A friend of a friend of a friend of mine have played it, and he says its great. If you cant trust him then i dont know what to do. He also finds the voice acting quite sexy.

Originally posted by cheyane

The game has been created to be played in a certain way which includes listening to voice-overs. But you want to skip that because it slows you down. There are many types of games but this game has been made with this aspect included and you want to skip it because it somehow makes you feel you are being hampered by having to listen to these voice-overs. Then may be the game has not been created with you in mind.

I can only listen to 5 voice actors telling me to kill 10 rats so many times.  Also, I can read faster than the voice overs, so its frusrating.  I'm not even trying to rush to max level or anything, it just gives me a headache having to wait and listen to a side quest for 30sec to a min when I could read the same information in 15 seconds.

Originally posted by marinrider

Originally posted by cheyane

The game has been created to be played in a certain way which includes listening to voice-overs. But you want to skip that because it slows you down. There are many types of games but this game has been made with this aspect included and you want to skip it because it somehow makes you feel you are being hampered by having to listen to these voice-overs. Then may be the game has not been created with you in mind.

I can only listen to 5 voice actors telling me to kill 10 rats so many times.  Also, I can read faster than the voice overs, so its frusrating.  I'm not even trying to rush to max level or anything, it just gives me a headache having to wait and listen to a side quest for 30sec to a min when I could read the same information in 15 seconds.

Most of the kill X of Y quests are optional bonuses that require no questgiver. I found most of the quests interesting and well acted. In my OPINION.

Originally posted by rickdt

I have been in beta for about a month and a half and i have to agree with the OP. SWTOR is a FANTASTIC BIOWARE RPG, i did not say MMORPG, but just an RPG. Its like playing a final fantasy game, play for 5min and then watch a cut scene for 20.  I'm glad I got to beta it as its not for me. I love star wars, just not this MMO.

 

Now I need to try and get into TSW beta.

Cutscene for 20 mins, please stop spewing BS. The cutscenes are here and there for a min or 2 after 30-60 mins of play. Try doing a few quests at a time, then go back. The cutscenes can be bypassed if you wish to. As I said this is the mentality thats driving me nuts in MMOs nowadays, you just worded it differntly, but you re still saying it slows you done from pl ing through levels.

Originally posted by lizardbones

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I would be willing to bet that it just wouldn't have occurred to anyone in the design process that there would be a significant number of people who would want to read a transcript of the quest giver's dialog before accepting a quest.

Yeah, the thing with the captions for the cutscenes was most likely done for the hearing impaired rather than for the readers.

There have been a lot of dumb threads by the haters regarding this game, but this one may very well take the cake. If you don't like the voice acting, hit the f*****g space bar, people, particularly on the side quests.  You'll be missing out on some pretty cool quest lines, not all of which are standard quests, but at least you won't be able to bitch and moan about that as being the reason it's not an "mmorpg."  Btw, if this game isn't an mmorpg, then there are no mmorpgs.  Period. 

So many ignorant people spreading so much misinformation about this game, it's become ridiculous.  

Originally posted by marinrider

Originally posted by cheyane

The game has been created to be played in a certain way which includes listening to voice-overs. But you want to skip that because it slows you down. There are many types of games but this game has been made with this aspect included and you want to skip it because it somehow makes you feel you are being hampered by having to listen to these voice-overs. Then may be the game has not been created with you in mind.

I can only listen to 5 voice actors telling me to kill 10 rats so many times.  Also, I can read faster than the voice overs, so its frusrating.  I'm not even trying to rush to max level or anything, it just gives me a headache having to wait and listen to a side quest for 30sec to a min when I could read the same information in 15 seconds.

Or click the accept button in .5 seconds, my point exactly.

Originally posted by skeaser

Originally posted by marinrider

Originally posted by cheyane

The game has been created to be played in a certain way which includes listening to voice-overs. But you want to skip that because it slows you down. There are many types of games but this game has been made with this aspect included and you want to skip it because it somehow makes you feel you are being hampered by having to listen to these voice-overs. Then may be the game has not been created with you in mind.

I can only listen to 5 voice actors telling me to kill 10 rats so many times.  Also, I can read faster than the voice overs, so its frusrating.  I'm not even trying to rush to max level or anything, it just gives me a headache having to wait and listen to a side quest for 30sec to a min when I could read the same information in 15 seconds.

Most of the kill X of Y quests are optional bonuses that require no questgiver. I found most of the quests interesting and well acted. In my OPINION.

My point just is that sometimes I would rather be able to just read a transcript instead of having to listen to the cutscenes, at least for side quests.  I remember there being a lot of generic sidequests that came from quest givers.  And just because you turn "Kill 10 rats" into "These people destroyed my family, kill them all! 0/10" doesnt mean its a different quest.  

Originally posted by VirusDancer

Originally posted by Hopscotch73

Originally posted by VirusDancer

Out of curiosity, can you turn the V.O. and cutscenes off...?

You can hit spacebar to skip the chatter.

There is a "skip cinematics" setting, but I've never tried it, so I'm not sure what it does, or if it worlks.

Thanks for that.  Had wondered about that.  Definitely makes that aspect of the OP's complaint irrelevant then.  Thanks again.

