Our Next MMO (2010?)

[Bellthazor]

I would move more towards TOR, as I am a huge SW fan and I agree that SOE has killed off so many of their other MMO's so quickly. They seem to only care about the initial release and then slowly start to decrease the amount of new content and begin permoting whatever they have in development.

[Pirus]

I cant believe no one has mentioned Star Trek Online that game looks pretty good.. maybe its the glory of the newest movie fueling those thoughts though.

[Subb]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Star Trek Online that game looks pretty good.. maybe its the glory of the newest movie fueling those thoughts though.

I'm skeptical on how they're gonna make this work... plus it's already been cancelled once and have now changed developers.

[Tecknik]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Star Trek Online that game looks pretty good.. maybe its the glory of the newest movie fueling those thoughts though.

STO looks like it will be awesome.

I'm also interested in seeing where DCUO goes, even though it is another SOE title.  

It is the game that sealed MXO's fate, after all.  It had better be worth a damn.

[Phienyx]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Star Trek Online that game looks pretty good.. maybe its the glory of the newest movie fueling those thoughts though.

STO looks like it will be awesome.

I'm also interested in seeing where DCUO goes, even though it is another SOE title.  

It is the game that sealed MXO's fate, after all.  It had better be worth a damn.

I, for one, am not confident that the Star Trek universe can be supported by the likes of those who play MMOs.  This may have changed, but in the Star Trek Universe, the ship itself was a character and operating the differenet functions of the ship was how the crew interacted with this character.  With ships  being reduced to not much more than mounts with "high tech" armament,  (no interiors, inability for your human crew to man different stations) the Star Trek world loses alot of its best content.

As far as DCUO: SOE will candy coat, cheese up, water down and indumbinate (yes, I said in-dumb-inate) this game also.

Besides, living in a "world" where everyone is a super-hero isn't as cool as it sounds.  The idea of a world where everyone you see is a cheesed out costumed ego-maniac, turns my stomach.

[Adad]

I'm with Phienyx on both accounts.  I will still keep an eye on DC from time to time but it is the very corny cartoonish side of these characters, not the dark, moving stories at least I love about them.

Also, I would never step foot in a Star Trek game.

[Sared]

I would be all over TOR like shit on shit.

[Subb]

Holy Fucking Shit of Tbone!

Your character gets its own voice during the game! :O

"TOR will be the first fully voiced MMO – Every playable character (male and female) and every non-playable character in the game will be brought to life by voice actors - resulting in several thousand speaking roles and hundreds of thousands of recorded lines of dialogue! This gives players a compelling and immersive story telling experience."

[Manic Velocity]

Holy Fucking Shit of Tbone!

Your character gets its own voice during the game! :O

"TOR will be the first fully voiced MMO – Every playable character (male and female) and every non-playable character in the game will be brought to life by voice actors - resulting in several thousand speaking roles and hundreds of thousands of recorded lines of dialogue! This gives players a compelling and immersive story telling experience."

This seems odd to me.  I actually prefer it if my character doesn't speak except through the chat window, when I want them to speak.  I don't want the game deciding what my character says.

Maybe it will be tied into the game's emotes, so we can activate them at our choosing.  That way we'll have some control over whether our characters speak or not.

[Fuse]

Could be good, but could take away from the personalization of the game depending on how they do it. EQ2 implementing that for NPC chars was great, but for PCs? eh...

[Strod]

Well, from what I can tell they will have probably five generic voices to choose from at creation.

1. Nerd
2. Thug
3. Hannibal Lecture
4. Jigsaw
5. Bill Cosby

I'm sure you get my meaning, some  games will put in five generic sounding voices and you can pick from one of the five.

[Subb]

Holy Fucking Shit of Tbone!

Your character gets its own voice during the game! :O

"TOR will be the first fully voiced MMO – Every playable character (male and female) and every non-playable character in the game will be brought to life by voice actors - resulting in several thousand speaking roles and hundreds of thousands of recorded lines of dialogue! This gives players a compelling and immersive story telling experience."

This seems odd to me.  I actually prefer it if my character doesn't speak except through the chat window, when I want them to speak.  I don't want the game deciding what my character says.

Maybe it will be tied into the game's emotes, so we can activate them at our choosing.  That way we'll have some control over whether our characters speak or not.

I dunno - I'd love to have a thugish voice if I was a bounty hunter for example... but I do get whatcha mean :p

[Strod]

Some how, "Hold it sucka, I pity the fool who uses the Force" doesn't quite capture the Bounty Hunter presence.

[Subb]

Some how, "Hold it sucka, I pity the fool who uses the Force" doesn't quite capture the Bounty Hunter presence.

Lol, no not Mistah T The Hutt :p

I meant thuggish like Jango Fett/overall Mandalorian voice. :p

http://uk.pc.ign.com/dor/objects/816935/bioware-mmo-project/videos/e3live_starwarsoldrepublic.html <<< There are hundreds of voice actors... so HOPEFULLY there will be a multitude of voice options for your characters.