I Gave Star Wars: The Old Republic Another Chance... 

It's worth playing just for the storyline of each class

Swtor is always great to go back to if you havent been there in a while. The music, storylines, the voice acting, the cinematics, they are all amazing.

My dad showed me swtor around 2013.. we played on and off for years. This game will always hold a special place in my heart.

The main reason you leveled up so quickly, is that the system is designed to let even the most story focused players stay on curve. If you only do the main planetary storylines, and the class story and then the main missions in each DLC you can stay on the level curve and reach max level around the end of the story, so any other bit of content is just gonna speed you towards the max level

Really glad to hear you enjoy the game! I've been playing on and off since day one and have always loved it! Definitely a must for any Star Wars/old republic era fan, plus completing every class storyline is one of the most rewarding MMO experiences there is in my opinion!

The base game is wonderful, even though I still miss the old times when it was actually a massive challenge to do your quest bosses. But god damn, EA give these people some resources to work with.

SWTOR has and always will be worth playing, if you have not played the story. I wish I could forget everything I know.

Darth Baras' Sith code: Salad is a lie there is only pie, Through pie we gain calories, through calories we gain fat, with fat our belts are broken, pie shall set you free.

When I first started playing I did so much stuff I ended up hitting max level before I finished my class' storyline. From there I just got a bunch of freebies that worked towards my end game progression. I hope this game gets more attention because it desperately needs new blood to show the developers it deserves to be kept alive.

If you get bored try playing a dark side trooper, war crimes have never been more fun

You should treat this game more like a singleplayer RPG rather than an MMO. Yes it has pvp, flashpoints and raids. But the game shines the most when it comes to storytelling.

I'll be surprised if Asmobald reacts to this video and actually tries out the game. BTW, every origin story is different. A Jedi consular's story will be different to a Jedi Knight's story (this is the 1-50 base game). After that, the expansion story content is the same or slightly different depending on your faction.

I was in Nixxioms guild and participated in the pvp free for all you see in the clips here. It was so much fun. This game is amazing, and if it rereleased as it right now, it might actually win the mmo war right now. But people just don't want to retry it bc it "died" 10 years ago (but it didn't)

My recommendation is to play each character until you complete their storyline. Then whichever character you like the best, have that one go thru all the expansions (I really don't recommend playing thru the expansions with every character...talk about repetitive.) That character will hit 80 long before you complete all the expansions. Once you've played thru all the expansions, then you can do whatever you want. Level all characters to max (yes you can do it without playing the expansions for each.) Join a guild. Do Ops, FPs, Starfighter, the "fight tournament," try to collect all the datacrons, get different "housing" and go nutz decorating them...there is just SO much that one can do. Thanks for this video, and to anyone reading this, I hope you enjoy SWTOR! MTFBWY, A

Always weird seeing people still playing this and dont get me wrong its a great game, i just remember when it first came out think the placed called illum was an open winter hellscape where we'd have full on 100 v 100 battles and easily destroy pub pvp matches like slug ball while using voice chat and a premade team which made it so easy to win

I really enjoyed the story-lines and doing each of the classes. However, my main issue with SWTOR is the same as before. End Game isn't fun. At least for me.

No matter what anyone says my heart will always belong to this game. Playing since day one.

Just watched Obi-Wan...never been more excited to login!

I’ve been playing for 10 hours and so far it’s fun. The game has both the strengths of BioWare RPG’s and the strengths of an MMO. I thought that the mixture wouldn’t work but it does.

Besides just the story, the thing that really got me interested was the insane transmog and cosmetic system they have. Not only is just about every armor piece customizable in terms of stats, but you can mix and match whatever pieces you want. To top it all off, expensive pieces from years ago that you see on the GTN aren't as out-of-reach as that gold cap Swift Spectral Tiger, or Caravan Brutosaur. Farming credits is actually rather simple, the market is really popping, and you can easily afford that cool shiny piece you see within a reasonable amount of time.

