The starter area of Tortage is the best part of this game.

Heh, I see your arse got banned on the GnH forums, so you come here and post ten times in a row. Just let it go man. Nobody apart from the game's makers and maybe 10 others care about this game, and nobody really cares about any opinions posted anywhere, including here.

So, move on.

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Originally posted by Daffid011
Dark and Light  
Horizons
 
 
Both games had huge ambitious design goals that really could have made an impact on game design had they come anywhere close to delivering any of it.  To bad they both came out the way they finally did.
 
 

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Horizons is still going IIRC, now as Istaria and with about 50 players.

Age of Conan and Forsaken World for MMOs

Mass Effect 1 for single player. Waiting on Deus Ex: HR.

I'm Australian too, but we are smal lfish in every way compared to the US. They have 280 odd million, we have 21 or so million. They have a AA+ credit rating, we have a AAA one. Oh wait ,that doesn't count, does it? :D

The fact is, we're at the arse end of everything here and that fact isn't about to change. And no MMO of note will ever be made here.

Originally posted by gryphon93

What is an 'instents'?

The OP already stated his/her first language isn't English.

Thought I'd waste 3Gb in a download and get this game. Waste being the operative word. What a woeful excuse for a video game. Needs about a year of work.

Yeah, I found the relatively high review score at odds with the review itself. I'm playing FW at the moment and it is fun in its own way. Sure, there's plenty of step and fetch it quests, but many of the sub-only games have this, so that's nothing new or surprising.

The biggest problem with this game is there's too much in it information-wise too soon, and not a  good job done at explaining it.

You do get what you pay for, I suppose.

Originally posted by just1opinion

The Secret World is going to dabble in horror a bit. 

The scariest thing about The Secret World is that Funcom is making it.

It's looks like a meh game, same old same old.

What's this Aion you are talking about?

EQ1 - Erollisi Marr. We all sort of knew each other there. I wouldn't say it was a harmonious community, but it was vibrant, and united on most things.

Horizons - Twilight/Chaos. Everyone helping out everyone else.

It isn't. And only one EQ2 server is F2P.

How hard is it to change resolution?

Yep, I played A Tale in the Desert for a short while and know exactly the idiotic snobbery you mention. Little nowhere lords in their nowhere land.

Every game I've played that's implemented multiple chat channel tabs has given them some sort of highlight when something goes on in them, so it's a cue to check it out. There's no such feature in GnH.

Not that the stuck up folk would pay it any heed.

Nobody is going to care about this game. Nobody cares about City of Heroes, DCUO or Champions Online any more, so why go there?

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Originally posted by Fredelas

There is not enough complexity or even potential for complexity in this game for it ever to become "impenetrable" to new players.

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Impenetrable in the sense the game is a cult item populated by members of a cult, as it is in Horizons/Istaria. Not easy or simple for a new player to get in with it all.

Of course there's nothing complex about GnH. Nothing at all.

It's not a bad game. It's just a woefully incomplete one. I actually enjoyed the 30 or so hours I put into it in both beta testing and the recent free three day trial. The game's biggest problem? Nobody plays it. And when people do play it, it's 15-30 at a time on (Bacchus server) and nobody says boo in the global channel. I said hello a few times, got a hello back once, and crickets the rest of the time. Even the so-called die hard regulars of this game that post over at the official forums were on (I saw them in the social list) and they never said boo to anyone either. Maybe they're in their own little tribe (guild) world and didn't have the inclination to say squat to anyone. Who knows?

But with an average of say 100 people on during US prime time spread across three servers, is this game going to survive? What revenue is it getting from such paltry numbers? They offered the world a free three day trial and hardly anyone took them up on it.

I hope GnH doesn't go the same path Horizons/Istaria did and become a cult little game for a cult little niche that's impenetrable to the new player. It deserves better, but right now nobody is playing it. It's a shame.

They had two cracks at creating sequels to UO, nixed both. If they're going to do an Ultima game, Ultima 9 needs to be remade properly and the single player franchise continued. More Underworlds too. More System Shocks while we're at it.

1000 posts in 8 and a half years...

Err, I'm not sure why my post came out like that - anyhow I said: "Age of Conan needs to be remade - by someone other than Funcom. Imagine the game it would've been had Bioware made it.



It's good to imagine, trust me."