Star Wars: The Old Republic

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  1. lazlo2020
    Jan 15, 2012
    1
    I am not a fan of this game. I wanted to be but it just doesn't deliver. I logged in to create a char, there is absolutely no diversity in the races, blue skinned human, human with tentacles etc, why is it like this ?. Get into the game and OMG, it's mass effect but with lightsabres. i have lvl 30 imperial agent and enjoyed the story for this class but the combat/pvp/gfx and bugs haveI am not a fan of this game. I wanted to be but it just doesn't deliver. I logged in to create a char, there is absolutely no diversity in the races, blue skinned human, human with tentacles etc, why is it like this ?. Get into the game and OMG, it's mass effect but with lightsabres. i have lvl 30 imperial agent and enjoyed the story for this class but the combat/pvp/gfx and bugs have been a gamebreaker for me so uninstalled it is. Worst thing is to be honest is that i feel cheated somewhat by bioware, claiming 'epic' space battles and gameplay trailers that have hi res textures but are not actually in game. I wish i could take this title back and get a refund. you won't ever take me for a mug again bio/ea… Expand
  2. qqqq555
    Jan 19, 2012
    1
    Terrabad customer support
    Terrabad technical support
    Terrabad community
    Terrabad graphics

    Overall Lucasarts must feel pretty ashamed for what Bioware managed to do to this gaem
  3. lyko
    Jan 22, 2012
    1
    If this game wouldn't be "Star Wars", everyone would laugh about it.
    I really hoped they would create a great game. I should have known better. EA was, is and will be just a ripp off company with only one concern...Money. They give **** about their customers. I was to re-sub after I canceled it, but fortunately, like everything in this game, the payment system is broken and a majority of    If this game wouldn't be "Star Wars", everyone would laugh about it.
    I really hoped they would create a great game. I should have known better. EA was, is and will be just a ripp off company with only one concern...Money. They give **** about their customers. I was to re-sub after I canceled it, but fortunately, like everything in this game, the payment system is broken and a majority of players can't re-sub using paypal or credit card.

    - It's based on a crappy engine
    - World feels empty, if you want a SP story game, buy it, lvl to 50 and throw it away
    - Even if I was to re-sub, I couldn't because neither paypal nor credit card is working because they're having issues with their payment system. - Rep - Imp classes aren't mirrored
    - Biodrones only know two answers...."Please contact customer services" and "I don't understand you"
    - Game felt dead since release because of the horrible choice to instance the planets.
    - Crafting is useless
    - Don't try to sell to much of ther GTN....you could get banned for it
    - Character creation feels like the game was released back in the 90's
    - Ability delay
    - World PVP? There is no World PVP.
    - You don't need tanks to do Hardcore flashpoints.....ZzZz
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    If you're not sure to get it or not....DON'T! Spend the money for a bunch of flowers, they will last longer than this game will.

    And all the fanboys know it, they just don't want to believe it and keep hoping. I give them a max of 6 months until the servers get merged. And that's always an mmo's death !FACT!

    Everyone who gives this game a rating of 8+ is either a employee of Bioware or EA (Yes it's proven that they rate their own games on this site) or just has pink sunglasses on.    … Expand
  4. motaclown
    Jan 22, 2012
    1
    Like others have said. This game is a failure.
    It has identical properties to WOW. And there is little reason to play.

    The voice acting gets old and boring after lvl 10 and its the same old grind over and over again.

