THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: fistfulofmetal on December 24, 2011, 10:17:19 AM
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i'm on vacation next week and i don't really have anything new to play. there's a few games out there that interest me but after putting in close to 90 hours in Skyrim and 30 hours in Dark Souls... my appetite for RPG is still strong, but i want something a little, lighter.
After hearing impressions from friends at work then watching the Giantbomb Quicklook (http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-star-wars-the-old-republic/17-5448/), I decided Star Wars: The Old Republic might be perfect for me.
Earlier this year my friends and I decided to jump into WoW. We played for a good amount of time and I was able to see a great deal of content. I definitely enjoyed playing the game. Completing quests and exploring the gameworld was a lot of fun. Hearing that TOR had a heavy focus on story interests me a lot.
So i decided to buy TOR. this is my characer:
(http://i.imgur.com/9M18G.jpg)
I've played for roughly 4 or 5 hours.
So far it does still play like I imagine most MMO play, but I really like that primary story quests are peppered with cut-scenes complete with fully voiced characters and dialog choices. Also there's Renegade/Paragon moments too! It's totally Mass Effect light in the Star Wars universe.
I'm playing an Imperial Agent which has a focus on blasters so it's almost entirely ranged combat. There's an interesting cover aspect as well to them that opens up combat moves like a sniper shot that does a lot of damage. what i like is that if there is actually a piece of cover in the area my character will roll to cover and it will actually prevent a lot of shot from hitting me. it's pretty simple but just the idea of a basic cover system in an RPG like this is cool to me.
Also i didn't mention that i'm soloing this game. i wanted to see how fun i can get from it by playing it like a regular ass single player rpg.
i'm enjoying it. i've barely scratched the surface. whether or not i'll continue playing after my first month remains to be seen but i figure i can get enough enjoyment out of it in this month to justify the price point.
so theres that. anyone else going to bother playing?
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We have 4 copies at work, I find it boring as all fuck
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I wanted to check it out for single player. Watching the GB quicklook, I like how you have a companion to do a lot of the boring(er) stuff. I'm not really an mmo person, though. I'm wary of the "Collect 25 force crystals" quests even going solo because that's what people expect in an mmo. If it feels like KOTOR3, or Dragon Age: Star Wars, I'll try it eventually.
at one point in the quicklook Jeff burns some dude for a mission, and while he fights some new enemies, another player rolls up and burns the same dude. I wish you could just play offline to avoid that stuff. For a story driven mmo, or whatever the selling point is, other than star wars, that stuff really belittles your role. But I guess that's an mmorpg.
and characters that are randomly pieced together to appear unique:
(http://i.imgur.com/e71Ev.jpg)
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I'm with Momo - it's like Babby's First MMO ver 0.6
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that's fine for me. when i played WoW i didn't really care for all the in-depth stuff like crafting, cooking, etc.
i just wanted to go around and do quests.
so here i can do that plus there's an actual story. and i am enjoying the story so far.
also: time to Nolan North - 5 hours:
(http://i.imgur.com/Uttgk.jpg)
and i got my companion!
(http://i.imgur.com/OSzk9.jpg)
creepy goth lady
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I'll play it when it goes F2P in 6 months.
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I'll play it when it goes F2P in 6 months.
Same here.
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I'm playing it on Darth Bandon as Empire. I'm a level 31 Sith Sorceror with like, 1 day and 9 hours /played. I'm really digging it!
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I really liked it when I played the beta a few months ago. Probably the only pay MMO I could see myself playing.
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(http://i.imgur.com/Z3SAC.jpg)
my character
game is...ok. i probably wouldn't play it if it wasn't star wars and the story wasn't fun. the republics storys are all boring bullshit though, the sith is wayyy better and i've been playing sith characters. the only problem is at level 10 you pick a advanced class and once you do you can't change it so you're stuck if you pick a bad one, like I did for my bounty hunter :(
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I mentioned this in the Giantbomb thread but it looks boring to me even though I loved Kotor. My nephew loves it though and is begging me to play with him so I probably will. He plays WoW alot.
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i'm getting bored just thinking about other people thinking about playing
why would you play this when you can just play gunstar heroes
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I'm enjoying it so far. I just got to level ten.
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i just got to level 11 myself! finished the main quest line in the starting zone. it's pretty cool. will def keep playing (for the month at least)
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I've been hopelessly addicted to this over the past week. Sure, it's essentially Bioware dialog in Star Wars themed WoW but, hell, I liked WoW and love Star Wars so there's nothing wrong with that. I'm a level 23 Mercenary and the class is a blast - fun singleplayer where I can pretty much solo anything and I absolutely murder in PvP. My class storyline isn't really anything more than "Hey, there's this bounty hunter tournament, go kill some dudes" but it keeps me motivated enough to keep going. I have no idea how long I'll keep playing but I do want to level at least one more character. Good shit.
