SWTOR storyline compared to .....

I have been playing this game since pre-order, and for the most part, I have been enjoying the storyline component.

I'd say around level 35+, the storyline started to become flat and it was a push to get close to 50.

Then, as the server pop started to drop on my server (Thana Vesh), It became increasingly more difficult. So I decided to shelf SWTOR until patch 1.2 came out and decided to play ME3.

Those of you familiar with the game should know how fantastic the story is there (minus the ending).

After completeing ME3 I came back to SWTOR to wrap up my class quest. Needless to say, I was so utterly bored and unimpressed with the final plotline (doing Jedi Consular) compared to ME3 that I feel this has affected my outlook on SWTOR.

Did anyone have a similiar experience ?

My experience is the opposite.

There is no over all character story line there. Just this missions where the story is exactly the same whether your a Vulcan science officer or andorian tactical officer.

I came to try this out and found what I consider excellent story lines and good voice acting.

But more than that a well built game.

It saddens me in one aspect cause I love trek and know very little about star wars. But worse than that it highlights how badly cryptic has mangled star treks IP.

Any way I have nothing but kudo's for bioware for the job they have done.

So to them I say Good work people. Be proud of what You built.

Absolutely. SWTOR stories are so inferior compared to anything BioWare has done previously, I really don't understand how people don't see it.

They are completely shoe horned by the fact that this is an MMO, they cannot allow players to make any decisions that will actually affect the world, so the illusion of choice is given with the dialogue wheel, but the same thing happens no matter what you pick... except you either answer like a good guy, or like a dbag and get the associated Light or Dark side points.

The emotional tone is also completely flat. There has never been a point in SWTOR where I either burst out from joy or laughter, then cried at a later point in the story. I also couldn't care any less about my companions in this game and their whiny annoying problems, except maybe Vette. Compared to companions in any other BioWare game, these people have high school problems.

Why are you talking about Star Trek? The OP didn't mention Star Trek.

Consular is by far the worst storyline. Not defending the SWTOR story aspect at all, but I can see how that would happen.

The story's are quite good (most of them). Though if u try to compare it to games like DA:O u will come out short handed.

BTW Jedi consular's probably have the worst story.

Because the op compared this game to me3. There by opening the door for comparisons to other games.

So unless this is a bash bioware/tor thread I should be able to point out what I consider the pluses of this game compared to one of its other competitors.

I feel this depends greatly what class you are playing.. I would mirror your feelings if it was inquisitor.. However I have loved every second of my bounty hunter storyline (lvl 48 now).

IDK, I actually sort of like that nothing I do is going to have world breaking consequences. It feels pretty unrealistic to me that by picking 1 a lot, I can save the world from Reapers and be lauded as a hero. (While pushing 3 lets me save the world from Reapers and be considered a jerk.)

I mean, most of what any of us do have a pretty minimal impact on the world, outside our own small circle. It's kind of cool to me that the game reflects that.

Plus, as noted above, some classes have better story lines than others. (And I haven't been overly impressed by JC, either, from what I've seen so far.)

And going in, I didn't have any illusions that this was going to have a "better" storyline than, say, ME3. OF course it's not. It's an MMO, and writing has to be based around that. (While ME3 could theoretically go anywhere.) With that said, I really like that I'm not stuck as a space marine, no matter what I do. I can be a smuggler, a trooper (okay, space marine), spy, bounty hunter, or various types of jedi and sith. I love that variation as I can't think of a lot of games where I get to be a military grunt (vs. hero), spy, smuggler, or guy who kills for cash. Most would shoe horn me into being jedi or sith or another big, important hero. So I'm loving that aspect.

I enjoyed my class story (jedi knight) up to belsavis, then i ended up leaving it for a long time since i hated the planet. Went back when my knight was 45 and blasted through it all there, then on voss it got better.