UI and Miscellaneous: The User Interface has to be one of the most important functions for a MMO, simply because it is your gateway to the entire game, and if it doesn’t work for you, the MMO can’t deliver. In a lot of ways I think Bioware has missed the mark with its UI. It is functional, simple and clean, but what kills it for so many people is the inability to do much to customize it. We are in a day and age where addons and mod’s are a staple of many other ...
Updated 11-28-2011 at 02:20 PM by Hengist
Gameplay: Combat: We don’t see some radical design changes that involve active blocking or dodging, what we see is a very familiar mechanic that has been around since nearly the dawn of MMO’s. While Bioware chooses to not push the envelope in this area, I think they are banking on people feeling comfortable with what they offer, and feeling comfortable very quickly. Animations are smooth and fluid, and each class looks distinct, even if the factions ...
I’ve really been on hiatus for too long with this blog, but in my defense not too long after the last edition, I received an e-mail from Bioware with an invitation of the sort where you were allowed to say “there is a beta, and I am participating in the beta” and not much more. With that in mind, I felt putting my blog on hiatus was a good thing, because I did not want to spill anything that I knew as a result of beta and that was not public knowledge. So here we are, just a few short weeks ...
Updated 11-27-2011 at 05:54 PM by Hengist
The Old Republic: Rebooted Blog Real life always seems to find a way to suck more time than you expect it to, but despite the hiatus, I figured it was time to get busy again with the blog as it is becoming more and more evident that The Old Republic is nearing release. A suggestion was made that instead of talking about features or videos, the best thing to do is talk about what really interests me with The Old Republic, and that maybe it would give someone who has had little ...
* My apologies for this post being a little behind. The SWG closure announcement happened while I was on my way up north (literally sitting in my car opening a package of Crazy Bread when the news broke embargo) for a quick out of town vacation and I haven't had a chance to put my thoughts to keyboard until now. In my last blog post here on AoT (the one about the SOE lay offs) I expressed I had a pretty bad feeling about what laying off half of the Austin studio would mean for SWG. ...
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