this thread is a good read and i am playin this game, its not that good but when u can make your sister mad hawt and stare at her booty while u play , def GROUNDBREAKING MMO INNOVATION along wit the POINT AN CLICK WOOOOOOO
I'm not sure about this post...
But as far as the game is concerned, I found it to be very 'pretty' for a free MMO. Scenery and surroundings were decently developed and generally well rendered. I personally don't care for the 'zoom-in' when you speak to quest givers as it reminds me too much of certain console games which i played to death but that's just me.
I found the combat tedious and/or tiresome. I can see where teaming a group of toons for each player might make the game more fun, sometimes you can't find a group when you want to, but isn't part of grouping interacting with other people? Sure, you want to 'get the job done' but it's hard to feel like part of a group when it's you grouped with...you...grouped with you...
While you are playing (not AFK playing) Point your main toon at the next guy and slam away. Let the two 'hangers-on' family members do whaever they do automatically. It was easy enough to use but to me it felt like a sanctioned 'bot'.
The music wasn't entirely terrible but at the moment once you've heard a few minutes, that's enough.
All in all, while I didn't feel like I had completely wasted my time in downloading and playing it to try it, I find SofNW something I wouldn't and couldn't ever invest more than a trial run in.
Wow Mal sounds like the ultimate white redneck. Dont watch TV since half the parts are made over seas.. doesnt use a car or any modern age appliance since they are made from over seas. Just shaves with a buck knife, wears diapers of cow hide. naturally they kill the cow themselves... must not live in a house since lumber is imported and god you know they cant be on a computer since half the circuits and boards are made in asian countries. WOW Mal is so anti asian but naturally they arent using any asian based items.. i mean that would be just profane to such a moron. Opps is that a Motorola Modem.. better smash it...
What a hypocrite ... dont speak about stuff when half your life and your personal use is made from overseas.. moron
A bit over-dramatic. Maybe you learned that from terrible anime? *gasp* *stare at opponent for 20 seconds* *gasp* *pull out oversized weapon* *stare at opponent for 20 seconds* *overly expository dialogue with DEEP DEEP philosophical meaning* *stare at opponent for 20 seconds*
A bit over-dramatic. Maybe you learned that from terrible anime? *gasp* *stare at opponent for 20 seconds* *gasp* *pull out oversized weapon* *stare at opponent for 20 seconds* *overly expository dialogue with DEEP DEEP philosophical meaning* *stare at opponent for 20 seconds*
OMG!! POWER LEVEL 9000!!!
Someone has been watching too much dragonball z in their childhood?
Also I see that you gave up on trying to prove your point on how gameplay and character customization can go together, and are now posting random crap.
A bit over-dramatic. Maybe you learned that from terrible anime? *gasp* *stare at opponent for 20 seconds* *gasp* *pull out oversized weapon* *stare at opponent for 20 seconds* *overly expository dialogue with DEEP DEEP philosophical meaning* *stare at opponent for 20 seconds*
OMG!! POWER LEVEL 9000!!!
Someone has been watching too much dragonball z in their childhood?
Also I see that you gave up on trying to prove your point on how gameplay and character customization can go together, and are now posting random crap.
Dragonball Z is simply the extreme among many extremes of the genre. Oh, and most of you anime fanboys LOVE DBZ. What does that say?
As for my original point, I said what I wanted, and because people want to be able to play on their crap computers, it is supposedly IMPOSSIBLE to have gameplay and customization. I just spent 1200 upgrading my comp, and I'm ready to use it. Instead, the Asian market caters to the lowest common denominator. Guess I'll give the computer a nice workout when AoC and Warhammer is out. Oh yeah, but enjoy the crap that is handed to you from Asia, you LCD people you...
Oh, and I would have had no idea what the Power level 9000 crap was if not for a roommate that enjoys ALL of the anime crap and attempts, on a daily basis, to get me to like it as well. How did you freaks know it? Cause ya love it... yes you do... oh, yes you do...
Well so far...downloading was complete hassle and unsuccessful till i tried the bit torrent (which i had to download). That worked.....of course stil can't play because they have not sent the email verification, thou i've asked for them to resend it.
Looks great! Review sounds great! Is it great?? Don't know, Can't say!
And have no intention of paying for it till i can try it out.
A bit over-dramatic. Maybe you learned that from terrible anime? *gasp* *stare at opponent for 20 seconds* *gasp* *pull out oversized weapon* *stare at opponent for 20 seconds* *overly expository dialogue with DEEP DEEP philosophical meaning* *stare at opponent for 20 seconds*
OMG!! POWER LEVEL 9000!!!
Someone has been watching too much dragonball z in their childhood?
Also I see that you gave up on trying to prove your point on how gameplay and character customization can go together, and are now posting random crap.
Dragonball Z is simply the extreme among many extremes of the genre. Oh, and most of you anime fanboys LOVE DBZ. What does that say?
As for my original point, I said what I wanted, and because people want to be able to play on their crap computers, it is supposedly IMPOSSIBLE to have gameplay and customization. I just spent 1200 upgrading my comp, and I'm ready to use it. Instead, the Asian market caters to the lowest common denominator. Guess I'll give the computer a nice workout when AoC and Warhammer is out. Oh yeah, but enjoy the crap that is handed to you from Asia, you LCD people you...
Oh, and I would have had no idea what the Power level 9000 crap was if not for a roommate that enjoys ALL of the anime crap and attempts, on a daily basis, to get me to like it as well. How did you freaks know it? Cause ya love it... yes you do... oh, yes you do...
- Mal
Unfortunatly for you, Those with lower end computers pay just as much money as you do, except that there are about 5 low end computer owners to 1 high end computer owner. its also hilariu how you keep telling the "asian market" caters to the lowest common denominator, especialy after you claim that "Warhammer" will give your computer a nice work out. Go take a look at the movies and screenshots of WAR. Does that look like a game that is trying to go for high end computers? Ofcourse not, just like WoW, City of Heroes and many other WESTERN MMO's, it caters to low end computers.
I just won't play any game that has any sort of no-drop, or bind on pickup. Bind on equip is fine, but bind on pickup completely ruins games imo.
You can safely try pretty much any MMO out there besides WoW.
From what I've experienced, guild wars has binding, vanguard has binding, eq1 and eq2 have binding, and probably others that I haven't played. So although I wish what you said was correct, I don't think it is.
A bit over-dramatic. Maybe you learned that from terrible anime? *gasp* *stare at opponent for 20 seconds* *gasp* *pull out oversized weapon* *stare at opponent for 20 seconds* *overly expository dialogue with DEEP DEEP philosophical meaning* *stare at opponent for 20 seconds*
OMG!! POWER LEVEL 9000!!!
