All Posts by Ugarit

EQ2. You'll have fun on lotro 1 maybe 2 months then you'll have to cancel your subs. this game becomes boring when you reach lvl 35 everyone knows that. 1 month on lotro (or 2) and stop then start EQ2 and you'll have fun. and lotro isn't casual friendly: you'll have to group all time, and the PVE HL looks like Wow. - Wow: illidan, - Lotro: balrog - Lotro low level (spe in the shire) is casual friendly + RP game - lotro PVE Hl: farming + farming + farming , stuff etc... or you'll have to go to the ettens ... like the others (only thing to do at high lvl) and "farm the other players" for rank. Have a hunt Lvl 50, rank 4 PVP . craft is poor housing isn't interesting areas are small few classes fight are boring angmar is boring pvp is repetitive You'll have fun on the shire, on bree, on barrow downs, but you'll discover what lotro is when you'll "start" fornost, agamaur and fight against thorog... it's not casual friendly at all... it's a pure wow like.

I'm not an AOC fanboy but this is pathetic.

Biggest flop ? DnL, AC2, VG (even i played vg can't say it's a success), AA, SWG post NGE, TR, Archlord, DDO, RFO Ryzom ... AO (at release). DF and TCOS won't be a success i think. What about SGW ? We only have artworks ftm ^^ Dev stopped: GnH, STO, MEO etc... " the whole combat system is way to boring and flawed. The 1-2-3 directional system is not anything innovative ." Not a MMO-RPG but an action /XBox based game that's all. AOC won't be a flop, but many players will be disappointed i think... really... Another overhyped game, like TR. Not a bad game, not a flop...

Originally posted by mmonkeyboy

It can't flop as hard as that massively-single-player game known as Vanguard (although my keyboard will never forgive me for the beatings it received.)

But as a beta tester of AoC, I wish they would do as Mythic and push it back.  That's all I can say. 

Originally posted by Wow4Lifer

Darkfall will be the future of mmorpgs for several reasons.

 

A) Mos tplayers today are looking for a free loot pvp experience - just about everyone who plays tfc online, half life, ultima online, wow, etc....are all hardcore gamers looking for free loot and skill based mmorpgs.

B) the lames will stay in EQ and wow, and they will level there peacefuly. Those games will last until most these players are fired from work or die from starvation because of extreme amounts of time spent leveling.

C) Darkfall has the best lore out o any other game to date. The lore is created by the player, not imposed by the accountants.

 

In the end

 

Dark FAll wins, even today.

SO...can we play/try/beta test the game ?
No ? We can't ?
I stay on DAOC thank you

Originally posted by Seggallion

 

Originally posted by renier

Darkfall is destroying itself... nothing else.

 

And all you comments in this boards makes you look more and more stupid! Just browsed trough your history. Man, you must try to be more positive.

who's positive ? who's dreaming ?
FTM DF is nothing but a dream, a dream for fans, for non players.

wow , lotro, vg etc aren't perfect but you can play . They exist. That's the difference between a project (maybe brillant who knows ? ) and a product.

Originally posted by MChavez

I came back to this game yesterday after not playing for about a year. I was actually shocked at the population level in places like Martok. Back in the day, Martok was a lonely place to begin a character. Now there are quite  a few people running around that area leveling up lowbie goblins and orcs. I was pleasantly surprised. So, I'm not sure what to say about people who claim they can't find other people to play with.

  I'm alone near Dailuk, and it becomes really boring

"message in a boooottle"

Stop and play DAOC that's enough
 

Originally posted by Torak

Welcome to 90% of all western made, subscription based games.

Yep lol
Always play solo in VG so I can't discover the dungeons (or 10 lvl + required levl)

It's boring. Lot of players have 50 lvl char (sometimes many 50's)

Have a 18 necro on Halgar and I don't know what to do...  Must bash and bash again to reach lvl 30 and discover lvl 15 dungeons   Had the same pb on Lotro. AND when my char (hunt) reached lvl 50, had nothing else to do but farming for stuff and reput. (or go PVP but Lotro's PVP is a joke) ]

Something crazy in vg: talk with players. we're talking in channels. They seem cool but... havent seen them...; Not even one of them Don't even know where they are (Qualia, testra etc... ) that's crazy !  Never saw one of them. They are in the game for sure (talking everyday on channels) but don't know where they play (lvl area race classe etc everything ! )

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Solo game + MSN.

