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On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 09:43:57 -0500, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote: 

>On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 17:06:50 -0700, "rms"
><rsqui...@MOOyossmanMOO.net> wrote:
>
>>>* Star Wars The Old Republic (new)
>>>So I hereby name Star Wars The Old Republic the best MMORPG I've ever
>>>played.
>>
>>    Wait!  So this is not the old TOR that's been in my steam library for 
>>years?
>>rms 
>
>(can't tell if you are being serious or not, but just in case... )
>
>No, that's KoToR; the "Knights of the Old Republic", a stand-alone
>single-player RPG; it received an unimaginatively-named sequel,
>"Knights of the Old Republic 2". 
>
>The Old Republic is the MMORPG, developed nominally by the same guys
>(Bioware) and sort-of maybe a distant sequel to the originals. The
>Jedi campaign had a number of nods to specific quests in the original
>KOTOR, which was fun. But dated and limiting as it was, the original
>KOTOR games are far better products if you prefer single-player and a
>strong story and characters. Also, "The Old Republic", being both an
>MMORPG and an EA game, isn't on Steam.
>
>
I saw cover mechanics in browsing TOR, which were sorely missing in
KoTOR, making firefights look completely ridiculous in that game.

How's the cover system? Am I right that TOR has one? Is it annoying or
well done?

Lack of a cover mechanic was one of my main criticisms of KoTOR. It sorta
works to elide it with crossbows and longbows (in D&D titles), but with
semi-automatic weapons, it was clearly ridiculous.

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