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1)   31 Dec 1969 19:33

Star Wars: The Old Republic to be the First Fully-Voiced MMOGs Ever

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Tired of scrolling through pages of text in your favorite MMOG? Star Wars: The Old Republic developer BioWare Austin may have the solution: Record unique dialogue for every single line of text in the game.

Earlier today at EA's E3 press conference, BioWare Cofounder Ray Muzyka followed a processional of roughly two-dozen faux Jedi onstage to announce that the upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic would be the first fully-voiced MMOG ever. Muzyka called it "the largest voiceover project in the history of games," if not all entertainment media.

Muzyka then treated the crowd to a first look at the game's opening cinematic, which featured a group of Sith Lords and bounty hunters clashing with a band of Jedi knights. If Muzyka's previous announcement wasn't enough, the trailer certainly gave some insight into the scale of the developer's ambitions for the project.

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2)   1 Jun 2009 22:49

Well, thats cool. But how bout some game play?

3)   1 Jun 2009 22:52

bue519:
Well, thats cool. But how bout some game play?

Indeed, I'd rather have a fun game than a game that I don't have to read in.

4)   1 Jun 2009 22:53

Just saw the video for it and it was off the F***ING hook man I can't wait.

5)   1 Jun 2009 22:57

Its going to be awesome...

I can see no other possible outcome.

6)   1 Jun 2009 23:02

Deef:

bue519:
Well, thats cool. But how bout some game play?

Indeed, I'd rather have a fun game than a game that I don't have to read in.

Dont jump to the conclusion that the game sucks just becuase they havent released a gameplay trailer yet. I for one, am gonna buy this game. Im glad the MMO market is Really taking off. We actually have more choice now than WoW, WoW, Wow, guild wars, WoW expansion No. 1, Runescape (Sucks?) Wows expansion no 2, and wow.

Now we have, um...WoW, SW Ye olde repulic, AoC, Champions online,DC univserse Tabula rasa (Dying, but free for a few months until it dies) Star trek online, Eve (Biggest load o' bullshit...)LotrO, and so on, W/e, I missed a bunch but hey.
Hmm...I think Im gonna get this Star wars one, and I might try out the Star trek one. ive tried AoC, but its pretty much WoW (Which I played for a year and a half until I realised I was addicted and am currently taking a break. Ya gotta be careful with that game not to be addicted.) with a graphics upgrade and a gameplay downgrade. Also played LotrO. Its very fun actually - the PvP is pretty fun and not a grindfest. In fact the game isnt all that grind based compared to several others. Although My six month subscription ran out and I havent bothered playing it. As for guild wars, I like the whole one-off-purchase thing and no subscriptions, but the game itself well...pretty much sucks, and the classes are very limited. in fact ive played every one of those games that is currently been released, becuase MMO's are one of my fav game genres. Also played eve, and hated it.

So, judging by that wall of text you didnt read, I know about MMO's - and im really quite hyped for Star trek and Star wars MMOs. Although SW galaxies was, well, a disappointment. Though hopefully this will be far better <3. And I know its unoriginal, But I am so gonna be a jedi.

7)   1 Jun 2009 23:07

Ashbax:

Deef:

bue519:
Well, thats cool. But how bout some game play?

Indeed, I'd rather have a fun game than a game that I don't have to read in.

Dont jump to the conclusion that the game sucks just becuase they havent released a gameplay trailer yet. I for one, am gonna buy this game. Im glad the MMO market is Really taking off. We actually have more choice now than WoW, WoW, Wow, guild wars, WoW expansion No. 1, Runescape (Sucks?) Wows expansion no 2, and wow.

Now we have, um...WoW, SW Ye olde repulic, AoC, Champions online,DC univserse Tabula rasa (Dying, but free for a few months until it dies) Star trek online, Eve (Biggest load o' bullshit...)LotrO, and so on, W/e, I missed a bunch but hey.
Hmm...I think Im gonna get this Star wars one, and I might try out the Star trek one. ive tried AoC, but its pretty much WoW (Which I played for a year and a half until I realised I was addicted and am currently taking a break. Ya gotta be careful with that game not to be addicted.) with a graphics upgrade and a gameplay downgrade. Also played LotrO. Its very fun actually - the PvP is pretty fun and not a grindfest. In fact the game isnt all that grind based compared to several others. Although My six month subscription ran out and I havent bothered playing it. As for guild wars, I like the whole one-off-purchase thing and no subscriptions, but the game itself well...pretty much sucks, and the classes are very limited. in fact ive played every one of those games that is currently been released, becuase MMO's are one of my fav game genres. Also played eve, and hated it.

