BioWare & Lucas Arts to announce KOTOR MMO?

[PogoP]

For an MMO this is definitely something new. I found combat in Eve to be extremely boring, it was, as Dark said, simply press a button and let the computer do the work for you.

This is nice, sorta Rogue Squadron like, rather than boring Wow-style combat.

[Serenius]

Game play>>> graphics. It's been proven to be a bad idea to push high end graphics for MMO's. WoW is living proof of that.Age of Conan is a prime example of how fail pushing the graphics envelope is in the Mmo world where you rely on millions of subscriptions to pay the bills.

Everything I've seen so far indicates that they're shooting for a similar experience to playing KOTOR in real time with a persistent world. If they pull it off, it would give Blizzard a serious run for their money.

[FrieChamp]

All business decisions aside, AOC is actually a really fun game and deserves more recognition imo.

Anyway, SWTOR: Space combat comes to me as a surprise, I wasn't aware that they planned on adding this to the game. I don't buy into it yet though. Is it a full-blown 360° movement space shooter or do you fly on a designated path with little movement á la Star Fox? I can't really tell from the video.

[Thrik]

As a Starfox fan that space combat looks most appealing to me — quite a refreshing change to get gameplay that's actually good in an MMO. Last one I really enjoyed was PlanetSide, mostly because it was just a huge-scale FPS.

[Serenius]

All business decisions aside, AOC is actually a really fun game and deserves more recognition imo.

The starting area, Tortage, was excellent. Excellent! That's how MMO leveling should be. If the rest of the game had been at that quality, and it hadn't been so broken (I played at release, so I'm sure it's quite different now), I might still be playing it today.