half assed review for a half assed game ~ After being snowed in from work and having watched everything worthwhile on hulu I decided to try this gem. After all diablo 3 didn't show any signs of being released before I die of boredom and my Hello Kitty Online subscription had already expired. The patcher download froze on me halfway through but I happened to find a eu client torrent. The installation went easy enough, which is probably the best thing I can say about the game. The pvp server was the obvious choice since there's no point in playing mmo's these days aside from "wtfbbqpwn'ing" each other. I spent a few seconds at the race selection screen trying to decide between the two races, "man" and "man-donkey". I always thought a game with only humans conveys a realistic world and a game with man-donkey thrown in comes off as a game that was too cheap to come up with any other races or too creatively stunted to come up with something better than man-donkey. So I started customizing my human, starting with the body. My four choices for human are as follows, "heroin addict", "normal", "morbidly obese", and "laughable, overly characterized brute". I think they ran out of time to disproportion the other race and left it be with a slew of angry expressions and tattoos. Included in the customization is a full set of armor with the choice to dye it any color. Naturally I painted my armor "rainbow" to remind people of the horrors that will ensue when mmo player's are entrusted with the ability to design things. The armor itself is plentiful and pretty well done. After picking out my choice of boar killing device and shield I was ready for the tutorial. The tutorial assumes you only use your computer for explicit streaming video and makes you go through a series of wasd movements across the deck of a floating ship. Followed by the usual instructions of jumping, sitting, standing etc., all for the lack of a "yes I've played warcraft" button. Once I learned all forms of dummy mutilation, The captain of the ship informs me that we're being attacked by some seemingly uninteresting mob resembling a 30ft tall winged louie anderson hellspawn abomination. After you kill all his minions in a not-so-epic one by one battle, the abomination is hit by a meteor and the cinematic introduction kicks in leaving me confused and slightly annoyed thinking "Wtf was that". The loading screen spits me out onto the docks of a small hut in the forest with several npc's scattered about. I suddenly realize I'm surrounded by boars and wolves. In a panic I rush towards the nearest npc with the warcraft quest indicator above his head in hopes of him doing something interesting. I skim passed whatever boring crap pops up on the dialog window and spot "kill 10 boars" below it. I frantically mash my keyboard in any attempt to exit the game before I actually get suckered into fighting farm animals for god knows how many levels. Yes despite any redeeming qualities, the fact they released this game with "boar quests" makes it just...awful.
You didnt tried the game. You downloaded the game and ran it a few minutes. You shpuldn't call a game "The worst game ever" with what you call a half assed review. Your review is halfassed, but we can't know if the game is halfassed or not with your review.
As joking stuff, your review made me smile but I can't take it seriuosly, you didnt made it seriously mate.
To The OP: You just made me laugh hysterically - good stuff. You should write more reviews - in fact, this website should put you on staff! I look forward to your next installment.
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The epic Man-Donkey is on the loose, lol Man-Donkey ftw. To me the game did suck gameplay wise. i did however like the in game cinamatics and the voiceover that went along with it. Man-Donkeys unite, lol
and of course since I like it, anyone who doesn't, obviously does not get the joke of the title itself, and I do, which of course makes me a much better pop-culture subscriber, and ,by-proxy a much better gamer.
It needs to be read like this: Woorse. . . Game. . .EVER., while drinking a slurpee and reading a comic book.
And "The Chronicles of Spellborn" should be read thusly: "The Craptastic Adventures of Stupid"
Seriously. Just because YOU like the game does not make the game good. This is not some wierd foreign film that no one else gets but you, thereby making you more Artistic or smart or clever or a better judge of the medium.
Its game. and a fagnificient game at that .
Of course, me NOT liking the game is not proof that its bad. . . .BUT IT IS. HA
Spellborn closely follows the WoW formula for character progression. (that is, "christmas tree" quest hubs with short quests and a linear zone advancement).
That said, Spellborn has many redeeming qualities which, in my opinion, put it higher that WoW or LOTRA (another big game that follows the WoW progression formula). First, I like the combat system. I think it takes skill and planning to make a good skill bar. Second, the PvP is cool, and Arena battles will actually be more fun than vanilla Call of Duty or the other generic FPSs for me. Third, I love the lore and the world, I'm actually drawn to reading the text. The quests are actually really well written. Fourth, "potential". yes yes, I know all games claim "potential", but the company behind Spellborn has nice plans like Shard conquest and as of now looks to be on track with reaching its goals.