    Zero reason to make the switch. GW2 is worth waiting for I think.
  5. Spineker
    Jan 24, 2012
    1
    Who is G4 kidding with their rediculous score? Never played this trash obviously, which is more about their pockets and wallet than games. What kind of retard would give this POS a 100? Seriously? What a bunch of BS and garbage. Glad I quit watching the bimbos on G4 I can get better porn on the internet than those ugly skanks.
  6. Primordial
    Jan 26, 2012
    1
    THE WORST MMO EVER MADE.. This is a marketing BS which is pushed to the market just before xmas so ppl who had doubts thought that "ah whatever I have so much free time its xmas eve lets give it a chance".. The fanboys ofc would buy the game but they had to do smtgh about the doubters.. so they released an unfinished game that has poor pvp end-game stuff.. poor world pvp.. eye bleeding,THE WORST MMO EVER MADE.. This is a marketing BS which is pushed to the market just before xmas so ppl who had doubts thought that "ah whatever I have so much free time its xmas eve lets give it a chance".. The fanboys ofc would buy the game but they had to do smtgh about the doubters.. so they released an unfinished game that has poor pvp end-game stuff.. poor world pvp.. eye bleeding, copy-pasted, 3-colored graphics.. and COUNTLESS (never saw that amount of bug in a game (maybe gothic 3 :P)) annoying, freaking BUGS.. BUT.. They spent lots of money for the voice acting so this must be good (?) yes in the first couple of days maybe.. but then u realised that if u actually listen all those conversations it will cost HALF of ur playtime.. and it gets boring and boring and boring till u find urself in an endless loop of "tapping the space bar"... BW seriously WTF is that stuff.. 1 month is the life span of this game.. u can play it till lvl 50 as a single player game. then ur done..… Expand
  7. Megababby
    Jan 31, 2012
    1
    I have to admit I was very disappointed with this game. I had been following the development process for a couple years and was very excited about its release. It was advertised as revolutionary, the MMORPG to beat all MMORPG's (but what MMO ISNT marketed like this?) and it is anything but. Instead what we have is a buggy, poorly optimized WoW clone with little content. There are problemsI have to admit I was very disappointed with this game. I had been following the development process for a couple years and was very excited about its release. It was advertised as revolutionary, the MMORPG to beat all MMORPG's (but what MMO ISNT marketed like this?) and it is anything but. Instead what we have is a buggy, poorly optimized WoW clone with little content. There are problems with every facet of this game except the story, which is actually pretty good. The engine is awful, it chugs on a beastly gaming computer, high res textures almost never load, the animations are choppy and stilted, abilities never activate when you tell them to, you get stuck in seams and blocked by strange invisible walls in the middle of thoroughfares. The game still feels like it needs a year of beta testing. The gameplay much like WoW's in virtually every way except that it doesn't flow as well, the animation and ability delay issues make it feel awkward. The Zones are linear, the quests are the same kill 10 bandit quests as every MMORPG (but with some dialogue sprinkled in) and the typical MMORPG milestones like mounts and advanced classes are all present. There is very little innovation. The stories are the only good thing about this game but they aren't enough to save it. Also, I suspect that the focus on story is what causes this game to feel so linear. And not just linear but limited, no raiding the opposing faction, world PvP is virtually non existent beyond the odd gank here and there, the environments have little to explore and are boxed in by massive walls everywhere. PvP in general is quite dull and broken due to ability delay and unbalanced classes. The classes themselves are a problem. Compared to a game like WoW with many classes that each feel very distinct and interesting (as well as there being many more) in TOR there are only 4 classes essentially, and only two of them are viable in PvP. All in all I say don't bother getting TOR right now. If you are desperate to play an MMORPG play WoW, it offers more content, better gameplay, and more classes. Maybe in a year or two once TOR has patched the game significantly it will be worth playing, but right now there are far too many issues to keep the game from being fun.… Expand
  8. JamieLee
    Feb 7, 2012
    1
    Logged in today and Illum is broken again, everything they fix they break something else. Most of the issues have been issues since Alpha. It's EA, they don't care about quality they care about money. To them getting the game out ahead of another is better than making the game we the fans want and what James wanted to deliver
  9. Wynnyelle
    Mar 7, 2012
    1
    This game promised a lot and didn't deliver. They pushed their voice acting innovation so hard, and it sounds nice until you get into the game and realize that that is literally all that they have going for them. There is a complete lack of competitive PvP, the end-game is just lacking in general. Graphically, it's not terrible, but it is not aesthetically pleasing in any way and bigThis game promised a lot and didn't deliver. They pushed their voice acting innovation so hard, and it sounds nice until you get into the game and realize that that is literally all that they have going for them. There is a complete lack of competitive PvP, the end-game is just lacking in general. Graphically, it's not terrible, but it is not aesthetically pleasing in any way and big cities feel empty and lifeless. If this game were free to play, I would understand, but this is a game that people are expected to pay monthly for. Where is the content?… Expand
  10. gg44
    Apr 12, 2012
    1
    If you think paying full price for a half finished product is a great thing then SWTOR is the game you are looking for.

