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• • World of Warcraft: BlizzCon for Shut-ins

  • Honestly, whats a bit sadder, is that, if Blizzard had given a vanity pet to those who paid the fee just to watch this at home for fourty hours, I can only imagine the # of people who would have done it.

     

    Just a thought ;-)

     

    Hm, I just re-read the email I got today and sure enough, if you sign up for this thing, you get the Polar Bear mount...go figure.

  • Posted: 9/28/08 9:59 AM
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• • First Day Review for new game: 4Story

  • I have rather mixed feelings about this game. Given how closely it mirrors WoW (from the log in screen on it just screams WoW, graphics and sounds) I am honestly surprised Blizzard has not hit them with a lawsuit, but I am not lawyer and will leave that debate to people who know the field.

    The game is "pre-beta" which I think translates into an alpha test. Like most free to plays from asia (and I assume this one is Korean) the translations are a bit wonky and honestly can be kind of funny to read. Shame they didnt take a dungeon runners spin on them, though there is a point where a npc apologizes to you along the lines of "developers always say this dont they?" which was a nice touch.

    Character customization as the OP has stated is very limited. I liked the looks of the werebeasts, they have a drenai/tauren feel to their models. But I found a warrior to be very dull to play even though the armours do look good from the get go. I then rolled a fairy summoner -- think gnome warlock and you won't be far off. With that combo I was killing mobs several levels higher than my toon and doing well.

    You have points that let you get better spells but they seem to go from lvl 1 to 4 and then 12 or so and upgrading them cost more than i could make in a day or so's playing. So I found myself spamming the same two spells over and over as my pet "thing" held aggro. I felt just like a warlock.

    Quests seemed fine till I was sent to the next city at which point I got quite lost. The map is quite large and it was very unclear where I needed to go (clearly I have gotten quite spoiled on years of throttbot and wowhead...)

    Xp is slow. I made it upto lvl 5 and as I had no idea where I had to go I tried grinding but the lag and the rather amazing ammount of kill-stealing going on made it very hard to level up that way.

    At that point I logged and decided to try again after tha game enters a real open beta as any progress is going to be wiped in a week anyways, I just didnt feel like racing through the content just to start over again next week ;-)

    All in all, it's a wow clone, with a micro-buy to be added. Crafting as such seemed to entail enchantments via scrolls which I am going to guess you get via micro-transactions. Mounts appear to be the 30 day variety which I also am going to assume are gained via micro transactions buy if I am wrong on any of these accounts I humbly bow to those who lasted longer and know better.

    Honestly I would rather pay for a more polished project and stick to the original; but I can see people having fun which this once it gets more polished assuming it isnt shut down for copyrights.

    Peace now.

  • Posted: 7/11/08 2:39 PM
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