SWTOR

[Sky]

She CCs two people and scores? yay?

Maybe she's on the vampire team. Me, I'd go for Mighty Blow instead.

[Crumbs]

edit:  Crumbs is currently locked in a padded cell and keeps repeating "Huttball."  Pls help.  

[Evildrider]

She CCs two people and scores? yay?

It's also cuz they are at 1% health.

[Sjofn]

I know novels sort of don't count but if only subtext was allowed ever, I am pretty sure this dude and his husband wouldn't exist at all. Bonus: They have a daughter!  

[Cyrrex]

I know novels sort of don't count but if only subtext was allowed ever, I am pretty sure this dude and his husband wouldn't exist at all. Bonus: They have a daughter!  

That's because Mandolarians are like dwarves...they can't tell their genders apart.

From a business POV, I suppose I can understand why Bioware made this choice.  It's the safe route.  Still, I have to admit that my FemShep's* tendency to hit from both sides of the plate made those games more interesting for me.  I would personally like to see it included, but yeah, I get why they aren't.

Hell, maybe they can patch in the gay.  Or better yet, RMT!

*Having only played ME using FemShep, I always find it jarring and flat out wrong when I see or hear people going on about ManShep (or in advertisements and whatnot). That's not Sheperd!   Am I the only one? 

[apocrypha]

Hell, maybe they can patch in the gay.  Or better yet, RMT!

Pay for gay? 

[01101010]

Hell, maybe they can patch in the gay.  Or better yet, RMT!

Pay for gay? 

This avenue could have the potential to be the greatest official forum thread in the history of the internet. 

[Tyrnan]

Hell, maybe they can patch in the gay.  Or better yet, RMT!

Pay for gay? 

Pay2Gay, the latest revenue model for MMOs

[Surlyboi]

I refuse until it's free2gay.

[Kirth]

This thread is getting more fabulous by the post. needs a rainbow eye beam version of this : 

[Lantyssa]

You mean this?

[Paelos]

WoW always liked to patch in the gay. In every paladin armor update! ZING!  

[tmp]

Don't know what kind of super-rogue you've played lately, but the one I just rolled was on a life-or-death fight with every mob in Tirisfal till L5 or so.

If you are dying(or almost dying) in WoW before level 10 or so, I don't know what to tell you.  Every class kills things fast at low level, and has absurd regen so out of combat you get up to full health and mana pretty darn fast.

Could've changed since, but i remember literally piles of bones of dead people around the murlock villages in noob zones in the open beta. Pulling more than two of these guys (or any other guys really, especially in these small caves) meant death, and if you tried to run you'd just get dazed and raped for trying to take more of their precious time.

[01101010]

Don't know what kind of super-rogue you've played lately, but the one I just rolled was on a life-or-death fight with every mob in Tirisfal till L5 or so.

If you are dying(or almost dying) in WoW before level 10 or so, I don't know what to tell you.  Every class kills things fast at low level, and has absurd regen so out of combat you get up to full health and mana pretty darn fast.

Could've changed since. I remember literally piles of bones of dead people around the murlock villages in noob zones in the open beta. Pulling more than two of these guys (or any other guys really, especially in these small caves) meant death, and if you tried to run you'd just get dazed and raped for trying to take more of their precious time.

I loved that spot. You could literally pull every murloc in that area if you picked the lynchpin patrol. I hope this game has dumb ass spots like that...

And on another note...Does SWTOR have public quests? I haven't trolled their forums or even their website since last year other than to join the guild.

[Kirth]

And on another note...Does SWTOR have public quests? I haven't trolled their forums or even their website since last year other than to join the guild.

Good question, no idea. though from one of the recent play thru vids that total biscuit did it seems that there will be some sorta of personal instancing for story mode stuff that you can bring people into, with a seamless integration (no loading screen). To me that migth indicate that they moved away from the mass objective style public stuff in favor of the more personal story based stuff, but who knows other then the people.

as for  I didn't equate womanliness with gayliness...

[Lantyssa]

Well, it's lavender and I made it.  It's close enough.

[sam, an eggplant]

Does SWTOR have public quests?

