Tatooine and the Pit Of Carkoon

These SWTOR pics are from a couple weeks ago.  Ive since moved on to Alderaan.  Im nearly done with SWTOR I think...it has lost my interest pretty quickly.

My last post of the year - SWTOR pictures

Another year gone by.  Holy crap.

Ive been playing SWTOR for the past few weeks.  I finally managed to stop playing long enough to upload some screenshots.  Its a really good game, but sadly, imho, its only WoW dressed up in Wookie's clothing.

A creepy statue being erected on Dromund Kaas - the imperial homeworld.

 My starship

 At the helm for the first time

 The bright lights of Nar Shaddaa

 Coruscant

The last of my TOR pictures from Beta.

Jeez, im like a little boy waiting for Christmas.

This is from my time playing as a Sith Inquisitor (which breaks into two advanced classes - Sith Sorcerer, which would be The Emperor and a Sith Assassin - which would be Darth Maul).  Im nearly settled on playing as an Imperial Agent Sniper, but I gotta tell ya - having a lightsaber is fucking cool.

Korriban - the Sith Inquistior and Sith Warrior starting world.  You can see in this pic here that my character has a training sword.

 "Your lightsaber, my young apprentice" - I had just gotten it, and I was pretty stoked.  Not many movie sound effects mean as much as the sound of a saber firing up

A taxi in the Imperial city "Kaas City" on Dromund Kaas,  I didnt play as a Republic character, so I dont know what Coruscant looks like, but this must be its Imperial partner

If I can get lucky enough to get in to the launch early, there are only 13 days left!!!

Some more SWTOR pictures

Got a few more pics from SWTOR from this weekend's beta test

First off, a couple from the Imperial Fleet

Huttball - totally awesome.  A game where you try to get the ball past the goal line.

The arrival/departure gate on Dromund Kaas.  You can see my companion, Kaliyo Djannis, to the left.

I think I still have a few more pics.  Ill try to get them up tomorrow.

Holy shit, I cant wait for SWTOR

Some pics from the SW TOR beta

Got a chance to play in the Star Wars: The Old Republic beta this weekend.  While, what Im about to post is technically breaking the beta agreement, I dont think its anything too 'spoiling'.

Any of you interested?  Its a great game - very much WoW in the Star Wars universe in my opinion, but I thought WoW was great too until I lost interest - not to mention the last I heard, there were well over 6 million paying customers.  Hard to beat that right?

Anyway, the game is playing great right now (due out Dec 20th here in the States).  I had a few minor crashes to desktop, and minor lag in a few places, but my laptop is older (5 or 6 years?) and it ran the game fine (I did have to turn the graphics settings down a bit, but not too much).  It could easily be released today, and it would be fine.

I was pressing Prt Scrn like crazy (most games have a screenshot folder), but sadly, much to my chagrin, that isnt implemented yet.  These are just a few that I manged to put in MS Paint and save.

Without further ado:
I played as Raptoria, the Twilek Sith Inquisitor, and quit when I got my lightsaber around level 10.  She seemed pretty gimp as far as damage goes, and she had no healing powers yet.  Cool class though - a Sith Sorcerer, one of the advanced classes of the Inquisitor would be Darth Sidious.

Next up was Kale, the Zabrak Imperial Agent.  The IA brings some pretty heavy firepower.   I was easily finishing off groups of mobs that were at my level, taking very little damage (with one shot, maybe 2).  The IA also brings darts, grenades, and the technological might of the Empire.

Nemro the Hutt's cantina

I had originally planned on playing this game as a Bounty Hunter (who wouldnt want to pretend to be Boba Fett????) but after my time with the IA, im not sure thats the way its gonna go.  Ill be playing in the next round of beta testing - ill have to give the BH a go then.

Star Wars The Old Republic is going to be crazy

I spent part of the weekend catching up on news from the upcoming MMO, Star Wars The Old Republic.  I have been quietly anticipating this game from BioWare (makers of several other high end RP games such as Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Dragon Age, and Mass Effect) since it was announced a couple years ago.  Ive been trying my best not to get too excited about it, but I saw some stuff this weekend that has pretty much put me over the top.  No release date has been announced yet, but late this year, or more likely early next year would be my assumption.  E3 (the big video game conference in LA) is in a couple weeks, and Im hoping for an announcement there.

Anyway, here are some pics, most of which were stolen off of Darth Hater's website - a great fansite btw -  here.

Planet Alderaan

The Valley Of The Dark Lords, a Sith player in the Valley, and the inside of a Sith Temple

A bounty hunter (the dual pistols are fucking awesome!) and a bounty hunter's ship - the Kuat Drive Yards D5 Mantis

A Sith Inquisitor - has the ability to stealth - Im assuming this will be like the Rogue's stealth ability in World Of Warcraft.  This is an 'opening move' coming out of stealth.

A picture of space combat - from a presentation at the PAX Expo this year (I think).

Three Imperial Agent pics - sexy!

Ive already been thinking of what type of character I want to play - I already know I want to play on the Sith faction side (who will fight vs the Republic - Jedis, Smugglers, etc), but at this point, im totally torn on which class I will want to play.  Each class eventually splits into two specializations:

The Sith Inquisitor, which splits into the Sith Sorcerer and Sith Assassin
The Bounty Hunter, which splits into the Mercenary and Powertech
The Imperial Agent, which splits into the Operative and the Sniper

Ive narrowed down my choices to Sith Assassin, Mercenary, Operative, or Sniper.  :)  Way to narrow it down, huh?

More info to come as I learn more about the game!