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It’s like I’m Printing Money

Posted in MMORPG with tags , on February 21, 2012 by theerivs

So I needed a level 25 speeder in SWTOR, I lacked the funds. Someone told me I should take up slicing. I’m like but the nerfed slicing. Someone told me it was all lies. I started slicing big time, the cases I get are Meh, I mean they pay for the mission…and sometimes way more. The thing that is netting me serious bank as the “Missions” I discover. I mean in the past 3 days of just slicing, and sitting around the Fleet, I made like 100k credits, and still going strong.

I don’t even play the Auction House like I would WoW. I just slap my mission discoveries up on the AH, and bam next day my wallet runneth overth.  If you need credits, take up that slicing, and believe me you’ll be making some bank, well around Level 4 lockboxes and up you will be. 

Now if I can only level my toon to 50, I’m such a slacker it’s sick.  Isn’t my fault I wanted another Sith Warrior to make into a Marauder.

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SWTOR Confessional: I suck at Space Battles

Posted in MMORPG with tags , , on February 16, 2012 by theerivs

Ok I have a little confession, what I think is supposed to be the easiest part of the game….is the hardest for me. I just suck at it for some reason. Maybe it’s the controls, it seems when I move the mouse my ship wants to go that way too, then BOOM I hit an asteroid.

Sometimes I think MMO’s ruined me for muscle twitch games like HALO, or Grand Theft Auto. I’m not as good at them as I once was. Heck before MMO’s I use to be a part of a pretty good clan, and use to rock things as a Predator in Aliens Versus Predator, or when I played Mechwarrior, I wasn’t the best…but I was far from the worst.

Whenever I play an action game now it seems like I lost a step, or I’ve lost something. Maybe it’s like working out, if I don’t use it, I lose it. What ever the case may be, fricking space battles I just suck at in SWTOR. I’ll stick to farming Sand People.

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I’m the Juggernaut, Bitch!

Posted in MMORPG with tags , , on January 20, 2012 by theerivs

I play a Sith Juggernaut as my main, and scouring the Internet for some Juggernaut, I got some gems for my Juggernaut homies of the oldrepublicordie , Darth Hater, and SWTOR FACE website, thought I would share, though I don’t agree with everything they say, I found some info useful. Enjoy!

Juggernaut guide.

Trainer Locations.

Tanking Tree Help

 

I hope this stuff helps you a bit

 

 

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I Let Them Live

Posted in MMORPG with tags , , on January 17, 2012 by theerivs

So on Nar Shadda, I had a chance to allow these republic troops a chance to live, and serve me at a later time. Which garnered me light points, which took me a step back in my goal to be pure evil, though I was stunned I did let them live, which so unlike me. I was doubly shocked, when they did actually play a part, and  glad they helped me defeat Darth Rathari later in my mission. .

I’m shocked at myself, but I came to the conclusion there is a difference between being evil, and being a lunatic, you need to know who to kill, and who will prove useful. That there is a difference between garnering power, and just being a psychopath cutting a swath through the galaxy, and leaving a pile of bodies in your wake.  

This game continues to make me think about my choices, and some of them turn me on my head, and really make me think. It reminds me of those old “choose your own adventure books” where if I choose A, instead of B, it would of lead me down a different path, one that I may not like, or one that is really awesome.

The Republic troops who helped me, in my infinite mercy I let them live for their help with Rathari, and making me rethink what it means to be evil. Perhaps this is a new leaf for me, where I make better choices not just because I get dark side points, but because it’s more evil to pursue power, then it is to pursue lunacy.

On the other hand the aliens protecting the Revan’s Infinite Engine, all of them had to die they were hideous looking, and smung bantha poodoo…Ok maybe I am a psychopath.

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I just kissed a sith, and I liked it

Posted in MMORPG with tags , , , on January 11, 2012 by theerivs

So there I was flirting with an NPC, then next thing you know I blacked out, and my lightsaber was out.  I think….did I…just have sex…. I was so excited, alas my girl friend was not so much when I screamed Darth Lathris instead of her name that night. 

Seriously though I really love the inclusion of story, and the way quests are handled here, but the true test of a game is as we all know is end game. Though I have a long time to get there, will this game have the same appeal 3 years from now as it does now?  Is this the extended version of Tortage that was in AoC.

I’m starting to worry about tanking skills in this game, I really haven’t done any instances, but if I can’t keep aggro off my companion we may have a problem. Maybe I’ll do a couple lower level flashpoints just to give it a shot. This is what I hate about new games, I have to find most of this crap out for myself.

But for now, I’m enjoying the game and enjoying being the murderous bastard I always wanted to be, and screwing more Sith then Obi-wan.

 

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My Companion Hates Me

Posted in MMORPG with tags , on December 29, 2011 by theerivs

No I’m not talking about my girlfriend, but she does loathe me for not putting the toilet seat down. Hey you want to pee with it down, I feel the burden should be on you.

