SWG Vs SWTOR (Star Wars Galaxies Vs The Old Republic) in 2023
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2024
- I breakdown the major differences between SWG (Star Wars Galaxies) & SWTOR (Star Wars The Old Republic). They're both classic MMOs but which is best in 2023?
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"Faster Than Light, Far Beyond Eyes, Nova Siberia OC Remix, Cosmic Visions" by Big Giant Circles
"Acid Jazz" by Kevin MacLeod
0:00 Introduction
0:34 Narrative
1:42 Graphics & Combat
2:47 Choice
3:38 Access
4:25 Legality
5:41 Two Tribes - Ігри
This is a video I've been thinking about doing for a while but it took me a few attempts to get the balance right. Although I cover mostly SWG these days I did play SWTOR for two years and I wanted to give both games their due. Please let me know your thoughts on how SWG and SWTOR compare - and thanks very much for watching!
I haven't played swg is years! I thought it was dead. How can I get it ?
any character you make is owned completely by the game owners, its why you cant copywright.
@@treyroc7353 look up SWGEMU for a pre-cu SWG experience. If you want the experience when live shutdown, then search SWG Legends.
Currently playing Restoration 3 CU best experience since I played live and hooked all over again. You can also play without original discs which is the main issue with legends and emu.
I would really enjoy playing SWTOR, but my shitty laptop can't run it decently -_-
SWG was the last time "sandbox" was used in a positive way. Nowadays "sandbox" means open world PvP/gank/grief.
This makes me sad. We almost got it in "The Repopulation" but that went down when the developers went bankrupt during EA. Now it's just a skeleton crew.
Just be better at pvp?
@@andrewbrock3675 That wasn't the point of OP's comment though lol
@@Irraptured it does. He wants a true starwars sandbox but I cant take a bounty out on him? Someone cant accept that bounty and "gank" him. I've played mmos forever, and pretty much only mmos. People that cry about ganking cant pvp. 100% of the time
@@andrewbrock3675 No, he was saying that nowadays, the term "sandbox" is just thrown onto MMOs as if its a label for open world PVP, rather than an actual sandbox MMO that offers more past that.
SWG didn't feel like playing a game. It felt like living in the Starwars Universe.
Used to get home from work and play SWG till bed time. Had a star ship engineer Wookie and a human commando for PVE. My guild did guided dungeon crawls with new players to help lvl. There was always something going on. MMOs now seem kind of empty in comparison.
@@Robert-db3mz Yeah it seems so unfortunately. I remember thoses huge world where you could easily get lost. And when I had my first multi-passenger ship. You could watch stuff happening in space in real time while in walking inside it. It was awesome.
Which is exactly what we were promised SWG would be like. Its to bad they ruined it.
@@Visceralreality you mean the combat upgrade ?
@@Thesavagesouls indeed I do. Also adding force sensitive, a total bullshit sequence of events that lead directly to the games demise.
galaxies was so freakin amazing... honestly when I played it. I didn't really feel like I was playing just a game, it was something different. Like I went into the Star wars world and I could do whatever I wanted. I could write my own story and do my own personal objectives. I don't remember much cuz it was so long ago but what I remember doing A LOT was I pretty much lived on Corruscant I believe and I had a home... it was kinda a crappy home but I went out into the wasteland and farmed and gathered materials to craft speeder bikes and then I went to one of the main cities on the planet and I just went around selling the speeder bikes. It really felt like I was a used cars sales man. OMG it was so much fun, but that's what I did in the game. It wasn't about getting the best gear or trying to be some sort of elite player, it was just about doing my own thing that I felt was fun. Also Jedi were super rare, I think I saw one ONCE... (before that major update) so seeing one was amazing, them being rare was a huge part of the game. It really gave the game flavor.
This sounds so good! I never played galaxies but played TOR and just picked it up once again with a new char.
It’s so cool that jedi’s were rare! Was it hard to become a Jedi?
Looks like i missed an amazing game! :(
@@Heisenblargh becoming a jedi was VERY HARD.
It was the best thing for me as a teen. I met some great friends from being in guilds. There's never been a game like it
@@lordytar elder scrolls online is similar for me although a completely different genre of fantasy.
Ahhh swg the game where upgrading from 256mb ram to 512 mb ram was the biggest improvement ever seen in history !
I remember TIE pilots actually had a green tint to them, and Mos Eisley was a slide show. We popped in a RAM stick and suddenly TIE pilots were black and we could run around Mos Eisley while looking up!
