I'm still playing this game quite a lot. In fact, it's been several days since I turned on my PS3. I feel like I'm neglecting it. I have found time for my Sega Genesis, though. I can always find time for some Streets of Rage or Ristar. But I'd say about 90% of my gaming time over the last week has been with Star Wars: The Old Republic. It's really quite addictive.
Last night, I signed up for a paid account. The $30 two month non recurring one, to be exact. I like to have every paid subscription I have due at around the first few days of the month, but I didn't want to wait another week to get it and all the goodies that come with it. So far, the only perks of the paid subscription I've used are the increase in experience points after level 10 and the ability to make more characters on one server.
Other things I've done recently is play the multi-player with a friend of mine. He was a Jedi Knight and I was a Jedi Consular. I went through the random name generator, and it gave me Slagrico, which might be the greatest name I've ever given to a character in any game or work of fiction I've written. I like to pronounce Slagrico like that awful early nineties one hit wonder Gerardo or whatever his name was pronounced Rico Suave. That's kind of how you have to pronounce that name, isn't it?
Anyway, the multi player is pretty fun. I haven't done enough with it to really be able to go in depth about it, though.
I also have a couple of characters on a European server. It runs a lot smoother since there are fewer players. The only problem is that on a pair of occasions, I got booted off due to a bad connection, given that the server is located on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
The other classes I've experimented with are the Jedi Knight and Sith Warrior. I've had a lot more time with the Sith Warrior, but they're both very similar. I like the Sith Warrior storyline so far. You get to be an asshole, and it feels like it's in character as a Sith for you to be one. But at the same time, it feels weird for me to just make the dark side decisions all the time. I'm certainly playing a bad guy, but I'm not cartoonishly evil, nor am I evil just for the sake of being evil. It's sort of like how I write fiction. I try to give my bad guys a little depth, and have some good in them. Maybe it's a sense of loyalty to the people they work with, maybe it's a feeling of respect for a worthy adversary, or maybe they just that they don't kill without having a reason to. That's kind of how I'm playing that character, and the dark side/light side alignment is fairly even there. And it doesn't feel like I'm playing against type, either. A sith pretty much has to be at least a little evil, but that doesn't mean I have to stab puppies for the fun of it.
I'm also still loving the Bounty Hunter storyline. If I remember right, I'm at level 15 with that one, and the Jedi Knight story I just started is off to a promising start.
Also, a little fun fact: The male Jedi Knight character is voiced by David Hayter, the voice actor for Solid Snake, which is pretty cool, even if he doesn't sound like Snake at all. I still know that it's Solid Snake.
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Friday, June 28, 2013
Sunday, June 23, 2013
My Thoughts on Star Wars: The Old Republic - Part 2
A few hours ago, I put up an entry about my first impressions of Star Wars: The Old Republic. It's been about 24 hours since the first time I played, and I just got my bounty hunter up to level 10 and I'm about to make a second character, but I'm not sure what class I'm going to make.
Anyway, I figured I'd give a little bit more of my thoughts on the game.
The first thought is that at the start, when I only had two attacks and a few support abilities (shooting with my blaster pistol and firing a rocket at the enemy) it was a lot easier. I just hit the 1 and 2 keys and alternate back and forth, but not use the rocket too often so as to avoid overheating. That worked very easily and intuitively. Now, I have several other skills. I can shoot an explosive dart at an enemy that explodes in a few seconds, heavily damaging other nearby enemies (which is satisfying as all hell), I can fly up in the air with my jetpack and rain down rockets at a selected area, which isn't as useful as it sounds so far since enemies tend to move out of that area, but when it works, it's even more satisfying than the explosive dart. I also have wrist mounted flamethrowers, which also aren't as helpful as I wish they were, and a handful of other abilities. Even the ones that aren't very useful are fun.
But here's the problem. You can set up those abilities to number keys. This is fine, but using every number from 0 through to 9 and the "-" key can be a bit confusing, and it's easy to lose track of which key does what, especially if you aren't looking at the keyboard at the moment. And you aren't, because you're in a fight. Maybe more experienced PC gamers don't have this issue, and I'm aware that there's really no other way to implement this, but it's a bit annoying. It's not a crippling flaw, because with the bounty hunter, I tend to only use a handful of weapons, and even then, about 60% is the standard blaster attack, 30% is the rocket attack and every other attack is the last 10%, so it's not a huge problem.
Another problem is really just my computer. My laptop had a cooling fan in it crap out a few days back, and I need to get it repaired, and I'm not sure when that'll happen. So, for now I'm using my mother's laptop, which is about a year and a half newer than my computer (which unfortunately means it has the infernal abomination of an operating system that is Windows 8), but it's not as powerful, so I have to put the graphics in the game on very low, and even then, the game has some problems making the movements look fluid. I'm not knocking the game for this, because this problem is mostly on my end, but I'm sure that the amount of other players using up the bandwidth isn't helping.
Also, having just hit level 10, the game's giving me fewer experience points. This is because I'm a free to play user at the moment. If I were giving them $15 a month, I wouldn't have that problem. Also, I'd be able to play as more than three races, and get a lot of other cool shit.
So, my only problems are either moderately annoying issues that I can't see how they could fix anyway, or problems on my end. In any case, these issues aren't major ones.
