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CoHsucks 4/04/06 12:01:14 PM
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I actually really like CoH, but was upset by the nerf-fest when I made my account. |
I posted this at gamespot, but wanted to share my review here as well. You may agree or not, but this is what I truely feel about this train-wreck of an "MMO": Score Overall 2.1 Simply, absolutely awful.
The game is really terrible. The graphics are ok, but hog system resources terribly. The gameplay is sub-par, after the initial few dungeons it becomes a chore to play. Combat consists of a click-fest with zero tactics or thought.
I played for two weeks, couple hours a day, several hours on the weekends and finished the game easily. There is not enough content to keep a casual gamer going for more than 3 weeks tops. The game is riddled with bugs that Turbine likes to pretend don't exist. Such as mobs inside walls (who can hit you, but you can't hit them), zoneing into other people's instances, doors that won't open, quest items and mobs that don't spawn, it goes on and on.. On the subject of the half-finished code, the in game GMs can not help you in any way. No matter what the issue is, their answer(in broken english) is always "sorry, nothing I can do, please re-start the quest". This may be after you just spent hours getting to the last room of a quest. They have zero power in the game to do anything but "elevate you to a higher GM" if you want to wait for 1.5 hours for the second GM (In broken english) to tell you to "restart the quest" . Pathetic. The Devs do not communicate with the player-base except to say "Sony-sms" such as "we're working on it", "working as intended", and "Its a known issue". They don't seem to know them selves what they are doing. The classes have great disparity between them. Who wants to play a ranger? Every quest, save a few, are in the same cramped, identicle dungeon tileset. Every quest is the same everytime. Everyone knows them by heart. Where the mobs, barrells, traps and chests are. So there is no adventure, only grinding out the best xp quests over and over till your eyes bleed. A good team can zerg a quest in 10-15 minutes because there is no reason to take it slow, we all know exactly where to stop to buff, which rooms are a waste of time, and where to complete objectives. Its boring as hell. The game is forced-grouping. There is 3 starter quests which can be solo'd by 2-3 classes, thats it. And in a game with forced grouping, they have a broken guild/friends list. It will show all your charactors online at the same time, or all off. I had myself and 3 alts online all at once! Lol! Very amature work. The "fixes" they are promising are being withheld until the 1st module(convieniently after people need to pay their first month). They have fixed nothing since early beta, but expect people to pay for this trash? One last thing that isn't about the game, but the community(which is shrinking everyday). The forums are a waste-land of rabid fanbois who defend this garbage with personal insults, attacks, and spamming filth in order to silence the vocal majority who are not blind to this train-wreck of a game. I know its like that in any game forum, but i have been a part of many, and this is the worst. The community likes to tell itself the DDO players are "older more mature" gamers. This could not be further from the truth. These fanboys make WoW's boards seem mature. A partcular few are the worst... In the end, the game is broken, boring, lacking of anything but grinding memorized quests over and over. Its not even 1/2 complete, and the devs are holding off fixing bugs and adding content untill after you pay. Very unethical. One last thing: The only work the incompetent devs are doing is closing down the few quests there are to do in end game(where almost everyuone is already) for a week at atime to nerf it. They have nerfed every good end-game quest already, and currently they have another "closed for balancing"(read:major nerf). Sneaky nerfs to, like removing a shrine and replacing it with mobs. Cheap, and low-down. Par for the couse for these devs. Avoid this like the plague. NWN from 2002 is far superior to this waste of a CD EDIT: The game should not have been released with only 1/4 of the content of any other small MMO.
If you are thinking of buying this "game", you really should consider how important $50 is to you. If you wouldn't care if you lost a $50 bill in the street one day, then it won't be so bad. Me? I value my money, and this was a waste of $50. It really is that bad.
Not to mention, the game will die within a year anyway, so no point in being there when it does. Remember AC2 anyone? |
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brihtwulf 4/04/06 12:30:57 PM
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Well, that's a pretty harsh-sounding review, but all the points you made are valid so I really can't argue. The game does have some fun points, but as of now the negatives far outweigh the positives. For the MMO player expecting more out of current and upcoming titles, this game really fails to deliver. Even a lot of the hardcore D&D fans are dropping this title within the first month of launch. Server populations are beginning to shrink, making the forced grouping even more difficult. It will be interesteing to see what happens to the game in the coming months. |
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Ian_Hawkmoon 4/04/06 1:32:33 PM
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Sweet Water & Light Laughter |
Here is something else to think about... All of the fans of DDO say it is for the more mature older gamer... But in the interview from the DDO newsletter, the targeted group is the 20-25 year old players. Granted, they may be more mature then 13 year olds. But I hardly consider them to be in the older group. So a question... Did the Devs hit their target group? |
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Celestian 4/04/06 3:05:41 PM
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Almost all of this was brought up during beta by several people (including me).
When friends ask me what this game is like I say "It's like Baulder's Gate with 1/4 the content, online and a monthly fee." To be honest I think it's even less than 25% of baulder's gate content. Then I add that there is no world, it's one city, you can't go outside the city to roam the woods, swamp, mountains or tundra areas. I really don't see how they thought this game was fun. I mean if you had NEVER played any other computer game I guess it might be... but NWN and tons of other games grasp the "D&D" game better than this mess. |
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CaptainRPG 4/04/06 4:25:39 PM
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"Even if there is a 99% chance you''ll fail, you still have 1% chance to achieve something." |
"Swing and a miss..." Brian; Family Guy |
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CoHsucks 4/04/06 4:39:18 PM
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I actually really like CoH, but was upset by the nerf-fest when I made my account. |
Now, I know it was a rather scathing review, but its all just my opinion of course. But i think its very truthful. BUT! I wanted to add this: http://www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php?&postid=218564#post218564 From the boards. Essentially, the team leader will be the one to decide, out of the 12-person raid party, and five hours of raid, who gets the TWO rewards. He decides, out of 12(including himself) who gets the uber-loot. Great idea, huh? Lol! I'm sure the leader won't take one of the two, since its his decision..Lol! So 11 other people are competeing for the one loot item left. Now the fanboys will have trouble telling everyone else to "go back to WoW". Since DDO wants to be WoW with the incredibly lame "raid for hours, but only if the leader is your personal buddy thing." |
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CoHsucks 4/04/06 4:58:41 PM
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I actually really like CoH, but was upset by the nerf-fest when I made my account. |
They already have 3 servers so low that they are "suggesting" new players start on them. Its generally accepted on the boards that there are two servers to play on so you can actually get a group. Since remember, if you can't find a group, there is absolutely nothing to do. Pretty telling if you ask me. |
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Bloodgood 4/05/06 4:31:36 AM
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"We are paratroopers... we´re supposed to be surrounded..." |
This is exactly what i was saying back in beta. why pay a monthly fee for something that you can get for free in NWN? |
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