Originally posted by BlackUhuru

A polished and fun game from start...

Which is actually having things added to it DURING the beta, as opposed to nearly all the other companies who simply use the beta as free a marketing tool. 

Originally posted by Crynswind

Boring and generic wow clone,the combat is lame,the gameplay is made for 5 year olds,what a shame.

 

I just cancelled my pre-order,see you in Tera in 6 months,a real AAA MMO.

Hate to burst your bubble but the Koreans are whining about there being too many repeatable quests and basically the game is lacking in meaningful content. ( much like Aion at launch) My prediction for Tera is that it will be fun, although it willbe quite grindy in the later levels which will take them at least 6 months to sort out. Now I'm not saying it will be a bad game, I'm sure it'll be good and I'll be trying it but I suspect that in terms of polished, fleshed out 1 to max level content Rift will have trumped Tera.

I was seriously expecting more in terms of graphics, those dull lifeless faces and low detail textures on the armour...eugh.

Originally posted by Vegetto

I know within the first few days if i am going to play the game for long. I had come from a line of MMO's before WoW and was int he EQ2 beta, before a SWG guildie let me into WoW closed beta. The game felt alive and so much fun. I asked an EQ2 guildie to post me over a copy from USA when it was released (several months before UK).

Man, it was laggy and buggy, servers always down and you had to queue for upto an hour just to play. But i would play well into the early hours, skip Uni classes to play and set my alarm clock for 5am in the morning, pour some coffee and play 14hr stints of it.

That lasted for months from day one and no other game did that for me before or after, even SWG not to that extreme. So, there is no "see how it goes in couple of months" for me, i know straight away; from how you do combat, how you move, what you do, how you look and how the world feels. Does it feel like you're living an adventure in a new world? You know this after the first day and if you don't feel a panicking urge to play again the next day, that probably won't change months down the line.

So, i think i will try this out, because the world looks beautiful/open and thats very very important to me to get engrossed in the world.

Not only that but the game actually has you running across the zone to fight invasions and close rifts which can't be said for all the other mmo's created. Once you'd finished the quests in an area you'd never look back. 

Heh, when people post a negative review it's always "Omg play the game more before you review it!" and when someone posts a glowing review it's, "omg, wait until the end game, god I hear this all the time, people saying it's the best thing ever". Trolls will be trolls. 

Originally posted by NeokiNaomi

I'm no idiot, I have played planetside since it's release (Still do). I was simply making a comment regarding the "New render" not the old galaxy, which looks very klunky and more heavy. This looks very sleek and fast, and the coloring / cockpit / landing gear look to be inspired from the movie. Sorry for making a simple observation mister grumpy pants.

Fair enough, I've been on the Rift forums all day so my tolerance is rock bottom right now. 

Originally posted by NeokiNaomi

After looking at it a second time, has anybody else noticed a striking resemblence of this rendering to some of the aircraft from the movie "Avatar"? o.O... Not that I mind, I would love to get behind the flight stick of some of those from the movie, especially that cargo plane, I love troop transporting :P.

You do realise that that very closely resembles the original galaxy from Planetside which launched in 2003 / 2004? So any idea that SOE has copied Avatar is beyond absurd. If anything you should say avatar copied planetside. 

So 12 million people are tired of this combat you say? 

2500 on high with

i7 920 - OC'd to 3.6ghz

GTX 260 - 216 core

6 gigs of tri-chan ram.

I'm not entirely convinced by this benchmark to be honest with you guys. 

Originally posted by BlazeFlamme

If you really want me to go in every bit of detail, I will sir. Iv been up all night working on my mod, with just pretty much is, Scripts/models/textures. 

I know that Nexon had lots of coding them selfs to do. But what im really trying to say is, theres kids thinking Nexon made everything here, and it bugs me, Source's creator should be known correctly, as its one the best out there, along with Unreall and Cry engines.

A mod doesn't even compare in complexity to a game being made from the ground up. You need to be quiet you're making yourself look quite foolish.

Originally posted by BlazeFlamme

They did, Im seeing how many people here know that, its sad to see all these NExon kiddies think how epic NExon is for making this game, when all they did was Scripts, Models, and Textures. 

 

Why Nexon thought to use the source engine, Im not sure, as it was DESIGNED for FPS games. 

Its gonna make me cry to see all these kids think someone like NEXON made the source engine ='( 

Just scripts??

Do you even have a clue how a game ENGINE works, we're not talking about a game that's already been made from an engine i.e counter-strike source or Half life 2. All you get when you buy the source engine is basically a library of code that can be called upon to do certain functions such as lighting, loading textures models / props  and sounds. 

I think YOU need to go back and learn exactly what a game engine is. 

Hi mmorpg.com,

Can anyone quickly tell me which of the EU servers you feel are currently the most populated? I'm looking to find a new mmo to jump into for a while until cataclysm hits.

Originally posted by luciusETRUR

Originally posted by DrowNoble

Originally posted by Comnitus

Originally posted by Xondar123

I've already defeated Mekgineer Thermaplugg before.

Oh wait, I guess it was reconned so that I only defeated an android or something...

I killed Kael'thas, too. OH NOES! He's in Sunwell Plateau, go figure.