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i just did my first flashpoint with two sith dudes. was pretty fun and longer than i expected.
killed a jedi :rock
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i just did my first flashpoint with two sith dudes. was pretty fun and longer than i expected.
killed a jedi :rock
Too bad the rest of the flaspoints aren't like that. The next ones are just vanilla WoW dungeons. They used the first flashpoint full of voice to make people think that's what they'll get later in the game, and it's not.
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Bought it. I'll play some tomorrow and give some thoughts from the perspective of someone who isn't really a big mmo fan.
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Seeing Han Solo for Manabyte's avatar, and being in the Star Wars thread, I thought "Hey, Pryor would have been pretty damned great as Lando Calrissian. Maybe a different vibe..."
I'm with Momo - it's like Babby's First MMO ver 0.6
But isn't that what you want, if you're trying to attract the venn diagram of (a) casual players and (b) Star Wars fans?
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because companies have decided that male characters must all be somewhat boneheaded looking in design
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I don't understand why people care if a game like this is F2P or costs money - MMOs are so incredibly time consuming that it seems like paying $13 a month or whatever is such a miniscule cost compared to having to devote half of your free time to a game, that it really shouldn't influence your decision.
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I don't understand why people care if a game like this is F2P or costs money - MMOs are so incredibly time consuming that it seems like paying $13 a month or whatever is such a miniscule cost compared to having to devote half of your free time to a game, that it really shouldn't influence your decision.
Yeah, you're 100% right; but that's just logic, and we know how reasonable consumers are about their money.
There are people who bitch about $2.99 iphone apps which they've spent a couple hours with, even though a latté at Starbucks costs $3.70 or something. They bitch about 99˘ applications which they think should be free, but you can't even get a can of soda pop out of a vending machine for a buck anymore.
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I don't understand why people care if a game like this is F2P or costs money - MMOs are so incredibly time consuming that it seems like paying $13 a month or whatever is such a miniscule cost compared to having to devote half of your free time to a game, that it really shouldn't influence your decision.
I think people mean the f2p model where you don't even buy the box/game so they want to try TOR out for free without any risk of putting money towards a lame mmo
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I don't understand why people care if a game like this is F2P or costs money - MMOs are so incredibly time consuming that it seems like paying $13 a month or whatever is such a miniscule cost compared to having to devote half of your free time to a game, that it really shouldn't influence your decision.
Yeah, you're 100% right; but that's just logic, and we know how reasonable consumers are about their money.
There are people who bitch about $2.99 iphone apps which they've spent a couple hours with, even though a latté at Starbucks costs $3.70 or something. They bitch about 99˘ applications which they think should be free, but you can't even get a can of soda pop out of a vending machine for a buck anymore.
Yeah, so as a programmer I feel it's my duty to my profession to bitch about the bitching and encourage others to bitch about the bitching. We need a little less money going to line the pockets of fat-cat baristas and a little more going to feed starving software engineers.
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As I should have expected its utterly and firmly an mmo. Which means I don't really care for it but says nothing about the relative quality of it since I'm not overly a fan of the genre. It's not worth playing if you are looking for the next Kotor. But if you wanted WoW with more cutscenes and motivation then this may be up your alley.
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I don't understand why people care if a game like this is F2P or costs money - MMOs are so incredibly time consuming that it seems like paying $13 a month or whatever is such a miniscule cost compared to having to devote half of your free time to a game, that it really shouldn't influence your decision.
Yeah, you're 100% right; but that's just logic, and we know how reasonable consumers are about their money.
There are people who bitch about $2.99 iphone apps which they've spent a couple hours with, even though a latté at Starbucks costs $3.70 or something. They bitch about 99˘ applications which they think should be free, but you can't even get a can of soda pop out of a vending machine for a buck anymore.
i've seen people bitching about free books being too short on the kindle store
some people just like to bitch, and you're never gonna win with them no matter what
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God damnit im enjoying this game- fuckin feel dirty; all it takes is a dual bladed light saber and im a whore
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What I don't get are people who want to solo in an MMO.
There are single player games of all types, so why jump into something grindy, with no actual endpoint?
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well in this game there are legit story-lines with endings (to a point). so soloing is def feasible.
i played... a lot... today. got to level 17 and finished up the storyline on the second planet. story is really cool and having fully voiced cutscenes helps a ton.
when i first got to the new planet i randomly bumped into another player doing the same task. we grouped up and ended up playing the entire day together. he was a sith warrior so i helped with his class quests and he helped with mine. so i got to see the storyline from that perspective. was a lot of fun.
then i got my ship. it's awesome.
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Well if the production values are there- there really isnt much difference is there? Both LotR Online and now this game went to considerable lengths to create a story that for the most part could be accomplished alone- which is kind of neat. Its kind of like White Knight Chronicles that way.
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When I played the beta I got to like level 22 without any kind of grouping. The game seems very solo-friendly.
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PVP being nerfed. They're reducing the badges awarded for completing Warzones.
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What I don't get are people who want to solo in an MMO.
There are single player games of all types, so why jump into something grindy, with no actual endpoint?
