049 - The Love Letter To SWTOR. (Patreon)

May the force be with--  No... No, to heck with this. I am not going to pretend that I am Star Wars fan or that I know much about the universe. Because I honestly do not. Namaste, dear bros. Welcome to Monday Post #049. This will be a weird one...

On MMORPGs in general. First of all let me say that I've never played any of MMORPGs ever. Popular ones, obscure ones, I completely missed them all. It's just not my cup of tea. Have zero interest in that type of games. Zero!

On Star Wars in general. And just like I mentioned above I don't give two hecks about the Star Wars franchise. Sorry, that's just how it have always been and that's how it is for me to this day. I've seen all the movies: the good ones, the bad ones and the prequels. But I never felt any connection with the universe or the characters. Never had a hard-on for Princess Leia or metal bikinis in general. Yes, I know I am a freak - a proper dude is supposed to adore Star Wars... I am an abomination... I am so sorry you had to witness this ugly side of me... (Please don't cancel your pledge.)

To be completely honest with you, eventually I did develop a slight interest in the universe but I have a strong suspicion that it all came from the amazing Star Wars illustrations by Shabby Blue. Man, that guy is a freaking genius. Do you know if he is still alive? Imagine me and  Shabby collaborating for a small game project - we would break the freaking Internet. About SWTOR. Well, I knew that game existed, but that was about it. I knew it's a Star Wars  MMORPG. So naturally it didn't arouse any interest in me ever. Eventually I somehow learned that the game also has romanceable companions. It made me curious, I searched YouTube for some gameplay videos, only to confirm my original suspicions: the game is crap. 

SWTOR Strikes Back! That being said, about half a year ago, something (The Force no doubt) possessed me to download and install the SWTOR luncher. It's a Free-To-Play game, so no harm done, right? I didn't even register an account after that. The game was just sitting on my desktop for another month.  But eventually I decided to bite the bullet and lunch the thing. Right from the start I was greeted with an "Electronic Arts" logo. That alone made me feel gross and gave me a sudden urge to just force reboot my laptop. (But I decided against it, obviously). But about 5 minutes later a new problem presented itself...The New Problem. The freaking key and mouse controls. Oh, my god! Who plays like that?! I can't stand that crap! I am a proud console peasant! No controller support? Not interested! What a rip off... Honestly I'm still not sure what made me stay and continue to play (gotta be The Force for sure), but in retrospect I am so glad I did ^_^

Is it any good? The short answer is - it's FANTASTIC! Yeah, I wouldn't waste so much time to write a post about hating on a game. I actually, honestly and wholeheartedly adore SWTOR now. I don't JUST like it, I don't JUST love it - I freaking worship it. I won't to build a SWTOR temple and inside of it have a sex with some sort of SWTOR clone and have a lot of SWTOR babies. In the past months that stupid MMO (that I play as a single player game) brought me more joy and happiness then any of the 2018's AAA games lumped together. I am not even exaggerating. Let me explain.

The Explanation. The thing that really got me first was the writing. After about 1 hour of playing it got me completely hooked. It's very old-school: men are men, women are women and none of the contemporary politics. You know what I mean, right? But if that wasn't enough it had a ton of dialog choices letting me be a complete asshat or a nice guy, depending on my mood. Some of those choices actually affected the story by the way. And if that wasn't enough it also allowed me to flirt with almost EVERY girl I met. The Unrelenting Attack On My Feels. If that wasn't enough I soon realized that ALL of the events in the game a fully voiced and have cinematic cut-scenes attached to them. And I really mean ALL-OF-THE-EVENTS. Even the damn side-quests. Everything is fully voiced and with multiple dialog choices. Even as I type this I'm still having a hard time wrapping my mind around the amount of work that went into this game.

I had no chance. At this point the game got me very interested so I continued to play on and off for another month or so. During that month I got my own spacheship. I bought a penthouse apartment on Coruscant. I spent hours buying furniture, decorations and dancer slavegirls for that apartment. I got my first female companion that I spent even more hours with simply on playing Barbie dress-up with her, and grinding for the sexiest armors for her.

It's Love. Eventually I realized that I am loging in into the game almost every day now. I have completed a ton of story events, had a ton of adventures, seduced a republic military commander, a politician, a sluty sith-lord, and it was mostly just side-content stuff. I didn't even scratched the surface yet. I got completely absorbed in the sher awesomeness of everything about SWTOR. The graphics? I fucking love it now: skinny girls everywhere and bright colorfully planets to explore. Controls? I love the mouse! I love the keyboard! Console peasants can suck it! Story? Oh, man it only get's better and better! My penthouse apartment on Coruscant? The only place that feels like home! ^_^

Companion customizations. I already mentioned that you can dress your female companions as skimpy as you want, but the game developers didn't stop there. This game does something that I never seen done before in an RPG game: SWTOR have companion skins. That's exactly what it sounds like: if you don't like the look of your story companions you can procure skins to change their appearance entirely (body, hairstyle, face). When I recruited my first female companion I made it my life's mission to obtain all of her skins. (Which was fairly easy to do to be honest). Now my little digital waifu could be a black hottie or an Asian hottie or any other kind of hottie (all of the skins are hot). Honestly, I never seen that level of customization in an RPG.I am pathetic. I suppose it is obvious - I am a raging fanboy for SWTOR now. I have no clue how that happened, but I literally love everything about that game. I also love the fact that despite being very old - the game is not dead yet: new story update was released last month and it was a proper SWTOR update too: new story choices, romances and such. And also I know that EA or Disney could pull the plug on this game at any moment and it makes me appreciate it even more.

Me Love You Long Time. Yes? Oh, and it's a Free-To-Play game. I've been playing for at least a month before deciding to pay for subscription. And I only did so because I genuinely wanted to throw some money at that amazing game. OK, I think I'll just stop here. The bottom line is this: go play some SWTOR before EA pulls the plug and the universe goes dark.

My personal game of the year. SWTOR literally reminded me why I used to love video games so much. I know I sound like a crazy person, but I am just sharing my feels with you. Please don't cancel your pledge. I am done now, I swear. Back to normal Monday Post content now. P.S. I am on Star Forge server.

The work.  It's been 5 weeks since Episode 04's release. The work is being done. Don't worry I don't spend ALL my time seducing slutty corrupt politicians in SWTOR. And I think it's been at least a week since I touched my PS4, so quite a lot of work had been done recently despite the holidays getting in my way. And let's just leave it at that for now. Maybe I will go into some more details next week. Maybe...

This week's scan. Have some more behind-the-scenes pics for you. Again from the Mating Season. Just like the last time the family friendliness level varies from pic to pic, so you will find only some of them in the attachments to this public post. The RAR archive with all of them will be in the patrons-only post.

The GIF. Thanks to MEDVED I have another awesome gif to share with you to make this week slightly more bearable for you. (It's freaking 65MB, but I think it's worth it). See you next Monday, bros.