One thing you might want to try is the free year of Anarchy Online being offered until Jan 15th.
Now this game has a steep learning curve. But to me that is what makes it so appealing. I doesn't have the latest graphics engine. But one really does come to love the character building system in this game.
Imagine spending an hour creating implants, looking for buffs, simply to get on that shiny new tank armor that is 20 levels above you that dropped.
Another positive, though this would be true in any game, is the fact that you and your wife would be playing together alot. Sure helps.
Anyway if you feel like trying it out, send me a PM and I will help you get get going, and get used to the system.
And if you don't like it, you can simply uninstall and forget it.
Well, my wife and I looked at alot of games. We looked at Anarchy Online, (with a free year why not?) Well, first of all the free year is a bit misleading, it's only on the basic game and you still have to pay a monthly fee to play the expansions. Plus we felt it looked a bit more complex than we wanted.
We looked at EQ2, and well, that was our second choice.
What did it for us, oddly enough, was a "negative" post someone had made about WoW being "dumbed down". After reading that, (and taking what he had to say in an unbiased and incontext manner), we decided that the simplicity of the gameplay would be similar to CoH.
So we settled on Wow, and off to Best Buy I went, oops their sold out, OK go to Walmart, oops sold out, so was target, and every other store in our community.
I was soooooooo tempted to pick up one of the 100 or so copies of EQ2 but I held firm. I drove 40 miles one way and picked up a couple copies last Friday.
I loaded the game, waited the agonizing 7-8 hour download, (uhhg I hate dial-up) My wifes download was only 5 hours, and she was level 5 by the time I even got to the character creation screen lol. I wasn't on 2 minutes, I joined my friends chat, and boom! I was guilded and made a captain lol.
I have to say, the game is EXTREMELY simple to play. OMG!!
Notice I didn't say boring... I said simple. Yes, the game can be as complex as you wanna make it, or as simple as you want it. Even the tradeskills, something my wife HATED in EQ, has my wife excited. She loves being able to click on her "look for a mine button" and having a mine pop-up on her mini map. Of course, in her exhuberance to get to the mine, she forgets to look for critters........
anyway, if making the game simple to play, without having to search and search and search for hours on end to find "that guy" your supposed to talk to for a quest makes the game "dumbed down" then consider me a dumb player cause I love it!!
Maybe they will expand that "look for a mine button" for you ... maybe they could make it "Look for a mine, go there while killing and looting mobs along the way, mine xxx amount of iron and return it to town, make a sword with it, then page me".
Originally posted by Igzidyous Well, my wife and I looked at alot of games. We looked at Anarchy Online, (with a free year why not?) Well, first of all the free year is a bit misleading, it's only on the basic game and you still have to pay a monthly fee to play the expansions. Plus we felt it looked a bit more complex than we wanted. We looked at EQ2, and well, that was our second choice. What did it for us, oddly enough, was a "negative" post someone had made about WoW being "dumbed down". After reading that, (and taking what he had to say in an unbiased and incontext manner), we decided that the simplicity of the gameplay would be similar to CoH. So we settled on Wow, and off to Best Buy I went, oops their sold out, OK go to Walmart, oops sold out, so was target, and every other store in our community. I was soooooooo tempted to pick up one of the 100 or so copies of EQ2 but I held firm. I drove 40 miles one way and picked up a couple copies last Friday. I loaded the game, waited the agonizing 7-8 hour download, (uhhg I hate dial-up) My wifes download was only 5 hours, and she was level 5 by the time I even got to the character creation screen lol. I wasn't on 2 minutes, I joined my friends chat, and boom! I was guilded and made a captain lol. I have to say, the game is EXTREMELY simple to play. OMG!! Notice I didn't say boring... I said simple. Yes, the game can be as complex as you wanna make it, or as simple as you want it. Even the tradeskills, something my wife HATED in EQ, has my wife excited. She loves being able to click on her "look for a mine button" and having a mine pop-up on her mini map. Of course, in her exhuberance to get to the mine, she forgets to look for critters........ anyway, if making the game simple to play, without having to search and search and search for hours on end to find "that guy" your supposed to talk to for a quest makes the game "dumbed down" then consider me a dumb player cause I love it!!
Glad to hear you and the missus found your perfect game.
I think you're making a mistake by not giving EQ2 more of a chance though. It's gotta be worth $50 to know you're not missing out on anything, even if it does have mediocre reviews and a reputation for being clunky, laggy, slow and boring.
Originally posted by Kite22 What kind of computer do you and your wife have.Whats its stats??? you know like proccessing speed, Amount of memory, What kind of graphics card? just 1dering
We have comparable systems. Processor of approx 2 Ghz, 512 RAM, Gforce 4 (the lower end one) video cards, crappy dial-up, and we don't see a whole lot of problems unless the server is populated during peak hours....
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One thing you might want to try is the free year of Anarchy Online being offered until Jan 15th.
Now this game has a steep learning curve. But to me that is what makes it so appealing. I doesn't have the latest graphics engine. But one really does come to love the character building system in this game.
Imagine spending an hour creating implants, looking for buffs, simply to get on that shiny new tank armor that is 20 levels above you that dropped.
Another positive, though this would be true in any game, is the fact that you and your wife would be playing together alot. Sure helps.
Anyway if you feel like trying it out, send me a PM and I will help you get get going, and get used to the system.
And if you don't like it, you can simply uninstall and forget it.
Well, my wife and I looked at alot of games. We looked at Anarchy Online, (with a free year why not?) Well, first of all the free year is a bit misleading, it's only on the basic game and you still have to pay a monthly fee to play the expansions. Plus we felt it looked a bit more complex than we wanted.
We looked at EQ2, and well, that was our second choice.
What did it for us, oddly enough, was a "negative" post someone had made about WoW being "dumbed down". After reading that, (and taking what he had to say in an unbiased and incontext manner), we decided that the simplicity of the gameplay would be similar to CoH.
So we settled on Wow, and off to Best Buy I went, oops their sold out, OK go to Walmart, oops sold out, so was target, and every other store in our community.
I was soooooooo tempted to pick up one of the 100 or so copies of EQ2 but I held firm. I drove 40 miles one way and picked up a couple copies last Friday.
I loaded the game, waited the agonizing 7-8 hour download, (uhhg I hate dial-up) My wifes download was only 5 hours, and she was level 5 by the time I even got to the character creation screen lol. I wasn't on 2 minutes, I joined my friends chat, and boom! I was guilded and made a captain lol.
I have to say, the game is EXTREMELY simple to play. OMG!!
Notice I didn't say boring... I said simple. Yes, the game can be as complex as you wanna make it, or as simple as you want it. Even the tradeskills, something my wife HATED in EQ, has my wife excited. She loves being able to click on her "look for a mine button" and having a mine pop-up on her mini map. Of course, in her exhuberance to get to the mine, she forgets to look for critters........
anyway, if making the game simple to play, without having to search and search and search for hours on end to find "that guy" your supposed to talk to for a quest makes the game "dumbed down" then consider me a dumb player cause I love it!!
Maybe they will expand that "look for a mine button" for you ... maybe they could make it "Look for a mine, go there while killing and looting mobs along the way, mine xxx amount of iron and return it to town, make a sword with it, then page me".
Glad to hear you and the missus found your perfect game.
I think you're making a mistake by not giving EQ2 more of a chance though. It's gotta be worth $50 to know you're not missing out on anything, even if it does have mediocre reviews and a reputation for being clunky, laggy, slow and boring.
What kind of computer do you and your wife have.Whats its stats??? you know like proccessing speed,
Amount of memory, What kind of graphics card? just 1dering