Star Wars: The Old Republic Discussion

Underlined: Jo Wyatt baby! That woman could read me the history of sewage removal policies in Alabama and I'd still be entranced. She needs to voice more things that I can get into.

Otherwise, the problem with the Knight (and to varying extents the others) is mostly that all the stories have to conform to the same progression of planets. So once you save the day by destroying the superweapon, it's time to... do that four more times until Chapter 1 can finally finish. They shouldn't have made Chapter 1 so long, it not only makes the quality of some stories suffer but it's a barrier to a lot of players from even finishing it when you add the MMO grind on top of it (thankfully reduced these days).

The male's the same way. The actor did a good job channeling that spiteful spitting your words out type of voice Palpatine does when he's being really evil but mixing it with a good deal of snark to produce a unique experience. So what you get is a deliciously crazy evil bastard that's a lot of fun to play.

I've done all males for my characters except for the agent who as I've said above I'd marry that voice if I could and now my KOTFE character which is a sage and is decent enough I guess. So while I don't have much to compare my voice preferences are:

Knight: Male. Definitely helps that he's played by David Hayer (aka Solid Snake).

Consular: Some people don't like Nolan North but I think he does the wise Jedi voice pretty well. Of course it being exactly the same as my necromancer in GW2 is a little weird (when I go play GW2)

Trooper: Some people can't get enough of Jennifer Hale. Some think she overemotes. I think she's really good, but I've never gone all in for one of her characters. To my delight the male trooper is Brian Bloom, who I know from the Darkness 2. Loved the voice, it's less New York gangstery here but works just as well for my trooper who flip flops between heroic patriot and sociopathic solider at the drop of a dime.

Smuggler: I'm more used to the male rather than having an independent preference, but he does do an excellent job with the lighthearted scoundrel jokes as well as the darker lines which fits in perfectly to how I play him.


Inquisitor: see above

Agent: Funny thing is I initially rolled a male Chiss (wannabe Thrawn of course) and promptly deleted him when I was on Hutta and met my exact twin. Best thing that could've happened. Besides my love for the female voice, the male sounds too nasally to me now.

Warrior: The male does a good job sounding highborn. That's about it. I absolutely hate the female voice when I hear it. It just really annoys me for some reason.

BH: The dude sounds like he chews gravel and that's totally cool for a BH. You get a bit of a fail with him for content between Hutt Cartel and Shadow of Revan where he lisps really noticeably. He had some surgery during the periods those lines were recorded which affected how he sounded. After Revan he got better, thankfully.

The Knight is not quite a newbie, he does mention he's been combat trained, and it's on that basis that he's first sent out against the Flesh Raiders by himself (they wouldn't send a completely new Padawan out like that). Compare the consular who's stated to be a Force prodigy and yet his first mission is merely recovering some records. I'll take the rest to spoilers since some participating members haven't played the story yet.



I see your point and I don't entirely disagree. I'm just saying it's not quite as bad and they do justify what happens at least a little.

Good to hear the last part is out. Think I'll keep it to play the last few chapters for the festive season since I doubt the next expansion will appear this year.

I'll get around to it. I haven't even touched anything KOTFE since the first nine chapters. Getting the original class stories recorded is more important right now. Well that and qualifying for that DvL companion, just in case it is good...

..which does require finishing KOTFE. Whoops.

I think I'm missing out something about this recorded thingy? What is it?

In my case I just meant that I used shadowplay to record my play through of the chapter on my Consular to upload to my teeny tiny youtube channel 

lol yeah if you're installing from scratch that's a 25GB or so download. It'll be a while.

If you're installing it purely via download, you're getting what's called a streaming launcher. Some people have problems with those. If you don't, awesome. But if you do, check this out for how to switch to non-streaming:

answers.ea.com/t5/STAR-WARS-The-Old-Republic/Guide-How-to-Switch-to-Non-Streaming-Launcher/td-p/4867417

It'll do several small downloads that add up to around 25GB.

I honestly have no idea. I just know that bitraider thing causes some people problems. I installed from a disk way back in the day so I never dealt with it personally.

Yes, you can even close the launcher and it should pick up where it left off when you resume it.

Don't delete, remake. Unless you're out of character slots.

There may be old items, especially armor and weapons that may not be as easy to get again.

True. And now come to think of it, I think I had some armor that came as a bonus for me subbing.

Also, question here. How many slots does a preferred player have? I seem to remember to have had 3 chars on the RP server.

Ok, thanks CC. I think I will find out soon enuff.