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Rift: What a load of Rubbish
RogueTroopa
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Unpolished Turd springs to mind. Made the bad decision to buy it. Was enjoying it until i went through the Rift thingy. Then it went rapidly downhill. Boring linear quests, graphically not particularly good even on ultra settings. Bad respawn rates. Simply uninspiring. Will plummet like Warhammer. Don't kid yourself this is good because it simply isn't.
And don;t mention those annoying Rift things. The big tentacles annoyingly spawn every few minutes. You run to the area. Haven't a clue whats going on but button bash. Its simply a mess.
The world is small and linear. I gave up the grind at 14. Its forgettable. Never again will i believe the hype. Blizzard you are redeemed.
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Before the trolls get here I want to thank you for the assessment. I was wandering if it was going to flame out like WAR did. I made the mistake of believing WAR's hype, and vowed to read reviews before I bought Rift.
Hype is one thing its another to believe in it, i for one have no interest in rift what so ever the game never appealed to me at all (reminded me of TR somehow idk how I just had this bad feeling about it) sorry you wasted 50 or 60 bucks I've done that (DCUO/WoW:Cata) maybe the game will redeem itself down the road though.
Rift had a very long and generous open beta. If you purchased it after having participated, then it's your own fault.
I'm not a fan of the game either, but I at least got to try it before it released and come to a well-informed conclusion.
A few things.
I thought the graphics were fine, the class system is definately interesting, but other than that I will agree with you on some points. Especially the Rift events, they were fun the first few times, then it just because like "Okay, run here, join public group, smash some buttons, profit".
You make it sound worse than it is, but it isn't the godsend that some people seem to make it out to be.
Don't know what to say. Rift was in beta (Even open beta, allowing all) for the longest time. Why didn't you try the game then? If, as you say, Rift was so hyped, there was plenty of time to try the game before you purchased it. Not on either side of the bridge (Neither agree or disagree about your opinion), but not sure what to tell you..
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I was bored of WoW within 4 days and bored of LotRo within 3 days recently. Because I played this kind of game before.
Good thing for me is: I KNOW I will be bored of this, so I did not buy Rift. But I can imagine people not too long in the genre will enjoy this.
not really sure what your talking about spawn wise. respawn timers were so fast i camped the one spot to finish my quests. the game is the best looking DX9 graphics i have ever seen. just waiting to see when they introduce DX10, if its possible on the engine they use.
not sure where you got any of your information on the game, but it seems like you didnt even try to research a single aspect of the game. Dont know how many posts here told you exactly how the game was from the haters to the fanboys.
i also dont get how you can call this game an unpolished turd when its the most polished game for me todate. and i've played nearly every mmo todate.
Good luck trying to find a game half of this polished game. WoW sits in the same position as WAR in my eyes.
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This is exactly my thought.
Im actually surprised you made it to level 14, myself i couldn't get past level 10. Its just so boring and generic. The people hyping this to be amazing and next-gen are obvious shills from Trion.
But i didnt make make the mistake of buying the game, i played the beta.
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The graphics are beautiful. The class system is new and interesting. Rifts are fun and at least an attempt at a new idea. Yes quests can be linear but I've found quite a few that actually played in some new ideas. This game is already wildly successful and if you are actually trying to say that Rift is worse than WoW I believe you are desperately wrong.
I will give you the quests, and the fact that it's quite cookie cutter in a lot of aspects. But it's fun and a lot of people like it. Instead of telling peoeple they're wasting their money try giving them an in depth explaination of all aspects of the game to let them see if they will like it or not. Unpolished turd? Not only is that unhelpful but it's simply annoyingly childish.
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Rift is fine for those who enjoy being in a group and absolutely "need" to have an MMO to play. After WoW drove me away when it became "World of Ghostcrawlercraft", I threw myself into Rift's betas and have been consistently underwhelmed. Trying hard to find reasons to buy a game is never a good sign.
