General / Off-Topic My Precious, it's gone?
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Its a controversial view but for what its worth, The Old Republic was actually a very good MMO. It suffered from a lack of end-game content and was perhaps not as innovative as many people had hoped it would be, but what was there was very enjoyable and the full dialog mission sequences made you actually care about the levelling process. It wasn't just a race to the level cap like most MMOs tend to be.
I really enjoyed Star Wars: Supremacy (SW: Rebellion in other lands, I see).
I never managed to figure out how to effectively play as the rebels but then again I never wanted to. Empire all the way. And I won in my most favourite winning of any game ever
I consolidated my hold over several planetary clusters totally, so that the rebels couldn't enter any cluster without being detected and had a loooong trip back when they failed their missions.
I made sure I had enough defences for my territories, then I built a fleet of 30 Star Destroyer II's, 3 Super Star Destroyers, 2 Interdictor cruisers (to prevent the rebel scum running away) and I filled everything with a full complement of TIE Defenders and Dark Troopers.
I sent the whole task force to every planetary cluster that wasn't entirely under my sway, and any planet that couldn't be conquered diplomatically was expunged of all life before being stationed with a garrison of troopers
Eventually there was only one planet left, with the pesky wandering rebel base. I parked the huge fleet in orbit as a blockade so they couldn't go anywhere, and rather than simply invade the planet and conquer them, I spent a few long months building a Death Star, spent a few more months hyperspacing it over to the rebels' last stronghold, and eradicated them from existence.
I think Tarkin would have approved
I never managed to figure out how to effectively play as the rebels but then again I never wanted to. Empire all the way. And I won in my most favourite winning of any game ever
I consolidated my hold over several planetary clusters totally, so that the rebels couldn't enter any cluster without being detected and had a loooong trip back when they failed their missions.
I made sure I had enough defences for my territories, then I built a fleet of 30 Star Destroyer II's, 3 Super Star Destroyers, 2 Interdictor cruisers (to prevent the rebel scum running away) and I filled everything with a full complement of TIE Defenders and Dark Troopers.
I sent the whole task force to every planetary cluster that wasn't entirely under my sway, and any planet that couldn't be conquered diplomatically was expunged of all life before being stationed with a garrison of troopers
Eventually there was only one planet left, with the pesky wandering rebel base. I parked the huge fleet in orbit as a blockade so they couldn't go anywhere, and rather than simply invade the planet and conquer them, I spent a few long months building a Death Star, spent a few more months hyperspacing it over to the rebels' last stronghold, and eradicated them from existence.
I think Tarkin would have approved
I really enjoyed Star Wars: Supremacy (SW: Rebellion in other lands, I see).
I never managed to figure out how to effectively play as the rebels but then again I never wanted to. Empire all the way. And I won in my most favourite winning of any game ever
I consolidated my hold over several planetary clusters totally, so that the rebels couldn't enter any cluster without being detected and had a loooong trip back when they failed their missions.
I made sure I had enough defences for my territories, then I built a fleet of 30 Star Destroyer II's, 3 Super Star Destroyers, 2 Interdictor cruisers (to prevent the rebel scum running away) and I filled everything with a full complement of TIE Defenders and Dark Troopers.
I sent the whole task force to every planetary cluster that wasn't entirely under my sway, and any planet that couldn't be conquered diplomatically was expunged of all life before being stationed with a garrison of troopers
Eventually there was only one planet left, with the pesky wandering rebel base. I parked the huge fleet in orbit as a blockade so they couldn't go anywhere, and rather than simply invade the planet and conquer them, I spent a few long months building a Death Star, spent a few more months hyperspacing it over to the rebels' last stronghold, and eradicated them from existence.
I think Tarkin would have approved
I think I love you.
My best game was subtle but effective. I managed to convert Luke to the dark side and then sent him off to kill his sister. I think I was a bit more ruthless than you though, I decided that the galaxy needed to be cleansed of cute furry aliens and rebel scum so went about wiping out everything. I left burning balls of cinders in my wake and didn't bother inhabiting them. I actually think old Darthie would have been frightened of me.
It was even more fun playing it on a Lan with a friend, the groans when something bad happened was great
You are far from being controversial Ashley. ToR had a lot right with it and was the best leveling experience in an MMO I have ever had. The individual story lines and voice acting really made the game very interesting, it was probably the first time I felt leveling an alt was actually a lot of fun because it offered a complete different experience each time.
The downfall was the awful gfx engine, broken endgame, lack of meaningful open field RvR (the end level RvR planet was just an awful, awful model and implementation) the lack of interesting classes on Jedi side (they really needed to have BH, Smuggler, Agent and Soldier as classes for both sides and just had the 2 jedi classes as each faction's unique classes) and finally the very badly distributed population (see my last point for the solution)
It had a lot of potential but the lack of anything meaningful to do at cap level was a big problem. The getting there was a lot of fun, especially with the space combat missions.
source Kotaku http://kotaku.com/disney-plans-to-release-a-star-wars-film-every-year-beg-475079516
for me this is to much star wars, but im still holding judgement until I see episode 7
At CinemaCon today, Disney revealed plans to release new Star Wars films each summer beginning in 2015. The plan isn't to go Episode VII, VIII, IX in three years but, rather, to run spinoff films in-between the major "episode releases" every two or three years.
Disney Will Be Making All Kinds Of Star Wars Spin-Offs
We already knew that the newly minted Star Wars-owners at Disney are planning a new trilogy, the… Read…
This is consistent with earlier reports of plans for spinoff movies, plus reports that the next trilogy will pick up after 1983's Return of the Jedi. Disney's announcement meshes the two together rather definitively.
So there you have it: Star Wars will be an annual release from now on. No word on DLC plans.
Disney Says New ‘Star Wars’ Films Will Open Every Summer Starting in 2015 [Slashfilm]
for me this is to much star wars, but im still holding judgement until I see episode 7
At CinemaCon today, Disney revealed plans to release new Star Wars films each summer beginning in 2015. The plan isn't to go Episode VII, VIII, IX in three years but, rather, to run spinoff films in-between the major "episode releases" every two or three years.
Disney Will Be Making All Kinds Of Star Wars Spin-Offs
We already knew that the newly minted Star Wars-owners at Disney are planning a new trilogy, the… Read…
This is consistent with earlier reports of plans for spinoff movies, plus reports that the next trilogy will pick up after 1983's Return of the Jedi. Disney's announcement meshes the two together rather definitively.
So there you have it: Star Wars will be an annual release from now on. No word on DLC plans.
Disney Says New ‘Star Wars’ Films Will Open Every Summer Starting in 2015 [Slashfilm]
Well that was pretty awesome.
I think it captures the core story:
Pretty much
They've done a Matrix one which is good as well.
Similar, from a few years ago
http://download.theforce.net/theater/animation/stardudes/stardudes.html
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