I kind of like the idea of being in an open world with others but only playing with a very small group or even by myself. I would never join a guild or anything because that sort of interaction doesn't appeal to me at all. But yeah I kinda get your point. As a single player RPG fan, The Old Republic is lacking for me although for traditional mmo fans it's probably pretty appealing on the story front.
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When I played the beta I got to like level 22 without any kind of grouping. The game seems very solo-friendly.
So is wow for that matter- solo friendly is honestly a sign of solid execution of the formula these days.
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When I played the beta I got to like level 22 without any kind of grouping. The game seems very solo-friendly.
So is wow for that matter- solo friendly is honestly a sign of solid execution of the formula these days.
Of course, but this being astory-focused game makes that much more important.
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I'm more curious how it's supported between expansion packs. How often are they willing to pay for new voice assets?
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I'll play it when it goes F2P in 6 months.
Same here.
Ditto!
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i just did my first flashpoint with two sith dudes. was pretty fun and longer than i expected.
killed a jedi :rock
Too bad the rest of the flaspoints aren't like that. The next ones are just vanilla WoW dungeons. They used the first flashpoint full of voice to make people think that's what they'll get later in the game, and it's not.
So rest of the game sucks?
This reminds me of the first cool 20 levels of Conan then.
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As I should have expected its utterly and firmly an mmo. Which means I don't really care for it but says nothing about the relative quality of it since I'm not overly a fan of the genre. It's not worth playing if you are looking for the next Kotor. But if you wanted WoW with more cutscenes and motivation then this may be up your alley.
I hate MMOs and was hoping for the next Knights of the Old Republic. I guess I'll steer clear until they offer some sort of trial (without having to buy the game) or go Free2Play. I really wanted to check this out, but I just can't get into the genre.
Although, to be fair to MMOs, I really haven't given them much of a chance. I played Final Fantasy XI for about 2 weeks and hated it, and then down the road I played World of Warcraft for about a week and hated it.
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I never really payed too much attention to this one because I'm not too thrilled about MMOs but I've been playing it since Sunday and so far I'm digging it. I'm a level 22 Sith Marauder and the story hasn't been anything spectacular but at least there's one here, and that imo is a HUGE improvement over something like WOW where I never gave a shit about what or why I was doing anything. It's very much a MMO but it still feels like KOTOR at the same time and since you can pretty much plow through most of this alone, if you have any interest in KOTOR you should probably at least give it a shot.
Wish the server maintenance was over with so I could go back to it....
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I have to work so maintain away, EA
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I'm really enjoying the storyline for the Imperial Agent. there's a good twist at the end of the second planet that I wasn't expecting to happen and I'm sure more reveals will be incoming. the sith warrior storybeats i watched when following the dude yesterday was pretty good as well.
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I'm wretchedly sick and just wanted to load up and catass some Imperial Agent quest ... why to Ray and Greg hate me ...
Imperial Agent rules #1. SITH SANDBAGGERS
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All I know is I love watching my companion, Fess die in battle; know all of his precious "points" are gone forever.
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As I should have expected its utterly and firmly an mmo. Which means I don't really care for it but says nothing about the relative quality of it since I'm not overly a fan of the genre. It's not worth playing if you are looking for the next Kotor. But if you wanted WoW with more cutscenes and motivation then this may be up your alley.
I hate MMOs and was hoping for the next Knights of the Old Republic. I guess I'll steer clear until they offer some sort of trial (without having to buy the game) or go Free2Play. I really wanted to check this out, but I just can't get into the genre.
Although, to be fair to MMOs, I really haven't given them much of a chance. I played Final Fantasy XI for about 2 weeks and hated it, and then down the road I played World of Warcraft for about a week and hated it.
For what its worth I don't want to come off overly harsh. The game is a solid piece of work. And its probably not fair to judge it outside of the context of the genre its in. For an MMO the story stuff is great especially relative to the genre. If you're playing it as an rpg in the context of a traditional single player rpg then its subpar. But that's admittedly not a fair way to judge it. If I was going to play any mmo if would be this one for what it means. It's more accurate to say that mmo's in general just aren't for me.
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Still a better game than DA2 booooooom
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I think I'm stopping after the 2nd planet (about 15 hours in). The world is too huge, too much running around, not enough quests or points of interest... there's a good shell and if you love Star Wars, you're probably willing to overlook more than me. I just find myself going "whyyyyyyyyyyyy" every moment I play.
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I dumped 60 hours into Star Trek Online between the beta and the first month- which ultimately was worth the up front cost. Ill play this for a while off n on just so I have an MMO handy that isnt ALL CONSUMING WoW. Guild Wars 2 cometh.
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15 hours may as well be a couple minutes in MMO Time, though. Which is why I don't play MMOs.
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15 hours may as well be a couple minutes in MMO Time, though. Which is why I don't play MMOs.
zat's the rub - it's a decent 40-hour Bioware RPG that takes 250 hours to complete.
