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Link to chat transcript and Gameplay Demo

http://live-event.ea.com/e3/chat/star-wars

Don't want to sound like a hater... but that UI is the same damn thing as SWG.....

Um, WTF?

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I didn't get a chance to watch this today, and doesn't seem like I can on my droid. Has anyone found a youtube of this?

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Just found a youtube link for it....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0XGky-wWYA

Awesome, thanks. I'll be checking that out tonight.

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Agreed. I thought they would have spruced it up a bit. I did like the gameplay however.

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So it turns out that isn't the same video, but was still interesting and more than i've seen so far. In that one, it sounds like the gui may be a placeholder, as the one they built got scrapped for taking up too much screen real estate. Did he mention anything like that during the live broadcast video?

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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!

OK you're right my mistake I found that one in 3 parts on Youtube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO5PxpuL ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCgPG_ll ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zkCWdk1 ... re=related

Enjoy

In the Live E3 video they mention that they are showing us the New UI. They don't elaborate on it much from that point on.

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I think what we all are seeing is the new UI. The old one had more bulk and was not minimalistic. There is a Dev Blog about this a month or two ago.

The Demo was not the best. Mostly because his combat was boring, with him standing in one spot. Also there was a lot of traveling he had to do. Tat is supposed to be a vast open place, they designed it as such, and that was part of what made the demo boring. This is the reason you first mount is given to you on Tat, you will need it. I think if we were playing instead of watching the vastness and traveling would not fee as boring.

Early in the video the NPCs looked to be motionless when he approached the mission terminal. Got a real lifeless feel form that.

The graphics were also turned down, compared to other videos. Not a bad thing, graphic scalability will be good for communities like ours who aren’t buying new computers just for this game.

I liked getting to see everything, but I think this demo shows there still is much the developers need to polish before release. Six months to Christmas, I think this game is will be hard pressed to release in 2011.

I have some concerns that the game looks very similar to SWG as it exists now, mechanics wise. I am sure the story telling and such are very different, but I sure see A LOT of similarities. The UI is virtually a direct port of the SWG UI, and the skill system and hot bar and even the player behavior seems very similar.

Wonder how much of SWG got cannibalized and put into TOR....

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Is this necessarily a bad thing? SWG had a lot of bugs that never got fixed and the mad overhauls were stupid, but, when it first came out, there were still a lot of things that it did right.

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Are they really the same?


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To me it looks like the boring SWG UI took a swig of WoW juce. I like it, cant think of much more that I would like to add to the UI.

I agree, it's not that close to SWG when you consider it needs to look Star Warsy.

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Robert
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Man, I forgot how bad those SWG ability icons were. Guess I blocked that from my memory.

the "new" SWG interface and button art is very similar to what you see in TOR.

I don't think its a bad thing per se, just an observation.

I would prefer TOR had nothing to do with the trainwreck that SWG became....

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SW:TOR - Mantison Gunslinger, Ironmant Trooper, Manni Jedi Knight
WoW - Dalaran - Manni 85 Mage, Ironmant 83 Warrior, Mantison 80 Hunter
SWG - Chilastra Retired Mantison, Commando / TKA Master aka Trogdor !!!!

Is this the newer one you are talking about Mantison?

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Yep. It really is small potatoes. Just an observation.

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SW:TOR - Mantison Gunslinger, Ironmant Trooper, Manni Jedi Knight
WoW - Dalaran - Manni 85 Mage, Ironmant 83 Warrior, Mantison 80 Hunter
SWG - Chilastra Retired Mantison, Commando / TKA Master aka Trogdor !!!!