Someone has been watching too much dragonball z in their childhood?
Also I see that you gave up on trying to prove your point on how gameplay and character customization can go together, and are now posting random crap.
Dragonball Z is simply the extreme among many extremes of the genre. Oh, and most of you anime fanboys LOVE DBZ. What does that say?
As for my original point, I said what I wanted, and because people want to be able to play on their crap computers, it is supposedly IMPOSSIBLE to have gameplay and customization. I just spent 1200 upgrading my comp, and I'm ready to use it. Instead, the Asian market caters to the lowest common denominator. Guess I'll give the computer a nice workout when AoC and Warhammer is out. Oh yeah, but enjoy the crap that is handed to you from Asia, you LCD people you...
Oh, and I would have had no idea what the Power level 9000 crap was if not for a roommate that enjoys ALL of the anime crap and attempts, on a daily basis, to get me to like it as well. How did you freaks know it? Cause ya love it... yes you do... oh, yes you do...
- Mal
Unfortunatly for you, Those with lower end computers pay just as much money as you do, except that there are about 5 low end computer owners to 1 high end computer owner. its also hilariu how you keep telling the "asian market" caters to the lowest common denominator, especialy after you claim that "Warhammer" will give your computer a nice work out. Go take a look at the movies and screenshots of WAR. Does that look like a game that is trying to go for high end computers? Ofcourse not, just like WoW, City of Heroes and many other WESTERN MMO's, it caters to low end computers.
Hilariu? okay.
warhammervault.ign.com is "guessing" that the requirements for Warhammer Online will be, based on the engine used:
3GHZ Processor
1GB of Ram
NVIDIA 7600+ or ATI X1000 series video card
Physx card is recommended but not required
Roughly 10gb of Hard drive space.
Probably the recommended, not minimum. I doubt many will run at that speed, so you'll have to scale down. You really shouldn't look at pre-beta screenshots and make uneducated replies. But I've read your blog, so I don't expect much more.
I've read through the minimum requirements of asian games, and I have a friend who plays Final Fantasy XI on his crappy laptop. While on the other hand Warcraft, even on minimum settings, will slow down to a crawl if you have a crappy system and more than 15 people on the same screen (ask a friend of mine how big pvp worked for him - DooD!! You're dead!!! I am? That sucks. Oh crap, I am!). I guess they just expect more from systems.
So yeah, Warhammer will expect more, Age of Conan will expect a lot, and you're an idiot.
wow, man, do yourself and don't post in this thread again. your only humiliating yourself.
1: If thats the Recommended system requirements, then that is the undeniable proof that WARHAMMER is a low system requirements game, because considering that Warhammer will be released in 2008, the standards are much higher. Heck, even by today standards those specs are average, not high end.
Thats what a high end system MMO looks like in 2008. Oh by the way, thats an Asian MMO.
Next, While Warhammer may be in beta, the screenshots are there to promote the game. They are polished and the screenshots are taken from areas that are FINISHED. it does not matter if they beta or alpha screenshots.
Thanks for comparing FInal Fantasy XI and World of Warcraft, because it once more shows that you don't really know what your talking about:
Fact: Final Fantasy XI was released in MAY 2002! World of Warcraft is released at november 2004, thats a time difference of well over 2 years.
Fact: Final Fantasy XI was restricted because it runs on the Playstation 2.
Its silly to compare the two. Please don't go into debate with me, you only make yourself look stupid. Next time do us all a favor and just type : "I don't know what I'm talking about". saves a lot of time.
The game is viciously boring and repetitive. Set up at your spawn -- any spawn will do -- and then one of your three characters runs around picking up loot. That's pretty much it. Once in a while, an AOE if the somewhat random spawn rate gets a little hot. There's a reason they wanted a five-minute disconnect timer on the auto-defend. People tend to play this game AFK. Even at 30 mins, most people will be running on auto pilot. I just don't see the point.
This game is no less boring and repetitive than any MMO. People complain about mindless grinding, and then when a company makes a game where you can go on auto defend for awhile and get some xp a whole other group a bitching erupts. Also, if thats how you played the game then you were in areas below your lvl and ability. It shouldnt take a genius to know when it's time to move on. As to the timer for auto defend... you can toggle it off in options. If you cant see the point, then why do you play MMo's at all?
Regardless of where we fall on the whole anime or asian MMO spectrum I think we can all agree that we gamers want more out of our MMORPGs. More creative quests, way less grinding, intuitive crafting, a balance between good graphics and system performance. I totally agree with Mal when he says we should all demand more out of developers making the new gen MMORPGs. I for one believe that for a genre ( MMORPGS) that has been around as long as it has, there should be more evolution in gameplay than there has been historically.
wow, man, do yourself and don't post in this thread again. your only humiliating yourself.
1: If thats the Recommended system requirements, then that is the undeniable proof that WARHAMMER is a low system requirements game, because considering that Warhammer will be released in 2008, the standards are much higher. Heck, even by today standards those specs are average, not high end. Thats what a high end system MMO looks like in 2008. Oh by the way, thats an Asian MMO. Next, While Warhammer may be in beta, the screenshots are there to promote the game. They are polished and the screenshots are taken from areas that are FINISHED. it does not matter if they beta or alpha screenshots.
Thanks for comparing FInal Fantasy XI and World of Warcraft, because it once more shows that you don't really know what your talking about: Fact: Final Fantasy XI was released in MAY 2002! World of Warcraft is released at november 2004, thats a time difference of well over 2 years. Fact: Final Fantasy XI was restricted because it runs on the Playstation 2. Its silly to compare the two. Please don't go into debate with me, you only make yourself look stupid. Next time do us all a favor and just type : "I don't know what I'm talking about". saves a lot of time.
Yeah, Huxley is definitely an attempt in the right direction. Especially running the Unreal Engine (Cary, NC).
As for Warhammers requirements, no, they don't shift THAT much in only a year. They haven't shifted that much for the Asian market in 5 years (as you will see below). And yes, beta shots change, considerably. We could see that in early screenshots of WoW, and the changes that have been going on with AoC, which has changed considerably.
Final Fantasy XI was mentioned in passing, grouped together with other Asian MMO's... like:
Archlord (10/6/06)
Minimum Requirements
- Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP
- Pentium or Athlon 700MHz CPU
- 128Mb RAM
- 1.8Gb Hard Disk Space
- 16 bit DirectX 9 compatible soundcard
- Supported 32Mb graphics card
Flyff (12/25/05)
Minimum Requirements:
PentiumIII 800MHZ
128MB RAM
Geforce 2mx 200
Direct X 9.0 or better required
Guild Wars (4/26/05)
minimum requirements:
PIII 800
256MB RAM
500MB HDD
32MB video card
Kal Online (11/6/04)
P3 with 600 MHZ
128 Mb Ram
16 Mb Video card
DX 9.0c
Rappelz (11/03/06)
Pentium-III 800MHz
128 MB 3D accelerator VGA card
512 MB
DX 9.0c
And Final Fantasy XI has at least the same requirements as these 'newer' games, and newer by 3 years. It happens to surpass several of them.
