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Knights of the Old Republic MMO Confirmed

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the long-time-coming dept.

Zafsk writes to tell us Gamespot is reporting that in a surprise move from E3 2008, EA's CEO John Riccitello announced that the long debated BioWare MMORPG is going to be a Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic sequel of sorts. Currently the KOTOR MMO is slated for a 2009 release. "BioWare's first Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic game was released in 2003 for the original Xbox and PC, and was named the year's top RPG by GameSpot. An Obsidian Entertainment-developed sequel was released in 2004 and 2005 on the same two respective platforms. Both critically acclaimed games are set several thousand years before the events of the Star Wars films, and cast players as adventurers who eventually become powerful Jedi Knights."

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  1. Re:Difference? by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

    more importantly, which one(s) feature a planet full of jar jars and the ability to rip off their heads and shit down their necks after a slow and painful death involving pliers and sodomy?

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  2. Big shoes to fill by lastchance_000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only it could be as good as Star Wars: Galaxies...

  3. With all apologies to Sir Alec Guinness by MalleusEBHC · · Score: 5, Funny

    I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of hours of my free time suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

  4. Trend in the industry? by djveer · · Score: 4, Funny

    It almost seems like every company has to convert their previously-loved RPG titles into MMORPGs just for anybody to look at them. MMORPGs seem to provide a sort of depth and play experience that single player RPGs have difficulty matching. I don't see this trend stopping any time soon.

  5. Re:If we can't play it with real light saber Wii by Dan667 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you that star wars kid whose movie I saw the other day?

  6. WTF is the summary on about? by Red+Flayer · · Score: 2, Funny

    So I'm reading the summary, and as I see that TFA is about a planned KOTOR MMO, I noice there's a blockquote (apparently from TFA).

    Then I read the blockquote. It refers only to previously released games. WTF? Can't you at least give us something about the planned MMO in the summary?

    I don't know who you are "Zafsk" (if that's your real name), but I resist your crude attempts to force me to RTFA.

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  7. Re:Difference? by g0bshiTe · · Score: 4, Funny

    That of course assumes that the SPORE Penis monsters don't get them first.

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  8. Re:Thousands of years by hostyle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Its called a recession. Welcome to today!

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  9. Re:If we can't play it with real light saber Wii by girasquid · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have roommates, and they have camera phones.

    That just means you should aim for those first. Sheesh.

  10. Re:The second one was not critically acclaimed by Beardo+the+Bearded · · Score: 4, Funny

    There was an ending on the second game?

    I don't remember an ending at all. You just fly off into the nebula and then

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  11. Re:Difference? by Ben+Newman · · Score: 4, Funny

    So there's a chance I can kill Jar Jar's great great great great great great great great great great grandfather and make it so the prequels never happened? This really could be a WOW killer, it would be the most popular MMO in history if that was an option.

  12. Re:If we can't play it with real light saber Wii by Chris+Burke · · Score: 3, Funny

    When you played the table-top game it didn't involve you waving around your 'wiimote'?

    Guess that was just us then...

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  13. Re:Difference? by smittyoneeach · · Score: 2, Funny

    Abuse? If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times, this is Arguments!
    Abuse is through the door, line on the left, one cross each.

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  14. Amnesia by EnsilZah · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, but how are they going to explain a whole world full of amnesia patients with a dark mysterious past?

  15. Re:The second one was not critically acclaimed by Joker1980 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now theres an EA slogan "Its just a game"!!!!

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  16. Re:Why'd they have to ruin that? by AnonChef · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems.
    shut up
    Why do you say shut up?
    will you please just shut your fucking star fags loving mouth?
    I would appreciate it if you would watch your tongue!
    star fags is shit
    Perhaps you could avoid such unwholesome thoughts.
    i shit it out everyday
    Please, get your mind out of the gutter.
    the only thing more disgusting than adults talking about star fags like it matters is adults reading comic books
    What makes you believe that?
    shout your star fags mouth
    Maybe your plans have something to do with this.
    it's fucking faggotry
    Are you afraid of sex?
    i piss on it
    Is it because of your life that you say you piss on it?
    fucking retard
    Tell me about something about your sexual history.
    just shove this shit up your ass
    Such lewdness is not appreciated.