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What's your fondest memory of SWG?
Jatwhal
Member Posts: 162
For me I would have to say playing the game with my nephew.
Both when we could be together in person and especially when we couldn't.
haha I remember working my sister to be able to take him and his sisters to the midnight showing of Revenge of The Sith.
Good times!
I would like to state that in no way shape or form that anything I receive from SOE influences my opinion about SWG or their company. Im pretty much a typical average player enjoying the game.
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My fondest memory was the first time I met a player Jedi.
They were still rare sights and this guy RPed the role perfectly.
I was thinking I was pretty smart for figuring out that you could grind Rifleman by killing Klikniks in the Blueleaf temple when they were at the bottom of the pit. They were way out of my league, but I discovered you could sneak in after other tougher PC's cleaned the place out. Then you could find a spot where the Klikniks on the top wouldn't aggro on you, then you could pew-pew away at the Klikniks on the bottom without fear of getting hit (borderline exploit I know, but they designed it that way so I didn't have TOO much guilt over it).
One day I accidentally aggro'd the top level Klikniks (they normally incap you first, then DB you upon recovering, every single time).
So there I was lying there with incap timer counting down the seconds to DB time, when I hear the familiar snap-hiss for the first time since logging into SWG. By the time I recovered from my incap, there were Kliknik corpses all over the place, and I was being healed back to life by the Jedi. We exchanged some cool SW RP banter, and he was off with a 'May the Force be with you" as fast as he had arrived.
Super cool.
A few months later, there were lightsaber duels around every corner with screams of 'duel me noob!'.
don't really have one
both of the 'classes' i was were broken before the NGE (pistollersmuggler)
so I never really enjoyed the game
it was broken from day one of my sub
That's really unfortunate Poop.
SWG was my first MMORPG. I wouldn't have known if my template was broken or not. I was too busy hiding from Imperial scum, or meeting other SW fanatics in the Starports (10 minute Shuttle timers FTW btw), or trying to get out of my first awesome player house because a nasty nest of creatures spawned on my front doorstep. That was a good thing btw, it was frontier territory as far as I was concerned. It was an adventure.
Awesome story. Yeah we used to hear about a Jedi at a base battle and rush there to see them fight man was that a sight.
It was funny too because as I was leveling up my Jedi I did everything I could to "play the role". I almost bit it a few times cause I kept my Doc so far away fearing vis, lol
To this day it is rare I'm in an npc city with my robe of lightsaber in view.
That last line stings so bad. Disgusting. Till they bury me I'll stick by belief of why it went that way.
I would like to state that in no way shape or form that anything I receive from SOE influences my opinion about SWG or their company. Im pretty much a typical average player enjoying the game.
Hmz, it is hard to break it down to just one moment because I had such a great time in this game.
PVP, when our player city on dantooine was under heavy attack by the opposite faction and we struggled the whole night trying to fight them off when suddenly an imperial dropship deployed like 20 hardcore troopers right on top of the city - it was a slaughter and we never figured out if it happend randomly or a GM event or whatever..
Grinding skills with my jedi beeing on the edge looking for bounty hunters, I remember that sneaky wookie circling around my position for like 15mins and when he finally engaged I totally onehitted him.
Or just dueling fellow jedis at remote places.
Crafting, surveying for the best resources and deploying sh*tloads of harvesters to make some cash and experience with the crafting system to make the best food in the galaxy with my master chef!
Selling your stuff in your own shop, in your own house, in your own city!
Hanging out in the cantinas getting buffs from the entertainers, standing in a long line at the starports to buy those mandatory master doc buffs .. it was all fun to me!
If you are not accustomed to eating kiwi, go slow at first.
For me, SWG was one of those games that was loaded with fond memories for three years. Almost every one of those memories included other players, because back then you couldn't/didn't want to solo the entire game. The interwoven community in that game is something I have not seen in a single game since. Despite all of SWG's problems, it was the best MMO I ever played because it offered us the tools to forge our own adventure in any way we wanted to.
It didn't matter what class or mix of classes you wanted to be thanks to the skill-based system. You could dabble in multiple classes and choose your own adventure. In that game I played as a chef, a force-seeking adventurer, doctor, scientist (bio engineer), a beast master, a contract hunter/tracker, a soldier for the war, a weaponsmith, a martial artist, bounty hunter, a ranger, etc. Some of my builds were for combat, some of them were not and I enjoyed them all equally. I always had at least two accounts, and one was usually non combat, and other for combat. Non-combat was so fun in that game I would sometimes play it for weeks at a time without ever logging on to my other account for PvP or PvE combat.