Well a single tap of the space bar won't skip all of the VO.  You have to spam it to skip each segment of the conversation which was really annoying.

Originally posted by Leucent

Originally posted by marinrider

Originally posted by cheyane

The game has been created to be played in a certain way which includes listening to voice-overs. But you want to skip that because it slows you down. There are many types of games but this game has been made with this aspect included and you want to skip it because it somehow makes you feel you are being hampered by having to listen to these voice-overs. Then may be the game has not been created with you in mind.

I can only listen to 5 voice actors telling me to kill 10 rats so many times.  Also, I can read faster than the voice overs, so its frusrating.  I'm not even trying to rush to max level or anything, it just gives me a headache having to wait and listen to a side quest for 30sec to a min when I could read the same information in 15 seconds.

Or click the accept button in .5 seconds, my point exactly.

I still want to know that the quest is about, I just dont want to have to listen to it and wait for the person to say it as I can easily read much faster than they talk. 

To say that I should just hit the accept button is to ignore the larger issue at hand.

Originally posted by VirusDancer

Out of curiosity, can you turn the V.O. and cutscenes off...?

nos sure... but i know u can skip them with space bar

Where has all the spirit of playing a game gone ?. Have we become so jaded we cannot honestly spend a few seconds listening to a conversation. You are not reading a board or receiving a letter with instructions. You are talking to someone. It is perfectly natural for the person to talk to you and tell you about the quest and you cannot get into that spirit and listen to the quest but you need to grouse about it.  At least do it once then you get an option to skip over the dialogue but to prefer reading because you just cannot get into a game is becoming absurd. Everything has to be sped up and rushed these days in people's lives that you must get the .5s econd option over the 20 second one. I get it we are indeed in a rat race and as a rat one cannot afford to dally even in a game.

Originally posted by marinrider

Originally posted by Leucent

Originally posted by marinrider

Originally posted by cheyane

The game has been created to be played in a certain way which includes listening to voice-overs. But you want to skip that because it slows you down. There are many types of games but this game has been made with this aspect included and you want to skip it because it somehow makes you feel you are being hampered by having to listen to these voice-overs. Then may be the game has not been created with you in mind.

I can only listen to 5 voice actors telling me to kill 10 rats so many times.  Also, I can read faster than the voice overs, so its frusrating.  I'm not even trying to rush to max level or anything, it just gives me a headache having to wait and listen to a side quest for 30sec to a min when I could read the same information in 15 seconds.

Or click the accept button in .5 seconds, my point exactly.

I still want to know that the quest is about, I just dont want to have to listen to it and wait for the person to say it as I can easily read much faster than they talk. 

To say that I should just hit the accept button is to ignore the larger issue at hand.

You still will know what the quest is about when you hit spacebar.  Your quest log gives you a short paragraph of what the quest involves  once you've accepted it.  So if reading every side quest isn't your thing, then simply spacebar through the conversation, and once you accept the quest go into your log for the short and sweet version.   

Originally posted by Biggus99

 

You still will know what the quest is about when you hit spacebar.  Your quest log gives you a short paragraph of what the quest involves  once you've accepted it.  So if reading every side quest isn't your thing, then simply spacebar through the conversation, and once you accept the quest go into your log for the short and sweet version.   

I'll have to look into that. Thanks.

Originally posted by rojo6934

Originally posted by VirusDancer

Out of curiosity, can you turn the V.O. and cutscenes off...?

nos sure... but i know u can skip them with space bar

Unfortunately, I asked my question there not realizing that doing so meant you missed out on what was going on because of there not being the text equivalent.

Not a case of wanting to skip the story, just choose the manner of that delivery...

Originally posted by fenistil

While I don't necesarly agree with OP in many things, and I enjoy story in game - I don't see why VO has such appeal, actually I prefer reading over VO, kinda leave many things to imagination which I like, not to mention that paraphrasing and some voices just getting on my nerves, especially if game VO my own character. (if this case with Swtor?)

Same here.  I usually go to settings and turn subtitles on and voice volume to zero.

What you are saying OP is that you have no clue about what you are saying. In every case, players streaming have said either they do not want to spoil the story for launch or they don't want to spoil the story for those who are watching.

It is also nice to see that there are options for leveling for those who want different ways to gain XP. You can PvP over and over at level 10+ to gain XP and levels. You can also gain XP thorugh the space mini-game and flashpoints. So even if you don't like the story as the OP, you can still play the game AS AN MMO to gain XP and levels. 

Thanks for a cluless opinion based on nothing OP. I guess you can see for yourself this weekend. That is if you take off your blinders first.

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I would be willing to bet that it just wouldn't have occurred to anyone in the design process that there would be a significant number of people who would want to read a transcript of the quest giver's dialog before accepting a quest.

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Yeah, the thing with the captions for the cutscenes was most likely done for the hearing impaired rather than for the readers.

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When it comes down to it, TOR is really just another themepark MMO that most will be bored of in 3-6 months. Hopefully we'll see some worthwhile MMOs come out in my lifetime but if not I'll continue to play the only two MMOs worth playing imo.