Star Wars Galaxies
Star Wars Galaxies is another one of those games that eats up all of my time. For anyone that has never played it before, I suggest giving it a try. I have spent more time in this game than ANY other. It's an online game, and Amanda plays also.
SWG has had a rough life over the five years it's been out. It has suffered two completely different re-writes of HOW the game plays. Originally, you could choose between 32 professions, mixing and matching how you want. There was a HAM bar, which stood for Health, Action, and Mind. As you fought, you would use up one or more of those performing actions, and as such an opponet could attack any one of them. If any of the three went empty, you died.
Then Sony changed the gameplay with a "combat upgrade" to two bars. A health, and an action. Action was used to do special attacks, and you could now only be killed by a total loss of health. Other than that change, it remained basically the same.
Two years ago, Sony again got a big change idea. This time, they called it the NGE and things changed. The two bars remained, but they slashed out all of the professions, and re-wrote nine. Before, you could change and swap as you wanted, now you are stuck with the skills and profession you pick. It's hard to explain if you have never played the original.
I miss things like they were. Is the game easier now? Yes, much. But it has also lost what made it different from every other online game out there, and that was a world of complete freedom. No other game had ever let you so freely choose who and what you were.
Anyway, I have made the best of what I'm left with, and below are some pictures of me. I did some photoshop work and have put both on so you can see what was done.
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Original screenshot
Altered pic of my tusk-cat I cloned in my lab.
Original. The person in the back with the purple text over their head is another player.
SWG has had a rough life over the five years it's been out. It has suffered two completely different re-writes of HOW the game plays. Originally, you could choose between 32 professions, mixing and matching how you want. There was a HAM bar, which stood for Health, Action, and Mind. As you fought, you would use up one or more of those performing actions, and as such an opponet could attack any one of them. If any of the three went empty, you died.
Then Sony changed the gameplay with a "combat upgrade" to two bars. A health, and an action. Action was used to do special attacks, and you could now only be killed by a total loss of health. Other than that change, it remained basically the same.
Two years ago, Sony again got a big change idea. This time, they called it the NGE and things changed. The two bars remained, but they slashed out all of the professions, and re-wrote nine. Before, you could change and swap as you wanted, now you are stuck with the skills and profession you pick. It's hard to explain if you have never played the original.
I miss things like they were. Is the game easier now? Yes, much. But it has also lost what made it different from every other online game out there, and that was a world of complete freedom. No other game had ever let you so freely choose who and what you were.
Anyway, I have made the best of what I'm left with, and below are some pictures of me. I did some photoshop work and have put both on so you can see what was done.
AlteredOriginal screenshotAltered pic of my tusk-cat I cloned in my lab.Original. The person in the back with the purple text over their head is another player.