A revolutionary MMO? Hell no. An evolutionary MMO which I'd personally rather play that WoW, LOTRO, or EQ2? Yes. (my other game is eve, I need me some boar killing every once in a while)
Am i the last person on earth that realizes that there were MMOs that used the standard quest formula before wow? In my opinion they all jacked their concepts from EQ, and WoW jacked their entire art direction from Warhammer. Yes, Warhammer existed before WoW, it was a table top RPG game in which Blizzard stole their design concept from. WoW is a great game in its own right, but stop putting it on a pedistal. It did not revolutionize anything but going mainstream.
I'm not trying to bash any of the posters here, but there WERE MMOS before WoW. And they had a quest system with kill "x amount of this" quests way before WoW. I'm not saying its great, but it existed BEFORE WoW.
TCoS is a refreshing game though. Not my cup of tea (I really did not like the artistic direction) but the combat system is amazing at higher lvls when you fine tune your skill deck and you quickly forget about the horrible artistic flare (my own personal opinion, I do realize there are people who do enjoy it). The combat system is truely easy to learn, hard to master. If anyone is going to give TCoS a shot, try it up to lvl 20 at the minimum. The early lvls can drag a bit but the game really takes off after 10.
Maybe you can explain to me why we need some dipshit with an exclamation mark coming out of his head to tell us to go kill wild life? How about they, I don't know, put some THOUGHT into how the game plays. Warhammer Online did this decently (one of the few things it did well). WAR allowed you to kill local wild life at your leisure, and whenever you felt like it, you returned to the hub's NPC for a bulk exp reward depending on how much you killed. -----------------------
Maybe I could but since I'm not the one nerdraging about a common MMO practice I don't see the need to. How bout you shut your RTard whole and tell us what AWESOME amazing progression system you'd come up with. And IF you honestly believe WAR's kill quest collection system meant a damn then you're simply the type of person that goes through life waiting to catch a baseball bat to the face.
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Well that was nice and vauge. But hey, I wasn't expecting rocket science from Ms. Cleo. Besides I understand you're stessed for time, can't dedicate yourself to coming up with GOOD ideas when you've got your plate full trolling forums. Bo HO those evil MMOs have like LEVELS and XP and MOBS and EVLES and LIKE OMG EVIL! WHAAAAAAAAA.
The review may be a spoof and based on pathetically minimal gameplay, but the sad thing is that he's basically right. Not only do you fight boars in the tutorial level, you will continue to fight more boars and odd bird like creatures, etc. as you level up from zone to zone. Besides the combat system I found almost nothing redeeming about the game. I made it into the early twenties and will definitely never go back to it, although I understand everyone has different tastes and it may appeal to others.
Are you serious? You are comparing TCOS to WoW.... This is the pinnacle of ignorance.
First off, great in TCOS has no stats. Second, the combat system is different to the nth degree, just try for a few seconds. Third, there's no talent tree, where did you even see a talent tree? You mean the skill tiers? Becuase that, is nothing like talent tree.
From what I understand, you don't care about crap in the game except grinding for the 'phat lootz'. You don't read quest texts, and frankly, you don't give a damn. Hence, you found it must be EXACTLY like World of Warcraft because you move with WASD and can jump.
Go back to Hello Kitty Online, that seems to suit you best.
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This review mirrors my own impressions... Except I made a Man Donkey.
The sooner developers realize how pointless kill quests are, the better.
Ok genius... what do you suppose they should do instead? 100% Errand Boy quest? To Level you must kill monsters... kill quest allows you to receive the exp from the kills in addition to a reward at the end of the quest. You're just an extremely lazy person and probably want the first quest in the game to be a person standing in front of you who instantly levels you to max level.
BTW I think this is a horrible thread, some people find it funny however when people are browsing these forums and see threads titled "worst game ever" they may not realize the OP forgot to take his ritalin the day he was trying the game out. I for one am enjoying very much.
While I LOVE the game, why hasn't it occured to you people "Objectives" "Storyline" "Scripted", I mean seriously? SCRIPTED QUESTS, not single objective boring quests. Make them something interesting.
First off I have to congratulate the OP on one hell of a funny review. It really put a great big grin on my face. Its a shame that there arent more posts which are written as well as this.
I'm currently playing TCoS and although I am quite liking the game I really cant disagree with anything the OP says. His brief review is totally accurate. His bit about the man-donkey is spot on. The devs should have left it out and focused all of their attention on adding more variety to the humans as it doesnt add anything to the game other than lots of rather silly looking man-donkeys running around.
People are saying that his review is unworthy because he hasnt played more of the game. Actually I disagree. I am currently at level 27 and the game hasnt changed at all. I am still getting the same wildlife killing quests and letter delivery missions I was getting at the beginning of the game. In fact later in the game you are sent back to the beginning zone on several occasions.