To me, that is the thing that stands out. SWG gave you options. You didn't have to be a hero if you didn't want to. You could just be a commoner interacting with a very rich community in the Star Wars universe. Modern games have left that virtual world feeling behind and have traded it for Disneyland. I see the value in theme-parks for some people, I just wish there were more open-ended MMO's to play.
A sure sign that you are in an old, dying paradigm/mindset, is when you are scared of new ideas and new technology. Don't feel bad. The world is moving on without you, and you are welcome to yell "Get Off My Lawn!" all you want while it happens. You cannot, however, stop an idea whose time has come.
I had fond memories till I found out my classes were completely broken.
tai kwon and swordsman were like the own machines of the world
the game was so unbalenced.
Mine would be making the run from Bespin across, at that time, barren desert of Tatooine to raid Anchorhead and watching the Rebel scum die to the Imperial might of the At-St. Big fights, lots of fun,....but unfortunately to many bugs too. I was one of the first commandos on my server and I didn't have a weapon to use because the mats weren't spawned yet. When they finally did spawn, my first heavy acid rifle/launcher (what ever it was) shot out green boogers that only did one damage.
"If I offended you, you needed it" -Corey Taylor
This right here embodies what SWG Pre-NGE was to me. I don't even have to say any else.
mm fondest memory of all past,present and futur swg game may be in the futur exp war of the republic
or such, not sure of the name,i dont really care but i caut that this week end in a shadowy part of ustream not very known and at a fucking crazy early hour ,bha who cares any !
the thing is soe will release a war of something (ya thats part of the title expension 14 or 15 i believe anyway who cares lol!
the important things to remember is that there will be freaking epic battle coming in a near future
so forget all your fond memory of swg and
remember that your future fondest memory will be when that expension 14 or 15 (war of something)
is released
if you want to know more ,go bother the glass guy that supply the streaming in soe channel in ustream
hes loged on very often (al the time )
if not him someone from there can link the pax interview they streamed if its not already there
and yes even the guy from pre/post nge was there(grin)
let me tell you he looked astoshed to see so many people at that fucking early hour of the morning hell even me lol?
very good stream if your undesrtand what they talk about !i understood 1 topic out of 10 so i cant help you more
one thing is sure this game is gaining popularity (wtf who said this game was dying lol)
SWG was the first MMO where I actually played with one of my RL adult friends. My fondest memories are two-fold: 1) when we would just run around the wilderness exploring the different planets, admiring the scenerey and the stars and blasting things we could manage to kill if necessary (or running!)... and 2) getting in big hunting parties where we would go to dant or something and just roll everything we came across.
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I have to say, neither of these things really had much to do with "star wars" at all, which in retrospect still didn't seem to matter. I knew it was star wars, I also knew I wasn't a hero but just a brick in the wall. We placed our little mineral harvesters and ran a billion miles around to pick up the bounty. We were about as badass as uncle owen.
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If I could have a 3rd, I made an Entertainer alt who had a *lot* of fun just hanging out BS'ing in the populated cantinas. Multi-group bands / dancers, wild parties indeed. I don't know if we'll ever see another multiplayer game with anything, at all, equivalent to the entertainer professions.
How dare you present him with logic! Don't you understand? He fights epic fights, in epic games, with epic toons....eats epic food and takes epic dumps! He has more e..pic..icity...ness in his little finger than you have in your whole unepic body! - ChicagoCub
Ha ha! That reminds me of when I thought I was gonna be hotsh*t for being a noob with a launcher pistol. I had no idea what weapon certifications were. I did gawd knows how many delivery runs between Kor Vella and Bella Vista (1300 credits a pop woohoo!) to save up for this blasted thing. I finally got it, and when I equiped it, it made a big explosion hitting those womp rats, but pretty much did no damage at all. Finally somebody noticed the massive damageless explosions and came over to explain why it wasn't working the way I had anticipated. I felt like a knob, but it gave me a goal (set out to GET that certification). Turns out by the time I had earned the weapon cert for that pistol, I had discovered weapons far more powerful.
