There has been a considerable amount of media put out about TOR. Given its status in the gaming world thats expected. Out of all the short movies released I have felt this one entry does a great job on its own to build up the hype for TOR.
It blends music, graphics, and elements of a broad story between the Republic and the Sith into one very short movie. Personally I love it.
Monday, July 18, 2011
My oh my . . . Slave Leia Time.
When the TOR news gets slow we turn to Kaley Cuoco to save us!! We here at TalesFromTOR love slave Leia just as much as the next fellow nerd.
In an effort to stop the over population of Science Fictions most sacred fantasy Kaley Cuoco does her best to save it.
In an effort to stop the over population of Science Fictions most sacred fantasy Kaley Cuoco does her best to save it.
In this new Nerd PSA, actress Kaley Cuoco addresses an important issue affecting cosplay girls across the globe: Slave Leia fatigue. With so many choices available to women who cosplay, there's no reason everyone needs to be Slave Leia. By acting now, we can save Slave Leia for when we really need her. #freeslaveleia
Absolutely Not! No Way, No No No - OUT! Fishing that is . . .
The wordiest man on the forums from the BioWare staff is at it again. None other then Greg Zoller. We need a nickname for this man!
When the poll was presented in the official TOR forums "Should fishing be in The Old Republic?" It was Greg Zoller that stepped in for us and responded with his standard YELLOW wall of text.
Hmm, let's see:
Hutta - Poisonous swamp, all fish are horribly mutated creatures that would eat you on sight. Better not go fishing.
Ord Mantell - Wartorn world, full of Separatists and men of fortune. Overabundance of unexploded ordnance polluting landscape and the ocean. Better avoid fishing there.
Tython - Lush landscape, so peaceful, except for those Flesh Raider guys. Who look like Sharks (at least according to Tython chat on the test servers). Just think about it. Sharks that walk. Better don't think what's in that water. Avoid fishing!
Korriban - Barren desert world. Full of evil and Sith. Empty of water, though. The only fish died millions of years ago. Some say it's because the Sith are allergic to water (another reason they never learned to swim apparently).
Coruscant - Are you kidding? Remember the trash thing in the Death Star? Think about an entire planet dumping their garbage down the various drains. Better not fish there!
Dromund Kaas - Nice jungle world. Healthy climate. Well, except for lightning strikes. Some natural, some clearly overly angry Sith raging at the resident weather. Fishing during lightning storms? That's a no. Well, maybe if you're a Sith Sorcerer, but then again, you're probably allergic to water. Dromund Kaas is out.
Taris - Lush jungle world.... full OF A DESTROYED CIVILIZATION. What little water is there is infested by .. things. Probably fish ... with Rakghoul plague. Too dangerous to fish.
Balmorra - Hmm, perhaps. If it wasn't for those bug things. Nasty large bug things. With claws. Ah, and the fact that Empire and Republic are fighting. No relaxing fishing in a war zone. Better avoid that.
Nar Shaddaa - Ah yes, a techno moon. No water to fish there. If there was, it'd be full of drowned gambler corpses and hutts. Hutts don't like being fished. Out.
Tatooine - The Dune Sea. Great place to fish ... for most.. I hear you can fish for Sarlaccs there. But there are Jawas. With Rocket Launchers. Out.
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As you can see, it's clearly not very viable to fish in this galaxy. Maybe if you'd fly over to that Calamari planet. But then again, as soon as you'd deploy your fishing gear, all the fish would just go 'It's a trap' and there is that.
Thus proving that not even Yoda on Dagobah spent his lonely hours fishing. This is just a sample listing of all the planets in the game. Maybe Greg's nick name should be the "Great Wall of Yellow"?
When the poll was presented in the official TOR forums "Should fishing be in The Old Republic?" It was Greg Zoller that stepped in for us and responded with his standard YELLOW wall of text.
Hmm, let's see:
Hutta - Poisonous swamp, all fish are horribly mutated creatures that would eat you on sight. Better not go fishing.
Ord Mantell - Wartorn world, full of Separatists and men of fortune. Overabundance of unexploded ordnance polluting landscape and the ocean. Better avoid fishing there.
Tython - Lush landscape, so peaceful, except for those Flesh Raider guys. Who look like Sharks (at least according to Tython chat on the test servers). Just think about it. Sharks that walk. Better don't think what's in that water. Avoid fishing!
Korriban - Barren desert world. Full of evil and Sith. Empty of water, though. The only fish died millions of years ago. Some say it's because the Sith are allergic to water (another reason they never learned to swim apparently).
