Originally posted by ImixZinz

Originally posted by defenestrate

There has been official statement saying that pre-orders will get into beta at some point. There will be no open beta where any shmuck can sign up, but people who preorder will catch the tail end of the beta before the game releases.

My pre order account will be my buffbot!

Having a buffbot in WAR is actually wasting a player slot in RvR; since all classes, even support ones, have the ability to do a significant amount of damage.

Originally posted by kishe

I refuse to play any mmorpg with EA logo on it...they have even worse history with mmorpgs than SOE.

They turned UO in to poop, canned earth & beyond before westwood even had chance to make it flourish, canned two ultima sequels that had some of the most hardcore following ever, the sims online (Do i need to even explain that?)...as a mmorpg publisher, they simply suck.

 

and Mythic...ToA was even worse kick in the nuts than NGE was...direct proof of that is that only daoc servers that people still play on is the classic ones.

EA is just a publisher, not a developer. I can tell the devs of this game know what they're doing. They would probably temporarily shut the game down and leave EA for another publisher before they obey some orders from EA to do some drastic change that'd screw the game up. This is finally a MMORPG that brings some new, exciting features to the table, not just an uncharted IP. They also have Games Workshop overseeing it, so if any company, outside of the dev team, is going to screw with this game, it is going to be Games Workshop, not EA.

Originally posted by Eichenkatze

Originally posted by MuffinStump

Lloyd: What are the chances of a guy like you and a girl like me... ending up together?
Mary: Well, that's pretty difficult to say.
Lloyd: Hit me with it! I've come a long way to see you, Mary. The least you can do is level with me. What are my chances?
Mary: Not good.
Lloyd: You mean, not good like one out of a hundred?
Mary: I'd say more like one out of a million.
[pause]
Lloyd: So you're telling me there's a chance.

:)

Haha, i'd like to look on lloyd's side for this one. I can at least be hopeful and give it a shot. You never know. So far there have been invites every Friday.. so.. the odds are getting better!

I'm gunna go back to the SNES days for single-player: Earthbound/Mother 2, because of it's unique art style and audio that created this eerie, retro, nostalgic feel that I have never gotten from a game ever since, and the story was so enjoyable and it had some funny moments.

Also, another game that comes very close is an Action RPG made by Enix before it became a part of Square, Terranigma. It had a VERY unique story and premise, where the character lives in a "shadow-mirror" of the earth, but ends up opening pandora's box and having to save the world by guiding the history of the world along through key events, like returning the land masses to the earth, then the plants, then the animals, then the people, and then the knowledge, etc. Each Chapter gets more complex, and the later chapters have many references to actual historical events, like one of the bosses you defeat is Bloody Mary, I forget exactly why, but it was cool. I'd guess it's similar to Chrono Cross, but it's an Action RPG. I also believe Dark Cloud, and Dark Cloud 2's game mechanics are very similar to this one, perhaps inspired, I mean, it is published by Square/Enix.

I recommend trying to find ROMS of these (as they aren't being recirculated in the US, only Earthbound/Mother 2 is in Japan, on the GBA) and playing them. Their gameplay stands the test of time.

Now, when it comes to MMORPGs, I'm really not sure. As I've been pretty dissappointed by the MMORPGs I've played ever since my first one, Everquest. I've learned a lot about what I believe works, and doesn't work when it comes to MMORPGs, and have considered a career as a game designer.

Originally posted by Sramota

Demonic possession,
the only reason.

Conan I could care less about.

Sorry if this is off-topic, but this is the reason I will not play AoC. There are already too many games that promote the occult as a means of power and conflict resolution, but now we have games that promote making pacts with and summoning demonic entities, and with the release of Age of Conan, becoming outright possessed by them.

Now getting away from my opinion, to some speculation: If there are demons, they would probably enjoy the glorification that they would recieve from this game.

And finally, here's a question I have to wrap things up. Sramota, are you a satanist?

I recieved a letter from the Tabula Rasa Newsletter an hour ago...

Originally posted by Battleship

Well ,I like alot of current mmo players am sick of the same ol' same ol' stuff. I have also tried most of the mmorpgs p2p and f2p out there. What I look for is something different.

After going thru about 20 f2p games in the last year I can say that now I am enjoying:

Granado Espada

and

Voyage Century Online.

They are both  a little different and unique in features fro the run of the mill crap. Give either one a try I think you will be surprised.

Originally posted by solareus

Originally posted by yegnats
Let me be the first poster to go out on a limb and agree with the OP. I as excited about this game after I quit WoW after playing on and off for about 2 years, finally getting to almost level 69 in TBC before realizing the endgame just wasn't happening for me, and I wasn't interested in any character classes to replay again. Then I did the Stress Test, and I was quite hooked, but then I got into the closed beta test soon after, and the game just lost my interest after less than a week.  The art design flaws especially got to me. Many of the hair styles suck, including how all your hair would suddenly dissappear, with some helmets showing the suddenly bald back of your head. Not to mention how shields interact poorly with running animations, and stay stuck to your arm and never get sheathed on your back like in WoW. It looks crappy. Graphical issues are some of the most critical things for game immersion, and LoTRO has messed up on some major points.

I agree to extent, but you can always choose to not display the helmet , as well as adding your shield to the hotbar and clicking it on and off . I know on the official forums there was a discussion about shield and I do believe they are working on getting the shield on the back. Hope you posted this stuff on the official forums. All feed back is need to make the game the best it can be.

Originally posted by brokenneedle
Had to vote "avoid it 4 sure" - just really not what I'm looking for.  If there were certain fundamental things tweaked with it (lose the zones/instances for instance) I'd definately reconsider, but I think beta was enough of a taste to know that its not for me.  But good luck too it - the whole "u can make your own songs" thing is the RADDEST thing i've heard in awhile and every game should bring the goodies like that.  The rest of the game though made me snooooze...

Exactly what I came out of it feeling like. Some of the models and hair styles in character creation really suck too, and the fact that they couldn't make a way for you to have hair and hats at the same time. Not only that, but how they said leveling in the final game is gunna be slower than it currently is (can't imagine that) in closed beta. Too slow in my opinion.

When it comes to MMORPG, even graphical flaws like this stick out to me like a sore thumb. But I've realized, it seems every single MMORPG out there has been designed by people who don't know the meaning of true immersion: eliminating every graphical realism issue, and implementing creatively explained and made plausible game elements. I'm looking for the perfect MMORPG, and it has yet to be made. With how I've played nearly every MMORPG ever made, maybe I should start trying to design one myself, and see if anyone wants to develop it.