As soon as I saw the concept of MechScape, I thought of Star Wars, do you guys think it's going to be similar?

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I'm going to say no, It won't be like Star Wars. I think they'll try to stay away from that as much as possible.
I would think there might be some similarity's, but none directly that you'd notice that was from Star Wars.

Although I think the desert concept art and poster look like Star Wars a bit.

"Mechscape is suppose to be different from any other MMO you've played."

i thought halo

I thought rs in space lol

@Ritter: Halo? Hmmm...

@urantis: Yeah I guess, but it will be cool to have lightsabers for weps :D

Haha, that would be cool.

Have you heard about Star Wars: The Old Republic ?

I think you should have a browse through quotes from Jagex
They've said it is NOT Runescape in space and is nothing like any games out there..

I think you should read sarcasm

I really doubt it'll be like star wars, because it's a massive stereotype that Jagex will be wanting to move away from, as equally as they want to do with runescape in space.

I think it's gonna have some similarity to star wars, and some to star trek and other sci-fi stuff.

if it has lightsabers..... *an hero*

Go ahead and an hero, you'll just respawn in Lumbridge 2000x.

I would throw in Star Wars with Firefly... and fifty other awesome Sci-Fi flicks and thingy majigs.

Light Sabers are full of win, but I would personally prefer Heat Rods.

That's what I've done at first but then I picked out odds and ends for time which Jagex rules out. I still have too much left but lots of ideas still.

halo wars came to my mind when they talked about bases and such.

I'm betting that it won't be a RTS, I think the "bases" will be similar to Player Owned Houses in Runescape. I'm hoping for a very good mix of things from all of the different Sci-Fi movies, games and novels. I don't think that they should copy anything, but having aspects of Star Wars (like having a Galactic Civil War going on, or having something similar to "the Force") and other Sci-Fi sources would be awesome.

I've noticed a similarity to Star Wars in the Pliigi.

If you haven't read the 'Star Wars: New Jedi Order' books there is a race in them called the Yuuzhan Vong. They have a hatred for technology and everything they use is organic. The Pliigi are similar as they use organics.

The desert scene also made me think of Star Wars. Star Wars = Awesome, so hopefully MS will be awesome too.

Yeah that desert picture makes me think of Tatooine.

They will probably try to steer clear from StarWars, as has already been said.
There will more than likely be a pun or two relating to it though. (Silly Jagex humour... )

Given the vast scope of Star Wars, to steer entirely clear of it would be impossible.

Everything is possible in time, McCharger... But mechscape having no similarity to star wars at all would kinda fail tbh. Nothing has more spectacular dogfights than star wars.

If it was awesome it'd be released by now

They said they tried their hardest to make a game unlike anything out there, so...........

I don't know how it would be possible to make it unlike anything out there. They would have to completely rewrite sci-fi.

That's what they were shooting for.

Eurogamer: Does MechScape resemble any other games out there so we can get a better picture of what it will be like?

Henrique Olifiers: We went to great lengths to make sure that wasn't the case! Ha ha!

See.

True, but as long as there are epic dogfights and a diverse scenery then that'll be enough to keep me playing.

I think that there would be some similarity to star wars and other sci-fi movies/stories/video games, though it would be tied into the story line so well that you wouldn't think that they had directly stolen it off star wars. I expect to see some places that look familiar to places from Star wars and some other stuff, but not too much as it greatly resembles star wars or something else from the sci-fi genre.

Exactly, to steer entirely clear of Star Wars would mean to not have space ships, planets, or an evil empire of any sort. There couldn't be any laser weapons, nor could there be light sabers, and there couldn't be any creatures that resemble any Star Wars creatures. I think it would be impossible to not have something in MS/SD that reminds me of Star Wars. That's like having Runescape without having anything similar to Lord of the Rings.

Yes i imagine MechScape like Star Wars. I dont think that it will be the same as Star Wars but it is the best thing to compare it.

What the heck, since when did Star Wars invent planets, space ships and evil empires? I'm not sure but I don't think they invented lasers either, but I don't know.

If you just mean lasers in general, then we've had them in real life for many years. Y'know when you're out shopping and you pass your stuff over the checkout? When it bleeps it means the barcode has been scanned, most likely by a small laser.

When I say "lasers", I'm referring to the phew phew lasers that make things blow up. My whole point is that there will be similarities, no matter how hard they try to not have similarities. I'm sure Jagex didn't want to copy Lord of the Rings in Runescape, but as you can see, Runescape would not exist without ideas taken from Lord of the Rings. Star Wars will have a major influence on anything sci-fi, since it is probably the most popular sci-fi movie series ever made.

lord of the rings didnt invent dwarves and mideival fighting. so your "runescape would not exist without ideas taken from Lord of the Rings" quote is void. Meybe they based it ACTUALLY ON THE REAL PERIOD IN TIME WHEN THERE WERE KNIGHTS AND STUFF?

Yeah, it was based on the period of time when there were dragons and dwarves and elves too right? My point is that Runescape was undeniably influenced by Lord of the Rings and countless other sources. Mechscape will be the same, Star Wars, Star Trek, and other Sci-Fi sources will influence it.

The only way in being similiar to star wars is the future setting. I do not think this game will relate to star wars as it is more about robots and mechas etc.

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lord of the rings didnt invent dwarves and mideival fighting. so your "runescape would not exist without ideas taken from Lord of the Rings" quote is void. Meybe they based it ACTUALLY ON THE REAL PERIOD IN TIME WHEN THERE WERE KNIGHTS AND STUFF?
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Yeah, and I suppose there were fire-breathing dragons and elves in real medevil times. All those legends of dragons, elves, etc. are VERY old. There is nothing anywhere near recent that has invented those creatures, just different variations of them. If you look at Legolas is the Lord of the Rings, he's a tall man with long white hair who can walk on top of snow. In RuneScape, they're just like humans except they hit high with bows. It's the same with dragons, too. Also, nobody invented dwarves because being a dwarf is often genetic.

Star wars was successful because it showed a girtty reality in its universe. The contrast of the planets. If you remove the jedi then yes I think it shall have a place like tatooine and coruscant in it. Many pre starwars things had space in them but people lived in this. SD is focused around the planets like pirates and ships are focused around the ports. The boring bit for pirates is when they are actually sailing so I think the boring bit aka space in SD shall be mainly cut out as we can see. I think space was one of the reasons MS was scrapped because it looked frankly rubbish...