The two selling points for the game in my opinion are its visuals and its combat system. The landscapes, monsters and effects in general really do look fantastic and the sound effects and music are also top notch.......and thats very fortunate indeed because you will be staring vacantly at it all rather a lot as you continually run from one npc to another on a never-ending journey of delivery quests. Once you reach an npc there will be LOTS of fairly well written stuff to read but zero decision making to be made as this is just a static story game pretty much like every other standard mmo we have all seen before.
There are however a number of quests that require you to do a bit more than just read a story.......but dont expect anything surprising or technically clever. This game LOVES to send you on "treasure hunts" where you have to run around a zone looking for stuff like little childrens losts toys, bags of acorns, bits of clothes or any other number of "fascinating items" for daft npcs.......but it all just boils down to doing the same thing over and over. I cant personally say that these activities in themselves are particularly interesting or fun but I do tolerate it all because of the way the game looks, sounds and feels to play. There is certainly something pleasant about roaming around the world of Spellborn. In fact the quests in the game are really only there to give the player a "guided tour" of each zone.....which is fine with me as I look forward to seeing what each zone looks like. As the player reads each bit of the story the game levels them up and pushes them towards the next zone so they can read some more.
I disagree with the OP about this game being the worst game ever as it does a number of things much better than other mmos (enjoyable combat for example) but I totally sympathise with his reaction to it. If you dont like paying a monthly fee to run between hundreds of npcs to read a fragmented online book or killing 10 ["insert animal name here"] then the game just wont appeal to you at all. Hell it doesnt even really appeal to me that much but I'm sticking with it for now for the reasons I already described. The starting zones pretty much show you everything the game has to offer so people bashing the OP for not playing more of the game are pretty daft really.
This review mirrors my own impressions... Except I made a Man Donkey.
The sooner developers realize how pointless kill quests are, the better.
Ok genius... what do you suppose they should do instead? 100% Errand Boy quest? To Level you must kill monsters... kill quest allows you to receive the exp from the kills in addition to a reward at the end of the quest. You're just an extremely lazy person and probably want the first quest in the game to be a person standing in front of you who instantly levels you to max level.
BTW I think this is a horrible thread, some people find it funny however when people are browsing these forums and see threads titled "worst game ever" they may not realize the OP forgot to take his ritalin the day he was trying the game out. I for one am enjoying very much.
While I LOVE the game, why hasn't it occured to you people "Objectives" "Storyline" "Scripted", I mean seriously? SCRIPTED QUESTS, not single objective boring quests. Make them something interesting.
Yeah you have to remember that for many years most people were only used to making and playing single player games which had to have scripted content. Unfortunately those same people are developing the online games we now play........so we are being given mmos that are actually still being made like single player games.
Mmos are changing very gradually over the years and one day this old "single player game design" idea will be a thing of the past and then we wont have thousands of players doing exactly the same thing (I hope lol). Maybe in another 10 or 20 years devs will stop making games this way. Fingers crossed.
.......then all of those people who say "What?! You cant make games any other way! All mmos MUST have scripted kill x and fed x quests!" will look rather stupid......although it will all be forgotten by then.
We can tell by the second paragraph how completely innexpirianced you are. (second only because all you do is talk about things we really seriously don't care about, like your hello kitty subscription...) PvP? I love PvP, but seriously, start simple. The bodies in the creation menu for humans really do look bad. Until you dress them. Assuming you got that far. The tutorial, you say it left you "confused?" First, what makes a good story line?" Yes, I'm sorry it doesn't have the storyline that warcraft has you know, the simple one for people of your caliber. "There is a war between Orcs and Humans. Now go kill things...." It builds suspense. "Wtf? what's going on?" and the captivating part, "what will happen next?" Then you run around and look at a quest. which, like all MMO's, starts you out with something fairly easy. AKA, killing something easy for getting a taste of the new and original combat system. I'm sorry they didn't make a note saying "this combat system actually takes more skill than WoW, (assuming it's the only game other that Hello Kitty you've played) where you press 1...2....3....1....4....3...2...5. dead. click. 1....2...3...1...4...3...2...5. dead. and so on."
All in all, you played a total of about 5 min. If you noticed, in WoW, if you play as an orc, you start out doing... thats right... killing a F&*^ing boar. -.- so if you quit because you don't like boar quests. I don't recomend WoW, and, oh yeah, about 90% of mmos... maybe thats why you are hooked on hello kitty... they did make it for illiterate 8 year old girls... I doubt they have boar killing quests.
