Comments | prisoner__24601: SWTOR at +5 months...

prisoner__24601

SWTOR at +5 months...

Jun 13, 2012 11:48

...and I'm still enjoying this game quite a bit although the weaknesses and problem areas are definitely becoming more apparent the longer that I play, especially with two characters at the level cap. Still, I have no intention of unsubbing anytime soon.

( Cut for some serious tl:dr and very minimal spoilers )

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mutive June 13 2012, 16:14:08 UTC

OMG WE MUST SAVE THE GALAXY from ______ ultimate badguy/______ superweapon" and more personal in scope. I mean, seriously, if I never see another superweapon in this game, I'd be so freaking happy.Play an agent. Only two super weapons, one of which you can fire at civilians (thus amassing a death toll Lucretia can only fantasize about), the other of which is destroyed by one of your nemeses. (Which one depends on how Act 2 plays out.) Most of the focus is on trying to figure out what's going on, failing, and being beaten senseless as a result. Good times! And I bet you'd love Kaliyo ( ... )

prisoner__24601 June 13 2012, 16:30:31 UTC

I can play as a zabrak, but only as one with red and black markings which I personally think looks totally dumb, lol. So basically I'm paying 1.5 Million credits so he can have more neutral skin tones. Which is also just as dumb, but oh well, rofl.

I really wish they'd add a third faction. Or czerka accountants. Or droids or something. My guess though is that these things will sadly never happen. Which sucks, but I should probably be grateful that they gave us smugglers and bounty hunters at all, even if they are rather shoehorned in.

mutive June 13 2012, 16:37:52 UTC

Hah hah hah. I find this hilarious, personally, but to each their own.

I suspect they'll never have a neutral faction, either. (Or Czerka accounts. OMG, could 100 hours of leveling be spent reading over corporate documents, looking for cases of fraud?) But, like you said, I'm glad that there are smugglers and bounty hunters, so I can't complain *too* much.

plutospawn June 14 2012, 20:41:07 UTC

I enjoyed WoW when I played it, but I don't think it was for the reasons I was supposed to. I ignored guilds and raids and groups, etc and focused on things like the loremaster achievement. I spent my money on things like pink baby eleks.

So are there enough "shiny" things like the above for someone who's never been interested in things like PvP? My boyfriend is still in the throes of Diablo III, but if a free trial pops up, I'm sure I could derail him for 30 days.

prisoner__24601 June 14 2012, 22:12:18 UTC

Oh yeah, most definitely. I know people who spend an insane amount of time hunting down all of the codex entries in the game (the in game encyclopedia entry with the background information on all of the things, mobs, animals, places and people of note. There are people who spend tons of time figuring out how to find all of the datacrons (that give perminant bonuses to your stats - there are like five or six on each planet). There are a bunch of pets you can get, some with groups, some don't need groups, some need a particular alignment, ect... There are a bunch of speeders you can get in various ways, or build on your own. There's like six different crafting professions you can do. There's also a bunch of fun stuff in the legacy system that you can unlock by leveling up alts (like rocket packs and stuff ( ... )

plutospawn June 14 2012, 22:34:22 UTC

Tyler? I haven't heard from him in forever since he stopped using lj. I can't stalk him via facebook like I can everyone else, haha.

Free 15 levels sounds smart. It's nicer than a time chunk for people who can't set aside large blocks of time to something.

prisoner__24601 June 14 2012, 23:12:11 UTC

Heh, yeah that was the first time I'd seen him in a long time. Sadly I don't get to see him that much mostly because of the time difference and partially because I tend to play more Republic than Imp and he and Mia seem to be on the imp side more.

I think the 15 levels is a pretty good move too. Especially if one class isn't something you like, you can try out the others and see if there's something that fits better. And like you say, it's good for people who play with short chunks of time. I'm not sure when that starts, probably after they stop the massive character transfers they're doing now to fix the population issues, but I think it's relatively soon.

rose70 June 15 2012, 02:05:33 UTC

Love reading your thoughts, as always! I also love the captions under your screenshots, rofl.