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15 hours may as well be a couple minutes in MMO Time, though. Which is why I don't play MMOs.
zat's the rub - it's a decent 40-hour Bioware RPG that takes 250 hours to complete.
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What I don't get are people who want to solo in an MMO.
There are single player games of all types, so why jump into something grindy, with no actual endpoint?
This always annoys me. The people who say "I don't want to group with people" annoy me the most, because they're the reason we have bog standard themepark MMO's that don't require any significant teamwork and everyone gets a shiny reward for walking 5 steps without falling over.
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Probably just a genre thing but I'm not sure how people play mmo's in such large amounts of time. After about 2 hours I've had more than enough for the day.
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back when I raided i spent more time than I liked to, but these days- yeah, 2 hours tops
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That's been my problem with TOR so far - I want to play with friends, but they all play 5+ hours a day and are way too high to do any grouped content with me, who maxes out at around 2.
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Man, having a companion that's a healer makes a world of difference. I was able to do a couple heroic 2+ quests solo thanks to that dude.
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Probably just a genre thing but I'm not sure how people play mmo's in such large amounts of time. After about 2 hours I've had more than enough for the day.
Things in MMOs are designed to take up time. You get hooked on the next mostly meaningless reward. Once you're following the carrot on a stick, it's easy to lose time.
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It's not so much the total time commitment (though there is that) but the sustained time commitment that get's me. I like da vidja, but even 30min non-stop makes me feel ill sometimes, gotta get up and putter for a minute or two. How the fuck people with kids seriously play is beyound me.
This doesn't work when you're grouping w/ others and are fighting the need to get up. Think this is why I always only grinded easy to group stuff and never fell into seriously raiding. Don't think I ever will.
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I quit playing this game because ALL YOU DO IS WALK
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i'm really liking the imperial agent storyline. finished up nar shadda and the story twists and turns are entertaining as hell.
one of my favorite touches is when my character had to go undercover as a terrorist and whenever she was in a cutscene with the terrorists she would drop her accent. i initially thought it was a mistake but nope. found that really cool.
on tatooine now.
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I quit playing this game because ALL YOU DO IS WALK
sounds like most MMOs
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Anyone here remember the original Asheron's Call? HOOOOLY shit the walking
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Yea...I'll pass. I might give it a spin when it goes f2p although the prospect of downloading a billion gb of small talk isn't appealing.
I just realized I no longer have a sub to WoW. My account got taken or something (which is odd because it didn't effect SC2), but I got it back with no losses. I guess I'll sub next month, perhaps. It seems like the only time I really want to play WoW is when I can't lol. It's like scratching your dick, you don't know why, you just do it - and if you ever put your hand down there and found no dick you'd panic.
anyhoo DAT GW2 :bow
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What I dislike about the ToR beta experience and my NBA 2k12 My Player experience is how dialogue options never match what the avatar actually says. It's like you choose "That may be a problem" and the guy says "What kind of idiot are you to think that would be okay? I ought to find your mother and rape her, because that would be less a problem then what you're suggesting!"
And then you're like... why does this game want everyone to hate me
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That was my problem with ME games but I always got shouted down
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What I dislike about the ToR beta experience and my NBA 2k12 My Player experience is how dialogue options never match what the avatar actually says. It's like you choose "That may be a problem" and the guy says "What kind of idiot are you to think that would be okay? I ought to find your mother and rape her, because that would be less a problem then what you're suggesting!"
And then you're like... why does this game want everyone to hate me
Is that an actual conversation between LeBron and Delonte West?
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Whoever designed Tatooine should be kicked in the fucking balls until they fall off.
I wanted to start a second character as a Bounty Hunter but after learning they start on this shithole, I couldn't imagine having to play this sans a speeder. Hell, even with one the place is a colossal pain in the ass. Miles upon hundreds of miles of absolute nothing.
Fuck this planet.
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i was not disappointed when i finished up the primary and bonus series of quests on tatooine
off to alderaan!
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That was my problem with ME games but I always got shouted down
I still remember ME1 when I confronted some guy after blasting his goons. One of the options sounded like a simple empty threat, so I select it and goddamn Sheppard shoots him dead.
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i was not disappointed when i finished up the primary and bonus series of quests on tatooine
off to alderaan!
What class are you? I'm playing as a Sith Marauder and quite honestly I couldn't give a crap about this part of the story but it may have been in part because I was questing in one part of the map only to have to travel all the way over to some other ass end of the map without any means to fast travel next to where I needed to go. That place takes forever to get anywhere with the speeder. I want to finish what I need to do and never come back to this rock. Like I said, I'd like to start a Bounty Hunter but just imagining walking around that place..... I'd blow my freakin brains out.
That whole Dune sea section is ass imo, especially seeing how empty the game can feel even in "heavily" populated areas. Today I spent several hours without running into anyone even though the number at the top indicated there were 110+ people on the planet. I know 110 isn't much of anything and it's even less on a map this size but if it weren't for people talking about getting high in the chat window I would've thought I was the only one there. As popular as this game seems to be, it's one hell of a lonely experience sometimes and Tatooine made it even more so.