So, judging by that wall of text you didnt read, I know about MMO's - and im really quite hyped for Star trek and Star wars MMOs. Although SW galaxies was, well, a disappointment. Though hopefully this will be far better <3. And I know its unoriginal, But I am so gonna be a jedi.

There are several gameplay videos on the swtor website if you just look.

8)   1 Jun 2009 23:19

An MMORPG with full voice acting? I wonder how much hard drive space that would take up...

9)   1 Jun 2009 23:31

Erm... EverQuest 2 certainly had a large amount of voice acting. Although it might not have been entirely so at release (I know later expansions didn't add in full voice acting).

Still, I'm happy to hear it and I am keeping an eye on this one. But, Star Wars + Bioware means I'm pretty much going to be at least somewhat interesting.

10)   1 Jun 2009 23:35

I'm interested to see how this will turn out.

11)   1 Jun 2009 23:42

"the largest voiceover project in the history of games,"

Wow, even bigger then Dragon Age: Origins?

12)   1 Jun 2009 23:48

sgtshock:
An MMORPG with full voice acting? I wonder how much hard drive space that would take up...

I've been wondering about that myself.

13)   1 Jun 2009 23:50

Didn't AoC have voice acting for just about every NPC I can think of? Or something like that.

14)   1 Jun 2009 23:51

Joy... a lot of bad repetive and over used voice work.....why?

15)   1 Jun 2009 23:53

Bioware has a good history with Star Wars, so perhaps I will play, and tell no-one. My shooter-freak status shall not be compromised.

16)   1 Jun 2009 23:55

Impressive if they can pull it off.

As for the disk space concerns, I expect they'll stream the necessary audio.

17)   1 Jun 2009 23:57

Gormourn:
Didn't AoC have voice acting for just about every NPC I can think of? Or something like that.

Within the starting city of Tortage? Yes. Once you left it? Nope.

18)   2 Jun 2009 00:16

That is a TON of voiceover work. I can't imagine if everything in WoW had voiceovers. That's a mind-boggling amount of sound.

Perhaps they'll find a way to stream the audio through the game or something. I can't imagine having to download all that via any sort of digital distribution and it'd probably take up a few DVD's just for the voiceovers in the retail box.

19)   2 Jun 2009 01:00

Can anyone say Delayed in the immediate future? But if that doesn't happen the the game will be dumbed down gameplay wise most likely.

20)   2 Jun 2009 01:19

RollForInitiative:

Gormourn:
Didn't AoC have voice acting for just about every NPC I can think of? Or something like that.

Within the starting city of Tortage? Yes. Once you left it? Nope.

Yeah that killed the game for me. Tortage was awesome, and, a lot of AoC's flaws could be partially put to one side because the area was so engaging. The -second- you step out and into the main gameworld everything falls to crap. A real shame, a few more years in the cooker and Age of Conan could have been really something special.

21)   2 Jun 2009 03:06

Tired of scrolling through pages of text in your favorite MMOG? Star Wars: The Old Republic developer BioWare Austin may have the solution: Record unique dialogue for every single line of text in the game.

I don't think the common complaints about MMOs usually include "too many words". That has to be waaay down the list - you're definitely nitpicking by the time you're complaining about not having enough voiceovers.

Unless by "fully voiced" they mean "lots of voice work" and not actually that every line of dialogue is voiced. Off the top of my head, even single-player RPGs don't generally voice every single line of dialogue in the game - just the important ones. Unless they also mean "dialogue trimmed down to the bare essentials".

That also seems like a real pain when it comes to adding additional content to the game after launch, both in the work required and the download sizes.

22)   2 Jun 2009 03:25

Shouldn't be too hard, just give the republic troops all the same voice. White Armor + Helmet = You all sound the same.

23)   2 Jun 2009 04:53

TsunamiWombat:
Shouldn't be too hard, just give the republic troops all the same voice. White Armor + Helmet = You all sound the same.

That's racist.

24)   2 Jun 2009 04:53

Ashbax:

Deef:

bue519:
Well, thats cool. But how bout some game play?

Indeed, I'd rather have a fun game than a game that I don't have to read in.

