Star Wars Galaxies - Jedi, Vehicles, Speeder Bike Racing

Thanks to GameSpy for their interview with Lucasarts staff about playing as a Jedi in Star Wars Galaxies. The article discusses the powers granted to the newly-unlocked Jedi in this PC MMORPG ("There are over fifty Force powers, ranging from Force Lightning, Force Weaken, and Force Throw, to Jedi Mind Trick, and a variety of lightsaber moves"), and the possibility your Jedi character could be lost forever ("We have partial permadeath for a Jedi. Basically, a Jedi is allotted a certain number of deaths before they lose all progress that character has made.") Elsewhere, player-owned vehicles were enabled in the game earlier this week, and the official SWG page has information on the types, including the X34 Landspeeder, Swoop bike, and Speeder bike, and even documents player-hosted races that are being attempted, showcasing an in-game reproduction of the Mos Espa Circuit from Star Wars: Episode 1.

Maybe someday there will be...

[cgenman]

Interestingly enough, with the ever-expanding star wars featurelist, it could someday achieve that beautiful glory of the original design doc.

With staying power and adequate funding, who knows how far it could go. If Episode 3 doesn't incinerate the heart of the series that Episode 1 ripped out and Episode 2 stomped on, this MMPORPG could be in development for many, many years.

Re:Jedi crap

[Anonymous Coward]

The system for getting a Jedi slot now isn't what it used to be originally. It used to take into account hundreds if not thousands of different character metrics ( numbers just about everything you do) to decide. Unfortunately this system just required way too many resources for today's technology, so they replaced it with the crap system we have today.

However I must admit that the player cities and vehicles are cool. My swoop bike is very fast :)

Re:SWG must be revamped

[Anonymous Coward]

Or, alternatively, they could actually make it FUN to be something other than a Jedi. Right now, there isn't much to do in SWG except grind by killing widlife, or click through crafting. Everyone who isn't a Jedi is hoping that becoming one might make it fun. It won't. You'll just be a lame character in a tedious world who happens to have a shiny sword and a few limited cheat codes available.

Lifting a rock with your mind wouldn't be much fun if all there were in the world was rocks. It'd be the same as lifting it with your hand.

Re:Where are the spaceships?

[Lemental]

Not only that but 16 new planets. Some of them are from the books and some are from the movies. After all, Dathomir is there. Why not have other book/movie planets.

I wanna go to genosis and visit the first historic battleground of the clone wars.

Re:The Grind

[JavaLord]

That is where all the content is, and it is no substitute for a storyline or any quests.

And the sad part about this is, Star Wars has a huge universe which could have been used to make plenty of storylines and quests. It's sad that SWG was released before it was done in order to make more money for sony in a certain quarter. This game should have been the MMO that would have brought casual players/non mmo players in.