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• • Operation Immortality

  • Originally posted by Jpizzle
    

    I’m a fan of the game.

     

    "I'm a fanboi of the game." Fixed it for you.

    I don't like to engage in ad hominems, but I have read your posts about TR and think it's a pretty apt description. A bit harsh considering your post had some fair points, but I hold to it based on reading other threads.

    Try and be a bit more objective about this. If TR gets turned around and becomes the deep, ground-breaking game it was billed as I will be one of the first to sing its praises from the highest mountain, but based on the past several months and RG's ridiculous self-aggrandizing space-tourist stunt  I don't think you can fault myself or the others for our lack of faith.

    I only talk about it, because like I said, seeing this happen for me is disheartening considering I still consider RG one of the great early luminaries of PC gaming. It's like pulling back the curtain and seeing the wizard for what he really is.

    If Tabula Rasa had launched the way it did, but had a serious and rapid release of patches and additional content then this conversation would not be happening and most of us would probably think RG's space flight was totally awesome. Instead we get a new coined term "Soon(tm)" to descibe the crappy lackadasical development process. How sad is that?

  • Posted: 8/11/08 3:32 PM
    Tabula Rasa
• • Operation Immortality

  • Originally posted by kinglee
    
    

    It'll take a lot for today's gaming writers to give up on their mythologizing of Lord British.   This media niche  is not made up of young people anymore, but those of middle age who have their OWN egos invested in persuading their readers of  RG's  genius and creativity.  To admit otherwise would damage their own creds.  They have to maintain the image.  You're not ever going to see a realistic appraisal of NcSoft's disastrous investment in the Garriotts 2001-2009 from the likes of the dizzy writers at Escapist.

     

    This may play into what I said earlier - RG has been on the PC gaming scene since practically day one. Some might argue he helped create PC gaming with the original Ultima series. When I think back to those days (the 1980s) the only games that still stand out in my mind are the Infocom text games, Bards Tale, Wizardry and Ultima. I wasn't even around for UO (thank god because I was in college and couldn't have dealt with the distraction).

    When I heard TR was coming out, the main reason I was excited was precisely because it was RG's game. I feel kinda bad for the guy that he seems to have gone the way of John Romero. Although unlike Romero, I guess, TR has had a lot easier of a ride from the press than Die Katana did.

    But yeah, TR on it's own would have been a black mark that still could be turned around, but you combine it with all this dumb-ass space camp nonsense, it makes it look like he's playing the fiddle while Rome burns.

  • Posted: 8/10/08 9:54 PM
    Tabula Rasa
• • Is it worth playing as a begginer?

  • Yah, I want to chime in again that you won't have any problems starting out as a noob in WoW. Leveling has never been difficult (boring, perhaps, but difficult no). It's even easier now that they have increased the XP rate, added quests in Dustwallow Marsh and lowered the mount to level 30.

    You might have problems getting ganked, but if you roll on a "Normal" (ie PVE) server that problem will be non-existent. I also recommend doing homework and searching for guides on the Internet and possibly buying a pro guide like Joana's Horde or Brian Kopp's Alliance guides.

    Also, learn to use Wowhead and WowWiki, they will be the best WoW friends you could ever hope to have.

    http://www.wowhead.com

    http://www.wowwiki.com

  • Posted: 8/10/08 5:02 PM
    World of Warcraft
• • My thoughts on vanguard

  • Originally posted by UbahNecro
    

    One of my systems has a 3.0+ GHz Processor and a 7300 GT Video Card with a 7200 RPM Drive, 2GB RAM and it shuts down after the game has been running for a while.

     

    Just mentioning this off-the-cuff but a lot of time people have issues like this it is due to over-heating. I would check my temps on this if you haven't already.

  • Posted: 8/10/08 4:53 PM
    Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
• • Operation Immortality

  • Originally posted by green13
    
    

    And most importantly, those gaming journalists are probably too busy snickering at the sheer absurdity of this PR stunt!

     

    That would not surprise me in the slightest, lol.

    I always feel bad when I make snarky or mean comments about TR, because I remember back when Ultima and Lord British were the stuff of late-night legends, back way before UO when I was just a kid struggling to understand how to swap out memory with a soldering gun (ah, how I loved the advent of plug-in memory!). And even though I personally missed it, I would be remiss if I didn't mention how important UO was to creating the MMO market (at least outside of Asia).

    I guess that's just why I feel the hate a bit more keenly over TR. I was only half-expecting it to be the ultimate MMO, but to get such a steaming pile feels almost like a betrayal. And all the press over RG's space tourist nonsense is like rubbing salt in that wound. Now when I see all the General British stuff in game all I can think is he must be a serious ego-maniac, rather than a brilliant game designer.

  • Posted: 8/10/08 1:22 PM
    Tabula Rasa