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Anyone else find this game exhausting?
Caldicot
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All the cinematics and dialogues can be quite tiring from time to time. Especially after a day at work when you want to relax for a few hours and just mindlessly play away. I even have a hard time following the conversations in guild chat when I'm running quests and storylines. Am I just getting old or can people relate?
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Spacebar is my new friend, as far as side quests/ droids/ alien gurgling is concerned.
I don't bother when it's an alien, as they are just blipping or gargling at you.
I don't see the point of a VO for that lol. I listen to all of the class ones and the bigger or more interesting side ones, but if it's a fat guy crying, i skip.
Not so much tiring as a waste of time to watch, which I guess can be tiring. I mean, seriously, why do you need to watch some guy go on about how his child was taken away by some rabid Rancor into the depths of the nearby swamp, and he needs his son to farm the fields, but his son might still be alive, so can you go click on the glowing cage to release him after killing the Rancor. Unless it's already been killed by some other player who's on the same quest. Who is also there to release the son. Who has now been released a few hundred times.
The dark side choices make it a bit more interesting. Some dick asked my to rescue his babies from some mandalorians last night, i go there and it's just a chest. Turns out they are toy dolls, so i take them to him, then stamp of them, then i watch him cry.
Meh, I guess I don't see it, but I am playing this game in a way laid back pace, taking my time, chill'n a lot. I have three toons in their 20s, and like the side quests.
That said, when I hit quests I know really well, I hit the spacebar.
It is not too bad. I can tell you are burnt out on mmorpg themeparks by your wording though. Just play it in short burst.
Really it comes down to personal preference.
I happen to enjoy cutscenes and voice overs, and it adds greatly to my enjoyment of the game.
If someone gets more enjoyment out of the combat and collecting gear, I can see how cutscenes and voice overs are not good for them.
If it''s my first time with the quest I normally listen all the way through. alien's gurgling and second runs with an alt I will hit spacebar. Occasionally when I'm on my main and grouping with my friend I will hit spcbar as he get impatient and whines like a little kid and as I'm not his wife and don't need to listen to it I skip the dialog on the side quests as KTR is still KTR even if it's Wamp Rats...
The story is the main selling point of swtor if people are not liking it then bioware have failed.
Yeah, I guess I want to enjoy the cutscenes and voice overs as well. For me it wouldn't feel right to just space-click through the entire game when story is the core of the game and they invested so much in it. Catch 22
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. - Carl Sagan
^ this.
Some people are inevitably not going to like it, just like anything else.
Not everyone enjoys the same thing. It's far from being an indicator of a failure in any way, use some common sense.
I would say they will fail regardless. Because MMORPGs is supposed to have longetivity because if not people will stop subscribe to it and I cant ever see Bioware being able to produce storylines as fast as people consumes them.
So 2-3 months down the road, unless Bioware has some aces in their sleeves, the servers will be ghost servers as most people will have played through the interesting storylines and got bored of the abbysmal PvP and raiding which exists.
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Your certain body parts definitely must be degenerating, as you figured yourself.
I work whole day, but playing it is like watching a random movie. Leveling is easy, and than even gets rewarded with nice voice overed quest dialogs and story which I don't even have to read! Just sit back and enjoy.
To each his own I supose.
But I sense you are just tired. Full stop.
lololol i'm having a burnout.
I have 4 level 25 characters and 1 at level 34, and I keep getting burned out.
At first I thought it was the class, then I thought it was the story... then I realized, It's the god damned kill quests... and when I say kill quests I mean; EVERY SINGLE MISSION IN THE GAME!
All the missions are the same... the only thing that changes are what you are killing or who you are killing.
I am of course slightly exaggerating, not every mission is a kill quest... but it sure as hell feels like it when that generator i need to shut down is behind 40 mobs, only to realise that killing one of them has opened up a bonus quest to kill 80 of them...
Oh sure, you might think "But Kreedz, that just gives you a reason to kill those 40 mobs blocking your way to the generator..." Which is true, but when you present it in the form of a bonus quest, it makes me feel like I need to kill them or I might miss out on a bigger reward.
SWTOR takes OCD inducing quests to the next level, This game is not designed for the casual player at all...
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Main problem with Swtor's VO and cutscenes is that dialogues are very simplistic ,small dialogue options, not complex at all and all follow same pattern. Basically just copy & paste dialogue system from DA2.
I love dialogues ,but don't like way it is done in Swtor.
yes SWTOR got old for me so fast it isn't even funny. Kind of sad because i wanted something new and was very excited about this game. Now I find myself canceling and waiting again for the next one, most likely TSW, then GW2, who knows anymore.
Nope, it's normal. He's just tired and he doesn't want to listen to some random NPC spouting out some meaningless and trivial stuff :P
After having a long day I am not in the mood for that story stuff. Hell, I am not in the mood to play any games. I would just watch some stupid movie or something
Btw has anyone actually read the original post? The OP is talking about the game being exhausting and not about being bored with the game...
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With an attitude like that, why do you even bother with MMOs..?
Exactly.
I said, its good single player RPG. And when I want to enjoy cutscenes and storylines i play single player RPG
In MMO they are often unwanted distraction.
This is my main gripe with SWTOR
And now even fans of the game say they are skipping dialogues.
Denying the game its only defining feature.
Than what good it is ? Its basically just your "seen before" MMO with amazing storyline/cutscenes.
Without it, even Aion and Rift are far superrior
Welcome to MMO gaming world! A friendly advice.
MMORPGs are more than killing NPCs/players. It's about community and role playing. When you degenerate your whole point of playing an MMO into slaying something just to gain another of X, it quickly brings you to a point of complete boredom.
Charish the community (hard sometimes, but hey that's how our world is) and build up your playtime around it and use repetitive monster slaying or any other moundane task as a tool for enhancing your time spent with other people. Do not charish the tool itself. That's what a lot of people do and burn!
If you can't do that, I'm pretty sure you'll hit the same problem in any other MMO sooner or later... unless...
I understand OP, but for myself I disagree.
Story is what gets me to play even though I am tired. Story is really the main reason I play it at all. I realized with this game, and after having also played Rift, how tired I am of games similiar to "that other game."
I'll play this one until I get through all the stories, and then maybe I'll hang it up and give mmos a rest. All the new AAA ones seem to all be the same, and I'm not sure that I want to play a F2P. If the right one came along I guess.
play solitary!
Nope.
However, I do find reading a wall of quest start text, killing/using/getting X and then reading another wall of quest end text a bit tiring from time to time. The dialogue and cutscenes, for me, not only add significance to what I'm doing, they also give me a break from the constant pew-pew-pew of most other MMO's.