Has this game turned you "off" to MMOs in general?

I like how you continue to present this as 'being read aloud to' when it's been shown demonstrably that we are dealing with Voice Acting. Continuing this assertion only disproves your 'true story'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9W2...feature=relmfu


Yep.. just reading quest text aloud here... it's not cinematic at all.......

If you stopped at "I get the sense that you somehow see VO in this game as a 'gimmick'" you'd be right. The VO's here strike me as very gimmicky. The rest of it is just ad hom.

If we can make the distinction between voice acting and reading aloud, can we make some distinctions about the characteristics that differ between the two? What constitutes "acting?" Is there some level of overall quality, or maybe some effect that should be conveyed in the voiceover, in order to qualify it as acting? I'm just asking.

Do you think actors in movies are just "reading aloud"? Honest question.

Then I guess most of the Voice Acting you hear on any number of animated series on Cartoon Network doesn't meet your standards. That's fine. It just means you prefer an academy award winning performance for any piece of dialog delivered. That's cool. It's cool. Your standards are elitist. That's cool.

This game no, I see general mmo burnout these days, allot of folks came here expecting this game to have broken the standard mmo mold, and ended up disapointed, no company is going to steer far from the wow money making model,, I wish some company would grow a pair and try, but it is all about the money, no chance of that.

No... But this thread should be titled... Are you a troll? Please respond

Yes, it has. I never played an MMO before because of all the things I had heard about them: horrible player interactions, general abrasiveness of players, excessive elitism, overcharged senses of entitlement, and other such lowpoints of today's society. Unfortunately, they were all correct. My experience with the majority of the "community" here in SW:TOR has been very poor. I've met a good deal of great people, but I've seen many more that spam general chat with prejudice and/or disgusting comments, people that belittle others for asking simple questions, and the whole "if you don't use this specialisation, you're stupid" remarks. In parties, people are generally rude and are too "business-like" with the missions. I like to have fun and explore the areas, but many players just jump from one set of enemies to the next. It makes things boring.

Also, MMOs require me to play on a PC, which is something that I do not enjoy. I much prefer the use of a controller and the quality of games that come on a console. I miss having good graphics to look at. I also have to pay a subscription, which is something I haven't come to accept. I still don't like that.

If a Mass Effect MMO comes out (and is made by BioWare), then I'll play it. Other than that, I'm out of the MMO market just like I was before 13 December 2011.

Typical. The attacker now claims to be the victim. How predictable.

Yes. If you can't tell the difference, then there really isn't anything further to discuss.

I still really enjoy playing this game but I've come to realize something: I hate MMOs and I hate the communities within them.

I don't need to spend my leisure time playing a game where some 12 year old can call me crass names just because they feel unloved. There are some good people and some bad people but it seems like I run across more bad than good.

This is my last MMO but only because of the genre, not because of the game. I love the game itself.