Trion's scrambling hard right now to sell boxes, but I see the signs that Rift will have one brief, shining moment, then will burn out quickly. There's very little here to sustain a game long term and that's borne out by the sheer number of people who have commented that Rift will keep them occupied for a month or so. That's not very promising.
"Soloists and those who prefer small groups should never have to feel like they''re the ones getting the proverbial table scraps, as it were." - Scott Hartsman, Senior Producer, Everquest II
"People love groups. Its a fallacy that people want to play solo all the time." - Scott Hartsman, Executive Producer, Rift
Ahh but that's the beauty of history. It keeps repeating itself.
The graphics are better than most MMO's out there, save for AOC.
The combat is par for the course, granted you always have a string of attacks that you use, in a particular order almost every time, but lets face it in most action type combat games you do as well. And I venture to say that anyone that says they don't have a tendency to use certain attacks and skills in a specific order in action games are flat out lying. It's in our nature to find something that works and stick with it. So the combat argument applied to most MMORPG's is wearing thin on me.
The quests being linear, although may be true, its your own fault for taking them. Granted I only hit 20 during the betas, but I'd wager if you wanted to you could grind your way through all the different zones and not need to take all of the linear quests.
Now maybe you do have to take a quest chain to get into certain dungeon instances, but so what?, it's their game and their rules. I'm tired of players crying "I can't do what I want, be what I want, go where I want to when I want to", all these adults sound like whiney little children, wah wah wah... "If I can't play how I want to play, by my own rules, then I'm going to throw a fit and tell everyone the game sucks". Don't get me wrong, I don't like the game for my own reasons but it's not because of combat and linear quests.
I have one question in regards to this genre and those that complain about quests and story, do you see RPG at the end of MMORPG? I've never played a PnP or console RPG that didn't have a storyline where you needed to go and do certain things to advance the plot. And even when players in PnP stray, the DM always manages to get the story turned back in the right direction to complete the module, campaign, quest etc.
Quite simply, Azeroth, Middle Earth, Telara, etc isn't a world that YOU created, you didn't lay the foundation, you don't get to make the rules. You make the choice to purchase the game, you make the choice to play the game, and granted you have the right to make suggestions, but at the end of the day the game is not your baby and regardless of your input may not be 'raised' the way you want it to be.
With that said, I'm not defending Rift, I didn't buy it, I don't plan to buy it, because it's not my cup of tea.
I do hope that all of those that are unhappy with 'themepark' mmoRPG's, eventually get their open ended, questless, or sandbox MMO that they have been craving.
again, if you had done ANY kind of research you would have known the game doesnt open up until AFTER lvl 10. my opinion is as soon as you start acquiring your other souls, the game begins. the first group quest is lvl 15, the first instance is lvl 18. the rifts happen as soon as you finish tutorial, and you can begin acquiring new weapons and armor right away. if you found the game linear, then you probably want your quest helper in wow again. cant get any more linear then that, then the whole cata expac. so linear and handheld you feel like a blizzard GM is holding it and showing you how to play a MMO for the first time.
the comparisons of rift to wow makes me want to vomit, they arent even close. the more i play the game the less i feel it has any WoW feeling. as it was stated in another thread, the ui isnt wow's, its the standard. WoW's wasnt even WoW's, its been through so many updates im not even going to count. stealing from so many player mods its ridiculous. the game maybe similar to WAR cause of the same game engine, but they are nothing alike. rift is its own beast, the only time it should be compared with another game is for someone who is newish to MMOs and needs to have an idea of how the game is played, i.e. hotbar, classes and such. If i told my friends this game was wow they wouldnt touch it. if i told them it was a fantasy game like wow but done in its own way, then they would look at it.
Yeah. Sorry you don't like the game. I can understand where you're coming from as well as the points others have made. There was a extensive beta process which would have allowed you to experience the game...as well as several...several...several posts in this and many other forums that expressed the same opinion as you..but in even greater detail. So...between beta and/or a little bit of easily accomplished forum perusing..if you still bought the game and don't like it......well...can't really say anything more on the matter.
