All Posts by bverji

Originally posted by Kurush

Originally posted by Zorvan

Well, you can now scratch Champions Online off any "Games that will be worth a shit" list.

 

I'll reserve my opinion for when it's released, to be honest.

I agree Kurush, but it sure dse chrush about any expectation one had for the game.

This is a fun game where you build football players, sign them with teams and they improve with experience. It's not much more then X and O graphics, but very addictive and a good sim. Make a player and give it a try.

no whats retarted is 50+ for cable TV and then another 50 to use the same cable for internet..

15 a month to play a game I enjoy is a bargin. Much better then buying a new game evey month for 50.

Yes AOC is certainly not a scam. They just commited fraud to hide the reality of their product to boost their sales.

Originally posted by BaronJuJu

On the other end of the EULA spectrum, this might be once case to keep an eye on and watch the outcome of:

Judge So Far Refuses to Dismiss MySpace Suicide Case

Excerpt:

"MySpace's user agreement requires registrants, among other things, to provide factual information about themselves and to refrain from soliciting personal information from minors or using information obtained from MySpace services to harass or harm other people. By allegedly violating that click-to-agree contract, Drew committed the same crime as any hacker, prosecutors maintain.

The use of the anti-hacking law to charge Drew was criticized by experts who said it set a dangerous precedent that could potentially make a felon out of anyone who violated the terms of service of any website -- a prospect that is particularly troubling, they said, because terms-of-service agreements sometimes contain onerous provisions, are often arbitrarily and unilaterally changed by companies, and are rarely read by users."
 

 

This could be the edge of a very slippery slope here.

The issue really wasn't that they broke the user agreement. The reason they were prosecuted was becuase the used the site with the intent to fraud. Under hacking laws that would be a federal offense reguarsless of the user agreement.

I think the art is fine. I agree it's cartoony, but i don't mind that.

 And ebonfire the art choice isn't due to the engine. Their engine would support many varities of art styles.

ELUAs are non-negotiable and as such have almost no legal authority. ELUAs accomplish two things, First: it allows a company to assert what rights they are given under the law (which shouldn't be confused with everything in an ELUA is a right of a company). If a company has to go to court for any reason this allows a company to prove that they have asserted their intent to protect their rights. A company can actually lose it's right to protect their interests if they have a patteren of ignoring infringment. A consumer can make an argument that such avoidence of defending property rights is an acknowledgement of consent. A ELUA helps defend against this.

Secondly, most people think that if something is in writing or that an agreement is made, reguardless of the terms, that it's binding. The EULA serves to bully these people into forgoing their legal options. As someone mentioned before, there are already laws placed to protect a company's rights and when a contract attempts to reach beyond the frame work of the legal system the contract has little athority (even in the parts that might otherwise be binding). If you shop at my store, for example, I can't put a sign on the door stating by entering the building you agree not to hold me legally accountable for anything that might happen on the premises. They're are already laws/precedents that assume a certain amount of accountability by the owner for others safty within their property. The same is true about product quality and reasonable use of a product laws already define the provider/user relationship. A contract can further refine, but can't rewrite that relationship (as many ELUAs attemt to do).

I have seen some comments about capitalism and free trade being usurped and this is an ignorant understanding of what free trade and capitalism really is. People have come to think that capitalism is the right for people to make money anyway that doesn't get them arrested, but it isn't, capitalism is a philosophy of economical control. Capitalism is about personal accountability and accepting the downfalls as well as the rewards for actions/decisions. Naturally company's want all the rewards and none of the accountability (as do consumers and people in general) and as a society we have not only allowed buisness this right, but have redifined it as capitalism. However, capitalism only works if consumers have the right to make buisiness accountable and have consumer options to do so. Our government is so pro-buisness (in ways that people never even think of) that people have become brainwashed about what capitalism and free trade realy is and has stripped consumers of monatary power to balance a capitalistic economy.

For a superhero game I actually like the idea of a faster paced game.

Originally posted by crmznoutlw16

Just have to say that Darkfall trailer is the best gameplay trailer I've seen in any game, any genre, and I am by no means a fanboy.  20 minutes of pure action packed footage and it looked incredible.  Flame away if you want, but I challenge anyone to show me a better one.

