NPR Gives Favorable Review of SWTOR

The fact one is a joke and one is an opinion?

Go look up the definition of opinion for me, then go away

NPR never stops surprising me with the breadth of their coverage. A great example was a few years ago when there was a segment about the direction the pr0n industry is going, and how the market has shifted away from the "high" production values of past years.

Good stuff.

I wouldn't call that a favorable review, most like a balanced review. It had as much negative as it did favorable and most of the favorable only talked about the story.

I guess you see what you want to see.

The people who are not going to like tihs game are power players, they play 10-15 hrs a day and fly through the content and then complain there bored... They do the same thing with all their games.... I bet when they buy a console game they finished the game in one night playing it non stop...

Your never going to please this type of gamer...

*sigh*

The CDC page was created as a joke. The review was not.

Opinion: A view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

The CDC was not offering their take on zombie attacks. They were posting a humorous "what to do if one occurred" page.

You're obviously trolling hard. You're lucky I'm at work and have some time to kill on the forums.

Only because 8 year olds don't write very well. A better analogy is a Race car driver reviewing a Commuter car. I don't really care that the car is slow getting from 0-60 MPH or doesn't corner well. How much does it cost and how many MPG does it get?


Same thing here. Having 100s of hours of end game content, population imbalances and "normal" MMO features (e.g. LFG tool) not being in the game don't matter if you play 10 hours a week, are mostly going to level up different classes, and never played an MMO before. What does matter is the game is easy to learn, has a cool storyline and is fun to play. Which SWTOR has done amazingly well.

Since the primary market for this game is casual players, learning how they feel about the game is actually more critical that your learned opinion based on other MMO games that you have been playing for years on end. You are looking for different things. I read some reviews here that are like "I played 250 hours of this game and I'm going back to Rift..." Casual players just laugh out loud at that, since any game they have played 250 hours of is a huge success to them and they would consider 250 hours using way too much of their RL.

The thing is (and this just kills some of the resident haters) that despite all the crying hair pulling and attempted social engineering; TOR is a huge success...if it keeps growing at the rate it is, it may even challenge WoW's western market. I'm really looking forward to see where this game is in six months and what excuses the haters will use when the game is still getting favorable reviews and still has a large subscriber base.

SWTOR gets good reviews because it is a good game. Period. Sure it gets some negative feedback, so do MOST games.

Stop all this nonsense, "oh reviewers were paid off!" "oh its not an NPR review they just reprinted" its still a good review. And its from a much more credible source than a QQing forum troll.

Your options in this thread are to read the review and agree, or disagree with the review.
In either case, you should explain why, citing information from the review itself.

That is exactly right and they are also the loudest most obnoxious type of gamer.


I once heard Mile O'Brian from Arenanet talk about that type of gamer and why Arenanet refuses to have official forums...he basically said this type of gamer will spend hundreds of dollars in alt accounts just to try and convince as many people as possible that they game they hate sucks. He said they made the decision at the start that Arenanet would not provide the stage from which other people could insult their hard work just for the lulz.

I would say I agree with that sentiment.

lol, so true.

I also love NPR but their music reviews are so funny. it's like they are trying way too hard to be 'PC'. It's always some tribal thing from Africa or some blood curdling screeching vocals from the middle east.