This is why I stopped playing the beta. I'd log in to this game, and wander out into the desert of Tatooine, and suddenly be surrounded by impossible to kill lizards. I'd run, but the lizards would always be right with me. I'd stop, but there would be MORE lizards suddenly around me than I thought chasing me. It's like a bad lizard nightmare. I'm sure you could replace the lizard in my example with any other ridiculous and easy sounding monster such as a Womprat. Another fantastic thing about the SWG community is when I would complain that this game was intolerably boring, and that there were no features compelling enough to want me to spend any more time on it whatever, I got told that I sucked, and I obviously would enjoy this game if that weren't the case. Well then...
This game, in a word, sucks. If it decided to play itself, it wouldn't have any fun either. I would rather leave my house with a dollar bill in my hand and go troll for hobos to chase me for it than play this game for another second. I didn't even want to play this stinker when I was playing it for FREE. Keep in mind that I love Starwars, but this game is to games what Phantom Menace was to Star Wars. Fortunately, when I was beta testing this disaster, I also got into the Planetside beta, and that game rocked house.
Do not but this game. Spend your money on food, or perhaps a book, instead.
King Rat isn't part of the same world/storyline as the other two books and I've heard isn't as good, hence my lack of a recommendation.:) China's new book, Iron Council will continue the same storyline as PSS and The Scar and should be out soon, I hope.
China Mieville is fantastic. His two books, Perdito Street Station and The Scar, are great if you want some Steampunkesque "Weird Fiction."
For some refreshingly original fantasty, I would suggest Robin Hobb. Her series starting with Assassin's Apprentice is a must read for fantasty fans, and it will make you wonder why garbage like Robert Jordan's endless Wheel of Time series even gets published.
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This is why I stopped playing the beta. I'd log in to this game, and wander out into the desert of Tatooine, and suddenly be surrounded by impossible to kill lizards. I'd run, but the lizards would always be right with me. I'd stop, but there would be MORE lizards suddenly around me than I thought chasing me. It's like a bad lizard nightmare. I'm sure you could replace the lizard in my example with any other ridiculous and easy sounding monster such as a Womprat. Another fantastic thing about the SWG community is when I would complain that this game was intolerably boring, and that there were no features compelling enough to want me to spend any more time on it whatever, I got told that I sucked, and I obviously would enjoy this game if that weren't the case. Well then...
This game, in a word, sucks. If it decided to play itself, it wouldn't have any fun either. I would rather leave my house with a dollar bill in my hand and go troll for hobos to chase me for it than play this game for another second. I didn't even want to play this stinker when I was playing it for FREE. Keep in mind that I love Starwars, but this game is to games what Phantom Menace was to Star Wars. Fortunately, when I was beta testing this disaster, I also got into the Planetside beta, and that game rocked house.
Do not but this game. Spend your money on food, or perhaps a book, instead.
King Rat isn't part of the same world/storyline as the other two books and I've heard isn't as good, hence my lack of a recommendation. :) China's new book, Iron Council will continue the same storyline as PSS and The Scar and should be out soon, I hope.
China Mieville is fantastic. His two books, Perdito Street Station and The Scar, are great if you want some Steampunkesque "Weird Fiction."
For some refreshingly original fantasty, I would suggest Robin Hobb. Her series starting with Assassin's Apprentice is a must read for fantasty fans, and it will make you wonder why garbage like Robert Jordan's endless Wheel of Time series even gets published.