How excited are you for the Story?Follow

I have to admit, in general I'm not that much into the story aspect of an MMO. I've tried in the past to get into it more with recent titles like WoW and Rift. I know a lot of talented people spend a lot of time writing and rewriting stuff for our enjoyment but aside from the use of a little in-game cut scene or some good voiceover work, I'm really not that interested it blocks of text. I tend to want to get right to the next thing that continues to advance me XP wise.

So I just prefaced all that so you know my stance and also to let the community know that for some reason I'm much more excited about story for SWTOR. I think its because of the active dialog system we are used to with Bioware, taken to another level with party members being able to participate and "direct" the path of the conversation. To me, I will be living the story now and not just needing to click a series of sentences if/when its my turn because the story will be told through me.

How well done will it be? Who knows? And if I find that general paths will take you to the same place over and over again, maybe I won't care as much anymore. But from what I've seen and read so far it looks like it will be important and intriguing... keeping my fingers crossed.

How about you... How excited are you for story elements and the voiced over conversational story telling?

I'll see if I can start a poll.

Later all and welcome!

Well, the thing is about Rift and WoW, you really have to go out of your way to see the big stories. Sure you can read the quests, but its so easy to simply skip quests and rush things.

This game seems to force you into the story, without much difficulty. Sucks for all those people who play their games with the sound off (I know quite a few to be honest.) The only other game that more often forces you into the story is Final Fantasy 11. That game was too grind heavy, but the story was epic!

but yeah... I cant wait for this game!

Miric, the problem I find with MMO storylines is that either you have to wait too long to progress to the next section (be it from updates/leveling up/farming items/other), or that you get frustrated because you can't progress because the missions are tough. (FFXI's Chains of Promathia used to be a prime example of this, the missions were at one point VERY hard and a lot of people simply gave up because of it).

Hopefully Bioware will find a happy medium... although I'm not sure how they can do it.

The simple fact that some (hopefully the majority or all) of the story portions of the game are done with voice acting and dark side/light side conversational options and outcomes will bring a huge change to MMO story telling.

From the event game plays it seems the Story will be epic. :) I'm really looking forward to rolling all 8 classes, and perhaps reroll them for a different path.

The different story for each class definitely works for me.

I always like playing alts to do things differently and now that will be the norm....

Smuggler/Gunslinger to start though....

Considering one of the things they're really pushing is exploration, I do think that you have the option of going off the rails whenever you like.

I'm very excited at the possibilities for the story arcs within the game. As far as the over all story, I don't expect to be amazed much. For one thing, we know how it turns out in the end, and for another, MMOs tend to have a long life span, so I imagine that the larger story is going to move quite slowly.

Just the fact that companions will be fleshed out and personal choices will matter years down the road is a very cool (and scary) proposition, however.