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.
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