It's an RPG with a MMO welded to it. I played a Imperial Agent way back and I felt like I was effing James Bond, somewhere between Daniel Craig and Sean Connery, and from what I hear every class has just as well detailed stories. Maybe time to pick that lightsaber back up.

I played this game for 2 years after release, then came back a few years later when they added chapters, then again a bit later on. It's always been a great game. Sure it might have had issues at launch, but it's never been a bad game at all.

Yeah, there was a point when they made leveling take way less time so if you do things besides the story you overlevel the story really fast lol

100X better than Bellular review. Bellular got to level 80 using only TWO skillbars enabled, I can't trust someone that uses only two bars at level 80.

i got back into swtor about a month ago and i really enjoyed it again. i could very easily see myself getting sucked in but with 3 kids i cant commit to a mmo again. its just too much of a time void but i do highly recommend playing again.

awesome video and really hoping this game takes back off. It has such good bones I can absolutely see why its community believes in it so much. The combat is definitely a bit clunky but still feels super fun/responsive and most importantly satisfying when your playing well. The game really makes me feel like I'm playing as whichever class I'm on whether that be a jedi sage using force powers, my powertech with his flamethrower/other gadgets or my duel wielding jedi sentinel. The cherry ontop is that the story content is very high quality and that is something I also consider paramount to a succesfull mmo. Games like rift and wildstar could never quite keep me hooked because their worlds just felt unfamiliar and shallow (imo). This game makes the star wars universe come alive infront of you while allowing you to carve out a path in it for yourself and THAT is good game design imo.

I feel waaayyyyy happier playing this game then I ever feel playing wow. the community is amazing

Yo bro, your masterful usage of prequel scenes as memes is legendary. This shit lit.

If anyone hasnt played through Fallen Empire and Eternal Throne, you really need to experience those expansions!

I still occasionally return to Swtor. I loved the story, and props to Bioware for doing it in such a way that you only really understand what's going on if you play through all 8 of the character storylines. My favorite character stories though are absolutely the Sith Warrior and the Bounty Hunter. Although the Imperial Agent is really good for those that want more espionage. The voice acting is also really top quality. And although it wasn't covered in this vide, the game may be an MMO, but Bioware made sure that you can enjoy all the content without a party, even the operations that are usually 10+ player encounters that tie into the core story can be done solo through a "Story Mode" difficulty selection.

The one piece of advice I have for new players is leave a force class as one of the last ones to play , and use that force class to do the expansions with (Jedi knight or sith warrior story preferably). The expansions will flow better

The problem is that for a veteran like me there is simply not much to do in the endgame. I have replayed the stories many times and I cannot be bothered to do it again. The lack of endgame, balanced pvp (or at least a little balance), the same old bugs from the launch, crappy optimization of engine… Nah. Not gonna return. However for a newbie this can be cool experience. Just saying a vets perspective.

After 17 years of wow I found a home in ESO, first mmo that got me playing again and caring about my character and stuff. If you re not into pvp, ESO does everything else 10000 better than wow or any other mmo ever did. At least my personal opinion.

I've been playing SWTOR on and off since launch...the stories are fantastic. Each story changes subtlely if you play male or female and if you choose light or dark. The story really is immersive. It's nice to see streamers giving it another shot.

It’s really good for immersion and if you love Star Wars . The lore is rich , the class stories are incredible , and the voice acting is just ahead of every of other game out there . Unfortunately tho . . no damage meter , combat is clunky because of the engine lag after abilities , pvp is a hot mess , and endgame there just isn’t a whole lot more to do . The replayability comes from starting a new class to ply the different stories .

