{"id":167863,"date":"2021-01-14T19:54:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T19:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/star-wars-the-old-republic-worth-playing-2021\/"},"modified":"2021-01-14T19:54:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T19:54:14","slug":"star-wars-the-old-republic-is-worth-revisiting-10-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/01\/14\/star-wars-the-old-republic-is-worth-revisiting-10-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: The Old Republic is Worth Revisiting 10 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Star Wars: The Old Republic<\/em> <\/strong>released back in 2011, many MMO fans were hoping it would help revolutionize the genre. World of Warcraft<\/em> had reached it peak subscriber count of 12 million just one year earlier, and much of the conversation at the time was about finding the next \u201cWoW<\/em>-killer\u201d to take the genre to new places, a task BioWare took on with confidence due to the studio\u2019s RPG pedigree and the huge success of Mass Effect 2<\/em> just a year before.<\/p>\n

Almost a decade on, Star Wars: The Old Republic<\/em><\/a> hasn\u2019t enjoyed the same long-lasting respect as the original Knights of the Old Republic\u00a0<\/em>games. The game had problems, and ultimately struggled to survive in its subscription model in the highly monopolized market of the time. However, there are still some great reasons that Star Wars: The Old Republic<\/em> is worth revisiting 10 years later.<\/p>\n

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Star Wars: The Old Republic<\/em> performed a high-wire balancing act that BioWare<\/a> and fans alike hoped would launch the MMORPG to instant success. The game had 8 classes, 4 for the Republic and 4 for the Sith. Each one had a huge KOTOR-sized campaign with fully voiced NPCs and separate voices for the player characters, as well as an immense amount of dialog options throughout its world.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, The Old Republic<\/em> ended up feeling like 8 single-player games strung together by a shared MMORPG world<\/a>. There were few ways for players to engage with each other in roleplay \u2013 after all, it would only take two players of the same class to suddenly realize they\u2019d been living identical lives with identical companions for that to fall apart. Even in group encounters, two players speaking with identical voices made roleplaying as a group hard.<\/p>\n

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As a result The Old Republic<\/em><\/a> always felt like it had two main components which didn\u2019t quite gel. Fans hoping for a BioWare RPG experience were satisfied at first, but just playing through the game like a single player story would eventually leave the player too far behind in levels to keep up with their main quests, forcing them to engage in the less narratively-driven MMO aspects of the game.<\/p>\n

MMO fans on the other hand found themselves isolated in story instances where they couldn\u2019t even see their fellow players, let alone interact with them. The promise of an MMO with a KOTOR<\/em><\/a>-level story was realized, but never truly synthesized. However, there is still one big reason to go back to The Old Republic<\/em>.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, Star Wars: The Old Republic<\/em> has more BioWare Star Wars<\/em><\/a> content than Knights of the Old Republic<\/em> and its sequel combined. MMO fans may find servers emptier, but fans of single player BioWare RPGs will still find the game a treasure trove of some of BioWare\u2019s best and most frequently forgotten stories.<\/p>\n

Not only that, but since its initial release\u00a0The Old Republic<\/em> has moved to a free-to-play<\/a> model which means players can explore eight fully-fleshed out campaigns across a huge variety of worlds and some of BioWare\u2019s best companion characters without paying a dime. Star Wars: The Old Republic<\/em> may never have quite been able to realize the experience of a truly synthesized KOTOR<\/em> MMO, but it remains an enjoyable broadly single-player experience in a huge world with writing to match the best BioWare games on a far larger scale.<\/p>\n

Star Wars: The Old Republic<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is available now on PC.<\/p>\n

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