I must say that I was a bit apprenhensive about trying this game due to a ton of people I respect saying it was a WoW Clone. Then I used my own brain and thought... hey... wow is a great game, so a clone would propably be pretty good.
After playing the game a bit, I must say that I'm enjoying way more then Warcraft. I started playing WoW at release and like many of you, I have left and come back several hundred times. The thing that appears to really differentiate this game from WoW at my low level is the class system.
In WoW for example, you pick a class and then start the game getting only a few abilities by level 10. In contrast with Rift, before I hit level 7, I was trying to pick a good combination of three classes (souls). There is already more substance to my character at level 10 then there was in my WoW character at level 20.
I'm really enjoying how you can customize a character to your play style, which is something limited in WoW and even more so after Cata. So regardless of what anyone says, I'm enjoying the game and that is all that counts, right?
People can call it a WoW clone all they want. There are obviously certain things that were duplicated because it works and would be stupid to spend a dime reinventing a UI.
Show me one above ground open 10 man raid in WoW? When is the last time you had an invansion where the sky went black? I do not remember seeing random Rifts open up outside Orgrimar and start dropping adds? No Arena 1v1's to balance entire classes around. How about Heroics that are not just exact repeats of the original instance?
I agree completely. Playing now for a few days, the game is not WoW. I really do hate the term WoW Clone as WoW just as much a clone of Everquest as Rift is to WoW -
Most mmo's are going to have some simularites, doesn't make them a clone. Overall though, buy Rift. It's fun.
I agree completely. Playing now for a few days, the game is not WoW. I really do hate the term WoW Clone as WoW just as much a clone of Everquest as Rift is to WoW -
Most mmo's are going to have some simularites, doesn't make them a clone. Overall though, buy Rift. It's fun.
I think the "this is wow" or "that is WoW" stuff is going to die out after the first few months like it always does.
The main focus for Trion is simple:
1. Better account security
2. Any exploits that pop up making sure they are dealt with
3. Finding bugs in end game and fixing them.
4. Server transfers to lighten this load on the Big 3 US servers and the EU servers which are just packed.
My feeling the next thing we will see is some type of server x-fer.
Now personaly i hate WOW with a passion but mate this doesnot show the features of this game at all all it shows is someone who had no interest playing the game in the first place having a crack at the bergining zone for 1 hour.
WOW was a horrible game with good marketing .
Rift takes the basis of the mmorpg and makes it better , faster smoother and more stunning.
Long Live Rift !!!!!!
MHAAAHAAHAAAAAA
Current games; Star treck online Rift Eve online Firefall
I like it when he says: Well this is exactly like WoW. Do you notice a common theme?
This game is soooo much like WoW it could might aswell been a WoW spinoff or something.
Here's how I see things. Both WoW and Rift as a base design start from the same point. Lets call it vanilla point. WoW over the years moved to another point, the point of becoming a lobby game played for its instance content. Rift is moving from that same vanilla point but is headed towards the open world content as a primary focus and has instances only as added content, not the main focus.
The question is what you can expect to get as content updates from these two games. That will tell you how different they are.
For WoW, I would expect more instances, revamped or new.
For Rift, I would expect more variety in their open world rift events and perhaps a zone dedicated to conquest.
I like it when he says: Well this is exactly like WoW. Do you notice a common theme?
This game is soooo much like WoW it could might aswell been a WoW spinoff or something.
Here's how I see things. Both WoW and Rift as a base design start from the same point. Lets call it vanilla point. WoW over the years moved to another point, the point of becoming a lobby game played for its instance content. Rift is moving from that same vanilla point but is headed towards the open world content as a primary focus and has instances only as added content, not the main focus.
The question is what you can expect to get as content updates from these two games. That will tell you how different they are.
For WoW, I would expect more instances, revamped or new.
For Rift, I would expect more variety in their open world rift events and perhaps a zone dedicated to conquest.
Come on, you are seriously deluding yourself if you think that Rift, which was released 6+ years after WoW, used this "vanilla point: as you call it for base. They used WoW for base, it is so evident that denying it is just silly.
Yes WoW borrowed from other games, no one is claiming otherwise, but Rift looks more like WoW than those "other" games.
Now if you were making the claim for EQ 2, which was released about the same time as WoW, I would agree with you.
As for open world over instanced, isnt end game of Rift mostly instances? In any case, if it is not then I applaud them for that because instancing is just a cheap way to handle large populations and erodes the massive experience of MMORPGs.
I like it when he says: Well this is exactly like WoW. Do you notice a common theme?
