Date: 2013-01-07 06:22 pm (UTC)
smurasaki: blond person (neutral)
From: [personal profile] smurasaki
I have mixed feelings about Bioware deciding to make Star Wars: The Old Republic a black vs black conflict. ... Actually, scratch that. I'm glad they didn't make it a white vs black conflict, because that would be a problem for playing on the side of the Empire, but I wish they'd gone with more a gray vs gray thing. Making both governments BAD makes the over all world, well, as you note, less than cheery.

Despite that, I think that the Agent (which can even end somewhat optimistically) and Smuggler stories are pretty classic fun spy or adventure fiction, despite the background universe's issues. I've also heard that the Sith stories (of all things) can be optimistic if you play them Light Side.

Oddly, I'd even say that the Agent story plays out as if it -is- a gray vs gray conflict, which makes it sometimes clash with the overall story a bit. I don't know why they just didn't go with two opposing sides that were imperfect but not completely evil.

And, yes, perhaps more interesting planets and fewer city-planets. And fewer toxic wasteland planets.
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