I know people keep saying this game was expensive to "make", but the reality is that most of it's 300m budget went to marketing.

finished the story and reached lvl 80 for the first time with my main a couple of days ago and it just feels so deep, you can't help but remember about it during your day and think what would your character do next, love this game so much

"but the game really picked up when {Most of the Community think the game Ruined Itself}" may be the hottest take in this video

Been playing since 2012; Glad to see how good this game is getting some much deserved attention. Newest expansion is pretty mid tho

As someone that just recovered my 2012 account, really this game changed a lot, but still is a lot of fun. Planning to get some premium time soon to unlock dlcs.

I have loved this game from day 1. I have spent endless hours enjoying the class quests, going light or darkside for each class. I particularly enjoyed the Bounty Hunter and Trooper classes (ranged dps wearing heavy armor? Yes please!). I also REALLY enjoyed the PvP battlegrounds - much more engaging and fun then WoW imo. Hutt ball anyone? My issue with it became the market and lack of players. I really wish people didn't just jump ship back to WoW so quickly - I honestly think this game could have been a number 2 highly populated game if people just stuck around longer OR Bioware delayed the release to make it more polished from the start. The fantasty is intense and it offers a similar but different experience and gameplay from WoW (did I mentioned a ranged class wearing heavy armor?). Not only that, but it offers different roles for the same kind of fantasty. For the same story/fantasy/class you can play a beast pure ranged DPS OR a rogue stealth type dps, or for another class you can choose between a Tank/dps or a Ranged dps or healer (while wearing heavy armor!). From day one even in your pleb starting clothes you look incredible. The class stories are engaging and relevent to your class AND you have some choice on what direction you want to go which dramatically changes how you engage with NPCs. You get companions that can fight alongside you and can act as healers, tanks, or dps. You also gain reputation/friendship with your companions and they have story lines you can help them with. (you can also have a relationship with them). You get your own spaceship that you can go on arcade type missions on and use to travel to the different plants. There are also other types of gameplay that WoW doesn't offer, like SPACESHIP PVP and your own housing (multiple housing on different planets) that you can customise and decorate - where you can also find and unlock other decorations to add to your houses (not my cup of tea but some might really like it). There are also Guild ships that can be customised. The SWTOR team have really put a lot of love in to this game and did everything to make it amazing. I applaud them and I am incredibly sad that it doesn't have a bigger community.

Just subscribed! You really know how to to put together a video! Hats off!

I liked the story I played so far

Honestly swtor will always have a place in my heart. But I've been playing it for 10 years and sometimes I wish I could just have a totally new first time experience again with this game. If it weren't for the friends I've made on the game and raid teams I have joined I wouldn't actively be playing swtor anymore. Once you've been playing for a long time, and dealt with so many expansions to then mini expansions that give you no new content for endgame it can get rough. I've known a lot of people that have quit due to 7.0, be it all of the bugs, the class balances that make some classes unplayable in harder content, or just nothing new for us vet max level players that have to just even farm through older content we've done for a long time to gear. The class stories are certainly worth playing, but I do feel like you just hit a wall in the end.

this game has one of the best story driven campaigns ever, that alone makes it worth playing, I was one of those that laughed at this game when it was being made and I ate the dust when i succumbed to the sheer awesomeness this game offers

This game and WildStar had so much more potential. Shame how things go sometimes.

hot take: Sith warrior's got the best story in the game bar none!

Back during those days, I remember thinking to myself: why isn't there a star wars mmo? And then next thing I know, this comes out a few months later. The main thing that struck me when I first played it, was the amount of ambient immersion. The sights and sounds of the game instantly pulled me in. Then, I had experienced the all too common noob move where you never actually picked up your main class because the game does such a poor job at explaining that part. So I just ran around with my starting planet gear for hours. Then, I saw someone run by with a green dual bladed light saber and I asked in chat on khow to acquire it and I was told to go to the faction fleet and talk to my class trainer. I was so happy to be a jedi shadow. I still play this game from time to time. It's my go to whenever I am bored of wow. I also got guild wars 2 on release on amazon as a pre order and had tons of fun playing a necromancer to 80 in that.

