Star wars old republic full#

As a former slave, the man who’s training you hates your guts. You start on a Sith-controlled planet and you’re attempting to become a dark lord’s apprentice. Take the introductory quests for the Sith Inquisitor. SWTOR puts the focus squarely on you and (so far) doesn’t tell you the fate of the entire galaxy is in your hands.

Star wars old republic full#

You are the chosen one, in a world full of chosen ones. I’ve already met a cult who worship Darth Revan - the (spoilers) protagonist of the first game - and I’m told there’s more Revan stuff to come. If, like me, you are invested in the Knights of the Old Republic games, there’s even some extra lore for you to dig into. It also has another advantage over the usual MMOs: lightsabers. If there’s one thing I can’t stand about MMOs, it’s the grind, and SWTOR doesn’t have any so far. I’ve basically mainlined the main quests and ignored much of the filler, yet I’m still five levels above where I need to be for my current point in the story. If you do decide you want access to the expansions, you only have to subscribe for a month and most of the extras stay unlocked forever, even if you end your sub once the month is up.Īnother thing I really appreciate is the lack of grinding. Your inventory is restricted and there’s a cap on how many credits you can earn in-game, but the core experience is all there. SWTOR just went free-to-play and you can experience every single class story to completion, for free. It’s one of those games that gets it claws in you and makes you think about it when you’re doing anything else. There’s choice and consequence, you shape the world around you, and you can decide your own moral code. You have companions who join you and chat to you between missions, much like BioWare’s single-player RPGs. It’s an MMO that you can play completely solo. I’m sitting here in my personal starship, with an entire galaxy to explore, and I’m wondering how it gets better than it already is. One of them is apparently the closest we’ll get to Knights of the Old Republic 3. Everyone who’s played further along tells me that “things really get going once you hit the expansions”. You can be anything from a Jedi Knight to a Bounty Hunter or an Imperial Agent - the latter of which is apparently a James Bond-esque story that has you taking out a powerful Sith Lord with cunning and subterfuge. Once I’m done, there are seven other class stories - each a full campaign with its own tale to tell - waiting for me. I know my goals - to become a Sith - and it’s clear how I need to achieve those goals. Within the first couple of hours I have a rival and I understand my place in the world.

The story doesn’t kick off with world-ending calamities (we get enough of that in real life, am I right?), instead focusing on your character - in my case, a Sith Inquisitor and former slave who’s trying to claw his way up the ladder of power on the dark side of the Force. It gives you personal stakes off the bat. I’m having a very busy 2020 doomscrolling through Twitter and ignoring the half-finished novel (Blood Meridian) on my bedside table. I just don’t have the time to wait for a game to get good. I haven’t skipped a single line in SWTOR.īefore you attack me, I know FF14 apparently gets really, really good when you get to the expansions. Go to this area and kill ten of these things. Where MMOs usually fall down for me is in the fact I don’t give a solitary shit what they’re asking me to do. Star Wars: The Old Republic feels like a proper BioWare RPG. On Monday, I subscribed to an MMO, mainly because it doesn’t feel like one. I’ve tried TESO, FF14, and even World of Warcraft, but I always bounce off them a dozen hours in. I don’t like the idea of stabbing 20 wolves to get +1 of some stat I don’t give a crap about. They’re spreadsheets that you play at your PC, which is where I sit down to work all day. MMOs feel too much like a second job to me.