Hey gang,
I've been 'floating' ever since WoW:Cataclysm came out. I'm an MMO gamer at heart, but what Blizzard has done with Cataclysm in no way cuts the mustard to me. The raiding looks like fun (my girlfriend still plays vigorously) but getting there and having to deal with the community is too much of a bother to me. Mind you, I like me some dungeons and a good rep grind with just rewards (Netherdrakes anyone?) is good fun - but Cata seems to be about cutting out the time-consuming part of games (ie. the parts that make you want to play more) and replacing it with instawin. As such, I've played a number of games in the interim:
- Global Agenda
- Warhammer Online
- Lord of the Rings Online
- Forsaken World
- Age of Conan
- Various and sundry Asian interpretations of Lineage / Ragnarok. That's what they felt like anyway.
The list goes on, but it should be obvious that none of these were interesting enough to hold my attention for more than a couple of weeks at a time. Now there's Star Wars: the Old Republic coming up and Rift is in full swing. I loved Rift the first time around - played all the betas save for the first one and if I'd had the money and the rig at the time of release I'd have jumped in. However, I'm still stuck on my x1950 pro card with one of the earlier Intel dual cores (not Core 2, no, no. Just a Dual Core one). That's changing though and I'm getting me a nice Quad AMD setup with an ATI upper-midrange to boot so I can get something like Rift properly running. As an aside, I'm a fan of Star Wars and relish the opportunity to muck about in that universe. I've gone so far as to play a bunch of old (think DOS) SW games to get myself pumped.
Now there's the dillemma: which one to go for. I don't have a lot of time in between work and my domestic duties. Having a gamer girlfriend does give my quite a bit of leeway on the MMO front, but if I stuff that with 2 games I'm pretty sure it'll start eating into my relationship. So, with only one to choose when my new rig arrives:
Shall I spend my time bashing in troll's heads, beating up goblins and riding around on what appears to be an antilope?
RIFT: Planes of Telara
Or should I run around force-grabbing rocks to throw at people, wear freaky robes and shoot lightning from my fingers?
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Give me your opinion so I can stop wasting my days wondering which one to pick![]()


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My only concern is should I hide my true identity? A costume maybe?
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. Thankfully one of the devs recognised me from the Expo and helped to try and get me in 