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Closest thing to swg
Chucker
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I quit Swg recently because i hated the nge and other stuff. ive been looking for a mmo just like it. throw some games at me. Are there any other games that allow u to drop proffessions and pick up others?
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A lot of SWG players have come to Ryzom and stayed thanks to its flexible skill system. You can basically do any skill you want on the same character with no restrictions except time.
Theres a 7 day trial if you wish to try it out.
Oh and don't worry about finishing the skill tree, theres over 11,000 skill levels
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A lot of us refugees are in DAOC as well... I suspect some are in Warcraft also... Some went to EVE too and I know a few went to AO.
My recommendation is to play a few free trials. AO and AC are actually the two games that are closest to SWG in style of gameplay but even they are light years different from it. UO is VERY close to it but you need to be looking for gameplay rather than graphics because UO is 9 years old and the engine is far from modern
IE: If you don't mind 2D graphics UO is the best game on the 'net. But if you're looking for 3D then you probably won't enjoy it much. It IS, hands down, the best gameplay of any other MMORPG out there, which is why that it's still alive and kicking with 100k+ subs even after 9 years.
The honest answer is there's no game other than UO That's even remotely close to old style SWG. I'd recommend just giving various free trials a spin. Personally myself and a lot of friends found a new home (or returned to an old one) in DAOC.
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me and my buddy both quit swg, we are currently looking at daoc as the next best thing. i wanted to get everquest2 because of its great graphics and stuff but realized sony owned it
Swg kinda sks..u prolly wana stay away from anything like it..
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EVE's combat blows. Point, click, fire, that's it. Better ship wins. Who has the better ship? The guy playing longer. Great besides the combat. (if you can find time to play)
AO needs an engine update. Good game, except the graphix suck, I'm not big on graphix, but the physics are outdated.
I'm looking for a new MMO as well. I don't want no Medieval crap. Everything is medieval! It's annoying.
Other games I've tried that didn't work out:
Vendetta Online - Would be a great game except there are hardly NO players and the physics blow. If you're not good at programming good physics, dont' make a space ship game.
I'm kinda looking forward to Star Trek online, but I hate Star Trek. I think ST:O would be a good game if I can get over the fact that it's Star Trek. (Star Trek is WAYY too unrealistic, for many reasons)
Somebody should make a game like SWG where you have ships and a character, but not based on any franchise like Star Wars, Star Trek, or any of the others. I never really watched Farscape, but I think that would make a good MMO.
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It's just dull.
PVP is awsome though. Very much based on player skill. But it has no Alignment and the PVP set up (not being able to kill your own faction or the other anywhere but in your land or neutral) sucks. For some reason it's just an addicting game, but if you really break it down..... it doesn't really offer much.
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Id say the closest thing to SWG would be having a length of barbed wire repeatedly rammed up your butt and ripped out again...
At least thats how it felt for me
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lol I love that quote. I did kinda like SWG but I quit before they changed the combat. because the old combat system sucked mokey balls. the only thing I liked alot about it was the Crafting system it was pretty cool
dont u dare start playing MMORPG unless u want to be hooked
And still is 100 times the game WoW is
And still is 100 times the game WoW is
there are tons of SWG refugees over on the Roma Victor message boards, the game has a lot in common with the original SWG. Everything in the world can be built by the players, a good mix of PvP & PvE, you can be an entertainer & play music etc etc
SWG RV Forum Link
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Heya Chucker
I was the same way but when I bought the epic edition of DAOC I discovered that Mythic has RADICALLY upgraded the graphics in the game. They are on par with WoW and EQ2 graphics... some folks actually like them better. There's a thread in the DAOC forums on how to get the free trial and download the upgraded graphics for it.
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Hey! I think you hit the nail on the head there Razor!
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"What happened to you, Star Wars Galaxies? You used to look like Leia. Not quite gold bikini Leia (more like bad-British-accent-and-cinnamon-bun-hair Leia), but still Leia nonetheless. Now you look like Chewbacca." - Computer Gaming World
Heya Chucker
I was the same way but when I bought the epic edition of DAOC I discovered that Mythic has RADICALLY upgraded the graphics in the game. They are on par with WoW and EQ2 graphics... some folks actually like them better. There's a thread in the DAOC forums on how to get the free trial and download the upgraded graphics for it.
well when it comes to crafting DAOC and EQ2 are the best, they has the best crafting ever...though i like DAOC better, i spent more time in that game than EQ2..and yes i already downloaded the upgraded graphics and so far so good i love it!!
P2P is good but i need free games
Hmm well nothing is close to SWG system really.UO but its medival .
From my short stay to check out the nge i saw people i know saying they are moving mainly to WoW,EQ2 and DAoC.
But for those that i saw that tried EQ2 not one had a single complaint about the game apart from it been medival fantasy.
EQ2 might be SoE but its totally a deifferent team on it and its where the last of the old verrant crew still working with SoE are.
EQ2 also doesn't have LEC constantly changing the direction of the game and forcing SOE to rush timelines. Read the latest interview with a LEC Rep regarding the current state of the game and it's very obvious that the driving force behind the vapid changes to the game has been LEC and not SOE like all the haters have wanted to believe for so long.
I've long said "SWG is not entirely SOE's fault." I have said that because there are glowing examples of the kind of quality that SOE typically does:
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Tanarus
Infantry
EQ1
EQ2 (which has improved TONS since it's *early* release and is now the 2nd best Fantasy MMORPG on the market). (DAOC would be the best
PlanetSide - While it hasn't kept up with the times well this game was and is a pioneer in the MMOFPS market and has done pretty darn well for itself. I suspect if they do a sequel it will come out for the PS2 or X-Box since the MMOFPS genre will lend itself very well to the console market.
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Actually I have watched for over a year now as the 2 teams begin to slowly more and more perform the same stupid actions. It isn't the quality team that developed the release version of the game. You can't tell me you haven't seen the same flailings going on with EQ 2 Herc. Soul shards is a perfect example.
- Scaris
"What happened to you, Star Wars Galaxies? You used to look like Leia. Not quite gold bikini Leia (more like bad-British-accent-and-cinnamon-bun-hair Leia), but still Leia nonetheless. Now you look like Chewbacca." - Computer Gaming World