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Were there actually 110 people in your instance though? The areas are zoned to spread out server load.
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No, not in my instance. Still ya kinda expect to see other people in a MMO even one instanced as much as this. On Tatooine the isolation is just more pronounced, or at least it's been that way for me.
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What class are you? I'm playing as a Sith Marauder and quite honestly I couldn't give a crap about this part of the story but it may have been in part because I was questing in one part of the map only to have to travel all the way over to some other ass end of the map without any means to fast travel next to where I needed to go. That place takes forever to get anywhere with the speeder. I want to finish what I need to do and never come back to this rock. Like I said, I'd like to start a Bounty Hunter but just imagining walking around that place..... I'd blow my freakin brains out.
That whole Dune sea section is ass imo, especially seeing how empty the game can feel even in "heavily" populated areas. Today I spent several hours without running into anyone even though the number at the top indicated there were 110+ people on the planet. I know 110 isn't much of anything and it's even less on a map this size but if it weren't for people talking about getting high in the chat window I would've thought I was the only one there. As popular as this game seems to be, it's one hell of a lonely experience sometimes and Tatooine made it even more so.
Imperial Agent over here.
For the most part, the questing experience is fairly similar across all classes in a faction. We all go to the same planets and the same areas on the planets. SO I also had to cross long stretches of sand dunes.
But the Imperial Agent story line is pretty cool and I'm enjoying it a great deal. It's deals with a terrorist ground trying to attack the Empire and as the Imperial Agent I have to go to various planets to destroy the various terror cells so I can take on the terrorist leader.
There's some good twist moments and I'm having a lot of fun playing this evil as shit agent who is kinda not good at her job and just goes around killing everyone.
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Whoever designed Tatooine should be kicked in the fucking balls until they fall off.
I wanted to start a second character as a Bounty Hunter but after learning they start on this shithole, I couldn't imagine having to play this sans a speeder. Hell, even with one the place is a colossal pain in the ass. Miles upon hundreds of miles of absolute nothing.
Fuck this planet.
Bounty Hunters start on Hutta. No class starts on Tatooine.
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I finished Act 1 of my class questline.
surprisingly the storyline does indeed continue. I thought from there I simply would be going to planets on my own for regular questing, but it there's still a plot thread moving me from place to place. I'm currently on Taris, which is a shithole.
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Tatooine is so fucking shitty it's nearly killing my interest to play this game.
I made an alt for now instead of continuing here :lol
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Swear IN PRIVATE CHAT TO FRIENDS = get perma banned. GG Bioware.
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I'm not hating this. Granted I'll probably play through single player content and cancel, but im plaything this more than half the games I buy
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How does the game tackle raiding, or anything similar?
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How does the game tackle raiding, or anything similar?
It's like raiding in WoW Beta. Broken with unkillable bosses and instant-one-shot deaths thanks to bugs.
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Swear IN PRIVATE CHAT TO FRIENDS = get perma banned. GG Bioware.
Bioware mods = fegs
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I'm not hating this. Granted I'll probably play through single player content and cancel, but im plaything this more than half the games I buy
I've pretty much ignored the entire Steam sale because of this game. Not really interested in anything else but this at the moment.
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Swear IN PRIVATE CHAT TO FRIENDS = get perma banned. GG Bioware.
Bioware mods = fegs
Every single other MMO sees group/guild chat as a "one to few" conversation option that can be policed by players. You can kick some idiot out of a group or boot them from a guild, for example. It makes no sense for them to go after players like this.
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Most the of the issues of the game are typical of an MMO- i'm more concerned with how they'll add new content and if it will still have the same level of production
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there's some annoying balance issues in the late game i'm finding. my character is a sniper and pretty much all of my damage dealing attacks require me to be static in cover. however nearly every elite class boss i encounter at the end of the quest line are melee types that do massive damage when they get up close. so i basically have to always hope that my companion will survive long enough for me to kill off over half their health so that when they turn the attack on me i can recover enough energy to actually take them down.
this has not been possible in many of the late game bosses. and they're nearly all jedi.
really the only way i see i can defeat them is to bring a friend in with me (which is getting difficult because i'm higher level than all of them) or come back after i've leveled a bit higher.
secondly, there has been 2 specific situations where i have used one of my abilities and they have caused the boss to fly off a ledge into some pit. frustratingly this does not result in them dying. instead they either have glitched and continued to attack me (through the floor) or glitched the entire quest which forces me to leave and come back.
i really need to submit that as a bug because it's really poorly designed.
that all being said. i'm still enjoying the game. the storyline is getting good. i've created my "legacy" now nearing level 40.
also: space combat missions are piss easy and net some serious XP. the last one I did was 20k xp, and since you're in your ship when you do it, you get double that. it's ridiculous.
edit: btw. i checked. i've put over 72 hours into the game so far. :o
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im on hoth! the weather is great.
