I got the idea for the video on one of my long drives that I do every week, and then it sprang into the 2 part video you saw today.
/Begin Flashback
All this originally started after CU2. The division between alpha jedi characters, and regular lvl 80 characters really began to piss me off. I had been playing the game since beta, but because of my shedule, I could not find the time to grind out a jedi, to therefore enjoy high end content. At least before, I could go get buffs, and then tackle high end stuff.
So the game became a bore of the "same ole, same ole."
So I played less and less. Then the dropped the bomb with the NGE. I was actually looking forward to it. I have been playing FPS games since the invention of them, and leveling the playing field intrigued me. When I tried the latest incarnation of SWG, it was a horrible horrible letdown. It is nowhere near a FPS, and a lot of the RP aspect had been stripped. It became a chore just to move around, much less fight, much much less to enjoy the awkwardness of the game.Logon.
Ask, "what's going on?"
"We're going to Dantooine to hunt pikets again"
"ugh"
logoff.
So I messed around with it some more. I still had some movie ideas I wanted to finish before I had to resubscribe next year, so I went in and attempted to take some shots.
What I found was that even if you strl-shft-H to remove the HUD, it still doesn't remove your target reticle or arrow pointer. How in the hell are you supposed to take moving footage with crap still left on screen??
It was the last straw. I cancelled both my accounts right then.
/Back to Present day
I kept thinking back to the good times I had, and found my screenshots from all the way back from Day 1. It was fun seeing my chars and others progress along a still-frame timeline, from one screenshot to the next. Changing and maturing into what they've become today.
Then I bought the latest Green Day live CD "Bullet in a Bible" and heard that song again, "Time of your Life" and the lyrics in the song hit me like a sledgehammer.
The song I heard, combined with the screenshots I had recently viewed, made the vision complete. I needed to make this into a video, celebrating the good times we as a community have had, and bring closure to this experience to myself.So take the photographs and still frames in your mind
Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial
For what it's worth it was worth all the while
It's something unpredictable
But in the end is right
I hope you had the time of your life
So I was collecting the screenshots, and arranging the video, and I started to make the credits, and decided that everyone needed to be thanked, so I sorted through everyone's names from the memberlist here at swgtales. And I also took my parting shot at SOE cuz I got pissed that this was the finale.
Soooo, for what it's worth, it was worth all the while. I will always remember the good times we had in game.
. Makes me long for the old days when i was geek speaking and for some reason dariis starts rping and sparks my interests. Id give anything to live those days again . I just would give anything for classic servers i dunno what to do now but I will never forget the great experiences i had in rp and in this community. I know near the end i kind of ran off and did my own thing but this community made this game great for such a long time for me . And that video just brought tears to my eyes because i know ill never have those experiences again sadly 