Originally posted by Nihilx

They're actually selling this game for five dollars around here, lol.

coooool you can pick it up at your local Big Lots along with CoV now lmfao!

Originally posted by ketrine

Tabula Rasa is a pretty nifty little game.  You log in, shoot monsters that are beamead down from dropships, shoot monsters that are attacking your Control Point, or shoot monsters that are occupying the control point you want.  Oh, did I mention there's a lot of monster shooting in this game?

TR is actually kind of fun.   It is very fast paced and there's quite a variety of monsters to shoot - little hairy-backed alf-nose lightbenders that distract you with flashing white light while they run for cover... oversized thrax aliens that sick their barking dogs on you... enormous stalkers that look like giant mechanical chickens and shoot lazers!  Ahem.. well there IS crafting if you can call it that - you break apart all the useful components of looted guns and get "instructions" so you can put them on your gun (or armor).  I really like it in a way..

BUT.

The community is a bunch of bozos that cant shut up about dorky topics, there isnt much to do unless you feel like breaking up guns to salvage parts, or shooting monsters, and there is just SOMETHING that is missing, not sure what, but I think it is that elusive dash of excitement that hooked me on MMOs of the past.

All said - give it a try, you might like it, there are lots of good things about it.  Download the 3 day trial and see for yourself if it is abandoned.

I  completely agree with both sides of your description.

TR is fast paced, Short learning curve. Simple controls. All good features of a first-person shooter.

The community is a bunch of bozos. Check. It's the worst of WoW's "barrens chat" 24/7.

That elusive something you mention, for me, is all the little amenities from games I have played in the past:

-- player cities and player housing (a holy grail of MMOs in that few have implemented them?)
-- credible PvP (I want something to do when I don't want to farm, craft, or run missions)
-- PvP servers (I miss the edge of excitement from questing on a PvP server even though I don't actively seek out world PvP when playing on a PvP server)
-- a mature/stable player-based economy (tied in with a lack of credible crafting system)

Finally, I actually believe PvP *IS* end game for a MMO. So extend the lore / storyline to include it.

It does have the least helpful community of any MMO I've played. And chat is constant, very little of it on-topic. Because if this you could turn it off. You wouldn't miss much. Unless you want to indulge in pointless chattre, of course.

The idea of making a faction of the Bane a playable race is seriously solid gold and would change the fortunes of Tabula Rasa so much for the better I think.  NCSoft could use the same model Cryptic did with City of Villains, leaving the current game running as it is with continued slow but steady development while putting a full team behind creating the flipside of the coin to launch later.  Using that new development to also add other essential features (more robust and meaningful crafting, more career paths, etc.) to the game through the paid expansion would be good too.  Again, much the same as Cryptic did with City of Villains.  Tabula Rasa could still be a winner.

I played through early beta into later public beta and finally realized I hate this game. I left it alone and returned several months later. I gave it a chance. At first it felt off. The graphics are an acquired taste, it seems peculiar at first, if not a bit hokey. BUT once I gave it some time, i really found myself liking it. A lot of changes had been made for the better from beta.

I played it hardcore for about 2 months then grew tired of it just short of max level. I played a Thrax hybrid guardian, an exobiologist, and then a medic. The combat is cool, the game could use some expanding. I don't want it to try to be Planetside but imagine what this game could do with playable Bane/faction versus faction and huge battlegrounds where you can use various types of vehicles? I think that alone could really generate massive interest in this game.

As a huge jump jet flies over a Bane player command post, 20 infantry dump out of it...I know, very Planetside'ish, but if you threw that in with their new CP system and everything else, I think it could be great. The new CP system could even have manned turrets and other things. Then couple that with interesting pve content and you've got a much better game.

The framework is there to take this game to the next level. I doubt it will get there anytime soon, however. Even with the new CPs, they are the same tired ass settings/textures. They don't seem to be breaking their own mold quite enough. A lot of great ideas are in this game, tho.

If you are looking for a new game, try it. Just do it. Give it a chance over a few sessions and it will grow onto you like colon cancer. You probably won't stay with it forever, but I picked it up really cheap off of a popular ecommerce site for like 9.99. 30 days included. I thought it was a worthwhile investment.

Anyway, those are my 80 pesos.  TR is one of the better games out there right now. Thankully, for us MMO junkies, 2009 is going to give us a ton more options.

Originally posted by devacore

Originally posted by Sothorn

Originally posted by Lydon

The only reason I am not playing at the moment is because back when I tried it my PC was terrible at running it. Now I'm busy with other MMOs.

 

Guild Wars isnt an MMO. 

 

Not trying to be mean or anything but you are by definition wrong.  I guess if you don't listen to facts or logic, you could say GW is not an MMO.  Anyway, just helping you out so next time you'll not make that mistake, by definition of mmo. 

No, he's not...The definition of an MMO is up to some interpretation since the genre has evolved so much...stop being so pompus.