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Moneys worth this early in
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i have a 42 jedi sage and a 30 sith warrior. sith is so much better, story wise. republican is a snoozefest zzzzzzzz be sith never go bak
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bounty hunter is my favorite so far- just more interesting; sith is all BE MEAN, and jedi is all BE NICE - bounty hunters and smugglers are funtimes in the middle
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How does the game tackle raiding, or anything similar?
It's like raiding in WoW Beta. Broken with unkillable bosses and instant-one-shot deaths thanks to bugs.
I mean in turn of the set up; I'm assuming bugs will be dealt with soon. Are there like huge fortress dungeons, outside environment raids, multiple bosses, trash, etc?
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edit: btw. i checked. i've put over 72 hours into the game so far. :o
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And that's only because Raptr couldn't track the beta prior to the public phases.
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bounty hunter is my favorite so far- just more interesting; sith is all BE MEAN, and jedi is all BE NICE - bounty hunters and smugglers are funtimes in the middle
Loving my BH, most of the time I can just not give a shit about evil or good and just go where the money is. FUCK YEAH.
Went to Alderaan today, storyline is pretty interesting for both my class quest and the world story. I'm also getting pretty lucky in flashpoints (when I can find a fucking tank on my server) and usually getting like two pieces of gear a run so I'm pretty happy with that.
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Bounty hunter wins for rocket and that delayed explosion dart, I love combo-ing NPCs around.
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im playing on a fairly low population server so there's never anyone around to do stuff like flashpoints or heroics.
the guild i'm in is probably like a third of the entire population of the server
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IMO stealth classes have it easy, my Jedi shadow just stealths to objectives while everyone else encounters trash
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IMO stealth classes have it easy, my Jedi shadow just stealths to objectives while everyone else encounters trash
But then you miss bonus missions and get behind the exp curve.
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yeah. typically the lengthy bonus missions net me far more xp than the actual mission itself. the one i did on quesh brought in over 20k xp while the actual mission only rewarded me around 10
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why bonus mission when you can SHOOT SHIT ON RAILS?
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(i do that too)
edit: in fact im gonna go do that right now.
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IMO stealth classes have it easy, my Jedi shadow just stealths to objectives while everyone else encounters trash
sounds just like wow before all the crybabies started the "nerf rogues they just bypass content" stuff .
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Man, after reaching Dark IV my once red Zabrak Sith is now almost completely white. Looks like a Twilight fuck head. I guess it wouldn't be too bad except for that red mohawk of mine. Looked good on him when I started out with red skin but now he looks like some ginger that got his face painted at the carnival.
I need to find a helment that covers the entire head....preferably medium armor. Anyone know where a level 36 Sith Marauder can get one of those? :p
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Level 40 Sith Sorcerer and a level 16 Sniper. Aw yeah.
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The Sith Warrior's third companion makes the story part of the game awesome.
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She's awesome and deals out a ton of damage but man I wish she could heal. Going solo on Taris can be kind of a bitch without a proper healer.
I like having her around just because I can be evil as I want and she digs it.
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She's awesome and deals out a ton of damage but man I wish she could heal. Going solo on Taris can be kind of a bitch without a proper healer.
I like having her around just because I can be evil as I want and she digs it.
The dark side version has the romance option. If you keep her light side there's no off-screen sex.
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im on hoth! the weather is great.
(http://i.imgur.com/3Lp7W.jpg)
Your character is a sex b-bomb.
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Your character is a sex b-bomb.
agree'd! however Dark level IV has some something awful to her complexion
(http://i.imgur.com/XREYB.jpg)
for comparisons sake:
(http://i.imgur.com/OhnsD.jpg)
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Looks like she's got. Kung fu mustache
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Anyone know if sith marauders/juggernaut get increased damage as they level up for force crush?
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Anyone know if sith marauders/juggernaut get increased damage as they level up for force crush?
Well if you pay for the training when the next level of force crush is available, then yeah.
And Dark IV really screws up the way your character looks.... makes me wonder what Dark V is going to do.
(http://i354.photobucket.com/albums/r401/pocketfudge/Screenshot_2012-01-03_04_14_12_142933.jpg)
I miss my red skin. :(
(http://i354.photobucket.com/albums/r401/pocketfudge/Screenshot_2012-01-03_04_20_36_939942.jpg)
Thank god for helmets though.
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Thanks much appreciated. You can turn off corruption effects in prefs if you dont like how Darkside corruption looks.
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LOL you have a pink sith. gg bro
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Pink skin AND a ginger. Hated by all.
And thanks Damian. I didn't look into the options too far to realize you could turn that shit off.
Back to my old red self I go.
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Pink skin AND a ginger. Hated by all.
And thanks Damian. I didn't look into the options too far to realize you could turn that shit off.
Back to my old red self I go.
:lol :lol :lol
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I laughed last night when I first stepped onto the imperial station and noticed the inquisitors use HANDS WITH LIGHTNING icon for their training area.
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http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-01-03-early-star-wars-success-points-to-healthy-mmo-market
Baird Equity estimates that the game has peak concurrent users of roughly 350,000 players.
