26 October 2008
Ferry

KOTOR 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 are in Star Wars: The Old Republic says BioWare

Star Wars: The Old Republic’s creative director at BioWare, James Ohlen, has made an interesting remark about KOTOR 3 being part of the PC MMORPG in a recent video interview that you can watch below.

To quote: “One of the things we like to joke about this game… is just the sheer amount of content we’re doing and the fact that when our fans ask ‘Why aren’t you doing Knight of the Old Republic 3?’ …we’re really doing KOTOR 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12+. We have THAT much content, that many stories, and we really get to do a lot of the things that we wouldn’t have been able to do in KOTOR 3.

One of the things about the type of storytelling that we’re doing, because their stories revolve around a player’s class (his role), we’re able to actually tell stories that are very focused on who the player is. Which is something that other BioWare games haven’t been able to do.”

Watch the KOTOR 3… uhm, I mean, Star Wars: The Old Republic video interview with the developers at BioWare. Part of the team working on the game previously made Mass Effect. Take a look:

If you don’t feel like watching it. The interview mainly talks about the above as well as these highlights:
* The game taking place 300 years after the events in the original KOTOR.
* While there was peace, the Sith empire has now re-emerged and gone to war with the Republic, the game starts when the hostilities begin again.
* The game world will have many planets, some Sith and Republic strongholds and battlegrounds.
* The game alliances are separated into Light Side, Dark Side, and Faction.
* Your choices will effect your personal story. Meaning that any choice you make, you’ll have to live with, because there’s no save button in an MMO.

1 November 2008 22:36
Cheese

Uhm, what the hell happened to revan!!??

16 November 2008 23:12
Nathan

you b*stards! how could you do this to us. So many loyal fans for so long.

13 December 2008 10:18
Karl

Damn… I don’t want another MMO. Old style RPG for the win!

But I guess Lucas wanted an MMO.

21 January 2009 13:54
J. Jonah Hexas Texas

I’m torn on this. I don’t like online gaming, but I’ve never done it in a world that will be like what Bioware is cooking up here. I have been sitting on the edge of my chair for KOTOR 3 since I finished the 2nd one, and am crushed that they won’t be making it (yet). But this does indeed sound like it will be a far more rich, rewarding, complicated, huge, interesting and fun world than what they could put in the confines of a single-player console game. But since this takes place centuries after KOTOR 2, it doesn’t mean they can’t come back and do a KOTOR 3 in the future. I wanted it now, but I think the more I learn about The Old Republic MMORPG, the more excited I will be and in full agreement that it will be a far more kickass experience than KOTOR 3 ever could have been.