Rift - Would anyone reccomend it?

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I'm looking to buy a new gaming PC in the summer, as I will have finished my final GCSE exams and have 4 months off until I go to college (Which still I will only be doing three days a week, so will have plenty of spare time). I'm hoping to buy the "Titan Krypt": http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-210-OK&tool=3 with the GeForce GTX 460 :)

So anyway to the point, I'm looking for a MMO to play. On my old gaming PC I played WoW for a few years and really enjoyed that, then my pc died. I've now got an average home pc with no graphics card and I play LOTRO sometimes, but have to run it on all the lowest settings, but still it is quite enjoyable. So I was wondering if Rift is a game I should migrate to.

I'm really into the fantasy games and RP'ing, so I wanted to know if Rift is a good game. If anyone could tell me how much RP I could do on Rift that'd be awesome too (Like RP realms etc). And if anyone could tell me how well it would run on the GeForce GTX 460 aswell that'd be swell :D
 
I have a GeForce GTX 460 and can tell you it runs very well, everything on ultra you get about 40 fps which is fine. If you tune it down a bit then you easily get 60+

As for the game, I personally don't recommend it, I'm like you, I also used to play WoW and I played Guild Wars as well, Rift is very boring in my honest opinion, but if you don't want to go back to playing WoW then I guess you could try it, it's only £23.99.
 
Cheers for the feedback, I loved WoW but I was never very good at the levelling up as I didnt have the patience to Grind so only made it to like lvl 40. If I went back now I'd just be lost in the increased lvl cap as I played only up until TBC. Rift pretty new so I'd have a chance lvling at my own time without being a noob :P
 
franco_22 said:
I have a GeForce GTX 460 and can tell you it runs very well, everything on ultra you get about 40 fps which is fine. If you tune it down a bit then you easily get 60+

As for the game, I personally don't recommend it, I'm like you, I also used to play WoW and I played Guild Wars as well, Rift is very boring in my honest opinion, but if you don't want to go back to playing WoW then I guess you could try it, it's only £23.99.
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I also found it boring. I had it installed for a month and it was just soo much grinding, which I realise is going to happen .. but WoW was a lot more fun.
 
Rift is a grind? whaaaaaaaaaaat
Getting to 50 in rift is quick and painless
Getting gear at 50 is quick and painless

Guess most of you are new to mmorpgs or started with wow.
The word "grind" should be banned from todays mmos, you should have played these games back in the day thats a grind.
 
maddog said:
Getting to 50 in rift is quick and painless
Getting gear at 50 is quick and painless.
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Another mmorpg that comes under the no effort category - ha if only life was this easy eh? silver spoon in mouths etc.

I hope some designers out there make a mmorpg that makes you have to work for your gear and progression, specifically catered for people who want a really hard game.

Hopefully the new EverQuest will give us that, but with how easy they made the original EQ once Sony got their claws on it, I really much doubt it.
 
My brother left wow to play it and is really enjoying it so far. Chats a lot with the Ocuk rift guild. Seems like good fun.
 
I like Rift quite a bit, WoW I quite enjoyed for its time but ultimately WoW was a different path to what I like in an MMO and to be honest there was only so much of some WoW players attitudes, maturity and intelligence levels that I could take before brain meltdown.

LoTRO I enjoy a lot (got lifetime account on that), especially for the RP.

Rift doesnt bring too much new to the table, but its very polished for a new MMO and takes many features from other MMOs and brings them together in a nicely done package (ironically enough, you could say exactly the same thing about WoW when it first came out), but I find Rift to be plenty of fun. I'm hoping it doesnt go down the same road as WoW in terms of game features and players attitudes but we will see.

However, and this is a big however judging from your OP, if its RP you're looking for you are better off staying in LoTRO. Largely speaking the Rift game crowd is the WoW game crowd and RP is one of the last things on their mind (min maxing, purpel lewtz and number stats are their primary concerns), tbh you'll find very little RP in Rift.

Fun game but not one I would say to go to if you are primarily seeking RP.
 
It has a feel of "my first mmo" or "mmo for idiots" about it. I found it was extremely simplified compared to other mmo's, from the skill management to the armor and weapon crafting. Everything screamed KIDS to me.

