First of all this is not a flame posting, I like many, love mmo's and was looking forward to this game for a while.
I have only played in beta for maybe 1 week before the game launched so its hard for me to give a full review.
First let me point out to all those who are toying with buying this game, make sure you have a decent spec system with a good shader 2.0 graphics card and at least 1 - 2 gig of memory.
Characters - The usual bunch are there, druids, warrior, etc as well as a few new ones like psionist, but to me they all have the same feel to them and not enough individuality. ( maybe its just me)
My opinion is that this game is still in beta stages, while i know what many of you are thinking that thats the way mmo's launch like which is true, but I can see many getting put off quick.
My first week of playing my main ranger to level 10, I have found that quite a few quests are still bugged, also I have fallen through the landscape 3 times so far. found numerous mobs that are stuck, npc's/mobs that dissapear.
Also one thing that annoys me is where are the helmet and other clothes graphics? as well as bard songs, where are the sound clips when bards play their songs, as well as the cool song graphics. (anyone remember everquest!) I mean its 2007
(sigal say they will be added at a later date)
My main concern with this game is the same old grind sessions of other mmo's i.e kill 9 mobs then hand in, rince and repeat, this for me got very tiresome quick, I really hope they add some variety at later dates, I seem to of lost interest just doing the quests and I cannot explain why.
On the system settings side this is where the main probelms lie, I have a desent system but I have noticed that manualy setting some of the graphic sliders doe's not seem to have any effect.
In one situation I noticed in an area such as a town will manually setting everything to max my fps were showing 20 when using the automatic selector i moved it to max performance which showed 120+ fps, after that I decided to select the max detail option and alter all the sliders to max and to my suprise my fps went up to 40+ thus showing that their a bugs to fix with the settings.
The players are nice, I have grouped up with and added 3 people to my friend list so far, this seems to make grinding a bit better.
Crafting - seems fun, I never like crafting in games but this one has a good feel to it where you actually have an impact on the quality of items you craft, slthough dont go expecting to build boats in a week!! I did non stop crafting fir one day and got my artifactor to level 6.
Diplomacy - I thought the idea of this is good but I can see many people overlooking this as they might get a bit bored with it.
So would I recommend this game?
Maybe, if you want a easy to pick up and fun game go play wow, if you want to try something new then try to get hold of a 10 day pass or wait for a free trial.
Maybe im hoping to get the same buzz as when I fist played everquest back in the day, but I dont think I will be renewing my subscription.
I have only played in beta for maybe 1 week before the game launched so its hard for me to give a full review.
First let me point out to all those who are toying with buying this game, make sure you have a decent spec system with a good shader 2.0 graphics card and at least 1 - 2 gig of memory.
Characters - The usual bunch are there, druids, warrior, etc as well as a few new ones like psionist, but to me they all have the same feel to them and not enough individuality. ( maybe its just me)
My opinion is that this game is still in beta stages, while i know what many of you are thinking that thats the way mmo's launch like which is true, but I can see many getting put off quick.
My first week of playing my main ranger to level 10, I have found that quite a few quests are still bugged, also I have fallen through the landscape 3 times so far. found numerous mobs that are stuck, npc's/mobs that dissapear.
Also one thing that annoys me is where are the helmet and other clothes graphics? as well as bard songs, where are the sound clips when bards play their songs, as well as the cool song graphics. (anyone remember everquest!) I mean its 2007
(sigal say they will be added at a later date) My main concern with this game is the same old grind sessions of other mmo's i.e kill 9 mobs then hand in, rince and repeat, this for me got very tiresome quick, I really hope they add some variety at later dates, I seem to of lost interest just doing the quests and I cannot explain why.
On the system settings side this is where the main probelms lie, I have a desent system but I have noticed that manualy setting some of the graphic sliders doe's not seem to have any effect.
In one situation I noticed in an area such as a town will manually setting everything to max my fps were showing 20 when using the automatic selector i moved it to max performance which showed 120+ fps, after that I decided to select the max detail option and alter all the sliders to max and to my suprise my fps went up to 40+ thus showing that their a bugs to fix with the settings.
The players are nice, I have grouped up with and added 3 people to my friend list so far, this seems to make grinding a bit better.
Crafting - seems fun, I never like crafting in games but this one has a good feel to it where you actually have an impact on the quality of items you craft, slthough dont go expecting to build boats in a week!! I did non stop crafting fir one day and got my artifactor to level 6.
Diplomacy - I thought the idea of this is good but I can see many people overlooking this as they might get a bit bored with it.
So would I recommend this game?
Maybe, if you want a easy to pick up and fun game go play wow, if you want to try something new then try to get hold of a 10 day pass or wait for a free trial.
Maybe im hoping to get the same buzz as when I fist played everquest back in the day, but I dont think I will be renewing my subscription.
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