@@VGLounge man monsters look like colored clay models of themselves until i wall close enough
If they remade SWG but still captured the playability of SWTor that would be the end all Star Wars MMO.
Tbh, probably
I was thinking about this the other day. If SWG was released now it would do so well.
@@Thorerthedwarf As long as it looks pretty, dont forget. Doesn't matter how deep, engaging, challenging, revolutionary, dynamic the gameplay is, if it doesn't look pretty with the latest graphics then the majority market of casual players won't play it - and the majority market is corporations only concern these days because it's of course where the largest profits are - hence mobile gaming being insanely profitable.
Check out ue4swg videos. Remake in unreal 4. Looks awesome
As a kid I didn’t have a proper computer, I craved playing Star Wars galaxies lmaooo
SWG was the first MMO I ever played and PvPing with my guild on an almost nightly basis was some of the fondest gaming experiences I’ve ever had.
Everyone and their mom running around with Jedi during the GCW. All while waiting for my abilities to cycle while the combat medic spams his poisons on me for 10 seconds and getting instant KO'd through composite armour.
So much fun... 😒
Is Skyrim really for the Nords tho...ಠ_ಠ
@@brysonstith4926 Yes.
@@Slowly_We_Rot I think u spelled "no" wrong.
But it's all good I understand what u mean
Agreed
SWG was my first mmo, so amazing. Hunting parties for Krypt dragons, hanging in cantinas to get buffs, making a player city with friends. Ahhh so many memories
SWG was fun when I played it. I played only after the combat upgrade update, which I had no problem with.
SWG was definitely more community focused.
And the space combat, oh my god, no other game has been able to capture the scale of galaxies space freedom. Being able to run around a large ship as it was in combat in realtime was MIND BLOWING.
I miss SWG. Thinking about all of my adventures in Bria almost brings a tear to my eye. I miss my home in the city of Rawr on the planet Talus!
Shout out to Bria and my LCG boys!
I miss the RPG heavy Starstrider server. Some of my best online moments were playing in the cantina band for hours.
Bria refugee over here too bud. Good times all around. Really do miss all my houses and stuff. Lived largely on Dantooine, but had other buildings across Tatooine and Naboo as well. I loved exploring all the hidden little easter eggs and seeing what all the planets were like.Hell I miss flying my starfighter. No game captured space like SWG.
Been playing SWG since 2005, still having fun with the game on Legends.
Ahh man. That was my server too!
I prefer swtor because of nostalgia but in terms of freedom and giving players a good role playing experience, swg takes the spot
SWTOR has great role playing too it’s just more structured.
Was literally just on swtor and half the people in coruscant were saying play SWG.
If looking to play SWG I'd do it in a version before the combat upgrade, whenever they made jedis no longer rare or special
SWTOR for nostalgia over SWG? You must be really young.
@@xXSgtWolfXx How so? Kotor came out in 2003 and Tor is set 300 years after kotor. Tor is damn near a Kotor 3.
never played SWG but TOR is by far my favorite star wars game and it looks like itll stay that way until a mmo like it comes to console
Tor is half the game swg was I played both n I’m only 18, swg is like a sand box where you create your own adventure you can basically do anything player choice is insane. tor is too cookie cutter liner like game in my opinion
@@TheGenre516 yes, the old republic gives no freedom. The beauty of Star Wars for me is the freedom of roaming the worlds and the galaxy.
@@lucasdealmeida907 true swtor is scratching the surface and the normies are eating it up
SWG was far better cause you can make your own story and it was a TRUE MMO honestly. IT felt more like my days in the 90s online chat rooms role playing myown made character
Honestly swg is so open it gets boring fast
I love both games, but honestly, I prefer swtor for its quite honestly amazing story.
How are you finding Onslaught Himtops? I wanted to put some of that in the video but I need to work through Fallen and Eternal Throne first.
@@napyet Onslaught is imo the best story out of all expansions. The only con is it's lenght, which is quite short.
@@napyet onslaught is great
SWG in its Prime was the best MMO period.
I loved never seeing a Jedi/Sith unless shit was about to hit the fan, and fighting them was like attacking a raid boss.
Man your not lieing it made everyday getting out of school worth getting on the computer
It's still great on Legends, I see players everywhere.
I've been out of SWG for, I guess 9 years now. I miss it, I miss my old friends. I owned a town. I may check out the emu servers soon, thanks.
