Originally posted by Dave3216

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Zelda Gameboy

D&D  TT

D&D Eye of the beholder PC. Hands down best  d&d adaptation from tt. Planescape Torment came close.

Warhammer 40k TT

 Oh, I forgot EOB. Kudos to the guys that did that game, many hours mis-spent on that.

Some nostalgia coming out in this thread!:)

I guess my first RPG's were the Sierra "Quest" series. I think Police Quest 1 was the first one, swiftly followed by the Hero's Quest, Space Quest and Kings Quest games.Trying to crack the entry age questions on Larry the Lounge Lizard I:) Sentinel Worlds 1: Future Magic was an early EA released squad based based RPG with space combat, ground combat and some decent dialogue. I loved that game and played through it multiple times. STO probably could take some lessons from it. Recently tried it again, bathed in nostalgia...and lasted about 2 minutes.

Have pretty much tried every D&D game I could get my hands on since then. Balurs Gate series stand out as my favourite. Planescape Torment was good as well.

First MMO - Diku MUD played from University LAN, with our telnet sessions skinned to look like word processors so we wouldn't get kicked out of the LAN. Other students unable to understand why we were shouting "he's coming west along main street, Kill him! Kill him! Full loot!".

Good times.

I haven't played Chronicles, may have to check that out next time I'm bored of what i've got on the PC.

It seems you're looking for F2P?

I found myself in a similar situation recently and DL'ed Allods and ROM.

It may be worth you checking out Runes of Magic. I DL'ed it a while ago and it's art style may be right up your street. I'm personally not a fan of the style and prefer the crisper feel of ALLODS to the bloomy giant-eared, slightly cutesy feel of ROM...but this might be your thing. No harm in trying.

The crafting is pretty good. The combat is ok, and things like quest-tracking and being able to click on names in quest descriptions and the game trying to auto-plot a course to destinations or NPCs was a nice touch. Seems pretty busy at some times, so there's a community there. I also liked being able to "multi-class".

I've never purchased a life-time sub.

I understand completely the marketing side of it, and the intial capital it offers games producers.

The only ways I could justify purchasing a life-time sub is either

a) the game promises to be so great that you are confident that you will be playing the game for a long time

or

b) you realisitically think that you will be playing the game for a period of time which makes the life-time sub more financially attractive than paying monthly (i.e. a game is $15 a month or $200 life-time sub). If you see yourself playing for 14 months or more, you may as well get the lifetime.

or

c) It's the only way to get some attractive offer like early-start, beta access etc. I don't get too excited by these offers - pay a couple hundred dollars to be a tester and some starter equipment? I think not.

I guess I do get a little irritated when people buy life-time subs and then moan after a couple of months. It's called a 'lifetime' sub for a reason and if you're moaning now you probably didn't take the decision seriously enough in the first place.

Pre-orders: Tbh, I don't quite have Jons' aversion to pre-orders. I won't pre-order something before I absolutely want it, but often there are incentives to pre-ordering. I've lived in the UK and Australia, and often you can save money off the purchase price by pre-ordering - whether you're pre-ordering digitally direct from the games developers, from a game-shop website who are going to mail you the game, or from a walk-in store. In these 2 countries PC games are becoming more and more difficult to track down in walk-in stores as digital distribution become more popular. A lot of stores will not stock games that aren't mainstream, and slightly obscure games can be difficult to locate. Most recently I pre-ordered CO from a walk-in store in Aus. This was a specialist gaming shop with staff who played MMOs and they had never heard of it. I'm pretty sure that if I hadn't pre-ordered it I would have had a good hunt on my hands to find a boxed copy. 

I guess the moral of the story is that both these options are tactics by games developers/producers to encourage you, the gamer, to either outlay money before you receive your goods or to outlay more money and subscribe for longer than you might normally. To encourage you to do so they offer incentives such as early access, equipment, reduced subscriptions (based on the length of your subscription) etc.

Just because something is a blatant marketing or capital raising ploy doesn't mean it's without it's benefits , however! I will probably pre-order SWTOR, and DCUO for that matter. DCUO won't be getting a life-time sub, but if the lifetime sub for SWTOR equates to around 12 months of subs...I may have a decision to make;)

Like this idea as well. I don't see it happening though, but if it did it would definitely be a tightly controlled instance:) Another way to use this would be a party controlling multiple JLA'ers as part of the same team in the same instance?

I bought my PC just over a year ago. 1 GB Ram, Nvidia 7800. It ran WOW and EQII fine. I've recently started playing LOTRO and on high settings it gets choppy in the biggest city. I don't hold out too much hope of being able to play games coming out like AOC. I'm not sure how intensive Tabula Rasa and Warhammer will be.

I wouldn't mind the extra RAM now, but when I bought my PC it felt like it was overkill. That was over a year ago though.

Short answer? Go for 2 if you can afford it.

I'm enjoying LOTRO at the moment, but level 50 is not too far away so I'm keeping an open mind.

I don't think my year and a half year old PC will play AOC..if it does I will pick it up...it looks amazing for those who can run it.

I'm really dissapointed with the gameplay demos I've seen for warhammer. Looks like WOW except possibly even more cartoony IMO. I'll probably try it, but it's going to have to run ok and there is going to have to be a hell of a lot of dark humour to keep me interested.

Tabula Rasa looks interesting. Got to give it credit for doing something new...will definitely try it.

Don't agree with the original OP or the title of the thread.

I must admit I wasn't over-impressed with LOTRO when I played the beta..so I went away and tried EQII again after a few years away.

It was worse, plus I'm like 5 expansions behind everyone else and I couldnt be bothered to invest that much money in a game that I'm not even convinced I like...and I'm over WOW....and COX just doesn't have the depth to convince me to come back...and there is nothing else really on the market which enthuses me.

So, I'm back to LOTRO. I subscribed and have been playing for a while now. A couple of quest buggettes...but otherwise solid. Good solo play and 99% of the community seems cool (except for the ones who insist on making the comparison to WOW or the ones who want to string up the other European players for daring to use their own languages.

Group (or fellowship) play is fun. I like the trait system. I like the dread system. I like the graphics and I like the music.

It is growing on me. And it's fun to get in on the ground floor while everyone is learning the game, and there is a relatively small game area to learn. No, it didn't knock my socks off when I first started playing..but for me (and apparently many others at the moment) it is the best available option.