Its also incredibly derivative of other fantasy mmo's, you wont see anything you havent seen before.
 
yes its quick to get to 50 but its painfully grindy and boring, the quests are so dull and id the mob density is the worst ever in a mmo.

great class system, rest of the game is an mmo for tards.
 
Eames said:
Nah it just means that you have little experience of other more complex mmo's.
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Hehehe

Are you sure of that?

(given that its well known that I started MMOs in 1997 in UO and have since played.. UO, Daoc, EQ, EQ2, AC , AC2, SWG, Earth and Beyond, WAR, AoC, WoW, Aion, EvE amongst others).

But yeah, ok, little experience.
 
Well then I'm baffled as to how you dont find rift extremely simplified?

Maybe youre just a content surfer, you like games that are easy so you can see all they have to offer?
 
Quite simple really, I'm into my 40s now. Family and work take precedence where 15 years ago gaming took precedence. I dont have the time to invest in more complex MMOs , or more involved MMOs as I once did with UO and Daoc. If I am lucky I get a hour to play in a day, maybe 2.

As such my single, one concern in an MMO now, is can I get on, have fun for an hour and get something achieved in that time. Rift fits that bill quite nicely. I can get quite a bit done in the limited time I have to play, its not the most stunning MMO, its depth pales in comparison to that of UO (imo almost all MMOs do compared to UO :) ), its PvP pales in comparison to the PvP of Daoc, its PvE in some ways pales in comparison to the amount in EQ2, however I can get on and have some fun and then log off to do the important stuff. Thats all I ask from an MMO now, just to be fun and something I can do rapidly and with one eye on the screen and one eye on whats going on in my home. As such, I enjoy rift, even if that does mean I am an idiot-kid-tard content surfer. :)
 
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Eames said:
Well then I'm baffled as to how you dont find rift extremely simplified?

Maybe youre just a content surfer, you like games that are easy so you can see all they have to offer?
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Or maybe its the simplicity of it that makes it appeal to the wider audience. But I guess, because you don't like it no-one else can?

As for seeing it all. I've played 3 characters through to 50 now and still haven't seen it all.
 
Well I like Guild Wars because it's about skill cap not armour and level grinds, even thou I have a 359 ilvl Rogue, I can't be bothered neither does real life allow me to spend hours everyday on a game or make raid commitments. Which is why I quit WoW and Rift was just boring WoW clone imo so I couldn't play it more then a couple of weeks. I guess that's why MMOs have this no life stigma attached to them, yes you can play it casually but if you really want to be on top of things you have to devote a few hours to it everyday, they even implement ways to make sure you do such as daily quests, daily heroics, raid resets, pvp cap, etc.

If you like it more power to you, but if the OP is saying he can't even be bothered to get past level 40 in WoW which let's be honest, it probably takes half a day to get to lvl 40 now, how do you think he's going to enjoy the "simplicity" of Rift?

It's not about your opinion of the game it's about giving an honest opinion to the OP based on his needs, and I say it again, if you couldn't be bothered with WoW then you will also find Rift boring.

Perhaps I'm just going through a phase :D but for the last couple of months I've been unable to play any game for more then an hour or 2 without being bored.. and I've wasted so much money in trying so many titles lately and nothing appeals to me :(
 
Never liked mmorpg's, always tried to get into them though. Thought I'd finally found one I liked, was having fun for around a month.
Well, I think I was convincing myself that I was having fun really. Just on autopilot, pressing buttons. It's a mindless, skill free time sink. I thought "I'm gonna cut my losses and get out now".
Might go back and give it another go before my time runs out (got 20 days left).
 
franco_22 said:
Perhaps I'm just going through a phase :D but for the last couple of months I've been unable to play any game for more then an hour or 2 without being bored.. and I've wasted so much money in trying so many titles lately and nothing appeals to me :(
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Yeah that certainly sounds like a phase, if it had been that you cant play a particular genre without being bored then I might say its the type of game, but as you say its any game at all bores you, then that certainly suggests that its gaming as a whole you are bored with.
 
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