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hatman555
Good night people enjoy sleeping i will be busy reading and pretending to listen to my raid leader... Raid leader" blah blah blah edan do this". Me" if i do that we die from this." Rl"I dont care do it" Me"fine" 30 seconds later RL "AHH we wiped, what happened to edan handling that thing that wiped us" Me" you told me to do something else."
You should have listened harder!
Morning all
Hat
Post by
Rankkor
I want to play the Metal Gear Solid games but I don't have a PS3. D:
same here. Before mass effect I used to hold Metal Gear Solid as the best video-game saga EVER (Now its on a solid second place) and while I LOVE that saga, I haven't been able to play the final chapter due to lack of PS3.
I played MGS1 MGS2 and MGS3 and loved them all.
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Rankkor
And now on an unrelated note, Initial Impressions of SWTOR overall.
LOVED IT. If I had any doubts about whether or not join this game in the future, they're out the window now. It does has its flaws, but I had so much fun playing it, I simply don't care.
The combat FEELS intense, this is all a psychological trick, because its ALL ABOUT THE SOUNDS. Attack sounds, shots, they sound great. Its not quite true that the game doesn't have an Auto-attack.
All classes have 1 skill that has no resource, or cooldown and basically serves as your "white damage" for when all your skills are on CD, or your resources are empty. Its just not automatic. So, SWTOR still has white damage for those moments of downtime, instead of calling it Auto-attack, it can be called "manual-attack"
Combat felt a wee bit clunky because there is a slight delay when switching targets, and there is a delay from between pressing a key and seeing the action happen, but it wasn't so severe as to detract from the fun.
All races are purely cosmetic, there are no racial powers, they all have the same stats, they just have a unique emote, but they even share the same animations, and voice-actors. Voice of your character depends on class, not race.
I couldn't stop feeling a sense of "Deja-vu" while playing swtor because its controls resemble wow tremendously (Z for unsheat weapon, X for sitting down WASD to move, CTRL+click to visualize an item without equiping it, shift+mouseover and you can compare 2 pieces of gear, C for character panel, B for inventory, L for quest-log, Num Block for auto-run, ect ect)
BTW the game looks gorgeous, and proves that blizzard really needs to update wow BADLY. On my PC I had to put everything on min to be able to play with a decent frames-per-second, and even then it all looked truly jaw-dropping.
HOLY SMOKE Planets are big, Korriban feels like its 3 times the size of Durotar or Elwynn Forest.
Building Design feels much more realistic. Enter a building in wow, and all the NPCs are standing doing nothing, and there's barely any furniture at all, some buildings don't even have that. Enter a building like the Sith Academy on Korriban, and HOLY CHRIST!
rooms actually look like people live there, NPCs are milling about their business, dark lords teaching students, engineers welding pieces of machinery, soldiers on patrol, acolytes either chatting up, or having drinks at the cantina, trainees practicing against each other and against dummies, interrogators torturing suspects, the whole place FEELS alive. Go to the Ebon Hold in wow and it really feels like you are playing a videogame, because not only that place doesn't look like a place someone would live (No bedrooms, no bathrooms, nothing) but also all NPCs are standing on the same spot, doing nothing, save for the ocational scripted event.
Dungeons follow the same pattern, rather than find enemies clustered in trash packs waiting to be pulled, they are actually doing something, be it working, moving cargo, chatting, they are going on about their business. My jaw nearly hit the floor when I did the Black Talon instance, and I'm quite honest when I say IT WAS MILES BETTER THAN ANY OTHER INSTANCE I'VE EVER DONE.
Only instance in wow that comes even remotely similar was Caverns of time when we rescue thrall, and maybe well of eternity. It didn't felt at all like a dungeon, more like an awesome quest, ala battle of undercity.
overall, even though i got some small nit-picks against it, I'm THOROUGHLY impressed with SWTOR, and I'm ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN I'm gonna play this as soon as my wallet let me. Maybe by december with the christmass bonus......
One thing I didn't liked wasn't related to the game, but by the community. I saw on general chat someone asking something in french and DAMN before you knew it, xenophobia and racism GALORE. Cue dozens of stupid jackasses telling the french player to get the hell out of their realm, to go hang with the other leppers on the lepper server, that their server was no place for sissies, and worst.
Wow, what a horrible display of bigotry :S Kinda reminds me of wow players when I used to play on the latin american realms and the LFG placed us together. They often went all like "ohh great, a wetback tank who probably can't even say hello" :S
/facepalm
When will humanity finally evolve?
(done........)
Post by
Ashelia
Rankorr, are you able to get SWTOR game time because of your country's laws or not?
Post by
ElhonnaDS
@Rank- wait til you see Coruscant. It's ridiculous. I'd recommend, if you have time, rolling a republic character just to level 10 or so so you can see that planet. Trooper, if you want to try Femshep 2.0.
I've seen a lot of the anti-French thing. My particular server has a lot of French Canadians playing, so there are often guild recruitment messages, LFG spams, etc. in French. The trolls feel the need to complain. I generally get involved by correcting the trolls grammar/spelling, and recommending that if they want to bash other people's languages they should probably learn to correctly speak and write their own language first.
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Rankkor
@Rank- wait til you see Coruscant. It's ridiculous. I'd recommend, if you have time, rolling a republic character just to level 10 or so so you can see that planet. Trooper, if you want to try Femshep 2.0.