This game is soooo much like WoW it could might aswell been a WoW spinoff or something.
Here's how I see things. Both WoW and Rift as a base design start from the same point. Lets call it vanilla point. WoW over the years moved to another point, the point of becoming a lobby game played for its instance content. Rift is moving from that same vanilla point but is headed towards the open world content as a primary focus and has instances only as added content, not the main focus.
The question is what you can expect to get as content updates from these two games. That will tell you how different they are.
For WoW, I would expect more instances, revamped or new.
For Rift, I would expect more variety in their open world rift events and perhaps a zone dedicated to conquest.
Come on, you are seriously deluding yourself if you think that Rift, which was released 6+ years after WoW, used this "vanilla point: as you call it for base. They used WoW for base, it is so evident that denying it is just silly.
Yes WoW borrowed from other games, no one is claiming otherwise, but Rift looks more like WoW than those "other" games.
Now if you were making the claim for EQ 2, which was released about the same time as WoW, I would agree with you.
As for open world over instanced, isnt end game of Rift mostly instances? In any case, if it is not then I applaud them for that because instancing is just a cheap way to handle large populations and erodes the massive experience of MMORPGs.
Instancing is also the only technical feasible way to make sure your game doesn't crash if you have 500 people in the same area. Also a good way to balance the game so people just won't gather 600 people and zerg down the boss.
'What HP should this dragon/bug/nasty alien have?'
'I dunno. What's the limit of players that can fight him at once?'
'limitless'
'lolwut?'
Even EVE-Online struggles with fleet battles and the node will crash if there are too many people in one system.
Gdemami - Informing people about your thoughts and impressions is not a review, it's a blog.
Come on, you are seriously deluding yourself if you think that Rift, which was released 6+ years after WoW, used this "vanilla point: as you call it for base. They used WoW for base, it is so evident that denying it is just silly.
Yes WoW borrowed from other games, no one is claiming otherwise, but Rift looks more like WoW than those "other" games.
Now if you were making the claim for EQ 2, which was released about the same time as WoW, I would agree with you.
As for open world over instanced, isnt end game of Rift mostly instances? In any case, if it is not then I applaud them for that because instancing is just a cheap way to handle large populations and erodes the massive experience of MMORPGs.
This is the feeling I get. For me they used the vanilla WoW as base, not EQ2. At least not EQ2 as it was released. Rift definitely does not play as WoW Cataclysm, that's for certain. WoW Cataclysm for me plays like DDO when it was released (no idea about DDO status today).
I'll be 50 today (or tomorrow at the latest), so you'll have to wait a bit to get first hand experience of end game in Rift. Well, my first hand anyway.
"WOW has over 10 million players, because 10 million people have computers that can run the game." - Dvalin
As I said before, there are a number of games out and a number coming out that lets face it kick WOW's ass in a lot of respects, but the one that really counts, Terra looks stunning, but whats the point when my computer cant even get above 10 frames per second, and I can get a steady 30+ in wow.
I would happily play Terra over wow, any day of the week and twice on sundays, but the simple fact of the matter is, that until these new mmo developers find a way to scale their engines back dynamically so that much older systems like mine can still run it nice and smooth, they are NEVER going to beat warcraft.
It's got ZERO to do with how good or bad the game is, it's simeply that millions of people still have out of date systems and will not be able to play it. as a result will simply stay with wow.
And with the global economy the way it is, simply going out to buy a new GFX card or in my case a brand new PC (required) simply is not viable.
Well, if developers didn't create game that put some pressure to today's hardware, we would be still playing in 386's or lower. You can do so much with some hardware, if you want more stuff you'll need to eventually upgrade.
Personally, I'm eagerly wait for the game that will force me to finally upgrade my old PC to something more powerful. From the looks of things, I'll probably have to wait for 2012 and unfortunately not from the western developers.
Now personaly i hate WOW with a passion but mate this doesnot show the features of this game at all all it shows is someone who had no interest playing the game in the first place having a crack at the bergining zone for 1 hour.
WOW was a horrible game with good marketing .
Rift takes the basis of the mmorpg and makes it better , faster smoother and more stunning.
Long Live Rift !!!!!!
MHAAAHAAHAAAAAA
Like it or hate it, WoW is still probably the most polished mmo around and easily the most successful. Marketting launched it brilliantly, but Blizzard have maintained their mmorpg domination over the last 6+ years by running a solid, reliable and enjoyable game. Marketting alone would not keep this mmo so popular for so long in a market as fickle as the mmo market.
