So I've been spending quite a lot of time on Star Wars: The Old Republic lately. It's weird, since I thought I had renounced the evils of MMORPGs by now.
The thing about SWTOR is that it has a very engaging storyline, not only because it's well-written, but because they actually bothered to record
every single dialogue. This might not sound very impressive, until you are reminded that there are over two hundred thousand lines, acted out by
several hundred different voice actors. That's the kind of stuff that puts you
in the Guinness World Record book.So after playing this much, I figured that, hey, I might as well make a character that I play only for you, where you get to decide the major plotlines for it.
There are quiet a lot of decisions to make in the game, lots of different dialogue to choose from, etc etc.
So I'm going to create a new character sometime this weekend, and I'll let you decide how it'll be. I'll record playing as it, and we'll see where it goes from there. I'll try to keep it short, since there are more detailed descriptions
around if you want to get really detailed.
So first off, character creation.
There are two different factions, the Galactic Republic (the good guys) and the Sith Empire (the bad guys). You can choose between two different alignments (Light and Dark) whether you play as Republic or Empire. This will affect the personality the character takes on, as the dialogue options sometimes opts you to choose between alignments, so it'll help what dialogue I should pick when I play.
Each faction has 4 different but similar classes, each with a different story, that branch off into 2 advanced classes each for each class. The Republic classes are Jedi Knight (melee Force-user), Jedi Consular (Force Power-user), Smuggler (light ranged) and Trooper (heavy ranged), whereas the Empire can play as Sith Warrior(melee Force-user), Sith Inquisitor (Force Power-user), Imperial Agent (light ranged) and Bounty Hunter (heavy ranged).
Apart from classes there are also species to choose from, although the species just somewhat change the dialogue towards you and your outwards appearance. They do give each species a special Social action, but most of these are rarely used.
The 9 species to choose from are Chiss, Cyborg, Humans, Miraluka, Mirialan, Rattataki, Sith Pureblood, Twi'lek and Zabrak. The different classes they can play as can be found
here.So how are we going to pick our character?
Basically, just pick a
gender(affects certain relationships)
class,
species,
alignment and some general appearance such as body type (slim, average, muscular and fat) hairstyle (long, short, weird) and if you feel like it general personality and I'll try to accomodate as well as possible. If you want, you can check any character creation video if you want to give me more details. Basically, make a normal character profile but without background story, and it should work out. Feel free to add a name too, but since names in SWTOR are on a first come, first serve basis, you'd have to give me several different ones, or I'd have to make one up on the fly (which when I think about it, could make some unexpected comedy).
This weekend, I'll then pick the character I think I'll like the most and roll with it, and see where it goes. Or if it is popular enough. :/
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