I'd pick Dead Space 3 as it just came out and is $60 normally right now. 

Best bang for your buck and it's a pretty good game. 

Mass Effect 3 is another okay one, but depends. If you haven't played Mass effect at all the trilogy might be the best buy in that regard. 

Age of Empires Online is Microsoft Studios and Gas powered Games, and has nothing to do whatsoever with EA. 

AoEO will still run, just no new content will be devloped for it, since no one wanted to pay money for things....makes sense to me.

Just because EA is the new devil does not mean it starts all the evil in the world.

Originally posted by bcbully

Jingling, I'm asking because I haven't seen one bigger than this. I wasn't thinking anything about it until I got about 3/4 of the way through the wall gate. It may have taken 15-20 secs.

 

I turned around and decided to time my run. There's a street that runs straight through, from end to end. It took just about 10 minutes. There's a point width wise that may be just a little longer. The city is almost square, minus the lower SW side, about 10%.

 

Could you maybe post some photos of what the city actually looks like? All I see is the wall, which gives me the impression that the city is big, but only big for the sack of being big. Is there shops? NPC? anything to do in the city? Is it at least artistically cool or interesting? Is searching through the buildings fun? Do we see cool statues that are only in a few houses, that sort of thing. What makes this city unique and big? Or is it just big? I'm a fan of large cities but this one sounds like a big square for the sack of being a big square.

Hmm, actually closer inspection I notice a few details of the city. Some nice looking buildings and a big pond it looks like, but beyond that is there anything? Just curious. 

I think it's fine the way it is. 

Whites are actually rare which fine to me, as you vender them all anyway.

Blues are decent quality and common, I'd say blues are the new whites in GW2. 

Honestly, I rarely see greens drop. Usually only from personal story quest completion, and in dungeons thus far. 

IT has been very nice so far. I've even accidently commited the sin of talking about other MMO's including WoW and no one complained about those MMO's coming up or even argued if my opinion differed. It was nice. Very cool to see people talk in a sincere manner. 

Worse thing I've seen is some really dumb and inappropriate names. 

I think that double slide thing is a type of horn.....or something. It looks very similar to the building in the load screens for EotN in guild wars 1. I've done pretty much the same. Except I'm only level 10. Started a thief too so slowed me down a bit. 

I'm having fun exploring which hasn't happened forever.....well in an MMO anyway, I've had fun with SKyrim exploring but this is way different. 

I only had issues when I first tried to log in yesterday. GW2 was telling me my driver was out of date and I needed a new beta driver. I was like huh? Got in and it lagged horribly. Logged out, updated the driver and it's been smooth sailing since. No lag, no disconnects, nothing. Not a single issue. 

The worst thing I can say about GW2 is there are some clipping issues (and what game doesn't have at least one clipping issue). Otherwise very very smooth, but I'm on a low pop server (or at least was, not sure what it is now) so that might be why I'm having no issues compared to some. 

Originally posted by odinsrath

how could you say it would be horrible?

cuz staying "inside the box" would be a bad idea?

idk imo i think theres enuff fans to support a south park mmorpg

and i was just saying it would be cool if they would go a step further...ino thq cant do it

Well you are partially right. It could be amazing, but I just highly doubt it. I personally don't think South Park is a very compelling place to explore or create a story around (at least not an MMO big type story.)

That's just my opinion. I think staying away from the MMO world is a good idea for South Park, but maybe some investors will be prove me wrong and create a compelling and fun MMO from the IP, I just don't see it happening.

Several problems:

It's being done by THQ which is not doing so well finnacially. How can they expect to fund an MMO? which are millions of dollars.

South Park would be a horrible MMO, most MMO's are horrible but what would be the point of a south park MMO? Only way I could see it working is as a F2P casual MMO where you run around and throw snow balls or something.

MMOs are horrible investments right now. No one is trying anything radically new and it seems most gamers don't want to spend 100's of hours leveling up a character just to spend 100's of more hours doing the same 5 dungeons over and over.

I'm sure there are more but those are the top reasons I can think of.

Originally posted by dopplemmo

The Pros and Cons of the article are largely irrelevant, as this soldier on landscape feature will be used very sparringly. You see, to use this in the wild world, you will have to use a  special token, which will permit the use of the soldier for 1 hour.

Cost of token:

100 turbine points

 or

min 20/max 45 175 marks and 10 medallions



min 46/max 50 500 marks and 25 medallions



min 71/max 95! 1,500 marks and 75 medallions

If you want more info, you can check the LOTRO forums, look for the Bullroarer (public test server) section.

 

That was something I had not known about, but you are correct.

That is an interesting choice on Turbine's part, but it does mean that half of my concerns are really not relevant. Still I do wonder about these tokens and the hour they provide. I wonder if you can space it out.

Where does the gears of wars and ME combination come from? They are nearly nothing alike. Only way they are similar is in the cover system but wow let's see how many games now have a cover system just like that? Uncharted, Infamous did, and just about any third person shooter that comes out now. So, by your logic, all those games are Gears of War clones and should probably sell nothing.

