Star Wars Galaxies

Sub_zer0 · August 2005

<div class="IPBDescription">Any one play it?</div> Hello me again right you may (or may not) remember i was asking about wow not long ago. Well im bored of it there is no focus on team play its slow and boring so i thought i wondeer what star wars galaxies is like.

No seeming as they are being cheep and there is no free trial i thought i would ask the wise people of ns forums. Now is it as good as it looks is it fun? or is it slow boring and the comunity kinda are retarded? Becuase i enjoy games where you group up and overcome an objective as one rather than wow where its ever elf for him self.

I've pretty much said all i need to so ill let you reply some, in short is it worth getting and would i enjoy it more than wow becuase at the moment i sure as hell am not.

-Thanks for any feedback

Sub_zer0 · August 2005

Just orders the totalk experience from play 15 pound might as well give it a go.

Geminosity · August 2005

From watching a friend play it and describe it (enthusiastically) to me along with what I've read it's one of those games that sounds like a great idea on paper but in reality is about as much fun as repeatedly sitting on a pile of drawing pins soaked in vinegar then rubbing your pincushion rear across an emery board :p

SuitePee · August 2005

Although I've not played SWG,on several forum posts comparing MMORPG games:

I've heard that SWG is very tedious after a certain point,despite its apparent depth. Something about how after a few levels or so you start grinding a lot,or doing the same thing again and again. Still,no better way to find out then to play it.

As I said,I haven't played it myself,these are things I've heard about it.
Did you get the full pack with the 2 expansions btw?

And kudos for at least trying WOW and 'then' giving a criticism of it. (I've heard people criticise WOW despite not playing it)
By the way,what server did you try on WOW? Team work builds up from level 20 onwards,if you got that far and then figured this out,either

a: bad server for people wanting to do anything outside of INSTANCES.
b: just bad luck in general.

If you ever want to try WOW again,go to Daggerspine and choose Alliance. My lvl 21 gnome warrior would be happy to help you out,although I need a gamecard atm,so not just yet.

But no,I don't play SWG. One absorbing MMORPG is enough. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' />

TychoCelchuuu · August 2005

I played SWG for a while. As far as I'm concerned, it's a very good MMORPG. There is a fair amount of grinding involved depending on what you're doing, but I don't think I've heard of an MMORPG that DOESN'T have grinding, although Guild Wars might count (I haven't played it). Recently they updated the combat in SWG and borked it a bit, but there are still parts of the game, like the incredibly deep crafting system, the player owned houses and player built cities, player run economy, skill-based space combat, and immense character customization. Those things are still there and they work perfectly. The graphics and sound are good, you've got tons of people playing, there are like 9 or 10 planets and they are HUGE, there's tons of content, and yeah. You can bet they're trying to fix the combat, so hopefully that will get done.

Don't play it if you're a Star Wars fan though. It's not the MMORPG you're looking for. Move along.

lolfighter · August 2005

GW is not grindy at all, but it definitely doesn't count as an MMO. The only time you have more than a handful of players in one area is in towns and outpost, and those are more comparable to Diablo 2's lobbies than anything else.

Sub_zer0 · August 2005

Yes i get 3 games the rage of wookies jmup to light speed and orignal
I have a level 21 warlock i ddont want to loose really on ragarnos

X_Stickman · August 2005

I used to play... I can't really remember why I stopped, but I think it was a combination of me losing interest (I can never seem to stick with one game for very long, except DoD and I don't know why) and the fact that my friends always mastered their respective professions way faster than I did (one of them mastered 4 or 5 before I was even half way with pistoleer, heh).

I had fun playing though, while it lasted. It got a bit boring doing the same thing, since if you're going for a combat profession you just killkillkillkillkillkill buy-new-weapon-cos-old-one-broke killkillkill etc... and if it's a crafting profession, you buy a load of materials, set up a macro, go to bed etc... (same for dancer and musician). Don't know how much has changed since I last played though.

