Sound like a GW2 fan boy tring to stop us from buy the game.

Originally posted by DoomBDragon

Sound like a GW2 fan boy tring to stop us from buy the game.

Walmart is having a sale on tin foil today, better stock up.

Originally posted by DoomBDragon

Sound like a GW2 fan boy tring to stop us from buy the game.

... really? he said he'd recommend it, so basically your thought process is "if you say anything negative about it, including that it has bugs, you're evil."

From the videos I have seen Funcom won't deliever the new, promised focus on quality. The game looks nowhere finished. GW2 with its release date yet to be announced seems to be more polished then TSW to be launched in two months.

I am still interested, but from I have seen the game might turn out to be nothing special and rather buggy. A slightly more original setting and open skill system ( mostly open to abuse and few overpowered builds which everyone and their mum will copy ) might be not enough to save this game.

The important news to me was the mention of the bugs and possibility of poor preformance. Thats the Funcom I remember. However it is still in the beta stage and I will be interested to hear if these things are still said a week or two before launch. By that point there is no "miricle patch" as everyone and thier mother try to claim there is. Its just sad to me though that Funcom has that reputation and even if glitches ect are to be expected, especcialy at a floor show, I cant look past that its being said.

Before anyone calls me a hater no, I'm not. I'm basing my opinion on a past experience with Funcom. Truth be told I'm hopeing all of the games set to release this year are great, quality games. There are plenty of people to play all of them. No one game NEEDS to be king.

Originally posted by Tardcore

Originally posted by Cthulhu23

Originally posted by Arkain

Originally posted by Cthulhu23

Very disappointing news about the game being heavily instanced.  :(

Have you played Age of Conan, the world is instanced, but it is by zone and they feel quite large.

I have, and I didn't care for the zones being instanced.  Then again, I'm not sure there is any other way it could have been done for TSW because of the way it's set up, with different regions in the real world that don't border each other.  I took the "heavily instanced" comment to be more than just instanced zones.  If the instancing is confined to different zones, and not sub-zones, then I can live with that.

From what my friend explained to me, it is similar to SWTOR. Seems like as a SWTOR fan you'd probably enjoy it.

A couple of the journalists who have played the game have already drawn parallells between TSW and SWToR, and they all seem to agree that TSW delivers better writing, voice acting and scripted events. Another big difference between TSW and SWToR is the huge detail and feeling of a "living" world contra SWToR's dead and lifeless worlds.

And let me just say: the TSW areas are H-U-G-E.

Remember the size of the Rise of the Godslayer areas? (About 4x the size of vanilla Conan areas) - that is the size of each SUB zone. For example, New England consists of four such subzones, and I assume Egypt and Transylvania does too.

So while this game isn't a sandbox, each zone is really big.

Originally posted by DoomBDragon

Sound like a GW2 fan boy tring to stop us from buy the game.

Getting desperate aren't you?

Originally posted by Alot

Originally posted by DoomBDragon

Sound like a GW2 fan boy tring to stop us from buy the game.

Getting desperate aren't you?

While his was a cheap shot, yours wasn't much better.

I thought I would rate my feelings about my experience in PAX, since there's a pretty good discussion in here.

Scale 1 (poor) - 10 (excellent)

Missions - 8 ( This is hit and miss.  I did about 7 missions on my visits back to the booth.  I found a couple lack luster, but I also found one that was a 10 in my opinion.)

Animations - 5

Cut Scenes - 6

Combat - 7

Graphics - 9 (This includes scenery, textures, clothing, etc)

Skill System/Progression System (from what I saw - very limited) - 9

Inventory - 10

Mob AI - 7

UI - 9

Theme (success of the world/feeling their trying to create): 9

Originally posted by jdnyc

I thought I would rate my feelings about my experience in PAX, since there's a pretty good discussion in here.

Scale 1 (poor) - 10 (excellent)

Missions - 8 ( This is hit and miss.  I did about 7 missions on my visits back to the booth.  I found a couple lack luster, but I also found one that was a 10 in my opinion.)

Animations - 5

Cut Scenes - 6

Combat - 7

Graphics - 9 (This includes scenery, textures, clothing, etc)

Skill System/Progression System (from what I saw - very limited) - 9

Inventory - 10

Mob AI - 7

UI - 9

Theme (success of the world/feeling their trying to create): 9

 

 

 

 

 

Just curious, are animations that bad, because from the videos I have seen they look alright to me, or is it a personal preference?