Did ya
Play SWTOR for the stories you can experience single player (most of the class stories are actually pretty good). PvP I also remember being pretty fun if that's your thing. However, if you want to play an MMO that makes community and interaction with other players not only encouraged but NECESSARY? SWG all the way.
swtor stories are sooo shallow.. its crazy. answers you give have nothing to do with what you chose 95% of the time, everything feels the same and pvp has fps issues, responsiveness in generel is clunky in swtor
@@cibinomin6540 well nothing you said is correct, and anyway it would still be less clunky than SWG. Obviously.
@@bombkita well you are delusional and probably living with your parents. there is that
@@cibinomin6540 idk you seem like you live with your parents
@@cibinomin6540 Imperial Agent has like 6 different outcomes. Shame they didn't follow all of it through, though in a vacuum it's a pretty ncie story. Same with Sith Warrior and imo, Jedi Counsular.
Don't usually do this but this was a very nicely, clear and well thought-out video and you should be proud of yourself for that. Well done matey :)
Great video, thank you.
I played swg just after the nge was released so missed all the commotion back then. I was gutted when it was closed down. I did try swtor for a good year or so but I grew bored very quickly.
I've recently started playing Swg Legends and thanks to your videos I even got the graphics mods working (BIG THANK YOU for that!). Swg is definitely the one for me. While I did appreciate all that swtor does, I prefer sandbox star wars!
Keep up the good work mate, and thanks again.
Nice! So glad one of the vids helped. Legends is my current fave mmo but I played SWTOR for nearly two years - even did a podcast all about it with a friend!
The ILM causes more crashes than normal. Used to crash alot until i uninstalled ILM.
Which server were u on Live? Se started playing at the same time like early 2008ish? I was on Ahazi.
my dad recently got me into playing legends and let me say. i had good fun with it. i wanna try TOR soon. but i feel like i'll like SWG more only because it took place middle of the 4th-5th film. both seem like great games in there own way.
I started playing Galaxies back in 2006, when it had a free to play month and I became addicted.. when it was shut down I was heart broken. Yes, there were some former player base run emulator servers, but they all lacked the thing I loved the most:
Starfighter piloting. That's the thing I loved from the get go, when you had that shabby ship on that shabby Tutorial space station, the same one for every faction you went to join after (naturally I became an Imperial pilot on my 1st char - a bounty hunter, because at that point I didn't know that in pvp Jedi was OP af, but you COULD change your profession... so I first went entertainer, wrote a macro/script to level myself to 99 in Mos Eisley Cantina while afk, did a whole bunch of story line missions but never accepted the mission XP, then switched Jedi and insta leveled up pretty high - on my 2nd char I became a trader/crafter and pilot for the neutral/smuggler faction, joining the Royal Naboo Security Force at first, only on my 3rd char I became a rebel; 1st char naturally became a "dark" Jedi, as close as Sith as you could go with force lighting which doubled as life drain, since you couldn't heal otherwise unless you went "good" jedi).
It's only now that I really remembered vaguely hearing about a new SW MMORPG and started looking this stuff up.
Honestly it looks better graphics wise (naturally, as it's a newer game), but other than that I think Galaxies seemed to have been the better game, with more freedom, more player run economy, et cetera.
I miss SWG, playing It with friends was amazing. I do love swtor and being so linear makes It fun even If I'm playing alone
I love both games. I enjoyed this video as it was very fair on both parts.
Very fair and measured approach, can't disagree with any of it as a previous avid player of both SWG and TOR.
Your videos of SWG look gorgeous! I see a lot of edge sharpening in there, but also the graphics for the icons are colourful and new to me. Can I ask what settings and/or mods you use to get that amazing look?
An excellent comparison Napyet, the 2 games both have their Pro's and Cons. I've played both to an extent period of time, and I do favor SWG over SWTOR because of it's unique features and what it had to offer over SWTOR. I've played SWG for 6 years, and possibly the almost exact same amount of time in SWTOR or even more, but SWG is the one I could sink countless hours in if I wanted to. I enjoyed your videos that help out new players and old players that need a refresher, it's the community that keeps people coming back to the game, and the videos you make definitely shows how helpful people can be in the community. Keep up the excellent work!
I've been impressed with the community in Legends also. I didn't come across the same thing playing the original emu but that may be because I didn't really put myself out there when I played it. Either way, the chance for players to come together again and play, whichever emu they choose is great. And I really hope Lucasfilm and Disney keep their noses out!
I like the theme of SWG it really feels immersive into the Star wars Universe where as TOR yes part of the star wars universe the gameplay feels restrictive and isolate playstyle...which just gives it a lack of immersion.
