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rppp01 writes "The BBC is reporting that Lucas Arts is putting the Star Wars universe online this December. Go here to read all about it. I know lots of people who are now starting to leave Everquest. Is this the next everquest? Will we have massive Star War fans calling in sick everyday in attempts to become a jedi? Will Jar Jar be friend or foe?"
If this takes off like Everquest, though, how much new stuff can they add to it to keep the universe fresh? They're kind of limited by the movies, aren't they?
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.
I feel sorry for whoever ends up having to live with Jar Jar...
"Me sa no drinky your beer!"
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The Star Wars universe puts LucasArts online!
...too much the star wars universe. I know that if we would have a star movies/games every year, the hype would reduce.
You CAN have too much of a good thing
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Star Wars: Galaxies is really old news. For anyone even remotely aware of the MMORPG scene or games in-general knows, it's been in development for quite some time now.
Like "Luke Skywalker" or "Princess Leia" But it would be cool to get enough money to have your own death star!!
*narf!*
Wow! That's almost like every other MMORPG.
Face it, LucasArts is dying. After Monkey Island II and Day of the Tentacle, it's all been downhill.
Star Wars Rebellion? WTF was that all about? Monkey Island 3? Jeez. Afterlife? How about some originality??
Cue the LucasArts is dying troll.
but I think they should have adjusted the timeline to after the events in "Return of the Jedi".
Having an event that big in your MMORPG just seems to ruin it for me. It kind of re-enforces the fact that you are just a bit player. If the timeline was after, your character might have a chance to be a big part of a storyline, make your own lore.
But then again I know how Battlefield 1942 is going to turn out and I LOVE playing that game...hehehe
"For a successful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled." -Feynman
Savage Jarjar mutilation will be part of the dark jedi right of passage.
since there realy is not any rare magical item in the SW universe there should not be proliferation that reduces any spcial properties of such non-existent items.
just make sure it is difficult to become a jedi.
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
From the article, it would only be developped for the PS2, at least for now. One would expect that, to live in the dark side, that an XBox version be developped as well...
"Naughty, naughty, naughty, you filthy old soomka !"
I call first dibs on being the bartender at the Mos Eisley cantina.
i've been practicing:
"we don't serve their kind here"
mechanicos ergo cogito
Is there going to be a set number of planets? Or will we be able to band together in large groups and after we gain enough recognition in game and maybe even enough out of game $$$ would we be able to purchase our own planet? I've heard this whole thing about having planets in the game... I think that would be cool to be able to have your own for a large team or organization.
i dont follow everquest (after quake/teamfortress ruined my chances at an elec eng degree, no harm done) ... but whats the engine underneath this new Star Wars MMPORMGPROGSPORMPG? Somebody told me it was just a modded EQ engine, so isn't this more like an expansion pack or 'skin' rather than a whole new .. oh god dont make me try to figure out the anagram again ..
"Old man yells at systemd"
There sure must be a lot of MASSIVE star wars fans. ;)
You know the kind who complain about conventions giving away medium sized bat utility belts..
Rite not right.
And why would it be limited to only the Dark Side? You never noticed Qui Gon's annoyance with that dirty, lizard-like, sewer dwelling, lisping idiot (RMS)?
Jar-Jar may go beyond mere foe, through the intersection of enemy, past menace corner, and onto the 8-lane superhighway called nemisis. In fact the only way I'd play the game is if it presented a mission to hunt down and torture that misbegotten flop-eared two-legged rat.
-Peter
== Just my opinion(s)
Oops, and here I thought this was a joke. Must've missed something...
PLEASE don't moderate a comment a certain way unless you understand what the poster is trying to say.
http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com/
Has anyone stopped to consider the effect this will have on Slashdot? We're talking about Star Wars geeks suddenly having a system that they can plug into 24/7 and utterly leave what little reality they have.
That means that visits to Slashdot could drop precipitously.
No traffic means VA systems could collapse!
DAMMIT MAN DO I HAVE TO SPELL IT OUT FOR YOU??
Star Wars universe => Star Wars geeks leaving Slashdot => No Slashdot traffic => CmdrTaco et al no longer being able to say 'Yeah, but we have traffic! The profit will come in eventually!" => Slashdot collapsing => CmdrTaco losing his job => CmdrTaco's wife leaving him => CmdrTaco committing suicide!!!