The irony of your post is for someone who hates WoW, you love Rift for doing EXACTLY what WoW did all those years ago, taking existing mmo concepts and making them better. Amusing
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Let's not forget Blizzard also out spent it's competition to ensure WoW stays on top, vanilla WoW had highest devolopment cost in history of games (only surpassed by GTA and CoD4) and the only now mmorpg that will surpass it will be KOTOR.
Didn't check it out after personal dealings with TB. Guy is a bit of an egotistical douche.
Butthurt haters gonna hate?
Couple of things to note folks.
1) It's not a review, it's a first impressions video combined with a discussion with a veteran player, aimed at informing people about what to expect
2) Watching the first 10 minutes of it and then judging the video that way is a fairly silly thing to do because that's not where the meat of the information lies.
Keep in mind TB, this is nothing personal as I don't know you from Adam. However, after about 20 mins or so into watching the video, I got rather annoyed. I was hearing you talk about how you've been playing WoW for as long as you have, yet I'm watching you run around in Rift like a chicken with its head cut off, like it was the the first MMO you've ever played. Not only did you die in the starter zone, you kept running the wrong way even though your Minimap had a big glowing arrow, pointing you in the direction you needed to go. In all honesty, I couldn't help but think, "This guy is a moron", and it completely killed the video and your credibility as a reviewer for me, in this instance, IMHO.
I hope that you'll take this as constructive feedback rather than labeling me as a 'hater'.
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Originally posted by Totalbiscuit Couple of things to note folks.
1) It's not a review, it's a first impressions video combined with a discussion with a veteran player, aimed at informing people about what to expect 2) Watching the first 10 minutes of it and then judging the video that way is a fairly silly thing to do because that's not where the meat of the information lies.
If your video's "meat" isn't even part of the first 10 minutes, why are those 10 minutes there? Fluff? Huge videos load so slow on YouTube, so if the first stuff you show has nothing to do with the content of the video don't waste our time with it.
Whenever I see a video an hour long that'll take hours to download and an hour to watch I just assume what you just confirmed, that most of it's fluff that I won't want to see.
If you have "meaty information" you want to convey, make your video of that and edit out all the BS.
1) It's not a review, it's a first impressions video combined with a discussion with a veteran player, aimed at informing people about what to expect
2) Watching the first 10 minutes of it and then judging the video that way is a fairly silly thing to do because that's not where the meat of the information lies.
If your video's "meat" isn't even part of the first 10 minutes, why are those 10 minutes there? Fluff? Huge videos load so slow on YouTube, so if the first stuff you show has nothing to do with the content of the video don't waste our time with it.
Whenever I see a video an hour long that'll take hours to download and an hour to watch I just assume what you just confirmed, that most of it's fluff that I won't want to see.
If you have "meaty information" you want to convey, make your video of that and edit out all the BS.
I have to agree.
Though I don't know this person's work, this video seemed very half hearted and could have been done a lot better. Now granted, he did say he was doing it because people were requesting it. Having said that, I wasn't really impressed or entertained and wouldn't see the incentive to follow up on other videos.
I pretty much watched for a bit, realized it was just futzing around i the game and then zipped to the place where he did the interview. Which I didn't finish because it wasn't that interesting to me.
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Now personaly i hate WOW with a passion but mate this doesnot show the features of this game at all all it shows is someone who had no interest playing the game in the first place having a crack at the bergining zone for 1 hour.
WOW was a horrible game with good marketing .
Rift takes the basis of the mmorpg and makes it better , faster smoother and more stunning.
Long Live Rift !!!!!!
MHAAAHAAHAAAAAA
Like it or hate it, WoW is still probably the most polished mmo around and easily the most successful. Marketting launched it brilliantly, but Blizzard have maintained their mmorpg domination over the last 6+ years by running a solid, reliable and enjoyable game. Marketting alone would not keep this mmo so popular for so long in a market as fickle as the mmo market.
The irony of your post is for someone who hates WoW, you love Rift for doing EXACTLY what WoW did all those years ago, taking existing mmo concepts and making them better. Amusing
Your proberly right mabyee i should clarify i hate the idea of WOW not the concepts that it represents.And your Right Rift did take some of those concepts and make them 1000000000000000000000000000 times beter.
Current games; Star treck online Rift Eve online Firefall
Like it or hate it, WoW is still probably the most polished mmo around and easily the most successful. Marketting launched it brilliantly, but Blizzard have maintained their mmorpg domination over the last 6+ years by running a solid, reliable and enjoyable game. Marketting alone would not keep this mmo so popular for so long in a market as fickle as the mmo market.
