So has anyone uninstalled the beta client and installed off the DVDs yet?  Wondering what people who havent seen the intro cinematic yet thought of it in full resolution?

Cinematics are just cinematics.

If cinematics was the key element in a game Hellgate: London should have been the best game in the world.

Originally posted by gorecki

WAR has very little it one can use to evaluate it on its "own merits".  You can't legitimately review it without mentioning how deritvative it is!

It brings almost nothing new to the table, and manages to make what it has borrowed from other games (one in particular) even more boring, dumbed down, without effort or challenge.  Its terrible, just terrible.

I think the only reason it has enjoyed such a good reception so far (although almost every big-name title does at launch, even AoC) is that it is like WoW, but not WoW.  It is a competent clone that manages to look just different enough to attract the huge number of people who are bored w/ WoW but haven't had any other decent options. 

He is trying to write his own feelings about WAR expressively without comparing it to any other game, and you feel the need to hijack his thread and do the opposite, repeating age old empty phrases.

Have some respect for the OP.  If you disagree with him, disagree.  Repeating the same old one line moan like a broken record everywhere is lame, to say the least.

Originally posted by gorecki

Originally posted by firecow

Originally posted by gorecki

WAR has very little it one can use to evaluate it on its "own merits".  You can't legitimately review it without mentioning how deritvative it is!

It brings almost nothing new to the table, and manages to make what it has borrowed from other games (one in particular) even more boring, dumbed down, without effort or challenge.  Its terrible, just terrible.

I think the only reason it has enjoyed such a good reception so far (although almost every big-name title does at launch, even AoC) is that it is like WoW, but not WoW.  It is a competent clone that manages to look just different enough to attract the huge number of people who are bored w/ WoW but haven't had any other decent options. 

 

ahhh yeah ok.

so you actually haven't played WAR have you? Nice try though.

 

To OP. Good article.

Yep, good thought there.  Because, nobody that played the game could EVER have anything negative to say about it, right?  Nahh...

I guess that unopened pre-order I just returned to gamestop was an illusion, huh?  How many returned pre-orders comparing with registered accounts.  Quote solid statistics?  How many happy gamers compared to unhappy ones?  No statistics?  No, I do not, but since you don't have either, none of us know and we have no conclusion.  Stop pretending to know.

Anyway...myself, and the people I know who enjoy some depth, difficulty, risk & challenge in games (haha you must be big, do we need to nominate you to compete for the Nobel prize or something?  Mr delusion de grandeur) played dutifully through the beta and came away saying "meh".  I could live with the crappy, clunky combat, stiff animations and coma-inducing PVE, if there were a decent game underneath with some real skill-based PVP.  Oh yeah you are great you are wonderful you are the big man of the universe, who need a skill based pvp (whatever it is) for find diffculty risk and challenge.  Hmm I heard that there is an alien invasion landing in moon next week, go pick up your uber sword and teleport to moon, there is a risk and challenge there too.

People say that WoW was made for kiddies.  In a sense, they're right, they made MMOs more accessible for everyone, so i guess you could warp that into the "for kiddies" label.  WAR takes that and dumbs it down so badly that maybe the new analogy should be "for 'special' kiddies'.  People also say that you are a moron, are they right?  People said this people said that and suddenly its bible.

As I said...its the perfect American MMO:  Its simplistic, vapid, and derivative...and everybody wins, regardless if how much effort they put in, or how much skill they have, because it just wouldn't be fair to everybody if it was any other way.  Regardless of how much effort they put in ... what the hell are you talking about.  Its a game.  How do u measure input?  Hours sitting in front of the computer, so that the jobless lifeless wins?  What is wrong in a game in which everyone comes out happy.  You need a game in which you win in the sense of everyone else tortured screaming sad, except you?  Hmm you need a prison cell, not a game.

is it ok im still using beta client to play sence my driver is dead and i cant install the game? Will it run differently?

Originally posted by Hi11Zone

is it ok im still using beta client to play sence my driver is dead and i cant install the game? Will it run differently?

I presume you mean ur DVD ROM drive is dead and you cannot install from the distribution DVD.  Yes you can play with the client you have but expect some patching if its the beta version.  Actually if you install fresh from the DVD you will be downloading even more.

The only extra you will get from reinstalling from DVD would be the hi res cinematics.

Originally posted by Hi11Zone

is it ok im still using beta client to play sence my driver is dead and i cant install the game? Will it run differently?

You are fine running the beta client - the only real difference is the opening intro cinematic (which is great IMHO).  If your DVD drive is broken there is no need to worry.  Just keep using the beta client.

Thanks for the input everyone!

Thanks for your review MMOPlaya,

Have been trying to decide whether to buy WAR or not and your review seemed nicely balanced..Looks like I'm just going to have to try it