for this and at least give it a go. Anyone see the cut-scenes from Cataclysm recently? They are appalling, but it does not make the game any less brilliant.

    And while I agree about the lack of dismemberment, you have to realise that if they had gore and such in this game then they would have to slap a higher age certification on it, which would probably alienate one of the key demographic age ranges they are going for.

  • Softie2k #17 1 year ago

    I always said that the reason for WoW's success was its fluidity and perfect animation.

  • TheGuvernor #18 1 year ago

    I agree - looks really bloody naff.

  • Lin #19 1 year ago

    i must say i'm really not going to buy into this narrative that everyone has written in advance for this game to tank just because it's not promising to procedurally dynamicafy everything and we don't like the animations. is it just because EA are evil and there's a lot riding on it, so it will make for a more interesting story if it fails?

    everything we have seen about this game leads me to believe that it is at VERY WORST, workmanlike and lacking in innovation. animations did not stop wow, oblivion or anything else being great games.

    on the other side there's the prospect of exploring a massive universe and making your own star wars saga, using a game formula that we know basically works.

    because they SO could have made lightsabers one-hit-kill weapons. just like they were in KOTOR.

  • Inmediasress #20 1 year ago

    @Lin
    You know the problem is that TOR looks like another Wowcopy or be it Everquest or whatever MMO.
    EA/Bioware just like to mystify it by saying it will be the new shit because there will be tons of voiced dialogue and it will be god knows how much bigger than Wow.
    Well you see that would be nice for a single player game but lets face it you don't play an MMO for the dialogue you play it for end game content and most people will just fast forward trough it.
    Being larger than wow is fine but that means that they really pumped a lot of money in to it which means they need to retain a higher player base then normally an MMO would and to make my point clear I don't see how this game will keep a large playerbase for a long time because of the above mentioned.
    Take away the voiceovers and you got WOW in space the same old tanking healing mechanics and possibly shit animation/combat.
    It will have intial succes I am almost certain of it but it will dissapoint a lot of people in the longterm.

  • Lin #21 1 year ago

    @Inmediasress

    i guess it depends why people go into it. i'm just after a bigger KOTOR that i can play co-op with my friends, and this is perfect for that.

    it was co-op people who made WoW huge, not strangers meeting voer the internet: we had them in the ultima days. the great success of WoW is putting people in a situation where they could say "you play wow? me too, let's team up." once it reached that critical mass it was unstoppable. if swtor can do that too then there will be a lot of happy people.

  • Inmediasress #22 1 year ago

    @Lin
    We'll see.
    I guess it just depends but as you mentioned there is also the EA hate wich isn't exactly unbased and of course Bioware have also lost face with DA2.
    I know that it's not the same people working on TOR but it's still Bioware.
    PR can do a lot of damage.
    Edited by Inmediasress at 01/05/11 @ 17:31

  • Spekingur #23 1 year ago

    I wish these Sith and Jedi moved more... smoothly... is probably the correct word. Combat in the movies and in most of the SW games had better combat flow than this video shows. (At least in memory.)

  • darkos87 #24 1 year ago

    Well I know which class I'm going to take when I get it! :D

  • darkos87 #25 1 year ago

    Well I know which class I'm going to take when I get it! :D

  • Valland #26 1 year ago

    "Exclusive Star Wars: TOR trailer"

    Exclusive. There's that word again, I don't think you know what it means.