P.S. I suggest you consuly a psychiatrist to counter your pig phobia.
This review mirrors my own impressions... Except I made a Man Donkey.
The sooner developers realize how pointless kill quests are, the better.
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The captain of the ship informs me that we're being attacked by some seemingly uninteresting mob resembling a 30ft tall winged louie anderson hellspawn abomination
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Best part of the review.
Ya I'm personally waiting for tickle quests. Those will be just awesome.
Where do you morons come from? Certainly not gamerland where gamers have been killing stuff that moves since stuff learned to move.
Maybe you can explain to me why we need some dipshit with an exclamation mark coming out of his head to tell us to go kill wild life? How about they, I don't know, put some THOUGHT into how the game plays. Warhammer Online did this decently (one of the few things it did well). WAR allowed you to kill local wild life at your leisure, and whenever you felt like it, you returned to the hub's NPC for a bulk exp reward depending on how much you killed.
Where do YOU morons come from?
Ok genius... what do you suppose they should do instead? 100% Errand Boy quest? To Level you must kill monsters... kill quest allows you to receive the exp from the kills in addition to a reward at the end of the quest. You're just an extremely lazy person and probably want the first quest in the game to be a person standing in front of you who instantly levels you to max level.
BTW I think this is a horrible thread, some people find it funny however when people are browsing these forums and see threads titled "worst game ever" they may not realize the OP forgot to take his ritalin the day he was trying the game out. I for one am enjoying very much.
How about a game without leveled progression? It's not my job to come up with these ideas, it's theirs.
You're enjoying it very much? Outstanding. But he disagrees with you? RAGEEEEE. Why do you people get so defensive when somebody disagrees with you? It's all very confusing. I have a theory; though! Maybe deep down; you know this game is shabbily put together, but you don't want to admit it to yourself, or to others! Maybe you think you're doing your part defending "YOUR" game, but here's a revelation for you : the devs don't need or want your "help". So do everyone a favor and can it, ok? The both of you. People will disagree with you, in life and on the internet.
GET. OVER. IT.
Main reason is...you people just dislike a game "just because"...and have nothing valid to back it up....You post crap...and nothing else. And no one understands why you even post what you do....
You get over it....the game is good.
"This may hurt a little, but it's something you'll get used to. Relax....."
Main reason is...you people just dislike a game "just because"...and have nothing valid to back it up....You post crap...and nothing else. And no one understands why you even post what you do....
You get over it....the game is good.
Everything I said just swooshed right over your head. Hell, you don't even know how to use ellipsis correctly. BUT HAY YOUR OPINION IS MORE VALUABLE TAHAN MIEN.
The game is good... Why? Can you even "back up" what you're saying?
Allow me to provide the reasons why I, personally, didn't like this game AGAIN; since you've seem to have forgotten already.
Clunky Controls : Something as simple as TURNING is sluggish and unresponsive.
First impressions : A completely tedious tutorial level, with an uninspired battle encounter and a prentenious (to the point of laughable) introduction monologue featuring really, really bad whispered voice acting.
Further Impressions : After a bland tutorial level, players are tossed into a bleak and desolate quest hub; where they are expected to do generic kill quests to get to the "good" part of the game.
Now tell me, as someone who willingly plays the same crap over and over again; does this game even have a good part? If so; tell me! I'm serious here. Let me know; and I might give the game a second shot!
Come on, don't be stingy!
This is directed at everyone; even those who take personal offense when someone states they don't like something they like! While you're at it, how about you guys explain WHY you attack this guy for having a different opinion? Inquiring minds wish to know.
I am lvl 28 and i am still doing the same type of quests which i started when i was lvl 2, so anyone suggesting game will change past lvl 10 are just talking bull.
And yes i agree with character selection and customization screen, you are spot on. Two races? and next to zero customization, except for clothing. The two races of human and the other one which looks like horse or donkey is laughable. No way this game is of P2P quality. I subbed for a month believing people that it will change on later levels, but i was mislead by fanboys on this forum yet again.
I am lvl 28 and i am still doing the same type of quests which i started when i was lvl 2, so anyone suggesting game will change past lvl 10 are just talking bull.
