Id probally end up going trooper.  I can play a jedi in a bunch of games.  I would probally have a jedi alt at some point just to try it out, but being the heavily armored guy with guns, thats more my style.  Plus it reminds me of one of my favorite star wars games, republic commando.

Originally posted by szsleepy

Originally posted by Ilvaldyr

I also prefer a big honkin' rifle to a glowbat, but that's just my own preference.

 

If you're a Star Wars fan, at least give the Light Saber the respect it deserves as an icon representing a forty-year-old, story-telling tradition.  Calling it a glow-bat is degenerative, and insulting to other long-time Star Wars fans, and shows your ignorance and prejudice as a person.

ROFL!!! I sure hope you were being sarcastic. If not, then that is the ultimate nerd post.

Sith Empire Trooper ( hopefully ) for me, if not, I'll just have to make do with the Republic version.

Run and Gun for the win :P

Originally posted by ktanner3 

The games that don't have jedi in them tend to not do well. There have been games centered on Bounty Hunter, Fighters and Republic Commandos. They weren't very successful.The only one I can think of that did well was Battlegrounds.I hope that Bioware doesn't repeat SOE's mistake and cater to just the jedi class.

 

I wouldn't say it's just non-Jedi games that fail, SW just seems to have a higher percentage of games that are sub-par, like there is some SW game curse. Lego was a really good and well rounded game however.

Sure there were some that unlocked Jedi in SWG, but populations were still considerably low which was good for the canon of the era. And at least in that time, it made more content for BH's. Of course it was handled wrongly imo, the PvP maybe should not have been allowable until they were in the higher levels/boxes just like BH's. But anyway, I doubt Bioware will touch any of that with a 10ft pole. Of course Jedi should have considerable populations in this game, but just hopefully not the bulk of the content. I like playing hunters, engineers and pilots myself, so we’ll see what they come up with.

im making an ewok jedi named I'pwn'yu

Originally posted by ktanner3

Originally posted by szsleepy

Originally posted by Ilvaldyr

I also prefer a big honkin' rifle to a glowbat, but that's just my own preference.

 

If you're a Star Wars fan, at least give the Light Saber the respect it deserves as an icon representing a forty-year-old, story-telling tradition.  Calling it a glow-bat is degenerative, and insulting to other long-time Star Wars fans, and shows your ignorance and prejudice as a person.

ROFL!!! I sure hope you were being sarcastic. If not, then that is the ultimate nerd post.

I'm with him. If some retard thinks he's funny calling a Lightsaber a glow-bat he's probably part of the wrong fandom.

Little Miss Pony might be more up his alley.

Originally posted by thafireball

The first thing I make won't be a Jedi...I'm going bounty hunter!

Bounty hunter then Sith here, the time has come to put those arrogant jedi in there place.

Originally posted by JutMan

do you think that the other classes are going to get played much?

this was my first tought after the anoucemend for the new star wars online game. i think it will be end as a boring jedi online.. oh yeah of course: and a boring sith online too! i think the sith will be heavy overplayed and kiddy-friendly overpowerd.

my second thought was: why do i want play a mmorpg with the focus on single player?

futher thoughts:

do i really need all this ugly pastel-colors? do i want look like a clown from a average US-american movie?

do i really want play a theme park mmorpg? do i want grind? do i want rush from map to map and see sometimes a AFK-player in a social hub? 

well....

DO i want pay a monthly fee for something like this..? 

To be honest if they agreed to  let Jedi be a starter professions they should have made all the Proffessions Jedi. Just make them diffrent kinds, 6 classes of Jedi would have been the best way to go. Jedi should kick every other class ase if you stick to the lore. They are the super elit, so if you decide to include them you have to make every class a Jedi one.....just let them play diffrently.

Im really not sure Bioware knows what they are doing, we will just have to wait and see but im not getting my hopes up on this one....

Originally posted by Vagrant_Zero

Originally posted by ktanner3

Originally posted by szsleepy

Originally posted by Ilvaldyr

I also prefer a big honkin' rifle to a glowbat, but that's just my own preference.

 

If you're a Star Wars fan, at least give the Light Saber the respect it deserves as an icon representing a forty-year-old, story-telling tradition.  Calling it a glow-bat is degenerative, and insulting to other long-time Star Wars fans, and shows your ignorance and prejudice as a person.

