CHOICE IS AN ILLUSION - not an RPG - MMO on rails

It's not about what is coded, it's about what's designed.


The world, as designed, will always remain static. No matter what choices you made, Taris is no better or worse for your efforts. Heck, you are even encouraged to take the opportunity to do exactly the opposite set of heroic feats in the same place at the same time with the same character.

How many people will have to defeat the Locust before he turns away from his life of crime?

How is it that every other smuggler has the exact same team of sidekicks that my character does? How many privateers will I meet who will claim to have looted the same legendary treasuries? How many STDs did I pick up from miss 'You're my first!' on Nar Shaddaa?

How do I every other smuggler that I meet that they are delusional, and only I assembled my amazing crew accomplished those fantastic exploits?

With the IA story, a kill him or let him live choice completely locks you out of one of the endings. A series of more minor dialog choices impacts the availability of the ending at all. There are five different IA endings.

IA Ending spoilers:


I don't even see how it's possible for Bioware to wrap them all into one story when our next story content patch arrives.

I don't understand what you people are expecting. Most console RPGs don't offer that many possible outcomes =p

Guess you haven't noticed the recurring theme to every quest bonus then.

At OP, all the fallout games are REALLY good for choice, i suggest fallout 3 AND fallout new Vegas, i always thought Bethesda was better at this than Bioware... sorry but as far as immersion goes New Vegas > Mass effect. THATS RIGHT I SAID IT!

Welcome to MMOs....seriously let's ask for things that are out of the realm of possiblity. With millions of players i want my story to be totally unique.

Great and i want a car made of diamonds.

No i just don't care about the bonus, rewards or trophies that special snowflakes seem to obsess about.

I was having fun and enjoying the story.

Fail deflection is fail.

So... you want specific quest rewards (companion, etc), but you don't want to do the quests to get them....

Yeah. That makes sense.

"You have to do all the quests!"
"No, you don't. You only need to do a small number of the total available to be able to progress."
"But then you don't get the cool stuff from the quests you don't do!"
/facepalm


Sorry, but SWTOR compares exactly. You can level by questing, grinding mobs, doing PVP, doing space battle. There's just as much "forced" content in WoW -- I remember running all over the world to unlock my druid shapechange abilities, my wife needed to do shaman quests to get some of her powers, and you used to have to do quests to get your Warlock pets -- don't know if you do anymore. Back when I played, you didn't even get your imp until level 10.

From what I can tell, your basic complaint is that you can't run from your starting zone to some other low level zone to quest there. Technically, you can in WoW, but it's difficult... I can't imagine trying to get a 1st level night elf to Goldshire without dying umpty-zillion times, unless they've added easy inter-continent teleporters since I played.

Overall, SWTOR is much less instanced than WoW... most of the time, when doing heroics with a group, I will see other groups in the same place, shooting the same mobs. Compare to WoW's single-party dungeons. Just because something says "phase" doesn't mean other players are locked out of it. There's also much more open-world group content, areas in the world filled with elite/champion mobs. There's a few of those in WoW, too, but mostly it's just a run-up to an instanced dungeon, not a quest area in itself.

In Wow, in the goblin starting area there is a "quest" in the bank that has you press a button on your keyboard when a symbol flashes up on the screen. This is EXACTLY the same mechanism of those toys you buy at Babys R Us for infants lying in a crib to improve their eye-hand coordination.

WoW now does everything but actually stick a pacifier in your mouth. To compare SWTOR to a washed up baby game that is about to have fuzzy kung fu pandas is so absolutely hilarious it really deserves nothing but derision.

There's a difference between "feedback" and insisting that you hate the game's biggest selling factor because you think it "forces you to do it"...

Not sure if op is a troll or stupid