    It is beyond obvious that the SWTOR project was rushed to market at least 1 year early based on the numerous bugs, incomplete game elements and most importantly the game's barely fuctioning engine. PvP is a disgrace and PvE aside from the voice overs is nothing to write    If you think paying full price for a half finished product is a great thing then SWTOR is the game you are looking for.

    It is beyond obvious that the SWTOR project was rushed to market at least 1 year early based on the numerous bugs, incomplete game elements and most importantly the game's barely fuctioning engine.

    PvP is a disgrace and PvE aside from the voice overs is nothing to write home about. EA/Bioware have been peddling this game nonstop while exercising the integrity of a sleazy used car lot salesman at every opportunity.

    The game is just under 4 months old and 85% of the servers are already nearly abandoned due to customers cancelling out despite EA/Bioware's propoganda to the contrary. At the rate things are heading, SWTOR will end up being a F2P title by the end of 2012.    … Expand
  11. Part
    May 18, 2012
    1
    All in all, the most mediocre type of MMORPG ends up being the result of Bioware and EA's efforts. Ultimately, both story and gameplay, both PvE and PvP have been watered down to such an extent that even if I'm lucky enough to come across another player, (Which is quite rare, seeing as most all servers have been all but abandoned.) the game still feels like nothing more than a shallowAll in all, the most mediocre type of MMORPG ends up being the result of Bioware and EA's efforts. Ultimately, both story and gameplay, both PvE and PvP have been watered down to such an extent that even if I'm lucky enough to come across another player, (Which is quite rare, seeing as most all servers have been all but abandoned.) the game still feels like nothing more than a shallow singeplayer experience. Factor into this the borderline yawn-inducing endgame content, the infamous "iron-fist" moderation that results in permanent bans for the most trivial of reasons, and class skills that are actuall one to one copies of skills from World of Warcraft, and the end result is a horrifically bad game that only served to leave a bad taste in my mouth.… Expand
  12. SliPs
    May 27, 2012
    1
    The only reason this gets a single point of rating is because of the amazing cinematic's. The rest of the game is just a **** version of WoW build around star wars.
  13. AnEwOkSeXsLaVe
    Feb 4, 2013
    1
    'Star Wars mask' to SELL TRASH. NO GOOD, GUYS. Talking about a WoW clone? Dude, they took the WORST aspects of WoW and cloned them. lol The retarded juiciness of the WoW art/story style at least made that game enjoyable. Let me tell you something, a basic quest chain in WoW had more story then this entire game. ALL OF MY BUDDIES and I played this game, every class. Empire are the'Star Wars mask' to SELL TRASH. NO GOOD, GUYS. Talking about a WoW clone? Dude, they took the WORST aspects of WoW and cloned them. lol The retarded juiciness of the WoW art/story style at least made that game enjoyable. Let me tell you something, a basic quest chain in WoW had more story then this entire game. ALL OF MY BUDDIES and I played this game, every class. Empire are the only enjoyable storylines (as far as the enjoyment goes...). Republic is BLAND. It is serious trash. It is BORING. 2 of 3 of us played Republic preferrably... could not stand any of the storylines. Consulars are notoriously craptastic and just painful to sit through. Nothing happens in that story. The game just follows the same pattern all the way through... generic and unoriginal. #1: IT'S NOT KOTOR PEOPLE. If you played Knights Of The Old Republic you most likely loved the sh@# out of it. Knights 2, sadly was rushed in development by corporate greed and had content chopped out and rushed to market (which explains a lot) they cut an entire planet for godsake. But still... decent and good game. This is nothing like those 2, at all. It is a sh#$ WoW clone, yet not fun. WoW was somewhat fun, this isn't fun at all. The dialogue/options and effects do not exist. 3 options all same result. No dynamics no change no effects. 