I would love to see SWG remade where CU and NGE were combined. I loved how in the CU you could still be a ranger and go hunt animals and actually get meat and hide to use for crafting. I also loved the pvp zone in NGE. I also loved the new style for medic in NGE. But CU was awesome, the options you can choose for classes is best, I miss the classes.
SWG has a real space game
JTL ftw!
GSF isn't?
@@rjramun GSF is just a small pvp map and at times you're in the queue for an hour or more waiting for other players. SWG has the entire galaxy open to you and you can be attacked anywhere. There's also a section called Deep Space that once you enter you're automatically flagged for space pvp so not only will you be attacked by high level npc ships but other players as well. There are entire quest lines for space, crafting, mining, and combat that SWTOR has missed out on. The poorly made space mini game that you access on your ship just doesn't cut it. You're nothing more than a gunner and have very little control over your ship and you just run the same four or five maps over and over again with just varying degrees of difficulty. I've played both games since their launch but I really wish SWTOR spent more time on space combat.
amen. that was one of things people were appalled by during development when they revealed the space content. we were all irritated to see this games combat was a rail shooter mini-game!
there was nothing better than flying in deep space, attacking a star destroyer in ur yt-1300 and at the same time u had ur friends running around in ur ship, trading, doing duels, repairing parts of ur ship or even jump in one of the turrets and help shoot down tie fighter! (ofcourse without any loadingscreens)
swg is sooooo much better in any way than swtor
ofcourse they are both complete diffrent types of mmos but if i had to choose one it would always be star wars galaxies
I did not play SWG but my first SW game played was kotor and when I learned of SWToR I dreamed of playing it and now I'm I've been playing SWToR for 5 years and I still play it. Say what you will about it but I love SWToR and nothing makes me leave it for good, although it can be a bit boring still I always return back to SWToR.
After SWG servers closed, I did try SWtor but I just couldn't get into it. I really missed the housing system of SWG, it was so unique. I'm so pleased to be back in the Galaxy far, far away and thank the devs who made it possible.
Was a doctor in SWG. Loved buffing people on corellia. Was also a TK Master. Could not be a combat medic because of it. I was very jealous of combat medics
I played Galaxies from the beta until it was sunseted in 2011 and it is still my favorite game of all-time. I also played TOR for about a year or so and it is fun, but in a very different way. I much prefere the way SWG did it over ToR and I think I may go check out SWG Legends, sicne it has JTL, which is one of my favorite parts of the game.
Man I am so happy I found this video!
A fusion of the best of both would be the perfect game, I love the freedom of exploration and the specific mechanics of classes and abilities that Galaxy (old one) offers and the stories and animations of old Republic!
Swg with TOR graphics/story/ would be ideal.
Agreed!
Great clip, thanks! I'm keen to jump into a Star Wars MMO, would you suggest SWG or X4??
I wish they would mash the 2 together for the next star wars mmo, both have some great/not so great systems and ideas.
Great video
I was one of the first people on my server to get logged in on opening day for SWG. The login server was having issues and no one could get in, i ended up getting in and being one of the only people running around Tatooine by myself.
Keep up the good videos
Will do, thanks Peter
SWG best bounty hunter system in any MMO.
swg best mmo ever!
Best crafting and resource system as well.
@@Bspired best mmo ever! it had everything!
What makes the bounty system so good coz I love playing my bounty hunter in tor but I’m going to o get this for a bounty hunter
@@TehSlayerOfDragonz My first day playing the game I walk into a cantina on Tatooine. There is a Twilek dancer talking to a Jedi. I leave the cantina and see some guy skulking around outside so I cross the street and hide behind a corner so that I can see what he is doing. The guy outside was a bounty hunter laying mines at the entrance to the cantina. A few moments later the Jedi walked out and blew up a few of the mines and was attacked by the bounty hunter. The Jedi defeated the bounty hunter and the dancer came out and asked how the bounty hunter was able to attack the Jedi (The Jedi was not flagged for PVP). The Jedi told her that bounty hunters could attack you regardless of being flagged.
That is what made the bounty hunter system so great. Bounty hunters were getting paid to track and kill actual players and the players had to defend themselves.
I would recommend the swgsr emulator for your galaxies pre cu fix. The community is awesome and the server is buzzing atm
I play both and they are great games. Both accomplish for me what WoW, in general, could not be having trying wow for a month or 2 which is usually to get glad/ksm with friends primarely for the season and then always going back to both games.