Save CmdrTaco's life! STOP THIS INSANITY AND SHUT DOWN THE STAR WARS SERVER!!
(won't someone think of the taco??)
I notice this is being published (?) by Sony. Does anyone know if there'll be a PS2 version?
I don't think there will ever be a "new Everquest", but a whole new genre of internet "community" type games. The newest of which includes this and The Sims Online.
Carpe meam simiam!
It seems to me that keeping a Jar-Jar like character in the game is one of the smartest things that LucasArts could do - just from reading the posts on this thread so far, I can see that there are likely to be a large number of people who play the game just to see if they could kill Jar Jar.
Anyone else here feel that games based of ever quest are really not worth buying, in fact i think that the bottom line for the new star war game is how much is it going to be? Although this is a new twist in the heavily saturated market of games based on "Star Wars"....
The game is currently in its second beta phase, and progressing well. There is a third beta phase before release.
If you think about that, this means the game cannot possibly make a december release.
Expect to see it early next year.
If you want to know more about the game, go visit
http://starwarsgalaxies.com/ and peruse the forums.
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ekhben
The only problem is, if this replacing Everquest as people's new addiction, we'll need to come up with all new insulting derivatives based on drugs and illicit activites!
"Yeah, I finally quit playing EverCrack..."
"Why don't we see you out and about more?"
"Cause now I'm playing Star Whores..."
Just because I doubt myself does not mean I find your position compelling.
shut up. Just shut up. Let them moderate the way they feel is right. DON'T FUCKING SIT HERE AND TELL PEOPLE HOW TO GODDAMN MODERATE! Maybe if you EVER for ONCE IN YOUR WORTHLESS PITIFUL LIFE had something constructive to add to a conversation then you could get some moderator points and moderate things the way that your puny mind wants.
SWG takes place before the movies about a thousand years or so. There will be no Skywalkers, Organas, Palpatines, etc.
Those select few who are in the beta test for SWG. I mean sure, there are about 3000 in the test, but how many signed up? 100,000?
I don't know about you, but in my mind, the Star Wars movies ended with Return of The Jedi. The others that have followed are, in my opinion, horrible. Who cares about the effects if, in my opinion, the actors can't act and there's little to no character development?
IMO, there are only three Star Wars movies.
There are four lights.
Where is "Star Wars Galaxies: Hot Date"?
Would spending Christmas with Vader be better or worse than spending it with Chewies family?
Everything will be taken away from you.
Hmm.. this from a very brave anonymous coward.
I'm quaking in my boots.
You are useless to this thread. Your uselessness has the Tao.
Charlie Chan sound-alikes, Rastafarian mocking, a universe where the most powerful rulers are either white men or beautiful white women. The latest couple of Star Wars episodes are rife with deeply racist themes and images.
It's sad to see a series that celebrated cultures with their different languages and customs get turned into a mild KKK propaganda piece.
that's wrong. it takes place concurrently with what goes on in the movies. there are imperials and the whole deal.
Hello my name is _______ and I play SWG...
Actually if you read the back story on StarWars.com you'll see that the first one to discover the force was indeed a Skywalker.
"I bent my wookie!" --- The Simpsons
I wonder if they'll expell people from the Jedi Order if you do something along the lines of: Give me all your credits *waves hand*. The ultimate non-lethal pickpocket.
The BBC is reporting that Lucas Arts is putting the Star Wars universe online this December.
I normally trust the BBC, but I think they are wrong on this occasion. According to details on Amazon.com, Star Wars Galaxies will be released on February 14, 2003.
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What does it have to do with with anything if I post as an AC? I wanted to post at 0 so that I wouldn't infest the message board with rants about moderation, such as you have been doing. The point of the post wasn't to scare and wasn't to prove my manliness, it was to tell you that we are tired of people like you bitching about the moderation system. Why don't you follow my example and post at 0 when you have something to say that doesn't relate in any way to the discussion going on (comments such as bitching about moderation).