Yeah... so, you actually have a blog that talks about this stuff? Do people trust your opinion? Should I hand out my email address so people can come to me for advice when you fail them miserably? Just checking cause I'm not sure if you're really arguing that Western games have less requirements or that they can't be turned up to demand more? I mean, really... are you?
- Mal
p.s. Thank you Darksider25 for your agreement, especially in your first post to MMORPG. Welcome to the mad house!
wow, man, do yourself and don't post in this thread again. your only humiliating yourself.
1: If thats the Recommended system requirements, then that is the undeniable proof that WARHAMMER is a low system requirements game, because considering that Warhammer will be released in 2008, the standards are much higher. Heck, even by today standards those specs are average, not high end. Thats what a high end system MMO looks like in 2008. Oh by the way, thats an Asian MMO. Next, While Warhammer may be in beta, the screenshots are there to promote the game. They are polished and the screenshots are taken from areas that are FINISHED. it does not matter if they beta or alpha screenshots.
Thanks for comparing FInal Fantasy XI and World of Warcraft, because it once more shows that you don't really know what your talking about: Fact: Final Fantasy XI was released in MAY 2002! World of Warcraft is released at november 2004, thats a time difference of well over 2 years. Fact: Final Fantasy XI was restricted because it runs on the Playstation 2. Its silly to compare the two. Please don't go into debate with me, you only make yourself look stupid. Next time do us all a favor and just type : "I don't know what I'm talking about". saves a lot of time.
Yeah, Huxley is definitely an attempt in the right direction. Especially running the Unreal Engine (Cary, NC).
As for Warhammers requirements, no, they don't shift THAT much in only a year. They haven't shifted that much for the Asian market in 5 years (as you will see below). And yes, beta shots change, considerably. We could see that in early screenshots of WoW, and the changes that have been going on with AoC, which has changed considerably.
Final Fantasy XI was mentioned in passing, grouped together with other Asian MMO's... like:
Archlord (10/6/06)
Minimum Requirements
- Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP
- Pentium or Athlon 700MHz CPU
- 128Mb RAM
- 1.8Gb Hard Disk Space
- 16 bit DirectX 9 compatible soundcard
- Supported 32Mb graphics card
Flyff (12/25/05)
Minimum Requirements:
PentiumIII 800MHZ
128MB RAM
Geforce 2mx 200
Direct X 9.0 or better required
Guild Wars (4/26/05)
minimum requirements:
PIII 800
256MB RAM
500MB HDD
32MB video card
Kal Online (11/6/04)
P3 with 600 MHZ
128 Mb Ram
16 Mb Video card
DX 9.0c
Rappelz (11/03/06)
Pentium-III 800MHz
128 MB 3D accelerator VGA card
512 MB
DX 9.0c
And Final Fantasy XI has at least the same requirements as these 'newer' games, and newer by 3 years. It happens to surpass several of them.
Yeah... so, you actually have a blog that talks about this stuff? Do people trust your opinion? Should I hand out my email address so people can come to me for advice when you fail them miserably? Just checking cause I'm not sure if you're really arguing that Western games have less requirements or that they can't be turned up to demand more? I mean, really... are you?
- Mal
p.s. Thank you Darksider25 for your agreement, especially in your first post to MMORPG. Welcome to the mad house!
LOL... He didnt agree with you at all. He said "Regardless of where we fall on the whole anime or asian MMO spectrum I think we can all agree that we gamers want more out of our MMORPGs." You said "I just wish they would leave their crap overseas instead of infesting our shores with it." Also your comment wasn't in reference to only MMORPGs. Please don't make it sound like people agree with your shit. Either you like a game or hate it. How can you hate every asian made game and anime when you havent seen or played them all? Please explain to me how the NES didnt do great things for gaming. Also please explain to me how PS1 didnt bring gaming to the next level. I'm positive you cant.
edit: I'm sorry to go off topic... but I find this type of shit offensive. Again, I will say that i agree that most ASIAN MMORPGs suck. I won't say everything they make sucks because that's false. I also won't assume a new asian mmorpg is going to suck and will be "just another point and click grind fest with no content (typical hater speak)."
Few things. reason you have 32 char slots but only 5 playable classes is because you unlock other classes (they call it rnpc, can't remember what it stands for) which you can then make and level. You unlock them by doing quests throughout your char career, first 2-3 get unlocked within first 10 lvls or so.
It's an ok game but I am not sure what they have for an end game, and like all asian games it's a grind fest. Also since you have your own party (3 chars) you get a healer that will auto heal your party =p so it has no downtime but you still have to kill a ton of mobs. Also, you fight a lot of mobs, and 1-2 shot them, so you ca often be fighting 5-15 mobs ata time with your 3 chars. Makes it somewhat fun.
Still, no idea what they have for end game.
Pvp is impossible as ever character has a skill (or many skills) that will do 1000%+ damage. This makes pvp one shot fest. Since musketeers have the longest range, you have them one shot everyone before anyone can one shot them =p not a good pvp system.
All in all it's an ok game to pass some time, some people might even like it. Not worth a monthly fee though.
No choice for face, hair, etc... Surprised? Not at all, afterall, it is an Asian game. I just wish they would leave their crap overseas instead of infesting our shores with it. Our children are dumbed down enough by your idiotic anime (do you anime lovers even listen to the dialogue or just look at the pretty pictures?), now they get a big dose of it from your non-stop plague of games. Expect more people! Ask for more! Blah. - Mal
Did you even bother to read the hands on? Ok, I gather you really want character face and hair customization...do you enjoy playing with dolls too? What difference does it make when you see the back of the head most of the time. I see you play Eve, hows the character face customization there? Perhaps Asian devs are more interested in the abilities of the character than thier superficial looks. What does anime have to do with mmo's? As to your gripe about click to move and it being lazy... How would you propose to move three characters at once? It's my opinion that your probably not very knowlegable of either anime or MMO's... at least this one. Sword has a lot to offer and has innovated in many ways. Being able to play three toons at once is very cool and lends much to combat, both pvp and pve. So take the stick out of your Anoose and relax.
I assume he means its boring... all looks - the 3 players is a new feature though, least for MMO's ..does that cause more lag?
