Perfect World = Vanguard:SOH + Lineage2

EverSkelly

played it only for 4 days, but i am really impressed with it.

Game graphics is alot like Vanguard: Saga of heroes, beautiful landscape - trees, grass, mountains and water, also nice relaxing music, everything makes you feel like in a fairytale.

Although characters and weapons look much more asian mmo style, something like in L2.

Someone said it's a bit like WoW, i disagree, there's nothing wow'ish in game, and that's good.

Of course, much could be done to make the game better, but i seriously think it is best"free to play" game there is.

Daedro

I agree the style and graphics are much like Vanguard and L2.

 

However, it is a bit like WoW. They both are huge worlds. Both similar style of quests, and both games have too many quests to count. Leveling and skills are similar. Of course all MMORPG's have these similar traits, but Perfect Worlds is a bit closer to WoW's than say Everquest's, and much closer to WoW's than any other free MMO. It's a compliment to be kind of like WoW, because that means Perfect World has a lot of content. The difference is WoW is an Imperfect World.

 

WoW attempts to simulate a friendly community, and fails; WoW limits you on professions; doesn't allow you to allocate stat points; has inferior character customization; cartoon graphics for no reason at all; doesn't allow you to fly, except in outlands where it's rarely useful; swimming and jumping so limited its not fun; events are always the same, generic, and pointless; no choice to kill your own race/faction, you have no choices; they don't have plans to add player housing to WoW; character customization sucks in WoW as everyone ends up the same unless you dedicate your life to raiding; Blizzard believes WoW has amazing graphics, why else is there like 20 different models for the 100% mount; everything is nerfed in WoW, they won't even give the new amazing mounts a little more speed, which makes no sense; they released an expansion and didn't even add classes, they added races, which are just looks, just graphics, and don't add any more enjoyment to the game; small differences between swords/maces/axes except looks; you can change your build whenever you want, which is what newbies like, but I think if you screw your build up, you should be stuck with it because it makes no sense to be able to lose and gain different powers; WoW was designed towards noobs in beta and beyond; must admit shop items in these asian games are fun. WoW has a lot of content, and it's finely polished for *what it is* because they have a lot of people working on it.

In WoW everyone gets the same skills. In WoW's defensive you do have talents, which give you a little choice. Of course usually you're forced to choose out of 1-2 builds or you suck. Meaning most people have very similar builds with only minor differences.

Two traits I'm unsure PW has, but I know annoy me in WoW. D2 was made 8 years ago and had better item customization. It's impossible to find an item in the WoW world better than a raid item, even if the odds were 0.0000001%, it doesn't exist, there is nothing to shoot for. I'm not asking for it to be like D2, which was a lot of fun you could even have skills from other classes and everything was random and enjoyable, but at least develop an indepth system vs a basic boring system. Items have very low suffix/prefix choices, which are all quite weak and watered down. All items (rares/epics most annoyingly) have the same stats, there is no randomness, and you always have the same stats/look as everyone else. There's nothing to shoot for once you get that item. They could make it easier to get that item, but harder to get a perfect one, instead of only 5% of players getting far enough to get a great item at all. Socketing was good news, until you see that socket amounts are not random, so you're just getting the same item as the next person again. Oh well you could put a different type of gem in it, yes you could, but it's ultimately not going to make a major difference with the limited choice of gems. Everyone is working to make the exact same character. You don't customize the character. Where is the fun in that?

 

Basically I think I hate the WoW Game Designer, the idea man, with no ideas.

 

WoW lacks enjoyment, fun, and excitement, unless you're playing with friends over voice chat. That's what kept me addicted to it, the content and voice chat. Both of which you have in Perfect World, and a lot that WoW ruined.

 

If you enjoy playing and chilling by yourself or with friends, and customizing your avatar in a digital world, you should greatly enjoy Perfect World. Unlike some other digital worlds you might be disappointed with.

 

Every MMO has it's faults though, which are in the eye of the beholder.

 

Anyway... I'm done ranting.