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Kenyon - Lord of the Dance  |
Update: Virtue has been so kind as to establish a guild. It can be found here: http://www.swtor.com/guilds/18182/jedi-academy
Got this rumor from Wikipedia: Quote: On April 25th, 2007, a rumor came about that BioWare was secretly in development on a Knights of the Old Republic MMORPG. Stemming from the latest issue of EGM, the rumor contained little information to support the claim. However, investigation into the matter reveals that there is more to the rumor than EGM's single suggestion. In early 2006 BioWare opened an Austin branch to develop an unnamed MMORPG. This alone confirmed an inevitable BioWare MMO, but the choice of Richard Vogel as a leader of the project is what largely suggest that the currently unnamed MMO is set in the KOTOR universe. Vogel was one of the project leaders behind the sci-fi MMO Star Wars Galaxies. SWG was held down by being set in a universe where continuity prevented any true story development (such as seen in WoW) and SOE assuming creative control eventually caused the removal of the things that had kept SWG's hardcore fanbase playing among them the skill tree system, which allowed for more customizable characters and drastic changes to the game's combat and character profession selection.
SOE has been confirmed to have lost the Star Wars license, though there has been no confirmation that BioWare will be producing a KotOR MMORPG. This post was edited by Kenyon on Mar 23 2011 05:48pm. |
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JP - Academy Pimp 
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Quote: This mmo might be good in graphics and all, BUT i still cant believe there will be no K3 and we get...... this instead..... -.-
In my view fans WANTED a kotor 3 not a damn MMO, but no... money comes always 1st right? The start story is completely dumb and stupid, "Revan went to the Unknown Regions and was never heard of" It gives a great rage inside me when i see this 
But well those who like this....thing have fun and.... RIP Kotor! Trying to say the fact that YOU wanted a SRPG doesnt speak for the rest of us, myself and millions of others wanted an MMO just as much, and you call yourself Star Wars fan? havent learn truth is all a point a view yet? Go study some obiwan. You have no clue on what the story is leading into this because we havent received much besides the Comic, but so far what we know is Bastila had offspring and shes a jedi, so the story u want will most likely be inside this MMO.(point made specifically due to Ricks obvious Bastila fetish) The problem is most of the ppl who are against it are too damn thick headed to see what Bioware is doing with it to see that it will probably outdo any SRPG that Obsidian could ever put out and also cover mass scale due to its massive budget only given to an MMO. Follow the updates, read the comics, pay attention to the little details, read the reviews and if u have half a brain and love the KOTOR story, you'll fall in love with TOR. _______________ Come on now, every Generation X boy wanted to be Luke Skywalker. Is it because he was a whiney farm boy from some backwater hack planet? No, it's because he was a FREAKING JEDI. He could block lasers with his lightsaber. He could levitate droids & rocks & crap with his mind. Come on, he choked two pig dudes with just a simple gesture. He cut off Darth Vader's hand and kicked him down a flight of stairs. He got his @$$ zapped by lightning from the geezer Emperor, stood up and said "s'at all you got b!tc#??" This comment was edited by JP on Aug 03 2009 04:47am. |
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Clumsy Jedi - Student |
Ya Shan's right...We wanted a kotor 3 where atleast we would get to follow reavan into the unknown regions or something...I mean can you imagine REVAN dying because of some sith punk !?!?!? I gues they're really doing it for the money... Problem is I don't have a credit card lol... Whatever the case...There is more to worry about in life than a simple game lol....But its kinda sad though  _______________ Fun.Is.Important.To.My.Survival. |
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Rick Shan - Student 
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This mmo might be good in graphics and all, BUT i still cant believe there will be no K3 and we get...... this instead..... -.-
In my view fans WANTED a kotor 3 not a damn MMO, but no... money comes always 1st right? The start story is completely dumb and stupid, "Revan went to the Unknown Regions and was never heard of" It gives a great rage inside me when i see this
But well those who like this....thing have fun and.... RIP Kotor! |
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Lian Del Rey - Student 
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SHUT UP
PREPARE TO JUMP TO LIGHTSPEED _______________ slorp |
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SaZ - Student 
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found interesting thread/ comments about the voiceover video.