The players were mostly nice, too. With the odd exception, such as the guy who had selected the shortest possible race and made it as short as possible, and was wearing a stormtrooper costume. Me, being the nice guy that I am, jokingly asked "Aren't you a little short to be a stormtrooper" and was barraged with insults of pretty much every family member I have. But then there are the nice guys, like the guy who was pretty much the most famous PvPer on my server giving me a buff, dueling me (i lost so bad), then reviving me (even though he was imperial and I was rebel). That guy ruled.

Sub_zer0 · August 2005

WEll best way to see is to try so we will see but im bored of wow so we will see what compares and stop subscription acordingly

Sub_zer0 · August 2005

Is it easy to get into ?
Also whats the most memrable moment mine would be from when i tried it about 1/12 ago (Free trial) i asked for some money and some one gave me bloody loads of it i had enough money to buy a house and 2 speeders with some left over haha

Does any one know if the light speed is any good?

X_Stickman · August 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Sub zer0 @ Aug 7 2005, 05:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Is it easy to get into ?
Also whats the most memrable moment mine would be from when i tried it about 1/12 ago (Free trial) i asked for some money and some one gave me bloody loads of it i had enough money to buy a house and 2 speeders with some left over haha

Does any one know if the light speed is any good?  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Being the ranger (I could track animals) in a krayt dragon hunting group, finding one of the harder versions (i can't remember but I think it was one up from base krayt dragon), then spending about 20 minutes with the group shooting at the damn thing (due to some class animal trainer people and some high class pets, we didn't even get attacked directly by it), and finally when it died, I only got about 10xp and no cut of the profits because I was just tagging along with my friends guild <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

Nil_IQ · August 2005

I was thinking of trying it out right up until the "combat update" came in. What happened to that anyway?

DiscoZombie · August 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Sub zer0 @ Aug 7 2005, 06:35 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Hello me again right you may (or may not) remember i was asking about wow not long ago. Well im bored of it there is no focus on team play its slow and boring so i thought i wondeer what star wars galaxies is like.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
to put it simply - if you thought WoW is slow, STAY AWAY from SWG. In WoW, I got 2 chars to lvl 60 in the first month and a half of play. In SWG, it takes months to get ONE char to decent skill levels... and the quests in SWG are mostly random generated and repetitive. in WoW, the quests may have you do a lot of the same type of thing (kill mob A, get item B), but they're all original, well-written, and plot-oriented.

WoW is lightning-fast for an MMORPG, so if it's too slow for you, maybe you should stay away from MMORPGs altogether... :>

lolfighter · August 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (X Stickman @ Aug 7 2005, 07:26 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> [...]With the odd exception, such as the guy who had selected the shortest possible race and made it as short as possible, and was wearing a stormtrooper costume. Me, being the nice guy that I am, jokingly asked "Aren't you a little short to be a stormtrooper" and was barraged with insults of pretty much every family member I have.[...]  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
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EMP_Demon · August 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (lolfighter @ Aug 7 2005, 02:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (X Stickman @ Aug 7 2005, 07:26 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> [...]With the odd exception, such as the guy who had selected the shortest possible race and made it as short as possible, and was wearing a stormtrooper costume. Me, being the nice guy that I am, jokingly asked "Aren't you a little short to be a stormtrooper" and was barraged with insults of pretty much every family member I have.[...] </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
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Isn't that quote from the fourth movie? >.>

TychoCelchuuu · August 2005

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (EMP Demon @ Aug 7 2005, 12:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (lolfighter @ Aug 7 2005, 02:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (X Stickman @ Aug 7 2005, 07:26 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> [...]With the odd exception, such as the guy who had selected the shortest possible race and made it as short as possible, and was wearing a stormtrooper costume. Me, being the nice guy that I am, jokingly asked "Aren't you a little short to be a stormtrooper" and was barraged with insults of pretty much every family member I have.[...] </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
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Isn't that quote from the fourth movie? >.>  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
"Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?"

Etc.

My favorite moment from SWG was when me and my Imperial buddies raided a Rebel city (mostly I provided play by play in guild chat. Weeeaaak). Blaster fire going back and forth, stormtroopers falling everywhere, AT-ST's shooting rebels, explosions... it was chaos. And it was beautiful

My worst moment was seeing a trandoshan named Wedgie Antilles walk by. That's about when I canceled my subscription. RP servers plz!

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