Strange that you experience it that way. It must be you, because the quests do become better as you progress, but for some reason not in your eyes. I am afraid that is just a matter of opinion. No one lied to you about it. On the other hand, sad that you had to go to level 28 only to find out the game did not improve in your eyes, but hey, such things happen.
half assed review for a half assed game ~ The installation went easy enough Yes, it was very easy The pvp server was the obvious choice since there's no point in playing mmo's these days aside from "wtfbbqpwn'ing" each other. I spent a few seconds at the race selection screen trying to decide between the two races, "man" and "man-donkey". I always thought a game with only humans conveys a realistic world and a game with man-donkey thrown in comes off as a game that was too cheap to come up with any other races or too creatively stunted to come up with something better than man-donkey. So I started customizing my human, starting with the body. My four choices for human are as follows, "heroin addict", "normal", "morbidly obese", and "laughable, overly characterized brute". I think they ran out of time to disproportion the other race and left it be with a slew of angry expressions and tattoos. Hmm, ok, you didnt like the character art. Personal taste is fine, so we won't fall out over that, and at least the way you put it is mildly humorous. Personally, I love the character art, and the two race choices is fine. I see no need for another right now. Included in the customization is a full set of armor with the choice to dye it any color. Naturally I painted my armor "rainbow" to remind people of the horrors that will ensue when mmo player's are entrusted with the ability to design things. The armor itself is plentiful and pretty well done. After picking out my choice of boar killing device and shield I was ready for the tutorial. This seems to show a contrary nature.. you seem to have entered the game with the attitude of 'break it'? I don't know you, so I'm not judging you, but thats the impression you give from this statement. It makes me dubious of everything else you say. The tutorial assumes you only use your computer for explicit streaming video and makes you go through a series of wasd movements across the deck of a floating ship. Followed by the usual instructions of jumping, sitting, standing etc., all for the lack of a "yes I've played warcraft" button. Once I learned all forms of dummy mutilation, The captain of the ship informs me that we're being attacked by some seemingly uninteresting mob resembling a 30ft tall winged louie anderson hellspawn abomination. After you kill all his minions in a not-so-epic one by one battle, the abomination is hit by a meteor and the cinematic introduction kicks in leaving me confused and slightly annoyed thinking "Wtf was that". You hate the game for it's tutorial...? Wow... I was right to be dubious about your opinion.... The loading screen spits me out onto the docks of a small hut in the forest with several npc's scattered about. I suddenly realize I'm surrounded by boars and wolves. In a panic I rush towards the nearest npc with the warcraft quest indicator above his head in hopes of him doing something interesting. Yes, the NPCs have quest indicators... You don't explian why you think that this is a game breaker though? It's a quest based mmorpg... You didnt know that before you started playing? I am going to have to score you low for self education. I skim passed whatever boring crap pops up on the dialog window and spot "kill 10 boars" below it. Ahh yes, the self education thing again... The text to most quests is great, but it seems you see any kind of writing (except your own on the internet) as a bad worthless thing. Thats fine, but it also kind of also makes your own groundless and hard to take seriously. Just a tip. I frantically mash my keyboard in any attempt to exit the game before I actually get suckered into fighting farm animals for god knows how many levels. Yes despite any redeeming qualities, the fact they released this game with "boar quests" makes it just...awful. Wow.. you 'mashed your keyboard' to leave? You didnt just log out? Weird... hehe I dont think this game was ever going to be for you if you couldnt figure out how to log out even So, just to get this straight, the fact that the newbie zone, that is there to just show you how to play and whatnot, had kill a kill X animals quest, you made this post? It seems I was right to doubt you before... I will now extend that to disregarding you
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"Worst game ever"? how can anything be the worst game ever.. you would jhave to look through ALOT of games to say that. And how old are you? 5?
Idiot.
If you said that anywhere out of an internet forum, about anything in the world, noone would take you serious.
Superlatives like that are so frustrating to read, so childish, so useless.
I hate myself for even writing anything in response.
I think you need to go back and review your third grade grammar work books before you start calling other people "idiots".
You should also probably look at yourself before you call others "childish".
You didnt tried the game. You downloaded the game and ran it a few minutes. You shpuldn't call a game "The worst game ever" with what you call a half assed review. Your review is halfassed, but we can't know if the game is halfassed or not with your review.
As joking stuff, your review made me smile but I can't take it seriuosly, you didnt made it seriously mate.
I think you need to go back and review your third grade grammar work books before you start calling other people "idiots".
You should also probably look at yourself before you call others "childish".
Im only calling one guy an idiot, and only for this threads title, which is idiotic.
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QFT
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
There comes a time in every man's life where one must not take the troll bait.
The epic Man-Donkey is on the loose, lol Man-Donkey ftw. To me the game did suck gameplay wise. i did however like the in game cinamatics and the voiceover that went along with it. Man-Donkeys unite, lol
LOL - I like the game, but this review of the tutorial is funny as hell!
Best thread title ever.
and of course since I like it, anyone who doesn't, obviously does not get the joke of the title itself, and I do, which of course makes me a much better pop-culture subscriber, and ,by-proxy a much better gamer.
