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2:28 Scooter: there's an assassin droid on screen

2:29 Scooter: some jedi dude is force choking some soldier fool

2:29 Scooter: DOORS ARE OPENING

2:29 Scooter: EPISODE 1 FIGHT MUSIC whike two jedi are dueling

2:29 Scooter: "your saga begins online"

2:29 Scooter: Star Wars: the Old republic = title

2:30 Scooter: Ray is introducing James Ohlen

2:30 Scooter: Lead designer on KOTOR and Baldur's Gate


2:30 Scooter: He's got street cred


2:30 Scooter: He's going to talk about high level design stuff

2:31 Scooter: KOTOR is the coolest game of my career, and SW: Old republic is even MORE exciting! compelling!

2:31 Scooter: "bringing story to the online space"

2:31 Scooter: takes place 3500 years before movies

2:31 Scooter: there's a haggard jedi looking guy plus some random monster art on screen while he talks


2:31 Scooter: 300 years after KOTOR 1 and 2


2:32 Scooter: New Sith Empire is THE MAN


2:32 Scooter: terentatex= ny Star wars nerd know what this is?it was just onscreen

2:32 Scooter: Faction: Galactic Republic or Sith Empire

2:32 Scooter: classes within each faction


2:33 Scooter: he's talking about individual stories of characters like han solo and luke

2:33 Scooter: that's the dynamic he wants; players with own stories who commune with others

2:33 Scooter: players will have to make hard choices


2:33 Scooter: "good, evil, pragmatic, or unpredictable"

2:34 Scooter: reiterates that companion characters are important to both bioware games and SW movies

2:34 Scooter: companions, player choice, unique classes, and players joining together are the key factors of the experience


2:34 Scooter: now here comes the art director

2:35 Scooter: Jeff Dobson, he's worked on other MMOs

2:35 Scooter: quick aside: no in game art has been shown so far


2:35 Scooter: I WILL DESCRIBE THE GAME LOOK WHEN I SEE IT

2:35 Scooter: all art is concept art so far

2:36 Scooter: Dobson is talking about making it Star Wars and recognizable

2:36 Scooter: oh wait, a kinda cool image of a olde tyme trooper just flashed by

2:36 Scooter: looks pretty KOTOR-ish

2:37 Scooter: it's a trooper design i haven't really seen

2:37 Scooter: NOT EVEN ANTHONY knows what the trooper was!


2:37 Scooter: he's a huge SW nerd

2:38 Scooter: he's talking about how they gotta get the character art right, since that's ALL YOU SEE IN AN MMO

2:38 Scooter: why is he talking about broad shoulders and square jaws if you're going to wear space armor? that's a mystery to me.

2:39 Scooter: AHA, he just talks about how the art is designed to run across ALL range of PCs

2:39 Scooter: he's talking about a video that's coming up

2:40 Scooter: pre-production footage marker just flashed by


2:40 Scooter: unoptimized framerate!


2:40 Scooter: just location shots so far


2:40 Scooter: now jedi and droids and combat sequences

2:40 Scooter: no UI, so i cant tell you how it's actually playing out.

2:41 Scooter: anythony said it reminded him of age of conan with a bit of WoW


2:41 Scooter: combat-aninmation wise

2:41 Scooter: choppy jedi swings


2:41 Scooter: back to the title card

2:42 Scooter: ray is talking about general overview stuff


2:42 Scooter: there will be PvP, raids, etc.


2:42 Scooter: still no specifics about classes or anything

2:43 Scooter: it's still early, and now they're done talking

2:39 It's "far from finished" but all the screens are in-game.


2:39 Gameplay trailer.


2:40 Wow/


2:42 Three or four different cities and bases, lava vistas, caracters with light sabers, fightings monsters, traffic in the sky, amazing cities, jedi force combar, martial arts moves, males and female sith and jedi. Looks very cool. to be honest.


2:42 PvP and raiding confirmed.


2:43 Greg - "We really believe this game will be something special." They're refusing to date it.


2:43 LucasArts boss wrapping up. He's saying how excited they areabout the partnership with EA and BioWare.


2:43 Q&A now.

2:44 Scooter: is the footage pre-alpha?


2:44 Scooter: YES

2:44 Scooter: howlong have you been working on this game?


2:44 Scooter: NO DETAILS ON SCHEDULE

2:44 Scooter: just that it's a typical bioware game


2:44 Scooter: CONSOLE PLATFORMS?

2:45 Scooter: "we'r eonly talking about PC... TODAY"


2:45 Scooter: hmmmmmm

2:45 Scooter: someone just asked if there's a subscription

2:45 Scooter: "no details on business model just yet"

2:45 Scooter: someone just asked for release date

2:46 Scooter: "some point IN THE FUTURE"



LOL

2:46 Scooter: "why go faction and then side instead of organic 'make a new dude and just go'" begining

2:46 Scooter: there is a design reason for that

2:46 Scooter: "what about the future of SWG?"


2:46 Scooter: "today we're talking about old republic"

2:47 Scooter: open beta?


2:47 Scooter: "AT SOME POINT"

2:47 Scooter: anything about classes or races?

2:47 Scooter: "unique ones on each faction, and what are cool things you've seen in the movies, and we'll make classes out of that"

2:47 Scooter: capture the experience of the movies


2:47 Scooter: if it was in the movie, you should be able to do it in the game

2:48 Scooter: a lot of these questions are being ducked


2:48 Scooter: "that's for a breakout session"

2:48 Scooter: gameplay trailer redux

2:48 Scooter: still starts with location shots

2:49 Scooter: melee seems to be making some contact


2:49 Scooter: there's lots of shooting and force pushing

2:49 Scooter: some lightsaber just crossed with some gaffi stick like thigy

2:50 Scooter: now it's breakout sessoin time

PHEW!

2:51 Scooter: okay, NOW WE WALK

It looks like that is all!

PHEW