As most Star Wars supporters, I have always been genuinely fascinated with the lightsaber.

I consider I initial actually fell in enjoy with them when Luke and Vader fought in the Sky Metropolis on Bespin.

There is some thing indefinable cool about a lightsaber that is difficult to describe.

The glowing blade that offers it a distinctive visible presence and the eerie lower level excitement that claims ozone scented mutilation and/or dismemberment.

And of course, the amazing sight and seem of two lightsabers hanging each and every other, sending sparks traveling every which way, with a audio that leaves no question about the lethal likely of these weapons.

Last but not least, lightsabers are quite unusual weapons in Star Wars.

The are carried by elite samurai-like warriors that use them with specialist abilities that make them significantly more fatal than a solider with a typical blaster.

All this has created lightsabers turn into perhaps the solitary most recognizable science fiction weapon in motion picture historical past.

Endlessly parodied and copied in other motion pictures, games and different other media.

The Previous Republic is not the 1st recreation to let us enjoy a lightsaber wielding character.

This has been carried out many occasions prior to with a variety of levels of accomplishment in games like the Jedi Knight collection and Knights of the Aged Republic.

I have experienced a issue with how lightsabers have been portrayed in nearly any game that I have performed.

It is a basic difficulty of game stability versus remaining accurate to the fiction.

In the Star Wars videos a lightsaber can lower through fairly much everything in a one swipe.

It will fortunately dismember people/aliens/droids or lower via a vent on the underside of an AT-AT.

However, in virtually each and every Star Wars sport I’ve performed, you are not able to destroy your enemies by basically hitting them once with the blade.

This tends to make sense from a match balancing standpoint of course.

It turns into actually difficult to make a sport challenging to the participant, if he can just operate up and swing after to get rid of the enemy.

Nonetheless this has always cheapened the really feel of lightsabers to me, making them feel less like a weapon of amazing and scarcely harnessed electrical power, and a lot more like a glowing adhere that you thwack your enemies about the head and neck with.

Of program this will be much the same for The Previous Republic, judging from every little thing that I have observed so much.

And I can accept that in the identify of equilibrium, even if it helps make me a little unfortunate.

What I am far more concerned about even though, and what is exclusive about The Old Republic, is the sheer proliferation of lightsabers that we are going to be exposed to.

For me, the position about lightsabers, and pressure consumers in standard, currently being uncommon has constantly produced them much more interesting and interesting.

With The Aged Republic it truly is really most likely that we will see at the very least half the participant base making use of a lightsaber wielding character (except if folks somehow skew absent from people classes, but I never see why that would take place. Almost certainly the opposite is much more probably).

This signifies that in any given 4 participant group, you are probably to see two lightsabers at any offered time.

Wander out onto the Senate Square on Coruscant and 50 % of people two hundred individuals will be sporting a lightsaber.

In short, you may be seeing a great deal of glowing sticks and I am concerned if it will simply wreck some of the “heck yeah, wonderful!” feeling from observing lightsaber combat, as soon as you are observing so significantly of it in every single engage in session.

Of program, this is not heading to quit me from making my Sith Inquisitor, as I determined on in my class assortment procedure, but will I even now have the exact same enjoy and appreciation for my intricate blade of carnage, when I am hitting max stage and I can’t swing my lightsaber without hitting… an additional lightsaber?

I truly hope that Bioware has managed to nonetheless make lightsabers really feel as the most amazing weapon ever.

At Lightsabers UK viewing touches this kind of as figures swinging the blade around to deflect blaster bolts and rudimentary lightsaber on lightsaber fight displays that it is some thing that the are consciously trying to provide on.

Only time will tell in the stop.
A extended time back.
In a galaxy far significantly absent…

I am a passionate gamer and lover of science fiction.

With much more than twenty five several years of gaming and consuming sci-fi in each media form, I take into account myself something of an expert.

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