It's got nothing to do with the movies, homes. It's based on the original stories... unlike 90% of the movies.

Haters be hatin'. I loved the expansion. Got me back playing again. I am quite enamored of Goblins. I doubt I'll play any other races for from here on out. Once you go green, you never... um... well, yeah.

Me too -- I really miss it. I know the game has its detractors, and needed a nice big boost in content, but honestly? I was sure those things were going to come about if the game had been allowed to continue. It remains one of the most fun MMOs I've ever played, and I've played almost every major MMO that's hit since 2000. Thanks for posting the video.

Originally posted by Securion

Maybe Cryptic should try to actually finish the games they make before making good people pay hard earned cash for them? Um?

 

Nobody held a gun to my head and made me buy it. Just sayin'.

Oh, hey, I remember that game! I used to play that game... Ultima IV, right? I had it for the Commodore 64.

Originally posted by pencilrick

Originally posted by arenasb

They need a sticky thread of term definitions. What is a carebear?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNm5Hqow78I

that?

"Carebear" in MMO gaming is synonymous with a PVE player who favors helping and "caring" over ruthless PVP play.  "Carebear" is also a contemptuous label many PVP players place upon the PVE crowd, thinking the latter must be wimps because they cannot handle the tension of player versus player dynamics.

While "Carebear" used to be a sort of insult, it is now more embraced as simply being a PVE player.

I haven't embraced it. I think using it to label a person who doesn't enjoy PvP is slightly childish. I have a full-time job, a full-time school schedule, and four children. I don't find the chaotic nature of PvP all that relaxing after a full day. I'm not entirely certain how that makes me a "wimp".

Originally posted by hogscraper

A foole and his money be soone at debate: which after with sorrow repents him too late.
[1573 T. Tusser Husbandry (rev. ed.) ix.]

 

QFT

To that, I say: "Opinions are like a**holes -- everybody's got one."

I'm disappointed by not having received my beta invite (I bought a 6 month sub) but it's definitely not the most pressing issue in my life. I do agree, however, that Cryptic made the STO beta entry a key selling point and is ethically (though perhaps not legally) liable for not following through on what they offered.

I'm having fun. That's all I'm worried about. When it's not fun anymore, I'll move on. Until then -- up, up and AWAY!
 

Oh, and Gauntlet Chainsaw is a Gadgeteering power, not at a Power Armor power.

Whiny, petulant tantrum-throwers who complain about every feature of a game! Every game has them! Which ones are the worst?

I agree. Well put.

 Short answer? No. It's a niche game. It's not a WoW-killer, if by "WoW-Killer" you mean a game that's going to sink WoW.

That's true, cressowski -- but I've yet to play a game where the actual mechanics are radically different at level 50 than they were at level 1. Sure, there are more bells and whistles and rewards, obviously. And I'm speaking completely from my own perspective here.

 I agree. Graphics, combat mechanics, quality of writing, the community... these are things you experience in the first few hours of gameplay. If it doesn't grab you, it doesn't grab you.

There are plenty of games I've tried and known within a few hours that it wasn't something I was going to devote my time to. 

 I'll definitely be making a Jedi. Oh, and a Sith. Oh yeah, and a Smuggler. And a Bounty Hunter. And whatever else I feel like making. 

And, to echo a previous poster, this is the Old Republica era. There are SUPPOSED to be a buttload of Jedi running around.

I've played almost every MMORPG out there, and I've enjoyed most of them. But if I had to pick one class that really married the perfect concept with my style of gameplay, it would have to be the Demolitionist from  Tabula Rasa. Just the right combination of damage and utility. You could get pasted somethin' awful if you weren't paying attention, but if you lined up all the attacks right, the resulting firework show was amazing. I also like playing characters that have a "bag of tricks," so the concept was appealing.

Close second:  Hunter - Lord of the Rings Online. Great soloability, good damage, some neat tricks. And the travel abilities -- wow! Good class for impatient people. Unfortunately, when I was playing, Hunters had a bad reputation due to a sizable portion of ignorant and inexperienced Hunter players.

Any chance that you were the victim of a keylogger or something? I had a similar situation with World of Warcraft, in which my long-dormant accounts were suddenly terminated due to my allegedly "exploiting the economy." We got it all sorted out and I made sure I cleaned out both my systems...  but I'm still nervous as hell now.

Little of this, little of that.

The games I'm looking forward to are DC Universe, Stargate Worlds, Star Trek Online and The Old Republic. I might try out the Slayer in Warhammer but... I think I'm done with fantasy-based MMORPG's for a while.

I'll miss Tabula Rasa, though. The untapped potential in that game is unbelievable.

Originally posted by gamer2108

Becuase it was the worst excuse for a MMO game to ever be released.

I disagree. I played Horizons. Briefly. Steaming pile of mongoose turds, that one.

Yeah, but I think FANPERSON is more politically correct.

So it should be FANPERSON.

I think Jacobs' response to the knee-jerk, vitriolic nonsense that spews forth from certain customers' wounded sense of entitlement is spot-on.

The customer always has a right to communicate his disapproval in a professional manner, and be responded to in kind.  What a customer does not have the right to do, however, is be abusive. Your rights end where someone else's begins, and a representative of a company shouldn't have to put up with that kind of nonsense.

Re: Lack of Official Forums. I don't know that I completely agree on principle, since I believe that one of my favorite MMORPGs ever -- Tabula Rasa -- was weakened by a fragmented community. I think an official site would have done wonders for that game.  But I definitely see Jacobs' points about the mob mentality that tends to manifest itself on official forums. And anyway, forum frequenters represent only a portion of a total playerbase.