Originally posted by sgel

The word "troll" is used quite succesfuly considering how you typed out the review. This was the first impression that you gave to me considering I don't know you personaly and considering that this is mmorpg.

I have been at this since about 1997 and I have never once seen a troll make a positive review. I think you need to hit google. Type in "troll" and press enter. Read. Win.

Originally posted by orsonstfu
 To those of you who chose to stick it out with Bioware and SWTORO - I hope that you have as much fun with the game as I was sure that I was going to have and in the end failed to.

 

Thought you didnt get your expectations up? I call B.S.

Originally posted by Agoden

 the first playthrough is just way to easy when you are on your own

 Auto-aim off makes it a touch more challenging, but yeah co-op with friends=joy.

Just recently revisited Borderlands 2 years later. I upgraded my computer and video card recently and have been trying out some of the games that were beyond my old computer at the time.

When I played Borderlands at release I could play it on pretty decent settings, but my computer and video card werent so hot. My new comp is a dual quad amd with 4 gigs of ram and card is N460 GTX Cyclone.

After installing Borderlands on Windows 7 64 bit (4 hours of pissing around) I cranked up every setting to full and was blown away. You just can't beleive how amazing the graphics are until you can crank them to full and get high framerates. And the gameplay has always been stellar.

Just wanted to share it, it's just a 10 out of 10 game and even though it's 2 years old, precious few games come close to acheiving what 2k games did with Borderlands.

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Originally posted by Jakdstripper
i have to disagree.
i'v never seen EQ2detox.com, there is however a WoWdetox.com.

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How insightful. You disagreed.

Thanks!

Just finished installing, going to try it. Back later to vote.

Just downloading, thinking of giving it a whirl. Please comment only on the games fun factor. I want to have some.

/thanks in advance for helpful posts

/flame for trolls

This proves what I have been saying since freakin Everquest: MMO gamers are the biggest bunch of online whiners and complainers with loftier expectations than a fat lady at a beauty pageant. Not saying anything against fat ladies, but that's just not what they're looking for at a beauty pageant.

That having been said, there really isn't a current game going that I could honest see myself paying 15 bucks a month for anymore. GTA online would be great though.

/pray

Good points you make, FailPatch. I'll say this much though, the game is more addictive than crack cigarettes.

...something I wish I had more of. I've been playing this game for 3 days and now I have to stop because of school and work and it sucks.

I just got a new computer; Intel duo quad core Q6600, Geforce 8800gt OC and 24 inch monitor. So I bought the game just because it came out, and it's so addictive like WoW was at the beginning. It's like a shiny gem of video game goodness.

My first impressions were that the graphics weren't good enough, but they just grow on you. It's like WoW without the cartoony graphics. Please don't get mad at me for saying that, I don't have enough time to describe exactly what I mean by that, just that it is more gritty than WoW.

There are lots of similarities to WoW, but I think these guys did a fantastic job with lots of little innovations, the game just looks and plays so damn tight. These are very new impressions of course, but I'd say anyone with a sweet rig and a good sized monitor needs to shell out the 50 bucks for this game. It's worth it. Now I just need to win the lottery so I can actually play it.

Originally posted by SgtFrog

does this topic have a point

 

Did this reply?

Just kidding, but really, it's much better when you try it on a high end machine. That is, if you're a graphics whore like me. It looks really really sweet. If you're level 80 you have no life btw.

Installing: Dang this took forever. Around 2.5 hours with downloading, kinda long but oh well.

Account Creation: Pretty straightforward, the usual. Took around 10 minutes.

Intro: If you like Conan, you'll love the intro movie.

Character Create:  Quite satisfying. A decent amount of options and pretty cool classes and races.

Graphics: I give them at least a 9 out of 10. This is what I hoped WoW would be: realistic design, lots of detail, beautiful artwork. I play with the settings on low, but with bloom and 6XAA. The game looks fantastic.

Sound: Really crisp, nothing to complain about here.

Opening quests: like youre usual game intro. Play through it and rescue a hot chick and bring her to town. Pretty fun combat, decent amount of items and equipment drop.

Overall this is the best launch of any MMO in recent Memory. The graphics are just great and should play well on a fairly wide range of systems.

I'm on the RP PvP server (Hyperborea or something) and can't wait to try out the PvP.

Originally posted by Ikonic

Overall I like the game, but playing on a PvP server there are some things need to change.

 

Loading Screen camping, this is pathetic. Something should of been in game from start about this.

 

Instance Swapping running. How lame is it that you can fight someone and they can swap out of the instance instantly?

 FC needs to fix these on the PvP servers.

Those do sound a bit cheesy, hopefully they fix those two things somehow. Should be gray when you zone in for 10 or 15 seconds so either no one can kill you or anyone who does gets penalized. Whatever, I'm just happy they FFA PVP whack jobs have a place to go now. Where I can kill them, that is.

Originally posted by Elikal

It must happen. Only if we let it die, the lesson is learned.

I had my entries and breaks, but now, after server merge, I came back a third time. VG has it qualities, no doubt. But all in all its cumbersome, difficult, deadly and dull. I still spent about 60% of my time SEEKING things instead of having fun, I still die waaay too fast and often compared to medium difficulty games like EQ2 ( NO I DONT PLAY WOW!) and still its difficult to find a group (not because of lack of players, but those who are in only group with friends) asf. Really, VG has qualities, but altogether its so unbelievable cumbersome, EACH damn time I feel, hey lets resub and see how VG has evolved after some time I feel intolerable levels for frustration. When I was stuck in some damn curtain of doom today (aka bug) and died because of the uber fast repop I just decided this was my thrid and last try.

VG deserves to die. Its a lesson devs must learn, the painful way, as I learned in this thrice damned excuse for a game. ><

You may write athousand times I am stupid, whatever. I think I am as good or as bad as most players, and years of MMO experience have shown ME, what I am capable of, which is all I need to know. The unwelcoming nature of the game is just too much.

I like the graphics, like this one

The graphics are very very good, much better than I had even hoped there would be in a PVP game. I like PVP but I like graphics more. We humans can make our own content; that's what online communities sprung from in games like Uo and EQ. Everquest was very much more about community than it ever was about quests, or at the very least equally so.

For those who cannot live without PVE, here's your content: You. Getting owned. By me.

I'm kidding obviously, but seriously please don't rule this game out as any sort of success just because of it's lack of PVE. PVP in an MMORPG doesn't ever have to be about being a ganking/griefing/exploiting/leetspeakingchowderhead. There really are lots of us with honour.

This SS is sick

Originally posted by Amathe
Another point is this. If you have a vision of a game so grand in scope that it would cost more than 80 million to make, and you know from the beginning you only have $30 million to spend from your investor, you don't blame the investor! You either get a different investor from the beginning who can supply the needed funds, or failing that  you adjust your vision to fit your budget. Sigil did neither.

I think that people just believed, and no one person knew exactly how difficult neigh impossible their task was. They did amazing things on what budget they had though. Chalk that up to the human spirit.

 I seriously can't wait till September when I get my new video card and am actually able to play again though. Any predictions on what the game will be like after summer?

If they make an expansion before fixing the existing game then I'll be out on the Anti-SOE picket lines along with Shayde.

Originally posted by Shayde
Man I missed this guy. Like watching Fox News for the "real story".

Please continue.

I like pie.