Hoth battle live in Star Wars Galaxies Comments by Oli Welsh
MMO gets classic film sequence at last.
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iokthemonkey
21/11/08 @ 10:42
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I wish I still played SWG as I'd love to be a part of the recreation of the Battle of Echo Base.
All those JEDIZ LOL jumping around and shouting PWNED at each other. It's like a scene-for-scene recreation of the movie! |
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iokthemonkey
21/11/08 @ 11:16
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Scrap SWG totally.
--- Or roll-back to the pre "improved combat" version, remove the JEDIZLOL and restore it back to the innovative, brilliant game it was before some numpty in marketing decided that it was a good idea to listen to the 11-year old players who all wanted to be DARTH MAWL. |
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iokthemonkey
21/11/08 @ 12:14
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Eight players per side doesn't exactly sound like Massively Multiplayer.......
---- That's about half the server population in SWG. |
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iokthemonkey
21/11/08 @ 14:21
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Erm, I don't get it, does this 'Battle of Hoth' go on forever, or does it get repeated endlessly? Either way it doesn't really make sense.
---- It'll be an instance-type thing I presume, or like a WoW battlefield. |
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Or roll-back to the pre "improved combat" version, remove the JEDIZLOL and restore it back to the innovative, brilliant game it was before some numpty in marketing decided that it was a good idea to listen to the 11-year old players who all wanted to be DARTH MAWL.
============ It's very popular to say that, I know. But see, you set off my selective memory alarm. SWG was always a shit Star Wars MMO. It may have been an interesting maybe even innovative game, but it was shit Star Wars game. A Star Wars MMO should have been what and where WoW is now - Appealing to the masses and straightforward. not some niche design. |
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"I disagree with you, Lemming.
The original SWG offered players complete choices of what they wanted from the game. " ======= As long as that choice was nothing to do with Star Wars. Unless I missed all the factory running, mining, furniture building and bio-engineering in the movies. It was too much of the niche beard-stroking and too little of the heroic story telling that makes Star Wars what it is. I had no problem with the design of SWG (pre-CU) as a random sci-fi game. But get that shit out of my Star Wars, TBQFH. Would have made a good Dune licensed design, actually. |
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Too little, half a decade late.
I agree with Lemming. Galaxies was always a shit MMO, more so if you consider that it was supposed to be set in the Star Wars universe. It wasn't bombastic, fun or grandiose in any way, and failed - utterly - to recreate even a modicum of the atmosphere or excitement of the films. Swashbuckling it certainly wasn't - sterile and humdrum it was. |
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iokthemonkey
24/11/08 @ 09:56
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SWG was always a shit Star Wars MMO. It may have been an interesting maybe even innovative game, but it was shit Star Wars game.
---- I thought it did a really good job of capturing the spirit of the movies. Sure you didn't get to blow-up the Death Star or engage in epic battles but keep in mind that a lot of the PROPER SW movies (not those shit-awful prequels) were pretty low-key for a lot of the time and were about small bands of rebels fighting agents of the Empire. |
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