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Worse kept secret confirmed. KOTOR MMO by Bioware.
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Why? Games like AoC, while it has its flaws, have started to adapt cinematic story telling to the the MMO market. Just because it hasn't been done, doesn't mean it can't be done.
If anyone can break down the barrier and bring real cinematic story telling to an MMO, it's BioWare.
What are you smoking
BS. The MMO's YOU'VE PLAYED are like that.
There are MMO's, past and present, that are not WoW clones, that have world effecting game play and epic stories. Just because you haven't stumbled on to one, doesn't mean they've never existed in some form or another.
As much as I like WoW, if it has done anything to hurt MMO's, it's homogenize the industry and make everyone believe that every MMO has to be just like it. It's like MMO = WoW in peoples minds, and they can't separate the two.
In KOTOR 2 there only seemed to be like 4 council members left. There are a few strewn about but not the abundance that would be present in an MMO.
4 that you saw, on the very limited set of worlds you travel to.
The whole POINT of the KoToR time period is that it's very force user heavy. Lots of Sith and Jedi running around with light sabers.
Also, it could be pre-KOTOR 1, with a well-established council and lots of force users running around in the open.
Which I will enjoy.
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There are sure to be pockets here and there naturally. But not armies worth.
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council members. few left of an already small group. ok, a large part of KOTOR2s story was about a large chunk of the Jedi being wiped out(especially the most powerful ones), but it was also leading towards the creation of a new Jedi/Sith Order. one that would be prepared and capable of taking on the larger threat to the galaxy that Reven was off dealing with.*
if we do indeed get KOTOR3 before the MMO, i'd imagine that it'll both bring the trilogy to an end and set the scene for a great conflict that will be at the heart of the MMO.
*most of this is based on memory of the games and the KOTOR2 Lets Play, so i might be a little bit wrong.
There's a buttload of both jedi and sith in the kotor timeline, and now that the immediate threat is gone and presumably the academies can be restored, it's a ripe timeline to stick a fresh faced jedi (you) into.
So if I had to guess the game will be playable as several classes of jedi or sith, along with maybe infiltrators and some kind of commando or bounty hunter
What a steaming pile of shit.
Try reading the thread again.
KOTOR 3, THEN the MMO.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
well thats another question that hasn't been either asked or answered. all we've got is confirmation that a KOTOR MMO is being worked on. not that its taking the place of KOTOR3. and going by this thread, it seems quite a few think that both are being worked on.
So they could just make it 30 years or something after the events in the games and you are one of the new students being trained by the exile/revan/whoever is left.
Easy.
Edit: Also - MANDALORIANS as playable race. Hell yes. This game basically makes itself.
Sneaky..
all of it.
and then a just a little bit more.
Wait, where was kotor 3 confirmed? And who is doing it
I'm going to say it'd have to be more than 30 years. That's really only 1 generation for maybe 3-5 jedi to train thousands. It takes what, a decade of careful training to produce a single jedi? Unless each jedi is training upwards of 10 apprentices at the same time (and let's face it, there's no way Handmaiden and Visas are that competent) it would take another few decades to have any semblance of armies.
The jedi are essentially extinct at the end of KOTOR 2. The masters could hide in places touched by the Dark Side or huge, densely populated planets; I doubt there are thousands of jedi apprentices who had the same knowledge and capacity to hide.
Now, they could claim that when Revan left to fight the true Sith that he brought in tow an army of jedi, both light and dark (As far as I recall there's no statement of what contingent of people he might have taken with him, only that he left lots of important people behind). They could set it before KOTOR 1. They could set it multiple decades after KOTOR 2 when the principle of exponential growth has had a bit more time to work.
I do concur that Mandalorians would be a most excellent race.
EDIT: Not every force user has to be a jedi or sith indeed, but they all leave echoes in the Force that Nihilus would have used to track them down and absorb them.
I never asked for this!
I never asked for this!
I think an MMO where you had character progression through non-force skills with the fairly standard idea of 'better blaster equals more badass' (or whatever your flavour favoured), followed by a progression of force and lightsaber skills that would gradually free you from equipment based constraints, would be pretty awesome.
And for lack of information, we're calling it a "KOTOR MMO," but it's more likely an MMO set in the old republic, which means the gameplay signatures and storyline of the KOTOR series don't have to be followed.
I think it could easily be BEFORE the KOTOR installments that have already been made.
Is no one else even a little intrigued by this game?
As for when this KOTOR MMO takes place I'm going to bet it might take place during the Republic's war with the Mando's, it's a pretty good time to have such a MMO. Your able to set up potential for huge fights and battles, you got the Jedi having issues, some are helping Revan fighting, some are supporting the council. Plus you can fit in Sith and Dark Jedi as well easily enough with everything going on and that in turn leads into the first KOTOR when it's all said and done.
If they want they got a few thousand years of history to play the game in the end, The Old Republic spanned a great amount of time and may not even have anything to do with the time zone the original KOTOR games took place in.
Very yes!
I never asked for this!
Revan is confirmed as a male.
The exile meanwhile is the female, both have been clarified by Lucasarts.
Also the Reven action figure is spot on, although if you remove his cloak the dudes bald.
I never asked for this!
but they're super hard to find
I saw one for 20 bucks in my comic book store but I didn't have the money and when I came back it was gone