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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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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
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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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†Johauna Darkrider†- Student 
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http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-star-wars/49937
There is download option. Enjoy
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SaZ - Student
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anyone knows where i could download that video to my pc? _______________ 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 |
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†Johauna Darkrider†- Student
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I'm drooling... <.<
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hisownfoot - Student 
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yeah, the cinematic was very impressive, byfar the best thing to come out of e3 |
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Jade Jedi - Retired
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Yeah this is an awesome clip, though we should remember this is only a cinematic and not actual gameplay but if the game is half as good as this we're in for a real treat. _______________ *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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Ash - Eats Babies 
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Wow, that 3min cinematic was better than all 3 prequels together. I was kinda on the fence about this game but I really hope for the best. _______________ "We keep odd hours...." ----------------------- They Live, We Sleep |
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Ritualist - Student 
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http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-star-wars/49936
EPIC cinematic! |
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hisownfoot - Student
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its going to be wierd having so many jedi. i miss swg  |
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SaZ - Student 
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http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/238002/TOR-SmugglerDual-Wield-Lightsabers-confirmed-E3-coverage-hints-at-starships-and-more.html _______________ 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 |
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JP - Academy Pimp
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Quote: Looks like we won't be seeing this till 2010.
i agree, probably after C5 next fallish. But they are supposingly planning on showing alot of the game at E3 this year. _______________ 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#??" |
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Jade Jedi - Retired
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Looks like we won't be seeing this till 2010. _______________ *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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*Warning possible KOTOR2 Spoilers*
well we have to assume the player are all knights, not masters, and given what we've seen in the KOTOR timeperiod specific said by Atton. "Jedi are not all that hard to kill" he goes into a big speech of how he goes about killing them. But if Atton knew best believe the sith knew and the Republic trained its soldiers to know the weakness of the jedi which is basically the weakness of the sith. I'm making alot of assumptions here but yea...lore wise it can work. _______________ 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#??" |
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