Coruscant - Are you kidding? Remember the trash thing in the Death Star? Think about an entire planet dumping their garbage down the various drains. Better not fish there!
Dromund Kaas - Nice jungle world. Healthy climate. Well, except for lightning strikes. Some natural, some clearly overly angry Sith raging at the resident weather. Fishing during lightning storms? That's a no. Well, maybe if you're a Sith Sorcerer, but then again, you're probably allergic to water. Dromund Kaas is out.
Taris - Lush jungle world.... full OF A DESTROYED CIVILIZATION. What little water is there is infested by .. things. Probably fish ... with Rakghoul plague. Too dangerous to fish.
Balmorra - Hmm, perhaps. If it wasn't for those bug things. Nasty large bug things. With claws. Ah, and the fact that Empire and Republic are fighting. No relaxing fishing in a war zone. Better avoid that.
Nar Shaddaa - Ah yes, a techno moon. No water to fish there. If there was, it'd be full of drowned gambler corpses and hutts. Hutts don't like being fished. Out.
Tatooine - The Dune Sea. Great place to fish ... for most.. I hear you can fish for Sarlaccs there. But there are Jawas. With Rocket Launchers. Out.
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As you can see, it's clearly not very viable to fish in this galaxy. Maybe if you'd fly over to that Calamari planet. But then again, as soon as you'd deploy your fishing gear, all the fish would just go 'It's a trap' and there is that.
Thus proving that not even Yoda on Dagobah spent his lonely hours fishing. This is just a sample listing of all the planets in the game. Maybe Greg's nick name should be the "Great Wall of Yellow"?
San Diego Comic Con - BioWare Working Their Tale Off
BioWare is going all out for the upcoming San Diego Comic Con. They have everything from panels, demo's, signings, and the very popular meet and get drunk. Just in case you plan on following the news out of San Diego this week here is the BioWare schedule:
Our advice would be to pay close attention to some of the popular TOR sites like DarthHater and TORWars starting on the 20th. We will do our best to get the news out.
We do expect BioWare to have one big reveal. Our prediction is when they will announce the release date. And if you happen to be in San Diego attending we would love to hear from you! Have fun.
If you use twitter use the following searches for even faster information: #Handiego #SDCC
We’re thrilled about meeting the Star Wars: The Old Republic community next week in San Diego. In addition to our presence at Comic-Con, details of which you’ll find here, we also have a number of great events planned for BioWare Base at the Hilton Gaslamp. Here’s the current schedule for next week at BioWare Base:
Thursday, July 21st 12PM – 7PM: Operating hours for The Old Republic demos 4:30PM: The Old Republic signing session 7PM – 8PM: The Old Republic Panel and Q&A
Friday, July 22nd 12PM – 7PM: Operating hours for The Old Republic demos 4PM-5PM: The Old Republic Panel, Q&A, and signing session
Saturday, July 23rd 12PM - 7PM: Operating hours for The Old Republic demos 4PM-5PM: The Old Republic signing session 7PM-8PM: The Old Republic Panel and Q&A 7PM-10:30PM: Community Meet & Greet
Sunday, July 24th 12PM – 5:30PM: Operating hours for The Old Republic demos 3PM-4PM: The Old Republic Panel and Q&A
This schedule is subject to change, and any updates will be posted here as we approach Comic-Con. I hope you guys are as excited as we are to be in San Diego next week! See you soon!
Our advice would be to pay close attention to some of the popular TOR sites like DarthHater and TORWars starting on the 20th. We will do our best to get the news out.
We do expect BioWare to have one big reveal. Our prediction is when they will announce the release date. And if you happen to be in San Diego attending we would love to hear from you! Have fun.
If you use twitter use the following searches for even faster information: #Handiego #SDCC
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Miss Star Wars
While the story has been done. It's not been done by us . . . Many blogs and fansites have already talked about the amazing Miss Alyssa Campanella. So it fell to Tales From TOR to add our own coverage. Even if our write-up is cheesy. What an amazing tale.
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Give Alyssa's new status in American society and even the history of this country it has to be said that she is a fellow nerd. And probably considered the most attrative nerd out there by a long shot. Alyssa's apparant mastery of Star Wars nerd questions from the original movies is incredible. But that would only be one small part of why America loves her.
Alyssa's knowledge goes beyond the simple question to more rare unusual questions like the droid that Owen picked in the 4th movie -R5. Apparently Alyssa was raised by a father that loved Star Wars. Now how perfect is that...?