Scary wrote something, and I’ve read a couple comments on Torhead, and it got me thinking about  my SWTOR in-game Companion. I think she really hates me, and for good reason, I am a Sith Warrior. I was given Yvette as my companion/slave.  I think it was Caligula who said, “Let them hate me, as long as they fear me.”   I have no time for love, affection….and I skoff at marriage. I demand obedience. That and I may have shocked her a couple times to show her who is boss.  Then again what do expect from someone who just killed a mother and her son in cold blood. They we’re weak I couldn’t allow them to live a moment longer. fricking momma’s boy that he is, and his shrew of a mother, I think I did the universe a favor. My behaviour in game is not winning me any friends anytime soon. The great thing is, I don’t care I’m having way too much fun. Then after my choice is made, I see the companion negative symbol….and I laugh to myself.  

Here’s my point, right now I could give three craps about my companion. All I require is that she kills for me, go make me stuff, and sell my greys for me…

Ok I pat her on the butt from time to time for a job well done.

 

 

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Hardcore…No More

Posted in MMORPG with tags , , on December 28, 2011 by theerivs

I’m a poet, and you didn’t  even know it.

One of my guildies commented on my lack of progression in the game yesterday, he thought I had a Jedi on the side…(shh…I do). I thought about it, and he was right in the past I would have probably had a toon at 50 in SWTOR by now. I use to play so much it was like a second job.

I guess all things change though. I guess…*gulp* I’ve been demoted to…*sigh* a casual gamer. But is that a bad thing? Are we in a race with these MMO’s, especially a new MMO where the end game isn’t fleshed out yet?

Yes it is, and we are. This sucks. Man, being an adult with adult responsibilities sucks. Girlfriend, Job, Bills, etc..etc…it all blows. (Uhm honey I didn’t mean that, this is a gaming blog you shouldn’t be reading this stuff, it just gamer speak, I’ll explain later when we’re naked.)  I want my Sith Lord to be 50 and kicking ass by now.

Oh well…like I said things change, and I’ll let the young whipper snappers have their fun in the sun, I’ll just sit back and enjoy the ride like Miss Daisy did in that movie about driving around an old fart.

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Bioware loves Fat People

Posted in MMORPG with tags , on December 21, 2011 by theerivs

When I was playing around with charactor creation in SWTOR, I made a Sith who looked more like a Sumo Wrestler than a Sith. I played with him a bit, I discarded him because even though I thought it was cool, I thought the Sith were should look more lean, hungry. Like a wolf.

Now Fat Jedi’s would make sense those lazy dogs, living the life of Riley….a little sidenote, my father use to say, “Your living the life of Riley”…Who the heck is Riley, and what was so great about his life.

5 things I liked about Charactor Creation in SWTOR

5. Fat People – Get to have more choices on the size of your toons.

4. Faces – I really liked some of the faces, had really charactor.

3. Makeup on Women - Just a cool little touch.

2. Complexion – Mace Windu type Jedi’s are now available

1. Scars – Some real cool ones, even though I’m not a huge scar person.

Thing I hated-

HAIR – By Vader’s Burnt Ballsack,  alot of sucky hair-do’s in the Star Wars Universe.

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I’m not falling for no banana in the tailpipe

Posted in MMORPG with tags , on December 20, 2011 by theerivs

In Beverly Hills Cop, Eddie Murphy use to play a prank by putting a banana in the tailpipe of a car. The car would back up with exhaust, and fail to run. There was a funny line where Eddie goes, “I ain’t falling for no banana in the tailpipe”

Buying an MMO guide always seemed like a cool idea at the time, tips, and tricks to the game plus some real great lore, and reading material. After being suckered into buying these guides more times than I care to admit, I finally put my foot down and said, NO MORE!

I would always read the guide once, realize that this is all information that is either outdated, or I could have gotten the info online for free somewhere.  Then the guide would sit for aeons, collecting dust, waiting for the day I would find them again, and go “Oh cool”  peruse them for a bit, then put them back to collect yet more dust.

I do admit I like the artwork, and some lore given in those books…the pretty pictures….oh so puhrrty….Oh who am I kidding, I’ll probably pick one up, and get a banana up my tailpipe.

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Choices

Posted in MMORPG with tags , on December 19, 2011 by theerivs

Life is filled with choices, and I think the most profound thing I like about some video games are your choices, and how they affect the game. Even Pac Man has choices. Do I go left or right, do I eat a magic pill to make the ghosts blue now, or wait.  I like when a game like life gives you feedback about your choices, like in Pac-man if you choose wrong you die, and here that pacman death plunk.  

Star Wars the Old Republic shocked me. I made some choices with prisoners, and my choices were not only read back to me, but they were questioned. I was stunned. You mean in an MMO it’s not on rails, I just kill 10 rats, and I’m done. There are choices to make, and my choices may be wrong.   I think we all know I like playing the bad guy, and this game makes no qualms about it. You can make some pretty nasty choices, like when I choked the crab out of a prisoner.

That’s why I love this game, that’s why I’m enthralled with it, and am already loving it. I can’t tell you how I will feel about the game at 50, or when I’m on my 8th alt…but right now….right here. I love it to death.  To me making choices, that’s what life is about, some bad…some good…and as in the pic some pure awesome.

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