I've been a critic of darkfall for some time; I thing it deserved to be critised; and while I didn't find the video very informative, or to give me a strong sense of the game they at least have delivered upon a promis. I think that's a good step and one worthy of note.  I think it is a nice promise of better interaction about Darkfall. I'm not saying one questionable video is enough to wipe away the years of mis-information, but it is a step that people can hope for a continued patteren.
 

Originally posted by medafor

Originally posted by bverji

Originally posted by medafor

Originally posted by bverji

Originally posted by medafor

Originally posted by bverji

 

 

 

what do you think this original thread is about? we were playing a build that was 3 weeks old, do you know how much coding and changes can be done in such a small time? so bye now.

Your such a lier. It's not like they just built the game in the last 3 weeks. There are always going to be new patches (even after release) that doesn't mean a game isn't judged based upon its over all design. The animation, custimaztion wasn't just placed 3 weeks ago. Seriously lieing and trying to reinterpret your OP is a seriously mental.
 

 

thats what the elder testers said over at waralliance, so call them the liars. otherwise provide a link saying otherwise. you cant beat me homes.

I don't know who you think you are "beating" but if you think you accomplished anything, but destroy any credabilty you have and look uninformed and argumentative you're mistaken. Posting nonsense as a response to peoples arguments doesn't do anything to "win" a conversation. It just shows your immaturity and inability to defend your position and carryon an adult conversation.

Originally posted by gestalt11

The gameplay is definitely repetitive in the lower levels, unfortunately.  For me I do not start feeling great about a character until about 26 or 28.  Once you are decently kitted out in powers then it can be pretty cool.

 

The major downfall of CoX is that the content is repetitive not so much the gameplay.  Best thing for this is to play in groups of varying sizes.

 

Yeah and servers can vary widely in Population Infinity has a decent amount freedom has a whole lot and some of the other can be fairly low especially Villain side.

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I have to ask why wouldn't he give the same information to the general public? Hard to put to much stock into "a freind of a friend told me " type information.

Originally posted by warhammer333

its funny that so many people bash about the graphics when most of the screenshots are taken on the lowest graphic settings and i know from experience the highest graphic settings are pretty damn good

Most people when they complain about graphics actually are talking about the art style/quality. I assume that is what most people are talking about when they have been complaining about WAR's "graphic". They don't like the art and/or animation style.

Originally posted by medafor

Originally posted by bverji

Originally posted by medafor

Originally posted by bverji

 

 

 

what do you think this original thread is about? we were playing a build that was 3 weeks old, do you know how much coding and changes can be done in such a small time? so bye now.

Your such a lier. It's not like they just built the game in the last 3 weeks. There are always going to be new patches (even after release) that doesn't mean a game isn't judged based upon its over all design. The animation, custimaztion wasn't just placed 3 weeks ago. Seriously lieing and trying to reinterpret your OP is a seriously mental.
 

Originally posted by medafor

Originally posted by bverji

Originally posted by medafor

Originally posted by bverji

Wow i would find this hilarious if it wasn't so pathetic. I am constently harping on fan boies for falling back on the "it's only beta" to defend games. Now fortunatly with WAR there havn't been to many that have been clueless enough to be using this obvious strawman, as has been mentioned in large part due that most people that have a problem with the game thus far have stated it's boring not broken. However, if you think this late in an open beta that things such as animations and custimonations are going to be changing anywhere in the near future it is you that doesn't understand what an open beta is or how/why/when developers make changes.

I give you that the pathing will probably end up being fixed and the textures tweeked, but the textures are part of the animation style and can only be changed so much. And while the mobs can be made harder, again the reason they are easy is because the game isn't PVE focused and it's a game design to some extent to allow players to quickly get to max level and participate in relm vs relm.  So let's stop with this it's "only beta" crap in an open beta thats just before release.

 

like a virgin, heeeee. what ever noob. obviously you have age of conan syndrome. cry like a baby because funcom let you down. now you dont trust any devs to fix problems by release. like i said:

name one mmo currently on the market that is more fun than WAR in your first 8 hours of play? none of them. there is so much crap to do in WAR. all the other mmos out there are kill this, kill that, kill there leader, deliver his head to this NPC for thte first 8 hours, i mean come one.  WAR, public quest, RVR zones, achevements, scenarios, xp for exploring like clickin on trees and stuff, hidden places, dyeing armor, digging through the tome. i mean damn all in 8 hours, did you even play the beta? if so you missed alot of stuff.

your the pathetic one for trolling these forums. if the game is so damn boring why the hell are you here?

