The Star Wars: The Old Republic Website offers Fate of the Galaxy, a new trailer from the upcoming MMORPG. The clip features in-game footage.
Update: from PAX East 2011: a look at gameplay from the Republic Flashpoint, Taral V, with developer commentary.
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Looks like it's gonna be really cool
But now, the change in graphics (it's all cartoony now) and the WoW inspiration makes me feel like this won't be my first MMO since Phantasy Star Online.
Really, we always knew it would be some crappy WoW clone designed to work on machines all the way down to pocket calculators. Tbh, there is nothing they have said that has been the least bit interresting, and every vid looks like generic WoW clone #723. The whole "but we have a story!!!" spiel they give is so trite, noone plays MMO's for the story, noone listens to the inane overblown NPC's or reads the pages of text for each quest so having that as your trump card is missing the point of MMO's entirely.
No. Just no.
Do you know anything about MMOs aside from the obvious? If so, have you even played WoW? If so, what makes you say that The Old Republic is a WoW clone?
Actually, this is the rare occasion of a western developer making an MMO without trying to create the next WoW. It's giving the MMO players who are sick and tired of WoW a bit of hope.
Also, a "crappy" WoW clone? When exactly has Bioware (BIOWARE ffs!) come to be known for developing crappy games? Even if they were, as you were stating, making a WoW clone, it would certainly be a kickass one.
On another note, it's one thing to dislike the cartoony style of the graphics, but for an MMO, they look quite amazing, actually.
Also, i know a lot about MMO's, I play a lot of them, gonna be trying rift in a few days, and i will no doubt try TOR. But im under no illusions about what Bioware are doing and looking to achieve with TOR. They aren't reinventing the genre, they are copying the vast majority of MMO's out there and instead of focusing on the multiplayer aspect, doing quests together, creating your own adventure, diversity etc, they have decided to have a linear scripted story that by its very definition will end up being very similar to every player be the driving force of the game.
Also, for Bioware making crap games lately, see Dragon Age 2. No developer is perfect, and Bioware have been showing signs of mass stupidity lately.
It looks great and I hope it can deliver :)