Star wars the old republic will be the newest addition of video games to the star wars franchise. Not like earlier role playing games primarily based on the star wars back story, SWTOR will be a fully fledged MMORPG. It's good to know that Bioware the earlier creators of the final couple of very well selling star wars rpgs such as knights of the old republic, is again on the helm and developing this.

One of many new touted options of the SWTOR MMORPG is one thing they name "flashpoint", and is one of the greatest renovations to the game, and possibly to MMORPGs; to have come in a long time. Although it has a fancy name, in SWTOR flashpoint refers to how the game will create and instance dungeons. A flashpoint is an instanced dungeon that's created to be more tightly woven into your personal game storyline.

Most MMORPGs are closely action centered and the storyline generally is a little bit of a throw away, meaning it's there simply to present you a vague sense of some motive for the locales you happen to be in. Nonetheless, the purpose then is basically simply to kill monsters to get a) XP or b) loot. Story line isn't actually the main focus. What do you do with XP and loot? Simple you move from PvM (player vs monster) into the PvP (player vs player) realm where all that loot and XP will get pitted in opposition to different players.

Although many will enjoy pitting their abilities and wits against other skilled opponents online, I personally liked to play MMO rpgs cooperatively and enjoy the storyline and surroundings as I go through it. Too often when playing an MMO the concept of enjoying the journey gets lost as you blindly get sucked into just levelling (i.e. grinding) to hit the PvP tiers.

That is where SWTOR becomes fascinating, with Bioware behind the development and knowing their insane build quality for good well thought out rpgs and storylines I can't wait to see how the game will finally become like when it is released.