It needs to be read like this: Woorse. . . Game. . .EVER., while drinking a slurpee and reading a comic book.
And "The Chronicles of Spellborn" should be read thusly: "The Craptastic Adventures of Stupid"
Seriously. Just because YOU like the game does not make the game good. This is not some wierd foreign film that no one else gets but you, thereby making you more Artistic or smart or clever or a better judge of the medium.
Its game. and a fagnificient game at that .
Of course, me NOT liking the game is not proof that its bad. . . .BUT IT IS. HA
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Am i the last person on earth that realizes that there were MMOs that used the standard quest formula before wow? In my opinion they all jacked their concepts from EQ, and WoW jacked their entire art direction from Warhammer. Yes, Warhammer existed before WoW, it was a table top RPG game in which Blizzard stole their design concept from. WoW is a great game in its own right, but stop putting it on a pedistal. It did not revolutionize anything but going mainstream.
I'm not trying to bash any of the posters here, but there WERE MMOS before WoW. And they had a quest system with kill "x amount of this" quests way before WoW. I'm not saying its great, but it existed BEFORE WoW.
TCoS is a refreshing game though. Not my cup of tea (I really did not like the artistic direction) but the combat system is amazing at higher lvls when you fine tune your skill deck and you quickly forget about the horrible artistic flare (my own personal opinion, I do realize there are people who do enjoy it). The combat system is truely easy to learn, hard to master. If anyone is going to give TCoS a shot, try it up to lvl 20 at the minimum. The early lvls can drag a bit but the game really takes off after 10.
Good luck to you all...
Maybe you can explain to me why we need some dipshit with an exclamation mark coming out of his head to tell us to go kill wild life? How about they, I don't know, put some THOUGHT into how the game plays. Warhammer Online did this decently (one of the few things it did well). WAR allowed you to kill local wild life at your leisure, and whenever you felt like it, you returned to the hub's NPC for a bulk exp reward depending on how much you killed.
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Maybe I could but since I'm not the one nerdraging about a common MMO practice I don't see the need to. How bout you shut your RTard whole and tell us what AWESOME amazing progression system you'd come up with. And IF you honestly believe WAR's kill quest collection system meant a damn then you're simply the type of person that goes through life waiting to catch a baseball bat to the face.
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How about a game without leveled progression? It's not my job to come up with these ideas, it's theirs.
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Well that was nice and vauge. But hey, I wasn't expecting rocket science from Ms. Cleo. Besides I understand you're stessed for time, can't dedicate yourself to coming up with GOOD ideas when you've got your plate full trolling forums. Bo HO those evil MMOs have like LEVELS and XP and MOBS and EVLES and LIKE OMG EVIL! WHAAAAAAAAA.
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The review may be a spoof and based on pathetically minimal gameplay, but the sad thing is that he's basically right. Not only do you fight boars in the tutorial level, you will continue to fight more boars and odd bird like creatures, etc. as you level up from zone to zone. Besides the combat system I found almost nothing redeeming about the game. I made it into the early twenties and will definitely never go back to it, although I understand everyone has different tastes and it may appeal to others.
Are you serious? You are comparing TCOS to WoW.... This is the pinnacle of ignorance.
First off, great in TCOS has no stats. Second, the combat system is different to the nth degree, just try for a few seconds. Third, there's no talent tree, where did you even see a talent tree? You mean the skill tiers? Becuase that, is nothing like talent tree.
From what I understand, you don't care about crap in the game except grinding for the 'phat lootz'. You don't read quest texts, and frankly, you don't give a damn. Hence, you found it must be EXACTLY like World of Warcraft because you move with WASD and can jump.
Go back to Hello Kitty Online, that seems to suit you best.
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Torey Scott - Rifleman - Fallen Earth
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"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but I know World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
Ok genius... what do you suppose they should do instead? 100% Errand Boy quest? To Level you must kill monsters... kill quest allows you to receive the exp from the kills in addition to a reward at the end of the quest. You're just an extremely lazy person and probably want the first quest in the game to be a person standing in front of you who instantly levels you to max level.
BTW I think this is a horrible thread, some people find it funny however when people are browsing these forums and see threads titled "worst game ever" they may not realize the OP forgot to take his ritalin the day he was trying the game out. I for one am enjoying very much.
While I LOVE the game, why hasn't it occured to you people "Objectives" "Storyline" "Scripted", I mean seriously? SCRIPTED QUESTS, not single objective boring quests. Make them something interesting.