According to analysts at Cowen and Company the uptake of The Old Republic has had "minimal apparent impact" on Blizzard and Activision's market-leading World of Warcraft.
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erm
Sith Corruption Off:
(http://i.imgur.com/XxrPX.jpg)
Dark Side 4:
(http://i.imgur.com/cXLLC.jpg)
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:lol @ Marauder She Wrote
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vun5geNHA5M
typing /getdown in combat makes the NPC's not able to attack...wtf
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vun5geNHA5M
typing /getdown in combat makes the NPC's not able to attack...wtf
:lol :lol :lol
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i believe they just patched that out
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Being a smuggler is kinda tedious with the cover mechanic imo
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So I was seemingly swimming in credits up until level 40 but from then on I've been one broke ass bitch on my climb to 50. The speeder upgrade at 40 killed me, along with the upgrade and ridiculous repair costs. Seems so weird to me how the game almost punishes you when you hit the 40 mark. I'd sell mats but everyone seems to be doing it so the market is shit.
Anyone know any good crew skill combos now that slicer is nerfed?
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mounts always cost a lot, most of its lifespan wow mount and mount training were insane for the level. Im more concerned with training prices period.
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Training prices, repair costs, fucked up crafting economy.....
There's something very rotten in Denmark.
My slicing is at 400 and is basically worthless after the nerf. Tried synthweaving but that got me nowhere. Same with Artifice. Nothing really sells for that much on the GTM, especially when compared to the crafting costs. Wasting all this money on crafting items and RE for different mats only to wind up with items that will sell for thousands less than it took to go through the entire process. Maybe I'll just fuck everything and go Biochem. At least I can actually use those.
I don't know. I'm having a lot less fun with the game now that I'm slogging through the 40's. I realize that it's a MMO and supposed to be played for a long time but it's kind of ridiculous the way it's set up now. Bioware's going to have to reduce some of these expenses to make the game less of a freaking chore at higher levels.
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doesnt HAVE to be played for a long time- you could always quit while youre ahead. Did that with Star Trek Online. What I played of that was a lot of fun. I quit before it was obvious it would soon stop being fun. Unfortunately unlike STO- TOR's story doesnt sum up quickly. Im basically playing a Jedi Consular and Imperial Agent- I play the game like a single player RPG and bounce between the two. Ill prolly drop the game in a few months which is fine.
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i'm at 45. didn't bother with the speeder training.
i usually float around 150-180k credits.
so i dunno, i'm not having any problems with money management.
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I earned 40k pretty quick, quest rewards are pretty nuts- its the training costs which can add up at not great times- at the end of the day though I do agree- the game has a busted economy
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Tempted to just start over with a new character on a different server but I gotta get that 50, busted economy or not. Plus I really like my last companion.....
(http://i354.photobucket.com/albums/r401/pocketfudge/Screenshot_2012-01-17_21_07_56_388928.jpg)
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haha yeah, that looks awesome- 3rd consular companion is worthless imo, original is best so far
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Currently at 48 and closing in on 49 fast. Corellia is pretty great. HUGE change of pace from the last dozen planets. Story is picking up big time. I just got this sick new ability called Orbital Strike which is GOD TIER.
50 HERE I COME
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Got my 50 earlier today. The marauder skill set doesn't seem as interesting or as useful as some of the other classes out there. Sure I can lay down the damage but I'm totally dependent on getting in close and it seems like everyone has tons of kickback and freeze abilities negating a lot of what I can do. It seems kind of a useless class at the end.
And the medium armor in this game sucks ass. All the good stuff is either light or heavy. Medium is the Jan Brady of armor selection.
And save your money fistful. 50 is expensive. I had nearly 800k by the time I hit it and now I'm down to 200k after buying everything I needed.
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:(
i just blew a bunch of money on a speeder
what kind of stuff?
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Well let's see, the level 3 speeder upgrade was 300k and the Dark V special speeder was 100k. Then there's a bunch of abilities that all the sudden are able to be upgraded at level 50 as well. Obviously you can skip all that shit if you want but the trainer part is definitely useful.
I started selling armor parts on the GTN and have been able to make a lot money doing that. I finally found something on this lame ass server I'm on that people are willing to pay out of their asses to buy. That and some clown has been actually buying all my companion gifts I put up there. I'm gonna keep feeding him them until he realizes how fucking dumb he is.....hopefully not too soon though!
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Now that I've reached end game stuff with this character, I'm kinda torn on whether or not to resub. I wouldnt mind doing the pvp grind but I'm on such a dead server.....really wish they'd merge some of these so it doesn't seem so quiet. I'm tempted to start all over with a new character on a different server but man....I hate giving up that progress. Wish there was a way to do a transfer. :/
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when i reach 50 i'll probably start a Republic character so i can see the other side of content. i won't be touching PVP because i've heard horror stories from other IA Snipers and how they are worthless in PVP.