I plan on doing every single class and level them all the way to lvl 15, I wanna squeeze as much juice out of this trial account as possible. =)
Rankorr, are you able to get SWTOR game time because of your country's laws or not?
yes and no.
Its illegal to SELL videogames related to war, so the only way to get them is illegally via black market, or by piracy. Now, SWTOR is an online game, so if you wanna play on the retail servers you MUST buy it original ,and there the problem lies.
Smugglers who introduce stuff like this to the country tend to charge OUTRAGEOUS prices for them. Imagine having to pay 800 dollars for a videogame....... that's sorta our situation. I was somewhat lucky to find an international website called "Therpgstore.com" that sells original games (CDkey only) and accepts the currency of my country (I haven't found any other online store that does) but they too charge absurdly high prices.
So, yes I can get SWTOR gametime but I have to shell out 300.000 bolivares (out of my 1.500.000 montly pay) to be able to play.
ditto for wow, I stopped paying wow with real life money because it became prohibitively expensive so now I pay with in-game currency. I plan to do the same on SWTOR when I join for real, the first monts I'll buy gamecards with real money, after I get to the level cap and amass a large ammount of in-game credits I'll buy gamecards that way, it can't be THAT hard to find someone who wanna sell me a gamecard for ingame money. People hate farming :P and 30 USD isn't a lot of money.
BTW ashe, when am I getting the email of kingdoms of amalur? =( its been over a month and I haven't gotten it yet.
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Azazel
Hi. My W is broken.
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Rankkor
I've seen a lot of the anti-French thing. My particular server has a lot of French Canadians playing, so there are often guild recruitment messages, LFG spams, etc. in French. The trolls feel the need to complain. I generally get involved by correcting the trolls grammar/spelling, and recommending that if they want to bash other people's languages they should probably learn to correctly speak and write their own language first.
ugh :S this is the kind of things that tend to shoo me away from some realms. I stopped playing on the Latin American realms because I got fed-up with having to tolerate the blatant racism whenever I was tanking a dungeon, its like I had to prove myself a thousand times over for each player to prove i'm not a scrub, and if I made even the slightest mistake, even if it was due to something mundane like lag, cue the cries of "Typical Ragnaros retard, why must blizzard force me to play with someone who doesn't speak english?"
as if not speaking english automatically makes you less intelligent than others. :S
I know all americans are NOT like that, but the very few that are, upset me tremendously, and that was one of the main reasons I moved to Duskwood Realm.
Post by
ElhonnaDS
This isn't an "official" French server or anything, it just seems to have a large population on it who do speak French. On the up side, if you run with my guild, we generally do all instances in house, and have plenty of tanks/healers, so no pugging. I personally haven't been on for like a week and a half because of ME3 and Skyrim, but I'll be back soon. Kazic (my boyfriend) is going to be back on playing his bounty hunter, though, now that he finished Mass Effect, and usually we have 4-5 others on even if I'm not.
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Rankkor
This isn't an "official" French server or anything, it just seems to have a large population on it who do speak French. On the up side, if you run with my guild, we generally do all instances in house, and have plenty of tanks/healers, so no pugging. I personally haven't been on for like a week and a half because of ME3 and Skyrim, but I'll be back soon. Kazic (my boyfriend) is going to be back on playing his bounty hunter, though, now that he finished Mass Effect, and usually we have 4-5 others on even if I'm not.
alrite.
BTW, I really did had A METRIC TON O' FUN last night playing this thing :P if its not too much to ask, when my trial expires, I want another one xD. I'm getting the slight suspicion that 7 days aint gonna be enough time to try all 8 classes.
well, time to log into SWTOR for a bit
(Ugh, asuming this stupid PC lets me play :S it has shut down 3 times in the last 40 minutes)
Post by
ElhonnaDS
Sure. I have 2 left, and I don't know anyone else who would be interested (and has a machine that can run it) who don't already have it, so they're yours if you want.
Post by
Ashelia
BTW ashe, when am I getting the email of kingdoms of amalur? =( its been over a month and I haven't gotten it yet.
I don't hand out prizes and had nothing to do with it. However, I know at least one of the other people already got theirs weeks ago...have you emailed about it to the marketing guy? It could have to do with your country and customs.
Post by
Gone
Anybody els having trouble logging in to wow? I figured the servers were down because of this authenticator thing, and it said the log in server was down. But my friends able to log on no problem...
Post by
Interest
Morning all.
Post by
Rankkor
BTW ashe, when am I getting the email of kingdoms of amalur? =( its been over a month and I haven't gotten it yet.
I don't hand out prizes and had nothing to do with it. However, I know at least one of the other people already got theirs weeks ago...have you emailed about it to the marketing guy? It could have to do with your country and customs.
thing is, I haven't even received an email about it, I haven't been contacted at all to submit any info on where to send the whole thing. =/
Sure. I have 2 left, and I don't know anyone else who would be interested (and has a machine that can run it) who don't already have it, so they're yours if you want.
awesome.
Post by
Adamsm
Afternoon all.
And I still can't believe the 'hate' against the French is still around.....of course, if they are French Canadians well....=P
Post by
ElhonnaDS
They are, in fact, French Canadians.
Post by
Adamsm
Then the hate is justified as those people are arrogant idiots lol; seriously though, the Quebec'ers are pains in the ass 9 times out of 10....plus, their French isn't the same as France French(the French call it a coarser version of their language).
Edit: As an Ontarioite and seeing what the Quebec'ers pull....alright, I might be a little biased.
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