Maniacles

Has some really nifty trailers.
http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/trooper-progression
http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/...or-progression
http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/...ht-progression


And you can collect a crew:
http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/crew-skills

__________________

Timberelf

I can see soem good and bad things about the crews gathering / crafting annd such

__________________

Kelraz Bladesinger

This is sounding more and more like a single player game w/ a chat room

Akom of Cazic Thule

Remains to be seen. Personally I don't think so.

Also, supposedly beta has started.

Kelraz Bladesinger

They had their fan site summit not too long ago and everyone played solo or at most, in a pair. You have your own crew of minions to group with so you never have to play with another person - and what that means is almost no one will. Sure, the instanced 8v8 PVP or fabled "raids" are multiplayer but its nothing like what we used to love in Everquest.

I was hoping there'd be something like a new-gen version of Eve - but like I said all reports seem to boil it down to nothing more than a single player game with a chat room (albeit a very impressive single player game).

Maniacles

I've actually been looking for a game somewhat like this, where you single player your group to max level, and then take that group with you to join other people on the "raids." making the raids the group content, and not really having everquest style raid content. Then again, I think I'm going to really like Rifts when I finally buckle down and pick it up.

__________________

Greystone Thorngage

This is the summary I have heard from multiple people.

Kelraz Bladesinger

It'll be a great single player game though I'm sure. And it'll probably even have some mediocre "endgame" on some level - but its no Eve 2.0 or future of MMOs as we know it or anything.

Binuven

I agree Kel, though I think EvE is too hardcore for a lot of players out there, especially those who like to gank with little or nothing to lose.

I think you'll eventually see the EvE system and the TOR system start migrating towards each other in some sort of hybrid of the two.

This being said, I'm sure TOR will be a great game. As far as that EQ feeling, the only game to really give me that nostalgic feeling was Realms Online, and that's F2P.

Akom of Cazic Thule

I may or may not have gotten into Beta.