20 days of SWTOR, day 3

[virtualvoyages]

I'm going to revert to the original version of the meme for this day, since it's an easier question to answer.  Besides, maybe I haven't had my best experience yet. :P

First, I've got to say that I got a coworker's help to build a computer that could play SW:TOR because my old computer (despite having a pretty awesome video card - having many geeky friends comes in handy, the old computer was a cast off and top of the line a few years back) was not going to be good enough.  I'm kind of proud of that.  And managing to install my old video card in my new computer on my own.  I'm easily impressed with myself.

So, having acquired a SW:TOR capable computer the fun way, and finding out what servers my friends planned to play on (they wanted to be able to try out both advance classes of each class), I set about making one of everything.  Starting with the two classes I'd been interested in since I first heard they were in the game: Smuggler and Imperial Agent.  I knew I'd like those classes, and I do.  Oh so very much.  (I may be the only person on the planet enjoying the dps version of those classes.  I blame it on years of playing a mage in WoW.)

Like a number of other people, I thought making a green, female Han Solo sounded like a good idea and voila! Jezari was born.
I'd also decided before the game even launched that my agent would be a Light Side James Bond in spaaace, and I was pleased to discover that it was actually possible to make a handsome guy, which I did, and voila! Kyrian was born.

The only other character I made that day that I haven't since remade due to not being "right" was my bounty hunter, the tough (she's got a scar and everything), but actually nice Savler.  Strangely enough, those three characters are also the characters I've ended up writing fan fiction about.   Make of that what you will.

I will say that it took almost no time of game playing for my characters to have personality beyond what I'd started with.  And probably even less time for me to decide that SW:TOR was the best MMO ever.  (Other MMOs?  What other MMOs?)

So my first day was making characters, starting a couple of them, and falling utterly in love with the game.  Story. I can haz story. *siiiiigh*

20 Days of TOR (Redux)
Day 01 – Introduce yourself
Day 02 – Why did you decided to start a blog?
Day 03 – Your best SW:TOR playing experience Your first day playing SW:TOR
Day 04 – Your favorite SW:TOR quest or quest chain
Day 05 – Favorite item(s) in game
Day 06 – How many active characters do you have? Do you suffer from "altitis"?
Day 07 – The reason behind your blog’s name
Day 08 – Your favorite class so far, and why
Day 09 – Favorite attack or special move
Day 10 – Crafting: yay or nay? What professions, if any, do you seriously pursue?
Day 11 – Bad in-game habits and flaws
Day 12 – What's a typical TOR gaming session look like for you?
Day 13 – What do you hope Bioware will add to the game?
Day 14 – What aspect of the game upsets you the most?
Day 15 – Have you created a unique headcanon for your characters? If so, what is it?
Day 16 – Your favorite character companion
Day 17 – Your favorite in-game location
Day 18 – Your favorite outfit
Day 19 – What strange things do you keep in your bags or bank?
Day 20 – Conclude with a free day! Write about a SW:TOR topic that the previous 19 days failed to address

Comments

[virtualvoyages]

Aion is the prettiest game I've ever played (and after City of Heroes, Champions, and Aion, not having more customization in SW:TOR is annoying), but it's also the most male-gazey game I've ever played. I don't mind there being cheesecake armor options, but when all the armor for female characters is cheese cake (and much of it appears to be negligees), I spend too much time headdesking to play.

Though just being able to make an attractive male character puts SW:TOR above WoW (where I played all female characters because I need my characters to be attractive - however horribly shallow that makes me). I did spend some time fiddling to get my characters' looks right (certainly more than in WoW), and I am very happy I could give female characters facial scars.

But for me, it's the story aspect that makes SW:TOR awesome. That's new and different. And fun.

[nebelstreif]

I completely understand about needing attractive characters, regardless of gender. I always sorta hated that I played exclusively female toons, and then I realized -- hot damn, I have absolutely no problem playing a sexy male chiss.

[loquat.myid.net]

I'm ok with cheesecake armor for squishy classes - a full-coverage cloth dress isn't going to provide any more protection vs. a giant axe than a negligee does - but I can't stand it on heavy armor. Fortunately, I already wanted to make my plate-wearer a male anyway. And it's a good thing I never really liked playing my assassin - I think there were maybe 2 leather armor sets I ever saw that didn't make her look like she was taking a break from an S&M video shoot. But I can forgive a certain amount of cheesecake if the armor is pretty, and Aion's was certainly that. (Rift, by contrast, has less cheesecake but the armor tends to be facepalmingly ugly just in general, so I remain nostalgic for Aion's armor.)

Story is certainly a thing I like in single-player games, which is to say games I know will have a defined ending after which there will be nothing for me to do except maybe mop up a few side quests, or just start over. In an MMO setting, I know I'm going to finish the storyline and then hang out raiding/dungeoning/PvPing with my friends, so it's less important to me. Though I will say it's nice that major Rift NPCs have their own backstories and character arcs - most NPCs in Aion and Warhammer could have been replaced by vending machines and quest billboards with no real loss to the game.

[virtualvoyages]

Never been much of a PvPer and I find end game a hamsters wheel, so games have always been about the journey to me. But as much as I solo in MMOs, they're practically single player games for me anyway. (Yeah, yeah, doing it wrong and all that.)