STAR WARS: the Old Republic...Anyone Playing?
POSTED BY: HKCavalier
UPDATED: Monday, April 23, 2012 01:53
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I'd say it'd be worth rolling a bounty hunter based on what I've heard from you and HK.
Katie Kaboom? Villianous breakdown/meltdown in 3,2...
(I haven't watched animaniacs in so long. Classic)
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Well, as you know, I play these games in part to placate my inner darkness, which, combined with a certain dark bent of humor, means I am enjoying this bounty hunter gig prolly a little more than is entirely healty - cause I gotta tellya, the Bounty Hunter (played as an amoral nutjob) is pure dark-comedy GOLD!
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Accountant, Wife, "Nothing Personal"...oooh my - and it just gets worse from there.
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Also, I really hope that there's some point that you can tell a jerk force user exactly where they can stick their lightsaber.
Does this qualify ?
EPIC LuLz, this is... really, in twisted sorta way.
And now, off to completely sack the hell out of someones palace, meh heh heh...
"Please, try to be discreet.."
Yeeeah, like THAT's gonna happen.
-Frem
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Hey, leaving no witnesses is LIKE discretion...
I'll check out the holovid later.
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Now that I think of it, the worst thing my smuggler has done was call another chick a hussy after she was caught two-timing pretty much all the guys and she had thoroughly pissed me off. And I got light-side points for it.
This calls for a drawing. It will be posted tonight.
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You are nicer than you believe yourself to be, most people are.
Wendy has this annoying-as-hell tendancy to point out all the little "nice" things I do without even realizing it cause for me it's habitual reflex, and SWTOR seems to have said tendancy as well, see - I rolled a Trooper a while back and patterned him off a slightly younger me (with a little more hair, lol, vanity!) and errr, well... he might be snarky and a bit arrogant, but he comes off as downright heroic in a sorta good-is-not-nice kinda way.
He kicked a lot of butt over what you'd call "conduct unbecoming" amongst the Republic forces on the starter planet, up to and including some blue-on-blue action and nearly gunning down the prison staff, but what convinced me was the logic chain which occured when upon crashing an enemy base I stumbled across a makeshift infirmary full of walking wounded, one of which implored me not to engage.
Wounded-> non-hostile -> unarmed = NONCOMBATANT.
I actually took the time to evacuate them, pointing out the clearest path and advising them to use proper cover since there was still some action going on, and yeah, after the fact one could rationalize it as less than selfless since it encourages reciprocation and a comparison of my characters conduct versus that of their own, thus encouraging defection...
But at the time it was pure split-second reflex, it's pretty good storytelling when the non-obvious decisions actually make you think about who you really are.
One quibble I had with it was on cornering an enemy officer with another member of my squad - when I say "interrogate" I mean a different thing than most peoples concept of it, and when my squaddie went hands-on with it was the moment I realized my own squad was off-the-rails and no longer trustworthy, something fully confirmed when said squaddie needlessly shot him after he spilled - which is, IMHO a damn piss poor way to encourage folk to talk... had it presented the option I woulda laid out said squaddie right beside him.
S'funny, when playing yon wackjob Bounty Hunter, I actually have to focus and pay attention to being nasty cause it goes against those inherent reflexes, although admittedly it's satisfyin in a different sort of way, oh yes indeed it is...
And yes, no witnesses is even BETTER than discretion, cause they live on their rep, and being suspected with no proof is a real good way to kickstart the rumor mill and puff up that rep without sticking your neck out too far.
So far my favorite companion is Vette, by a longshot, cause she's good humored, snarky, and I can make her reallllly uncomfortable just by being nice to her - reminds me of someone else, just a little, that does. 
-Frem
PS. Why oh why, does everytime I set aside time to play an MMO, almost without fail - it's down for maintanence ?
Seriously, that's frustrating enough to have caused me to dump at least one other over it, although in this case as broken as a lot of this one is still, I shouldn't complain.
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Blegh, don't remind me. My villainous pride has no need for personal revelation, rumination, and insight.
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I rolled a Trooper a while back and patterned him off a slightly younger
One of the first classes I played in the beta. Was a little worried about whether I'd end up too lawful and kiss-ass, but as it went on I realized that character's personality was a lot like Zoe. That resolved most of that problem.
Right down to the scene you're talking about, my character had about the same response to that as Zoe did when Mal shot the kid and left him for the Reavers in the movie. (Player Character Disapproves)
Still haven't remade that character, though I should.
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PS. Why oh why, does everytime I set aside time to play an MMO, almost without fail - it's down for maintanence ?
The machine god demands a sacrifice.
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I actually have two bounty hunters going, just now. One, the first one, I've been playing largely by myself and he's been trying to be someone he can live with and it's not easy. His experience on Hutta was pretty scarring. The second, playing with Lady Cavalier and that one seems to have acquired a taste for sawing off heads.