The irony of your post is for someone who hates WoW, you love Rift for doing EXACTLY what WoW did all those years ago, taking existing mmo concepts and making them better. Amusing
Your proberly right mabyee i should clarify i hate the idea of WOW not the concepts that it represents.And your Right Rift did take some of those concepts and make them 1000000000000000000000000000 times beter.
Do you care to elaborate? I honestly see nothing done better in Rift than in WoW. I hear people say this, and I just don't see it anywhere in the game. The only thing that was taken and improved was the PQ from WAR.
The only reason I can see people leaving WoW for to go play Rift is the newness and the graphics. I figure as soon as the new car smell leaves, everyone will go back to raid in the newest WoW patch.
Like it or hate it, WoW is still probably the most polished mmo around and easily the most successful. Marketting launched it brilliantly, but Blizzard have maintained their mmorpg domination over the last 6+ years by running a solid, reliable and enjoyable game. Marketting alone would not keep this mmo so popular for so long in a market as fickle as the mmo market.
The irony of your post is for someone who hates WoW, you love Rift for doing EXACTLY what WoW did all those years ago, taking existing mmo concepts and making them better. Amusing
Your proberly right mabyee i should clarify i hate the idea of WOW not the concepts that it represents.And your Right Rift did take some of those concepts and make them 1000000000000000000000000000 times beter.
Do you care to elaborate? I honestly see nothing done better in Rift than in WoW. I hear people say this, and I just don't see it anywhere in the game. The only thing that was taken and improved was the PQ from WAR.
The only reason I can see people leaving WoW for to go play Rift is the newness and the graphics. I figure as soon as the new car smell leaves, everyone will go back to raid in the newest WoW patch.
I left WoW prior to becoming interested in Rift. I wasn't having fun anymore and my friends pretty much stopped playing after Cata. Wasn't a dramatic thing, we just all drifted to other things. I gained interest in Rift when I finally tried the BETA, think it was 4, I started paying attention to the emails and gave it a spin one night. I am playing Rift now and having fun, something I wasn't having with WoW. Sure the mechanics and UI are the same, you'd be hard pressed to find a game that's vastly different of the same ilk. In any case it can be argued that different isn't laways better. I look at it as if it's more of an industry standard. Like the fact you hit mobs and money pops out, in some form or fashion, or killing rats and spiders is something we need to do before we fight cool shit. Space jumps and WADS make me move, it's something that just is. WoW has one of the more responsive, better laided out UIs in the business and they have been improvingon it over the years, to use it as a starting point isn't the worst thing you could do to win over gamers who have only played WoW.
If they deviate too far from the "norm" they alienate people just for the sake of being different. Sometimes I just wish you guys wouldn't over analyze games at the cost of fun. But I suppose Forum PvP is a game of sorts... the prize is the interwebnets.
TB your review on Darkspore was awesome lol. Made me miss the beta event already.
To me this is more for entertainment value than informative review. If you didn't pick up on that then shame on you.
The real question is, why is he slumming and how did he pick up on the thread? Did he pull a Smart? The world may never know...
My guess is that this was intentional marketting. The OP made that account specifically to post this thread :P Makes you look a bit unprofessional to directly post your own video like that. Could've even been him for all we know.
As to why TB dove into the troll pit... he couldn't resist. Me calling him egotistical wasn't the first time he's been called that, nor will it be the last, and he knows he is.
Umm. I don't think this website is really the marketing Mecca you folks make it out to be, I have friends who listen to him who couldn't find this website unless you linked it directly. And these are old time c64 buddies. I'm sort of suprised he even bothers with this place; it's mostly forum warriors, haphazard mod'n, insane speculation and baseless ramblings. Which pretty much sums up the internet, sure, but still. I figured he'd be panning the latest version of whatever LEGO game was released this week. Just seems more the RPS type is all.
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I agree completely. Playing now for a few days, the game is not WoW. I really do hate the term WoW Clone as WoW just as much a clone of Everquest as Rift is to WoW -
Most mmo's are going to have some simularites, doesn't make them a clone. Overall though, buy Rift. It's fun.
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I was never one to accuse a fantasy MMO of being a WoW clone before when everyone else was.
But this time I'm going to have to join the ranks.
This game is a blantant rip-off so much so that I couldn't play it for more than an hour.
That is my honest to god opinion. Apologies if anyone is offended by it.
I think the "this is wow" or "that is WoW" stuff is going to die out after the first few months like it always does.