SWG for sure. I still play it from time to time. SWG Legends is doing really well.
Jorganti how can I get the game?
@@ratking5449 It requires a physical copy of the original game which you can buy online (of course there may be other ways to obtain this through other means...)
After you get that settled you can go to their website (google SWG Legends) and when you click play now it will give you a guide on how to get it up and running.
It takes just a few steps to get set up and it is definitely worth it. Hands down one of the best Star Wars experiences and probably my favorite MMO. The community is active and friendly.
@@Jorganti is it normal I have 3 discs of the game
@@ratking5449 I know they had some expansions, I think all you really need is the base game to get it to work.
SWG was a truly social experience. Many friends actually met their significant other in there. It was that groundbreaking and impactful. SWtOR is just a run of the mill WoW clone with a SW coat of paint.
Yah and 800 hours of the best Star Wars story anywhere.
Gameplay wise maybe, but defiantly not story and single player driven wise. Nothing wrong with copying a good game when done right.
i currently play both still and swg is hands down the best for me. The custom things in swg is hands down unbeatable and will forever be my #1
Come to think of it you didn't mention free space flight, ship building and upgrading nor player bounty hunting. Are these gone in Legends?
They're all there but for this vid decided to keep broader differences.
@@napyet Fair enough :) though I mentioned these as there were people playing SWG solely for either JTL or player BH and ignoring everything else (I mean these parts were good enough to constitute 'the game' to them). You really seem to be passionate about SWG but have grounded views on both TOR and SWG.
great video
I wish the had the crafting and player city's in TOR as they did in SWG
I have never heard of SWG, but TOR is one of my favorites.
Lol that's rough Have you played KOTOR? TOR doesn't really hold a candle up to it
@@deathboyinc It goes both ways. Even tho KOTOR 2 is still my favorite SW _(and probably my favorite RPG)_ game ever, it doesn’t hold a candle up to SWTOR in so, so many ways. They are completely different games and both are masterfully made unlike SWG which was a bugged mess of a fantasy powered by the role play of its community.
Currently playing SWTOR but my first MMO was SWG. I grew up on Starsider. I made amazing friends throughout my time. I made towns, ran the hardest instances (sometimes solo'ing and/or carrying as a combat medic cause someone f*cked up during Exar Kun which are my fondest memories
Yes, each class has it's own story... until you get to the expansions....
swtor has changed and not the same game i bought in to. i wish swtor was deeper in crafting and activites as swg is/was. this would improve subs and allow for better development.
How has it changed exactly? I disagree btw, just got back in 2020 on steam, still as good as i remembered 8 years ago
SWG was my first MMO. Hell, its still my youtube avatar. I never had more fun than playing SWG with my guild Being a TKM was awesome. Being a Jedi was awesome. Just going out into the jungles of Yavin 4 with your Jedi to grind in secret lest MBH would come after you was awesome. I was very said when most of my guild and all my original friends left to play WOW. I had fun with SWTOR and it was great doing high level operations and such but it was never close to the SWG experience I had long ago. Man, the adrenilin you would get buffing up, flagging for PVP and just circling a city like Besin looking for flagged players to jump while trying not to get jumped yourself by someone and with their damn AT-ST! Those were the days...
They should apply the old crafting system of SWG to other MMO's.
I actually enjoyed both for various different reasons. Didn't original start out in SWG thinking PVP would be my favorite thing, but found that to be the most enjoyable end game content, so when SWTOR hit, I liked that you could jump right into PVP at low level, when you needed a break from the quest lines. I finally abandoned SWTOR 3 years ago, due to just finding myself getting bored with SWTOR and not being happy with some of the changes to the player expertise and crafting systems (but I nearly quit SWG years ago when it went from CU to NGE for the same reasons). Never really got bored with SWG with all the different things you can do (even in-game fishing, creature handling / beast mastery, player bounty hunting and extensive crafting system among other things) and now that there three successful options, SWGemu (Pre CU SWG), "SWG Legends" (NGE SWG with it's own customization), and "SWG Prophecy" (NGE SWG with it's own customization), it's pretty easy to enjoy and relive SWG through it's major iterations (Pre CU and NGE). In the end, SWG is without a doubt, is my favorite.
For anybody interested in checking out some of SWTOR storylines, I've been posting cinematic edits of cutscenes and gameplay. That way you can get the story experience, without missing some environmental context.
I remember when SWG 1st come out , I ended up playing a melee staff wielder because all the NPC charged to melee range right away.