I did a lot of research and hands on beta play...I really enjoy it for what it is. Same old same ole..made more shiny and smooth running. I really dig the game myself.
I imagine the Rifts will be more challenging when they aren't opening up on top of hundreds of players. For now you can get by just mashing buttons but I think eventually they at least have the chance to become more challanging as the population spreads out.
Too early for such wide ranging statements about how good or bad the game is really.. i am less inclined to believe any review at this point that hypes it one way or the other... once the game has been out a month or two, then... i'll start listening to the reviews more seriously... though i do have a few concerns about the game myself.. for instance.. is it just about the rifts.. im kind of hoping that theres more to it than just that, action games are all well and good, but it shouldnt just be about combat.. as for the souls thing.. underwhelming.. once everyone can be everything.. it loses a measure of uniqueness.. but.. i'll wait and see how that works out when people have had more time to actually play the game.. me.. i'll wait a few months before thinking about buying the game.
I found the game "good" but I am not interested in good anymore. For now "different" is holding me over. . what I really want is something new.
The OP was expressing his opinion. . I can't believe he got a "go back to WoW" when the game appeals to the same market. I thought the world was pretty linear as well during the first 10 defiant levels. Switching over I found even the starting area of the other side much more open etc. Also I like how you could just run around the map and do quests. . and fight rifts etc. . again good was the best I felt the game was and I just can't do it again. That doesn't cloud my judgement enough to say it sucks though.
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Rubbish says you, treasure says I.
I admit that the Rifts, due to the current amount of players doing them (at least in the early areas) are far too easy, but even so I am Greatly enjoying Rift and so is my gf who's spurned just about every MMO I've thrown at her.
We both have loads of fun and I personally find the soul tree system exciting and fun as heck.
Am I fanboy? Maybe.. I waited until open beta before buying it and were greatly skeptical to begin with, but turns out that Rift is the game for me - at least until TOR and/or GW2 releases, and even then I'm not sure I'll put Rift on the shelf.
It's too bad you didn't enjoy it, but let's face it, no game is or ever will be for everyone so calling it a load of rubbish is... well.. rubbish.
The op has a point the RIFT can be annoying , but truth be told the rifts are needed to get souls ...
And seems this headstart they are really generous with the rifts , they are poping all over the place every 10 min or something.
Side bonus is that it gets you plenty of points for items you need to purchase from the reward store .
But negativity is that it ruins the questing sometimes with mass respawns of mobs all over the place .
Ah well what can I say , your are right its your opnion , dying again and again is never fun :P .
Guess people need to play a game where dying is not possible and moan its too easy
Anyway if you think blizzard is redeemed I for one am glad you run back there to easy mode .
Seems the idiocy of people somehow has sunken to a level unprecedented in human history .
I wonder how they sometimes would manage if drop in a forgein country all alone .
Let alone manage to play online .
How is Blizzard Redeemed? there games worse Rift may be bad in my eyes, but Blizzard help shape the mmo genre in a bad way. Now everyones trying to copy diffrent things from it.
A game that isn't for everyone?
You have got to be kidding me. That's completely unacceptable
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To answer all the questions-
Only played BETA for a day and got to level 4. So thats why i thought it was good. If i had of gone through the rift and started boring quests of firing cannons or collecting stupid artifacts then i would have ditched it asap. BORING LINEAR QUESTS simple as, seen it all before.
My PC is capable of anything maxxed out. At first i thought the graphics were great but then reality hit when i reached the first continent. They're not that good. The underwater effects are worse than WOW.
I can take or leave an MMO. Can't believe some people take my comments so much to heart. Am hardly gonna cry after losing £35. Just happen to know its gonna fall flat on its arse after 6 months. You continue to subscribe if you think its amazing.
One thing i can thank god is not paying extra for those turtle mounts lol. They don't even run right and look plain daft lol.
night night and don't dream of Rift lol.
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