I think Blizz would just sit at the bar drinking until a brawl broke out, and then he'd dive in yelling "Uteeni!!!" Mako, Vette, and Ashara I can see having a girls night out. Mako and Vette know Nar Shadda, but Ashara doesn't, so she's probably end up drunk and tattooed by the end of the night. This is such a good concept. SWTOR should make a commerical with all the companions like the "For Michael" commercial the PS3 did.

Yeah, well then give us back our money then ya old coot! GL made his own bed now he has to lie in it. Let someone competent make the movies from now on, and you can be happy just collecting the checks. I love the term "psuedo fan" there OP. What because I don't genuflect when GL does #2 in a box and brands it Star Wars, I'm not a real fan. Bollocks! I like the Star Wars universe, but Star Wars itself was hardly groundbreaking in anything other than special effects. It borders on rip-off if you scrutinize it enough. It is the fans, like me, that have kept Star Wars alive for all this time by buying the merchandise. And let's face it, he made Greedo shoot first, what did he think was going to happen?

Combat was deeper? C'mon. How many usable variations were there if you wanted to be competative in PVP? Fencer/TK and Rifleman/Combat Medic? Anything with a "mind" shot that emphasized stun, so much that battle in the vaunted SWG universe involved 90% of the PVP'ers running around with a stun baton or a Jawa Ion Rifle. Yeah, real deep.

SWG had huge open, barren world with very little to do except grind mission terminals (or serverely bugged Bounty Hunter investigation missions). Did we play the same game? TORs maps are bigger than SWG's "planets." Far be it from terrain features to be an obsticle, that just so sucks of real life. There is a reason roads normal traverse the low points in a mountain range. TOR's maps are beautiful crafted representations of their terrain type. SWG's maps are fractal generated maps with a little artist input her and there. You could not "orbit" a planet you were just on in SWG. You could be in a space zone with a big giant backdrop of the planet you were just on.

This is not aimed at you, BentOne, but I chose to pick your post to make the comment. I'm fine with Fett being dead so long as everyone else is fine with no Thrawn, no Mara Jade, no Skywalker legacy, not Leia and Han marraige. None of it, because Lucas stated that none of it was how he would have written it and he doesn't recognize anything after ROTJ as canon.

Clearly. Let us analyze. First, Boba Fett is Darth Vader. Sound strange? Boba Fett is what Darth Vader was originally going to be, a bounty hunter. His armor is based on early Ralph Mcquarrie art work for Darth Vader's armor. Next. Boba Fett looks cool, so he immediately drew attention to kids like me, because next to Darth Vader himself, nobody looked as cool. Now, I understand that kids these days need a lot of pew pew to feed their ritalin addled Attention Deficit disorder brains, but back in 1980, a character could be established as a bad a** without needing to be hyper cgi'd. So, when do we first see Boba Fett, well we see him in the holidy special and at parades in southern California prior to the release of Empire Strikes Back, but we'll stick to the films. Boba Fett, like all the bounty hunters shows up on a Star Destroyer bridge, as Vader, unable to capture a smuggler alone with the might of the Imperial Fleet is seeking outside assistance from free lance mercenaries. As Darth Vader outlines the details of their employment, who is the only operative addressed personally? You already know the answer, it's our hero Boba Fett. What does Darth Vader, second in command of the Empire say to this "lame" character? "And no disintegrations." To which Fett sighs a resigned "As you wish." This implies that Fett had been in the employ of the Empire, and probably Vader himself, enough that Vader had intimate knowledge of Fett's Modus Operandi when dealing with problems. He was a re-hire of Darth Vader, which means he was most likely exceptional at his job. Now, in the course of five minutes of film time, Boba Fett does what Darth Vader and the entire Imperial fleet could not. He identifies Han Solo's location and tracks him. Had Vader not issued the order to capture them alive, Fett might have just destroyed the Milenium Falcon right there and given Solo's vaccum exposed corpse to Vader. So, now we are on Cloud City. Fett, who probably has better things to do, has to hang around Vader so that he can get Solo and take him to Jabba, but Vader has to unleash his elaborate plan to get Luke, so Fett is basically stuck losing money while he hangs around cloud city. Then we come to the point at which Vader decides to test the carbon freeze chamber on Solo. Fett says, "He's no good to me dead." And Vader replies, "The Empire will compensate you if he dies." The Empire will compensate you? What? Who does Vader EVER allow that kind of familiarity. Not to Lando, whom had betrayed his friends to the Empire. To him he says "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further." So, we've established in very little on screen time that this is a seriously professional operator, with ties to Darth Vader himself. In any other movie, this would be enough to establish a pedigree of bada**ery. Which is exactly what it does for 3 years. And this makes king Georgie very grumpy. Nobody elevates bit characters above his beloved main characters. So, in Return of the Jedi, George visits upon Boba Fett not only death, but a humiliating death that would attempt to quell fan respect for him. It failed. It failed badly and the fans cried out. Later, as he is writing the prequels with an IHOP place mat and some crayons, he decides he needs that level of cool again, and so he remakes Boba Fett as his father and calls him Jango, then stomps into the dirt 20 years of Boba Fett and Mandalorian canon. Something he would do again 10 years later by having his hippie pal Dave Filoni do it in the Clone Wars by turning the Mandalorians into pacifists with terrorist regressives as their obstacle to perfect utopian neutrality.

