here we go with the dreaded  "game has potential"..

how many games over the last few years have launched with 'pontential" only to never see it realised.  same song , different dev.

 I keep seeing Tera mentioned for "see what you are missing" I was so geeked out for Tera. Felt bored and forced for the first 25 levels, got better, but the action combat isn't really that fun. I quit along with several of my friends, good game for sure. Bland world and action combat with the same clicks for every match, except pvp which we were only a little into so if pvp is your thing perhaps it makes more of a difference to you, being mostly pve i don't have the experience to say. The combat system matters, but I find its the game as a whole that matters more, I had more fun playing Aion (downloaded it recently) despite its generic combat than Tera. Star Wars I really wanted to like, and I tried, it felt labored from the start. I enjoyed TSW, its not fantastic, but it has potential and the world is really well done.

 There is a difference between a well done game that is good and has potential than a crap game that has potential. I think TSW is a good game and its enjoyable, however it has potential to be even better as most games often do so we'll see if they capitalize on it or not. I'll give Funcom the benefit of the doubt, they did turn AoC into a great game, but took years and now nobody plays, maybe they've learned from that mistake, maybe they didn't. I also know everyone wants solo content, obviously we are busy and it's nice to jump in and out, but i do think these games have lost focus of the social aspect and "single player MMOs' seem to die down faster, I would like to see a good balance between solo and grouping, as in there be great motivation for me to group.

Originally posted by eric_w66

"players won’t have to run back to the quest giver to get the reward. This is a game set in the modern era and players will receive quest rewards via PDA, a really nice touch."

Heh. 'Won't have to'. I like that spin they put on it. Yes, yes, you WILL have to run back to the quest giver. Many times. They even admitted to *why* they did it this way: If they let you gather up your quests all at once, they'd have to slow down xp gain because you'd run out of content too quickly. So to "add content" they make you run back and forth over and over and over again to slow you down. Fantastic. This will probably kill the game faster for most people more than anything else.

 

Pause a quest because you know you'll never probably be in this out of the way secluded hard to reach spot again and there's a quest item laying on the ground (some idol, etc)? Yeah, you can "dial in the reward" for that new one, but you get to run back to where you got the one you paused to get it restarted. Apparently, your quest giver KNOWS when you've put them on the back burner, and won't let you "Dial" that one in, they want to see your FACE when you beg them to let you restarted their mission.

 

Uhh..I have been playing the Close Beta for a while now and i can't recall a quest were i had to run all the way back to the quest giver. Have you even played it?

Well, I am not reading 13 pages, so here's my opinions.

I played the two-day beta very recently and I have to say I am so playing this game. I have played many MMOs, and this one sucked me in an immersed me like nothing else. I am a role-player, and if I can fell like I am THERE, then you have me.

See you others playing in game!

My god people don't any of you ever have any thing other than immediate negative garbage to spew out about anything anymore. I only read like the first 5-6 posts after Suzie's rather well written opinion and that's all I could take. Such negativity is getting rather old. And mmorpg always seem to ban ME for speaking what I feel sometimes passionate about? MMO's?

Sry Suzie I rather enjoyed your post and can agree on just about everything you stated. TSW from what little I played over last 2 weekend test runs seems to be a breath of fresh air compared to the same ole same old type of mmo's we have seen over the last several years. About time something came along that at least tries to break away from the stagnation MMO's have fell into since Blizzard massacred thier own creation and since began spiraling the entire genre down the toilet. :)~

      This type of thread people are going to state how they feel.... I'd rather have people give honest opinions about what they experienced than give false praise......If your experience was bad then say why, if it was good then say why...its as simple as that.

I am thinking Secret world is a 7.5 out of 10 mmo. A lot of good things about it, but not really breaking any new ground. Solid from Funcom. Good, but not great. 

Glad i have played a few adventure games recently so puzzles should hopefuly be at least easier :) some of the adventure games are tricky and not logical at all, dark fall - lost souls i look at you :)

Only started one char in tsw so far, seems ok but my playtime is way to short to give any kind of impression.

Sorry, post landed in the wrong spot.

Originally posted by Agricola1

I've heard through the grapevine that TSW has a nasty little memory leak, is that true?

Because it's De ja vu, TSW launch is reminding me of AoC launch just a bit better. I get the feeling that in 6 months Funcom will be talking to MMORPG.com about their "new project".

I remember playing AoC one day and my guild mate mentioned TSW, people were basically saying "That's ****ed up! This game is still borked with a memory leak and they're developing another game with our ****ing sub fee!"

I still say Funcom have a slash and burn policy when it comes to developing and releasing MMO's, in 6 months TSW will be discarded for the next project. I hope not but I've been burnt by these guys once already and it's made me rather cynical.

Sadly, I can confirm that the memory leak rumour is true.  Playing the beta I would crash from the "out of memory" error, which would the nag me to switch to a 64 bit OS.

My PC was built with gaming in mind, with enough of everything to put all settings to ultra high on any game I've played.  I need my eye candy!  But it does have a 32 bit OS.  This problem should have been fixed by now, in my opinion, but as of a day prior to launch, it hadn't been.  The devs are aware of it.