So there are plenty of CG trailers, but have they shown actual gameplay yet?

Yeah. But it wasn't impressive.

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I'm sure there will be at least a few fairly hands on demo videos that show up. Hell they showed gameplay at LAST years E3.

Three hours of footage here:
http://betacake.blogspot.com/2011/05...ours-long.html

For as long as it lasts. EA/Bioware is taking down this stuff almost as quick as it's posted.

edit: Whoops, that one is really old.

Here are some upcoming features:
# G4TV LIVE HANDS ON DEMO
WHEN: JUNE 8TH AT 3PM PT / 6PM ET / 24:00 CEST
Quote:
G4's E3 2011 LIVE show on Wednesday focuses on EXCLUSIVE HANDS ON DEMOS and INTERVIEWS from the G4 stage at the convention center. Coverage begins at 6pm ET and runs through 9pm ET, with a special E3-themed episode of Web Soup at 9pm ET. We’ll have LIVE HANDS ON DEMOS of Batman: Arkham City, WWE 2012, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Tekken X Street Fighter, Resistance 3, SSX Deadly Descent, plus a FIRST LOOK AT HORDE MODE for Gears of War 3 and many more.

# IGN LIVE SHOW
WHEN: JUNE 9TH AT 11AM PT / 2PM ET / 20:00 CEST
Quote:
And as we've done in years past, we'll be running IGN's Live Show throughout E3. GameScoop! founder and editor extraordinaire Daemon Hatfield has put together an impressive list of games -- 49 in total -- for you to see firsthand. Developers from studios around the world will play their games with IGN editors, and you'll get to watch from the comfort of your own home.

RobV, please turn off autoplay on the video you're quoting in post 48.

I'm not convinced by this. It looks like a half-assed single player game that was made into an MMO for no apparent reason. This should've been another single player game. Oh well...

Waaaah it's an MMO, waaaaah. Same ol' shit from some of you guys. It gets tiring.

This is why I always thought clamoring for game play clips is bit silly. Some games, MMO's included, are just boring to watch

I'm not going into the Call of Duty threads and complaining that it's not a 2D platformer.

Okay, now I see why they've been focusing on the pre-rendered cutscenes.

Don't get me wrong. I wanted it to look good (proving my fears unfounded) but it doesn't. And I think we all suspected as much when all the ads were (admittedly awesome) CGI trailers and some scant clips of gameplay seen in developer interviews.

This game instead looks like they tried to shoehorn a single player game into an MMO. It looks like an uncomfortable middle ground.

I never played SWG, but I still do not see how a raid could work well in the SW/sci-fi vein. I played WoW and raiding worked well in that setting, but SW seems an odd fit. Is there healing, Tank? I have sworn off MMOs since I broke my WoW addiction, so I will try and skip this one, maybe try the free demo.

Yeah, totally. Anyone who has played an MMO realizes this. This game is nothing more than WoW with a Bioware/Star Wars touch on it, exactly what I (and others) expected it to be. With each class supposed to have their own 50-100 hour unique storyline quest, I'm really looking forward to it.

There are roles, just like any other MMO. I think it's flexible due to talents, or whatever they are calling them, just like WoW, so a Jedi can be a tank, dps, or a healer. There are also more specific classes for those roles, I think there is some type of Medic class, and there is a tank oriented class.

I just have more trouble seeing how I could be immersed in this type of game set in a Sci-fi environment than a D&D/fantasy environment as I have not played one in this setting before.

Try playing Mass Effect and you'll see Bioware is very capable at making an immersive sci-fi RPG. I actually like that franchise better than their Dragon Age games.

That autoplay video is giving me fits.

What are you doing still going to page 2 of this thread?

40 posts per page.

^^ Better?

Well that explains it.

I heard the wookie race makes a good tank.

That's what has me most interested in old republic. I played WOW for about two months. After the 50th quest of collecting items or killing a set number of monsters, it just became boring to me. There wasn't much of a story to pull me in. I've heard that there are no fetch quests in O.R.