Originally posted by pepsi1028

Originally posted by Garvon3

Originally posted by lkavadas

Originally posted by ezjay1975

Originally posted by LotosSlayer

Pre-CU SWG. I really wish I could've played it when it was around, so many people make it out to be amazing.

Same. Never got to play it, the way people talk about it I feel like there's a giant hole in my life that may never be filled. "sarcasm off"

 

Seriously though from what I've read it does sound awesome, if it would have blown up we would have a whole different set of MMO's out right now. Just a guess.

Eh, PreCU was pretty f****d.  Don't let people fool you.  It's combat system was retarded, the buffs were out of control which completely marganilized all PvE content (people would aggro like ten rancors and then karate kick them to death (while they were AFK, obviously), the HAM system was completely f****d in PvP which shelved every single profession which didn't have a mind attack, and everyone wore exactly the same set of armor.

It had it's cool points but people still QQ about it just because it was unfairly taken from them, not necessarily because it was all that great.

Very true, there were a lot of bad things ruining SWG. The Jedi system for once, and the buffs. It had some great features though, and if it had enough budget for someone to go back and fix it, it'd make a great game.

 still better then NGE...

Well yeah, just about anything is better than the NGE

Originally posted by Garvon3

Originally posted by pepsi1028

Originally posted by Garvon3

Originally posted by lkavadas

Originally posted by ezjay1975

Originally posted by LotosSlayer

Pre-CU SWG. I really wish I could've played it when it was around, so many people make it out to be amazing.

Same. Never got to play it, the way people talk about it I feel like there's a giant hole in my life that may never be filled. "sarcasm off"

 

Seriously though from what I've read it does sound awesome, if it would have blown up we would have a whole different set of MMO's out right now. Just a guess.

Eh, PreCU was pretty f****d.  Don't let people fool you.  It's combat system was retarded, the buffs were out of control which completely marganilized all PvE content (people would aggro like ten rancors and then karate kick them to death (while they were AFK, obviously), the HAM system was completely f****d in PvP which shelved every single profession which didn't have a mind attack, and everyone wore exactly the same set of armor.

It had it's cool points but people still QQ about it just because it was unfairly taken from them, not necessarily because it was all that great.

Very true, there were a lot of bad things ruining SWG. The Jedi system for once, and the buffs. It had some great features though, and if it had enough budget for someone to go back and fix it, it'd make a great game.

 still better then NGE...

Well yeah, just about anything is better than the NGE

 I would still have what I had before instead of that, but yeah it wasn't the best anyways so I agree with you...

Probably Earth and Beyond.  I'm a big fan of space games and I have fond memories of playing this one a long time ago and the reasons why I quit have faded enough I'd play it again if it was still around.

Originally posted by pepsi1028

Originally posted by Garvon3

Originally posted by pepsi1028

Originally posted by Garvon3

Originally posted by lkavadas

Originally posted by ezjay1975

Originally posted by LotosSlayer

Pre-CU SWG. I really wish I could've played it when it was around, so many people make it out to be amazing.

Same. Never got to play it, the way people talk about it I feel like there's a giant hole in my life that may never be filled. "sarcasm off"

 

Seriously though from what I've read it does sound awesome, if it would have blown up we would have a whole different set of MMO's out right now. Just a guess.

Eh, PreCU was pretty f****d.  Don't let people fool you.  It's combat system was retarded, the buffs were out of control which completely marganilized all PvE content (people would aggro like ten rancors and then karate kick them to death (while they were AFK, obviously), the HAM system was completely f****d in PvP which shelved every single profession which didn't have a mind attack, and everyone wore exactly the same set of armor.

It had it's cool points but people still QQ about it just because it was unfairly taken from them, not necessarily because it was all that great.

Very true, there were a lot of bad things ruining SWG. The Jedi system for once, and the buffs. It had some great features though, and if it had enough budget for someone to go back and fix it, it'd make a great game.

 still better then NGE...