I do forsee myself getting a paid subscription, and I also see myself making more entries about this game. It's very good, and I can't recommend it enough. Especially since you can play it for free
Anyway, I figured I'd give a little bit more of my thoughts on the game.
The first thought is that at the start, when I only had two attacks and a few support abilities (shooting with my blaster pistol and firing a rocket at the enemy) it was a lot easier. I just hit the 1 and 2 keys and alternate back and forth, but not use the rocket too often so as to avoid overheating. That worked very easily and intuitively. Now, I have several other skills. I can shoot an explosive dart at an enemy that explodes in a few seconds, heavily damaging other nearby enemies (which is satisfying as all hell), I can fly up in the air with my jetpack and rain down rockets at a selected area, which isn't as useful as it sounds so far since enemies tend to move out of that area, but when it works, it's even more satisfying than the explosive dart. I also have wrist mounted flamethrowers, which also aren't as helpful as I wish they were, and a handful of other abilities. Even the ones that aren't very useful are fun.
But here's the problem. You can set up those abilities to number keys. This is fine, but using every number from 0 through to 9 and the "-" key can be a bit confusing, and it's easy to lose track of which key does what, especially if you aren't looking at the keyboard at the moment. And you aren't, because you're in a fight. Maybe more experienced PC gamers don't have this issue, and I'm aware that there's really no other way to implement this, but it's a bit annoying. It's not a crippling flaw, because with the bounty hunter, I tend to only use a handful of weapons, and even then, about 60% is the standard blaster attack, 30% is the rocket attack and every other attack is the last 10%, so it's not a huge problem.
Another problem is really just my computer. My laptop had a cooling fan in it crap out a few days back, and I need to get it repaired, and I'm not sure when that'll happen. So, for now I'm using my mother's laptop, which is about a year and a half newer than my computer (which unfortunately means it has the infernal abomination of an operating system that is Windows 8), but it's not as powerful, so I have to put the graphics in the game on very low, and even then, the game has some problems making the movements look fluid. I'm not knocking the game for this, because this problem is mostly on my end, but I'm sure that the amount of other players using up the bandwidth isn't helping.
Also, having just hit level 10, the game's giving me fewer experience points. This is because I'm a free to play user at the moment. If I were giving them $15 a month, I wouldn't have that problem. Also, I'd be able to play as more than three races, and get a lot of other cool shit.
So, my only problems are either moderately annoying issues that I can't see how they could fix anyway, or problems on my end. In any case, these issues aren't major ones.
I do forsee myself getting a paid subscription, and I also see myself making more entries about this game. It's very good, and I can't recommend it enough. Especially since you can play it for free
First Impressions: Star Wars The Old Republic
I've recently begun playing Star Wars The Old Republic, the free to play MMORPG. I want to make a few statements before I get into talking about my first impressions of the game.
One: I've never cared about MMORPG's. I don't like playing multiplayer games unless I'm playing them with friends who are in the same room as me. I don't get the point. I'd rather not play a game with some 13 year old ritalin junkies flinging around every bit of profanity their puny little minds can think up.
Two: I'm not a huge Star Wars fan. I love the original trilogy and I like some of the games, like Shadows of the Empire on the N64. My knowledge of Star Wars ends at those movies and that game. I've never played Knights of the Old Republic, but I really want to at some point.
That out of the way, I'm enjoying the hell out of the game. I haven't had any interactions with other players, which is how I like it (I'm playing on a Player Vs. Environment server, which is what I'd recommend for others with my mindset) and so far, the story's fairly interesting. I won't go into too much detail, because I'm still not far enough into it to really know what's going on with certainty. It's just something about some sort of contest, and to get into the contest, I have to run some errands for a Hutt crime lord. Of course, the Hutt crime lord is an asshole, because there really isn't any other kind of Hutt crime lord.
I'm also eager to play a Sith agent and a Jedi knight, and to sign up for a paid subscription in the near future. I'll provide my thoughts about that when I get to it.
Just a heads up - it takes an eternity to download the game. Mine took about five hours to get up and running. But it's free to play unless you want to get some extra features. There's nothing to lose if you don't like it, except for a few hours.
One: I've never cared about MMORPG's. I don't like playing multiplayer games unless I'm playing them with friends who are in the same room as me. I don't get the point. I'd rather not play a game with some 13 year old ritalin junkies flinging around every bit of profanity their puny little minds can think up.
Two: I'm not a huge Star Wars fan. I love the original trilogy and I like some of the games, like Shadows of the Empire on the N64. My knowledge of Star Wars ends at those movies and that game. I've never played Knights of the Old Republic, but I really want to at some point.
That out of the way, I'm enjoying the hell out of the game. I haven't had any interactions with other players, which is how I like it (I'm playing on a Player Vs. Environment server, which is what I'd recommend for others with my mindset) and so far, the story's fairly interesting. I won't go into too much detail, because I'm still not far enough into it to really know what's going on with certainty. It's just something about some sort of contest, and to get into the contest, I have to run some errands for a Hutt crime lord. Of course, the Hutt crime lord is an asshole, because there really isn't any other kind of Hutt crime lord.
I'm also eager to play a Sith agent and a Jedi knight, and to sign up for a paid subscription in the near future. I'll provide my thoughts about that when I get to it.
Just a heads up - it takes an eternity to download the game. Mine took about five hours to get up and running. But it's free to play unless you want to get some extra features. There's nothing to lose if you don't like it, except for a few hours.
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