"I wouldn't use beta leaks to judge a game tbh. First of all, you have no way of validating the information you're given so they could just be feeding you lies. Secondly a beta of a game doesn't really reflect how the game is going to end up at release. The graphics will be mostly the same of course and the feature list will probably be left mostly intact, but the implementation of these features are subject to change all the way to launch. In fact the most important aspect of beta isn't to identify bugs, but to make sure you have a fun game. It doesn't matter if you've squashed every single bug during beta if the game itself is shit. Funcom is using player feedback to make sure the game is fun, and that every feature is adding something to the gameplay. An example of this is formations. They weren't fun and were removed. Going to Hell when overdoing spellweaving didn't work out either and was removed. The combat system was too complex so Funcom delayed the game (probably not just because of the combat system though!) and revamped it to make it more intuitive and fun.

If they can't be trusted not to breach the NDA, why would you trust them to provide you with accurate, unbiased information?"

bla bla bla.

www.youtube.com/watch

I'll try War, Aion, Aoc, TCOS, SGW... (said TRY, not BUY)
If i can 't have fun with those games,(last chance i give to mmorpgs) I STOP  the mmos for YEARS and WAIT  for only "  CCP World of Darkness". (or play Eve)

 Originally posted by butter1011

Theres no good games to play

See ya in 2 months when Aoc bores you.
See ya in 6 months when War bores you.

I'm in the same boat than ya: play/played Vanguard, Lotro, Wow, EQ2, SWG, DAOC.

BTested GnH, TR, Lotro, VG, POTBS

Tried Eve., WWIOnline..HGL

Past 1/2 months, they are most of them boring cause repetitive and non creative at all. You only bash/take the loot/ your chars takes XP/Another area/ Bash/Loot/Xp/Stuff etc... When you reach max lvl , you understand the game was... only the levelling. no more no less.

Try (again?) Dark age of camelot/Eve. Or play solo games ! (imo they are better than mmorpgs! Gothic 3, Oblivion,  KOTOR, for RPG, or STR: MOK, BFME, AOK etc...)

They're boring because they aren't mmorpgs but only diablo likes. Non creative, and repetitive actions. Nothing social, nothing creative or interesting, we can't feel free as we always do same things, have same chars, and there's only  "1 way of gaming": kill kill and kill again and win XP.

 "It has been proven that the methods and ideas that are used by Blizzard are what people want, look at LoTRO for more proof. "

 Agree.

Darkfall

"(took EQ2 almost 3 years...so who knows)"

Took 3 years to SOE to give us a perfect game. And EQ2 is a living world ! (+ lots of GU and Events)  I'll (maybe) come back to VG in 1/2 years. Interesting and impressive but not finished yet (imo) that's all.

Originally posted by Pyrostasis

Open betas and NDA drops dont kill games... bad games kill themselves. Tabula rasa died because it was a poor design that didnt appeal to many.

Agree
 + And poor gameplay.

WAr = DAoC's player base. RvR + Wow 's player base

AOC = ... Eve's, DAOC, AO's player base ? GvG

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Who knows ?

Originally posted by Xasapis

To Ugarit:

You are indeed right, they got burned once by a very bad release. To their credit they turned the game around and made one of the best futuristic MMOs out there. Unfortunately, they never recovered from that early loss of momentum.

Whether they learned by that mistake or the mistakes and successes of others, remains to be seen. Personally, I expect tons of bugs and problems in the beta. Especially the closed one, since I suppose the open ones have long ago deteriorated to just free marketing and a last minute stress test. What I don't expect to see is those bugs, especially the ones affecting everyday gameplay, to reach the released game. If they do, I'll be disappointed for sure.

AO's  launch was... hard
but this game is great .

AOC can be full of bugs but a great game, as lotro is polished but (imo) a boring game.  We"ll see. Maybe AOC gonna be a full success. Who knows ? Not even the dev I think. 

"Darkfall is coming out Neveruary the 14th."

 History lesson:

...  there were several promised features that were either missing or broken completely. The majority of the game at that time was based around a revolutionary dynamic instanced mission system.... a system that only rarely functioned properly. Most instances were bugged so they couldnt be completed, or have unintentional invisible walls that blocked movement through rooms. There were severe lag and server slowdowns, especially with more than a handful of people on screen at once.

