I actually did pistoleer and bounty hunter, and it was useful, but u need to put more in pistoleer to make it useful for sure.  I was never creature handler myself, the dev's screwed around w/ it too much, one day u could have 3 rancors, the next u weren't even allowed to have 1, SOE sucked...anyways...

anyone know if star wars the old republic will be anything like precu?  i know its a mix of class and skill based, or thats what people say, so will it be the return we've all been waiting for?

its not that hard, sites similar to newegg.com sell comp parts pretty cheap, so just buy the parts and put it together, its like legos, of course its hard to get a good pc for 400, but for just like 200 more bucks u can get so much more out of it, and think about it, consoles only stay on top for 2 years max, and then new stuff comes out, pc's can last years, and are much much much cheaper to upgrade, mostly because u usually only ahve to ever replace the video card, or motherboard, or memory(which are all expensive, but u can do it one step at a time)

why would u want to spend all that money for a console, when u can spend that same amount for a computer(and u don't have to waste money on a controller)  and a computer can write ur hw, browse the internet easily, and can balance ur checkbook, and play ur favorite games with a mouse and keyboard.  So why waste money buying a console game if ur just going to play it like a pc anyways?

mmo's on 360 will probably suck, just because crafting will be a pain, and combat would be too.  unless its a mmofps

the minion system reminds me of guild wars hero systems which works really really well.  Hopefully Gods and Heroes will have a hero battles thing like in guild wars too w/ an ELO rating system!

You should check out the forums in the SWG thing on this site, and check out the topics in Veterans refuge.  Some topics are just people ranting, but others have some pretty good debates going.  But the basics is that Sony Online Entertainment put a ton of patches since the release, i don't really know why, but some were good and others bad but nothing really changed everything too much. But then they implented a combat upgrade or CU system which completely revamped the combat, this ticked off alot of people, including me who like the original combat.  ANd then later they did something with NGE i don't know alot about that though since i wasn't playing.  But thats the background, actually, i don't know the site but i've heard that some guy actually has taken the precu SWG and put it on his own servers, they're pretty empty i think, but if ur interested in combat at all u should check it out.

Also, i forgot to mention, Second Life has a creation system, i wouldn't say crafting since it requires programming.  But its pretty cool to see what people can do, but i would try teen second life, since the adult second life is filled with perverts in some areas just don't even bother with it.

yea precu crafting for swg was the bomb, i've never seen anything like it