All of Star Wars: The Old Republic classes have been revealed

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

vlad321 said:

.jayderyu said:
I love Star Wars, I LOVE KotoR, I HATE D20 SW and Lucas Arts SW games tend to be lack luster. The more I learn about this game the more it seems that Bioware is not part of the direction team and more the coders.

Seriously on one of the developers mentioned that "When you think Smuggler you think Han-Solo", "When you think Bounty Hunter you think Boba Fett". Dude WTF was the guy thinking. The entire reason why KotoR was so f'ing awesome because it gave us a SW universe that was different. The more I see ToR the more it feels like a copy and paste job of episodes 3-6 put shortly after the KotoR games. Not all Bounty Hunters have jet packs, flame throwers and wrist missel launchers. Fetts popularity is soley fan iconization. Solo was a liar about being the fastest ship. Who ever hears a sales men calling themselves the second or third best.

And the game going to install at 40+gb, good lord.

Will this game sell. If Bioware makes a bad game I will be surprised. Will I buy this game. yes. Will I invest numerous months of money into this game. Probably. but good lord I can't help to think that the ToR design team is their second rate and listing too much to Lucas Arts.

the best star Wars game is Jedi Outcast, also Jedi Knight 1.

You have heavy competition with Tie Fighter there.  Though the Jedi Outcast/Academy series is up there.

Also, with .jayderyu's point, I think Bioware is the main developer including the storyline and planning, much like with the first KOTOR game.  However, they probably have a lot of help from other sources, such as writers and planners from Lucasarts and possibly novel writers of the series.  This seems to be one of the biggest MMOs ever attempted and something beyond even the guys at Bioware to keep limited to just in house.  Perhaps they also hired out some help from other development groups, especially since this isn't the only project they have going (or have had going).

But I agree, I hope there's a lot more variety than all the characters just being carbon copies of previous star wars characters.  That's partially why I'm interested in being an Imperial Agent, since they look to be the most 'original'.  But even the little I've seen, some of the others, like Trooper and even some of the gear and moves from Sith looks original, though it could just be a carry-over from KOTOR.