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Sell me on this game
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So I played WoW for a long time. Stopped after Lich King, and have thought about getting back into it. But I see a lot of people here don't talk about WoW anymore and might not play it as much and everyone wants to play TOR. So sell me on this game. Don't use things like "It's Star Wars" or "You can be a Sith" I want a hard sell on why I should play TOR.......go
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I don't think I can do a hard sell.
Biggest point: It has an excellent 'single player' story line. Well voice acted, huge world, exciting things going on, fun game play. All designed as solo content. I would buy this game and play just the single player aspects and feel that I've gotten good value. If I stop playing in a month, I'll be happy with the purchase. I'm enjoying the story content that much.
Oh, note on that point - I'm not a big Star Wars guy. I mean, I like it and all. But, I'm hardly even a fan. So, I find the story good even though I'm not a junkie.
Everything else? A lot of potential. It's an MMO, though. Do you need to be sold on MMO stuff? It looks like they have the right idea in a lot of places. They've improved on some annoyances that exist in WoW (No food/water, crafting is less bitchy, vehicles become available early and affordably . . . lots of little stuff).
I think the best thing you can say about an MMO out of the gate these days is: It compares rather well with WoW on day 1. A lot of the systems are in place and they work.
The biggest question mark for the game is how well they'll build upon those base systems in the next year to make the end game content exciting and interesting.
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1. A lot of people here are playing on the same server together
2. The quests are a lot of fun. Like Etter said, this is "single player worthy". Did you enjoy the KOTOR games? If so, then you'll enjoy this.
3. It is a change from WoW. It is in a fun setting. The game mechanics are still familiar enough though.
4. It is a very complete and well polished game out of the gate. Far better than WoW was day one - though of course it benefits from WoW's learnings over the years.
5. EVERYONE here playing the game is having A LOT of fun. I haven't heard any major complaints. Nobody seems to regret picking it up.
6. There are a lot of subscribers already so it is reasonable to expect the game to receive regular updates. -
it is simply WoW skinned in space with star wars themes, voice acting, and occasional star fox battles. the quests are the same and most of the classes are very similar with very similar things such as 2 minute cd pvp trinkets. the action is not as responsive or smooth as WoW.
I disagree with clark on #4, I feel like WoW 2004 was still a bit better polished than this, this does have the luxury of experience and disk space-- the graphics are certainly better than 2004 although not great to remain a wide audience, and the luxury of disk space yields lots of voice acting and large open areas.
the questing layout is better, you don't need to "know" the zones to be most efficient, it is all given to you in one central location, then you complete the zone and all chains lead to the next zone, conveniently -
DrAwkward said: I feel like WoW 2004 was still a bit better polished than this
I guess this is tricky.
WoW was very polished for what it was.
TOR is also very polished and also includes much of what WoW has refined over the last 7 years at the same time.
I mean, that's as it should be. If you can't sorta match what's currently on the market, you should hardly bother.
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DrAwkward said: it is simply WoW skinned in space with star wars themes, voice acting, and occasional star fox battles
You make a fairly solid argument right there.
