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DArtagnan
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If they condensed all the story content and increased XP gain significantly - the game would be pretty cool as a KotOR game.
The reason it doesn't work as a KotOR game - primarily - is the time it takes to level and you spend AGES doing nothing but boring travelling and samey sidequests. The main story - which is really the meat of the quality - is scattered around the grind too sparsely. This results in a game that's not exciting and doesn't have the strong drive needed for an engaging singleplayer RPG. The combat is also quite "MMO-ish" and I prefer the D20 system of the KotORs - but it would still work OK if they fixed the pacing.
Naturally, that would result in a completely different game that could never work as an MMO - so obviously it will never happen.
It would also be just a mediocre singleplayer game, because they don't have the set pieces and truly cinematic locations of the KotOR games. That kind of thing is hard to pull off in an MMO that's supposed to last for hundreds and hundreds of hours. You can't make that many unique/cool locations. Maybe if they cut up all the planets and re-arranged everything in a linear pattern, etc.
Nah, would never happen. Too bad.
I'd absolutely LOVE a proper KotOR 3 (and 4, 5, 6, etc.). But Bioware is dead.
The reason it doesn't work as a KotOR game - primarily - is the time it takes to level and you spend AGES doing nothing but boring travelling and samey sidequests. The main story - which is really the meat of the quality - is scattered around the grind too sparsely. This results in a game that's not exciting and doesn't have the strong drive needed for an engaging singleplayer RPG. The combat is also quite "MMO-ish" and I prefer the D20 system of the KotORs - but it would still work OK if they fixed the pacing.
Naturally, that would result in a completely different game that could never work as an MMO - so obviously it will never happen.
It would also be just a mediocre singleplayer game, because they don't have the set pieces and truly cinematic locations of the KotOR games. That kind of thing is hard to pull off in an MMO that's supposed to last for hundreds and hundreds of hours. You can't make that many unique/cool locations. Maybe if they cut up all the planets and re-arranged everything in a linear pattern, etc.
Nah, would never happen. Too bad.
I'd absolutely LOVE a proper KotOR 3 (and 4, 5, 6, etc.). But Bioware is dead.