0, I've played to 50, me and friends have palyed different classes. We've been subscribers. COMBAT IS TERRIBLE. Bland and so unimaginitive. You WILL BE BORED. Hit buttons for few more points of damage. Slowing skill. Ranged skill. The End. Tons of skills doing the same sh#&. No combos. You will see vendors everywhere, tons of gear, but that doesn't make a game. Who cares. Item customization? Modification? KOTOR2 had it for real. This game does not, it's yet again, a mask of something bland and terrible. Nuff said. Worst part of game: REPUBLIC AND EMPIRE ARE THE SAME THING. They mirror each other in classes and skils and skill-trees. SAME stuff, different names. The names and icons ar ethe difference. Period. The mark of horribleness. SPACE COMBAT? Rail shooter. You don't fly freely. Missions repeated. Shoot things poping in on screen. Character CUSTOM? Everythings human: Chiss: Blue Human Miraluka: Green Human Cyborg: Human with 1 additional custom option, (metalic crap on face). TwiLek: (almost exclusively Republic unless unlocked, only closest thing to an alien). Rhatataki: White Human etc. etc. No wookiees, no rodians, no trandoshans. Nothing. Companions, 1 at a time only. Trade professions, done almost all exclusively for credit-cost and by companions in backround of game. Same with crafting. 5 possible companions on each tpy eof class you pick (total): most all classes you pick, between 4 and 5 companions (all) are boring as hell. Flat personalities and wooden. Aliens add difference and can be fun, but almost none have personalities anyway. Vette was fun on my Sith Warrior. That was IT. Out of the other 15-20 companions on other classes I experienced, they're boring. You get a buncha dudes or you get what looks like underaged girls with poor voice acting (who all sound identical....) for romance options. Generic. Everyhting is mirrored in this game. COMPANION QUESTS? Terrible... mostly brief talking chains. My system is a few years dated... but still runs intense games well. This game... the WORST game for running on a system. Even with LOWEST GRAPHICS POSSIBLE this game lagged and glitched like Hell. Every time I naturally exit this game I get Windows Error Reports. Other times, my computer will hang on the desktop for literally 10 minutes.... NOT OTHER GAME DOES THESE THINGS. It's intoleralbe. My buddy has a max-performance system for gaming.... he gets stuttering all the same regardless. As most wil tell you too, with GRAPHICS, Highest and Lowest almost don't matter. My comp runs Highest settings amost exactly the same as the lowest.... program issues. Frankly the grpahics and LOOK of the game is awful and dated. The 'doo-dadds' to put in the world, like misc. objects like consols and trees... etc... few exist. You see Computer Consols stuck everywhere and htere's only 3 different types. There's computer consols on bridges for godsake... it's just a bunch of designer flunkees out of college rushing thorugh on a timeline with no care for quality. Push Product make reslease-date, charge-for or patch rest. 1 year passes, nothing changes either. Cartel Market. Real money/points store... there's not even anything in it. Different colors of same objects you get in-game. Or just junk like unlockable storage spaces.... you can unlock a playable Race for both sides for any class (yes, even if you subscribe, you are restricted as to the races to classes that you can play still). And that CARTAL DOLLAR SIGN IS RAMMED DOWN YOUR F#$#%NG THROAT. It's all over your windows and HUD.… Expand
  14. Gargus
    Mar 8, 2013
    1
    The issue with this game is it's just more of the same thing on the market now. Yes it has a few new trappings and cool ideas thrown in but the core mechanic that makes up 90% of the game is still the same thing as all of the other mmo games. The novelty factor wore off after a couple weeks of playing and I found myself doing dailies, doing the same routine every time I logged in and IThe issue with this game is it's just more of the same thing on the market now. Yes it has a few new trappings and cool ideas thrown in but the core mechanic that makes up 90% of the game is still the same thing as all of the other mmo games. The novelty factor wore off after a couple weeks of playing and I found myself doing dailies, doing the same routine every time I logged in and I quickly fell into a sense of familiarity with this game. That's when it hit me; I was bored before my free 30 day subscription was even up.

    All the good things in it I liked are the same things I liked about rift, world of warcraft, everquest and so on so I'll just cut to what I didn't like about SW:TOR.

