MMO Roundup: Cataclysm linearity and The Old Republic's innovation

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1-18-2012 @ 5:11PM

Amaxe said...

I think TOR avoids the appearance of linearity because of the combination of class quests and area quests. Yes, the class quests take you to the same areas regardless of quest, but doing both of these together makes it different... especially when race and gender can bring up different tones in dialogue.

Also, when choosing a LS or DS resolution it can make a quest play differently.

Not sure if WoW can do this however, since TOR makes use of cutscenes and conversations and WoW makes use of "click accept." Still, if we could have each class have their own story through WoW's leveling and cutting out the "you must hit every quest before advancing" perspective, it would be an interesting change and perhaps remove some of the "dammit, not Harrison Jones again!"

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