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• • Noob Questions

  • how long will it take me to start fighting in wars with other players once i start playing?  what should i do to get my self started to start ripping some ships apart. oh yea and is there a way to dock other ships or steal them?

    i have played this before but never continued to play cause i was too interested in other games. but this time i think i will pay and try it out.

     

  • Posted: 7/14/08 11:06 PM
    EVE Online
• • mini review lvl's 1 - 10

  • Originally posted by Nirvy
    

    So basically you reviewed the tutorial, not even that only HALF the tutorial. 1-20 takes no time at all and is used as a tutorial. Its the same as WoW's starting area's except you can clear it in under and hour if you wanted to.

     

    And im pretty sure they will keep 250k Subs. Hell there are 100-200k people alone just playing early access, apprently 600k+ Pre-ordered, so a good guess for subs at the end of the month would be 500k-1m.

    what he said about most mmos is fact. the 1st impression is very important. wow has a fun 1-20. this doesnt. he gave a pretty good review. most of the game is good except the gameplay.

    also imo, if you dont have a high-end machine. the graphics look like poo.

  • Posted: 5/18/08 12:13 AM
    Age of Conan
• • hey all. question. im new.

  • Originally posted by Tautology
    

     

    Originally posted by Snorf
    

    pro's and con's are very individual choices here, as many have to do with taste and playstyle.

    here are my pro's:

    - nice graphics.

    - extremely easy to learn UI. (mostly)

    - tolkien background.

    - nice atmosphere in many places, i like how the screen turns darker when you are near a bad ass enemy.

    - funny musik system.

    - The offer of an LTA.

    - very casual friendly.

    - runs ok on normal computers in high settings.

    - crafting results can compete with loot.

    - friendly and most of the time nice community.

    - fast and friendly customer support.

    Here are my con's:

    - extremely flat learning curve. Once you understood the easy UI you just sail to 50.

    - rotten animations, as good as the world graphics are, the animations suck. Destroys alot of the nice atmosphere.

    - easy mode MMO. Almost no true riddles.

    - (almost) No Character diversity - everyone is a carbon copy of his/her neighbour with same class/level.

    - not enough classes.

    - no epic raids with 80+ players involved.

    - no underwater world.

    - no group crafting.

    - (almost) no consequences for bad playstyle.

    - "story-in-a-can" system, butchering the epic background story into chunks of story for everyone.

    - almost no level cap content.

    - extremely simplified crafting system.

    - pv(m)p is a joke.

    - inconsequent travel system. (no magic but wtf is fast travel?, a horse on lightspeed?)

    - no innovative ideas compared to old school MMO's - nothing new here. (Which was the biggest disappointment for me, since the old MMO's where good but are old now!)

    - 100% linear gameplay - you dont choose where you go in this game, the game chooses where it wants you. Playing an alt feels 100% identical.

    - no dependant economy. By now almost everyone who has more than 1 houer per week to play has at least 3 grandmaster professions - many will have alot more spread over all their alts.

    - no fear factor. You dont have to worry that anything you do gets you into trouble other than maybe a 5 minutes walk back to the frontline.

    - EU players are second class players. (No Lore book access, no direct contact to the turbine devs. more expensive monthly fee)

     

    Bottom Line

    For me its a nice and fluffy game for a while. It's not enough of a game to become a hobby. Best played with a second or third MMO. So you can switch between serious and fluffy gaming.

    In many aspects it was a pure disappointment since it simplified well balanced game mechanics from other games to a degree where it is not funny anymore.

    To me LOTRO is a wannabe MMO that gets boring quick unless you find a good kinship. With fun people every game is fun. Even chess or marble games. This fun factor has nothing to do with the game tho.

    Snorf

     

    
    Nicely written and I agree on most points.

     

    Interesting that the hard core fans only concentrate on your cons and do not consider your pros. 

    most pros are usualy true. so why should they concentrate on it? some of his cons are probably true too, but i can tell some of it is just useless bashing. like underwater worlds?? doesnt everyone hate water levels in all types of games? i hate swimming in mmos.

  • Posted: 5/03/08 7:34 PM
    Lord of the Rings Online
• • hey all. question. im new.

  • good replies.

    so far im level 10 and i like it so far. very pretty game. i run it on ultra high with high frames. i dont mind that this game is a pve game. i knew that before this game was launched. i mean come on. its lotr. kinda has to be pve based.

    this game i have to admit does feel like WoW. but thats not a bad thing to me. (btw i have 3 level 70 in wow) the quests i can tell will be more entertaining than wow. especially since i did enjoy the movies and read only one of the books (im sorry lol).

  • Posted: 5/03/08 2:31 PM
    Lord of the Rings Online
• • hey all. question. im new.

  • so i just finished playing AoC beta. not my kinda game at all. so i think i will play this till WAR.

    now i already bought an account. just downloading the client now. is anyone nice enough to give me a constructive pros and cons of the game?

    thanks alot.

  • Posted: 5/02/08 11:41 PM
    Lord of the Rings Online