    1) The engine and game isn't optimized at all. Even my computer (which is way way above reccomended specs and will run any game on the market with headroom to spare) never ran it smoothly, especially at any higher end settings. It always felt like it was running just a little too sluggish. Bioware said the massive complaints about performance were due to so many people running inferior computers but that isn't the case really. The games engine simply isnt optimized well enough. The graphics are subpar as well. I am never one to think that good graphics will equal good game but given a game where you're basically repeating the same actions day in and day out it should atleast look pretty while doing it. WOW looks better to me and it's a dated engine, but it's wonderful use of color and art direction makes it stand out while TOR has this underlying feel of looking like a dozen other games.

    2) It requires you to use EA's origin service. This is ultimately why I canceled my subscription and won't play this anymore. Origin was the last straw for me in my list of complaints. Origin IS spyware, it tells you it is in the EULA you agree to when you agree to the terms and conditions to install it. It also was recently changed to say you can't sue EA. There is a reason why germany (yes the whole country) took action against Origin because it invades privacy. I detest origin and again was the last straw in my choosing not to play battlefield 3 anymore. And as someone tried to point out in the comments section that origin isnt required, yes it is and the gams official FAQ says so. http://www.swtor.com/info/faq#170974

    3) The game is a theme park much like WOW. Once you start playing you're constantly guided through the game via quests and so on. It never felt like I got to explore anything on my own or discover anything because the game was always holding my hand and telling me where to go. There was no sense of awe, no sense of exploration, no sense of discovery because you're constantly having the game tell you what and where to go next as you progress through the game. It's like there is a invisible path of quests you have to follow through from level 1 to 50.

    4) The game is too easy and that makes most people you meet insufferable to be around. Much like everyother mmo out now the game is geared toward allowing in anyone who wants to play to get maximum subscriptions. In order to do that you need to appeal to the lowest common denominator by making your game as easy as you can get away with. Much like wow it takes little effort to level up and do things aside from the occasional time you need a party to do something (which makes it feel inconvient). You never get this feeling of accomplishing anything by overcoming a challenge because the game has no real challenges or penalties. The problem with a MMO like this and it being easy is that when it becomes easy then players get bored easily and bored players become obnoxious players and obnoxious players are players I don't want to play with. There is a reason why the majority of the player base for like WOW are petty, obnoxious and sarcastic brats and why the majority of the everquest player base are friendlier, kinder and more helpful and that reason is because WOW makes players lazy and bored by being way to easy to play and everquest requires work and teamwork. Even death has virtually no penalty, there is no real reason to be careful or thrill of being almost taken down. In this if you die it is just sort of a ho-hum experince and you go on not really caring, thus there is no element of danger.

    5) Everything feels like one big corridor. It always feels like you're being funneled through this corridor from one objective to the next. There is no sense of a large scale and all the areas feel so small and cramped. Once you have checked out a area it feels even smaller. At first everything was fine but it didn't take long before all the area, dungeons and so on all just start feeling like little compartments in a rat maze.    … Expand
  15. SIPPIO
    Mar 11, 2019
    1
    I played StarWars Galaxies & The Old Republic.
    And the difference is One was based on the fanbase & the other is based on $$$..
    ~I have no reason to hate on Bioware. In Fact Bioware was my 1st love in gaming w/ Baldur's Gate & Icewind Dale.. **The old republics gameplay is sluggish...The camera is annoying but standard.. *But the biggest issue is there's no addicting aspect of the    I played StarWars Galaxies & The Old Republic.
    And the difference is One was based on the fanbase & the other is based on $$$..
    ~I have no reason to hate on Bioware.
    In Fact Bioware was my 1st love in gaming w/ Baldur's Gate & Icewind Dale..
    **The old republics gameplay is sluggish...The camera is annoying but standard..
    *But the biggest issue is there's no addicting aspect of the game.. The loot is boring & annoying.
    Annoying Loot is like Bioware 101...
    I don't want or care about perception or awareness in a helmet..and much of the early gam,e is littered w/ this crap..atleast you can overlook it later.....

