Sunday, March 15, 2009

Bounty Hunters, Concerns

Bioware has released another video documentary for Star Wars: The Old Republic and in it, they announce the Bounty Hunter as a player class. My Boba Fett action figures are jumping for joy.

However, I have to voice my concern for the underlying gameplay that Bioware chooses to show in these videos. The concept art is great, the developer commentary is spot on, but the actual gameplay looks dated and depressing. The animations and combat looked average at best.

Every new video from Bioware seems to feature fewer seconds of actual gameplay and more "how great this game will be" propaganda. It makes me wonder what Bioware is hiding.

Hopefully this is all overblown huffing and puffing on my part over some alpha (or earlier) footage of the game, but there is this little jaded gamer inside of me that doesn't buy that excuse.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous1:33 PM

    Watching all these previews doesn't make me want to play a Star Wars MMO -- but it does make me want to play KotOR again :)

    I'm not sure class-based epic quests are all that much of an innovation, actually. I vaguely recall EQ and EQ2 having such things.

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