Yeah, I tried this game until lv 50. LV 20 with different MCC combos. it is very refreshing for a while, especially not having to set up your own macros for afk lving. I think I afk lved 10-15. But it eventually gets boring for me cause of the repetitive grinding. I could easily see it as on the top 10 for these type of mmorpgs.
Lately, I've been pretty disappointed with mmorpgs these days, think i've been through too many of them -_-. Time to go back to consoles...
I really enjoy this game, played it in Beta, and now am happily playing the retail. The character customization, or lack therof, is a bit of a bummer, but the good in this game surely outwieghs the bad imo.
The phrase "Asian MMOs Suck!" keeps popping up. Well, that's your opinion not fact. Some of us enjoy the style and play of Asian MMOs. Plus, I think this game is more original than it's given credit for.
I'll be playing this one for a while...*launches client
A very mediocre game, my opinion of course. Everyone looks alike which is a major disappointment far as I am concerned.
Don't see how they can rate it high on graphics when they did extremely little on avatar customization. Graphics to me is the avatar, everything else is secondary.
Secondly this game has zero staying power. People will level and and get bored very fast with this type of game. There is very little grouping, hence a lot of soloing and not much socializing. People tend to continue playing games where they make a lot of friends, this is not that type of game, hence a major design flaw.
Thirdly, there is very little content in the game, but I will grant them that it is new and most new games are weak in this area too.
Again another typical Korean game that will not do well in the US and Europe. While they did do somethings different, they still missed what people in this hemisphere find fun about MMO's.
I give this game 6 months and the servers will be ghost towns.
The relative lack of customization is because Koreans (Asians in general) value teamwork over individualism.
jeez talk about Stereotypes, i think you've fallen victim to one of the biggest ones.
So you speak for all of Asia do you? And you're saying all Asians are all the same?
Live in China and Korea for a few years and notice, for example, the number of individual entrepreneurs starting up their own little one-man businesses - on nearly every streetcorner - then come back and tell me that all Asians are just one big swarm of ants who think and act alike.
If anything, this notion that "Asians aren't individuals" was started in the West
and sounds a whole lot like the very racist "Asians aren't really people".
Hey your welcome to your opinion bro, however Im old school... I care more about a game being fun than how it looks.
Often times like hollywood game developers their effort into making the game gorgeous, and what you get is a very attractive piece of crap.
Im not saying SOTNW is an awesome game, however I will say its the best asian mmo I have seen yet, and later on there will be personalization as there are tons of hidden classes. So your party wont look exactly like the next.
The only reason I can think of to make the classes similar, is mainly due to the fact there are so many classes. Its not like say wow where there are 8 classes, there are over 30 in this game. So when you roll up on someone in pvp, one glance and you know what your dealing with.
I understand you want more personal touch, but I think the game is good with out it. Just my two cents.
Having played the beta, I can unfortunately say that this is a fun game....for maybe 5-10 hours, after which the repetition of play and the almost hands-off combat system starts to drag in a horrible way. I always like to preface that I did not like Diablo 2 when I am about to trash what is essentially an evolved descendant of that classic, so people who loved Diablo 2 might like this.....but for me it was mindless, but pretty (Here's how combat works btw: click a spot, characters run that way and kill everything life mass murders on a serious spree, basically, with no input needed from the player.....in fact, trying to interfere and use special abilities can screw up the process and get you killed, ironically)
On the limited character models: the costuming is incredibly cool, but the similarity between models became fairly annoying when running around in densely populated areas. It's so bad that you can easily lose track of your own characters in high traffic regions if you aren't paying atention. Pretty bad.
But this game is very, very pretty..... just wish it was more like, say, Guild Wars than Diablo. Seriously, mobs are so thick and respawn so fast that I started to feel like my characters' sole storyline for the game was to completely destroy the New World's ecology by rendering everying living extinct, as quickly as possible. It was nuts.....not even a token effort to simulate some realism (like how wolves eat rabbits and deer in WoW, for example.)
As a result, this makes Swords feel very, very much like a Gauntlet/Diablo style video game with loads of cheap action, but doesn't even bother to exrapolate from what could have been a potentially very cool role playing game setting......there will be absolutely no role playing in this one, folks, for those who care about that stuff. And the storyline....hmmmm......I hope the final release has better localization than the beta, because I ended up taking quests where the english translation was so poor I actually had no idea what I was doing or why I was doing it from the garbled text!
I really expected too much from this game and totally forgot whos made it. Yeah, the same old sh1t. Everyone is the same, and thats totally against the term RPG. Click n move just make the things worse. And i dont know for sure but i bet the possible equipment items are very limited. Jesus why do they make games like that?
Yeah, Huxley is definitely an attempt in the right direction. Especially running the Unreal Engine (Cary, NC).
As for Warhammers requirements, no, they don't shift THAT much in only a year. They haven't shifted that much for the Asian market in 5 years (as you will see below). And yes, beta shots change, considerably. We could see that in early screenshots of WoW, and the changes that have been going on with AoC, which has changed considerably. Final Fantasy XI was mentioned in passing, grouped together with other Asian MMO's... like: Archlord (10/6/06)
Minimum Requirements
- Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP
- Pentium or Athlon 700MHz CPU
- 128Mb RAM
- 1.8Gb Hard Disk Space
- 16 bit DirectX 9 compatible soundcard
- Supported 32Mb graphics card
Flyff (12/25/05)
Minimum Requirements:
PentiumIII 800MHZ
128MB RAM
Geforce 2mx 200
Direct X 9.0 or better required
Guild Wars (4/26/05)
minimum requirements:
PIII 800
256MB RAM
500MB HDD
32MB video card
Kal Online (11/6/04)
P3 with 600 MHZ
128 Mb Ram
16 Mb Video card
DX 9.0c
Rappelz (11/03/06)
Pentium-III 800MHz
128 MB 3D accelerator VGA card
512 MB
DX 9.0c And Final Fantasy XI has at least the same requirements as these 'newer' games, and newer by 3 years. It happens to surpass several of them. Yeah... so, you actually have a blog that talks about this stuff? Do people trust your opinion? Should I hand out my email address so people can come to me for advice when you fail them miserably? Just checking cause I'm not sure if you're really arguing that Western games have less requirements or that they can't be turned up to demand more? I mean, really... are you? - Mal p.s. Thank you Darksider25 for your agreement, especially in your first post to MMORPG. Welcome to the mad house!
Well, you can't imagine, but there are people who wants to play an MMO with an old computer - for example in Eastern Europe... I'm Hungarian, and lots of people has a GeForce 4200 or a Radeon 9600XT even now. They can't buy a new computer, because they don't have enough money for it. (yeah, I know, Hungary is a very margin place for an American or a developer - but Poland or Russia is too?)