    ***Im so over Bioware...How ironic that Anthem,,DragonAge Inq & Andromeda all suck...
    I blame you for betraying all of us Mr. Casey Hudson...    … Expand
  16. Donotplayswtor
    Feb 26, 2015
    1
    Do not pay to play this game. Their customer service is horrible and unresponsive. I took a break from the game for a few months and when i returned I couldn't access my account. I called customer service and kept getting people from some kind of outsourcing... I could tell by the way they talked and by the fact that they couldn't even give me information on what was the issue. The firstDo not pay to play this game. Their customer service is horrible and unresponsive. I took a break from the game for a few months and when i returned I couldn't access my account. I called customer service and kept getting people from some kind of outsourcing... I could tell by the way they talked and by the fact that they couldn't even give me information on what was the issue. The first person I talked to even gave me the wrong email address to email about my issue. But after hanging up and recalling 4 times I got someone from the UK and they were at least able to tell me what was the problem and even opened a ticket so "my issue could get resolved sooner." I found out that my account had been banned for gold spamming, apparently someone had compromised my account and used it while I was taking a break. So I've sent them a few emails to 2 different email addresses asking for my account to be unbanned and I have yet to even receive an automated response. I was a regular subscriber for two years straight, and I was there when the game was first released, yet I cant even get a response from their customer care? Take my advice, find a different mmo... there are several out there where their customer service at least cares about their customers. I've had to deal with several MMO's customer services and only ToR has been this bad by far. Blizzard is excellent. The same thing happened to me there, my account got hacked then banned.... it took blizzard 2 days to get my email(they sent an automated reply when i first emailed them) and to unban my account. Not only that, the GM I spoke to actually gave me free game time to apologize for the inconvenience. Now THAT is customer service. DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME. Anyone who cares so little for their customers does not deserve to be paid by them. I hope this game is shut down like City of Heroes was.… Expand
  17. johnjacobs23
    Jan 17, 2016
    1
    I'm going to lead with EA needs to just be shut down, they havent made a quality game in over a decade and wont. They never seem to fully complete projects and leave far to many bugs in the game. I cant go an hr without somehow getting stuck in the normal world of the game and the /stuck option picks me up and lands me back in the same stuck spot, i have to quick travel and walk or use aI'm going to lead with EA needs to just be shut down, they havent made a quality game in over a decade and wont. They never seem to fully complete projects and leave far to many bugs in the game. I cant go an hr without somehow getting stuck in the normal world of the game and the /stuck option picks me up and lands me back in the same stuck spot, i have to quick travel and walk or use a speeder to get back to the quest area i was at...extremely annoying and very poor quality design. I love the star wars lore and story behind the game. Only reason it got a 1 as it failed on every other aspect and let down the millions who wanted this to surpass WOW. Save your time and money this wasnt worth it when it came out and even with all the expansions...they still havent fixed hardly any of the original errors...again if Bethesda or well anyone else besides EA made this game it probably would have been so legit.… Expand
  18. Gnoblesse
    May 22, 2016
    1
    The original class stories are worth playing through, but past that the game has a real identity crisis. It doesn't know if it wants to be an MMO or a single player RPG and ends up bad at the first, and somewhat okay at the latter.

    Each expansion has brought less actual story - from 8 stories down to 2 and then to 1. If you haven't played the class stories, it will feel at first like    The original class stories are worth playing through, but past that the game has a real identity crisis. It doesn't know if it wants to be an MMO or a single player RPG and ends up bad at the first, and somewhat okay at the latter.

    Each expansion has brought less actual story - from 8 stories down to 2 and then to 1. If you haven't played the class stories, it will feel at first like "hey, there's a ton of content here." After you've finished those though, there isn't a lot of "there" there.

