Posts Tagged 'Star Wars: The Old Republic'

Blizzard and Bioware's MMOs: Telling Stories From Opposite Directions

There’s a lot of presumption out there that MMORPGs can’t or don’t tell stories like their single-player counterparts. Me, I think it’s nonsense. Maybe that was true in the past. It isn’t now.

In fact, I’ve been amazed at how much they’ve evolved from oldschool monster-clubbing. Somehow, some way, MMOs started telling stories. Final Fantasy XI has character-focused missions bound together into a grand narrative, Age of Conan has its early-game switches between single-player and multiplayer, and Guild Wars has its hub-and-instance structure. Dungeons and Dragons Online actually has a narrator. Storytelling’s gotten big, and storytelling choices has become key to differentiation within the genre.

Even World of Warcraft (WoW) has evolved into a story-focused game.

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Blizzard and Bioware's MMOs: Telling Stories From Opposite Directions

There’s a lot of presumption out there that MMORPGs can’t or don’t tell stories like their single-player counterparts. Me, I think it’s nonsense. Maybe that was true in the past. It isn’t now.

In fact, I’ve been amazed at how much they’ve evolved from oldschool monster-clubbing. Somehow, some way, MMOs started telling stories. Final Fantasy XI has character-focused missions bound together into a grand narrative, Age of Conan has its early-game switches between single-player and multiplayer, and Guild Wars has its hub-and-instance structure. Dungeons and Dragons Online actually has a narrator. Storytelling’s gotten big, and storytelling choices has become key to differentiation within the genre.

Even World of Warcraft (WoW) has evolved into a story-focused game.

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I Have Had A Vision: The MMORPG of the future

Let us agree on one thing: fuck yellow exclamation points. You’ve seen them – they lurk above the heads of countless NPCs in countless MMORPGs, signposting quests.  I remember the first time I encountered them, in Lord of the Rings

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I Have Had A Vision: The MMORPG of the future

Let us agree on one thing: fuck yellow exclamation points. You’ve seen them – they lurk above the heads of countless NPCs in countless MMORPGs, signposting quests.  I remember the first time I encountered them, in Lord of the Rings

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Star Wars: The Old Republic Finally Gets a Release Date

You’ve probably been waiting a long time for this, so I’ll just say it. The release date has been scheduled for December 20th, 2011 for the US, and December 22nd, 2011 for Europe. Speaking at the 2011 Eurogamer Expo in

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Star Wars: The Old Republic Finally Gets a Release Date

You’ve probably been waiting a long time for this, so I’ll just say it. The release date has been scheduled for December 20th, 2011 for the US, and December 22nd, 2011 for Europe. Speaking at the 2011 Eurogamer Expo in

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Star Wars:The Old Republic Beta Testing to Begin September 2nd

Hear that roar in the distance?  That’s the sound of Star Wars: The Old Republic fans from around the world rejoicing as the announcement of next weekends beta testing makes its way around the globe. That’s right.  It was announced

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Star Wars:The Old Republic Beta Testing to Begin September 2nd

Hear that roar in the distance?  That’s the sound of Star Wars: The Old Republic fans from around the world rejoicing as the announcement of next weekends beta testing makes its way around the globe. That’s right.  It was announced

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Star Wars: The Old Republic Special Reveal At Comic-Con

You’re going to have to work for it, though, and by “work” I mean “click a couple of things”. Bioware is teasing some super special reveal for The Old Republic at Comic-Con, which will only occur if they get 200k

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Star Wars: The Old Republic Special Reveal At Comic-Con

You’re going to have to work for it, though, and by “work” I mean “click a couple of things”. Bioware is teasing some super special reveal for The Old Republic at Comic-Con, which will only occur if they get 200k

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Star Wars: The Old Republic Trailer Melts Brains

Today? Today we saw a pretty lame show from Microsoft. Too much talking, not enough showing, not many big guns to speak of in terms of software. EA had lots of big, big guns–you know, like the Gun Club! But

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Star Wars: The Old Republic Trailer Melts Brains

Today? Today we saw a pretty lame show from Microsoft. Too much talking, not enough showing, not many big guns to speak of in terms of software. EA had lots of big, big guns–you know, like the Gun Club! But

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