The head honcho(s), where the buck stops as it relates to these forums. I have tried for weeks to go through the community whatever email address but never get any responses from the "staff".

Originally posted by Gigget

Originally posted by Pantherninpo

I have played the game.  Yeah, the graphics are definitely nothing to write home about.  I even laughed a bit when I started the game up.  Played the beta after Champions' beta.  So I was like... what is this piece of crap?  I have xbox games that look better.  Not 360, but regular xbox.  

And then I bought the game because the devil made me do it.  I mean it is coming out on 9/9/9. 

Just kidding.  I found the idea of scrounging around in a post apocalyptic world appealing.  I watch a lot of the Max Max/Apocalypse genre so the setting is a big interest for me.   Do I think they should have gone free?  Yeah.  They should have done like EVE and gone free at first before starting a monthly fee so that it could build

 a good core of players.  It doesn't matter, though.  I am willing to pay $15 a month to play a game that will take up hours and hours of my time.  Hell, people pay $20 a month to rub one out fifteen minutes a day.  The community of the game is rather mature and pleasant, as well.  Very refreshing after reading the Champions forums. 

  Is it overpriced?  Yeah, if its not your idea of entertainment.  For people interested in that sort of thing, it is reasonable.  I'm going to play it.  But that's my opinion.  In the end of the day, though, opinions are like anuses... ...you know the rest.

 

I'd like to know when EvE was free to play.  I've owned the game since it launced and it has always been a monthly subscription:  from $9.99 to $12.99 to the now $14.99.

You are getting really off topic, but eve did have a free trial without having to purchase anything at all; they may even still do it.

LOL. Ya, I'm gonna download a 15 gig game with 30 KB/s download cap at garbageplanet..

No thanks. I'm on the 90th digit of pi.

 The only legit complaints I see the guy made was that there was something strange about the way the graphics were implemented. I couldn't quite describe it but it did exist. It wasn't really bad or anything, pretty subtle in fact. The combat is animation is a little rough around the edges, making it a little herky jerky. Hmm. I probably would have bought and played it if I had the time to spend on it. I had a couple issues with the game. I played the beta with two characters. A rifle character into the mid teens and a melee character up to the low teens.

Plate mail bikinis.

I usually don't leave MMORPG's for illogical reasons. I guess the closest was DaoC, I left the day after midgard won the first really major war on any of the servers. "n3rf teh midgard". Yoink. I quit. I had the highest realm points on the server too, or whatever the hell they called them. First midgardian to slay a hibernian and a albion. Illogical cause I was still having fun with the game.

Edit: a lot of you guys listing your "pet peeves" need to learn how to read.

There is a big difference between massive and massively. One is an adjective which could for all intents and purposes stand alone and make perfectly good sense, but one is an adverb that qualifies another word, so on it's own it is meaningless. Your homework for tomorrow is to figure out  which is which and if your original thesis of online poker games being MMORPGs stands to reason.

Why do they always trip and fall when they are running away in the horror movies?

Its easy to beat with the windows "my computer" add-on. Too easy. Almost felt like cheating.

Ultima online does not qualify for the list. Read the first post again.

I remember a boy and his blob being a tough one but it doesn't jump out at me as being high on the list. There are a dozen games on the 8 bit machines alone I'd rank over it in difficulty.

ET was a horrible game, but it wasn't hard at all. I don't know how you mixed up hard with bad. Sounds like a fruedian slip typical newer generations of gamers though.

UO did have tank mages. When tank mages were in vogue, though, it was pretty useless to play one, as magic and potions where the ultimate damage dealing and wearing plate armor basically put a bullseye on your head. Back then it was better to wear leather armor as it give good resistences to several magic types. They changed that though. Then armor was mostly just for looks until long after.

I had a lot of fun in EQ. Even though it seems like I was playing it over a decade ago, I still remember the layout of every map on the first  continent. Everyone remembers there first day they got their j-boots, and all healers remember the day they got their manastones. The game started to suffer the same problems WoW suffers from from Kunark on, though. Kinda weird. UO was the funnest actual ROLE play game, and the funnest small scale PvP game, EQ the best PvE(debtably WoW now), and daoC had the best largscale PvP.  Kind of funny how all the best stuff came out right after the other UO--> EQ--> DaoC.

min-maxing for progression and skill/stats/spells.

know your function (roll) through and through

metagaming (especially in PvP games) -- usually also involves knowing everyone else's function(roll) through and through.

Originally posted by Jimmy_Scythe

LOLWUT?

The first Mega Man for the NES didn't make the list?

The NES version of Contra didn't make the list either?

Sinistar?

How old are you anyway?

... Like 12 or something....

NES contra wasn't that tough. Mega Man 1 wasn't all that hard either. Sinistar  was damn hard. But, apparently you either know nothing about the game or you didn't bother to read my first post. You sound like the 12 year old. You probably didn't even play those games.