The thing that makes EQ so much fun is the game is so utterly massive and everything you see and everyone you talk to just might have something for you to do. Quests are what make mmmorpg's so much fun. And what do quests get you? That's right, ph4t l3wt. For EQ their are two types of players: those that play to get the best gear in the game and liars. So if Galaxies wants to survive past it's 6 month, it will need to add some uber mobs that drops +5 Light Sabers of the Headless Mofo. The drive to keep playing EQ is that someday you will walk back into your starting town decked head to toe in Vex Thal and Snake Temple gear and watch the newbs shit themselves? Then when they ask why you don't have your epic weapon, you say you banked it because you got better.
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
People have been waiting on this for ages: it will bear a strong resemblance to Everquest thanks to having the same development team from Sony/Verant. Here's the Star Wars Galaxies Official FAQ and, the answer to the all-important question from page three of the FAQ:
3.03 Will I be able to kill Darth Vader?
At this point, you will probably not be able to kill Darth Vader, but some players may have the opportunity to interact with him. We would like to adhere to the continuity as much as possible; Vader is key to the trilogy, so you probably won't be able to kill him (like you would really stand a chance against the Lord of the Sith anyway...)
ancarett, historian and zombie gamer
Will Lucas Arts promote this game like they did with Star Wars Episodes I & II, bombarding us with images during every television show, on every billboard, Mountain Dew can and pizza box, in an attempt to become the MMORPG-supreme?
evil adrian
Weesa all sinking and no power.
Courtesy of the Jar-Jargonizer that translates online text into Jar Jar speak.
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Some mistakes in that article. There's already a fourth Monkey Island game. I guess they're saying they're making a fifth?
And as for Grim Fandango being a cartoon... that does not do it justice. If you haven't played it, hunt it out for one of the richest, most wonderful adventure games ever.
Will we have massive Star War fans calling in sick everyday in attempts to become a jedi?
Do you work with Jabba the Hut?
he'll be slashed through the face with my "red lightsabre of wrath +2"
of course i only say that because i have a lot of hatred built up for that character - in real life I'm probably not even going to play the game....
waiting and hoping for FFXI Online with a brief romp of FFX-2 to tide me over after I get bored of GTA3VC you know....
Ave Molech Setting
The prospect of buying and using this game excites me to no end. But my computers are a Linux box, and a "somewhat old" (Power Mac 7300 with a G3/220 upgrade card) Mac.
:(
What I fear here is that the client will run only on Windows; if we're incredibly lucky, and Lucasarts is feeling generous, they'll also produce a Mac OS X port.
Which would mean that I'd be out of luck either way, since I don't run Windows, and my Mac isn't juicy enough to run OS X games. (It can barely muster OS X itself).
I find it incredible that I'm the first person to point this out. It's really sad. I WANT to give LucasArts my money, but something tells me that, just like previous MMORPGs (or whatever the acronym is), I won't be able to run this thing
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
I've avoided Everquest & DOAC simply because I don't care for their themes.
I'm afraid that Galaxies, however, will do me in.
This is probably the ultimate MMORPG license. Unless someone comes out with one based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail, I'm sure Sony and LucasArts will have cornered the market.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
finnally put a laser blaster to jar jar's head and pull the trigger! It will be loads of fun to wander around and senselessly kill the gungan or whatever those morons are! Are ya with me people???!?!?
Jar-Jar should have a special skill in the game called BDL - Blind Dumb Luck. Whenever you try to kill him, his BDL kicks in. You fire your blaster at him and he cringes, but the shot miraculously passes between his tongue and his ears, ricochets off fourteen walls, a stagnant pond, and a black hole, and comes back to hit you right between the eyes. Jar-Jar makes an annoying comment while you sit at your monitor, teeth clenched in apoplectic fury. Oh yeay. With work and a good programmer this guy could be made INTERACTIVELY annoying!
Play this game, I will.
but not a lot of time have I
too expensive for me it may prove.
Mr Sarris said that the Mos Eisley spaceport on Tatooine, where Luke Skywalker first meets Han Solo and Chewbacca in Episode IV, will take a game character 55 minutes just to walk across, let alone fully explore.
Now thats a slow server...
Bounty Hunter, is a PS2 only game. It QUITE clearly mentions Galaxies, as being a game for PC's.
"Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs." P.J. O'Rourke
Why is the parent post modded up as insightful?! I would insult the moderator stupid enough to mod the parent, but he's probably wearing a black ski mask and on his way to sabotage the Lucasarts Star Wars servers by now.
