I'm all for small companies making games with some new-ish features, but let's be realistic.... a game like this has ZERO chance if it's pay-2-play. Free to play with an optional cash shop is the only way this game will survive.
Depends on what their target audience is, and what their expenses are like. I doubt it will ever be more than a niche game, but if they are providing something for that niche, they might survive.
so I dl;d it in under 40 mins, not bad, installed, updated and everything.
launched right into the game, character creation is awful but hey I can get past that, the heritage choices are a kinda cool "Ancient Domains of Mystery" type of throwback. So I made an Orc, couldnt customize his look at all even though there are buttons to click.
Log into game, hmm the settings are wacky, im on a 24 in monitor, and it was still oversized on my monitor, so I click the settings button and bam crash. Ok no prob its beta, I try to log back in and got that account is already in use.
so I dl;d it in under 40 mins, not bad, installed, updated and everything.
launched right into the game, character creation is awful but hey I can get past that, the heritage choices are a kinda cool "Ancient Domains of Mystery" type of throwback. So I made an Orc, couldnt customize his look at all even though there are buttons to click.
Log into game, hmm the settings are wacky, im on a 24 in monitor, and it was still oversized on my monitor, so I click the settings button and bam crash. Ok no prob its beta, I try to log back in and got that account is already in use.
might try again later
All classic mistakes from MMO history. Lets hope it gets corrected before launch. The in use problem is usually the server side hasn't realized it has lost client contact. That just takes a polling cycle that runs in the background. Lord only knows what the crash was. If they have researched this a bit, they will have a crash log reporter built into the client. That can save a LOT of time in tracking down some of these DX and driver issues.
this game reminds me of dark age of camelot good game by the way and still up and running great.
by the way gfx don't mean sh*t and you have to understand this is closed beta thier will be problems with the downloading and server crashing. all type of bugs..just report the bug you find.
they said that they will be adding more link for downloading the game. it will take time to do that.
don't trash talk a game you don't know any thing about. if you want to troll go to runescape.....
Graphics don't really make the game. It doesn't look terrible...but doesn't look amazing either specially for a sub game.I agree saying a lot of games spend to much time on graphics and not enough time on the actual game play though. I'm always willing to try a new game though.
I give every indie game a shot. I always like to see spins on the classless system. Also I think the whole "talk" to npcs is a CD64 text adventure throwback, could be cool. The screenies give off that clean-cut retro vibe to me. I'll start the download when I get home tonight and check things out. I can't help it I'm a mmo junkie. I'll try anything at least once.
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
I received a beta key, downloaded the game and never could make it work and don't blame my PC because I has run more demanding games so if you know how to make it run please tell me.
Best to just wait on this one for a while. They are having major issues with server crashes at the moment. Dont even know if its good or not yet as the server is never up.
Aerrevan seems to be doing something different with the MMO formula. Those bashing the game for the non impressive visuals are the reason there's so many graphical trash MMO's out there. Spend too much development time on the visuals, and surely the gameplay will suffer.
Name me one good MMORPG with poor and outdated graphics that had better gameplay than those with good graphics. Just one.
Darkfall, Dark and Light, Mourning and Irth. All games with crap visuals and crap gameplay.
Good point. I loved AC back in the day. But even if they completely updated the graphics engine, I'd not go back now. I've had more than my fill of corpse runs, and lost gear.
Not a great looking game (really bad graphics and animations), and it's really rough, but the gameplay isn't bad. Probably still not going to be my cup of tea, but not a bad try.
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Depends on what their target audience is, and what their expenses are like. I doubt it will ever be more than a niche game, but if they are providing something for that niche, they might survive.
so I dl;d it in under 40 mins, not bad, installed, updated and everything.
launched right into the game, character creation is awful but hey I can get past that, the heritage choices are a kinda cool "Ancient Domains of Mystery" type of throwback. So I made an Orc, couldnt customize his look at all even though there are buttons to click.
Log into game, hmm the settings are wacky, im on a 24 in monitor, and it was still oversized on my monitor, so I click the settings button and bam crash. Ok no prob its beta, I try to log back in and got that account is already in use.
might try again later
lmao, yeah i don't see this game lasting very long with a subscription
All classic mistakes from MMO history. Lets hope it gets corrected before launch. The in use problem is usually the server side hasn't realized it has lost client contact. That just takes a polling cycle that runs in the background. Lord only knows what the crash was. If they have researched this a bit, they will have a crash log reporter built into the client. That can save a LOT of time in tracking down some of these DX and driver issues.
this game reminds me of dark age of camelot good game by the way and still up and running great.
by the way gfx don't mean sh*t and you have to understand this is closed beta thier will be problems with the downloading and server crashing. all type of bugs..just report the bug you find.
they said that they will be adding more link for downloading the game. it will take time to do that.
don't trash talk a game you don't know any thing about. if you want to troll go to runescape.....
Graphics don't really make the game. It doesn't look terrible...but doesn't look amazing either specially for a sub game.I agree saying a lot of games spend to much time on graphics and not enough time on the actual game play though. I'm always willing to try a new game though.
I give every indie game a shot. I always like to see spins on the classless system. Also I think the whole "talk" to npcs is a CD64 text adventure throwback, could be cool. The screenies give off that clean-cut retro vibe to me. I'll start the download when I get home tonight and check things out. I can't help it I'm a mmo junkie. I'll try anything at least once.
"Small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, great minds talk about ideas."
Cant even start the download how pathetic this shit really is.
Graphics don't really matter, but when you have a game that will possibly give you eye cancer it's best to avoid.
Is it working for you guys? It just crashes after you log in to the game.. dannnng
I received a beta key, downloaded the game and never could make it work and don't blame my PC because I has run more demanding games so if you know how to make it run please tell me.
In think servers are offline now (red icon startup window).
Game looks horrible ive seen older ones that look better
Best to just wait on this one for a while. They are having major issues with server crashes at the moment. Dont even know if its good or not yet as the server is never up.
Epic.
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Name me one good MMORPG with poor and outdated graphics that had better gameplay than those with good graphics. Just one.
Darkfall, Dark and Light, Mourning and Irth. All games with crap visuals and crap gameplay.
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Good point. I loved AC back in the day. But even if they completely updated the graphics engine, I'd not go back now. I've had more than my fill of corpse runs, and lost gear.
downloading client.....hopefully this will be a REAL mmoRPG instead of the usual kids game they make these days.
Asheron's Call has bad graphics because it's a very old game, not because it had a low budget.
this is kid game think lego
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I tried...
I suspect this has been made by a frustrated MMO player who thought he could do better, hate to say it but it's CRAP
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Not a great looking game (really bad graphics and animations), and it's really rough, but the gameplay isn't bad. Probably still not going to be my cup of tea, but not a bad try.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.