Capes & Rayguns

While I obviously haven't changed the URL of the blog (although I suppose there's no reason why I couldn't) and I haven't changed every reference to Space Opera X on the blog, I did change all of the posts tagged Space Opera X to Capes & Rayguns, so that tag will replace the older one.

I may yet change the URL, and if I do, it'll be something that I just do real quick. We'll see.

Anyway, here's two more of those outfit tabs that I was referring to. Both agents, but that's just coincidence. I use Johhn a lot because he's my "banker" and my cybertech main who makes most of my money, and I use Vash Galaide because I was playing him through Balmorra yesterday.

I did finish Balmorra, including all exploration missions, all story missions, all faction story missions and even the bonus quest faction story, since I was high enough level. Vash Galaide is pretty much done with the place for good and off to Nar Shaddaa now, and is sitting pretty at level 48; nearly at max level when the game was new, and certainly he's "over-leveled". But that's where I like to be; with the level synching, being overleveled is still good because you have more abilities unlocked, and better gear. It plays well, but a little easy.

But let's be honest; who plays a game like SWTOR for the challenge? It's a heavily story-based game. You play it to play through the story. It's supposed to be fun and relaxing. If it's too challenging; well, that's a different kind of game for a different kind of personality, mostly.

I saw some people complaining about the new Dantooine spore zone daily area and how badly designed and managed it is. It probably is. I've gotta be honest; I don't really care that much about expansion stuff. I do some of it. I enjoy some of it. But mostly what I'm about is running new characters through the original class stories. I don't mind going back and doing them again, because that's the best content in the game. Just like I used to play Knights of the Old Republic all over again ever year or two when I still had a working Xbox, I come back to this and play it with new characters again. 

The expansion stuff that works like more of the story is the best expansion stuff, but it's still not nearly as good or well organized as the original class stories, honestly. I've only once started Knights of the Fallen Empire because that makes the game "wonky" after you start it, and once you do, you're stuck in having to do a lot of grinding just to get that character back to where he's as useful as he was before you started it. And while that story is actually pretty good, the rest of the story that's followed it has been... well, mediocre at best. 

What's more useful to me than more daily areas and crappy and gay minor story updates about some plot that I can't even follow very easily and don't know that I even care to is more character slots.