Star Wars: Galaxies NDA lifted

[[wcip]Angel]

Star Wars Galaxies never did appeal to me when I looked up the info about it.  I told my Star Wars-fanatic friend that SWG was probably going to be terrible, and then showed him this thread.  He tried defending it, but I think he cried once he got home.

Personally, after play Dark Age of Camelot, if I ever play another MMORPG, it'll probably either be World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy XI.  I doubt I'll play any in quite some time though.

Oh, and [wcip]Angel:  Silent Hill 3 isn't out in the US yet, but I can't wait.  I love reading the plot analysi(what's plural of analysis?) they have on GameFAQs.  I didn't find the Silent Hills as a jump-out-of-your-seat scary, but more of a steady uneasiness that rises in scaryness on occasion.  For example,  in SH2, the big room with the nooses in the center and the horse...  Without a doubt, the scariest game I've played is System Shock 2.  Now that'll make you jump and run out of the room.

I agree. SH doesn't have those horror moments that made Resident Evil so scary, but it built an atomsphere which steadily made you more and more eager to turn of the machine and go play with some fluffy bunnies. :)

I'll be going to Ikea today to buy myself a new PC-chair, and I might just ask my mother to swing by another store so I can pick up planetside.

Perhaps when my brother moves back home, and it's a bit brighter outside, I'll dare play a little more SHIII, but until then, I'm not touching it.

I also enjoy reading the plot analyses on GameFaqs! I think President Evil's analysis is my favourite. To me, reading that FAQ was essential to the game. I didn't understand a thing after I'd played through the 3-4 times. I didn't realise that the monsters were a figment of my imagination and that "what you bring to SH manifests itself into something physical."

I'll try and find the paragraph..

But one similar thread runs through the back-stories of the three main
characters, James, Eddie and Angela. The common factor for all these
folks is an overwhelming sense of guilt about things they did in the
past, things that can't be undone in the real world. Silent Hill is a
place where reality is not what it used to be, and it might be possible
for the guilty to find a second chance to gain forgiveness from the
dead... Or to finally find the condemnation they so richly deserve.

By the time we reach the "special place", which ends up being Room 312
inside the Lake View Hotel, we know what sin James is guilty of. This
explains to us why he has seen the things he's seen, and why he has
been forced to watch helplessly as Maria dies over and over again. In
Silent Hill, the driving force of nature is perspective. Silent Hill is
what you bring to it, and the demons that have plagued James' soul have
taken physical form and now are seeking vengeance.


http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/si...hill_2_plot.txt

Without this guide, SH2 would have been half a game. (I'm not saying that without this guide SH2 wouldn't be any fun, but rather that even though SH2 was cool, knowing more about it made it more pleasurable.)