And some ON: The game is fun, battle is quick, and it's completely good for entertain yourself - if you get tired with your favourite game. Controlling three characters together isn't always so easy (caster stays back and the respawn begins to hit him/her...), and unique player characters make your team different from other familys. I liked SotNW at beta phase, and I'll continue it now.
wow, man, do yourself and don't post in this thread again. your only humiliating yourself.
1: If thats the Recommended system requirements, then that is the undeniable proof that WARHAMMER is a low system requirements game, because considering that Warhammer will be released in 2008, the standards are much higher. Heck, even by today standards those specs are average, not high end. Thats what a high end system MMO looks like in 2008. Oh by the way, thats an Asian MMO. Next, While Warhammer may be in beta, the screenshots are there to promote the game. They are polished and the screenshots are taken from areas that are FINISHED. it does not matter if they beta or alpha screenshots.
Thanks for comparing FInal Fantasy XI and World of Warcraft, because it once more shows that you don't really know what your talking about: Fact: Final Fantasy XI was released in MAY 2002! World of Warcraft is released at november 2004, thats a time difference of well over 2 years. Fact: Final Fantasy XI was restricted because it runs on the Playstation 2. Its silly to compare the two. Please don't go into debate with me, you only make yourself look stupid. Next time do us all a favor and just type : "I don't know what I'm talking about". saves a lot of time.
Yeah, Huxley is definitely an attempt in the right direction. Especially running the Unreal Engine (Cary, NC).
As for Warhammers requirements, no, they don't shift THAT much in only a year. They haven't shifted that much for the Asian market in 5 years (as you will see below). And yes, beta shots change, considerably. We could see that in early screenshots of WoW, and the changes that have been going on with AoC, which has changed considerably.
Final Fantasy XI was mentioned in passing, grouped together with other Asian MMO's... like:
Archlord (10/6/06)
Minimum Requirements
- Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP
- Pentium or Athlon 700MHz CPU
- 128Mb RAM
- 1.8Gb Hard Disk Space
- 16 bit DirectX 9 compatible soundcard
- Supported 32Mb graphics card
Flyff (12/25/05)
Minimum Requirements:
PentiumIII 800MHZ
128MB RAM
Geforce 2mx 200
Direct X 9.0 or better required
Guild Wars (4/26/05)
minimum requirements:
PIII 800
256MB RAM
500MB HDD
32MB video card
Kal Online (11/6/04)
P3 with 600 MHZ
128 Mb Ram
16 Mb Video card
DX 9.0c
Rappelz (11/03/06)
Pentium-III 800MHz
128 MB 3D accelerator VGA card
512 MB
DX 9.0c
And Final Fantasy XI has at least the same requirements as these 'newer' games, and newer by 3 years. It happens to surpass several of them.
Yeah... so, you actually have a blog that talks about this stuff? Do people trust your opinion? Should I hand out my email address so people can come to me for advice when you fail them miserably? Just checking cause I'm not sure if you're really arguing that Western games have less requirements or that they can't be turned up to demand more? I mean, really... are you?
- Mal
p.s. Thank you Darksider25 for your agreement, especially in your first post to MMORPG. Welcome to the mad house!
Okay stop it, we had our laugh, you don't know what your talking about, let it go. Your looking at games that are low budget and are made specificly for low system requirements. Does that mean all of them are based on low system requirements? Ofcourse not, but low system requirements will always be kept in mind in most games, just like many western MMO's, and thats a simple fact, but there are still asian MMO's that require a god rig. Go look up Aion, Its using the Crytek engine and is clearly more impressive then WAR from a technical standpoint. Huxley has been confirmed to use the Unreal 3 engine, and Lineage 3 has also been confirmed to use the Unreal 3 engine. The fact your trying to use 4 low budget MMO's that are specificly made for a low system rig to represent over 200 mmo's is hilarious. In fact, you have such little knowledge of the MMORPG genre that you didn't even know that....
Guild Wars is a WESTERN Game.
Yes I have a blog that talks about this stuff so people can listen to someone who knows what the heck he is talking about, unlike yourself. I mean, the fact that you didn't even know Guild Wars is a western Game(Developed by Arena net) is simply hilarious.
But why are you judging the games on the requirements? Asian MMO's are known to have great graphics with low system requirements. I dare you to find an MMO that looks as good as Lineage 2 and Granado Espada that have such graphics and such low systemr equirements.
you know nothing about MMO's, drop it, you lost the debate.
You can also stop acting like a child by attacking my blog. The cold fact isn't that my blog is bad, you don't understand the content because you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
edit: I changed my mind, please continue to post. your posts are an endless source of entertainment, there is nothing more hilarious then watching a person who has no idea what he is talking about act like he actually has a clue.
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But as far as the game is concerned, I found it to be very 'pretty' for a free MMO. Scenery and surroundings were decently developed and generally well rendered. I personally don't care for the 'zoom-in' when you speak to quest givers as it reminds me too much of certain console games which i played to death but that's just me.
I found the combat tedious and/or tiresome. I can see where teaming a group of toons for each player might make the game more fun, sometimes you can't find a group when you want to, but isn't part of grouping interacting with other people? Sure, you want to 'get the job done' but it's hard to feel like part of a group when it's you grouped with...you...grouped with you...
While you are playing (not AFK playing) Point your main toon at the next guy and slam away. Let the two 'hangers-on' family members do whaever they do automatically. It was easy enough to use but to me it felt like a sanctioned 'bot'.
The music wasn't entirely terrible but at the moment once you've heard a few minutes, that's enough.
All in all, while I didn't feel like I had completely wasted my time in downloading and playing it to try it, I find SofNW something I wouldn't and couldn't ever invest more than a trial run in.
A bit over-dramatic. Maybe you learned that from terrible anime? *gasp* *stare at opponent for 20 seconds* *gasp* *pull out oversized weapon* *stare at opponent for 20 seconds* *overly expository dialogue with DEEP DEEP philosophical meaning* *stare at opponent for 20 seconds*
OMG!! POWER LEVEL 9000!!!
Also I see that you gave up on trying to prove your point on how gameplay and character customization can go together, and are now posting random crap.
It seems he has watched a lot of bad anime and is taking it out on the genre as a whole. Very mature.
Also I see that you gave up on trying to prove your point on how gameplay and character customization can go together, and are now posting random crap.
Dragonball Z is simply the extreme among many extremes of the genre. Oh, and most of you anime fanboys LOVE DBZ. What does that say?As for my original point, I said what I wanted, and because people want to be able to play on their crap computers, it is supposedly IMPOSSIBLE to have gameplay and customization. I just spent 1200 upgrading my comp, and I'm ready to use it. Instead, the Asian market caters to the lowest common denominator. Guess I'll give the computer a nice workout when AoC and Warhammer is out. Oh yeah, but enjoy the crap that is handed to you from Asia, you LCD people you...
