SWTOR

[MuffinMan]

[Chimpy]

Good show!

I think that one is better than Fordel's.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Well played.

[tmp]

"fucking imperials".

[Furiously]

500 is the only way to go now.

[Trippy]

gratz

[Merusk]

Hm... 400.  I must find an inappropriate picture.

How about Newb Sith Gameplay?




Hey.. it DID unlock the F13 achieve!

[Simond]

I love that the second kid goes for the kill just to make sure.  

ObPix:

[Evildrider]

[Merusk]

Obi-Throw is one of my favorite memes.  I should save more of them.


Here's Dancin' Yoda.

[Sjofn]

 

[luckton]

Posting in epic thread on epic page #

[Evildrider]

[Lucas]

Posting in a epic thread on a epic page during an epic red wine (Chianti, yum) induced drunkness. All is well.

 

Sigh, won't be able to play again 'til monday afternoon CET :(

[Shatter]

Page 400 and 1000 posts!!

[Evildrider]

Page 400 and 1000 posts!!

Grats!   

[Reg]

Page 500 or bust!

[Reg]

Oh I had an actual bug on my Sith Warrior. I was sparring with a group of acolytes and I think I accidentally killed one I wasn't supposed to kill. The next step in my quest was to talk to her but she was nowhere to be found.  I tried exiting the instance and re-entering but that didn't fix it.  I had to actually log out and back on before she reappeared and I could continue the quest.

[Mosesandstick]

Reg the combo breaker, talking about SWTOR in the SWTOR thread.

[Falconeer]

I am totally hooked on the Bounty Hunter story, and I realized that I am still playing ONLY to move the story forward. In a typical Bioware fashion, characters, voice acting and twists are engaging enough and I totally commend the effort. There's a chance I might be interested in playing all 8 characters, or as many as there are different stories. It makes me froth even more in anticipation for Mass Effect 3, but in the meantime this is proving more entertaining than I was anticipating, story wise. Everything else, it's beyond bland. Seems like they slapped and glued some coop to the next Bioware Star Wars game. To be honest, this game would be pretty awesome without a subscription fee. I can see plenty of things worth a 60$ box purchase. I just can't see anything justifying 15$/month.

[Ingmar]

Shocking development: Falc doesn't like a diku!

[Pezzle]

Why, I never!

[Ingmar]

By the way, anyone know of a setting to turn sound off when alt-tabbed? I can't find anything in there.

[MuffinMan]

By the way, anyone know of a setting to turn sound off when alt-tabbed? I can't find anything in there.

ALT+F4 turns off the sound.

[Tannhauser]

You can hide the chat window by clicking the little arrow in the topmost left.  Also, I was on page 300, now 400!  Achievement Unlocked!

[Falconeer]

Shocking development: Falc doesn't like a diku!

That's not even it. I play and spend more money on diku crap than I should! It's just that the diku part of SWTOR seems to suck badly so far. The rest is great.

[Merusk]

To paraphrase

#8) "The Old Republic is a game where corners were cut because they didn't make every voice actor say every line so you could choose your character's voice.  I don't want to play a game where massive improvement can be made with 2 seconds of thought."

But it would cost a load more because you'd have 64x more voice acting.

"Screw the cost, they were cutting corners."

 

[taolurker]

So, I spent some time last night with this, and although it's an engaging cut-scene and voice-over heavy Bioware game (like Mass Effect), the thing I don't like about it is that it's a bunch of people solo-ing along together. I tried talking to people near me, inviting people to groups, and generally tried to be my character, but all the people in my area were doing the exact quests as me.

I would stand in a group of people gathered around the quest NPC and be one of the clones standing there with dots above my head. I was getting kill stole left and right by characters who were the same class make as me, wearing the same clothes, and some even had the same companions.

The newbie areas need to be more of a mix of classes and general tutorial, and have the story elements be generic. I had a story that was the same as all the other people and we all fought our way to the same buildings, and returned to talk to the same person in a cantina. Color me not impressed so far, and definitely do not see any point for a monthly sub on a game like this.

[Tannhauser]

So, I spent some time last night with this, and although it's an engaging cut-scene and voice-over heavy Bioware game (like Mass Effect), the thing I don't like about it is that it's a bunch of people solo-ing along together. I tried talking to people near me, inviting people to groups, and generally tried to be my character, but all the people in my area were doing the exact quests as me.

I would stand in a group of people gathered around the quest NPC and be one of the clones standing there with dots above my head. I was getting kill stole left and right by characters who were the same class make as me, wearing the same clothes, and some even had the same companions.

The newbie areas need to be more of a mix of classes and general tutorial, and have the story elements be generic. I had a story that was the same as all the other people and we all fought our way to the same buildings, and returned to talk to the same person in a cantina. Color me not impressed so far, and definitely do not see any point for a monthly sub on a game like this.

There's lots of grouping for the heroic quests, like 'Hate Machine' in Sith lands.  Also repeatable, so run those to your grouping heart's content.

[Sobelius]

I also hate the "wow! You're more advanced in the force than I could ever dream of being" storyline.

Actually if you stick it out till you get your ship the reason for that becomes apparent.

Also using crew to get crafting components will make you poor fast.   It's easier to gather manually.

You can send your companion off to sell all your trash loot -- what a concept. 

[Furiously]

I predict they recorded the voice actors saying, "I suppose...", "I see...", "I can do that." and "Of course." So future quests may not be AS fully voiced.

[TripleDES]

So I played a few couple of hours today. I'm really only fond of continuing, because I can't stand not knowing the end of a story. And it's still only a so-so one. I'm currently playing as smuggler, and the (I guess typical) Feynmann-Schrödinger carrot chase* is getting annoying.

(* Endless detours over side missions, running after an object that you're never exactly sure where it is.)

[Shatter]

I predict they recorded the voice actors saying, "I suppose...", "I see...", "I can do that." and "Of course." So future quests may not be AS fully voiced.

Or expansions where your characters voice is completely different because they couldnt get the same guy

[MuffinMan]

Maybe they'll go with user created content for voice-overs.

[AcidCat]

Finally got to play today, spent the better part of the day making four different characters. Came into the game with moderate expectations - really no interest in the SW universe, but still enjoy diku.

Unimpressed. The stories and opportunities to have your character interact with quest npcs is interesting, but ultimately feels pointless, because right after you are shoved back into the world with countless others doing the same thing. Combat is adequate, sometimes feels kinda exciting. The environments are boring. It is possible to make interesting looking characters, which is a plus for the game over something like Rift.

I've read some opinions that it is a game at cross purposes to itself and from my experience I have to agree. The interesting personal stories that dump you into uninteresting environments with uninteresting enemies and a bunch of randoms running around just gives the game a weird cognitive dissonance.

I'd say they would have been better served making an epic single player game like Skyrim, but that's neither here nor there. They tried their hand at the mmo genre. I don't think it works for me. Probably cancelling me preorder shortly and diverting those funds to the year of WoW for Diablo deal.