Star Wars Galaxies

[Speaker]

Figured I might as well contribute.

I'm a wookie dancer/medic/artisan/rifleman/musician on Wanderhome. I'll likely end up as a rifleman/bounty hunter or something of the sort, with perhaps a few trade skills sqeaked in. For now, I'm milking my wookie dancer comic routines for all they are worth. Fun, very fun.

Experience in this game comes suprisingly fast. I went from a novice marksman to rifleman in a very short time, and my other pursuits, while not of the same calibar, do not suffer overmuch. Can't wait until I have to pick which pursuits to abandon...

I'm enjoying myself. Will have to see if such survives initial enthusiasm. So far, so good. And the horizon is clear.

 

[Wycen]

My buddy got this game last week and invite me and another guy over this weekend to check it out and try it.

We watched his wookie scout do some stuff, then he let us creates characters and give it a try.

I decided to try a twilek entertainer, who's now trying to be a dancer.

I went to Mos Eisley on Tatooine and found a cantina, which luckily at the time had a musician who taught me some skills and we racked up some nice experience while teamed up and random people came in to watch and listen.

Eventually I wanted to try something else, so I said thanks and looked for an Entertainment job gizmo.

I found an easy job, within the city, at the cantina inside the crashed space ship with the ramp leading up. The waypoint lit up the top of the ramp, but nobody was there. I went in and started dancing despite nobody except a thug being around.
The mission details did state the person would be incognito, so maybe that means invisible?

Eventually somebody came in and gave me a tip and then I noticed, after who knows how long, (30 minutes real time?) the mission tag on the side of the screen was gone.

Had I completed the mission? I don't know because I got some tips and didn't see all the numbers as the flashed by.

So I tried again with a second mission, in the exact same place. This time it said, "show up and dance" but I'm not sure I had to look for a specific person.

So for about 45 minutes I stood on the stage and did flourish after flourish, until my character was exhausted, talked to some person who came in to sit down and log out, then gave the computer and game over to our other friend so he could try a character.

Am I missing something? Is there some patch or bug or something regarding this? Did I just not find the right person in the bowels of the ship?

the bipedal equivalent of logjams--standing in rows with ther faces pressed firmly up against walls--actually diminishes any sense of the city being alive

I saw this and my first reaction was, "Holy crap the Imperials have lined people up for execution!" But then I didn't see any Storm Troopers.

 

[Daiymo]

OK, Ive held off, but this Wednesday, Im finally getting high speed access to my rural Indiana area. Im thinking of getting into SWG. Read the slightly mixed views here and cruised the various Galaxies boards on other sites-although those arent too helpful; generally the negative stuff always drowns out the positive.

So for all you who joined at or near launch, is the game worth 15 bucks a month? What do you think of the game now?

Also heres my computer set up if you players could give me a heads up on how my rig would perform:

Windows XP
Athlon AMD xp 2000+
GeForce 4 4600 ti
512 Megs RAM

Finally could I get any server recommedations?

Sorry to ask so much, but ENWorld is such a great resource for information like this.

Thanks

 

[CrusaderX]

OK, Ive held off, but this Wednesday, Im finally getting high speed access to my rural Indiana area. Im thinking of getting into SWG. Read the slightly mixed views here and cruised the various Galaxies boards on other sites-although those arent too helpful; generally the negative stuff always drowns out the positive.

So for all you who joined at or near launch, is the game worth 15 bucks a month? What do you think of the game now?

I followed the game for years. I was a member of the SWG community since literally Day 1 of the official forums.

I bought the game at launch.

I quit the game a few weeks later.

Maybe MMORPGs just aren't for me. I definitely did not find it worth 15 bucks a month to repeatedly shoot bugs and birds to build up skills. And it didn't feel like Star Wars at all. In-game, the atmosphere is very generic and bland.

I played mainly on the Chilastra server, and I didn't find much roleplaying at all. I also created characters on a few other servers (Starsider, I believe, and maybe Bloodfin), but found the experience the same regardless of server choice.

Your milage may vary, of course. And I'm sure that some people are enjoying the game. But I had SWG bought and payed for, I had the first month free, and I found it a chore to actually sit down and play after about a week. Never mind the game bugs and technical issues. It was the gameplay itself (or lack thereof) that kept me from continuing. I wanted to roleplay, I wanted to immerse myself in the Star Wars universe, and I really wanted to enjoy this game. But I found the whole thing to be incredibly boring.

Even if it were free, I probably wouldn't play much. As it is, there's no way I can justify paying good money for a game like SWG month in and month out.