Star Wars: The Old Republic Screenshots Detail Bounty Hunters

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• I always found light saber combat in the Jedi Knight games to be too random and not really skill-based. : code-e255
• From the videos it looks to me like the lightsaber combat will be more like KoTOR. And that's not a good ... : natepalm
• Seriously. Bring back twitch and timing saber combat. : Wilhuf

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• Amen to that. : drchocapic
• If they did that, I would actually consider playing this game. God I'm shallow. : utgaardsloke

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  Mass appeal MMOs are never that graphically impressive. They're trying to pull in as many players as poss... : carbontree
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    Can't argue with that logic. It saddens me people are so easily amused. : YummiGummi
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      well, if we were all using ungodly good rigs, they'd go bleeding edge on every single game released. : vertdang
      • The graphics look dated because they are WoW-like .. not for the lack of a Unreal engine. : YummiGummi
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      Graphics are not what makes a game fun. : razlebol
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        That's true. I have Monopoly board game. It's a blast. These are "Video" games though. : YummiGummi
        • I did meant video games. : razlebol
        • Oh. You're one of those. : vertdang
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      It saddens me people are so easily amused. And you are complaining about the graphics. I'll let you figur... : AgentPothead
      • Seriously. : code-e255
  • "Mass Appeal" "Player Driven Story" complete. fail. : a176
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  The same thing was said about WoW, didn't seem to matter though did it? : Lycronis
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    That's why every MMO looks and plays just like WoW today (just with a different coat of paint). : YummiGummi
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      Really? I've never played another MMO that plays and looks like WoW. The ones that come close usually fal... : Porkasaurus
      • I loved the gameplay in WoW. The combat mechanics, responsiveness, the fast-pace of it all. It was really... : Ellissd
    • Like what? This game doesn't even look like WoW. The character models aren't disproportionate like WoW.... : CyCo_PL
• I think it looks pretty solid, actually. It's very stylised. I'm not sure it'll date that badly. : Arceihn
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  MMO's are quite demanding on hardware. You can potentially have dozens upon dozens of characters on-scre... : Medieval Barber
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    AoC payed a price for being broke at launch. There were tons of people playing. It's one of the most gorg... : YummiGummi
    • I don't know about you, but I knew a ton of people that didn't buy it, purely out of fear that it wouldn'... : Medieval Barber
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      AoC was limited in the numbers of charachters on the screen at the same time though, due to its instancin... : swimteampie
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        This is Star Wars we're talking about. If any game would make tens of thousands of people to upgrade it's... : YummiGummi
        • Making assumptions doesnt strengthen your argument : Tommy Toolbag
        • If the game was DX10 only , it would show they were clueless. WoW showed just how much having low system ... : Shin_Chan72
    • AOC was absolutely hideous. Amateur UI, blah colors, stiff animations...the game just looked janky. : Sturm08
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  Well i hope the system requirements aren't too steep, i'm definitely interested in this game whether it l... : tfsbrian
  • It probably won't be horribly steep, since they want to appeal to a mass audience. Then again though, I h... : lochaber
• Because graphics always equals gameplay... And another point...you're looking at a game that's a ways fr... : oscrogo

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• Lightning cannon for life. : AgentPothead
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  It was great back when almost noone was Master Bounty Hunter to just hide behind Master Marksman or whate... : yemeth
  • Don't make me break down in nostalgia. That game was awesome. : Bulaba
  • Hehe, I think I was a marksman, and I think I remember those lightning wtfpwning bounty hunters. I only p... : code-e255

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• Kind of like a politician. : Wombat Woo
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  As I recall all the bounty hunters in the movies were loyal to the death. : antiwhipped
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    To their employers? Sure. To each other? Well... : Chris Faylor
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      They weren't under contract to each other. Most of the bounty hunters were ALL about the contract. The c... : vertdang
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        Right. The insinuation was that unless you're paying a hunter, they're not to be trusted. It wasn't clear... : Chris Faylor
        • Thanks for clearing that up :-) : IHATEDUST