The development team for Star Wars Galaxies is mostly comprised of former Ultima Online developers. The lead designer is Raph Koster, formerly known as Designer Dragon of UO. They made a prototype space game for Origin to brand as Wing Commander Online, but that was about the time EA (Origin's parent company) gutted Origin down to just the UO team and rolled it all into the EA.com division. EA tried to assign Koster's space team to the Sims Online, but they wisely made a deal with Verant to make a Star Wars game. Thus Verant's Austin division was born. There's no code in common with Everquest.
For great justice.
I'll be playing it probably no more than 10 hours a week with my current social schedule; the game devs want to make it enjoyable for casual players and first time MMOers, because they expect the Star Wars license to bring in people who'd otherwise never touch an MMO.
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ekhben
If you have a Palm, this would be cheaper than what's likely to become the next Evercrack...
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Dealer: Want to buy an MMORPG subscription?
Obi-Wan: You don't want to sell me an MMORPG subscription.
Dealer: I don't want to sell you an MMORPG subscription.
Obi-Wan: You want to go home and rethink your life.
Dealer: I want to go home and rethink my life.
"You spoony bard!" -Tellah
I think /.'ers concerned about their rights online and also in the domain of fair use should consider not giving another red cent (or silver pfenning, or ridged dracma, etc.) to any business concern directly promoted by Lucasfilm and/or Lucasarts.
Yesterday, /. ran an article about Fox CEO Peter Chernin's call to media and tech companies to work together to combat piracy. Some /.'ers speculated that Lucas's suggestion that media and tech companies form an alliance to prevent piracy is, at best, a disingenuous one. For example, in one post, RobotRunAmok suggested that Lucas is playing the "misguided artist" to Valenti's "evil fat cat suit," the implication being that Lucas is an evil fat cat. In another post, Jippy_ points out that "[s]aying that there won't be film of merit or quality without there first being movies of flashy repetitive garbage" is just plain bad logic.
Lucas would sell our fair use rights down the river if he thought he could make a bigger buck. His last three films stink (he's proven himself to be the much inferior artist compared to his peer Spielberg), and though he is pioneering digital production and delivery, he doesn't seem to understand that such technologies work best when they facilitate rather than obstruct fair use rights.
What really disturbs me is that Lucas--his very person a monument of excess--uses environmentalist language to protect his profit margins. Sure, digital film in the long run may be more environmentally friendly than celluloid, but that's hardly a justification to compare the market forces which drive popular cinema to an endangered ecosystem! The NYTimes has an article that quotes Lucas as saying:
If the movie industry, with its increasing resemblance to the recording arts industry and its cozying up to those who would revoke our fair use rights, can be compared to a rainforest, then I say clear cut the whole damn thing.
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Can you post a link to that story?
Me sa tell yousa when me sa had enougha!
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
don't miss the point: it's not just about popping online and fragging some doods. the greatness of games like star wars galaxies lies in the ability of the player to do pretty much whatever he/she wants.
/me force jumps on top of the AT-ST /me force opens the hatch /me whips out my lightsaber /me flips out.
nevermind that previous MMORPGs were limited in terms of what you really _could_ do feasibly. the idea that you could be an Expert Basketweaver and survive in the game is pretty nifty. why? because it lets people enjoy their time doing what they wanna do.
i used to play everquest. i was on the test server. i didn't go around power leveling and camping for stuff all the time. my idea of fun was to be Emperor of the server and have my minions deliver their hard-earned booty to me. it was a fun game, because i got to play with friends (flesh-and-blood friends, mind you) and goof around.
that's right. i was Noodles VII, Emperor of Norrath, founder of the Furious Foodstuffs. with my comrades, Turnip, Pickle and Caper, we spread joy and goodwill unto the world. in return, they paid me taxes.
it was enjoyable. i got to do what i wanted to do. of course, after i modified my desk chair to accomodate a chamber pot, had my electricity shut off cause i didn't pay the bills, then again converted my desk chair into a power-generating bicycle to keep my machine on to play everquest, i realized that there are things more important than everquest in life.
like booze. and the money to buy booze.
but nevermind all that. i don't plan on playing star wars galaxies, but the idea of becoming Fukkit, cousin of Wikket, Master Jedi of the Forest Moon of Endor, appeals to me. it calls to me. just imagine how powerful you could be as Fukkit, Cousing of Wikket, Master Jedi! you could be KING.
that other ewok eating all your food?