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/244344/page/1 _______________ playing jk3 since 30th of january (2005), member since 1st of february. [Unofficial Master to Vision and Z�diac ] If you can make a fool of yourself infront of 300 people you can do anything - Jaiko D'kana This comment was edited by SaZ on Jul 21 2009 03:50pm. |
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SaZ - Student 
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i wonder if they gonna fix the lightsaber animations. now they just look like glowing sticks.
no trail effects... some attacks have it and some dont. even if the character is just spinning the sword in the cinematic for fun - it should make the appropiate sound and have a trailed blade. just like in movies/jk2/jk3.. even lego star wars. also whats that shiny saber light on the place where blade comes out from the hilt? and the existing trail effects? they arent good :| what im trying to say that currently it just looks like a glowing sword that sometimes has the real lightsaber effects added to it. even some skills would look perfectly fine on a simple sword in some asian anime mmo. _______________ playing jk3 since 30th of january (2005), member since 1st of february. [Unofficial Master to Vision and Z�diac ] If you can make a fool of yourself infront of 300 people you can do anything - Jaiko D'kana This comment was edited by SaZ on Jul 19 2009 10:10am. |
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Kainz00r - Jedi Knight 
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Saw that earlier today, the game is looking very promising so far, the voices will be a very nice touch. When I tried Age of Conan, they did that for the starter zone, really helped the immersion. _______________ Fervent supporter of duelling - leave a message if you would like to battle! Married to Masta. |
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Jade Jedi - Retired 
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The Voice of TOR
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hockey99 - Student |
It'll probally be the best star wars game to date |
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Jade Jedi - Retired
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The Return of the Mandalorians and video _______________ *CLICKEH->Never risk the Fett Man|*Download my Saber here. Made by master craftsman Pink Floyd_Mintaka + his 2002 & 4000 comment's [Laz's 700th comment][BDKawika's 600th comment] & Owner of a TOWEL award!!|Master: Sared Padawans: Rage-Ball and Dante Eagle.|*Jade Jedi at The Jedi Academy Archives "There's only one Return and it's not of the King it's of the Jedi" Randal Clerks 2 The top 10 reasons why I procrastinate: 1. |
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Squibit - Student 
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Quote: I'm just looking forward to setting up a Jedi, and starting up the Belouves again.
A chance to play with the grand master of the family? Drop me a message on MSN when you do so Master. _______________ Quote: fiZZe: its SIR Fizzy Fluffy :p Quote: FiZZ[JAK]: that was what I call a counter Ah, things you only ever expect to hear once 
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Jade Jedi - Retired
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Interview and gameplay video from E3 _______________ *CLICKEH->Never risk the Fett Man|*Download my Saber here. Made by master craftsman Pink Floyd_Mintaka + his 2002 & 4000 comment's [Laz's 700th comment][BDKawika's 600th comment] & Owner of a TOWEL award!!|Master: Sared Padawans: Rage-Ball and Dante Eagle.|*Jade Jedi at The Jedi Academy Archives "There's only one Return and it's not of the King it's of the Jedi" Randal Clerks 2 The top 10 reasons why I procrastinate: 1. |
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Orion - Retired 
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Holy crap Ulic!
I may have to pick up this MMO, if I can pull my self away from WoW... _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u |
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Ulic Belouve - Student 
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I'm just looking forward to setting up a Jedi, and starting up the Belouves again.
Now that I notice it, we still have a link to a horrendous and old site...should look to update it or just set up a different page. _______________ Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. |
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SaZ - Student
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i wonder how they are going to handle the class balance.
in star wars even the best trooper had pretty much no chance of killing a good jedi. in game terms that would be extremely unfair and no one would play gunners (bounty hunters is a different thing tho). while balancing this would be fair for mmo, but it would destroy star wars feel. what could they possibly do? simply make jedi what they already are, a support class pretty much. their role in computer game setting is hard to do right imo. on one hand you are right - they are support class. very nice adaptive defensive abilities may qualify them as sort of 'tank', while under proper circumstances jedi would infiltrate and kill everyone from behind like a 'rogue' lol such versatility (that jedi MUST have or else they wont be simmilar to movies) is what makes them imbalanced. however some kind of 'druid'(comparable to both dnd and WoW ones) type of system might work. good at melee, good ranged nuker (probably less dmg - more secondary effects) or defender = healer/tank. ofcourse - not all of these at once. ye these 'roles' sound so pathetic... but i doubt we wont be seeing them in this game. _______________ playing jk3 since 30th of january (2005), member since 1st of february. [Unofficial Master to Vision and Z�diac ] If you can make a fool of yourself infront of 300 people you can do anything - Jaiko D'kana This comment was edited by SaZ on Jun 24 2009 04:42pm. |
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Tallepyon - Student 
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I hope that they start announcing races, as I am kind of curious of the choices we are going to get. I really hope they even give us a choice. |
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Ritualist - Student 
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Also, don't forget order 66!  |
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Monteeeeeee - Nugget 
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Quote: i wonder how they are going to handle the class balance.