2 things I really liked about this game is you get free coins per month just with 2fa, in other games like ESO you have to be subbed to get "free" coins but here you can actually get free coins for free. I also really liked that you only needed to sub once to unlock all the expansions and once your sub expires... you can STILL play the expansions, you never need to pay again until the next expansion comes out and unlike WoW which requires you to buy each expansion here you can just unlock them by subbing once.

Came back right at the end of BFA. Loved it, been having a ton of fun with the classes, different choices in storylines, and doing the later storylines. It's waning a bit, but been playing since feb of 2020. Hopefully you play the other classes! Imperial Agent and Jedi Knight (along with the already done Sith Warrior), are great!

It has to be said, while the stories are fun and I often want to make new characters to replay them, the sith warrior is a tier above the rest. Next I'd recommend bounty hunter, smuggler or inquisitor and other than that they're not so consistent but still have compelling chapters. Every class has 3 chapters of story, chapter 1 trooper is really engaging so is chapter 3 consular imo

I just went to Star Wars Celebration and have been in full Star Wars mode and was thinking about hopping back on this... this is exactly what I needed, thanks man! Haha

I adore the class stories of SWOTOR. I love the lore of the game and having lore/headcannon behind my character makes the game so much more fun

Bioware totally nailed the class fantasy/immersion aspect in SWOTR. Blizz should be taking notes

I've Started Playing SWTOR about a month ago. Hit 80 but I'm still not done with the story. I gotta say, the Story is what keeps me engaged with the game. The combat is ok. It doesn't feel as good as WoW's combat. And the thing that made me almost stop playing a couple of times where the graphics. Especially in the Origin Stories, the graphics are awfull. But I stuck through it and got used to it a bit. I still hate them but in the later expansions they got a bit better, so that's that. Another thing that made me almost stop playing is the Cash Shop. ALMOST every cool looking cosmetic is somehow tied to it. Not to Operations, Flashpoints or Achievements. No. The Cartel Market (Cash Shop). And thank god that these cash shop items are still sellable to other players, so I don't need to spend real money to buy some flashy ingame pixals and polygons, and can instead grind credits for hours to buy the items off of players. There is no sense of achievement or accomplishment if you buy an item from the cash shop. Cash shops ruin every game they touch. I know they are necessary in F2P Games (like this one) but that doesn't change the fact that it still ruins the experience. So anyway. If you're into Story heavy games. This game is for you. If you like Star Wars, this game is for you. If you're only interested in Gameplay, go play WoW, FFXIV or ESO. If all you care about is an MMO with cool graphics, go Play Black Desert Online or (dare I say it) New World.

The graphics haven't been updated at all, they just look better because after 10 years your CPU can finally brute force the higher graphic settings at playable framerates.

The 8 class stories to chapter 3 has been there from the beginning. And it's always been good for the most part. After that you keep trying to kill the Emperor like 50 times. The story line keeps you on one track no matter what choice you make in the Fallen Empire. You even end up in the same spot in the Fallen Empire no matter what class you play. It looks like you have a choice but you really don't.

it's terrible that they built it on a engine that's difficult to port to consoles. It would sell pretty well even if you charged 60 for just the story

one of best games ever

Like yourself, it has been years since I played this game. Last time I did the game had basically died and the everyone in pvp was assassins or sentinels. Downloading it right now to give the game another shot after dumping thousands of hours into it, and a lot of money back then. Thanks for the video!

100% worth a playthrough even if its only for the class stories they are amazing.

The most rock-and-roll review of this game I've ever seen!

I played it so much for the story and loved every second of it. Sad part is that none of my friends got hook up on the game same as me and I ended up playing alone all the time

I was there at launch. the game was really fun once they actually started to balance stuff a bit. then they went f2p and messed everything up with a greedy cash grab store. the only thing that keeps me coming back like once a year is my love of Star Wars and a desire to scratch that itch. unfortunately the game as it is now isn't enjoyable enough for me to stick around more than 2 weeks to a month.