No. You can very accurately think of SWTOR as WoW with Bioware-style conversations.

[Nebu]

... and nerd-sabers.

[Riggswolfe]

I got into Beta on Friday. I guess the only thing I can legally say is I'm keeping my preorder and looking forward to launch.

[Reg]

Wow. You must have a super fast internet connection to have downloaded the entire 5 terabyte install so quickly.

[Kirth]

Wow. You must have a super fast internet connection to have downloaded the entire 5 terabyte install so quickly.

Actually I heard that to crack down on leaks a EA representative comes to your house with an external drive to load the beta for you.

[01101010]

Wow. You must have a super fast internet connection to have downloaded the entire 5 terabyte install so quickly.

Torrents!

And this will be the first game I played in a while without some sorta public quest. Then again, my list of MMOs is not all that long.

[Nebu]

And this will be the first game I played in a while without some sorta public quest. Then again, my list of MMOs is not all that long.

I'm fine playing this game without public quests.  The fewer XxxHanSoloxxX clones I have to look at, the better. 

[sam, an eggplant]

Public quests are one of very few innovations in the genre over the past decade and it would have been nice to see them in all new MMOs entering the market. Heck, GW2 is supposed to basically be a long series of public quests. But no, nothing like that in SWTOR. They didn't take any chances. Conversations and addons aside, SWTOR = WoW.

[01101010]

And this will be the first game I played in a while without some sorta public quest. Then again, my list of MMOs is not all that long.

I'm fine playing this game without public quests.  The fewer XxxHanSoloxxX clones I have to look at, the better. 

Not a slam on the game at all, just found it a bit odd considering the present company of MMOs out there.

[Malakili]

And this will be the first game I played in a while without some sorta public quest. Then again, my list of MMOs is not all that long.

I'm fine playing this game without public quests.  The fewer XxxHanSoloxxX clones I have to look at, the better. 

Not a slam on the game at all, just found it a bit odd considering the present company of MMOs out there.

I don't know that it has ever felt particularly awesome in any of iterations I've seen so far, save perhaps for Rift.  I don't think it is a feature that is anywhere near must have or even "expected" from the MMO playerbase at this point. 

[Nebu]

I think the best implementation of PQ's was in WAR.  I say that with the caution that they were only good when the game was populated in the lower levels.  The rifts in Rift just aren't fun.  Too much trash.  Too predictable.  Too repetitive.  Granted, a lot of that happened in WAR too, but the shiny chest at the end cured some of it. 

[Ingmar]

They need to scale down to be doable by just one or two people, is the main problem with the implementations so far. Otherwise they just become unused space when the leveling train has moved on.

[sam, an eggplant]

GW2 promises to fix that problem, so yay for that.

[Nebu]

GW2 promises to fix that problem, so yay for that.

I'll believe it when it's more than an idealized video used as part of a marketing campaign. 

[Malakili]

I think the best implementation of PQ's was in WAR.  I say that with the caution that they were only good when the game was populated in the lower levels.  The rifts in Rift just aren't fun.  Too much trash.  Too predictable.  Too repetitive.  Granted, a lot of that happened in WAR too, but the shiny chest at the end cured some of it. 

Yeah, I do recall the public quests at the beginning of the zones in WAR being really fun, especially during beta and release.  But the enduring memory for me is coming across them in the second half of T2 and T3 and being the only one there, unable to finish them past the first stage, if that.   And then having to grind them out with my guild in order to flip zones in the T4 areas because of the way victory points worked.

[Ingmar]

It is kind of baffling to me that they apparently didn't see that coming, too, but that's what happens when you structure your beta the way Mythic did.

[Riggswolfe]

Wow. You must have a super fast internet connection to have downloaded the entire 5 terabyte install so quickly.

Lol. No comment.

[Threash]

It wasn't fun for the races that didn't have freaking tanks at the start of the game and the end bosses were always graveyard zergs if you were lucky to have enough people there.

[tazelbain]

Public Quests are essential for MMO to me.  I want a world the reacts to the players.  PQ are a start down that road.  I know we have a lot more to go but I support development teams that are trying.