Oh, and I would have had no idea what the Power level 9000 crap was if not for a roommate that enjoys ALL of the anime crap and attempts, on a daily basis, to get me to like it as well. How did you freaks know it? Cause ya love it... yes you do... oh, yes you do...
- Mal
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Well so far...downloading was complete hassle and unsuccessful till i tried the bit torrent (which i had to download). That worked.....of course stil can't play because they have not sent the email verification, thou i've asked for them to resend it.
Looks great! Review sounds great! Is it great?? Don't know, Can't say!
And have no intention of paying for it till i can try it out.
Also I see that you gave up on trying to prove your point on how gameplay and character customization can go together, and are now posting random crap.
Dragonball Z is simply the extreme among many extremes of the genre. Oh, and most of you anime fanboys LOVE DBZ. What does that say?As for my original point, I said what I wanted, and because people want to be able to play on their crap computers, it is supposedly IMPOSSIBLE to have gameplay and customization. I just spent 1200 upgrading my comp, and I'm ready to use it. Instead, the Asian market caters to the lowest common denominator. Guess I'll give the computer a nice workout when AoC and Warhammer is out. Oh yeah, but enjoy the crap that is handed to you from Asia, you LCD people you...
Oh, and I would have had no idea what the Power level 9000 crap was if not for a roommate that enjoys ALL of the anime crap and attempts, on a daily basis, to get me to like it as well. How did you freaks know it? Cause ya love it... yes you do... oh, yes you do...
- Mal
Unfortunatly for you, Those with lower end computers pay just as much money as you do, except that there are about 5 low end computer owners to 1 high end computer owner. its also hilariu how you keep telling the "asian market" caters to the lowest common denominator, especialy after you claim that "Warhammer" will give your computer a nice work out. Go take a look at the movies and screenshots of WAR. Does that look like a game that is trying to go for high end computers? Ofcourse not, just like WoW, City of Heroes and many other WESTERN MMO's, it caters to low end computers.From what I've experienced, guild wars has binding, vanguard has binding, eq1 and eq2 have binding, and probably others that I haven't played. So although I wish what you said was correct, I don't think it is.
Also I see that you gave up on trying to prove your point on how gameplay and character customization can go together, and are now posting random crap.
Dragonball Z is simply the extreme among many extremes of the genre. Oh, and most of you anime fanboys LOVE DBZ. What does that say?As for my original point, I said what I wanted, and because people want to be able to play on their crap computers, it is supposedly IMPOSSIBLE to have gameplay and customization. I just spent 1200 upgrading my comp, and I'm ready to use it. Instead, the Asian market caters to the lowest common denominator. Guess I'll give the computer a nice workout when AoC and Warhammer is out. Oh yeah, but enjoy the crap that is handed to you from Asia, you LCD people you...
Oh, and I would have had no idea what the Power level 9000 crap was if not for a roommate that enjoys ALL of the anime crap and attempts, on a daily basis, to get me to like it as well. How did you freaks know it? Cause ya love it... yes you do... oh, yes you do...
- Mal
Unfortunatly for you, Those with lower end computers pay just as much money as you do, except that there are about 5 low end computer owners to 1 high end computer owner. its also hilariu how you keep telling the "asian market" caters to the lowest common denominator, especialy after you claim that "Warhammer" will give your computer a nice work out. Go take a look at the movies and screenshots of WAR. Does that look like a game that is trying to go for high end computers? Ofcourse not, just like WoW, City of Heroes and many other WESTERN MMO's, it caters to low end computers.
Hilariu? okay.warhammervault.ign.com is "guessing" that the requirements for Warhammer Online will be, based on the engine used:
3GHZ Processor
1GB of Ram
NVIDIA 7600+ or ATI X1000 series video card
Physx card is recommended but not required
Roughly 10gb of Hard drive space.
Probably the recommended, not minimum. I doubt many will run at that speed, so you'll have to scale down. You really shouldn't look at pre-beta screenshots and make uneducated replies. But I've read your blog, so I don't expect much more.
I've read through the minimum requirements of asian games, and I have a friend who plays Final Fantasy XI on his crappy laptop. While on the other hand Warcraft, even on minimum settings, will slow down to a crawl if you have a crappy system and more than 15 people on the same screen (ask a friend of mine how big pvp worked for him - DooD!! You're dead!!! I am? That sucks. Oh crap, I am!). I guess they just expect more from systems.
So yeah, Warhammer will expect more, Age of Conan will expect a lot, and you're an idiot.
- Mal
wow, man, do yourself and don't post in this thread again. your only humiliating yourself.
1: If thats the Recommended system requirements, then that is the undeniable proof that WARHAMMER is a low system requirements game, because considering that Warhammer will be released in 2008, the standards are much higher. Heck, even by today standards those specs are average, not high end.
Thats what a high end system MMO looks like in 2008. Oh by the way, thats an Asian MMO.
Next, While Warhammer may be in beta, the screenshots are there to promote the game. They are polished and the screenshots are taken from areas that are FINISHED. it does not matter if they beta or alpha screenshots.
Thanks for comparing FInal Fantasy XI and World of Warcraft, because it once more shows that you don't really know what your talking about:
Fact: Final Fantasy XI was released in MAY 2002! World of Warcraft is released at november 2004, thats a time difference of well over 2 years.
Fact: Final Fantasy XI was restricted because it runs on the Playstation 2.
Its silly to compare the two. Please don't go into debate with me, you only make yourself look stupid. Next time do us all a favor and just type : "I don't know what I'm talking about". saves a lot of time.
This game is no less boring and repetitive than any MMO. People complain about mindless grinding, and then when a company makes a game where you can go on auto defend for awhile and get some xp a whole other group a bitching erupts. Also, if thats how you played the game then you were in areas below your lvl and ability. It shouldnt take a genius to know when it's time to move on. As to the timer for auto defend... you can toggle it off in options. If you cant see the point, then why do you play MMo's at all?
Regardless of where we fall on the whole anime or asian MMO spectrum I think we can all agree that we gamers want more out of our MMORPGs. More creative quests, way less grinding, intuitive crafting, a balance between good graphics and system performance. I totally agree with Mal when he says we should all demand more out of developers making the new gen MMORPGs. I for one believe that for a genre ( MMORPGS) that has been around as long as it has, there should be more evolution in gameplay than there has been historically.
Yeah, Huxley is definitely an attempt in the right direction. Especially running the Unreal Engine (Cary, NC).