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Im bouncing between republic and imperial, my repub is 28, imperial is like 16
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just hit 50.
so any quests i do now are pretty much wasted XP? that kinda sucks.
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Yep. Any questing now is for coin or legacy xp, which doesn't mean shit at the moment. Kinda sucks you don't get valor or something. I've got a whole planet left to finish my class questline but I won't get any xp for doing it. Makes the process incredibly dull and gives me zero incentive to play it.
The only thing left at 50 is the pvp grind, which in itself is irritating. Why even have mercenary commendations? You can't earn them. You have to buy them with warzone commendations. 30 for 10 of 'em. To get the good gear you need to buy champion bags that cost 800 merc and 800 warzone commendations. Why not just triple the cost instead of forcing us to go to a shop and exchange them for swtor's equivalent of space bucks? Seems kind of a worthless secondary currency that's in there for no good reason.
I was considering not resubing but looks like they charged me on Monday for another 3 months.... :duh. Well, at least I've got my founder coin. :teehee
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Four hour maintenance on a weekend. Wow.
They've also disabled posting to the forums so people can't bitch about it:
http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=2256245#edit2256245
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on the last leg of my class quest. it's fucking annoying. they throw a level 50 elite at me with three other enemies as well. i can see no way i would be able to take on this scenario on the first go. :-\
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Most class quests are like that. Kill the two non-elite mobs, let the elite kill you, res on the spot to kill the elite with full health.
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in this case there were about 5 other enemies each other 4k health so i would have had to die and respawn about 2 times. so instead i just died then walked by them in stealth
now i'm done with my character and on ilum. flagged for pvp... with quests that are meaningless. this is the first time i've ever hit the level cap in an mmo....
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http://consumerist.com/2012/02/star-wars-the-old-republic-crashes-computers-even-when-its-not-running.html
Anyone had this problem?
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http://consumerist.com/2012/02/star-wars-the-old-republic-crashes-computers-even-when-its-not-running.html
Anyone had this problem?
It's all apart of Lucas' plan to take over the gaming computer market with his own official Star Wars rig
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Whelp, I just ordered this game despite the fact I've never played an mmo, and I'm not much of a pc gamer at all. Wish me luck! :lol
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Whelp, I just ordered this game despite the fact I've never played an mmo, and I'm not much of a pc gamer at all. Wish me luck! :lol
And I just cancelled my subscription... funny how things work.
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http://consumerist.com/2012/02/star-wars-the-old-republic-crashes-computers-even-when-its-not-running.html
Anyone had this problem?
No it's 4chan trolling.
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Last patch killed the game for anyone with AMD cards. It overheats the card causing your PC to shut down. Does it on the last five driver releases. People are screaming on the forums and BioWare isn't really responding to anything about it.
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Works fine for me and I just came from a 16 man raid ???
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People have tried calling tech support about it and end up being put on hold and then disconnected.
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lol now there are people with Nvidia cards claiming the last patch is actually frying the cards like SC2 did early on.
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Works fine for me ???
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People have tried calling tech support about it and end up being put on hold and then disconnected.
lol now there are people with Nvidia cards claiming the last patch is actually frying the cards like SC2 did early on.
(http://i.imgur.com/8bLPO.jpg)
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Anybody else playing this right now? Because I am. So, far I really like it, since it's basically a singleplayer RPG with MMO tacked on, thanks to tons of cutscenes and letting me be awesomely bad all the time during missions that sometimes almost feel like real RPG missions. I would love it more without the MMO stuff though, because honestly, I hate MMOs. But I'll keep playing this anyway.
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I'm playing it as well. It's pretty decent. I do have to wonder why they made this an mmo. As an mmo it basically feels like a way easier WoW and the mmo part basically amounts to "oh you see people on the field". I mean that's pretty much it. Most of the group stuff is instanced, so I mean it basically feels like a IDK a Diablo game.
Also I feel like the World Design is terrible. Dosen't really feel like an online world like WoW did to me.
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What's your name on TOR? I'll add you and maybe we can play together or something I don't know.
Mine's the same as here on The Bore, minus the space.
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Anybody else playing this right now? Because I am. So, far I really like it, since it's basically a singleplayer RPG with MMO tacked on, thanks to tons of cutscenes and letting me be awesomely bad all the time during missions that sometimes almost feel like real RPG missions. I would love it more without the MMO stuff though, because honestly, I hate MMOs. But I'll keep playing this anyway.
I bought it the other week but haven't started yet.
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I'll play it when it goes F2P in 6 months.
Same here.
Ditto!
I guess it's time to play it :lol
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Maybe Ill wait for ya then and we can do some questing together holmes.
Empire?
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I was ready to install and then I read its so easy, saw the 25gb download, thought about all the flak it got for shitty travel and decided not to download.
Even free this game cant draw me in!
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What's your name on TOR? I'll add you and maybe we can play together or something I don't know.
Mine's the same as here on The Bore, minus the space.
My character name is Lunamarie .why? I don't know. Valeria(Conan's wife in the movie) was taken. Is that what you are asking for.