Star Wars: The Old Republic - 25 mins gameplay video

[JonasSalk]

http://youtu.be/ebUMuuS1AZs

Totalbiscuit is joined by Stephen Reid (@rockjaw) for an exclusive look at Star Wars The Old Republic and the Sith Warrior starting zone, ft. in-game audio feed, full voice acting and double-British action.

Filmed off-screen at Gamescom 2011 with full permission from Bioware.

[Shade]

My dad was in this beta... I think he still is as well

[Barrister]

I'll probably get this when it comes out.

But to sit and watch some other person play a video game for 25 minutes?

[garbon]

But to sit and watch some other person play a video game for 25 minutes?

Right?

[The Brain]

Back in the day that was a common way to hang out.

[Scipio]

Back in the day that was a common way to hang out.

I remember the first time I saw Quake.  That's exactly how it happened....

[Grey Fox]

I'll probably get this when it comes out.

But to sit and watch some other person play a video game for 25 minutes?

Everything is in the commentary. Totalbiscuit is pretty good, imo.

[JonasSalk]

I'll probably get this when it comes out.

But to sit and watch some other person play a video game for 25 minutes?

It shows off the combat system, the voice acting, and provides commentary from a well-known games commentator and a developer of the game.

[Neil]

MMO?  Booo.

[LaCroix]

so, for those of us lacking the time or internet connection to watch a 25 minute video of some dude playing the game, how does it look? was that pissed off ea employee = right?

[Faeelin]

so, for those of us lacking the time or internet connection to watch a 25 minute video of some dude playing the game, how does it look? was that pissed off ea employee = right?

Which pissed off employee?

[Cecil]

Actually it didnt look half bad. Doubt I´ll be picking it up but that has more to do with not wanting to flush my life down the toilet again.

[LaCroix]

Which pissed off employee?

it was posted on the forum a few months ago

http://leakerz.net/wp/2010/10/13/why-swtor-will-fail/

[Barrister]

I've been looking into this game.  I didn't realize that the release date was expected to be sometime this year, which is coming up sooner or later.

I don't think it's going to be fabulous, but it does seem as if it could be fun to play for a few months at least.  All the work on different questlines should be amusing for awhile.

[Barrister]

December 20th is the release date, if anyone's interested.

Apparently in this game in order to keep with the BioWare model of RPGs everybody gets a companion. In MMO terms it means every class is a pet class.  Which is fine and all - should give plenty of atmosphere, is very Star Wars-y (Han and Chewie, Luke and R2, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan), but they better work HARD at making those companions useful.