As for Warhammers requirements, no, they don't shift THAT much in only a year. They haven't shifted that much for the Asian market in 5 years (as you will see below). And yes, beta shots change, considerably. We could see that in early screenshots of WoW, and the changes that have been going on with AoC, which has changed considerably.
Final Fantasy XI was mentioned in passing, grouped together with other Asian MMO's... like:
Archlord (10/6/06)
Minimum Requirements
- Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP
- Pentium or Athlon 700MHz CPU
- 128Mb RAM
- 1.8Gb Hard Disk Space
- 16 bit DirectX 9 compatible soundcard
- Supported 32Mb graphics card
Flyff (12/25/05)
Minimum Requirements:
PentiumIII 800MHZ
128MB RAM
Geforce 2mx 200
Direct X 9.0 or better required
Guild Wars (4/26/05)
minimum requirements:
PIII 800
256MB RAM
500MB HDD
32MB video card
Kal Online (11/6/04)
P3 with 600 MHZ
128 Mb Ram
16 Mb Video card
DX 9.0c
Rappelz (11/03/06)
Pentium-III 800MHz
128 MB 3D accelerator VGA card
512 MB
DX 9.0c
And Final Fantasy XI has at least the same requirements as these 'newer' games, and newer by 3 years. It happens to surpass several of them.
Yeah... so, you actually have a blog that talks about this stuff? Do people trust your opinion? Should I hand out my email address so people can come to me for advice when you fail them miserably? Just checking cause I'm not sure if you're really arguing that Western games have less requirements or that they can't be turned up to demand more? I mean, really... are you?
- Mal
p.s. Thank you Darksider25 for your agreement, especially in your first post to MMORPG. Welcome to the mad house!
Yeah, Huxley is definitely an attempt in the right direction. Especially running the Unreal Engine (Cary, NC).
As for Warhammers requirements, no, they don't shift THAT much in only a year. They haven't shifted that much for the Asian market in 5 years (as you will see below). And yes, beta shots change, considerably. We could see that in early screenshots of WoW, and the changes that have been going on with AoC, which has changed considerably.
Final Fantasy XI was mentioned in passing, grouped together with other Asian MMO's... like:
Archlord (10/6/06)
Minimum Requirements
- Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP
- Pentium or Athlon 700MHz CPU
- 128Mb RAM
- 1.8Gb Hard Disk Space
- 16 bit DirectX 9 compatible soundcard
- Supported 32Mb graphics card
Flyff (12/25/05)
Minimum Requirements:
PentiumIII 800MHZ
128MB RAM
Geforce 2mx 200
Direct X 9.0 or better required
Guild Wars (4/26/05)
minimum requirements:
PIII 800
256MB RAM
500MB HDD
32MB video card
Kal Online (11/6/04)
P3 with 600 MHZ
128 Mb Ram
16 Mb Video card
DX 9.0c
Rappelz (11/03/06)
Pentium-III 800MHz
128 MB 3D accelerator VGA card
512 MB
DX 9.0c
And Final Fantasy XI has at least the same requirements as these 'newer' games, and newer by 3 years. It happens to surpass several of them.
Yeah... so, you actually have a blog that talks about this stuff? Do people trust your opinion? Should I hand out my email address so people can come to me for advice when you fail them miserably? Just checking cause I'm not sure if you're really arguing that Western games have less requirements or that they can't be turned up to demand more? I mean, really... are you?
- Mal
p.s. Thank you Darksider25 for your agreement, especially in your first post to MMORPG. Welcome to the mad house!
LOL... He didnt agree with you at all. He said "Regardless of where we fall on the whole anime or asian MMO spectrum I think we can all agree that we gamers want more out of our MMORPGs." You said "I just wish they would leave their crap overseas instead of infesting our shores with it." Also your comment wasn't in reference to only MMORPGs. Please don't make it sound like people agree with your shit. Either you like a game or hate it. How can you hate every asian made game and anime when you havent seen or played them all? Please explain to me how the NES didnt do great things for gaming. Also please explain to me how PS1 didnt bring gaming to the next level. I'm positive you cant.
edit: I'm sorry to go off topic... but I find this type of shit offensive. Again, I will say that i agree that most ASIAN MMORPGs suck. I won't say everything they make sucks because that's false. I also won't assume a new asian mmorpg is going to suck and will be "just another point and click grind fest with no content (typical hater speak)."
Few things. reason you have 32 char slots but only 5 playable classes is because you unlock other classes (they call it rnpc, can't remember what it stands for) which you can then make and level. You unlock them by doing quests throughout your char career, first 2-3 get unlocked within first 10 lvls or so.
It's an ok game but I am not sure what they have for an end game, and like all asian games it's a grind fest. Also since you have your own party (3 chars) you get a healer that will auto heal your party =p so it has no downtime but you still have to kill a ton of mobs. Also, you fight a lot of mobs, and 1-2 shot them, so you ca often be fighting 5-15 mobs ata time with your 3 chars. Makes it somewhat fun.
Still, no idea what they have for end game.
Pvp is impossible as ever character has a skill (or many skills) that will do 1000%+ damage. This makes pvp one shot fest. Since musketeers have the longest range, you have them one shot everyone before anyone can one shot them =p not a good pvp system.
All in all it's an ok game to pass some time, some people might even like it. Not worth a monthly fee though.
Did you even bother to read the hands on? Ok, I gather you really want character face and hair customization...do you enjoy playing with dolls too? What difference does it make when you see the back of the head most of the time. I see you play Eve, hows the character face customization there? Perhaps Asian devs are more interested in the abilities of the character than thier superficial looks. What does anime have to do with mmo's? As to your gripe about click to move and it being lazy... How would you propose to move three characters at once? It's my opinion that your probably not very knowlegable of either anime or MMO's... at least this one. Sword has a lot to offer and has innovated in many ways. Being able to play three toons at once is very cool and lends much to combat, both pvp and pve. So take the stick out of your Anoose and relax.
I assume he means its boring... all looks - the 3 players is a new feature though, least for MMO's ..does that cause more lag?
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Games I'm Playing: Warframe/STO
Games I'm Pondering: The Secret World
Yeah, I tried this game until lv 50. LV 20 with different MCC combos. it is very refreshing for a while, especially not having to set up your own macros for afk lving. I think I afk lved 10-15. But it eventually gets boring for me cause of the repetitive grinding. I could easily see it as on the top 10 for these type of mmorpgs.
Lately, I've been pretty disappointed with mmorpgs these days, think i've been through too many of them -_-. Time to go back to consoles
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I really enjoy this game, played it in Beta, and now am happily playing the retail. The character customization, or lack therof, is a bit of a bummer, but the good in this game surely outwieghs the bad imo.
The phrase "Asian MMOs Suck!" keeps popping up. Well, that's your opinion not fact. Some of us enjoy the style and play of Asian MMOs. Plus, I think this game is more original than it's given credit for.