Dont jump to the conclusion that the game sucks just becuase they havent released a gameplay trailer yet. I for one, am gonna buy this game. Im glad the MMO market is Really taking off. We actually have more choice now than WoW, WoW, Wow, guild wars, WoW expansion No. 1, Runescape (Sucks?) Wows expansion no 2, and wow.

Now we have, um...WoW, SW Ye olde repulic, AoC, Champions online,DC univserse Tabula rasa (Dying, but free for a few months until it dies) Star trek online, Eve (Biggest load o' bullshit...)LotrO, and so on, W/e, I missed a bunch but hey.
Hmm...I think Im gonna get this Star wars one, and I might try out the Star trek one. ive tried AoC, but its pretty much WoW (Which I played for a year and a half until I realised I was addicted and am currently taking a break. Ya gotta be careful with that game not to be addicted.) with a graphics upgrade and a gameplay downgrade. Also played LotrO. Its very fun actually - the PvP is pretty fun and not a grindfest. In fact the game isnt all that grind based compared to several others. Although My six month subscription ran out and I havent bothered playing it. As for guild wars, I like the whole one-off-purchase thing and no subscriptions, but the game itself well...pretty much sucks, and the classes are very limited. in fact ive played every one of those games that is currently been released, becuase MMO's are one of my fav game genres. Also played eve, and hated it.

So, judging by that wall of text you didnt read, I know about MMO's - and im really quite hyped for Star trek and Star wars MMOs. Although SW galaxies was, well, a disappointment. Though hopefully this will be far better <3. And I know its unoriginal, But I am so gonna be a jedi.

I never said that I thought it would be bad, I was merely stating a fact.

Also, tl;dr

25)   2 Jun 2009 06:09

I'm just curious if it will be the 3rd MMO on the 360 or not.

26)   2 Jun 2009 06:22

sallene:
Its going to be awesome...

I can see no other possible outcome.

It's either going to be Awesome or so shitty it's Awesomely funny.

27)   2 Jun 2009 06:43

I'm interested to see how it will work, but at the same time I will play it no matter what. It's Star Wars. It's KOTOR. It's going to be AWESOME. All I can hope for is cusomisable clothing, armor and some awesome lightsabers. I want my silver and or black lightsaber, and I will kill for it.

28)   2 Jun 2009 08:49

obisean:

TsunamiWombat:
Shouldn't be too hard, just give the republic troops all the same voice. White Armor + Helmet = You all sound the same.

That's racist.

Haw-haw! Good one! ...even though it's true.

Anyway, I just hope that they don't have NPCs with the same dialogue, I mean, the least they can do is give them different topics and not have them all placed in one area, but talking to a NPC blathering on in the same tone and accent about a topic which you you discussed with them at least ten times already is just a wee-bit annoying.

29)   2 Jun 2009 09:35

One problem I can see with this is the amount of space the voiceovers are going to take up on my already limited HD.It seems like an expensive perk, I don't even have my sound on when I play games.

30)   2 Jun 2009 11:20

ZippyDSMlee:
Joy... a lot of bad repetive and over used voice work.....why?

Dude, it's Bioware. If there's one thing they can handle, it's good voicework. Jennifer Hale, anyone?

31)   2 Jun 2009 11:36

Well hopefully they will have more than 4 voice actors, unlike Oblivion(different developper i know).

32)   2 Jun 2009 11:55

Fully voiced is not exactly what I am looking for. But the trailer looks amazing.
My personal opinion: SW:TOR will be a great game but I will probably have to quit it ten minutes after starting because I had to click away a million dueling challenges. I guess I'd prefer an Over 18 server there ;) (Not because people under 18 are often disturbing but because disturbing people are often under 18).

33)   2 Jun 2009 13:52

1. Hell yes. This is pretty much the only MMO, released or unreleased, that I'm actually interested in, and we all know BioWare always do good voice work.

2. I see no way of doing this without it taking up an unholy amount of space on your hard drive.

3. The title of the news posts suggests ToR is going to be more than one game. Observe: "the first fully voiced MMOGs ever". Pretty sure that's not right.

34)   2 Jun 2009 14:40

Statement: Damn, they have been making us hooked for months now before telling us what it's gonna cost.

Wishful thinking: One-time payment, One-time payment, One-time payment, One-time payment!!!

35)   2 Jun 2009 14:43

Bioware + Starwars The old republic = Camping outside Gamestop.

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