You don't want to eat those grubs.
"I don't want to eat these grubs."
You want to give those grubs to me.
"I want to give these grubs to you. Here."
that stupid AT-ST ruining your forest crib?
that damn lEEthax0r playing a human princess shunning you?
Yo, j00 r gonna make teh sw33t luv 2 me.
"i r g0nna max0rz out wif j00."
dun worry, i furry, but i never in a hurry for a bebe like j00.
even han wouldn't be as smooth as me.
I can just see ebay now Not born with mitochlorions in your system? Don't want to mess with all that training and discipline to become a jedi? Having to much fun dabbling in the dark side to get accepted to jedi academy? No problems! You are bidding on this rare opportunity to instantly become a jedi. Light Side Comes with free light sabre (blue) Please check my feedback and bid with confidence. I accept Paypal, Check, Money Orders.. Bid early and bid often! May the force be with you!!
All that heavy breathing in the background will make every potential date think your some kind of purv.
...cybersex with Natalie Portman? OMFG!
According to the faq you can't.
You're allowed to have one hyphen or apostrophe in your name. Numbers and other punctuation are not allowed, and we will also follow strict capitalization rules.
I hope for their sake that Star Wars: Galaxies is different. Fix the damned bugs rather than compounding them, don't let the game economy be screwed, don't let the game get topheavy, and have a 'live' world where there is no need to camp spots or waste hours waiting for something to happen.
The largest unruly mob in history, armed with blasters, ion cannon and starships, pursuing Jar Jar from planet to planet, wreaking untold virtual havoc in the process.
A 24-hour a day, non-stop lightsaber melee involving thousands of virtual padawans fighting over the Millenium Falcon.
Thousand-capital-ship attacks on the constantly respawning Death Star that make Episode VI look like a weekend at the lake.
Screen-capture demos of dozens of screaming, wild-eyed rebel scum crashing into the Emperor's throne room and throwing everyone into the reactor vent: the scarlet guards, Vader, Luke AND the Emperor, right after pulverizing Endor with the main weapons.
Yeah. Sounds great. I'll pass.
(and people complained about Diablo. HAH! Ain't seen NOTHIN' yet)
Why do people hate Jar Jar?
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Time to whip out those Star Wars Name Generators.
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"First things first -- but not necessarily in that order"
-- The Doctor, "Doctor
So, if somebody spends years becoming a Jedi only to be killed by Darth Vader, and subsequently kills himself, do we have to start calling this Star Crack?
"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit." --Oscar Wilde
So in the intersts in getting a universe not composed entirely of Jedi knoghts, will the most powerful character end up being an Ewok bountyhunter with droid specialisations?
Xix.
"Everything is adjustable, provided you have the right tools"
In the article it mentions that there working on the forth installment of Monkey Island 4. However, That's already out for PC and Playstation2.
You can checkout any time you want,
but you can never leave.
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until you run into Jedi Master Sk8rsRulz or some such nonsense like that that invariably happens in MMORPGs. There should be a lameness filter included that disallows names like these.
You'll probably have to depend on WineX if you want to play it under Linux, but that's just a guess. What I can tell you for sure is that it will require a 3D accelerator that supports Hardware T&L.
Seriously, all dark-Jedi in training have to start practicing that long-distance choking trick on somebody...
THE GOOD HUMOR MAN CAN ONLY BE PUSHED SO FAR
Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 2F18
I'm sure it will sell it well
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
You're forgetting about World of Warcraft. This promises to kick EQ's ass. Unfortunately, it's going to be at least a year or two until it comes out.
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"It will allow people to live out their lives in the Star Wars universe and so many people have wanted to do that," Does that mean we can get into padme's pants?
Well if they don't start out massive they will be after sitting on their arse for eighteen hours a day scarfing whatever they can reach while desperately trying to get into Leia's pants. Just think Comic Book Guy on a binge
The first question that popped into my mind is: How are thy going to do the space combat??
