Zorrixor posted:Rhen Var actually wouldn't surprise me... LucasArts have used it before, it links in with Ulic Qel-Droma, and there's an unexplained ancient Jedi civilsation buried under the snow. In some ways, it'd actually be kind of neat if they did with Rhen Var what they've done with Ord Mantell and Alderaan by presenting us with a "different" kind of Rhen Var that was only half-iceball with a not-yet-ruined Jedi/Sith Enclave somewhere. I wouldn't mind that too much... it'd be better than Hoth anyway.
Vrook_Lamar posted:Zorrixor posted:Rhen Var actually wouldn't surprise me... LucasArts have used it before, it links in with Ulic Qel-Droma, and there's an unexplained ancient Jedi civilsation buried under the snow. In some ways, it'd actually be kind of neat if they did with Rhen Var what they've done with Ord Mantell and Alderaan by presenting us with a "different" kind of Rhen Var that was only half-iceball with a not-yet-ruined Jedi/Sith Enclave somewhere. I wouldn't mind that too much... it'd be better than Hoth anyway. Rhen Var has been slightly mis-used in my opinion. In its first appearance, it was "just coming out of an ice age" so when it appears 4000 years later in the clone wars surely it should have been "was in an ice age millenia ago" and not be an ice planet at all? Unless it fell back into an ice age later. Or they just happened to visit it in winter every time A 400 years later and still slightly snowy Rhen Var with tons of ruins to explore and loot could be a great planet for an MMO though.
ZanderSolo posted:Vrook_Lamar posted:Zorrixor posted:Rhen Var actually wouldn't surprise me... LucasArts have used it before, it links in with Ulic Qel-Droma, and there's an unexplained ancient Jedi civilsation buried under the snow. In some ways, it'd actually be kind of neat if they did with Rhen Var what they've done with Ord Mantell and Alderaan by presenting us with a "different" kind of Rhen Var that was only half-iceball with a not-yet-ruined Jedi/Sith Enclave somewhere. I wouldn't mind that too much... it'd be better than Hoth anyway. Rhen Var has been slightly mis-used in my opinion. In its first appearance, it was "just coming out of an ice age" so when it appears 4000 years later in the clone wars surely it should have been "was in an ice age millenia ago" and not be an ice planet at all? Unless it fell back into an ice age later. Or they just happened to visit it in winter every time A 400 years later and still slightly snowy Rhen Var with tons of ruins to explore and loot could be a great planet for an MMO though. Generally speaking in terms of our planet, I believe we were "coming out of the last ice age" for about 25k years(appx) before the ice caps totally receeded to their kind of now positions. So at 4k years the Ice would have melted a bit, but if it was indeed "just coming out of an ice age" it could still have thousands of years to go still.
Zorrixor posted:At the end of the day, I feel if LA want to do space combat they should get off their behinds and make a new X-Wing game/other flight simulator game.
MercenaryAce posted:ZanderSolo posted:Vrook_Lamar posted:[quote=Zorrixor]Rhen Var actually wouldn't surprise me... LucasArts have used it before, it links in with Ulic Qel-Droma, and there's an unexplained ancient Jedi civilsation buried under the snow. In some ways, it'd actually be kind of neat if they did with Rhen Var what they've done with Ord Mantell and Alderaan by presenting us with a "different" kind of Rhen Var that was only half-iceball with a not-yet-ruined Jedi/Sith Enclave somewhere. I wouldn't mind that too much... it'd be better than Hoth anyway. Rhen Var has been slightly mis-used in my opinion. In its first appearance, it was "just coming out of an ice age" so when it appears 4000 years later in the clone wars surely it should have been "was in an ice age millenia ago" and not be an ice planet at all? Unless it fell back into an ice age later. Or they just happened to visit it in winter every time A 400 years later and still slightly snowy Rhen Var with tons of ruins to explore and loot could be a great planet for an MMO though. Generally speaking in terms of our planet, I believe we were "coming out of the last ice age" for about 25k years(appx) before the ice caps totally receeded to their kind of now positions. So at 4k years the Ice would have melted a bit, but if it was indeed "just coming out of an ice age" it could still have thousands of years to go still.
ZanderSolo posted:Vrook_Lamar posted:[quote=Zorrixor]Rhen Var actually wouldn't surprise me... LucasArts have used it before, it links in with Ulic Qel-Droma, and there's an unexplained ancient Jedi civilsation buried under the snow. In some ways, it'd actually be kind of neat if they did with Rhen Var what they've done with Ord Mantell and Alderaan by presenting us with a "different" kind of Rhen Var that was only half-iceball with a not-yet-ruined Jedi/Sith Enclave somewhere. I wouldn't mind that too much... it'd be better than Hoth anyway. Rhen Var has been slightly mis-used in my opinion. In its first appearance, it was "just coming out of an ice age" so when it appears 4000 years later in the clone wars surely it should have been "was in an ice age millenia ago" and not be an ice planet at all? Unless it fell back into an ice age later. Or they just happened to visit it in winter every time A 400 years later and still slightly snowy Rhen Var with tons of ruins to explore and loot could be a great planet for an MMO though.
Vrook_Lamar posted:[quote=Zorrixor]Rhen Var actually wouldn't surprise me... LucasArts have used it before, it links in with Ulic Qel-Droma, and there's an unexplained ancient Jedi civilsation buried under the snow. In some ways, it'd actually be kind of neat if they did with Rhen Var what they've done with Ord Mantell and Alderaan by presenting us with a "different" kind of Rhen Var that was only half-iceball with a not-yet-ruined Jedi/Sith Enclave somewhere. I wouldn't mind that too much... it'd be better than Hoth anyway.
Hendo255 posted:just to do some more speculating about the release date... based on other release dates... Now I know I'm just kinda piecing things together here but at E3, SquareEnix apparently debued the trailer for Final Fantasy XIV Online. A game which was kept secret until this E3. They started developing it in 2006 at the same general time as ToR. However, they have already announced their release date as 2010. So one can theorize the general idea that ToR, since it was officially announced 8 months earlier, would be released a little before FFXVI... maybe the end of 2009 or first quarter of 2010. Of course I'm going on the assumptions that mmos by large companies come together at generally the same speed while unrushed. yes... I'm very bored. lol and if these games both come out at the same time I have no clue what I'm going to do :[ I'll be so torn...
ZanderSolo posted:Addressing the other point, after CU1, even before NGE, I felt SWG strongest point was it's Space Combat. Nothing was as fun as raiding that Impstar in an Xwing with my Squad of 9 other X's and 2 Bwings flanking me. Or all of us getting our Awings out and doing Cuts across it's bow.
MercenaryAce posted: About NGE: the sad thing is that they were just trying to fix everything people were complaining about in the first version of galaxies. And then everyone started looking at the old game with rose colored glasses apparently.
Zorrixor posted:The one way I can see "BioWare" pulling of a flight sim and it not damaging the main game itself is if they subcontract out (like they often do via Obsidian with RPGs) back to LucasArts, and let LA do the flight sim: whereas BioWare are the RPG experts, LA are the ones who have made XWA, JO, and such... i.e. the more actioney games.