    Endgame is a mess. If endgame is what you're looking for, look elsewhere.    … Expand
  19. ThePersonDude
    Apr 25, 2017
    1
    The Most Unsocial MMO experience. So this applies to anyone who is Free to Play the game restricts you in any and every aspect it can so you'll be more enticed to fork out the extra cash to be a subscribed member. Here are some things it does it restricts all chat to anyone under level 10 so basically if you're under level 10 you can't speak what so ever. On top of that when you reachThe Most Unsocial MMO experience. So this applies to anyone who is Free to Play the game restricts you in any and every aspect it can so you'll be more enticed to fork out the extra cash to be a subscribed member. Here are some things it does it restricts all chat to anyone under level 10 so basically if you're under level 10 you can't speak what so ever. On top of that when you reach level 10 you can only say something once per minute I believe I can't exactly say since I could only do say something once and got the you're restricted until level 10 despite being level 17 and have been unable to talk in any form of alternate chat or private message. I tried sending a ticket to customer support for help but only subscribed members can send tickets. Moving on they limit your inventory severely as well as giving you item rewards that you can't use because you aren't subscribed which wouldn't be that bad if they didn't give it to you and have it waste an inventory slot in the first place. There is just so much locked behind a paywall that it ruins the experience completely no matter how well voice acted or good the story is. The story is pretty okay and it's what all the people who pay flock to when someone complains about the **** the free to players have to go though. ''If I hear it wasn't F2P before and now that it is you're still complaining? don't like don't play'' one more time it'll be the death of me. The gameplay is cookie cutter WoW painted to look like Star Wars. I would not subscribe to play this game because it is so underhanded and low. A game should earn its subscription and Star Wars The Old Republic has definitely not. There are much better selections however if you don't mind being completely restricted and just want story then go ahead however I would recommend Star Wars the Force Unleashed or any other Star Wars game instead. If I could rate this game by service alone I would have to go into the negatives but gameplay I would say it is a 2 or a 3 but overall I would say a 0 or a 1 out of 10 and I would not feel guilty.… Expand
  20. DARKWORLD
    Jan 18, 2012
    0
    Seriously? Innovative combat, new battle mechanics stunning graphics... Where all those things? They promised much and did nothing, literally - nothing.
    What we got - new WOW/LN/RF/etc. clone in SW universe, nothing new.
    Same boring-to-death combat mechanics, ugly graphics (of course to oblige all those low-end PC owners), nothing-new story/quests and all those things will cost you    Seriously? Innovative combat, new battle mechanics stunning graphics... Where all those things? They promised much and did nothing, literally - nothing.
    What we got - new WOW/LN/RF/etc. clone in SW universe, nothing new.
    Same boring-to-death combat mechanics, ugly graphics (of course to oblige all those low-end PC owners), nothing-new story/quests and all those things will cost you monthly fees, its just ridiculous.
    This game is not worth a single penny from you wallet, believe me. I feel bad for those guys, spending millions on such low-end product, just to make profit out of it, unfortunately for them this is not how it done.    … Expand
  21. Bozochicken
    Dec 29, 2011
    0
    It saddens me to see that this game was released this year in 2011. This game was created with the idea to completely reinvent the idea behind MMO's. Sadly, it didn't do anything other than clone WoW with a bunch of chopped up voice acting. There are enough SW fanboys out there that will keep this game afloat for quite some time; but I think that it will die quicker than we think becauseIt saddens me to see that this game was released this year in 2011. This game was created with the idea to completely reinvent the idea behind MMO's. Sadly, it didn't do anything other than clone WoW with a bunch of chopped up voice acting. There are enough SW fanboys out there that will keep this game afloat for quite some time; but I think that it will die quicker than we think because it's not the MMO that most people were expecting.… Expand
  22. Insert_Username
    Dec 23, 2011
    0
    Game is horrible, its nothing but a World of Warcraft clone only worse, the combat is not as deep as World of Warcraft and the story isn't even near as good as KOTOR or Mass Effect. Game is a big disappointment and the crappy voice acting the teeth cringing dialogue are the only things that set it apart from other games.
  23. Morring
    Jan 24, 2012
    0
    Plain awful. Skill trees copypasted from wow. Single threading, terrible graphics, and disgusting politics from the devs and publisher, including the misterious malfunctioning of the "unsubscribe" button a moment before the free month was over. I can't figure out why critics gave such high scores- Oh wait, I can. This game required an insane amount of money to be developed, and I can't seePlain awful. Skill trees copypasted from wow. Single threading, terrible graphics, and disgusting politics from the devs and publisher, including the misterious malfunctioning of the "unsubscribe" button a moment before the free month was over. I can't figure out why critics gave such high scores- Oh wait, I can. This game required an insane amount of money to be developed, and I can't see how they managed not to obtain ANY result. This is indeed a remarkable feat, the kind of talent I'd reward with a zero.… Expand
  24. Zennousha
    Dec 20, 2011
    0
    Apparently the slider at 5 came out as a 10, so to even it out I will nullify my rating with a 0. My reasons are explained well enough for this title in my previous review.
  25. DerpGames
    Dec 23, 2011
    0
    Terrible, terrible game. Basically a less polished, ultra glitchy, 100% instanced, not open world revision of World of Warcraft with a crappy Starwars skin placed over everything. The graphics are hideous, much like every other Bioware game. The dialogue is hilariously bad even for an MMO. Every race of character is just a slight variation of humans, ie humans with red skin, humans withTerrible, terrible game. Basically a less polished, ultra glitchy, 100% instanced, not open world revision of World of Warcraft with a crappy Starwars skin placed over everything. The graphics are hideous, much like every other Bioware game. The dialogue is hilariously bad even for an MMO. Every race of character is just a slight variation of humans, ie humans with red skin, humans with blue skin. The game is lobby based like Guild Wars, yet Bioware is trying to charge people monthly for this game. Don't support it.… Expand
  26. spinspock
    Dec 20, 2011
    0
    This is an absolutely rubbish MMO, even by recent standards. The gameplay is essentially World of Warcraft in Space with zero innovation. The characters are generic, the story is tepid, and the gameplay is slow and boring. It's made all the more painful when you consider Galaxies getting shut down a few weeks ago.
  27. mQCmD
    Dec 20, 2011
    0
    Expecting something different like everything that I was promised all i got a was blatant wow copy with different skin. It's so exactly the same its not even funny, the only difference is that you get those silly mass effect cutscenes that go like this "Welcome overlord of moons oh great Sith Lord, I want you to kill 10 Drones. Bye." 0/10
  28. Aetheryn
    Dec 20, 2011
    0
    Essentially this game is World of Warcraft in space with all the tacky Star Wars themes added on. The races are dull as can be, the voice acting is essentially pointless (just adding more nonsense to a "kill X number of enemies" type of quest".