Well yeah, just about anything is better than the NGE

 I would still have what I had before instead of that, but yeah it wasn't the best anyways so I agree with you...

SWG was a great, even with its critical flaws. Jump to Lightspeed is still one of the best expansions in any MMO to date. Just a few small things changed is all I would want haha

Ahhh stop it! your making me want to play again :/

While Original SWG was fun, it was more of the whole WOW STAR WARS! feelings.

Anyways!

Fury or Hellgate london!

Fury was all about PvP. You got loot from PvP.  It was a fairly fun system, but the system requirements were INSANE at the time.  And there were huge memory leaks and just overall bad problems with the program.

I remember them saying when I first heard of it, the Week preview would have 1 million people.  Then 500,000 they said...Then 100,000...and yeah....

Hellgate London by the people who made Diablo I/II.  Had the right idea, but it seemed like it was trying to everything and nothing.

the very old Dark Sun Online. anybody remember that one? I'd like it brought back to see if its as good as I remember. I doubt it but still :)

Original Everquest.  To me, that is the gold standard for the genre. 

SWG CU version for me...

I guess Gods and Heroes is being revived...I think that's pretty cool...

Originally posted by lkavadas

Originally posted by Garvon3

Originally posted by lkavadas

Originally posted by ezjay1975

Originally posted by LotosSlayer

Pre-CU SWG. I really wish I could've played it when it was around, so many people make it out to be amazing.

Same. Never got to play it, the way people talk about it I feel like there's a giant hole in my life that may never be filled. "sarcasm off"

 

Seriously though from what I've read it does sound awesome, if it would have blown up we would have a whole different set of MMO's out right now. Just a guess.

Eh, PreCU was pretty f****d.  Don't let people fool you.  It's combat system was retarded, the buffs were out of control which completely marganilized all PvE content (people would aggro like ten rancors and then karate kick them to death (while they were AFK, obviously), the HAM system was completely f****d in PvP which shelved every single profession which didn't have a mind attack, and everyone wore exactly the same set of armor.

It had it's cool points but people still QQ about it just because it was unfairly taken from them, not necessarily because it was all that great.

Very true, there were a lot of bad things ruining SWG. The Jedi system for once, and the buffs. It had some great features though, and if it had enough budget for someone to go back and fix it, it'd make a great game.

Yeah.  TBH if you fixed the Health and Action buffs to be commensurate with entertainer's mind buffs, and then allow mind to be as easily healed as anything else, pretty much all of the combat woes would have been solved right there.

At that point it would just be a matter of un-retarding gimped armor sets/weapons and some simple fixes to broken stuff (like everything that involved the Commando profession, for instance).

And the dev's complete fetish for pushing one retarded Jedi revamp after another down our throat in a game in which they should have never been included at all really made the rest of the game suffer.

I name Jedi as the largest contributing factor to PreCU's downfall; had all of the force-tards just STFU and let us play the damn game the devs could have focused on what really mattered rather than Jedi Revamp Patch #832570283567072562 in a row.

I played the game right at the best time possible.  I started playing SWG  6/14/04 and played every month till 11/19/05. The nge hit 11/15/05.  I only had to put up with the nge for 4 days and that was it.    I quote  "They also announced on 20 December 2002 that the ground-based component of Star Wars Galaxies would be called An Empire Divided and that the game's online community had grown to over 400,000 users since its inception in November 2000. At the time, this represented one of the largest ever fan communities amassed for any game prior to retail availability."  This game was huge and nothing like it had come before it.  Whats the only thing that could have killed it, a SWGkiller aka a wowkiller. What game fit the bill, of course wow did.  Nuff said, the game was over before it got to get any momentum.  

