Tasty new interview on MMOGamer.com
MMOGamer.com has posted a 4 page interview with the lead designer and lead writer on SW:TOR. The interview goes into a little detail about class-specific questing and the overall story arcs of the game. Well worth a read!
Here’s some tasty tidbits.
Not just a completely different story, but when you switch between factions, every class has their own story, but when you switch between factions there is not one piece of repeated content. Period.
Not one line of VO, not one character, not one quest. Totally different from front to back.
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The MMO Gamer: If you have five friends, and they’re all playing different classes, do four have to follow around one while they do the Smuggler quest, and then the Smuggler has to help the other four while they do their quests in turn?
And would those other party member just be standing idle by the sidelines? Or, can you become actively involved in the storylines of other characters?
Daniel Erickson: If you want to let Han go try to pay off Jabba by himself, there he goes.
James Ohlen: Or you can go with him.
Daniel Erickson: If you want to go with him, and be part of his story ……. there’s activities to do like for example, if you’re going to help the Smuggler, and you’re a Jedi, there’ll be activities for that Jedi to do while the Smuggler is doing his quest, that will help him out.
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James Ohlen: MMOs are very slow-paced, it’s you versus one enemy, and you hit him fifteen times until he dies. That’s something we’ve consciously moved away from in Star Wars: The Old Republic.
You’re fighting against multiple enemies, the action is fast-paced, there’s a lot more animations going on.
Read the rest of the interview here!
