Narf2029 wrote on Mar 4, 2010, 22:38:
Also, everyone that says TOR is going to be substantially better is kidding themselves. :)
Right. Because BioWare sucks compared to Cryptic, and it's not like they have some of the best people in the world working on their game and a budget and development time frame several times more expansive than STO.
Oh. Wait.
It too will be an MMO, after all, and everyone who believes it will have a better story faces a rude awakening in the future.
It would not be hard to have a better story than STO, for ANY developer. BioWare should pull it off without a sweat. Actual Mass Effect style dialogue, story choices, morality system. Completely unique stories for each class. Hell, they've even got a way for multiple players to take part in the dialogue.
If you can honestly say you have the impression it's going to be the same as STO or worse, you simply have not followed the game at all.
That is, unless TOR turns out to be a single player/cooperative game with a monthly fee...
That's actually one of the playstyles they are taking into consideration. If you want to just solo through each class story and be done with it, then you can do that.
But to say it's not going to be any better than STO is just nonsense. Even if BioWare _was_ as bad as Cryptic, it'd still be better for the sheer amount of money and production value they are sinking into it.
TOR may end up being mediocre in the end, and no one is expecting it to do bigger numbers than WoW, but it's going to be far and away better than STO.
STO isn't as bad as people make it out to be, but it's not even on the same level as TOR.
Do you have a single fact to back that up?