Whaaaaaaaa?? I guess different strokes for different folks, I like the Agent storyline.

It's like a bad episode of ghost whisperer. Make your toon look like Jennifer Love Hewitt. It has a few decent moments, but overall, pretty silly. I like Ashara. I hate Xelek, he comes in way to late anyway. Khem is cool, Telos is annoying and Andronokis is not bad. I've never played consular, but I hear it's the only class with a worse set of teammates.

Certainly not. Animations for games are created thusly. An artist makes a 3D object that represents a human. Another artist applies bitmaps to it called "textures" that make it look as natural as technology will allow. Needless to say the bitmap files and 3D object polygon count have increased over time. An animator creates a skeletal system. In most games that skeletal system is made to work in all the humanoid 3D objects. Then a group of animators either process motion capture data, and/or hand tweak the animations via these digital stick figures. Each part of the digital stick figure affects a certain part of the 3D geometry, i.e. arms, legs, head, etc. They make a catalogue of animation sequeces for the code to call upon. All this is done in an independent 3D program like Maya or 3D Max. Then all that data is compiled into the game and then engine merely executes the code that trigger the appropriate animation at the appropriate time. That's a vey condensed version.

Please explain what leveling a character on "hardmode" is? No companion. No blue items? This is not bragging, this is me taking vacation from work. I was in day 1 early access, and I was 50 with my Bounty Hunter on December 23rd. In game time: 4 days 3 hours (something minutes).

Rwrang! You have to go to your ship's holoterminal to speak to overall person in charage of story progress Otherwise, spot on.

Really? Darth Vader wore witch/shaman looking gear. Darth Maul? Count Dooku? Oh, you mean just because Palpantine wore long robes, oh, o.k.

I don't want to quote your whole wall of text OP, but I agree with it. Lucas was a s**t writer but a damn fine cinematographer. Too bad he lost his edge with the invention of green screen. Star Wars, also known as A New Hope for those who haven't been with us since 1977, was a beautiful movie. Lucas was spot on in his attempt to portray, as you have said, a lived in universe. I remember reading the story about how when the R2 chassis arrived in Tunisia, he took them off the truck and rolled them in the dirt. Genius. Most people, I've seen, want what they see in the comics and the films. What BioWare has given us is an attempt to further copy WoW. I want my BH to have the standard mando armor of the SWTOR period. I want my Twi'lek Sith inquisitor Assassin to have leather looking pants (curse you BW and your stinking dresses for light armor), a bikini top and a gosh darn lek'ku wrap. Is that too much to ask? And I'd like my Rakata set bonuses to go with it.

Agreed. I've played two toons through 50 and two through 40 and one to 30. So far, there is only ever parts of a class story that have any depth, and then it quickly reverts back to nonsensical, overreaching plot arcs. The Sith Inquisitor has to been my least favorite story line overall, so far, but I love my Assassin.

Thank You. That was by far one of the stupidest scenes in all of moviedom, not just Star Wars. That was a capital ship, not designed for re-entry at all. It had ZERO aerodynamic appendages, and yes, the sudden appearance of a runway, complete with tower, oh, the horror, as Brando once uttered. They are falling from orbit into the atmosphere like they are riding the subway, no seat pinning, face contorting g-forces in Star Wars land apparently. I can't express how much that scene just makes me gag.

