Thomas12255 wrote:

I loved the X-wing Alliance 2 trailer

Heh, now that would be nice.

My head would probably explode.

I loved the X-wing Alliance 2 trailer

Heh, now that would be nice.

I loved the X-wing Alliance 2 trailer

YES.

OldBoy wrote:

Did you watch those Timeline trailers?

I did watch it a couple days ago and it seems as if they want to kill him off. I honestly hope that they'll explain it somehow by saying that all the records of what happened in the unknown regions and back were erased or something. I strongly disagree with the "It is thought that Revan never came back" stuff that Bioware is saying.

I just read an Interview with the writing director Daniel Erickson.
Here a "small" cutout about exactly the issue you mentioned:

Full interview: http://www.vg247.com/2010/06/19/intervi … ore-102797

So, who knows
I wouldn't judge it too soon.

Seriously, give me old school Galactic Civil War MMO or shooter for once. Where have gone the days of SotE, Jedi Knight and X-Wing vs TIE Fighter...

Well...there was Star Wars Galaxies, but then Sony Online Entertainment got a hold of it...

Anyway, the Old Republic trailer was interesting, but being an MMO, I find it a bit questionable regarding whether or not they can actually get that kind of pacing together, or if it'll just be the regular back and fourth attacks with a special bit every now and then. It also looks like it's trying to go the Force Unleashed route with the force powers.

Force Unleashed 2 is looking good, and all I can hope is that they make some various improvements on the first game: First, I hope they can rely a bit less on Quick Time Events. The finishing moves were neat, but it would be much better if you actually had the ability to do that yourself. Second, I hope they can make more use of the DMM and Euphoria technologies. I really loved watching the early videos where they demonstrated what was possible with them, but in-game it didn't really come up often. Sure, you would occasionally go into a room where there was some breakable glass or some bendable metal pillars, and you could see the enemies dive out of the way every now and then, but generally, you wouldn't really see the effects very often. Most of the environment was composed of static bits like canyons and metal walls, without any clutter or equipment that would take damage throughout a fight and be essentially wrecked when you were finished. As for Euphoria, to actually get enemies to do anything other than dive, you would have to practically rub them up against railings, other enemies, or objects to get any effect.

...but frankly, that has nothing to do with the trailers. I thought they were both pretty neat.

Did you watch those Timeline trailers?

I did watch it a couple days ago and it seems as if they want to kill him off. I honestly hope that they'll explain it somehow by saying that all the records of what happened in the unknown regions and back were erased or something. I strongly disagree with the "It is thought that Revan never came back" stuff that Bioware is saying.

I don't think I made myself clear, when I read what I just wrote I think: "That looks like I just threw in a bunch of words together"

Oh well...

Then, we get this Bastila Shan look-alike who battles against this Sith dude, and the two end up to be far more powerful than Yoda and Palpatine!

Those two were old men, being in their evening of life. Some were never trained for war. Luke for example. The only lessons he had were those with the dying Yoda... But I know what you mean and I agree. Seems like they only care about the action
Well, that's what a cinematic trailer is about anyway.

The funny thing is that the sith in the second movie (Hope) is the same as in the first one (Decieved). In 'Hope' that emp grenade or whatever it was bruised his face so he had to wear a mask in 'Decieved', which played after 'Hope' :-P

Additionally I'm sure you'll be able to play a Sith without a mask.
So make your own hero ^^

Did you watch those Timeline trailers?

http://swtor.com/info/holonet/timeline

The last one (it goes backwards) is about Revan and Malak. So they haven't completely abandoned it. I'm sure he will play a role. The story was too good to be just left aside. And I'm sure they know that better than we do^^

I'm not so into MMO's but since you can play it as if it was a singleplayer RPG with a Co-op mode I'm definately interested
And maybe that will get me interested in the other MMO's aspects like raids, PvP, crafting and whatnot.

In the first trailer, there was some stuff that annoyed me too. The Vader/Malak look-alike... Find something new, honestly, I would like to see a Sith lord whos face is not destroyed in some way. Plus, those starships are too similar to the Star Destroyers. In KotOR one and two, we could see similarities, but they weren't exact copies of the movies. The SWTOR ones are.

I guess the main reason I'm mad about this is because they completely abandoned the KotOR 1 and 2 storyline. Revan, the exile and their buddies should be back, but now it looks like Bioware is going to kill Revan off just for the sake of this MMO. KotOR 3 was in pre-development, but it got canceled. Go read about it.

I'll admit, SWTOR DOES look nice, but they are making a new storyline while destroying a great one that hasn't had an ending.

I want the KotOR characters to be back, and they can't leave Revan in the unknown regions forever, no Star Wars story ends like that.

With The Force Unleashed they've definitely made the lead character just too powerful, and it comes across that way very much in the trailer, as it sucks the drama out of every scene because there is just no tension, but I have to say it does work quite well in the game and it is all kinds of fun smashing the game ennvironment and enemies to bits with the Force.

I played a bit of star wars galaxies (a galactic civil war MMORPG), and it was quite fun. I stopped (before the space expansion was released) because I found myself grinding too much. The thing I noticed there was that I didn't really like the jedis walking around. I felt that in that era there shouldn't be too many jedis.

I think that the old republic time period lends itself much better for that.

For me both periods give me a star wars feeling, although I prefer the galactic civil war time.

One of the things I love in the galactic civil war period is that a lot of things are a bit old. Like when you see the cockpit of an x-wing, everything is shaking a bit and wires are hanging around.

I've never played TFU, only seen some gameplay videos of a guy walking through a level and swinging wookies from left to right, with an occasional force push if there were too many of em. Didn't look too attracting.

What the hell was I watching? It was like a dirty crossbreed between SW (somehow, I have no slightest idea which bit) and LOTR. I had absolutely no feeling of Star Wars in it, good thing they had blasters, lightsabers and the original music in it to remind me it was actually supposed to be a trailer of a Star Wars game. I know Im the only one on the island of dislike with this but I cant see how this title is any relevant to Star Wars. I never liked KOTOR series either, since I couldnt immerse myself into the universe in which I thought I was going to be in since it had the SW opening sequence, but it wasnt what I got after all.

Seriously, give me old school Galactic Civil War MMO or shooter for once. Where have gone the days of SotE, Jedi Knight and X-Wing vs TIE Fighter...

@ The Force Unleashed 2

Now when I just started to steam out about not having my good ol' cannonfodder, the stormtroopers, gaining any attention for a good while, here comes a title that reminds me of the good ol' days of Dark Forces and Jedi Knight series. Altho I've got no idea whats the story behind this one since I never played first T.F.U to start with. And while I deeply appreciate that theres actually a Galactic Civil War title coming out again, I just dont get too excited about this guy (presumably protagonist?) saying "Vader cant stop me now". What, is the outcome of the upcoming battle going to be something else than this fella getting his pie handed to himself by the Lord of the Sith?

I dunno, TFU2 seemed nice, but then again like The Old Republic trailer it didnt show the game itself. It only showed a cinematic movie about some dual saber wielding "dude" slashing stormtroopers and some droid that reminded me of Acklay. But, if I have to choose between these two titles, I'd definitely follow TFU2.