Eric wrote:Or Bioware ruined what could have been an awesome single player KOTOR
I heard based on the leaks it looks like any other MMORPG right now.
Right now I'm going through SWTOR again to get every character to chapter 2 for Legacy buffs. I noticed that if you pick a weaker class type you basically get owned in story mode, and if you don't wimp out and grab a healer companion some of the bosses just clownstomp you unless you're way overleveled/overgeared. Some of the stuff like Thundering Blast (instant kill basically) is just ridiculous for a single player game, especially since the actual skill Thundering Blast is considered one of the weakest attack in the game except when the boss cast it, it's a one shot kill move. You basically die way too fast and since there are no save points you just end up with a lot of stupid repair bills if you try to deviate even a little bit from the wimp out approach. You shouldn't have to get to the very end of the game before you have one boss battle that was actually well designed (Darth Thanaton, though I heard chapter 3 bosses are similar to him even though I'm not sure if they're all as balanced). It's actually pretty refreshing to fight Darth Thanaton and realize he doesn't just rotate between 3 spells that can instantly kill you if not interrupted. Really they need some kind of classification that's like an elite with 3X HP and 1/3 the DPS and some random tricks to negate healing (Force Lift/Whirlwind works well) so you don't just automatically wimp out on every boss.
Heck, RIFT's story battles are probably the best out of all MMORPG, and that's not saying much. The story battles are all elites that you cannot easily win straight up but there are always ways to get around their HPs like hitting switches or whatever, and all the story bosses do significantly lower damage to give you time to hit those switches instead of just killing you in 3 hits which is what they would do if they were really elites.