I'm going to try and weigh on this without starting a flame war. First, just because WoW was the most successful mmo to date, doesn't mean that it needs to be cut and pasted to every new MMO. I know people want to blame the player, and there is something to it, but it isn't an "entitlement" mentality. People who were not avid gamers have come into the tent. The old schoolers are going to have to accept this. Companies want their money and they aren't about to go back to content made for people who are on 25 - 30 hours a week plus. This is where I'm probably going to get flak. The next paradigm shift in the MMOs will come when some company finally gets over their risk aversion and codes a game that is a hybrid of the sandbox and the theme park model. I'm not suggesting SWG2 for anyone about to barf out that immediate response, but I think instanced housing with displayable items is a must if you want to keep people subbing for a long time. If the gear treadmill is all that the MMO has to offer, well, I'm afraid people just aren't taking that bait like they used to. You can't have a community and have no place for a community to gather. I'm not against challenging raids at all, I love them, but give the players some space in the world they can call and "make" their own, if you want them to have any attachment to your persistent world. Open world PVP, or at least instanced PVP that resembles open world PVP, rather than these tiny pvp zones. That's what I lot of people expected from this game. The failure to realize Illum has really hurt this game, in my opinion. Again, the gear treadmill is all SW:TOR has to offer when it comes to PVP. Frankly I hate PVP gear. Crafting should provide the best gear, but it needs to be crafted with mats concurrent with the challenge of content. That is raid level gear should only be craftable with raid level mats or very difficult quest chains with challenging small group content. I would like to see PVP and PVE servers go away. I think there is a way to do that so that 'griefers' are not making life miserable for those who have no interest in world PVP. If I had my way you'd flag at a major city and it would take 5 minutes for your flag to turn on. You'd have to unflag the same way. If you are running around the world flagged, then some unflagged player could not just ambush you at their convenience. People who wanted to act as though they were on a PVP server could flag all the time, and would have no immediate option to turn it off and on to exploit the system. Those who would normally roll on a PVE server, just wouldn't flag, but that option would be there for possible world PVP events or city raids. TL:DR Hybrid of sandbox and theme park models. Better Crafting, Player housing, World PVP.

This keeps coming up so I keep responding to it. Its time for my 8 rediculous ends to the worst character in the lore. 1. Ahsoka gets knocked up by Anakin on a mission, goes into hiding in Kashyyk in the Shadowlands, after Order 66 begins. Her son is raised on Kashyyk and is who Yoda talks about when he says "there is another." And don't give me that, "It was Leia" stuff either. No you not, what Yoda was thinking, hmmmm. 2. Rather than kill her, Anakin spares her by placing into carbon freeze (since Lucas/Filoni has decided that is a pedestrian procedure). She is placed someplace safe, maybe in Naga Sadow's tomb where she is discoved by Luke when he stars the New Jedi Academy. Double points if she is also pregnant with Anakin's baby when she is unfrozen. 3. She turns to the Darkside, being unable to resist her master's influence. She already shows signs of it anyway. She is then offed by Palps or one of his many secret Sith trainees that he keeps around to keep Vader on a leash. 4. She escapes and goes into hiding. She emerges later to help the Rebel Alliance (since apparently there are far more Jedi running around than Yoda knew, or let on that he knew.) This also encompasses the "married to Rex" theories, who I believe, if he lives, would also be active in the Rebel Alliance. 5. Padme gets Boba Fett released from Coruscant prison and hires him to off Ashoka after she finds her holonet love letters to Anakin. Boba Fett then promptly disappears to become a Bounty Hunter of fortune. Alternately he and Ahsoka run off together, and then she is later killed by cougar Aurra Sing for messing with "her man". 6. She dies during order 66, or after, having an enormous price tag on her head courtesy of the Empire. Aurra Sing doesn't like her very much anyway, and Bossk and Fett both have grudges for her part in imprisoning them. 7. She escapes order 66, but then commits ritual suicide because she is overwhelmed with grief at Anakin's turn to the darkside. 8. She escapes order 66 but becomes a renegade who no longer accepts the Sith/Jedi dichotomy of the force choices, and instead becomes a neutral lightsaber for hire. Additionally, she escapes and gives up the force completely, marries an Architect, has children, and lives out the rest of her days as a faithful Imperial servant.

She has an 18" Enchantress of some kind. Succubus mix with little dragon wings a big dragon behind her. I bought a curio cabinet for it and everything.

What happens on the Defender, stays on the Defender.

Been waiting almost four months to make my Sith Inquisitor's red Twi'lek Jedi Knight sister.

Maybe it's back in the User Interface options of the Preferences menu. I don't know, I had to go to work before the servers came back up. I'm just throwing it out there. I'm not happy knowing that its disappeared from the UI options.

Its typical of EA. Promise the moon and then deliver fake moonrock. Get everyone geared up at the guild conference for all this cool stuff, only to find out its worthless (Legacy gear) or cost 2,000,000 credits (rocket boost). To paraphrase Ellen's character in Finding Nemo. "Just keep subbing, just keep subbing." In the middle of a major outage they were already talking up 1.3 with all the vagueness we've come to expect.

She ignores it if you refuse to take it off. It's more a less a sign of defiance in itself. However,

Yeah, convincing my wife let me spend $349 for the 18" Aayla Secura was hard enough.

Voss. I hate Voss with a passion. The planetary quests are silly. In 3 fifties I haven't found one class quest that doesn't stink to high heaven on Voss. The Voss irritate me more than the Evocii, except that i have to deal with them for much, much longer. So many other planets in the Star Wars universe, why this one?