Star Wars Galaxies Reviewed

Tark writes "Want the inside scoop of what SWG is like? Well, Warthog has written a review for all of you, entitled 'Warrior, Brawler, Hairdresser' with his insights on the game. Sort of. Let's just say you won't find a review anything like this one anywhere else."

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Re:Complete text

[Ulic]

What's wrong with Kristen Dunst naked?

Reviews are useless

[smcn]

Regardless of whether or not it's a positive or negative review, don't buy a game based on what other people think about it. Personally, I think SWG is the best thing since sliced bread, but there are plenty of people with the exact opposite opinion. As for facts... If you don't like bugs, wait a month or two before buying.

Re:Reviews are useless

[A Cheese Danish]

Regardless of whether or not it's a positive or negative review, don't buy a game based on what other people think about it.

.....but I read reviews to find out if I want to shell out that $50 bucks, plus the online fee of $15 a month in SWG's case. I have bought several MMORPGs lately (EVE, E&B, Shadowbane, AC2) and I really wish I'd been able to read a review of them before losing over $200 to (in my opinion) piles of crap that will serve no purpose but to take up space in my computer game collection. (Hey! I paid $50 bucks for these disks. These ain't free AOL ones!)

I've been reading up on SWG as it was originally looking to "take the MMORPG world by storm" or whatever other slogan is has, and frankly, these reviews have helped me. I don't think SWG is as bad as half the reviewers make it out to be, but I also think it's bad enough for them to be said, and bad enough for me not spend my $50 bucks until I hear some improvements are implimented.

Sure, opinions are like assholes....everyone's got one and most smell funny except yours....but I'd rather form an opinion based off a collection of others' opinions than go charging blindly into the void (of my credit card statement, that is)

Re:Reviews are useless

[Rogerborg]

So, you're saying that we should buy the game based on.... how good the cover art is? If we're drunk that day? What, exactly?

Re:EQ with SW Races

[Rogerborg]

And we'll only have to pay another $50 to get it, then wait another six months for them to fix the bugs and add some content. I can't wait!

Revew is a newbie to SWG, forgets EQ's first days

[rufusdufus]

Even as the reviewer points out, he is still a complete newbie. He hasnt see anything in the game. I think he forgest what the first month of EQ was like. You killed the same stupid snake over and over and over. The graphics were bad even for those days. A mage would spend 75% of his time watching his mana bar on a blank screen.

The first couple of days of SWG is a better experence than any other MMPORG ever made. Fewer bugs. Less confusion. No gimping. You get into the game and are doing interesting stuff with interesting graphics right away.

As for more varied interesting stuff, it is there, he just hasnt seen it yet. The Tusken lair for example is quite a thrill to conquer.

Re:My (short) review of SWG

[Kintanon]

***Combat***
Combat is aweful. NPC's can shoot you through mountains and trees. When you fight melee it doesn't even look like you are hitting each other sometimes. Melee fighters almost always lose duels to ranged weapons because melee was nerfed before beta was released. The ranged weapon character can just run circles around the melee'er and shoot him/her/it.

Hence the old addage, "Never bring a knife to a gunfight".

Kintanon