I mean, you can hardly have a Star Wars while sitting on a planet can you? There are going to have to be several planets modeled as well as the facility to travel, and persumably fight in space. I'd imagine you'd not only need a 3rd person view just like ever quest, but you'd need some sort of space simulator, like wing commander or something. The Star Wars universe has to be far more expansive than Ever Quest or any other MMPORPG before it. Either way, it's going to be very exciting... can they pull it off properly?
Course, I won't be subscribing, 20 bucks a month can buy a lot of beer.
"Entropy is the bad-guy, and he is everywhere"
Yeah, and we're also sick of fuckwits like you wasting time on 'em. Just STFU.
I think Jarjar's just before you defeat the final boss.. you know, the idiot that's sihttp://www.starwars.com/bio/georgelucas.htmlngle -handedly destroying Star Wars with the Phantom Menace and 'Clones. Also the creator of Jarjar.
Is this the next everquest? Will we have massive Star War fans calling in sick everyday in attempts to become a jedi? Will Jar Jar be friend or foe? does anyone care? sorry -l tr011
Surrender YR pattent!
If you really want to give them your money so badly, then lay out a tiny bit more and get a machine with the juice, that's compatible with 95% of the market.
Yep, it's that 95% market thing again. Don't like it? Repeal the capitalist system that keeps you in KFC and mallowmars.
Just thought I'd check to see that the double standard is in full effect. "OOO SHINY!"
Jar Jar joined the military. Now he is called a "Jar Jar head head".
du dum Boom!
Table-ized A.I.
...but remember, if you kill him then you'll be unemployed (so said Yoda)...
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face, it's just a goddamned piece of paper!" - George W. Bush Nov. 2005
just... had to be mentioned. still no release date. la la la.
heaven
Will we have massive Star War fans calling in sick everyday in attempts to become a jedi?
A massive Star Wars fan doesn't have to call in sick. He already "works from home" and is, in all probability, a shut-in.
Homer: "Vent radioactive gas?" [types] Y E S.
"Sound alertness horn?" Y E S. [it sounds in the distance]
"Decalcify calcium ducts?" Well, give me a Y, give me a...Hey!
All I have to type is Y. [to Marge] Hey, Miss Doesn't-find-me-
attractive-sexually-anymore: I just tripled my productivity!
Marge: Good. Good for you.
Homer: Y. Y. Let's see, so many letters to choose from. I'll pick Y!
Y. Y. [sees SLH] Wha -- what the heck are you doing over there?
[Pushes SLH down to the floor.]
There, you found the floor.
SLH: Arf!
Homer: Y, Y, Y. Y. Y.
Marge: I'm going out, I run errands during the day.
Homer: Could you pick me up a lemonade and a beer?
[The door slams.]
What, you thought Jar-Jar Binks was just a clumsy idiot? He's a clumsy idiot who survived being at ground zero of a planetary invasion, went from being an exile to hooking up with two Jedi, and made it through the droid battle alive despite having no combat skills. I think he's got a subconcious control of some very serious Force power. Too bad he's too old to train...
Freedom: "I won't!"
You fools. Jar Jar single-handedly delivered the crumbling, pathetic Republic into the hands of someone who could bring peace, jobs and a good retirement plan to billions if not trillions.
The Empire rocks. The Rebellion is a group of those nasty T people. Death to the Rebel scum! Remember Yavin!
Or, if you'd rather not shell out a monthly fee in addition to the initial cost to play a Star Wars RPG, there are a couple free alternatives - The Star Wars Combine or Star Wars Unleashed, which is based on SWC. Neither are entirely complete yet, but then, the programmers and admins aren't getting any money out of it and both games run on personal funds and donations.
Will the Star Wars Universe reflect the Star Wars Holiday Special?
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What they really ought to do is make Jedis too weak in comparison to other characters. Sure, there'd be enough people who REALLY want to be Jedi that they'd still have a bunch, but if it were easier to advance as a non-Jedi, then they should end up with a good balance.
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than that of whether a submarine can swim" -EWD
Sick of Jar Jar and his love stories. I wont see the next movie.