SWG, Pre game ruining patch, was my favorite MMO of all time with the most fond memories of any MMO i have ever played. SWTOR doesnt even come close to comparing to the feel SWG gave. SWTOR makes a wonderful singleplayer campaign experience but i think thats all it did for me. SWG would kill it if they made a second one and stuck to its roots.
Pre-CU was trash. You are probably one of those people that quit when NGE rolled around and didn't stick around to give it a chance. Towards the end of the games lifecycle even most Pre-CU players agreed that the late NGE turned out to be better than Pre-CU. NGE was and still is way better, except for the jedi everywhere. Only thing I liked about Pre-CU was the class customization, the lack of jedi, and the factional pets. Otherwise, NGE has like 50x more content. And you don't see everyone running around in ugly ass composite armor that isn't even really something from Star Wars.
I spent most of my time mining and crafting in SWG. Sometimes we'd kick back in the cantina just for chats.
I'll never forget the guy who came and sat with us. He had no pants on.
2005 was a strange time.
id say its more...rollercoster ( swtor ) as in your straped in and you follow a set track ....or a world size sandbox ( swg ) perosnely..i perfer swg becuse its what i grew up with hell even found my love of my life
The LAST.TRUE. Sandbox mmo
Holy shit it's me!
Far Star!
I was at the NYC launch of TOR back in 2011. I LOVED the game. Didn't like how they eventually made companions godlike...the amount of crafting I had to learn to kit them out went right the hell up in smoke.....
Looking back now, I agree with the mashing the two together idea. It would be nice if SWTOR would have an instance on each planet that was a sandbox setting where you could build a house/community anywhere on the planet and manufacture items and have small side-quests/missions to do. And of course, have the space version of the game be much like SWG.
If someone released an "updated" SWG, they could improve on the classes, have better graphics and smooth out the combat, and have better storylines/missions to level up (grinding is optional).
The possibilities and the outcome would likely be awesome, if done right, but game designers apparently don't want to do this for some reason.
Does the Old Republic let you explore the galaxy after the main quests?
I think everyone can agree that they should make a brand new one that is wonderful graphics. Period. Though we love the older ones and how much time we invested, I think there should be another for first, the newer audience, better gameplay, and new story. So many reasons why, and I would invest soo much time
Which emu do you play?
Swg is a true sandbox always love that game
nothing will ever touch Pre=NGE SWG
Is there a server for it? NGE was awful. I remember being force sensitive and that took ages in itself.
@@zepho100 Not sure if now but read about one called SWGEMU, cant make any promises if its legit or not though
@@justincooper1884 I’ll check it out
The biggest problem with Star Wars Galaxies is also (sort of) a strength. It's player housing system. Sure, it has one of the better Interior Designer simulators I've seen, but uh... the houses are all out in the open world...
So Tatooine is like Sand-Coruscant. Naboo is like Grass-Coruscant. Lok is.... honestly okay. Dantooine is Purple Flowers-Coruscant. Rori and Talus are fine, because no one goes there unless a quest brings them there.
My point is - on most of the planets where you can place a house in the open world, about 75% of the area is covered in houses and buildings packed tightly together. One of the games immersion factors ends up ruining the immersion.
Agree with what you are saying as many POIs became literally choked with houses. Another bad thing, besides ruining immersion, was all the lag that the houses with all of their objects inside caused.
Some people dropped houses to keep harvesters out of the area. If it wasn't hosuing cluttering up everything it was harvesters. I used to drop havresters to keep houses away. LOL
Have fond memories of Player Housing despite the urban sprawl. Some people were very creative in their decorating.
Was surprised that there weren't Player Apartments in the non-Player Cities. Anarchy Online had those and it would have worked in SWG.
To me, SWG had the best and worst Player Housing in all of the MMOs that I have played so far.
Old SWG player here. I'm so impressed with how well they've managed to update the graphics. Part of me wants to play the game to see it for myself.
My wife and I played swtor. Its basically just WoW with a star wars skin and voices npcs. However its still a really fun game. It will never stand against swg though
SWG was first mmo I ever played and left it in NGE to go play wow. I also played SWTOR hoping it would bring back some of what I loved in swg. Honestly the difference is they are two different of games to compare outside of IP. One is a theme park mmo one is a sandbox which made SWG feel like a galaxie! Being able to train and teach other players was amazing the social aspect amazing! The exploring amazing! SWTOR combat was better than SWG the class stories were good most of them. I enjoyed the game pvp for what it was hutball mostly I played shadow/ sentinel and vice versa asssasin/marauder so was fun. I think the longer GCD of abilities made it feel slow compared to say terra/ Wow. I would of loved to see a combat overhauling for SWTOR making it a bit faster. Would of made it not feel as slow maybe not for range classes it felt pretty solid with sage/Smuggler or sniper. The lightsaber classes felt slower with the gcd they decided to go with but you got use to it after some time.