    It bears repeating: This is WoW in space, and a very bad version at that.
  29. moarage
    Dec 20, 2011
    0
    looks worse than wow, play worse than wow and I don't even like wow

    it's pretty much the same formula of the last decade with no innovation whatsoever, if you like to play at disguised dull singleplayer game, go ahead
  30. Lolipop
    Dec 25, 2011
    0
    Instancing , **** graphics , biggest waste of money ever. Did I mention companions ? OMG , they have the AI of a retarded duck . EVERYTHING FAILS in this game . THIS IS NOT A MMO , it's a SINGLE PLAYER GAME masked as a MMO .
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#19 Best PC Game of 2011
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#8 Most Discussed PC Game of 2011
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#9 Most Shared PC Game of 2011

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Metascore
85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 73 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 68 out of 73
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 73
  3. Negative: 0 out of 73
  1. RPGamer
    Apr 23, 2012
    80
    LucasArts generally exercised greater quality control of Star Wars games than most licensed properties receive, though that didn't necessarily translate into titles that were actually good. I've played a few other Star Wars games in the past, and while the SNES platformers were pretty good, this one is even better. Knights of the Old Republic may just be the best game in the franchise, and succeeds at being a top-tier RPG even if one has no interest in Star Wars. BioWare did the license proud.
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  2. GameCritics
    Mar 31, 2012
    70
    I wound up bailing out on Star Wars: The Old Republic well before hitting the level cap, but not before digging into it more so than any other MMO I've played. Even if it is an unhappy marriage between two wildly different game types, the fact that it kept me hooked for so long at least counts for something.
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  3. NZGamer
    Mar 5, 2012
    83
    A good game. It pays excellent homage to the film series (even though it's set before the movies), and is a really solid MMO.
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