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SWTOR wins Best Online Game at Gamerscom 2011
Cik_Asalin
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I dont think this has been posted, but impressive? Sounds like it. http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/08/17/gamescom-2011-swtor-wins-best-online-game-and-introduces-huttba/
As one that is anticipating this title, Im not really anticipating more timed lobby-system shoe-box claustrophobic PvP match content. But it appears that they introduced new PvP arena content and it helps get attention.
I need to look to see if there is any more reveal about more open-world organic non-scripted community-centric and massively-multiplayer content, but this is what I found so far, and I'm not disappointed in "it" in particular per-se, but was hoping for more....I'll continue reading other news reports to see.
edited for spelling.
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how did they win in Gamescom 2011 if it is starting tomorrow thursday 18th August?? o.O
Shame GW2 was ineligible for voting since it won last year.
I wanted a repeat!
BOOYAKA!
well they already picked the winners.
Sad that GW2 cant win again, since winning alst year made it so it could not be picked this year..... just how it works
gamescon started yesterday.
Simply awesome. After seeing the different gameplay video's from there so far, it looks great. The lvl 50 operation looks amazing!
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today was press day and they are the ones that give awards so i guess they decided they had seen enough
Only for press......
Anyway.... Obviouly SWTOR won because Guild Wars 2 is ineligible this year.....
Guild Wars 2 is going to BLAST this GamesCom!
BTW: I already pre-orderer SWTOR....but compared to GW2.... dude i´m not blind :P
personally i doubt they will have any real big pvp reveals at games com. i think they are saving those for pax since they will have one of their big panels(assuming of course that they still intend to give us info like they said at comic con). big problem i see with that though is their show is scheduled for sunday so no one gets to ask any real questions about it in interviews.
it has competition outside of some crappy p2w korean grinder?
LFD tools are great for cramming people into content, but quality > quantity.
I am, usually on the sandbox .. more "hardcore" side of things, but I also do just want to have fun. So lighten up already
Best 'online' game?
Doubt it, but seeing as GW2 was ineligible due to winning last year my own vote would have been to BF3. I would usually go with the MMO in this instance since it tends to retain a lot more actual online playing hours and is more suited to an online environment as a whole than a FPS game but between the lack of progress SWTOR brings (other than one thing that has been beaten to death in at least 5 games major games since 2007/2008) to the table and the complete jaw dropping awesomeness that is BF3 I just can't not vote for in my own mind, hell it would have even given GW2 a bloody good run for it's money.
Before i seen the gamescon stuff I was well pumped for BF3 but after seeing the 64 player map today I just wish DICE and EA would take my wallet from me right now rather than in October.
Opinions are opinions. Im stoked for SWTOR BF3 and GW2, ill be getting them all.
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Having seen GW2 I doubt it would have won if it was eligable.
Yeah that's cool, they will all be successfull in different ways I think. But in terms of 'best online game' BF3 comes out well ahead of SWTOR for me, personally. Again, todays revealed stuff just sealed the deal... take my money already, damnit!
@ Ragnaven
They won very convincingly last year, what makes you think the decision would have been reversed this year given that GW2 was showing what was probably the most anticipated feature so far and seems to be being recieved very well?
I've actually been looking forward to GW2 now for a while until I started really researching it last week. Needs a LOT of improvement before I will be interested in spending money on it.
Anyways, since this thread is supposed to be about Star Wars, I have to say I continue to be impressed by it. That new Battleground looked fun too. Hopefully we can see it in english soon.
"If half of what you tell me is a lie, how can I believe any of it?"
Here is a list of the other MMO's that were at GameCon, not all of 'em were demoning, and some just had trailers or reveals:
Full Massively Article On MMO's at GamesCon 2011
Just curious why you think they won convincingly last year? You know, as opposed to just "won". It was a landslide vote or something? Where did you find that info?
Not being skeptical, just curious and all.
IF it would have been eligible the fight simply would have been warzone vs warzone. Personally in this instance I'd side with TOR, as huttball is a new twist on the warzone... Just sounds more fun to me.
To SB fans, please stop making our demographic look bad.Stop invading threads that have nothing to do with sandboxes.
SW:TOR Graphics Evolution and Comparison
SW:TOR Compare MMO Quests, Combat and More...
mainly because TOR has constantly improved in graphics, gameplay, and features. They showed off a lot of stuff in the last months, and added more. Where GW2 looks the same to me as it did the first time I looked at it.
Full Massively Article On MMO's at GamesCon 2011
Yea .. none of those look very impressive aside from some that have probably won before and weren't eligible. We are hopefully coming to the end of the driest spells in the history of MMOs .. not a huge victory imo.
LFD tools are great for cramming people into content, but quality > quantity.
I am, usually on the sandbox .. more "hardcore" side of things, but I also do just want to have fun. So lighten up already
guessing it will be the friday update but i could see it getting put out tomorrow or saturday and maybe a dallas dickinson vid for eternity vault for friday. it would be nice if they had multiple vids put out during the convention like they did at e3
Guild Wars 2 would have won by a landslide.
How useless can they possibly make these rankings and awards?
Diablo 3 apparently got "Best PC Game"
This game is a PC game that got "Best Online Game"
Did they give out an award "Best Game"
or "Best Game that Plays like a Game"
Maybe "Best PC Online Game"
A few different places here and there.
