Star Wars: The Old Republic Trooper Progression

The latest video for The Old Republic shows off the Trooper class and features a ridiculous design:




Here's a much older video showing how the animators went about designing the class:



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1. The ESPN Films: 30 for 30 Limited Edition Collector Set is 40% off at Amazon. (Perfect for Father's Day.)

2. Desktop wallpaper of a forest reclaiming a city.

3. 90 minute video showing off (what I think) are the first few quests of the Jedi class. It looks a lot like KOTOR.

Sith Inquisitor Class (The Old Republic)

The video showing off the Sith Inquisitor class is the best yet (of course, Palpatine was always my favorite...). I like the Sith masks too, including Darth Jadus's:




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1. RPS calls The Old Republic's player vs. player component "a tedious, miserable experience."

2. Good example of how websites try to take advantage of SEO to build traffic. (Seems like such a miserable, joyless way to make a buck.)

3. The Conan trailer is one of the worst trailers I've seen in recent memory (I hate everything - - the editing, the music, the look of the characters, the behavior of the characters). By comparison, this two-minute scene from Drive is excellent.

Link roundup

1. TomTom sold user data to the police, who then used it to expertly place speed traps. Via.

2. RPS takes a long look at The Old Republic:

And this level of story exceeds anything I’ve seen in an MMO. There’s currently nothing else that comes close, with perhaps only The Secret World as a rival for such a narrative-focused approach. Simply the fact that my character pretended to be someone else – Blade, she went by – for such a protracted period, was novel to the point of gripping me. And within that, as I lied and tricked the various residents of this Hutta enclave, I was able to betray at my leisure. I could come out of that situation – a good day’s worth of play – having decided whose side I was really on.

The other thing to note here is that I was playing alone. And there was little impetus to team up with anyone. The story, in fact, encouraged me to be soloing this. This happens to be exactly how I want to play MMOs, so I was delighted. But those who are all about guilds and the like will have to get through some significant sections before they’ll get their way. That’s not to say that you can’t team up, because you absolutely can. Certain areas will be blocked off to someone who’s not the same class as you, and some quests are specific to you, but it’s more the lack of narrative sense that put me off wanting a buddy.

In fact, at the point where you really do need someone else to help you battle through, the game gives you an NPC companion.

3. Lifehacker's guide to setting up an online store.

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