First off I have to congratulate the OP on one hell of a funny review. It really put a great big grin on my face. Its a shame that there arent more posts which are written as well as this.
I'm currently playing TCoS and although I am quite liking the game I really cant disagree with anything the OP says. His brief review is totally accurate. His bit about the man-donkey is spot on. The devs should have left it out and focused all of their attention on adding more variety to the humans as it doesnt add anything to the game other than lots of rather silly looking man-donkeys running around.
People are saying that his review is unworthy because he hasnt played more of the game. Actually I disagree. I am currently at level 27 and the game hasnt changed at all. I am still getting the same wildlife killing quests and letter delivery missions I was getting at the beginning of the game. In fact later in the game you are sent back to the beginning zone on several occasions.
The two selling points for the game in my opinion are its visuals and its combat system. The landscapes, monsters and effects in general really do look fantastic and the sound effects and music are also top notch.......and thats very fortunate indeed because you will be staring vacantly at it all rather a lot as you continually run from one npc to another on a never-ending journey of delivery quests. Once you reach an npc there will be LOTS of fairly well written stuff to read but zero decision making to be made as this is just a static story game pretty much like every other standard mmo we have all seen before.
There are however a number of quests that require you to do a bit more than just read a story.......but dont expect anything surprising or technically clever. This game LOVES to send you on "treasure hunts" where you have to run around a zone looking for stuff like little childrens losts toys, bags of acorns, bits of clothes or any other number of "fascinating items" for daft npcs.......but it all just boils down to doing the same thing over and over. I cant personally say that these activities in themselves are particularly interesting or fun but I do tolerate it all because of the way the game looks, sounds and feels to play. There is certainly something pleasant about roaming around the world of Spellborn. In fact the quests in the game are really only there to give the player a "guided tour" of each zone.....which is fine with me as I look forward to seeing what each zone looks like. As the player reads each bit of the story the game levels them up and pushes them towards the next zone so they can read some more.
I disagree with the OP about this game being the worst game ever as it does a number of things much better than other mmos (enjoyable combat for example) but I totally sympathise with his reaction to it. If you dont like paying a monthly fee to run between hundreds of npcs to read a fragmented online book or killing 10 ["insert animal name here"] then the game just wont appeal to you at all. Hell it doesnt even really appeal to me that much but I'm sticking with it for now for the reasons I already described. The starting zones pretty much show you everything the game has to offer so people bashing the OP for not playing more of the game are pretty daft really.
Ok genius... what do you suppose they should do instead? 100% Errand Boy quest? To Level you must kill monsters... kill quest allows you to receive the exp from the kills in addition to a reward at the end of the quest. You're just an extremely lazy person and probably want the first quest in the game to be a person standing in front of you who instantly levels you to max level.
BTW I think this is a horrible thread, some people find it funny however when people are browsing these forums and see threads titled "worst game ever" they may not realize the OP forgot to take his ritalin the day he was trying the game out. I for one am enjoying very much.
While I LOVE the game, why hasn't it occured to you people "Objectives" "Storyline" "Scripted", I mean seriously? SCRIPTED QUESTS, not single objective boring quests. Make them something interesting.
Yeah you have to remember that for many years most people were only used to making and playing single player games which had to have scripted content. Unfortunately those same people are developing the online games we now play........so we are being given mmos that are actually still being made like single player games.
Mmos are changing very gradually over the years and one day this old "single player game design" idea will be a thing of the past and then we wont have thousands of players doing exactly the same thing (I hope lol). Maybe in another 10 or 20 years devs will stop making games this way. Fingers crossed.
.......then all of those people who say "What?! You cant make games any other way! All mmos MUST have scripted kill x and fed x quests!" will look rather stupid......although it will all be forgotten by then.
You were absolutely right.
That was half-assed.
We can tell by the second paragraph how completely innexpirianced you are. (second only because all you do is talk about things we really seriously don't care about, like your hello kitty subscription...) PvP? I love PvP, but seriously, start simple. The bodies in the creation menu for humans really do look bad. Until you dress them. Assuming you got that far. The tutorial, you say it left you "confused?" First, what makes a good story line?" Yes, I'm sorry it doesn't have the storyline that warcraft has you know, the simple one for people of your caliber. "There is a war between Orcs and Humans. Now go kill things...." It builds suspense. "Wtf? what's going on?" and the captivating part, "what will happen next?" Then you run around and look at a quest. which, like all MMO's, starts you out with something fairly easy. AKA, killing something easy for getting a taste of the new and original combat system. I'm sorry they didn't make a note saying "this combat system actually takes more skill than WoW, (assuming it's the only game other that Hello Kitty you've played) where you press 1...2....3....1....4....3...2...5. dead. click. 1....2...3...1...4...3...2...5. dead. and so on."