Not my fondest memory, but I do remember think for many months how I learned something new about the game almost every time I logged in.
My fondest moment was at the first Fan Fest talking to the Dev's about the upcoming Combat Revamp and other cool and exciting plans.
Of which then a month later, came the leaks and then finally the announcement of that there was no Combat Revamp, just high level discussions; nothing more.
And oh the flames that followed on the boards and the emergence of Disgruntled Vets took place.
Good Times.
And that is why...
Conservatives' pessimism is conducive to their happiness in three ways. First, they are rarely surprised -- they are right more often than not about the course of events. Second, when they are wrong they are happy to be so. Third, because pessimistic conservatives put not their faith in princes -- government -- they accept that happiness is a function of fending for oneself. They believe that happiness is an activity -- it is inseparable from the pursuit of happiness.
One of my fondest memories was the delicious outcry from all the elder Jedi when they learned that their months of grinding was about to be rendered moot by the introduction of Jedi as a starter profession.
Priceless.
In terms of the game itself, I have too many to list, but I will say that the Starsider roleplaying community has never been and will never be equaled.
When creature handlers were popular I loved the life the creatures brought to the cities. Seeing them animate and making the noises in the background you hadn't see that kinda detail in other mmorpgs, specially the amazing animations.
Then Vehicles came out and killed off creatures and Jedi came out and killed the game.
One of my fondest memories was seeing a guy run past me in Anchorhead with a pet Rancor in tow. That was when I decided I wanted to be a Master Creature Handler.
Yet, there are so many, so I will continue to depress myself by recounting a few more.
The many times I went into a cantina to watch some very dedicated entertainers put on a show.
Or playing in a impromptu band in the desert the day the race tracks were released.
Or hopping into my Z-95 Headhunter, (Freelancer A1-1) for the first time. I loved that ship.
Or site seeing the galaxy in my yacht, (Spaceball 1).
Or the day I found a (baby) Graul Mauler on Dantooine...
Remembering these things almost makes me angry to realize how SWG's amazing potential was squandered by incompetence, ignorance, and lies.
Using Covert Detectors to gank unsuspecting Rebels in their own player cities.
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every day before the NGE....
It was my second MMO back in 2004 (the first being EVE)... so I have to say everyday was a fondest memory...
Taming difficult pets with my wife.
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One that I'm willing to share..
First time I walked out of the starport in C-net.
See you in the dream..
The Fires from heaven, now as cold as ice. A rapid ascension tolls a heavy price.
Getting my first speeder (spent every credit i had lol) I started getting POI's on tatooine, running into a krayt dragon that sent my ass to a medical center with a destroyed speeder.
Same thing can be said for those "Tusken Overlord's", cant count the speeders I have lost to those, or the times they have one shot me.
Setting up a camp on a hillside in Naboo with my cousin.
OMG, I have so many good memories.
Like me and three of my buddies sitting around a campfire on a starry night by a lake on Dantooine. We formed our guild, pooled our resources and founded a small town on that very spot.
Like my little pet dog that was bugged and would attack things out of the blue. His name was Lucky and we were inseperable.
My level 5 character, a red headed kid with freckles. When the rebs killed his friend, he went screaming into the thick of rebs all max level. Yeah, they laughed as I was hitting them. Yeah, they incapped me and every time I got up and tried to kick their asses they incapped me again, until the deathblow. But hey, my friend appreciated the thought. And the rebs said I was either a crazy mofo or I had heart...but probably just crazy.
Like the time I ran into the Imp outpost on Dant screaming, "The Rebs are coming the Rebs are coming." And my fellow Imps looked around and said, "Where, I don't see any rebs," Then a small rebel army stormed the outpost and it was pure Hell.
Like the time a Reb was chasing me and I ran under an AI controlled ATST parked outside of the Imp Outpost on Dantooine. I stood there and said, "I dare you..." He dared, ATST almost killed him, he ran off into the wilderness and I chased him down and killed him. As I came back to the outpost, a Reb pulls up on a bike and asks, "What the hell is going on." I blew his bike up and killed him.
So many memories. I miss my friends. I miss my enemies.
Deffo same for me took 40 seconds for every thing to load in and the lag just smack you in the face due to how many people were outside and spamming lol
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