yeah,i agree Nilus,they copied the most famous characters of SW and followed the stereotype of star wars to attract more SW casual fans
filled with any sorts of tropes,cliches,stereotypes both of Bioware and Star Wars,
the sith emperor clearly designed to be a copy of Palpatine
The sith ships being similar to the Galactic empire ships
the sith troopers strongly resembling Stormtroopers
The republic troopers having clone trooper (Prequels) armor
That imperial intelligence is the same as the Imperial intelligence of the Galactic empire
Sith Inquisitor=Palpatine
Sith Warrior=Vader (clearly by the lines)
Bounty Hunter=|Boba Fett
Imperial agent=Imperial Officer
Jedi Knight=Luke
Republic Trooper=Clone Trooper commander(Cody)
Jedi Consular=Obi-wan
Smuggler=Han Solo
the fact that the sith are called "Empire"
the unnecessary fanservice by making Satele Shan and Revan appear in the game(Shoe Horning)
the funniest thing is that Bioware Austin claims that the original KOTOR staff in there,but it was Bioware Edmonton that did KOTOR
back when Drew Karpyshyn was the lead writer
I loved KOTOR,had an awesome party(HK and Canderous were my favourites),i remember all of them,Jolee,Juhani,Trask,Carth,HK-47,Bastila,Mission,Zaalbar,Canderous,T3-M4) KOTOR 2's party was still awesome,while TOR has very few characters that are interesting,mostly because they are rip off of KOTOR's characters and i don't even remember them,except for Vette and Malavai Quinn
that's a shame,because some of the stories are not bad,if TOR was a DA:O like SP RPG that had nothing that mentioned KOTOR's events (to make KOTOR 3 possible),it would have been awesome
but EA:"mmm,look at that cash cow that bioware has,time to milk it dry"
Indeed! But rehashing star wars characters is one thing, but what I am about to say is quite another matter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmKJ-ORFXxA
This is the ending of the Shadow of Revan expansion, I know it's torture to watch it, so I summarize it.
Revan didn't die on the foundry, at least part of him didn't, you see the Light Side part of him became one with the force but the dark side part stayed. Then turns out the Sith Emperor is still floating about. So, Revan does this weird ritual thing to resurrect the Sith Emperor so he can kill him permanently. But it turns out the ritual will result in the deaths of "TRILLIONS OF INNOCENTS" so the Jedi and the Sith get all honky-Dorey and fight Revan and his army.
At this point, I was regretting saying that their wasn't an original story in SWTOR. Until I remembered this Star Trek episode.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Enemy_Within_%28episode%29
I hope Paramount sues them, slaps a cease and desist order on them, and ultimately shuts them down.
After seeing all this, it took me, what? Thirty minutes to make a better storyline in my head, (To which I will not elaborate on unless asked to)
You just hit the nail on the head right there.