After watchnig people playing GW2 at an event i know for definate that TSW is the only Themepark MMO im still looking forward to this year..  Not ready to pre-order ti or anything yet but im pretty sure ill pick it up..

Animations dont look that bad in the videos.. deffo not a game braker or anything..

Originally posted by Caldrin

Animations dont look that bad in the videos.. deffo not a game braker or anything..

Find a video of someone casting spells, they look like drunken boob grabs or retarded clapping.

Go jump to about 9 mins on - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC4FFoG4n8c

And before someone says that is from 2011, the animations havent changed, it was just the first vid with casting I could find.

Well its nothing amazing i give you that but its not the end of the world... its also a shame they seem to have sued the same animation for every spell.. its somthing that does need work thats for sure.. but still not a game braker and if the game does turn out to be good it wont stop me buying it LOL

Originally posted by Caldrin

Well its nothing amazing i give you that but its not the end of the world... its also a shame they seem to have sued the same animation for every spell.. its somthing that does need work thats for sure.. but still not a game braker and if the game does turn out to be good it wont stop me buying it LOL

Unfortunately because I usually play a spell caster it does bother me. I'm certainly not a hater, TSW looks very promising. If they made casting animations interesting I would definitely give it a shot.

The guns and sword animations are fine though. Hammers are a bit clunky, but I was never a fan of hammers anyway.

Originally posted by jdnyc

I thought I would rate my feelings about my experience in PAX, since there's a pretty good discussion in here.

Scale 1 (poor) - 10 (excellent)

Missions - 8 ( This is hit and miss.  I did about 7 missions on my visits back to the booth.  I found a couple lack luster, but I also found one that was a 10 in my opinion.)

Animations - 5

Cut Scenes - 6

Combat - 7

Graphics - 9 (This includes scenery, textures, clothing, etc)

Skill System/Progression System (from what I saw - very limited) - 9

Inventory - 10

Mob AI - 7

UI - 9

Theme (success of the world/feeling their trying to create): 9

 

 

This bit has me confused how can the skill system/progression system be very limited when there is no actual levels in game and each player has up to 500 skills to pick from and can be one of any archetype at will ?

Other wise great hands on review but an explanation would be appreciated here,also if limited why on earth did u give it a 9 ?

 

 

Originally posted by darker70

Originally posted by jdnyc

I thought I would rate my feelings about my experience in PAX, since there's a pretty good discussion in here.

Scale 1 (poor) - 10 (excellent)

Missions - 8 ( This is hit and miss.  I did about 7 missions on my visits back to the booth.  I found a couple lack luster, but I also found one that was a 10 in my opinion.)

Animations - 5

Cut Scenes - 6

Combat - 7

Graphics - 9 (This includes scenery, textures, clothing, etc)

Skill System/Progression System (from what I saw - very limited) - 9

Inventory - 10

Mob AI - 7

UI - 9

Theme (success of the world/feeling their trying to create): 9

 

 

This bit has me confused how can the skill system/progression system be very limited when there is no actual levels in game and each player has up to 500 skills to pick from and can be one of any archetype at will ?

Other wise great hands on review but an explanation would be appreciated here,also if limited why on earth did u give it a 9 ?

 

 

I think he was infereing that his hands on experience of it (what he saw) was 'very limited' not the system itself

Biggest problem with the animations seems to be that attack/casting animations are only done from the waist up since you can move while attacking. It seems to be disconnected with the rest of your character.

Originally posted by Searias

Just curious, are animations that bad, because from the videos I have seen they look alright to me, or is it a personal preference?

Well I didn't like the animations that much.  Was kind of underwhelmed, but my whole rating is absolutely personal preference and I have no doubt that what I think will vary from what others feel when they try it out.

Originally posted by mrw0lf

I think he was infereing that his hands on experience of it (what he saw) was 'very limited' not the system itself

 

This is exactly what I meant. 

Less random comments, more actual PAX experience please.

Originally posted by Xasapis

Less random comments, more actual PAX experience please.

Just look at youtube. There's plenty of clips that show you what the PAX experience was.

A rather limited hands on :P