Unfortunately for Lucasarts this title is going to be published by Sony. As current Everquest subscriber, Sony provides its subscribers with piss-poor customer service. EQ is notorious for its crappy GMs that can't help you with anything. Does anyone remember when the Luclin expansion came out, and it was estimated 20% complete? Sony just rushed it out the door so they can reap all the profits of it for the Chirstmas holiday. All Sony cares about is profits, and they don't have a damn about the indiviual player. To be quite honest, my $12.95 a month is going to Worlds of Warcraft when it comes out, because I know Blizzard isn't a company that wouldn't let me down.
Sorry about the long story, just my 2 cents.
As I understand it (haven't played them so I'm not sure) Everquest and the like were quite free-form. However, the Star Wars universe, as well as any number of clans and races who fall into temporary alliances, contains one huge, honkin, authoritarian Empire. Now, I'm sure that military and civilian leaders in the Empire had all sorts of extracurricular activities going on, but how do you model the obligations of being a cog in the Imperial wheel in a MMORPG? Or does the game simply ignore this aspect of the Star Wars universe?
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
--Andy Finkel (J. Klass?)
Will we have massive Star War fans calling in sick everyday in attempts to become a jedi?
Let me calculate here how long that leftover scholarship money will last on cable internet and SWG fees- I'll find an employer after that...
Going to be the biggest selling game ever? Surely at least the biggest selling online game...
Is this the next everquest? Will we have massive Star War fans calling in sick everyday in attempts to become a jedi?
I think the "massive" fans would be more inclined towards attempts at becoming a Hut...
"I'm about to drop the hammer and dispense some indiscriminate justice!"
Ok. Not a problem - I dont like to post AC because I'm responsible for what I say - and I don't want to hide behind the mask of an AC. I concede your point about mucking up the discussion, but consider that your response did more to much up any civilized discussion than mine did - AC post or not.
I was aware that I was going to get responses for what I said, I just didn't think that it would be as vitriolic and CAPITALIZED as your post was.
was to tell you that we are tired of people like you bitching about the moderation system
Who is the "we" of whom you speak?
I was not "bitching" about the moderation, I was simply making a point about the fact that moderators should read and digest what they moderate, instead of random knee-jerk reactions.
The Star Trek Universe.
Maybe then we'll finally get to see who'd win a war. The Empire or The Federation.
Huh?
Oh, they torture me so. For a brief moment I thought I could expect a New Monkey Island game. But then I realized that the fourth game is already out...
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I have already set aside funding for 3 months worth of subscription fees, a new motherboard and CPU, and more RAM. I shall be "Jedi Master Jerry Jigglenuts", I already have it all planned out.
They'll pay you in Moon Pies and Confederate money.
-Cybrex (A Transplanted Yankee in the Land of Dixie)
Boundless Expansion, Self-Transformation, Dynamic Optimism, Intelligent Technology, Spontaneous Order- BEST DO IT SO!
Yeah... I have noticed that most hardcore gamers are a little on the *hefty* side too.
I know what the Internet is, what the hell is this Interweb business?!
Do we get a flight simulator for Coruscant, with the entire planet-sized city available?
Anyone have any idea what the system requirements are? I haven't found any sites that specify what they'll be.
I just can't believe people somedays...
Grow up. Get a life. Go outside. Talk to a girl.
Star Wars is VERY popular and that is going to help this game out, no doubt, BUT a big nam isn't the deciding factor. Different people like different kinds of games, and different subsets of games. If it was as simple as a liscence we'd have nothing but Jedi Knight in the FPS genere. Plenty of people are going to want to play a different type of MMORPG.
You mean like a Jedi girl? It will be many hours before I've earned the courage points to attain that goal.
I've got to go water my Chia Pet....
Are you implying that numerous overweight fans of semi-classic science fiction will be calling in sick? Or are these fans of massive Star Wars (as opposed to the light version that was released under the Diet Star Wars brand)?
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -- Carl Sagan
But wouldn't you want to do the thing you can't do in real life? OH... wait... right. Nevermind.
I found this to be amusing. :)
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Now now, Mr. or Ms. Troll.
I have nothing against capitalism. But Microsoft's New (Computer Industry) World Order is not capitalism.
Capitalism implies a free market. It implies real consumer choice. It implies competition based on features, not marketing.
What we have here is not capitalism.