One of the deeper aspects of the game I keep running into on several characters is moral fatigue--where a decent person gets so fed up with the corruption around him that he just says fuck it and breaks things/hurts people according to what affords him the quickest exit from a situation, or where a murderous bastard becomes weary of the charade and does the right thing just so his mind can have a few moments of peace for once in his life. It's a testiment to the game that the characters are given such nuanced options.
The first major instance of this was with the Bounty Hunter on Hutta. He'd been going along, unwittingly shaping a notion of his patron Nem'ro that was just a shade lighter than Nem'ro's rival Fa'athrah (sp?). Of course, that's b.s. but I found that it wormed its way into my Bounty Hunter's thinking. Then there was a moment inside a wretched factory full of slave laborers, all with shock-collars in place, when the stupid fucking smuggler I was there to extract demanded that I rescue all the other slaves in the whole building before we got out of there and I said no fucking way. You're coming with me. I was through with playing nice, through with trying to improve anyone's life condition but my own and get out of that swamp for good. Well, the smuggler pauses, looks at me, and then says, "I'm calling your bluff. Either you rescue the other slaves, or I'm not going anywhere." He called my bluff, and I didn't even know I was bluffing! And my Bounty Hunter got so pissed off. So funny. So there he goes, running around the factory liberating slaves and hating every last one of 'em in the bargain. Priceless.
HKCavalier
Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
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Or last night, I was playing a trooper and I had to testify at a Senate hearing.
I love the way the game exerts subtle pressures on your actions.
So, my CO was already pissed at me for doing the right thing one too many times when it wasn't strictly within mission parameters--that is to say, I disobeyed direct orders. My somewhat myopic companion wanted me to protect the honor of our disgraced brethren in arms at all costs and I wanted to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth until I met the senate committee and realized that they were a bunch of shills and scheming schemers themselves. I loved the moment when my trooper got fed up and demanded to know, "Why are you asking me questions you already know the answers to???"
So, I ended up neither telling the whole truth nor lying to cover anyone's ass and succeeded in pissing every-goddamn-body off. Never had so much fun being humiliated in all my life! lol
HKCavalier
Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
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Ah, you mean that bitch Garza - as I said my Trooper is based on, more or less, me... and I got no problem with a boot-to-ass-a-thon or playing hardball with bad people, but that lady crossed a line with me about an hour ago in a really irrevocable way.
I didn't care about her justifications, not one whit, there was no way in hell imma kill someone for what they MIGHT do, and I made sure *NOT* to ask them for ID cause what I don't know can't be squeezed out of me, and on top of that you start with the whole pre-emptive tracking of people you *will* open a nightmare can of worms - I realllly put my boot down about it and told her off, and she (ironic, this) throws my own personal logic about doing the ugly things so decent people don't have to in my face...
But that is a decision which MUST be made *individually*, you can't ORDER someone to do it, while your own hands remain clean, if you wish to walk that road you do it *personally*, you don't sit in your nice safe, pretty little office and then pretend it bothers you when you don't have to face the results, oh no.
So I completely lit her up about it, and frankly she just blew to hell any kind of respect I mighta had that would maybe encourage me to follow orders - the rest of this is gonna get done MY way, and if they don't like it they can hire some other goon to do it, but best make sure they don't run across me cause they'll need another one for sure.
And when this whole nasty business comes out, and it *WILL* come out (remember how I feel about the whole notion of state-secrets) I plan to tear a great big bloody strip off everyone involved and hang them out as chum for the sharks, cause if they'd come clean about it right up front a lot of really nasty business could have been avoided - they did more damage trying to keep a lid on it to protect their own asses than woulda happened if they played it straight from the get-go.
As to yon CO who dared even give me an order like that, and in a fashion where they can deny it and try to pin that on me, which I felt was the obvious intention - while continuing to push me about it...
That hit home for me, I've been through that for real, although the stakes weren't as high, and while they didn't dare throw an Article-15 at me cause that'd involve coming clean about the matter to officers not initially involved, they did throw me in the brig and were on the verge of drumming me out entire till another logistics branch desperately needed someone with my talents.
There will come a reckoning there, cause just as when my Squaddie back on Ord Mantell showed their "True Colors", so too has this CO - and those colors are pretty dark, which means something is going to have to be done about it....
But first, I have a holorecording here imma all but ram down a certain Senators throat even if no one else has the guts to call them on it, cause I for damn sure do.
Comes down to it though ?
Just Following Orders is NO EXCUSE, none whatever, for anything, period.
-Frem
I do not serve the Blind God.
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Based on a true story. My companions have a tendency to glitch out into hologram lights, as though I had just called a shuttle. My in-game explanation is that they got hungry and took off for a sandwich.
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