No insider knowledge or anything but basing it mostly off of what I seen online and seen from friends and other folk I know both online and in rl. I know quite a bit of differing people when it comes to what they know about upcoming games so that's sometimes refreshing to get the chance to see what they think of games on the face of it. Some of my friends keep themselves well up to date and the others only hear little bits and pieces. Some people prefer WoW, some prefer EVE or something like Mass Effect etc. I also considered what I had learned personally while looking into it. (I was a lot more unbias a year ago initially when it came to gw2/tor/whatever since I was in the midst of playing a MMO anyway and hadn't really decided one way or the other for any upcoming titles). These days I don't mind saying that I'm looking forward to GW2 more because I believe it is pushing the genre as a whole forward more so than any other game that seems to be on the radar just now. ArcheAge looks nice as well and I might dabble with that but I'm not entirely convinced of it's longevity yet. I might very well pick up SWTOR as well, it depends on what's happening at the time, but I don't think it will hold my interest for long.
But yeah, from what I seen almost every single person who I talked with who knew similar amounts about both games pretty much agreed that while SWTOR will be quite cool it doesn't quite match up to the attitude and change that is powering GW2. Everyones main concern seemed to be that they might not pull it off and all the feedback we are seeing from the demos seems to be saying that they are doing a grand job of it. Of course I did fill in gaps in things they didn't know or things they had wrong to the best of my knowledge. (We get a lot of quiet spells in my work as well so I usually get time to fire off emails with links to threads on mmorpg and other websites rather than try explain it on my own if I'm struggling to word or phrase things properly. It also lets me do a great deal of research into games I'm looking forward to or currently playing).
I'm by no means saying I'm of course 100% correct and really it should be taken with a grain of salt but I didn't see how TOR could match what GW2 was bringing to the table. If you are talking about popular game then that's a different kettle of fish entirely, but then again 'best' is subjective anyway.. When in doubt I tend to favour what I think will be best in the long term and for me GW2 comes out well ahead in what it is trying to achieve and since the last gamescon I don't think I've seen anything that changes my opinion on that.
Sorry for such a long post but now and then people take things the wrong way, I don't want to start trolling and flaming and stuff about the whole GW2/TOR thing that's going on, I'm just calling it as I see it.
Just curious why you think they won convincingly last year? You know, as opposed to just "won". It was a landslide vote or something? Where did you find that info?
Not being skeptical, just curious and all.
A few different places here and there.
No insider knowledge or anything but basing it mostly off of what I seen online and seen from friends and other folk I know both online and in rl. I know quite a bit of differing people when it comes to what they know about upcoming games so that's sometimes refreshing to get the chance to see what they think of games on the face of it. Some of my friends keep themselves well up to date and the others only hear little bits and pieces. Some people prefer WoW, some prefer EVE or something like Mass Effect etc. I also considered what I had learned personally while looking into it. (I was a lot more unbias a year ago initially when it came to gw2/tor/whatever since I was in the midst of playing a MMO anyway and hadn't really decided one way or the other for any upcoming titles). These days I don't mind saying that I'm looking forward to GW2 more because I believe it is pushing the genre as a whole forward more so than any other game that seems to be on the radar just now. ArcheAge looks nice as well and I might dabble with that but I'm not entirely convinced of it's longevity yet. I might very well pick up SWTOR as well, it depends on what's happening at the time, but I don't think it will hold my interest for long.
But yeah, from what I seen almost every single person who I talked with who knew similar amounts about both games pretty much agreed that while SWTOR will be quite cool it doesn't quite match up to the attitude and change that is powering GW2. Everyones main concern seemed to be that they might not pull it off and all the feedback we are seeing from the demos seems to be saying that they are doing a grand job of it. Of course I did fill in gaps in things they didn't know or things they had wrong to the best of my knowledge. (We get a lot of quiet spells in my work as well so I usually get time to fire off emails with links to threads on mmorpg and other websites rather than try explain it on my own if I'm struggling to word or phrase things properly. It also lets me do a great deal of research into games I'm looking forward to or currently playing).
I'm by no means saying I'm of course 100% correct and really it should be taken with a grain of salt but I didn't see how TOR could match what GW2 was bringing to the table. If you are talking about popular game then that's a different kettle of fish entirely, but then again 'best' is subjective anyway.. When in doubt I tend to favour what I think will be best in the long term and for me GW2 comes out well ahead in what it is trying to achieve and since the last gamescon I don't think I've seen anything that changes my opinion on that.
Sorry for such a long post but now and then people take things the wrong way, I don't want to start trolling and flaming and stuff about the whole GW2/TOR thing that's going on, I'm just calling it as I see it.
So essentially you have no knowledge that it was a landslide win last year, and it is purely coincidence that you say it was a landslide because it matches your point of view.
Gotcha.
By the way, did you hear that it was a complete landslide this year too? I mean, it was.
Dont take it the wrong way but other than me taking it on faith that "people you talked to", who likely arent the judges of the event (were they?) there really isnt a whole lot of credible sourcing to your statement it was a landslide win.
Good for SWTOR. It won't be winning my "Best Subscription Award" though......lol.