All Posts by WowMike2002

Earthsiege and Mechwarrior MMORPG's

Now that would be fantastic..   run around in 40+ ton mechs, questing around whiel your in-city you are an avatar.. and out of city piloting a Mech.     

That would be my dream come true :-)  The Crysis mod for mechwarrior is going to look fantastic.. but I want to level up and upgrade whatever I want to upgrade..  full customization =)

UO PT was it, hands down.  No contest.   Second Up : Asherons Call 1, before the botters and crap UI Mod's.

I remember once in UO, I was getting chased down by the dudes out in god knows where, they tried ganking me so I ran a corner after I para'd one of them with my nasty 60% magery (Got a lucky cast)  then turned a corner, stealthed, and sat there till eh rounded, I opened up with some nina katana style pvp, when he ran (He knew he was dead meat) I ramped up my bow skills and pumped him full of my beautiful flying death, then followed up with carving his corpse up, keeping his head, and distributing his gear among many loot-ridden chests because it was too ehavy for me to grab.   Nothign liek stealthing near a newbie dungeon, throwin in some good vanq surpas equip into a chest.. and watchign a newbie pull it out and scream crazy HELL YEAH!  and run off to do battle..   hits a soft part in my heart every time ;)

Anyone willing to relay an Invite out to me would be greatly appreciated.  Have been rather interested in all of the reviews out for the game and its developmental faze, along with its optional P2P advantages..

If you have a spare moment:

EMAIL:    mscherling@gorge.net

Thanks a ton, and I will find a way to return the favor!

I'm running:

AMD 64 3700+ (San Diego) (Air OC at 2.6GHz)

XFX 6800GT 256mb

4gb (4x1gb) OCZ Titanium Ultra Low Timings

7200RPM 320gig WD Sata

WIndows XP Professional 32bit

5000/640 DSL Line

I run the game perfectly fine, never had any lag problems at all..  the only frustrating things that happen from time to time is when monsters go invisible, but seeing as how everyone else in the group see's it as invisible shows its client side on that.    Other then that, the game is beautiful, runs great..  and I don't get any lag problems.

So, going with what I have been reading, perhaps it is memory..  windows only reads it around 3.2gigs or so due to loading for external/interal PCI devices, but it still runs beautifully.

Yep, was just about to create a new Deathknight to throw the heavy armor and spear I found on te last little dungeon stomp I did with my group... :-)

Ended up going ahead to bite the bullet at Best Buy and purchase the game with a $10 gift reciet I had from christmas.  Stood in line, then one of the tellers pulled me forward, he took a look at the game and gave me a big old grin and I coudl tell he was jsut as interested as I was, and he also had the same type of obligatiosn too.  He asked me straight up 'You better tell me how this goes, I am a major MMO fan and I had no information on what this game really played like".  

So here is a shout out to all of you only reading the negative comments, teh game needing more time, etc.. etc...

FIrst off, YES, the game is still being worked on, BUT! THere are changes that are actualyl beneficial happening at an alarmingly fast rate, and it makes me smile knowing they are pushign as hard as they are.   In the space of 2 the past two days they have been smashign bugs left and right, throwing new animations in (thank god, my rouge looked sort of boring doing all my cool backstabs and such)   And they are really really pushign forward!

Gameplay - This reminds me almost exactly like Everquest II in terms of runnign around and game interactiveness, the crafting diplomacy, and adventuring areas all are extremely fun to partake in.. nothing like standing in a room full of peopel crafting listen to the 'NOOO! *yelling and stamping feet* as peopel screw up their crafts (this does happen, quite literally) Or the WooHooing when someone hits their Grade A Item right on :-) There is alot more, but I'm just waiting for the servers to hop back up..  one of the spawns (several actually) had bugged from a few days ago so I'm hoping to complete a quest of mine when it comes back up.

Questing on it is jsut like Everquest II as well, lots and lots of quests at a time, they usually keep you out and about doing odds and ends for people, gathering said items, the standard.. but the combat and such in the adventuring line is definatly very fun.

I myself am now a Level 12 Raki Rouge, and enjoying every single bit of it!   In groups people invite me in suddenly notice huge portions of the monsters HP knock off one second fter the next.. and yeah, you guessed it, Im probably dual DoT'ing and laying out my dual 400% backstabs followed by a bunch of debuffs and/or plundering items from the monster midround.

Very fun combat as a Rouge, being able to keep yourself in stealth even after attacking an opponent is a big boom, especially when they finally hit you and knock you out of stealth, then you follow it up with a flash bomb, whirl behind them, backstab, then throw a smokebomb and go back into stealth to throw anotehr dish of damage at them.   VERY interactive gameplay, you really do need skill to play, theres no if's and's or but's about it.

ANyway, Thought I would leave a note for all of you out there, grouping is great on here, there isnt any slow time during a group, you usualyl dont have to take time to stop and heal, minus whats happenign in combat of course.   Doing raids on caves and dungeons and climbing towers is a blast.. and I really recommend this game ot anyone with a variety of interest's in gameplay, I feel Vanguard might strike a good nerve on everyone who gives it a try :-)

Actually, I despise WoW :-)  I never even noticed my name was that close to it.. doh :-)

And otherwords from that..

Look at any of the new games being released, the only 'trial' you get is usually a free month after you ahve already bought the game.   Try to find any new game coming out with a full version downloadeable 100% free trial, I could name a couple, but they arent really worth the trouble.

It just gets halfway annoying sometimes, They want us to look at the box, go 'oo and ahh' because of the pictures and descriptions, only to find out that if your in the game, they usually havent implemented everyhing like it appears :-)

EDIT:   THis is the main reason I have been so darn reluctant to buy any MMO type games recently, the P2P rates are skyrocketing.. whatever happened to the origional days of 7.99 a month (UO) and Everquest and such...    several games have already hit the 14.99 mark o.O

Now..   I will keep this short and simple, and see what the rest of the public views on it.

Why the heck would I spend 50 dollars on a game, only to get PO'ed by how it plays, and realizing that since its an MMO and pay to play, I cant return the game and get my money back?

Why the hell would anyone spend 50 bucks and then 14 bucks (Higher or lower depending) per month, only to realize that after the first, second, or third month they realize the game wasnt what they wanted.

Whatever happened to Free Downloadeable Live Content Trials?!?

Yeah.. Im interested in many games out right now.. But I WILL NOT spend 50 bucks to 'test it' knowing full well I will never get my money back, and I have a 70% chance of not wanting to pay per month to play it anyway.

Whats everyone else's views on this?  Im thinking if a game is going to be pay to play, they sure as heck better let you try it out for an 'extended' amount of time, perhaps a free month of play.. 7 days doesnt cut it.. that doesnt let you get anywhere in a game.

Throw some ideas around..   jsut sort of annoys me how thigns have befallen to us.. If Im gongi to work my rear end off getting money from a job, only to spend a good portion of my free money on a game Ill never be able to play after the first month.