I wish they could make a new star wars mmorpg with the same leveling core principles and amazing lore and classes but with up to date graphics and more space exploration, puzzles, hidden secrets and freedom of exploration. A next gen star wars mmo :O

I have to say my favorite Star wars MMO without a doubt with Star wars galaxies oh my god when I started doing that I had friends from all over the world we still are friends almost 20 years ago I met French all over the world with visit their homes I just sat in the canteen and chatted with friends online went around the entire planets and galaxies just to have fun it was the best MMO hands down sandbox open Play anything you wanted to do you didn't have dark side or light side you were just in the middle of it all it was fantastic

I just went back to SWTOR after such a long time, and it's been great! It's like reconnecting with an old friend.

I sense a great disturbance on the Hutta starting planet, a million mandalorian fans crashing the servers with no survivors.

I played from launch until rise of the hutt cartel and I really just can't level through that expac. I hop on every now and then to see what's changed and play through the new story on my boosted character, but I can't level my imperial agent or trooper through there. I think it's a snore fest. Everything else story wise has been great and I think you'll like the raids a lot if they were the same quality as on launch. It's definitely worth checking out if you're a star wars fan.

I tried SWTOR again when the force unleashed was about to happen and had the same experience as you. Sadly for me Disney killed Star Wars, which I used to love, so SWTOR just has a bitter taste for me. If that hadn't happened, I would for sure be playing it actively. SWTOR has criminally underrated pvp, I've rarely had an mmo where you log in, queue for a battleground and just have fun no matter what with very little frustration.

I just reinstalled it yesterday myself. I have to admit it's better than I remember. Stayed up way too late last night leveling my character to 25. Having a group finder makes it much easier to run group content now. I still have my founder title.

I come back to this game all the time, I just hate how alot of the cool character transmogs are on the cash shop, rather than in game unlocks.

This video feels nostalgic for me. I quit swtor around 2020, wasn’t really the same for me after my guild disbanded. But the whole time I was away, I always had that urge to go back to swtor. It was like a calling. After looking at this and hearing all the changes, I’m definitely gonna go back to it.

One thing I would say that's very fun in SWtoR that other MMOs don't have is the Galactic Star Fighter. Basically ship pvp. It takes a bit to learn the basics, but once you get it, it's a great game mode that's a lot of fun.

the game was great many years ago. its only problem was the weird wow copy pasta combat. the rest was very good really. it has the best storytelling of any mmo. nowadays everything is ruined, just like every other mmo the game was good only when it came out for few years. the new update changes nothing literally. the game is on life support

I played at the very beginning and quit after a year. I am definitely coming back after watching this. I’m still playing wow too.

Knights of the Eternal Throne and Knights of the Fallen Empire has prolly been one of the best story arcs I've ever experienced in an mmo

Ah Hutt Ball with the 12-button Naga … memories.

it wasnt bad when it came out. cept ea runs it and the servers died before i could reach max lvl. i honestly just remember huttball. it ws pretty fun at least.

See I love it as well, but I don't think anything was as good as each class's 1-50 "vanilla" story line. After that it all kinda fell apart. Hutt Cartel was absolute garbage. Revan only got good at the very end. I thought the KotFE / FotET drug on way too long. I hated most of the characters. Onslaught felt rushed and Legacy of the Sith FEELS good so far, so there is hope.

SWTOR is that one game that kept me hooked for years. I've played many gems in the past, and some of them for multiple years, but SWTOR was one that always felt relevant and new due to all the 8(!!) story classes that you can play (haven't even done all of them after 2500 hours), the many expansions since and just playing raids and earning better gear with my guild. The tuesday nights and saturday nights where we played raids were the absolute best.