ROFL!!! I sure hope you were being sarcastic. If not, then that is the ultimate nerd post.

 

I'm with him. If some retard thinks he's funny calling a Lightsaber a glow-bat he's probably part of the wrong fandom.

 

Little Miss Pony might be more up his alley.

Maybe it's just me, but I think taking a comment like that personal is just a bit odd. It's a fictitous weapon for a fictitous franchise so who cares what it's called? I like Star Wars, but  it's not real life and should never be confused as such.

if they do make a starting jedi class then obviously it will be the most popular one.

its obvious and inevitable.

I'm sure it will be a matter of frequency-dependent class selection. :) The more Jedi there are, the more attractive the alternate classes become because people like to be different, and feel somewhat special and wanted.

Which is just another way of saying what others have said... that it will all balance out. Particularly if group content is more enjoyable with a mix of classes.

Having said that, the first class I will *try* is the Jedi. It is too hard to say what class will actually be your main until you play the game in my opinion. For me, it will highly depend on whether I really enjoy the hand-to-hand combat.

What is exciting for me at this point, is I want to try every class I read about in the articles... except for the Sith... ugh, they are so fugly evil. :P

My first character will probably be the trooper... i really hope they will balance the classes so we can see class specific guilds in the game.

To the OP : I'm almost sure everyone will at least roll one jedi/sith... but like it has already been told several time, in the timeline of KOTOR, jedis were a lot more common than in the SW movies.

Originally posted by Zlayer77

To be honest if they agreed to  let Jedi be a starter professions they should have made all the Proffessions Jedi. Just make them diffrent kinds, 6 classes of Jedi would have been the best way to go. Jedi should kick every other class ase if you stick to the lore. They are the super elit, so if you decide to include them you have to make every class a Jedi one.....just let them play diffrently.

Im really not sure Bioware knows what they are doing, we will just have to wait and see but im not getting my hopes up on this one....

They created KOTOR.  I say that they know a lot more about game design and the lore behind Star Wars than you.

By the way, it's cute that you think that Jedi are so overpowered, that they should be able to steamroll through everything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBsNc_KM5MI

That's a video of Jango killing a Jedi MASTER who sat on the HIGH COUNCIL.  He also fought Obi-Wan to a draw.  That's not mentioning of course all the Jedi who died to regular troops during Order 66.  

Jedi aren't invincible gods.  

Originally posted by ConverseSC

Originally posted by Zlayer77

To be honest if they agreed to  let Jedi be a starter professions they should have made all the Proffessions Jedi. Just make them diffrent kinds, 6 classes of Jedi would have been the best way to go. Jedi should kick every other class ase if you stick to the lore. They are the super elit, so if you decide to include them you have to make every class a Jedi one.....just let them play diffrently.

Im really not sure Bioware knows what they are doing, we will just have to wait and see but im not getting my hopes up on this one....

They created KOTOR.  I say that they know a lot more about game design and the lore behind Star Wars than you.

By the way, it's cute that you think that Jedi are so overpowered, that they should be able to steamroll through everything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBsNc_KM5MI

That's a video of Jango killing a Jedi MASTER who sat on the HIGH COUNCIL.  He also fought Obi-Wan to a draw.  That's not mentioning of course all the Jedi who died to regular troops during Order 66.  

Jedi aren't invincible gods.  

 

I was going to bring up Order 66 too. Glad someone did. :)

I will play a Jedi, but to be honest there isnt much of a choice is there....4 classes is a minimalist approach if you ask me 

The jedi and Sith are the "meat and potatoes" of the Star wars films. There will naturally be alot of ppl that will want to play them. Ill be playing a sith and an alt will be a republic trooper.

Jedi is probably last class I will try, I personally am looking forward to smuggler and bounty hunter. I would like to know what the other classes they are taking 9 years to release are.

Originally posted by thafireball

The first thing I make won't be a Jedi...I'm going bounty hunter!

same here. if i can play a ranged bounty hunter that would be perfect but just bounty hunter is by far my first choice.

Anything that has force is gonna make the newage fanboys cream themselfs. That is the makings of how this is gonna turn out. WoW with lightsabers or Guildwars with lightsabers is the real thing you should be asking yourself.