If MS's products had succeeded solely on their own merits, without ridiculously and sometimes illegally aggressive marketing (witness MS plastering midtown Manhattan with their cutesy rainbow butterflies to sell MSN), or sleazy back-room wheeling and dealing with OEMs ("If you offer any systems with any non-MS OS, or with no OS, we'll charge you more"), I'd not dislike them so much-- maybe at all. I might still dislike their products, which I do, but I wouldn't hate them like I do.
As for the "KFC and mallowmars" bit-- I'm a vegetarian (no KFC), and I'm skinny. (no mallowmars).
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
from a href="http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony.com/fea tures/faq_pages/faq_1.jsp#111">the FAQ:
1.11 How will the game be initially delivered? How will the cost of the game be figured?
Expect to purchase the game in a box.
i was really worried about that one.
Shadowbane on the otherhand includes FULL pvp (not like the damp squib that is DAOC), dynamic city building and seiging by player formed guilds in a full fantasy setting. Added to the usual mmorpg features this game is the next big thing.
Check it here:
Shaowbane
Also out in February next year, so the competiton will be fierce.
Could somebody please tell the nice people at Lucasarts to stop buggering about with StarWars for one frickin' minute and get me my long awaited Sam and Max sequel?
*wanders off muttering something about murdering coders first-born if it's done by the same team that did the last two Monkey Islands*
From the article:
"The forthcoming Bounty Hunter game for the Playstation 2 lets players take over the role of Jango Fett in a story set just before the events of Episode II - Attack of the Clone."
Wouldn't most of his time before then be spent in a clinic exam room making "genetic material" with a small dish and a porno mag?
Just to cross Mos Eisley
What about reaching another planet?
They really should think about the balance between realism and gameplay - IIRC, one of the big rants I've heard about Everquest is travel time. It's also a rant to some degree in Dark Age of Camelot, which isn't as bad, but is bad enough, especially for one realm. (A key part of DAoC is realm vs. realm combat - It happens that one realm (Albion) has their best XP location at the *EXACT OPPOSITE* end of the realm from the RvR frontiers, while the other realms have good XP spots right near or in the frontiers, meaning Alb is severely disadvantaged in response time.)
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
Done right, of course.
Save CmdrTaco's life! STOP THIS INSANITY AND SHUT DOWN THE STAR WARS SERVER!!
We've already got a man on the inside; he works on the movies, and he's pretty high up (his first name is George; I can't tell you his last name, lest I blow his cover). One more prequel like the first two, and the Star Wars fan base will be completely dried up.
MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....
The item in the subject is an item in DAoC.
It's a Lv15 item which means that stats-wise, it sucks.
The thing is:
a) It's RARE. Doesn't drop often, and only drops from mobs that people rarely hunt.
b) It is treated by the game as a staff (equippable by casters), but it looks like a mace. As a result, it's often referred to as the "caster mace" - It is the ONLY non-staff weapon that a caster can equip.
As a result of its rarity and uniqueness, people have paid 2-4 platinum (A LOT of money in DAoC, which doesn't have the economy exploits that EQ does) for one of these maces, simply because it's a status symbol.
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
DEATHSTAR....one less planet.
Now you can kill the single most annoying character in the Star Wars Universe.
Robert Cringley's column last week talked about the possible demise of Everquest due to the OpenSource program ShowEQ. He seemed to imply that Sony may be letting EQ die or become unpopular so that more people would migrate to Galaxies, which Sony also owns.
Interesting theory.
How long will it be until the OpenSource program to become a Jedi master shows up for Galaxies?Yea! It should be more like Escape Velocity Nova!
Monty Pyhon and the Holy Grail MMORPG!!?
Mind tricks donta work on me! Only money, he, he...
It's a conspiracy!
A bunch of Polish scientists decided to flee their repressive government by
hijacking an airliner and forcing the pilot to fly them to the West. They
drove to the airport, forced their way on board a large passenger jet, and
found there was no pilot on board. Terrified, they listened as the sirens
got louder. Finally, one of the scientists suggested that since he was an
experimentalist, he would try to fly the aircraft.
He sat down at the controls and tried to figure them out. The sirens
got louder and louder. Armed men surrounded the jet. The would be pilot's
friends cried out, "Please, please take off now!!! Hurry!!!"
The experimentalist calmly replied, "Have patience. I'm just a simple
pole in a complex plane."
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