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  its an mmo. you grind kills, lather, rise, and repeat. and in a first person shooter, you run around and ... : jarek99
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    not every serving of meat and potatoes is mutton and french fries. Sometimes you get a steak! Half L... : SniperWolf22
    • I'm not sure which game you think is meat and which is steak in the Half Life vs. Serious Sam comparison,... : ReiMomo
    • The point is that you could overgeneralize any genre of game to some kind of methodical process and make ... : CyCo_PL
• I remain unconvinced, I'm afraid. The big issue for me is so little fun, so much down-time, and that goe... : wytefang
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  The fourth pillar: player-directed story. : Defacil
  • Because players never ruin online experience, oh no, that would never happen. :P (My apologies for th... : wytefang
• What do you expect? They are counting on the tried and true MMO-system formula to make this game noobie f... : YummiGummi
• You can't do everything fundamentally different than WoW did. Forcing that would only cause the game to b... : Syrek

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• This is 4000 years prior, so the original trilogy isn't even close to happening yet. : Sturm08
• sorry, that should say that they arent the ONLY bounty hunters : AKA_RA
• In the KOTOR universe, mandalorians are still very much around. : utgaardsloke
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  Also, I hate to meganerd around, but Boba Fett didn't actually wear mandelorian armor, iirc. : hopterque1987
  • He wore pieces of it. but the suit wasn't 100% mando. It WAS however made of Beskar'gam later on in the E... : vertdang
• I lol'd so hard. xXnerdcorerampageXx : imcompa
• NERD RAGE!! : wytefang
• You are such a huge star wars nerd that you're clearly aware of this games setting! CONGA RATS! : Bantis
• Mandos as a culture were mercenaries (and farmers, and family men and women when not under a contract). O... : vertdang
• "The O-L-D Republic". *WHOOOOOOOOOOSH* : Omega Blue
• Ahahahaaha fuckin lol : loboca
• hahahah i love it! : xsoulbrothax
• INTERNET NERD RAGE!!! : darkT
• AKA_WRONG : Audhuml4
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  probably just durasteel or duraplast which is more common than true Beskar'gam armor and looks relatively... : wtf242
  • according to the books it WAS durasteel up until he traveled to Mandalore, and resigned himself to BEING ... : vertdang
• Shut up lore nerd, its early alpha developement, if you look on the site it says "Bounty hunters come fro... : Techpriest((Thc))

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  So play each for 6mo. I used rocket science to deduce that answer btw. : Topaz
  • nope : WhatIsThisFor
• I'm in the opposite boat. The more I see the more I want to fucking play it! : Ellissd
• I agree. This game's art style is so "Meh" to me. It doesn't have anything really unique to it. Ther... : Bulaba
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  Fuckin trekkies. gtfo : loboca
  • Live long and prosper! : dangerdoggie
• Fear the micro-payment hell of Star Trek Online! : natepalm
• I'm actually getting to the point where I just don't want to play any Star Wars Jedi/Sith focused games. ... : AurienTitus

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• |-|4n50|069 dude! : loboca
• |)@27}{ \/8R : vertdang

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• haha , well it's Bioware, so they should have a good idea of implementation. : loboca

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• I think it looks great. As long as the combat is fun and not something like WoW or the other Star Wars MM... : razlebol

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  Well given the broad appeal of the Star Wars franchise, and the developers focus on creating a "saga" for... : carbontree
  • sign me up : chrisschutz

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  What the fuck were they thinking not making a unique looking swamp? : Senate5000
  • Yeah, i mean, it clearly couldn't be inspired by swamp scenes from the, you know, star wars trilogy. : chrisschutz

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• I agree. That environment looks awesome. : PointlesS76
• Yeah, looks good, but I just hope here's no slow downs because of all of that stuff. Just imagining Anarc... : darksied

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• I don't think WoW lovers will be a problem. You'll get the most hate from the haters. You know the ones. ... : Medieval Barber
• Isn't LOTRO the LOTRO of MMOs?! : ECMIM

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• Agreed. The first shots were very meh, but it's getting better over time. : Fred Garvin