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High quality collector's edition box! Hold me back 
*****Official Star Wars: The Old Republic Thread*****
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High quality collector's edition box! Hold me back
You like it up the *** if you buy it
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Hey mate, I was waiting for you to respond to my post on last page...
EDIT: regarding the lightsabers.
Ah yes, missed that.
I personally don't think they look as good as in the films - both switching them on and using them.
It is still a very cool moment when you get your lightsaber (for the first 10 levels you get a stupid "vibrosword"). My problem is that as soon as you get a lightsaber, not long after it gets an "upgrade" - I don't want to give too much away, but if they had left this until later on it would have been better.
Again, personally, I also prefer the way in which the Jedi get their lightsaber compared to the Sith.
As with any item the lightsaber can be upgraded, but I often find myself switching to a completely new one when offered.
This provide a little more info?
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Wow, the collectors edition looks really nice but at 150 Euros I think I'll pass. Is anybody still interested in setting up an OcUK Swtor guild?
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Yeah cheers.
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Found a new video with some good info on youtube, not seen it before, posted 8th july:
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The screen shots on the cake today look very very good, well IMO they do.
Don't read too much into beta cake. They are very selective about what they post and only post the screenshots that show TOR in a good light. It makes me wonder who actually runs that site.
The following is a .rar with a number of screenshots I have gathered so far (they were too big to upload to Imageshack and I don't have time to resize them - anyone can feel free to post them here though).
http://www.mediafire.com/?6zuznbs7hpdm17y
As you can see, it is a mixed bag - some shots look stunning for an MMO (or any game for that matter), while others look truely pathetic.
I am still undecided about whether to get this game. There are so many good and bad points to weigh up it is giving me a headache. I guess it will all depend on how they polish the game between now and release. The important factor is that I did have fun with every class I played and the story was incredibly engaging (most of the usual scan, kill, collect quests were so well disguised that you only realised you were doing them if you stopped to think about it).
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Had a good look through your pics mate. After seeing them, I'm actually more impressed with the graphics than I was before. Reason being that there's no way that they won't have higher res textures than the few "shocking" ones in those screenshots. Thanks for posting those, I'm quite a bit happier now!
Having said the above though, I really do get a WoW vibe from the screenshots. Especially in swtor 2011-07-03 12-32-57-16.bmp. Really now it's just the gameplay that has me worried, which is the more serious thing to worry about too!
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I’m sure there are many crappy screen shots of the game, but what I have seen, they look pretty impressive. Why would some look so good and then so many pathetic as you quoted?? You closing sentence tells me that you will be getting the game on day one.
Had a good look through your pics mate. After seeing them, I'm actually more impressed with the graphics than I was before. Reason being that there's no way that they won't have higher res textures than the few "shocking" ones in those screenshots. Thanks for posting those, I'm quite a bit happier now!
Having said the above though, I really do get a WoW vibe from the screenshots. Especially in swtor 2011-07-03 12-32-57-16.bmp.
I'm at work, I cant view them, can somebody post a couple here please, some good ones and some "bad" and the pic you mentioned too?
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Had a good look through your pics mate. After seeing them, I'm actually more impressed with the graphics than I was before. Reason being that there's no way that they won't have higher res textures than the few "shocking" ones in those screenshots. Thanks for posting those, I'm quite a bit happier now!
Having said the above though, I really do get a WoW vibe from the screenshots. Especially in swtor 2011-07-03 12-32-57-16.bmp. Really now it's just the gameplay that has me worried, which is the more serious thing to worry about too!
I would agree tbh, it does look to me like they haven't installed all of the high res textures yet. I am just very careful with MMO betas these days - 100% tired of the beta excuse - plus, this isn't really a beta anymore.
It was a playtest, so you would expect it to be much further along than a "beta" phase.
They just need to sort out the whole instancing thing next and level gaps.
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Release date imminent then?
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Where did the images come from do you know? As those boxes look very big and full of games so this clearly isn't just some little publicity add, they are starting to stock the stores up ready for release. Now to save some money for a new computer and maybe the Collectors edition(If it isn't as ridiculously priced as has been suggested)
I actually own a game shop and they arrived yesterday...... I wish lol 
They look very real and you can see there is a whole box ready for pre order!
This is actually not good timing. I have a little one coming in 4 weeks
I better get the collector’s edition so I can get the 10 day head start.
They look very real and you can see there is a whole box ready for pre order!
This is actually not good timing. I have a little one coming in 4 weeks
I better get the collector’s edition so I can get the 10 day head start.
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Some of those screenshots have got to be placeholder textures, they wouldn't dare release a finished game like that. I hope
I can relate to that. I am very undecided about the game, in fact my concerns are strong enough and I've experienced enough "next coming of the messiah" pre-release MMO hype that I will wait at least 3 months after its released before I even think about buying SWTOR. The hype on forums at release is going to be stellar, every thread on every MMO forum will be littered with claims of it being the greatest MMO of all time...I however will wait til 3 months has passed and see if people are still of that line of thought or whether, as with so many past MMOs, the enormous release hype has now gone and people after seeing the cracks are no longer playing and it was another false dawn.
Now I say that, but that will also depend upon what happens with Guild Wars 2, which is an MMO which appeals to my playstyle more, if I end up in beta for that (or Prime) then its possible that those 3 months will pass and I still wont end up getting SWToR. Will just have to wait and see what happens.