The main focus for Trion is simple:
1. Better account security
2. Any exploits that pop up making sure they are dealt with
3. Finding bugs in end game and fixing them.
4. Server transfers to lighten this load on the Big 3 US servers and the EU servers which are just packed.
My feeling the next thing we will see is some type of server x-fer.
Now personaly i hate WOW with a passion but mate this doesnot show the features of this game at all all it shows is someone who had no interest playing the game in the first place having a crack at the bergining zone for 1 hour.
WOW was a horrible game with good marketing .
Rift takes the basis of the mmorpg and makes it better , faster smoother and more stunning.
Long Live Rift !!!!!!
MHAAAHAAHAAAAAA
Current games;
Star treck online
Rift
Eve online
Firefall
None taken. Out of curiosity though:
Have you played in the beta?
If yes, have you played enough to leave the tutorial zone?
Here's how I see things. Both WoW and Rift as a base design start from the same point. Lets call it vanilla point. WoW over the years moved to another point, the point of becoming a lobby game played for its instance content. Rift is moving from that same vanilla point but is headed towards the open world content as a primary focus and has instances only as added content, not the main focus.
The question is what you can expect to get as content updates from these two games. That will tell you how different they are.
For WoW, I would expect more instances, revamped or new.
For Rift, I would expect more variety in their open world rift events and perhaps a zone dedicated to conquest.
Come on, you are seriously deluding yourself if you think that Rift, which was released 6+ years after WoW, used this "vanilla point: as you call it for base. They used WoW for base, it is so evident that denying it is just silly.
Yes WoW borrowed from other games, no one is claiming otherwise, but Rift looks more like WoW than those "other" games.
Now if you were making the claim for EQ 2, which was released about the same time as WoW, I would agree with you.
As for open world over instanced, isnt end game of Rift mostly instances? In any case, if it is not then I applaud them for that because instancing is just a cheap way to handle large populations and erodes the massive experience of MMORPGs.
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1) The Open Beta, yes.
2) Yes I did. I played a Marksmen/Ranger.
(and on a more positive note: I do like the sound effects in the game, they were top notch and very crisp. so props on that)
Instancing is also the only technical feasible way to make sure your game doesn't crash if you have 500 people in the same area. Also a good way to balance the game so people just won't gather 600 people and zerg down the boss.
'What HP should this dragon/bug/nasty alien have?'
'I dunno. What's the limit of players that can fight him at once?'
'limitless'
'lolwut?'
Even EVE-Online struggles with fleet battles and the node will crash if there are too many people in one system.
Gdemami -
Informing people about your thoughts and impressions is not a review, it's a blog.
This is the feeling I get. For me they used the vanilla WoW as base, not EQ2. At least not EQ2 as it was released. Rift definitely does not play as WoW Cataclysm, that's for certain. WoW Cataclysm for me plays like DDO when it was released (no idea about DDO status today).
I'll be 50 today (or tomorrow at the latest), so you'll have to wait a bit to get first hand experience of end game in Rift. Well, my first hand anyway.
"WOW has over 10 million players, because 10 million people have computers that can run the game." - Dvalin
As I said before, there are a number of games out and a number coming out that lets face it kick WOW's ass in a lot of respects, but the one that really counts, Terra looks stunning, but whats the point when my computer cant even get above 10 frames per second, and I can get a steady 30+ in wow.
I would happily play Terra over wow, any day of the week and twice on sundays, but the simple fact of the matter is, that until these new mmo developers find a way to scale their engines back dynamically so that much older systems like mine can still run it nice and smooth, they are NEVER going to beat warcraft.
It's got ZERO to do with how good or bad the game is, it's simeply that millions of people still have out of date systems and will not be able to play it. as a result will simply stay with wow.
And with the global economy the way it is, simply going out to buy a new GFX card or in my case a brand new PC (required) simply is not viable.
Well, if developers didn't create game that put some pressure to today's hardware, we would be still playing in 386's or lower. You can do so much with some hardware, if you want more stuff you'll need to eventually upgrade.
Personally, I'm eagerly wait for the game that will force me to finally upgrade my old PC to something more powerful. From the looks of things, I'll probably have to wait for 2012 and unfortunately not from the western developers.
Like it or hate it, WoW is still probably the most polished mmo around and easily the most successful. Marketting launched it brilliantly, but Blizzard have maintained their mmorpg domination over the last 6+ years by running a solid, reliable and enjoyable game. Marketting alone would not keep this mmo so popular for so long in a market as fickle as the mmo market.
