My first impressions on Open Beta

Dithrain

Hello, I'm kinda new to MMORPG.com, but I've been surfing this place since forever. =D

But anyway, I just wanted to give some of my impressions on the open beta of this game.

Graphics:  Sub-par, but DON'T WORRY!! There's going to be a "Mess with graphics" option, so just hold your horses.  And who needs good graphics if the game's fun?

Sound:  I didn't really hear much besides the sound effects coming from my character.  Most likely going to be a bit more "revealed" soon.

Gameplay:  I'm going to be honest, a part of me was skeptical with all the negative impressions from the closed beta, but I can't lie; this game was fun, no doubt at all.  More fun than I've had with any MMO I've played in a looong time.

Quests/leveling: Here's something I just loved about this game.  Many people hated how a lot of games (Wow cough cough) force you to level up by questing/grinding.  So... boring.  Right when you start out you can go into a Scenario, and level up that way! That's right! You level up by PvPing!!  How great is that?  And the quests are actually pretty fun, and really engaging too.

Community:  Well, this is just kinda one to throw out there.  My only warning, many players are x-WoW players, so they may be a little cold sometimes, but that doesn't take away from the the fun of this game at all!

Originality: This is just a little, "extra".  A lot of people want to try something new.  Now, I didn't get to play for long today, but this game made me feel clueless, which doens't necessarily mean I didn't know how to play or anything (FFXI =P) but I felt like it was, "Just another game" where I instantly knew what the objective is.

Great game, I definitely recommend it,

Thanks for reading!

Toxilium

Actually a sane person reviewing the beta so far. Thank you. The music is lame, but I listen to the Stones or someone while playing all my games anyways. Still, they can add more variety of ambient tracks.

 

Graphics are being improved, yes. They are set to medium as max right now I believe. But who cares as long as gameplay is good.

 

Now with the gameplay, this is NOT a good PvE game. This game is about RvR. They devs stated that. PvE is in it, but the focus is PvP. Still, combat tends to get a bit slow. I still find if overall fun so far.

NOTE: For those in beta now, don't over-play the game until release. Save some until pre-release or 18th so you're not bored. Ex, I'm playing Spore this week. I played the beta over the weekend. That's it until this Sunday.

Ender4

Which MMORPG released in the last 4 years have better graphics? Just curious what your answer will be to get an idea of where you are coming from.

iCeh

Certainly some issues that needs to be addressed. For me, the animations while watching people from a distance is quite sluggish - a little like DAoC but without the strange warping. But other than that, they're actually better than I was expecting from seeing some videos.

Sounds need tweaking, it's hard to know what's going on sometimes. Perhaps it's because I'm not used to the sounds yet, but casting sounds seem quite dull, unlike WoW where you can hear what people are casting and they're loud and obvious.

I've only gotten to level 8 so far, so I'm not going to say much about it atm (GOA and all that bollocks). It's definitely been fun so far, that is the no bullshit quests and the PQ's. PQ's actually work quite well, jump in at any time and still have a chance at getting some loot - even if you don't win, you're still getting influence for a reward.

I remember Paul saying in a video that there's no dedicated healers, that's a lie. Healers are everywhere and they do their job most of the time (from my experience!), shame they're never on my team though. But can't say too much about PvP, I've only had a pinch. I will say, however, that I'm not too sure about this bolster idea, a level 1 running around with 11 stats is just wrong, they're like chihuahua's (thanks Google!) biting on your ankles but you can't really do anything because there's more imporant targets. Think I'll be choosing Open RvR just so I can bitch-slap them away.

So yea, so far so good!