I main a Jedi Knight (Sentinel), but have played each class story several times since I started playing in September of 2019. I am a Legendary player on both Star Forge and Satele Shan servers with over 40 toons. This is my game...I'll be with it until they shut it down completely. The Sith Warrior storyline is one of the best, but I think all of them are awesome.

Was sort of a personal thing of mine, but my favorite classes were the Bounty Hunter and the Agent, story wise i mean. Agent is absolutely amazing, played 3 diffrent ones to the end of Act 3. Thing is - KotFE and KotET don't really make much sense for a non Force user, just couldn't get into it. Also.... Lana is bae.

Only guy who actually that KOTFE and KOTET were good lol. Jokes aside I’m glad more people are playing this game!

I played this game for years and I’m still nowhere near completion 😭 I will definitely play with my siths again and neglect my life once I get another pc

What turned me off this game was ironically some of its best content. The fallen empire stuff. Specifically because I really enjoyed playing my imperial infiltrator guy. The class story is this really cool space James Bond type thing, but the expansions stories don't really work if your character isn't a force user (they do add in some half-assed explanation, but for me it killed the story stone dead) I may just suck it up and try again as a force using class.

IDK The Legacy System does not seem to do much more than it did when it was introduced to the game. Why? Because first of all it supposed to integrate other character you might play as family members, friends or even rivals. But none of them will ever made a guest appearance in the story of the character your are currently playing. The other thing is that you can use skills from one character or another, but that still does not make a Jedi turn into a Sith or a Sith turn into a Jedi. You can't switch sides, regardless of what you do. Yes you can be somehow "evil" as a Jedi or nice as a Sith, but you still are are Republic or Sith Empire. It is vaild that you still like the legacy system. I don't as to me it feels like something that sounds like a great idea but is poorly executed.

Dude, I HIGHLY suggest you spin up Star Trek online and give it a good try at least until level 15. I know i've "tried" to play it many times over the years but recently i booted her up and damn... I cant believe i missed out on it when it was in its prime but its a fantastic storytelling experience. If you do decide to give it a try and do a video to max level on it i suggest you pick the romulans as i was told they have the best story. Cheers dude, Great Video!

Do you have to have a paid membership to hit level 80? That’s what it was before. It’s free up to 75.

Uhh, misinformation right there lol.. Everyone didn't quit in just a "Couple of Months" It had hundreds of thousands of players daily up until it went free to play, in which almost everyone quit who was already playing, and in came the f2p pig squealers.

I really miss playing this game... I better liked the old system with the old fashioned flashpoints and challenging quests. Now it's all just easy... the story of course is pretty amazing though! For the Star Wars feeling it's absolutely worth it.

I wish they ported it to consoles like they did with Star Trek Online. I played they game on launch but swapped PC gaming for Xbox in 2018 but would love to play this game again.

I spent 20 hours playing as IMP agent . Most of it was just walking and cutscenes. Most boring game I ever played. MMO is just probably not my cup of tea I will probably just read the story of the classes

Last 2 years have ruined the game, current dev's are clueless. Do not pay for this game right now.

I played for nearly nine years regularly now. 48 max level toons.

Started playing during beta. Sucked so bad I cancelled our pre-orders. Came back ~5 years later and fell in love with the game. Played for another 5 years off/on between SWTOR and WoW. Then revisted GW2....and I'm still there. Will play SWTOR and WoW again at some point, but for now GW2 is satisfying that MMO itch.

Look, I'm a pretty open minded person. I'm not super political or anything. But...really Barq's Root Beer? It's easily the worst root beer that exists.

My character was stuck in a death cycle for 2 days in the game, I was asking for a GM in the chat and a GM unstuck me and gave me the rancor mount as compensation..

After the main story for each class the game is trash

you would think the devs would wake up and understand the new stuff they are making is not what people want or even like. The original game will always keep their newer stuff in the shadows, and people will continue to return here and there for nostalgia. I hope they can rectify their error, or at the very least start over and try to understand where they went downhill,