In SWTOR the "Real" Game starts at level 1

Yes, completing a multiple choice isn't roleplaying, especially if every choice usually leads to the same outcome. And half the time what comes out of your mouth doesn't match the choice you selected.

Oh I agree. If you look at my posting history you will see me complain about that. But why are people falling into the trap that SWTOR can only have a rich leveling experience OR an engaging endgame? We, as customers should be demanding Bioware provides BOTH.

Not the same for me. A lot of the missions felt like a grind, and there was just no motivation for my character to do them. But I myself needed to do them just to level up. Not so for the story missions and a few other missions also, they were indeed awesome.

The class quests immediately pulled me in. It feels great to have an MMO with a story that is easily on par with a single player RPG. Even more amazing that there are eight of these stories.

If I had to fault anything with the leveling process, it is that the enemy designs are so boring from a gameplay perspective. They never felt more than just being configurations of standard, strong, etc without any personality.

+ Class quests
+ Main planet questline
+ Gorgeously detailed planet aesthetics
+ Solid class design
- Enemy design
- Filler quests

Not really. The story is okay the first time around. I am on my 4th toon and honestly I just skip the cutscenes by now. It is still a grind to me. It just takes longer because I have to watch my character do crappy cutscenes where sometimes what is happening on the screen doesn't even look realisitc.

PS: End Game content in this game is almost non-existant so its hardly a fair comparison :P

Actually the choices do matter. I guess you haven't played one of the 2: Lightside or Darkside

What impact? The only impacts I felt were

- which vendor I had to ran to every 10 levels to get new relics, if I couldn't find any on the gtn (like...twice...)
- whether Darth Jadus (or whoever that was) called me Darth Nox, Darth Imperious or Darth Oculus in the final cutscene
- having to uncheck an option in the settings to not look fugly

And those aren't impacts from certain, individual questions, but rather the consequences of my ds/ls budget gained by the collective of all decisions. Actually even those ls/ds decisions can be totally meaningless if you choose to go the opposite road with the diplomacy crew skill.

Ofc sometimes (!) the answer you choose in the dialog determines one of the alternatives of the npc's next line, but I wouldn't call that 'impact' tbh. Maybe you are referring to the ability to 'marry' certain companions, but even that is just some dialog lines and is a one time thing.

Concerning missions - the only impact is the rewards I got out of those. And that isn't exactly something to hype. There is some phasing (like one series of quests per planet), but I've seen the same - if not more - in WoW. A handful of those quests lets you decide something which determines the next quest in the series.

Don't get me wrong. I do like the game and tbh I am not the connoisseur of the story part, that you seem to be - but what you claim here might give the wrong impression to someone who hasn't played the game, yet, and is likely to be disappointed after reading this.

It's nice to have vo instead of textboxes and it certainly adds some flavor, but imo it's just that - 'some flavor' and far from 'impact'.

Fine game nevertheless.

As though experience in EQ translates to experience in SWTOR? You can run a full raid in SWTOR in the time it took to kill one boss in EQ. The terminology is the same, but the experience is very different.

And even then, if you level 8 characters you're only looking at about 600-700 hours of content, if not less (it gets faster each time as you know where things are for example) which is still like half as long as I'd expect a lot of people will play before the next expansion.

That doesn't mean they shouldn't make a good leveling experience. They should, but again, it exists to support where people will spend most of their time.

I had to reply to this. After levelling 3 chars to 50 this couldnt be more further away from the truth.

Dark and Light choice has no major (if not any) impact on your character once he levels up.

You get a few items from a vendor that are easily surpased by other vendors or trade marked.

Apart from that the only reason to select Dark side fx is to have your face be "corrupt"

Would have been nice if they added some Dark side evil mount or robes, but nop.

Also the companion standing doesnt mean a squat either as you can just easily level up your standing with your comp with gifts at a later point in the game. None of your companions change attitude either whether you have killed that poor old wife or spared her life.

The word im looking for here is swtors biggest problem, LINEAR

WRONG There is is no impart on game whatsoever at all, i have played the game since dec 2011, and got 4 chars now and never saw any movies i just spacebar as fast as i can, my picks dosent matter at all, when i get to 50 evrything is the same no matter you picked when you lvled up, my guardian is lvled as a good guy he let the red dude you get as companion, live when you fight him on tatt, and then got him later on as companion, now with my sent that is going all evil i just killed him and then i still get him alltho he is dead.

smuggler: "the great highst" you steal from hyper secret imp ships with tons of loots, there is a bonus mission even to steal even stuff, and then whe nyou done, you split it with companion and gets around 2k credits, when it should have been billions credits, its a joke.

when you are done with you're story line as smuggler you get to be leader of the underworld or something like that, but i still run around doing my own buiness when i should have millions of servants to do it for me ?