All Posts by lkavadas

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Originally posted by vajuras

sorry I know it might feel like I'm picking on you today but I strongly disagree. TR is far from good. all you do is click on a guy one time and from that point on it is like tradional combat. sure you could kneel for more accuracy

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Originally posted by vajuras
Stuff.

Could you please not be so pretentious as to presume my thoughts?  You do not need to be a WoW fanboi to think EVE's skill advancement was a bad decision.

Case in point I've never played WoW.  If you look under my avatar at that train of acroynyms you can see every MMO I've ever played.

EVE's skill advancement and combat system are poorly designed and implemented.  It did other things right but those two ain't among them.

Originally posted by Squal'Zell 

2% is such a disadvantage...

how bout playing your regular cookie cutter MMO where you have been playing for years and made your lvl 99 toon and then the guy who started 2 months ago also gets his lvl 99 toon... so who is better now? take experience out of the equation then? you might say raid equipment and work towards money or wtv thing takes time to get... so i will say the later you start the more disadvangated you are over a guy who started at launch since he has been working on his uber loot for years.. same principle.

I don't advocate cookie cutter MMOs.  I hate classes.  I hate levels.  I hate instances.  I hate anything that isn't open PvP.  The last game that came even remotely close to satisfying me was preCU SWG and even then just barely.

And I also think EVE's skill advancement system is retarded.  Sue me.  I'd rather earn my skills the old fashioned then sit around with some stupid calculator and be like, "Yup, I'm worthless until two months from this day."

This isn't a knock against the actual skills of EVE but just how they're earned.  I think it was the worst decision CCP ever made with EVE.  That and choosing RPG die-based combat for game based on spaceship combat.

Unless Destination Games pumps out more content then what was launched with the game over the next few months TR will probably be cancelled.

Originally posted by Squal'Zell

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Thanks for proving me right.  The later one joins EVE the more and more disadvantaged they are.  It's that simple.  That's why their skill advancement blows.

According to MMOGChart.com TR is lucky to claim even 75k subs.  Frankly, I've never found MMOGChart.com to be that far off the mark.  I have no idea why people here give that guy so much shit.  He doesn't pull his numbers out of thin air.

It's important to keep in mind that TR has done so poorly, both in terms of boxes sold and active subscriptions, that NCSoft didn't even bother to mention the product once in their last fiscal report to shareholders.

Six months isn't even long enough before getting into this game (in fact nothing of importance was added in the six months after launch, or even until now; eight months later).  I'd wait a solid year before giving this game a try so basically check back in October or November.

Originally posted by Thatim

I am sorry for this misunderstanding.

 

I was saying that the Beta causes games to delay. They find troubles that the QA / dev team didnt see.

And delaying a whole year? I know I don't have the slightes proof, but it happens to most MMO's. Why not to ER? It's only just 3 years in development.

Is there anything else you'd like to just assume with absolutely no evidence to support it?  Let's stick with the facts, please.

Originally posted by mbd1968

EVE Online would be a good choice if you want a non-leveling skill based game. Especially if you want to focus on non-combat careers as it's probably the best out there at the moment.

EVE's advancement sucks though.  I don't know WTF the devs were on when they decided to gimp every person who didn't start playing on launch day.  One of the dumbest decisions I've seen an MMO company make.

And please don't lecture me on how a two month old character can still contribute to combat.  Fact of the matter is that anyone who begins now is forever and permanently disadvantaged when it comes to accumulating skills.

DAoC, EQ2, TR, PS, GW, et cetera...

Originally posted by -Jaguar-

VG is a wash of dark colors. It's boring to look at. It's the same problem I have with EQ2. Compare Vanguard characters against Lord of the Rings characters. I don't like Lord of the Rings, but the world is much more colorful and interesting.

ROFL, the LOTRO toons look like clowns.  Seriously, they look... just plain stupid.

Let's not forget that when SWG launched it was the second most popular MMO in the western world behind only EQ1.  The raping of Koster's vision is basically the biggest black eye the MMO industry has, and probably ever will, seen.

And then there's EVE.  Clearly sandboxes work.  The only reason anyone would think they wouldn't is because of the industry's notoriously poor management of them and the fact that success is now measured in WoW terms so when devs make a game everything, even a 250-400k sub, is a failure by comparison which is an absurd notion.

Tabula Rasa.  The game is god awful but the combat engine is extremely well done.  A lot of RPG players were put off by the added twitchiness of it and FPSers were put off by how it was just a basic RPG combat system under the hood but all in all I thought it was extremely well done.  It's fast, intuitive, requires a good deal of interaction and coordination, and unlike most RPG combat systems it won't put you into a coma after an hour.

I'll be the first to say it.  I absolutely hate RPG combat.  It requires little to no skill and with such little differentiation between MMOs nearly all of them boil down to just state application, spiking your damage, and paying attention to timers.  It just doesn't take very much skill to do that.  Sorry RPG fans.

Plus Tabula Rasa has a fantastic cover and stance system where you get damage reductions for hiding behind objects and damage bonuses for using stances (like kneeling).  If they had just removed "sticky" targeting and target lock it would have basically had PlanetSide's combat system (FPS-ish except no locational damage, you hit or you don't).  My only real knocks against it.

Originally posted by Thatim 

I don't know where I read this, but Beta is causing alot of delay. Bug fixing takes alot of time. I mean, I can model + skin and animate 1 character a day. And I am a total noob in it. But to have it working ingame is something totaly different.

So I am pretty sure they won't make 2009. Which isn't bad ofcourse. It is boring the waiting, but good games are better then fast games.

You didn't read it anywhere because MastHead has never stated that the beta is being delayed.  And you honestly think the Q1 2009 release date won't be made but you go so far as to say the game will be delayed an entire year?

Where do you get this stuff?

Guild Wars

TR's graphics are actually pretty good at medium and above.  Low looks like absolute shit though (obviously).

Originally posted by Clyptso

Originally posted by Thedrizzle

Those who say graphics don't matter and gameplay is everything are full of shit. Graphics matter equally as much as game play. 

If graphics don't matter then everyone should go back and play Ultima Online.

 

You so wrong. Graphics are important but gameplay is alot more important. Decent graphics with fun gameplay is what matters. I wander what game you are playing that has really top of line graphics and fun gameplay to go with it. Most of the most beautiful MMOs aren't that great in gameplay. The most popular game on the market right now  only looks decent graphically but alot people enjoy the gameplay.

So decent graphics at time of release but more importantly good gameplay is what truly counts.

Thedrizzle has a very solid point.  Ultima Online is the ultimate sandbox that would meet the criteria of most of the sandboxers around here, myself included.  So why, when there is a game that fills every need for a seemingly huge tract of the population here that loves to lament linear MMOs, are they not playing it?

Because it's a graphically ugly game.  Same reason I don't play Anarchy Online right now but will return when the graphics get updated.  I can handle sub-par graphics but only to a point.