Originally posted by grawss

Horrid buy.

^ This

If you want to do without a videocard look into something like the Intel Sandy Bridge which is a very good line of CPUs and has better than most integrated graphics built into the chip. Or the AMD Llano which is a decent CPU and has a better integrated graphics than Sandy Bridge but not quite as good processor.

Either way the build you have listed is worthless I would save up another $100-200 dollars and get a newer gen cpu with at least a modest videocard.

If you want PM me your budget and anyother relevent info and I will try to help you out with a decent build.

Nice I'll go back to L2 for some F2P fun.

If this would have came out earlier this year I would have cared more, I had really wanted to try it but it looks like next will finally have some good MMOs. D3, GW2, PSO2, TSW (maybe), Archeage (maybe), TERA just isn't on my radar anymore.

I also agree with the person who said they should have released it around the same time in NA as they did in Korea. I never understand why Asian MMO companies release their games in the US a year or so after their Asian release dates, it cannot take a year to dub the game which is all they should be doing to it anyways. No one needs "westernization", anyone who wouldn't like Asian style games still wont like them after this process.

I think the math you're refering to and the lack of really cool skills stems from attempts to balance the classes from a pvp stand point. One way I can think of to counter this is to have 2 seperate skill trees, one only used for pvm where the skills can be over the top both in effect and power, and another set for pvp which would be more controlled and even. Obviously the 2 sets of skills should be exclusive to their field ie pvp skills can only be used in pvp and vice versa.

I am still willing to play games from any company providing they are good but here is my shit-list:

EA - for ruining Ultima Online, cancelling UO2 and cancelling UXO

NC Soft - for canning Tabula Rasa WAY too early, among other stupid shit

Square Enix - for calling FFXIV a game

Activision/Blizzard - for massively dumbing down the mmorpg genre and just being greedy (mainly Activision but Blizzard aren't saints either), and for cashing in on COD by re-releasing it every year

SOE - ruining SWG, nuff said.

Like I said I will still play a game from any of these companies if its a good game but you can bet I would never buy stock in them or sing their praise like a lot of the delusional fanboys on the web.

Originally posted by Supersoups

Originally posted by hazy

GJ Funcom, I knew you guys were cool.

 

So now FC is suddenly cool, gotto love these forums. ;)

 

lol bud I think you are looking for something thats not there. I think they are cool because they gave people who didn't have facebook a way to sign up for beta when before there was none.  Thats a company listening to their player base, which is cool. Simple as that.

GJ Funcom, I knew you guys were cool.

Originally posted by windsoul44

You MUST have Facebook to opt in.

I don't do Facebook so GL to you all.

 

^^This

Wasn't too hyped for this game anyways.

Coyote you're the only writer on mmorpg I will read glad they found you man!

Lol this guy is great.

It is not so, you can get items called "costume items" which change your character's appearance. You can select any name you want, and weapons look different but its usually only a subtle difference at least at low levels. But fear not there is some level of customization.

I have played a total of about 5-7 hours so far and reached lvl 10. I really enjoy the game so far, the person before said you can't customize your appearance but thats not actually true you can get what are called costume items and they do make you look different. I am using a gamepad which is great so far but unfortunetely like people have said you cannot configure the controls only use their defaults, but I am using xpadder and it works perfectly. The game is pretty simple in the low levels but thats to be expected.

There's item crafting but its done by either collecting items dropped by mobs or "dismantling" weapons and armor you find, then you pay the blacksmith to make items for you with those materials. The quests aren't complex by any means, they're really more to give you a reason to fight through the different dungeon levels. However the dungeon levels are short so its not too tedious. I like the game so far, there is PvP but i don't know if its active in the beta (it might be I'm just not sure).

The art style is one of the things that drew me to this game to begin with, the characters and enemies look like anime so if you like that type of thing you will probably enjoy the graphics. The effects are nice and I think this game would run well even on older less powerful computers.

Thats about all I can say at the moment but so far I would surely recommend this game to anyone thinking of trying it, it's free so you really can't go wrong giving it a shot.

I'd go see the new Harry Potter movie a few more times.

I got one in January for my new build and its been great so far. No complaints what so ever. Also as far as noise goes you'll only really hear it if it is doing something really demanding, so most of the time it is completely quiet, you can compare it to your 500gb blue (I used to have that as well) they're both exactly the same noise level.

Good drive I would recommend it.

Can't wait for this game, I usually love eastern/anime type games.

Rift felt jus like WoW to me, I wouldn't put any money on it being a "WoW Killer" just another WoW Clone.

A messege pops up on your screen saying your princess is in another castle.

manual jumping and the removal of all those gay invisible walls around 2 foot tall hills would be a big improvement imo

awesome i cant wait to play this game

Guess the author was lucky enough to be one of the people who didn't waste money on FFXIV, thats easily my worst of the year. Best?...ehh did anything even come out this year?