MontyB wrote:
Oh great a disgruntled pre-nge vet.
Let me be blunt, some things appeal to some people and not others.
Personally I think for the most part SWG is better now than when I signed on in 2003 and WOW just does not hold my interest because it has no depth but I can understand why others like it.
In the end it boils down to different strokes for different folks.
Still if you want the positives of SWG I would look further than housing, in any of these other games can you:
- Make Pets
- Go into space
- Change professions and skill sets at will.
- Create a city and run it.
- Actually play a crafter (not just make items)
Lets all be realistic here, for all the hype about next generation MMO's the greatest disappointment of all is that not one of these MMO's is any better than Ultima Online from 12 years ago in fact almost all of them lack the functionality of UO.
Let me just reply to the bolded part for a moment here: ARE YOU NUTS?!
How the hell can the game be
better now that you're locked into your "class" (or career or profession - whatever it's called in SWG) instead of back when you could change it as you pleased? They killed Teräs Käsi and I'll never forgive them for that.
I'll give them credit for expanding the game to space, but personally I wish they would've rolled things back to pre-NGE and spent the money on a new engine instead. The jump animation is downright pathetic.
If you want some positives on SWG, I'd say it was variation. Past tense again. I could be a mean fighting machine one month and then decide to do the whole medic thing instead. Man, I had such a great time buffing people on Dantooine before they nerfed buffs into the ground.
I've already mentioned the engine, but it deserves another slap. It's horrible. The lag even moreso. I can run up to a bad guy and engage in combat. He just stands there and looks at me. I cut him into fine slices with my lightsaber and 10 seconds after he died, he'll hit me 30 times with his blaster.
And it's not my connection, because I'm running every other MMO without latency at all. And it can't be my computer's specs, because I can run Crysis on 'High' settings.
Some things still make me feel all strange in my tummy, though. I'm a huge fan of Star Wars and always have been. I remember the first time I logged on and walked into the cantina in Mos Eisley. I still get goosebumps when I think back. The familiar theme playing in the background with people chatting and shuttles taking off in the distance.
I'd love to get back into the game, but not until they bring it up to modern standards graphics wise. I'm not okay with lagging out in Eisley on lowest graphics settings when I can run Warcraft on extra high settings (I even have to increase the details via the console) and still do 60 FPS in Shattrath.
And I don't care much about the new MMO they're developing. I don't want to play Star Wars 3,000 years before the events in the movies. It's the movies I fell in love with. It's that story I want to be a part of. Make the game a follow-up on Episode VI and I'll buy it.
Or at least enable target lock-on and auto-attack. Having to spam your hotkeys while keeping your mouse pointer on your target.. yeah, not cool.