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  1. Duke Togo
    Heroic missions (group missions) will murder you in the face. Hard. They might not seem like it the first few you do, but they can be extremely challenging. You will not be soloing them. You could certainly skip all of that content, but you'd miss out on a chunk of the story, a chunk of missions, and a chunk of missions rewards. Plus you miss out on the awesomeness that is group cutscenes.
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    You mean staples of every MMO going back over a decade? Your fixation on WoW and calling it a "WoW clone" (and your talking up of Guild Wars) is starting to make you sound like a troll. I personally have nothing again GW, and I know GW2 is generating a lot of buzz, but I've seen these types of posts before from people who have little or no time played in SWTOR, and they are always trolling.
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    Another thought: not to be a prick, but stop comparing it to KotOR. KotOR is fairly dated at this point, from a game mechanics point of view. I mean, it's 8 years old. SWTOR doesn't play like KotOR, at all. Not in the least. If KotOR 3 was made today and it played like the previous two, I'd be very disappointed. The Old Republic world is there. The strong story and characterization are there. Hell, most of the KotOR voice actors are there. It's also a blast to play, and it is NOT a WoW clone. I'll be there, and I think you should be too. I think if it was something you finally decided to try a year after launch, you'd be kicking yourself for letting that year go by without playing it. For the record, the game has a few issues, many of which the devs have talked about addressing sometime in the first six months after release. Some of the others, well, we'll see. They won't break the game, though. I find your ignorance of MMO history disturbing. The MMO didn't start with WoW, and it's not going to end with it. You are also VERY wrong about a lot of "just you and your companion missions." I assume you never got past level 10-15. I can assure you, by the time you are in you're 20's, you are swamped with group missions. WoW never came close to having this much group content during leveling. Hell, the interactive group cutscenes are a blast and one of my favorite features. The combat looks and feels very different to me. SWTOR, to me (and countless others) is significantly different.
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    I think you just answered your own question. Warcraft takes place in space. Just sayin'. Secondly, comparing SWTOR to WoW is a lazy comparison, at best. I've said it before and I'll say it again: SWTOR feels familiar in the way all MMO's over the past decade would to someone has played just one of them. It's not a WoW clone, or anywhere close to it. Zor Primus has pretty much agreed with my assessment of the game, and he has much more time in beta than I. I have friends in my guild who have MMO experience going back to UO. Some of them have extensive time spent in SWG, and all of them have a ton of time sunk into WoW; the general opinion among them all is the game is a lot of fun and seems fresh to them. With one exception, none of them play WoW anymore, and are frankly tired of it and uninterested in ever playing it again. They would not play a WoW clone.
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    I'm talking about the entire game. If you think both games using a resource system make them the same, then every MMO ever made is just like WoW (Nevermind that many of them predate it). I've got years in WoW and dozens of hours into SWTOR beta, and I am telling you, they are not alike.
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    It's an MMO; KotOR is single player. There is no comparison. Having spent 6 years in WoW (on and off), I can definitely refute Eugimon's take of "it's like WoW with lightsabers;" it's not at all like WoW. It feels familiar when compared to all MMO's that have come out in the last decade--what I find to be a comfortable familiarity. Though it's clearly not "different" in the sense that EVE Online is different, playing it just gives you a whole different feel; SWTOR has a different style of presentation than WoW does.
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    So, come on new testers, what do you guys think?
  8. Duke Togo
    WTF, Panthro's arms?!?!?
  9. Duke Togo
    This has been an ongoing problem since the word go.
  10. Duke Togo
    Movie that didn't deserve a sequel. I'll probably check it out on Netflix just for the nostalgia factor.
  11. Duke Togo
    The NDA has been lifted.
  12. Duke Togo
    Technically speaking, that's the Sith Empire opening cinematic.
  13. Duke Togo
    Rick is the Galactica; Shane is the Pegasus. How'd that turn out?
  14. Duke Togo
    There are certain quirks to the beta client that I think most people miss because they aren't checkin all the relevant info on the forums. (For instance, older ATI drivers can cause an extended black screen upon launch). Also, they were staggering logins as they ramped up the servers.
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    The download is actually more like 30GB.
  16. Duke Togo
    Flooding, flooding, flooding.
  17. Duke Togo
    My bad, dawg.
  18. Duke Togo
    Buying a HDD right now is a big mistake. Prices are way up due to the situation in Taiwan.
  19. Duke Togo
    Not to be an ass, but did you actually read the email?
  20. Duke Togo
    Gah, thought this was a Gurren Lagann topic!
  21. Duke Togo
    Personally, I'd put Casino Royale behind only Goldfinger (which will be hard to ever surpass--its pitch perfect) in the franchise's history. There isn't much after Thunderball that I actually enjoy watching. On Her Majesty's Secret Service is grossly underrated, though it would have benefited from a better Bond; the only Moore Bond I can stomach is The Spy Who Loved Me; Dalton's Bond is generally under appreciated, and likely suffered following in the footsteps of the fat old buffoon; and I find the Brosnan movies to be largely unwatchable (though, not because he failed in the role). Craig works really well for me as Bond, as long as they keep him out of Jason Bourne territory (I'm looking at you, QoS). And I'm still waiting for my theory as to what Dench's "M's" real name is to be proven correct (as teased in Casino Royale). My money is on "Moneypenny."
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    Should be noted that this is a "stand alone" Bond film, and not a sequel/continuation like QoS was.
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    Director Sam Mendes is quoted as saying filming will begin today (11/03/11). Starring: Daniel Craig, Ralph Fiennes, Javier Bardem, Albert Finney, Judi Dench
  24. Duke Togo
    Unless she was in 13, I've never seen her in any other FF game.
  25. Duke Togo
    Bad mecha designs are still bad. Love the idea, but it's a sticking point for me.
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