Dragon age and Elder Scrolls? Really? Dragon age is a guided RPG with medieval fantasy setting, it's basically ME but with swords. If anything Dragon Age is a Mass Effect clone. Elder Scrolls is a Sandbox RPG, a completely different game.

Rock Band was never a copy of Guitar Hero. If you followed the news around it, what happened is the guys who made Guitar Hero wanted to add new instruments in the 3rd one. Activision said no, that won't sell at all. So they quit, founded Harmonix and made Rock Band which sold very well, same with Rock Band 2, EA published the game for them.  By this time, Guitart Hero was hitting #6, people were burnt out of the plastic instrument genre. Not too mention, the only way to make money in the genre was to sell those plastic instuments which by then everyone had if they wanted it.

Battlefield heroes of course will never trump Team fortress and EA was never aiming for that audience anyway. Only way the games are alike is the cartoony graphics. And I'm sure that was more of a technical limitation of browser based gaming at the time. Battlefield heroes was for battlefield fans.

You might hate EA, but none of the games you have mentioned have done bad. They are all successes. Sure, battlefield has not sold as much as CoD, but neither has WoW, or any other game for that matter. Most games are lucky to make it to a million copies. Don't just throw out hate information because you don't like a company. If you don't like them, don't buy from them and if other people do, so be it.

There are just enough quests to get you to level 75, (and a few extra, but I only had 2 extra). The quests should lead you from village to village including the epic quests and will get you to about 70-71 in the Dunland area alone. Then it's Rohrirrim quests in the two camps and a few NPC's on the gap of Rohan till about 73-74 and then Isengard itself which doesn't have very many quests but should be enough to get you to that 75. Also check Galtrev here and there, I noticed a few quests popped when I was close to 75 that helped a lot.

If you get the 299 model, whcih is 160 GB I think is more than enough.

PS1 games from the PSN store take up hardly any room, even FF7 is only like 500 MB.

Some games will require an install which are anywhere from 1-5 GB usually. You  can always delete stuff if it gets in the way of course.

Originally posted by Dinendae

"First of all, what would Monster Players ride on?"

 

Are you forgetting the Oliphants?

 

Not forgetting (well I do believe I forgot to mention them at least) but they are a bit big. Technically giant elephant like creatures woulds just stomp horses to itsy bitsy horse pancakes. In an MMO, this wouldn't happen but still it would seem a little silly to have big creatures capable of massive amounts of damage doing the same amount of damage as people on horses. I don't think Turbine should consider it yet unless they decide to add siege weaponary and such. Still who knows. Either they'll do something with Monster Play, or continue on the exact same path with it.

If you're hardcore, you'll get through most of it pretty quick and then be stucking doing alts or doing the same duos, instances and raids over and over. It has a pretty good amount of content but by no means is it fantastic. With each updat though, the content gets expanded.

Endgame has about 6 or so Duos, 4-6 instances and about 5-6 raids. Not sure on exact numbers but that sounds about right.

Originally posted by Thrage

There are few if any MMOs which are "free to play" in every sense of the word.  There is almost always SOME way for you to give the developer money.  In fact, I can't think of a single MMO that's just completely free with no strings attached whatsoever that isn't in open beta.

 

Someone wanna' correct me on this?

You're right mostly.

Guild Wars is about the only one, but the first one isn't really an MMO, but it's close.  GW2 will probably be the same in terms of its cash shop so we'll see.

LOTRO can be free, though it is very very time consuming and grindy at points if you don't pay for anything. Grinding TP points can be tough but it can be mostly free. Many will debate this but I know it can be done, it's just time consuming and not fun at all.

DDO is similar, though from what I know it's much harder to grind said TP.

Age of Conan is actually pretty close to free depending on what you want out of it. If you really just want to experience the quests then the whole normal game from 1-80 is free, just many classes are unavailable. End game will cost you money.

EQ2 is a weird niche. Most of the content in terms of leveling is free but there are a lot of weird restrictions which are impossible to lift except through a subscription fee.

Other than those 4, I'd say most of the asian F2P's can be played without paying a dime but you will stink in pvp and after the first 20 or so levels, it will become one heck of a grind.

I'd really say most F2P games are free, though many are so time consuming that the content grows quickly stale unless you pay some money.

And.... like everyone else they are charging twice as much as Trion is. Why even bother? Haha. I almost feel Trion did it on purpose so people would go to them only.

Well I don't remember that quest for sure but a general stragedy would be to use that flag to put the hencmen behind you a little ways and attempt to pull a small group towards them.

The henchies generally will run out after whatever you attack and in that situation they will pull everything. So have them hang back, pretty much a full agro circle back and once the group gets half way between where they were and where the hencies are you can get rid of the flag and have the henchies run to your rescue.

Another way to do that quest....(maybe, I'm not sure how far you are) but if you get to Yak's bend, you can suddenly have a group of 6 people and if you walk back with that group without going through towns, it will be much easier. This can be time-consuming though so I don't recomend it unless you absolutly can't get anything done.