Swtor is my love man. Played it pretty much daily for 10 years now.
Woah that's.... more than half of my life. It is that good huh?
I've just gotten back into SWG and I am not even exaggerating when I put it on my top 5 games of all time list
I miss my X Wing,Bria and my Warriors of Destiny guild mates in SWG. Wish they could reboot SWG.
SWG what a time. I had 3 or 4 Accounts for my mining machines. Was a damn job to visit the various mining Parks every Day. :D
I believe you should also have included JTL compared to space on rails in TOR. Also i believe you have to pay a subscription to level your character in TOR compared to it being free to play with SWG. Other than that, your breakdown was fair.
They're good point SS. For this one I decided to go very broad but there might be a chance to dig down into the finer details in another video.
SWTOR has had a new space mode added over five years ago. It's still 'closed' in a sense, as in you don't just go travel from system to system and can't decorate your ship but you can pilot your ship freely and dynamically similarly to how you do in SWG, in Galactic Starfighter against other players. But it's still better than the 'ship on rails' mode.
It's still not enough compared to SWG's space mode but it's fair to mention that, as otherwise it'd be misinformation.
I thought star wars galaxies was shut down how is it still playable?
Wonderful video, I would only add that the classes in SWOTOR are actually your generic mmo wow classes, as you mentioned with heavy restrictions. This can lead to a lot of imersion breaking however I would recommend to anyone to try the story, campaigns are like single player campaigns and they are very good, very very good. I have to give a shout out to the community as it is a lot better than in other wow type mmos I got to mention that as it was quite the surprise. Anyhow you got a sub, great job keep it up! :D
Welcome Peter!
The only thing the two have in common is the name. Once you get past that they couldn't be more different in terms of how they play. I played SWG from launch until the NGE. I was excited several years later when SWTOR was announced and many of my former guild mates from SWG rallied together and eagerly awaited the launch of SWTOR. I enjoyed SWTOR for a bit but it wasn't what I was hoping for. I realized then that the experience I had in early SWG would likely never be duplicated. On paper SWTOR should be better, just content alone dictates that, but SWG has some sort of hidden magic. To this day I play the SWGEMU (Pre-cu) emulator and even with the lack of content I look forward to logging in. I have tried getting back into SWTOR several times only to grow bored within a week or two. If I can ever get it to work I might try the SWG Legends server strictly for the added content, perhaps enough time has passed to look passed the previously game breaking changes. Time will tell, but long live SWG, the best MMO that ever existed.
They need to bring swg back online the only reason it was taken offline seriously was because BioWare was afraid people would confuse swg with swtor, that's why I it shuts down literally 5 to 10 days before the Old Republic launch. I can make a video talking an hour about all the good reasons why Star Wars Galaxy is a better game I like the Old Republic but, swg has so much more innovation than any other mmo has yet to become even in 2020. They are bringing older games back online like the original Battlefront 2 if they brought Star Wars Galaxies back online it would be nothing but profit because they have the card game Market that gave us items. Loot , furniture, armor styles, speeders, and they would make pure profits off of it,besides just maintaining the servers
It was shut down because it was a dead game and had been such since 2005. Bioware had literally nothing whatsoever to do with it. Sony and the lucasarts both stated the game had gone on far longer than it should and the decision to shut it down was mutual
and no, it wouldn't be profitable if it came back today. It wasn't profitable for many years while it was running and was overwhelmingly panned as an awful, boring game with almost no content, which it was
Played both ALOT. Both are fantastic games for different reasons. Sadly SWG dosent hold up to modern gaming, especially in combat and graphics. Play swtor, it’s a great game.
I love SWTOR quite a bit but its main flaws, in my opinion, stem from its theme park nature. I'm going to give SWG a try for the first time today and honestly, the main reason I'm so interested in it, is because I have always been a bigger fan of sandbox games. SWTOR has impeccable Star Wars atmosphere, an epic story and some great gameplay, but its over-reliance on combat and fetch quests as well as the theme park world design prevent me from truly, fully immersing myself and "living" in the Star Wars galaxy. I'll probably still play SWTOR more than SWG in the long run due to the fact that I have more time and money invested in it, plus it's a bit easier to get into, but I'm very excited to give this game a try!