I killed Arthas. OH NOES! He probably comes back as a zombie (no surprise) to help Deathwing in Cataclysm.

I say, yeah, either you killed an android or his clone or his twin or his deranged puppy he turned into a Gnome or a thousand other stupid things. The real Thermaplugg will be a level ?? super-elite boss that can only be taken down with those tanks and planes. I say you took 5 and a half years to retake your city, losers? You don't deserve it!

Edit: And if they destroy Ironforge and replace it with Gnomeregan, I will punt every Gnome so hard that Tauren will worship me as the new Gnome-punting god.

 The end of the Lich King was very disappointing.  You kill him then his dad's ghost says "there must always be a lich king".  No reason given, just that "the scourge is dangerous".  Without the LK as a leader, the Scourge would be weakened as the mindless "shock troops" go back to be mindless and the majority of the Lt's are dead by player hands.  So it would be mop up duty.  However, that makes sense so Blizz has to come up with the idea that Bolvar, who I saw incinerated, is some Fire Zombie instead who becomes some kind of Lich Sorta-King.  *facepalms*

I agree that even comics never retconned as much as Blizzard does.  It seems they are getting lazier and lazier as WoW ages.  They refuse to make new classes, instead recycle existing classes as it's less work for them.  Nevermind that Tauren Paladins or Night Elf Mages is beyond stupid, Blizz will just ignore the lore they created and come up with a lame excuse why This Is A Good Thing.  meh...

Seriously Blizz no one asked to play a goblins, just man up and say you wanted Horde to have a version of gnomes to be ridiculed.

Night Elf Mages actually does make sense... considering they share the same ancestory as other High Elves and Blood Elves..

 

Also: from what I understand, Orgrimmar will be destroyed and rebuilt.

No Night elf mages makes no sense what so over the entire reason there are even blood elves is because the practice of arcane magic was forbidden under Night elf law. 

You can do all of those things but there isn't any point in doing most of them.

1 ) building a house serves no purpose what so ever other than to simply own one, you can't furnish them you can't do anything with them other than simply having one.

2 ) You can "apparently" build a city although apparently that's all broken at the moment anyway so it doesn't matter. Although even when it's fixed there is again nothing you can do with this city there are no kind of special mechanics that in place for cities.

3 ) The actual PvP in the game has no purpose either as there isn't actually any reason to fight each other; other than for the sake of it.

Basically you want to play Darkfall.

 Doomed. The trailer as good as it was does not represent actual gameplay what-so-ever, mostly because they didn't actually show any.

Basically what this trailer said was, "Yep, we've got some decent artists; shame about the rest of the development team though!"

Unreal engine running third party server code, good fucking game. 

 Voted 4, the game has potential however it's going to crash and burn a few months after release simply because no one is going to pay a monthly subscription for this game that has 'potential' and otherwise is a flaming piece of shit. 

 Just to give you all an idea of what a game almost in alpha looks like here's a video of Natural Selection 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu23zfObtv4

Originally posted by parrotpholk

 First they are using the open beta as a beta and not a trial freebie like most companies are doing now. And its helpful when you get in game to hit the H for help and read through what to do to kind of get started. Gather first to make at least a wooden weapon and a robe to get out of the rags you are born with.

It's fine, I'm not wasting my time on this game. 

All I have to say is this game is actually a piece of shit. I managed to actually play last night for a bit the character creation is the first thing that struck me as being a big WTF moment. There are no information boxes telling you what you just chose actually means in the game world. No kind of indication of what you need to create a certain type of character or even if there is a way to even create a certain type of character. There is NO information what-so-ever pertaining to anything, it's just basically some graphics and that's it, like a MUD but in reverse.

I wandered around for a bit and didn't have the first clue what to do. The user interface was the worst one I've yet to experience I, Had no idea how to even bring up the hud or talk to other people. I randomly brought up my fists for a brief second only for them to go away just as fast. When I finally got the UI up I was presented with more boxes with no information, I understand this is supposed to be super super hardcore - but how do they expect anyone to learn the game. 

The graphics, oh the graphics. Considering how they're using the unreal 3 engine they do look a bit poor, this was possibly the games only slightly redeeming feature. The graphics however were very bad, extremely low quality textures, dodgey shadows everywhere, incredibly stiff animations and the list goes on. 

Overall there is no way this could even be construed as being a BETA, pre-alpha maybe but by no means is there anywhere near ready for release, as soon as you expect someone to pay a monthly fee for this it will be dead. 

Originally posted by Wizardry

I had the same issue as everyone else,could not login.

While i was waiting for the update ,i did notice a few things,they are completely following what VG did.They must have found out the game will be too laggy,so i noticed they have lowered all the AI settings,they have cut back the graphics,they are using a higher compression rate,removed code ,basically all the same stuff VG did to try and improve game lag.They are going to end up wishing they just licensed the UE1 or 2 engine,the game is probably going to be scaled way back.

I noticed a server cap will be in place,and i am sure pre orders will get in first,they may already be playing?With one server and a cap,i think the odds of getting in may be low,probably 25k cap.

You honestly think that A) 25,000 people are going to want to play and B) They have a server which can handle that many people. The game lags horrificly when 25 people have a fight so I have no idea where you got 25,000 people from.