[SpardaSon21]

"I will not let this Republic, which has stood for a thousand years, be split in two."

Was that from one of the movies?  Lucas is too arrogant to have one of the lines from one of his movies be known as a goof.  Of course, this means that in the opening of Episode III all those Venators taking on all those Recusants without any Acclamators or Deadnoughts for backup is officially canon.  Which is just re-frakking-tarded.

[Rodo]

that trailer is awesome! hard to believe the game will look like that.

[General Battuta]

Preview for the game went up on Kotaku today. People are saying it's a lot more like a single-player RPG than they expected. Signs are good.

If only I would ever be able to play it. Monthly subscription fees are verboten.

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

hard to believe the game will look like that.

It won't. The trailer is just another excellent piece from Blur Studios.

[Rick James]

hard to believe the game will look like that.

It won't. The trailer is just another excellent piece from Blur Studios.

Now if we just had two hours of that, I might be willing to forgive George Lucas for the prequels.

[Fury]

Gameplay videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUDtJFHlcqI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIkjvAI1420

[Pred the Penguin]

I'll only buy this if it has significant singleplayer options.

I wish game developers would look more into established EU.... but I guess that's just wishful thinking.

[Fury]

I'll only buy this if it has significant singleplayer options.

You missed this topic and the link within apparently.
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=65718.0

[StarSlayer]

They do make nice trailers

Too bad its a thrice cursed MMO. 

It's nice to see Stormtrooper proxies best Force wielders, even if I find the fact that "star destroyers" and "stormies" existing thousands of years before the main movies a little silly, apparently technological development in SW must be taught by the Adeptus Mechanicus. 

[Scourge of Ages]

My money's on some sort of thousand-year dark age of some sort.

EDIT: MMMmmmmmm... that's good trailer.

[Fury]

Erm, that's full body armor of republic troops. One would imagine futuristic soldiers would have such to protect themselves. I'm sure they could've opted to armor that looks more like the one from Crysis. But honestly, I think this works better. The Sith ships do resemble Star Destroyers a bit as you only saw their silhouettes, but so what? They look ominous and different to republic ships. And we saw sith ships in KotOR already back in 2003.

You're pretty late to the party if you start complaining about slow technological development in the SW-verse now. You should've done that when the first KotOR came out back in 2003.

In all honesty, if humanity has gotten this far in relatively short time technology wise, I'm rather sure that  a few thousand years from now we have technology that makes SW look like kids toys.

[SpardaSon21]

GameTrailers said those soldiers were clones.  If true, that is a major ret-con since if clones were used as soldiers way back then Obi-Wan should not have been surprised about the army on Kamino.

And it looks like the TOR armor is very similar to Phase 2 Clone Trooper armor.


Has BioWare come up with nothing original at all for this?  It wouldn't surprise me though if Lucas was making them do things this way so he could have image association with the prequels.

[StarSlayer]

Erm, that's full body armor of republic troops. One would imagine futuristic soldiers would have such to protect themselves. I'm sure they could've opted to armor that looks more like the one from Crysis. But honestly, I think this works better. The Sith ships do resemble Star Destroyers a bit as you only saw their silhouettes, but so what? They look ominous and different to republic ships. And we saw sith ships in KotOR already back in 2003.

You're pretty late to the party if you start complaining about slow technological development in the SW-verse now. You should've done that when the first KotOR came out back in 2003.

In all honesty, if humanity has gotten this far in relatively short time technology wise, I'm rather sure that  a few thousand years from now we have technology that makes SW look like kids toys.

I dunno I found KotOR to have a bit of an 'old' feel to it.  The Sith troops' armor definitely reminded me of stormies but it was wasn't stormtrooper armor.  The Ebon Hawk certainly reminded me of the Falcon but it still seemed like an older design.  The guys in that trailer look like RotS clones with slightly different helmets and cooler combat web gear.  Not to say they look bad, they look awesome tbh, but still something a bit more original might have been nice.

[Liberator]

Something else to remember, the Republic stood for thousands of years.  One culture for longer than there's been any on this mudball, I would quite imagine that once they found a design that provided the requisite capabilities, they would keep it.  Image is powerful, and if you can present the same image for long enough, even if it's untrue, it still instills a level of comfort and respect.

Also, they were at the peak of technological development, more or less, Type 2s have more or less learned all there is to learn, from a practical stand point.  There will still be development, but it won't come in fits and starts like it does with us.  It will come in refinements of what there already is until it's unrecognizable from what it started as.

[SpardaSon21]

The armor is a straight rip-off by BioWare of Phase Two Clone Trooper armor, which wasn't around until the Clone Wars and was the second generation of an armor that was partially designed by Jango Fett, a Mandalorian.

If this was standard back then, why didn't the GAR have this equipment for their soldiers as soon as the Clone Wars broke out?

[Demitri]

They do make nice trailers

Yes. Yes they do

[Spicious]

It's a bit disappointing the Sith have taken the Trade Federation land at random places and drive/walk to the city approach rather than the Darth Malak level the city from orbit approach.

I find the whole every bounty hunter is Boba Fett thing more annoying than the star destroyers or storm troopers. Why would you even bring a bounty hunter on an invasion?

[SpardaSon21]

That wasn't a bounty hunter, that was a Mandalorian, one of the toughest sons-of-*****es in the galaxy.  And that armor is typical Mandalorian armor, although I hope players will be able to customize the colors on it.

[Spicious]

No, it's a bounty hunter.

[Scourge of Ages]

I find the whole every bounty hunter is Boba Fett thing more annoying than the star destroyers or storm troopers. Why would you even bring a bounty hunter on an invasion?

That's nothing. When the first trailer released, some reputable news source called her a "Female Boba Fett." Really. (though don't ask me to source that, it's been way too long)