I am so glad I did not read that review before buying the game. Everyone reading this will never buy Earthrise and will never see the truth. Yes, the game has problems, yes the game was released too early, but saying things such as the game has classes or that it is not a sandbox game makes me really sad for that reviewer. Oh and full loot PvP? Didn't you find the insurance button????

How long did he spend in the game and did he actually play that game?

Originally posted by marcust

The reviewer is correct, the game in its present state is not engaging.

You can only kite so many mobs with your T2 armour and guns for BP before it becomes an utter bore.

 

Then don't kite so many mobs with your T2 armour and guns for BP! You do not NEED to be tier 10 in weeks. I spend most of my time exploring the world and found this very fun to do. Yes I am behind on most people in the game, but who cares? Beside that the kitable mobs (Melee creatures in general) have been nerfed pretty hard (BP wise) and harder ranged mobs now give more BP.

Agreeable though that the game lacks content, but kiting mods with your tier 2 armour and guns for BP is not the only thing you can do. You can PvP to get there insurence money or even items you can fight more difficult monster with your tier 2 armour or even with higher tier armour. You could get into crafting or explore the world.

Infact go south-east of the map and you get a preview of how Fallout: Online might look like :P. Really loved that area and shamefully the only area that really give you a post-apoc feeling. Hunt down all the teleporter or go scout for work-station. True you might find these on a map create by the community, but loads of more fun to do it on your own. 

You could do various quest and there is even a quest-line that will give you high-tier armour. No this is not a repeatable. There are actually also some storie quest  (Unlike what the writer claimed) whitch teach you about the area your in. 

Masthead studio's does have the talent to turn this game into something better, just look at the engine with is actually pretty good. True it should have been optimilised before released, but it is pretty good. At least from what we can see as players. 

Hm... a question for the author: why post screenshots released by Masthead Studios if you have played the game?

 This is a poor review.. I agree the game has had its share of technical problems .. lag. That being said the game is improving.. What exactly did people expect from an indie developer??  A bland game? So what you mean is you played until t2 gear then called it a day? How can FULL LOOT PVP be a bad feature when the game is designed for people who like this? 

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to be honest sure ER has it's share of problems but this review is just written by someone who already wanted to play rift already but had to log in for a few mins in ER to write something smart :P xipher got that point quite right if you ask me

my share:

first the skill and mix and match system IS very deep and IS a main point as items can be insured quite early and you basically will only loot 50% of that insurance + loot someone was farming or the like...basically a very nice approach to combine ffa risk feeling but making it more attractive overall. when you advance and get more and more skills you'll see that this is kinda well thought out...and yes there is healing, taunts (which seem to be viable in pvp also...50% less dmg if the target doesnt focus you).

also the faction system mentioned as bad..well most sandboxes neglect the faction aspect like in games such as daoc, potbs or others of that sort while in ER they seem to try to combine this faction feeling which is VERY important to kind a lot of ppl (just look at a good portion of darkfall players +those that left for that reason :P) on top of that there will come territoral warfare sometime in march...to be seen how this will work.

the crafting also is quite fun. i personally haven't been doing so much "team play crafting" in ages with the whole (small, ~10 ppl) guild helping out each other, spreading out the recouring components on the crafters, grouping up to use the good crafting station in unguarded aereas and the like...real deep, real fun in my opinion.

overall this game sure will take some time to get the needed polish but still there are very good basics there already and the devs seem to be quite responsive and fast with their patches

very nice review , i was in the beta and i cudn't play it longer then a day.

Darkfall is still the number 1 sandbox mmorpg. sandbox developers better wake up and keep up in the sandbox department.

FPS-Open world pvp- full loot.

Thats all its about and you will attract players from counter strike.

Many people depend on ratings from this site MMORP and other  gaming sites before buying the game which costs to much as is and half done.  Good Job

I agree with the reviewer on most aspects, if a bit harsh.  I bought the game because I was looking forward to it for a long time, regardless of what ppl in beta were saying.  I played the game for a little while and was bored to tears.  A shame really.  I wish those who enjoy it well, but I feel like I wasted the money.

Every bit of the character design, environment design live up the promisee, love the poses, how the holstered weapons goes but the functionality isnt there. I tried to enjoy the beta but was busy sending reports more than going through the game.

Great article to read in general.

The cost of this game is why i never even considered buying it... rememibed me of the fail Mortal Online was..

Now on the other hand I just pre-ordered xsyon the other night knowing it was still in an unfinished state but it only came to £25 and i got 2 months free game time when it goes live.. Now even if the game turns out to be balls and fails i dont mind too much as it was only £25 but if i had spent nearly £50 id be a bit annoyed just like i was with MO haha ..

Ill check out Earrise only when i find it on offer some place realyl cheap :)

I stopped reading when the author started babbling about the skill system being nothing but tanks, healing, and DPS.

The game isn't without it's issues and at times the lag makes the game completely unplayable but this is one of the shittiest and most ignorant reviews this website has ever published.

I agree with the rating given to the game in the current state, but I feel the review moved into the region of bashing. I agree ER needs alot of fluff and fleshing out, but alot of those comments were just inaccurate in my opinion,

"This does add a degree of variation but the RPG genre has never comfortably or convincingly integrated modern weapons such as guns."

You guys gave STO 7.5 at launch, that has guns and is a total pile of shite!

"There is nothing on offer here that we haven't seen a thousand times before but done with more inspiration and ambition."

Well I was rather shocked to read that statement even if it is just the reviewers opinion.

" Earthrise offers nothing particularly new as the game will only ever call for a Tank, a Healer, a Support, and the ever-green DPS. Allowing players to pick and choose suitable abilities is only really giving the illusion of choice."

I was truly puzzled by this statement, I doubted if he'd played the game after reading that.

So in short a rating that I agree with but a written review that I find to be ignorant.

Originally posted by eric_w66

Those who proclaim that full loot PvP "gives meaning to death" never played EQ1 back in the early days.

Die, and lose days, perhaps weeks of effort. And possibly all your gear (your corpse would time out in 1 week real time). So, what happened? People did everything they could to avoid death. You never took risks, because the tiny amount of extra xp killing an even con monster didn't outweigh the much harder and dangerous fight it took to kill it. So you ground low-blues forever, even in groups (as they were faster kills = more xp over time).

 

you never played a necromancer in EQ1, right? 

WOW this is much lower than most games I think on here. Although very much deserved.

Never buy a MMO that has no open beta until long after launch.

Originally posted by Realbigdeal

Darkfall is still the number 1 sandbox mmorpg. sandbox developers better wake up and keep up in the sandbox department.

FPS-Open world pvp- full loot.

Thats all its about and you will attract players from counter strike.

 No, thats EVE. Darkfall is the #1 fantasy sandbox.

Sadly Darkfall is not really a full sandbox game.. tho it is awesome :)

""Earthrise only offers one playable race, boring Humans, and spits in the face of those other science-fiction formats with their exotic and varied body-forms- get your cloak and hat other bipedal, extraterrestrial races: you are not welcome here""

hehee  yea thats why i love  Fallen Earth ,gnomes,undeads,orcs,taurens,elfs,fairys etc,thats a blast!

thanks for the pro review,had to stop reading right there.

Clearly this is proof that the staff are not shills for their advertisers as I look at the front page and see this review with a massive Earthrise banner ad behind it.  Hopefully some whiners will take notice.