Aekeron said:
Just to chime in with the usual - REALLY DON'T take up playing WoW or any other MMORPG. They're so very very addictive
Seriously, avoid like the plague if you want to maintain any kind of social/love-life.
If you absolutely have to take one up, take on a beta-testing role. At least then you're limited to how much time you can sink into it and you'll prob have to stop playing in a few months.
lol I have read the stories and seen the evidence for myself!
I am a 34yr old programmer, engaged to be married next year and with a five-year old son in a new house.. I definitely won't have time to become addicted

And surprisingly the other half was quite interested when I was playing the 10-day free trial, might even get her into it too
Seriously, I am not really that interested at getting to lvl50 before person X or Y, I just want something that I will enjoy playing probably three or four times a week (also working in IT means I can bypass the proxy and be able to play on my work lappy at lunchtimes if I get bored surfing

)..
I know WoW has fans and enemies alike, but I am not a seasoned gamer like most of you guys and to me it fits the bill nicely - in which case it doesn't make it a bad/poor game if it satiates the needs of a person?
I played the EVE free trial too, whilst I did like it I found it a bit "warp/fight/warp/fight".. never heard of Vanguard but I might check it out later.
Velocity219e said:
Vanguard is okay imo, a helluva lot of bugs but release games are always a little rough around the edges, tbh vanguard is very rough atm, and you need a really good machine to run it well, and frankly the way it looks on lower settings doesn't really line up with older games to be truthful, it looks fantastic with things tweaked up somewhat, but it looks incredibly ugly and plain on low specs ...
What sort of spec is "acceptable"? I have a P4
[email protected], 2Gb ram, 256mb X800GTO2 @ X850GT (or is it XT?) speeds, will that cope?
Thanks guys, oh and expect some real newbie questions whichever route I go