You can read the original Star Wars blog coverage here which contains links to her Star Wars interviews. Thank you Alyssa!! Thank you Star Wars Blog for covering!
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Friday, July 15, 2011
Fan Friday is Class Intro Friday!!
NOOOO! Scratch that! Fan Friday is Fan GOOSE BUMP Friday!!! Are you kidding my BioWare!! Did you just do that to us!!! UNREAL!!!
In what starts off as an interesting Friday update with the usual fair....
Yeah Brian we know and we love you for it. But then you hit us with this...
No big. Figured it was going to show up sooner or later.
These guys have an insane but challenging job. And honestly you start to feel for them until they go and drop this in front of you:
It's that moment . . . wait for it . . . wait for it . . . BANG! Star Wars. It's intense, it's unreal, it's your childhood. And it's right there in front of you. The sound, the text, the drop down through the stars . . . Star Wars. All is good with the world for the next 2 minutes and 3 seconds.
Even though some of you might have no interest in playing a Sith, the intro is Star Wars. It's a universe a lot of us can't wait to explore again. And we're really happy BioWare is at the helm:
Even when something is “final” at BioWare, it’s often not—not if it can be improved. Once we dropped the opening cinematics into the game, we opened a thread on the Game Testing forums to get feedback and suggestions. While the feedback was really positive overall, the testers had some interesting suggestions.
The second half of the article is also a must read. Community Q&A:
Today, Senior Audio Artist Scott Morton answers a few of your questions about sound design in The Old Republic.
Thank you BioWare. Can't wait!!!
In what starts off as an interesting Friday update with the usual fair....
Hi, my name is Brian Arndt and I'm Senior Video Editor here at BioWare. I've been a huge fan ofStar Wars™ since I was a little kid...
Yeah Brian we know and we love you for it. But then you hit us with this...
No big. Figured it was going to show up sooner or later.
As a part of the BioWare Creative Services team, we get to spend all our time in The Old Republic filming and editing gameplay walkthroughs, character progression videos, taking screenshots and even creating the Timeline video series. We work around the clock to deliver these Friday updates for the community (and even read your forum posts to see what people are looking forward to seeing and try and get them in there!).
These guys have an insane but challenging job. And honestly you start to feel for them until they go and drop this in front of you:
It's that moment . . . wait for it . . . wait for it . . . BANG! Star Wars. It's intense, it's unreal, it's your childhood. And it's right there in front of you. The sound, the text, the drop down through the stars . . . Star Wars. All is good with the world for the next 2 minutes and 3 seconds.
Even though some of you might have no interest in playing a Sith, the intro is Star Wars. It's a universe a lot of us can't wait to explore again. And we're really happy BioWare is at the helm:
Even when something is “final” at BioWare, it’s often not—not if it can be improved. Once we dropped the opening cinematics into the game, we opened a thread on the Game Testing forums to get feedback and suggestions. While the feedback was really positive overall, the testers had some interesting suggestions.
The second half of the article is also a must read. Community Q&A:
Today, Senior Audio Artist Scott Morton answers a few of your questions about sound design in The Old Republic.
Thank you BioWare. Can't wait!!!
Player vs Player, Empire vs Republic, Jedi vs Sith, You vs Me
Allison Berryman, Senior Community Coordinator has posted the next month long topic for SWTOR fans.
Community Q&A: PvP
So basically this is your chance to dive into the many questions you have built up over the last few years about The Old Republic's PvP system. Please don't ask if you can gank someone on their own ship.
The Old Republic™ community has a lot of questions and we want to answer as many as we can. In fact, we’re starting this new discussion on our forums solely dedicated to finding out what you want to know. Each month we’ll create a new thread for you to ask questions in. We’ll be reading and reviewing all of your questions and featuring some of them to be answered in a future Community Q&A section of the Studio Insider!
This month, we want questions focused on PVP in The Old Republic. Please feel free to ask us anything you want to know about it!
So ask away. Get if off your chest. Can a Sith Pure Blood take on three republic Jedi? We all know Jedi are less powerful! Can a Trooper shoot down the Bounty Hunter with a rocket launcher? Does the trooper even get a rocket launcher? When a Smuggler goes into stealth mode can he use daggers like a rogue? Are only blue-skinned Imperial Agents good at PvP?
Just get those questions out there....
Keep in mind that there are some questions we’re not able to answer right now, so please don't feel upset if we do not select your question, and please do feel free to ask it again in the future!
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