I'll be playing this one for a while...*launches client
A very mediocre game, my opinion of course. Everyone looks alike which is a major disappointment far as I am concerned.
Don't see how they can rate it high on graphics when they did extremely little on avatar customization. Graphics to me is the avatar, everything else is secondary.
Secondly this game has zero staying power. People will level and and get bored very fast with this type of game. There is very little grouping, hence a lot of soloing and not much socializing. People tend to continue playing games where they make a lot of friends, this is not that type of game, hence a major design flaw.
Thirdly, there is very little content in the game, but I will grant them that it is new and most new games are weak in this area too.
Again another typical Korean game that will not do well in the US and Europe. While they did do somethings different, they still missed what people in this hemisphere find fun about MMO's.
I give this game 6 months and the servers will be ghost towns.
So you speak for all of Asia do you? And you're saying all Asians are all the same?
Live in China and Korea for a few years and notice, for example, the number of individual entrepreneurs starting up their own little one-man businesses - on nearly every streetcorner - then come back and tell me that all Asians are just one big swarm of ants who think and act alike.
If anything, this notion that "Asians aren't individuals" was started in the West
and sounds a whole lot like the very racist "Asians aren't really people".
On the limited character models: the costuming is incredibly cool, but the similarity between models became fairly annoying when running around in densely populated areas. It's so bad that you can easily lose track of your own characters in high traffic regions if you aren't paying atention. Pretty bad.
But this game is very, very pretty..... just wish it was more like, say, Guild Wars than Diablo. Seriously, mobs are so thick and respawn so fast that I started to feel like my characters' sole storyline for the game was to completely destroy the New World's ecology by rendering everying living extinct, as quickly as possible. It was nuts.....not even a token effort to simulate some realism (like how wolves eat rabbits and deer in WoW, for example.)
As a result, this makes Swords feel very, very much like a Gauntlet/Diablo style video game with loads of cheap action, but doesn't even bother to exrapolate from what could have been a potentially very cool role playing game setting......there will be absolutely no role playing in this one, folks, for those who care about that stuff. And the storyline....hmmmm......I hope the final release has better localization than the beta, because I ended up taking quests where the english translation was so poor I actually had no idea what I was doing or why I was doing it from the garbled text!
Current MMOs: Rift, GW2, Defiance
Blog: http://realmsofchirak.blogspot.com (old school tabletop gaming and more)
I really expected too much from this game and totally forgot whos made it. Yeah, the same old sh1t. Everyone is the same, and thats totally against the term RPG. Click n move just make the things worse. And i dont know for sure but i bet the possible equipment items are very limited. Jesus why do they make games like that?
Well, you can't imagine, but there are people who wants to play an MMO with an old computer - for example in Eastern Europe... I'm Hungarian, and lots of people has a GeForce 4200 or a Radeon 9600XT even now. They can't buy a new computer, because they don't have enough money for it. (yeah, I know, Hungary is a very margin place for an American or a developer - but Poland or Russia is too?)
And some ON: The game is fun, battle is quick, and it's completely good for entertain yourself - if you get tired with your favourite game. Controlling three characters together isn't always so easy (caster stays back and the respawn begins to hit him/her...), and unique player characters make your team different from other familys. I liked SotNW at beta phase, and I'll continue it now.
Signatures are boring things.
Yeah, Huxley is definitely an attempt in the right direction. Especially running the Unreal Engine (Cary, NC).
As for Warhammers requirements, no, they don't shift THAT much in only a year. They haven't shifted that much for the Asian market in 5 years (as you will see below). And yes, beta shots change, considerably. We could see that in early screenshots of WoW, and the changes that have been going on with AoC, which has changed considerably.
Final Fantasy XI was mentioned in passing, grouped together with other Asian MMO's... like:
Archlord (10/6/06)
Minimum Requirements
- Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP
- Pentium or Athlon 700MHz CPU
- 128Mb RAM
- 1.8Gb Hard Disk Space
- 16 bit DirectX 9 compatible soundcard
- Supported 32Mb graphics card
Flyff (12/25/05)
Minimum Requirements:
PentiumIII 800MHZ
128MB RAM
Geforce 2mx 200
Direct X 9.0 or better required
Guild Wars (4/26/05)
minimum requirements:
PIII 800
256MB RAM
500MB HDD
32MB video card
Kal Online (11/6/04)
P3 with 600 MHZ
128 Mb Ram
16 Mb Video card
DX 9.0c
Rappelz (11/03/06)
Pentium-III 800MHz
128 MB 3D accelerator VGA card
512 MB
DX 9.0c
And Final Fantasy XI has at least the same requirements as these 'newer' games, and newer by 3 years. It happens to surpass several of them.
Yeah... so, you actually have a blog that talks about this stuff? Do people trust your opinion? Should I hand out my email address so people can come to me for advice when you fail them miserably? Just checking cause I'm not sure if you're really arguing that Western games have less requirements or that they can't be turned up to demand more? I mean, really... are you?
- Mal
p.s. Thank you Darksider25 for your agreement, especially in your first post to MMORPG. Welcome to the mad house!
Okay stop it, we had our laugh, you don't know what your talking about, let it go. Your looking at games that are low budget and are made specificly for low system requirements. Does that mean all of them are based on low system requirements? Ofcourse not, but low system requirements will always be kept in mind in most games, just like many western MMO's, and thats a simple fact, but there are still asian MMO's that require a god rig. Go look up Aion, Its using the Crytek engine and is clearly more impressive then WAR from a technical standpoint. Huxley has been confirmed to use the Unreal 3 engine, and Lineage 3 has also been confirmed to use the Unreal 3 engine. The fact your trying to use 4 low budget MMO's that are specificly made for a low system rig to represent over 200 mmo's is hilarious. In fact, you have such little knowledge of the MMORPG genre that you didn't even know that....
Guild Wars is a WESTERN Game.
Yes I have a blog that talks about this stuff so people can listen to someone who knows what the heck he is talking about, unlike yourself. I mean, the fact that you didn't even know Guild Wars is a western Game(Developed by Arena net) is simply hilarious.
But why are you judging the games on the requirements? Asian MMO's are known to have great graphics with low system requirements. I dare you to find an MMO that looks as good as Lineage 2 and Granado Espada that have such graphics and such low systemr equirements.
you know nothing about MMO's, drop it, you lost the debate.
You can also stop acting like a child by attacking my blog. The cold fact isn't that my blog is bad, you don't understand the content because you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
edit: I changed my mind, please continue to post. your posts are an endless source of entertainment, there is nothing more hilarious then watching a person who has no idea what he is talking about act like he actually has a clue.