I just hope that Disney realizes just how many Star Wars fans want an Elder Scrolls-like Star Wars game and gives it to us someday. Online or not, I want a game where I can go anywhere and do anything I like, to truly be able to live in the galaxy far, far away.
I've only played SWTOR, and I like it. I might as well start with SWG.
Still playing SWG a decade later.
Swtor had some fun aspects, and the animations pre-kotfe were awesome
You should do tutorials that would help a lot.
The thing is, they're both different games and very decent at what they're doing. Galaxies is incredibly fun though, and the roleplay elements all the more worthwile playing for me, as well as all the JTL stuff
Thanks for this video; excellent presentation. :) To those out there who might be considering SWTOR since it was just released on Steam, check out the many 'is it worth playing SWTOR in 2020?' videos on UA-cam; they each capture some different aspects of the game, and it's of course valuable that they are all about the game as it currently stands. There are also many SWTOR playthrough videos, and they'll give you a good feeling for the story side of the game, which features eight unique base class stories.
I'm enjoying my return to the game a lot and thanks for the tips on where to go for more info, Deeber!
How to download it?I can't find a way to play it
swg restoration 3
I loved SWG before the jedi entered the fray. Once they did, I really wanted to become a jedi, but the process was really boring, just to later on plain nerf it. I think it was a great game. Would be fun to take ideas from it and since everyone will want to be a jedi, maybe make a lore adjustment in the game that every class is force sensitive in some way, that way not everyone will want to stop being their class? Like, if yiure a swordsman, your next step is jedi knight but if youre a trooper or bounty hunter, you can use force sensitive powers while still being a bounty hunter?
Going to hop back into swg legends
I was playing SWG on my old laptop but my new desktop doesnt have a CD Drive so I cant install the game on this computer ): so ive been playing TOR only now, but both are super fun
You can still install it with ISO images! Check out the swg subreddit on how to install
@@TheFalloutboy3 awesome thank you! Def gonna read up on it right now!
@@TheFalloutboy3 Just installed and updating now! thanks man!
I’d play this mmo but at the time I had no computer knowledge and I was merely 5-7 years old when swg appeared
Now when the old republic appeared I knew I couldn’t afford a computer to play it
I enjoyed both. I just got back into SWG via Restoration 3 and still a SWTOR subscriber. I'll admit SWG NGE was not my favorite changes. I pretty much destroyed my character with the deleting on the professions I was playing. Still a bit salty about it.
Pre NGE I was a shipwright/droid engineer.. NGE came along and iirc Shipwright was paired with architect and droid engineer with tailor.
I personally felt that SWG and SWTOR would have fed off each other. When you get tired of one, play the other for a while. My daughter for a long time was just waiting for the next MMO to come out, because she and her clan mates would tire of them easily. On to the next one. I guess someone thought there is only so much interest in Star Wars, only so many fans, so there is not enough water to service two wells.
SWG was and still is the best mmo ever in my opinion. The depth of immersion I felt while questing, crafting, building and decorating my house in a completely player made and run CITY, hanging out in the cantina in mos eisley, every little bit of the game was truly a unique masterpiece the likes of which hasnt been fully replicated since.
Worth mentioning you probably want to play version SWG before the rebalance. You can get servers that give you the end game, as it was in 2011. Most SWG players will want a sandbox, free form experience.
In terms of player choice, it’s almost on a par with EvE with everything in old SWG pretty much being player driven. I like both, but my heart is with old school SWG. There has not been a game like it since, nor do,I expect will there ever be. Modern MMOs handhold more and more and lime to give every player a lovely high level loot drop every ten minutes just for playing. No one is allowed to feel inferior or behind. Everyone in modern MMOs gets a shiny, gets a mount, gets a companion, gets a group finder, gets enough currency, gets.... all of it. Just by logging in. Convenient for many I suppose, but it feels pretty shallow.
tor:hotbar botting.. and send companions on gathering missions... and dungeons like every other mmo... but with purely mirrored classes between factions... and ashara as wife/minion whenever you go out to fight some random bantha somewhere... but not in the beautiful x-70b phantom, thats reserved for the imp spy
I'm pretty sure that the SWG servers aren't actually illegal, the only ones that could be considered as such would be the NGE ones based on leaked source code, the rest were reverse engineered and require an "official installation" it's no different than running a custom gta server etc.