All in all, you played a total of about 5 min. If you noticed, in WoW, if you play as an orc, you start out doing... thats right... killing a F&*^ing boar. -.- so if you quit because you don't like boar quests. I don't recomend WoW, and, oh yeah, about 90% of mmos... maybe thats why you are hooked on hello kitty... they did make it for illiterate 8 year old girls... I doubt they have boar killing quests.
P.S. I suggest you consuly a psychiatrist to counter your pig phobia.
Ya I'm personally waiting for tickle quests. Those will be just awesome.
Where do you morons come from? Certainly not gamerland where gamers have been killing stuff that moves since stuff learned to move.
Maybe you can explain to me why we need some dipshit with an exclamation mark coming out of his head to tell us to go kill wild life? How about they, I don't know, put some THOUGHT into how the game plays. Warhammer Online did this decently (one of the few things it did well). WAR allowed you to kill local wild life at your leisure, and whenever you felt like it, you returned to the hub's NPC for a bulk exp reward depending on how much you killed.
Where do YOU morons come from?
Ok genius... what do you suppose they should do instead? 100% Errand Boy quest? To Level you must kill monsters... kill quest allows you to receive the exp from the kills in addition to a reward at the end of the quest. You're just an extremely lazy person and probably want the first quest in the game to be a person standing in front of you who instantly levels you to max level.
BTW I think this is a horrible thread, some people find it funny however when people are browsing these forums and see threads titled "worst game ever" they may not realize the OP forgot to take his ritalin the day he was trying the game out. I for one am enjoying very much.
How about a game without leveled progression? It's not my job to come up with these ideas, it's theirs.
You're enjoying it very much? Outstanding. But he disagrees with you? RAGEEEEE. Why do you people get so defensive when somebody disagrees with you? It's all very confusing. I have a theory; though! Maybe deep down; you know this game is shabbily put together, but you don't want to admit it to yourself, or to others! Maybe you think you're doing your part defending "YOUR" game, but here's a revelation for you : the devs don't need or want your "help". So do everyone a favor and can it, ok? The both of you. People will disagree with you, in life and on the internet.
GET. OVER. IT.
Main reason is...you people just dislike a game "just because"...and have nothing valid to back it up....You post crap...and nothing else. And no one understands why you even post what you do....
You get over it....the game is good.
"This may hurt a little, but it's something you'll get used to. Relax....."
You didn't even complete one quest and you're posting a review, not to mention calling it the worse game ever.
You need to play a game at least 8 hours before you come to conclustions, and definitely longer than 15minutes.
Everything I said just swooshed right over your head. Hell, you don't even know how to use ellipsis correctly. BUT HAY YOUR OPINION IS MORE VALUABLE TAHAN MIEN.
The game is good... Why? Can you even "back up" what you're saying?
Allow me to provide the reasons why I, personally, didn't like this game AGAIN; since you've seem to have forgotten already.
Clunky Controls : Something as simple as TURNING is sluggish and unresponsive.
First impressions : A completely tedious tutorial level, with an uninspired battle encounter and a prentenious (to the point of laughable) introduction monologue featuring really, really bad whispered voice acting.
Further Impressions : After a bland tutorial level, players are tossed into a bleak and desolate quest hub; where they are expected to do generic kill quests to get to the "good" part of the game.
Now tell me, as someone who willingly plays the same crap over and over again; does this game even have a good part? If so; tell me! I'm serious here. Let me know; and I might give the game a second shot!
Come on, don't be stingy!
This is directed at everyone; even those who take personal offense when someone states they don't like something they like! While you're at it, how about you guys explain WHY you attack this guy for having a different opinion? Inquiring minds wish to know.
LOL i'll tell ya if nothing else i actually enjoyed the read
...OP's post.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
I am lvl 28 and i am still doing the same type of quests which i started when i was lvl 2, so anyone suggesting game will change past lvl 10 are just talking bull.
And yes i agree with character selection and customization screen, you are spot on. Two races? and next to zero customization, except for clothing. The two races of human and the other one which looks like horse or donkey is laughable. No way this game is of P2P quality. I subbed for a month believing people that it will change on later levels, but i was mislead by fanboys on this forum yet again.
Strange that you experience it that way. It must be you, because the quests do become better as you progress, but for some reason not in your eyes. I am afraid that is just a matter of opinion. No one lied to you about it. On the other hand, sad that you had to go to level 28 only to find out the game did not improve in your eyes, but hey, such things happen.
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Delanor