in star wars even the best trooper had pretty much no chance of killing a good jedi. in game terms that would be extremely unfair and no one would play gunners (bounty hunters is a different thing tho). while balancing this would be fair for mmo, but it would destroy star wars feel. what could they possibly do? simply make jedi what they already are, a support class pretty much. _______________ If you add me to MSN, tell me who you are
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Monteeeeeee - Nugget 
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gief bounty hunter _______________ If you add me to MSN, tell me who you are
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Jade Jedi - Retired
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Looking forward to seeing the Jedi and Sith class. _______________ *CLICKEH->Never risk the Fett Man|*Download my Saber here. Made by master craftsman Pink Floyd_Mintaka + his 2002 & 4000 comment's [Laz's 700th comment][BDKawika's 600th comment] & Owner of a TOWEL award!!|Master: Sared Padawans: Rage-Ball and Dante Eagle.|*Jade Jedi at The Jedi Academy Archives "There's only one Return and it's not of the King it's of the Jedi" Randal Clerks 2 The top 10 reasons why I procrastinate: 1. |
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JP - Academy Pimp
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Smuggler info offically released on the TOR site, check out the combat tactics tab
Scruffy Nerf Herders click here _______________ Come on now, every Generation X boy wanted to be Luke Skywalker. Is it because he was a whiney farm boy from some backwater hack planet? No, it's because he was a FREAKING JEDI. He could block lasers with his lightsaber. He could levitate droids & rocks & crap with his mind. Come on, he choked two pig dudes with just a simple gesture. He cut off Darth Vader's hand and kicked him down a flight of stairs. He got his @$$ zapped by lightning from the geezer Emperor, stood up and said "s'at all you got b!tc#??" This comment was edited by JP on Jun 13 2009 01:09am. |
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Ash - Eats Babies 
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Quote: BioWare made great games so far... but LucasArts... well... they give some doubts. Let's hope it will work out as fine, we surely need a new SW game out, which will be awesome, epic and all that
 Johauna Back in it's heyday, seeing the LucasArts name meant you were about to get a really awesome game. It was a company that actually put love and care into each of their titles. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if a company like Bioware was inspired by LucasArts in the first place. Of course thats not to say that LucasArts hasn't been making utter dogcrap in the last few years. I guess I'll just go pop in Curse of Monkey Island and Jedi Knight while pretending like it's still 1997. _______________ "We keep odd hours...." ----------------------- They Live, We Sleep |
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†Johauna Darkrider†- Student 
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BioWare made great games so far... but LucasArts... well... they give some doubts. Let's hope it will work out as fine, we surely need a new SW game out, which will be awesome, epic and all that
Johauna _______________ Johauna's Bio | When I am GRANDMASTER...! | StarCraft II Protoss Learner | Wannabe GrandMaster Leaguer | How to NOT play StarCraft II Specialist |
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The Killer 9000 - Student 
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i have confidence that Lucas arts and bio ware will out meet our expections. at least lets hope so after the force unleashed. _______________ "I am Neither Light nor Dark but rather gray, i have embraced both paths of life, and it has made me stronger..." |
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Laziana - Jedi Instructor 
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I still fail to see how this is all going to work. Unique storylines for each class... so it's like a... single player RPG inside an MMO? 
I will be very careful with this one - it gets hyped enough already. Hopefully not hyped to the death :/ _______________ Proud owner of Buster Senatu's 200th & 300th, Muro's 370th, Maher's 2100th, Henkes' 1639th, Johauna's 400th, 666th and 900th, Sho Koon's 2000th and Kain Sol's 600th comment Download Laziana's lightsaber here! Glory to Arstozka! |
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