Never played AOC. I could tell it was going to have a lot of problems the way they tries to hide the game in the beta. (nor am I a WOW fan before you resort to that)

Noob, that's rich. I have only been a member of this board for over 4 years now. Your really stretching if that's the best you can come up with. Before I was only calling your position pathetic, but Resorting to callling someone a troll and a noob after they criticise you  does pretty much make you pathetic.

I haven't played WAR either. I never said it was boring. I said that was what others have said. I'm just saying your comment about a game being "only in Beta"  is misplaced and actually shows your own inability to reasonably criticise a game.

As for why I'm here: because I am a MMO enthusiast and reading up on others opinions/veiws/experiences about games to furthur expand my knowledge about the industry, community, and specific games.

 

"I haven't played WAR either. I never said it was boring. I said that was what others have said. "

well maybe thats the problem, i have. be gone.

That has nothing to do with my point that defending a game by saying it is in beta, when it's in open beta and about to be released is moronic.

LOL give it up, you're so obviously grasping at straws at this point with your little one line responses to deflect other posters. You made a post trying to criticise others inexperience and it's obvious that you are the one with little experience work with.

Originally posted by medafor

Originally posted by Majinash

Originally posted by medafor

Originally posted by TheHavok

Well a lot of the "naysayers" are actually saying the game is more boring then it is broken.

 

name one mmo currently on the market that is more fun than WAR in your first 8 hours of play? none of them. there is so much crap to do in WAR. all the other mmos out there are kill this, kill that, kill there leader, deliver his head to this NPC for thte first 8 hours, i mean come one.  WAR, public quest, RVR zones, achevements, scenarios, xp for exploring like clickin on trees and stuff, hidden places, dyeing armor, digging through the tome. i mean damn all in 8 hours, did you even play the beta? if so you missed alot of stuff.

 

fun is subjective, there are plenty of other games that are more fun than WAR, its all based on the person.  Some people find peggle more fun than WAR.

 

and really, you say all other MMOs have going for them are kill this kill that.  thats what WAR is all about! bashing in heads, killing things.  when you count "clickin on trees" as one reason why WAR is more fun than EVERYTHING ELSE OUT THERE, you are reaching, a lot.

 

WAR is not perfect, WAR is not the best game out there.   Its ok if you find it fun, but that doesn't make it fun for everyone else, once you accept that this game doesn't have to be better than WoW or AoC or other games to be fun you'll be better off.

 

till then,  you're the troll here, not everyone else.

 

i cant be the troll im the OP. be gone.

An actual troll is someone who has a position/area to protect and protects it at any cost beyond the use of reason. As in the farie tall of the Troll protecting his bridge.
 

Originally posted by medafor

Originally posted by bverji

Wow i would find this hilarious if it wasn't so pathetic. I am constently harping on fan boies for falling back on the "it's only beta" to defend games. Now fortunatly with WAR there havn't been to many that have been clueless enough to be using this obvious strawman, as has been mentioned in large part due that most people that have a problem with the game thus far have stated it's boring not broken. However, if you think this late in an open beta that things such as animations and custimonations are going to be changing anywhere in the near future it is you that doesn't understand what an open beta is or how/why/when developers make changes.

I give you that the pathing will probably end up being fixed and the textures tweeked, but the textures are part of the animation style and can only be changed so much. And while the mobs can be made harder, again the reason they are easy is because the game isn't PVE focused and it's a game design to some extent to allow players to quickly get to max level and participate in relm vs relm.  So let's stop with this it's "only beta" crap in an open beta thats just before release.

 

like a virgin, heeeee. what ever noob. obviously you have age of conan syndrome. cry like a baby because funcom let you down. now you dont trust any devs to fix problems by release. like i said:

name one mmo currently on the market that is more fun than WAR in your first 8 hours of play? none of them. there is so much crap to do in WAR. all the other mmos out there are kill this, kill that, kill there leader, deliver his head to this NPC for thte first 8 hours, i mean come one.  WAR, public quest, RVR zones, achevements, scenarios, xp for exploring like clickin on trees and stuff, hidden places, dyeing armor, digging through the tome. i mean damn all in 8 hours, did you even play the beta? if so you missed alot of stuff.

your the pathetic one for trolling these forums. if the game is so damn boring why the hell are you here?

