Star Wars

Most of my friends' first and favourite movie is Star Wars.  They all saw it in the theaters when they were little and it had an everlasting impact on their lives and therefore on mine.  One of the reasons why I have not been blogging as much lately is that one of my friends has gotten me into playing the Star Wars online game: Star War the Old Republic.

In this game you get to play either on the side of the Imperials or the Republic and then you have the choice of four different character careers.  There are also many species you can play and so far two sexes.  You can play a good character or you can play an evil character; it all about the decisions that you choose when you play the game.

I first played the game about two years ago when I was staying with some friends for the winter.  They were hoping that I would continue to play and interact with them online, but I was not interested.  I was not interested because I felt it was a game that I could spend a lot of time doing and I did not want to spend that time doing that.  

But I did try it again this Autumn on my own without their coercion.  There are a lot of aspects of the game I do enjoy.  You get to play stories, like in RPGs, but without a lot of people.  

The real problem with the game is that a lot of the story is repeated with each character.  Over three quarters of each careers story line is repeated in other stories and some story lines are reused by both the Imperial and Republic story line.  What I am saying is that the repetition detracts from my experience, in other words, I am getting bored playing the same story over and over again, even with nearly two years in between

So, when my friend texts me two weeks ago and tells me about a new RPG, based on Star Wars called Edge of the Empire.  I get a little excited, because it is an opportunity to role play with my friends, but after playing so much Star Wars lately, I am not really all that interested.  I still went out and bought the book of course.  Is this a sign of depression returning though or have I just been playing too much Star Wars?

The things people do for friendship right?