I like many SWG players switched over to wow when it came out, although I kepy playing both.  It really was nice being able to play wow as my main game and go to SWG.  They totally benfited each other I think in this aspect for me, cause I would burn out on wow then go play SWG.  I Started playing wow 1/4/05 a few months after release.  .  I personally never felt there was anything wrong with the SWG world and I really enjoyed it every minute I played.  I just wish there was something to go back to that I enjoyed about the game when I played it back then.  Its just not that way any more and I dont even like to think about the game.  

It would have to be Shadowbane.  I remember everybody I knew leaving the Throne of Oblivion beta for the WoW beta though.  People just hated ToO that much...

     I would also defintly have to go with AC2. I know the AC1 crowd dont like it because it wasnt AC1 with better graphics. I never played AC1, but from what i hear it seems to be an issue of totally different type of gameplay compared to AC2. The only thing it seems to have in common as the lore and world/charachters. Seems to be about as different from AC1 as GW2 will be from GW1.

     I loved AC2. It had flaws definitely, but most of those where due to the microsoft/turbine devs having a tug of war with the game and the terrible customer service. Just seemed that by the time the smoke cleared and turbine won ownership of the game, they didnt really care about it. But it was really ahead of its time. I think it would do far better if released now than it did at the time. Most of our computers then just didnt have the hardware to do it justice at the time. But ive ...umm "seen" it on a more modern rig and it actually holds up really well graphically.

SWG Pre-cu hands down. 1st MMO I played and unfortunately, the best. Also GW 1 was fun with a big population now it is dwindling. Sooo excited for GW 2.

Noticed this thread, had to reply:

Ultima Online 2, I still have one of the older PC gaming magazines in my closet with the screenshots of UO:2 before they scrapped it, would of been fantastic I think.  Otherwise original SWG, that was my 2nd favorite mmorpg, it was so awesome to travel to Jabba's palace for the first time and all the other sights to see, geez I miss that game but I'll never go back, not after seeing that horror storm trooper episode deal or whatever.

Someone else mentioned Ultima Online, which is why I said UO:2, granted UO is still active and seems to have a decent playerbase, I tried it again recently and even with the enhanced client it just wasn't the same for me *sigh* kind of agree with the other poster who said to leave them be and just recall the fond memories, ohhh the memories.

Didn't really add a "Why" because both titles are self-explanatory, at least I think so for anyone who is familar with them.

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I would revive SWG pre-cu, just so I could toss out that piece of garbage a second time and let the "vets" start whining and crying all over again.

Shadowbane! All the Lok-ri on my server were fantastic roleplayers and the game was unique as we were one of the only server to have 3 guilds sharing the map, on the other server it was only 1 major kick ass guild owning everything. It was so fun .

For me it would be

1-precu swg i had a blast

2-Tabula Rasa was a cool concept.

3- Dungon of Doom  it was great concept

For me that is an easy one Earth and Beyond i loved that game. I remember the update that added the tada-o gate me and my guild went to check it out. warped right into the middle of it just in time for the tengu to spawn and party wipe... man i miss that game damn EA.

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     I would also defintly have to go with AC2. I know the AC1 crowd dont like it because it wasnt AC1 with better graphics. I never played AC1, but from what i hear it seems to be an issue of totally different type of gameplay compared to AC2. The only thing it seems to have in common as the lore and world/charachters. Seems to be about as different from AC1 as GW2 will be from GW1.

     I loved AC2. It had flaws definitely, but most of those where due to the microsoft/turbine devs having a tug of war with the game and the terrible customer service. Just seemed that by the time the smoke cleared and turbine won ownership of the game, they didnt really care about it. But it was really ahead of its time. I think it would do far better if released now than it did at the time. Most of our computers then just didnt have the hardware to do it justice at the time. But ive ...umm "seen" it on a more modern rig and it actually holds up really well graphically.

 Seconded.  AC2 was a really wonderful game, and to be honest I was a little heartbroken when they pulled the plug on it.  I played AC1 as well as AC2, and loved both games.   AC2 was well on its way to being a classic in terms of game structure and development, unfortunately the community had already given up on it.