Never played AOC. I could tell it was going to have a lot of problems the way they tries to hide the game in the beta. (nor am I a WOW fan before you resort to that)

Noob, that's rich. I have only been a member of this board for over 4 years now. Your really stretching if that's the best you can come up with. Before I was only calling your position pathetic, but Resorting to callling someone a troll and a noob after they criticise you  does pretty much make you pathetic.

I haven't played WAR either. I never said it was boring. I said that was what others have said. I'm just saying your comment about a game being "only in Beta"  is misplaced and actually shows your own inability to reasonably criticise a game.

As for why I'm here: because I am a MMO enthusiast and reading up on others opinions/veiws/experiences about games to furthur expand my knowledge about the industry, community, and specific games.

Originally posted by medafor

please people, take into consideration that this is beta! i can tell a lot of you have never expericed beta testing, particualarly mmo beta testing. the reason why is I see so many post bashing things like, textures, animations, pathing, speed, character customization, difficulty of mobs and so on, as if it's the final build. all these lame "preview weekend reviews" talking about how awful this is and that is. a lot of these issues will be fixed at launch, so save yourself the embarassment and not post these things until the final build is out. btw way for those who don't know the topic is a spoof from a famous Madonna song, thats what you naysayers remind me of, lol.

Wow i would find this hilarious if it wasn't so pathetic. I am constently harping on fan boies for falling back on the "it's only beta" to defend games. Now fortunatly with WAR there havn't been to many that have been clueless enough to be using this obvious strawman, as has been mentioned in large part due that most people that have a problem with the game thus far have stated it's boring not broken. However, if you think this late in an open beta that things such as animations and custimonations are going to be changing anywhere in the near future it is you that doesn't understand what an open beta is or how/why/when developers make changes.

I give you that the pathing will probably end up being fixed and the textures tweeked, but the textures are part of the animation style and can only be changed so much. And while the mobs can be made harder, again the reason they are easy is because the game isn't PVE focused and it's a game design to some extent to allow players to quickly get to max level and participate in relm vs relm.  So let's stop with this it's "only beta" crap in an open beta thats just before release.

Originally posted by singsofdeath

There is a huge problem with ships that would need to be manned by multiple Players. Well, actually, it's a lot of small problems, but it is sort of interwoven. Let me explain:

 

First of all, a player ship with a crew of multiple players, would still need a captain. So we'd have a command structure. This, in turn would have to be enforced in game-mechanics somehow. For example, only the captain can order an attack. Or...only the captain can set the course, etc etc. So, what happens if the captain (of all people) is not there? Would the position just sort of...jump around? And who would fill the place left by the one replacing him? Sure, some guilds might manage that by themselves, but it would essentially limit starships to large guilds. (I admit, having the largest Starships run like that, something like a "Raid" so to speak" may be feasable, but...well, that's cryptics choice).

 That's not how command structure works. A ship doesn't just fall apart and fail to function because a captain is off ship/ off duty/incapacitated. The guild leader would be the commanding officer of the ship (reguardless of his actual rank). When he isn't around the game defaults to others in the command structure that have degrees of control over the ship appointed by the CO and the First officer. But essentiall the "ships" isn't what Star Trek is about. Most missions would be done on/off ship that has no actual effect on the ship anyway.

Next, you have the problem of actually commanding and accepting commands in a Trek World. What do you do when a player doesn't obey the command of a senior officer(player) on the ship? Drag him to court? Do you think players would like that sort of system? Accepting authority from another player is something that comes hard to the majority of the gaming crowd (except for said large and well-organized guilds) and even with the large ones, you have to wonder if they'd be willing to take orders as is supposed to happen on a Starship.

 This is true about any guild. If people are causing waves you have the same ability as any other guild in any other game. If someone isn;t functing within the guide lines of the guild you talk to them about it and if an understanding can't be arranged you remove them from the guild. 

Next, you'd limit the gameplay. Star Trek is a whole lot about Space exploration