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[SPOILERS] After watching Star Wars VII: I miss SWG!
Lonzo
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I watched Episode VII two times now and I love this movie. It has the good old SW feeling. I was a big SWG player and I miss it now more then ever. I hope there will be a company to pick up this idea again.
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"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
Not everyone likes sandbox, you know, and "better" and "worse" are subjective.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
Personally I would want a SW MMO that actually feels like the movies and while SWG did have good crafting it just didn't do that for me. TOR have possibly the feel of Clone wars but that doesn't work for me either.
With a MMOFPS I wouldn't mind a future VR game that would simulate space battles, that would actually be a pretty easy use of VR tech and piloting a X-wing or tie during the battle of Yavin might not be MMORPG like but with 100s of other players it would be massive and fun anyways and you could easily get a good SW feeling in it, something that is harder in MMORPGs. Getting the group dynamics good to get combat that looks and feels like the one they have in the movies is no easy task when people aren't flying.
I think Kylo Ren was revealed and unmasked too early. Should have been one of the last scenes, or better yet, in the next film. Vader was popular because of the mystery that surrounded him. Kylo Ren has no mystery anymore.
Secondly Kylo is a bit too "Angsty", although I think the Actor and his acting is very good. Just not the right part for him maybe... idk. It takes away from the fear you had of Kylo at the beginning as he demonstrated some rather powerful and creepy sith/dark side powers. The interrogation scenes were intense!
The emperor was creepy though, well done.
No epic ground battles...
Han solo death was perfect, they set it up for him to make an amazing recovery akin to Gandalf in LotR or Obi-Wan. At the very least they proved Kylo Ren is scarier than he looks, I guess.
The Tie-fighter breakout scene screamed Star Wars to me. First half of the movie was a 10/10, the second half was like a 7/10.
Looking forward to: Crowfall / Lost Ark / Black Desert Mobile
Then again am I not sure I want to just live in the SW universe as much as get the awesome feeling I get from the movies (something TOR fails with), I don't have to play the main hero or villain at all but I still want the feeling that I am in the movie. And they did try with living in the universe and they tried with "you are the hero" so I think it is time to go for getting as close to the movies as possible instead.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
I can't say it made me want to play SWG. I was never a big fan of the game. Star Wars always seemed like a game destined for single player as it always focused on a main character that was one of the few rare Jedi in the galaxy. Star Trek seems like a universe that would be perfect for a sandbox.
The greatest IPs ever and no one can make a decent MMO out of them because they all want to follow an MMO script instead of just releasing a game and letting the story unfold around you. While Turbine did do the main story fairly well early on they also got stupid the past few years. Their design wasnt bad (having it instanced and mostly solo) but they stopped capturing the REAL story and wanted ot put their turbine twist on it.
Make Middle Earth, make the Star Wars universe and let people just explore it and be in it. If they want to try phasing whatever, once you do something that changes due to the main stories youre phased past it. WoW did that pretty well but everyone tried to improve on it and they failed.
If they and people are worried about playing with others in a different phase have people grouped join the earlier phase. Seems pretty simple to me. Especially if thee arent themepark on the rails quest hubs everywhere. Phasing shouldnt be all that extreme, unless of course its Alderaan and it has been destroyed (spoiler alert for anyone who has lived under a rock the past 40 years).