Originally posted by comerb

 

By not including Ghost & Goblins on the NES you invalidate the entire list.

 

 

Actually, I had already beat super ghosts and "whatever" on both SNES and genesis so I was prepared for that game.(getting the jumping down is the most important part for surviving any of them). In fact, I used to beat the genesis version every day or so during summer vacation. That's probably why the NES version wasn't too bad. It is the hardest of the three, of course.

Originally posted by feena750

I would rate Dragon's Lair for the NES as the hardest game ever.  This youtube video will show you why and is pretty funny.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJosEn-B-Bg 

That game had really bad control response time, but it really didn't matter. The entire point of that game, just like the arcade game, was simply memorizing patterns. Simple patterns at that. Frustrating game, but not that difficult.

I like hard games. I like games people say are impossible to play in certain ways.

The game has to have an ending, and if there is a difficulty mode it is assumed to be at its highest setting.

I may have forgotten one, but here are my top ten hardest games of all time of the top of my head. No specific order.

Ninja Gaiden NES

Shinobi multi

Battletoads multi

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles NES

Mystic Defender Genesis

Batman and Robin Genesis

Terror from the Deep PC ( if you abuse the save/reload feature, it's not even in the top 100)

Contra Genesis

Rayxanber 2 PCE

Target Earth Genesis.

Two honorable mentions:

Pitfall. Ya, old school.

Rygar on the NES, assuming you try to beat it in one sitting. More of a test of stamina than anything.

Interesting that almost all of them are old console games. I guess it does speak to the whole "they are making games easier" thing. Anyway, what are yours? Try not to list mods of various games if you can help it. I've played very few neogeo or Turbo graphics 16 games but most of the games on other consoles.

Actually, there are a lot of games, usually not the mainstream ones of course, that are only in europe and/or asia. Probably far more than those games for north america. Believe it or not.

Originally posted by Sarr

Originally posted by eight675309

Originally posted by Thillian

This could be the absolute worst trolling attempt on DDo. Seriously, all you had to do was to read the announcement. At least until the sentence - no new accounts can be created until 09/09. Instead you came here, raving about how bad the game is in about 30 lines. Incredible.

 

All I had to do is read the announcements? Dude that post is in the forum, not the main website. Further, I emailed their customer service days ago and still haven't heard back from them. Even if it were true that this is the actual issue, the error should not be "your session has expired", it should say something completely different. You know, like "new players cannot create aqccounts unil 09/09". And, like I said, they have known about this for awhile now and done nothing about it. I wouldn't have been looking in "account management", I'd be looking specifically account registration. You can't manage what you don't have. Incredible, I know!

 

Sorry, but you're hopeless:

www.ddo.com/news/597-get-into-ddo-unlimited-early-head-start-begins-on-september-1st

All you needed to do is to SCROLL DOWN a little bit to see this big headline.

So yes, it's on the front page. And you should have known already what a word "headstart" means. It's doesn't mean "launch" I'm afraid. That's a different word.

So all was obvious to other players, as you can see in this thread. Even those new and wanting to try the game, exactly like you.

Where exactly does that say "you cannot create an account before sept 9?" I have had games ordered and sitting on my computer desk for nearly a month before the servers for that game even went live.  Maybe you should try learning how to read first? And you should also try explaining the two other posters in this thread who registered accounts already. And two of my friends for that matter.

Originally posted by Gdemami

 

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Originally posted by sBxPaladin
So... were you able to play in the head start with this newly created account?? If so please help everyone who wants to jump into the game now with some instructions on how to get a new account within this 9 day time of tribulation

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Don't know what made you think I can play the game but no, I have just created a Turbine account as it was supposed to be an issue.

Unless you are current/former subscriber or beta tester, you can't get into head start. That would deny the whole idea of head start, wouldn't it?

I assume you will have to wait till 9th as I will have to or subscribe.

So you just made an account but you didn't play the game before, right?

Bingo,

For you people claiming the opening day of hte new server for the new players is the  actual problem read that post, and the other dude who pretty much was in the same boat and said the same thing.

Originally posted by Thillian

This could be the absolute worst trolling attempt on DDo. Seriously, all you had to do was to read the announcement. At least until the sentence - no new accounts can be created until 09/09. Instead you came here, raving about how bad the game is in about 30 lines. Incredible.

All I had to do is read the announcements? Dude that post is in the forum, not the main website. Further, I emailed their customer service days ago and still haven't heard back from them. Even if it were true that this is the actual issue, the error should not be "your session has expired", it should say something completely different. You know, like "new players cannot create aqccounts unil 09/09". And, like I said, they have known about this for awhile now and done nothing about it. I wouldn't have been looking in "account management", I'd be looking specifically account registration. You can't manage what you don't have. Incredible, I know!