The beta testers knew well the issues and said it wasnt ready and there were still major problems to resolve before it was release ready. ...Worst releases in the history of mmos. ...  I see the same nda being held until near release. I see the same kinds of posts about the state of things.

 AO(C) ?

AO is a F2P now... AOC = also a F2p ?

fine.

(NB if you think i'm a AOC hater or XXX hater you"re wrong.. Bought Lotro, boring when you reach lvl 50, payed but stopped, bought Vg, nice at start but awfull at lvl 30+, stopped, tried TR, boring, tried POTBS... well..don't know, etc. That's enough. Looking for a good pvp/pve mmorpg... but i fear AO syndrome. Nothing about PVP, still NDA, nothing about OB : what about technical pbs at launch ? etc etc etc... )

Was a BT in Lotro since 2006. Perfect BT . Serious. And really important: had pbs in Jan. with stress tests. Turbine and CM made a good job and fixed the pbs (login server) and without this Stress test and massive BT, this could be a disaster at launch. It has been a SUCCESS.
Lotro is a success.Even if i stopped the game (not my taste past lvl 30... And reached only lvl 30 at BT... lool)  this BT was serious, perfect and Lotro is a polished game, best one since World of Warcraft I think. Imagine AOC without this massive BT and stress testing...  

Even VG had an OB... Tried VG 1st time at the OB. Even VG had an OB... can't you see ?

You can't seriously stress test a game with 1000 players..that"s not enough.

BT Lotro Vg TR GnH POTBS etc ...

Good luck Funcom.

"The NDA regarding the beta will never be lifted."

We're only interested by the release. >Think about Anarchy online at release.  In may, we'll know, we"ll see and we 'll talk.

 Imo 2008 won't be a great year for MMO players. Maybe worst than 2007.

We have the same probs in Europe: VG players aren't players. They fight for a "noble cause", it's not a game ' subs anymore but a Crusade.  
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Tried VG many times, also bought a CE, took 1 month for each GU since release.
SOE has improved the product , we can actually "play" VG. BUT... i have always the same problems with this game. Since the release.

1° lagspikes, unbereable when you play in dungeon
2° chunks are terrible sometimes your char stays without moving 3/4 + seconds and you must wait and pray. Sometimes it works sometimes you' ll have a CTD (had 3 on 1 week)
3° My necro's weapons disappear all the time. Must clic on the char, select the weapon, put it in the bag + select for a 2nd time etc and then weapon appears (have many problems also with the GUI, must relaunch the game 2/3 times...) and i don't want to talk about NPC talking after you've killed them, and many bugs noticed, reported and not beeing fixed many times after MY report, etc
4° Past lvl 30 quests are grinding quests, and VG begins to be a pure farming game: you must kill and kill and kill again for some items,... same for craft and diplo (you must repeat and repeat and repeat again the same parley)

5° You can't buy something at brokers: prices are TOO high...

6° you'll have to play solo most of time. You won't discover dungeons and solo content is boring

So... Payed CE, going to discover areas + cities, reach lvl 50, play diplo.. and stop VG. Forever i think.

VG is huge impressive looks great classes are great, music is great, diplo seems to be interesting craft is impressive... but I can say now, it's an illusion. VG is a pure grinding/farming game. If you're looking for a story, a storyline, if you want to have fun, don't take VG.It's not fun at all. IMO it's not a game... because a game needs to be FUN.

If you come to VG to discover large areas, if you're a pure explorer, take VG.

VG is impressive, beautiful, has huge and impressive dungeons, some cities are really nice and beautiful (Khal), you can enter in all cities/dungeons/castles/houses but it's not FUN.

I payed
So be it. I 'll discover Telon but I won't play VG until SOE changes the gameplay. EQ2 is a success, VG could become a success, in 2/3 years. Not in 2008 for sure.

The product has been improved, but it's not a game yet.

Have EQ2 + Legends of Norrath, it's cool, works perfectly, can play 15 mn or 3H, its a game. A game = fun, never forget this. If you need a "crusade" go and help people in the world, SOE is a Cy, we don't have to save the soldat Vanguard.

 I'm not a SOE hater, played SWG, and had more fun than in VG, actually play EQ2 and I'm thinkin about Planetside or POTBS.

Believed in VG until discovered GU4.

Imo nothing has changed since GU3/2, but only faces of our char.