The burden of choice
Sorry for our long silence – it’s summer time, summer vacation time to be more precise, and kids want to be taken care of and then I was away for first work and then vacation and now my first last week of actual vacation is somehow filled with much more tasks than I wanted to.
Where words fail, music speaks – Favourite Gaming Soundtracks
There has been so much damn good music in video games and it keeps getting better and better as games slowly get a more accepted status in story telling media. And where we once had only 8-bit tunes that turned into electronic orchestras, nowadays it is not unusual for a game to get an entire
“Legions have risen to test me” – Anna plays SWTOR Pt. 6
Chapter three, we are on our way. And the first thing we have to do is to shut down this annoying companion that keeps on flirting in the crudest possible way… We know that the Emperor needs to commit a mass sacrifice, basically committing genocide somewhere in the galaxy to fuel his power and become
“You’d be surprised what I believe” – Anna plays SWTOR Pt. 5
Get out your thermal gear and your snow goggles because out next stop is the planet Hoth. A frozen wasteland full of pirates, aggressive natives and warship debris. There was a big space battle over Hoth in the last war and a good deal of ships that have been shut down crashed on Hoth’s surface,
“You are strong and touched by darkness” – Anna plays SWTOR Pt. 4
Chapter 2 begins after some time off which is all in our head because I am on a roll and I refuse to stop playing for the night. But, in game, you get an actual nice vacation. Sorta, because while the crew is relaxing Zhyi starts to hear voices. One voice in particular, the one
“If that thing eats us, you’re fired!” – Anna plays SWTOR Pt. 3
After the almost disaster that was Tattooine Zhyi and her tiny crew (seriously, they are manning a starship with two Jedi and two droids, one of them without having arms…) take the fastest route to Alderaan. The secret weapon developed on this planet? The Death Mark. A high precision laser that can assassinate single targets
“Eat lightsaber, jerk!” – Anna plays SWTOR Pt. 2
After we left the swamp that is Taris Zhyi gets an urgent message from General Var Suthra about Agent Galen, the SIS Agent who went after the weapons facility on Nar Shadaa. The emergency being that the Agent has missed his last check ins and can not be contacted. So Zhyi, Kira and T7 travel
“Keep Calm & Carry a Lightsaber” – Anna plays SWTOR Pt.1
A few words about the state of the galaxy at the start of the game: After being thought completely eradicated for centuries the Sith Empire returned from the Shadows and completely overwhelmed an unprepared Galactic Republic. They took back many worlds that were taken from them during the last great war and dealt a great
I have the will of stars and the patience of stone – Anna plays Star Wars The Old Republic
The game I love playing most next to the Dragon Age and Mass Effect series is Star Wars The Old Republic or SWTOR for short. (Because seriously, no one wants to type that out constantly…) It’s an MMO by Bioware published in 2011. And that is pretty much when I got hooked. On and off,
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