The irony of your post is for someone who hates WoW, you love Rift for doing EXACTLY what WoW did all those years ago, taking existing mmo concepts and making them better. Amusing
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Let's not forget Blizzard also out spent it's competition to ensure WoW stays on top, vanilla WoW had highest devolopment cost in history of games (only surpassed by GTA and CoD4) and the only now mmorpg that will surpass it will be KOTOR.
Keep in mind TB, this is nothing personal as I don't know you from Adam. However, after about 20 mins or so into watching the video, I got rather annoyed. I was hearing you talk about how you've been playing WoW for as long as you have, yet I'm watching you run around in Rift like a chicken with its head cut off, like it was the the first MMO you've ever played. Not only did you die in the starter zone, you kept running the wrong way even though your Minimap had a big glowing arrow, pointing you in the direction you needed to go. In all honesty, I couldn't help but think, "This guy is a moron", and it completely killed the video and your credibility as a reviewer for me, in this instance, IMHO.
I hope that you'll take this as constructive feedback rather than labeling me as a 'hater'.
If your video's "meat" isn't even part of the first 10 minutes, why are those 10 minutes there? Fluff? Huge videos load so slow on YouTube, so if the first stuff you show has nothing to do with the content of the video don't waste our time with it.
Whenever I see a video an hour long that'll take hours to download and an hour to watch I just assume what you just confirmed, that most of it's fluff that I won't want to see.
If you have "meaty information" you want to convey, make your video of that and edit out all the BS.
I have to agree.
Though I don't know this person's work, this video seemed very half hearted and could have been done a lot better. Now granted, he did say he was doing it because people were requesting it. Having said that, I wasn't really impressed or entertained and wouldn't see the incentive to follow up on other videos.
I pretty much watched for a bit, realized it was just futzing around i the game and then zipped to the place where he did the interview. Which I didn't finish because it wasn't that interesting to me.
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Your proberly right mabyee i should clarify i hate the idea of WOW not the concepts that it represents.And your Right Rift did take some of those concepts and make them 1000000000000000000000000000 times beter.
Current games;
Star treck online
Rift
Eve online
Firefall
Do you care to elaborate? I honestly see nothing done better in Rift than in WoW. I hear people say this, and I just don't see it anywhere in the game. The only thing that was taken and improved was the PQ from WAR.
The only reason I can see people leaving WoW for to go play Rift is the newness and the graphics. I figure as soon as the new car smell leaves, everyone will go back to raid in the newest WoW patch.
TB your review on Darkspore was awesome lol. Made me miss the beta event already.
To me this is more for entertainment value than informative review. If you didn't pick up on that then shame on you.
I left WoW prior to becoming interested in Rift. I wasn't having fun anymore and my friends pretty much stopped playing after Cata. Wasn't a dramatic thing, we just all drifted to other things. I gained interest in Rift when I finally tried the BETA, think it was 4, I started paying attention to the emails and gave it a spin one night. I am playing Rift now and having fun, something I wasn't having with WoW. Sure the mechanics and UI are the same, you'd be hard pressed to find a game that's vastly different of the same ilk. In any case it can be argued that different isn't laways better. I look at it as if it's more of an industry standard. Like the fact you hit mobs and money pops out, in some form or fashion, or killing rats and spiders is something we need to do before we fight cool shit. Space jumps and WADS make me move, it's something that just is. WoW has one of the more responsive, better laided out UIs in the business and they have been improvingon it over the years, to use it as a starting point isn't the worst thing you could do to win over gamers who have only played WoW.
If they deviate too far from the "norm" they alienate people just for the sake of being different. Sometimes I just wish you guys wouldn't over analyze games at the cost of fun. But I suppose Forum PvP is a game of sorts... the prize is the interwebnets.
The real question is, why is he slumming and how did he pick up on the thread? Did he pull a Smart? The world may never know...
My guess is that this was intentional marketting. The OP made that account specifically to post this thread :P Makes you look a bit unprofessional to directly post your own video like that. Could've even been him for all we know.
As to why TB dove into the troll pit... he couldn't resist. Me calling him egotistical wasn't the first time he's been called that, nor will it be the last, and he knows he is.
.. But in a good way.
Umm. I don't think this website is really the marketing Mecca you folks make it out to be, I have friends who listen to him who couldn't find this website unless you linked it directly. And these are old time c64 buddies. I'm sort of suprised he even bothers with this place; it's mostly forum warriors, haphazard mod'n, insane speculation and baseless ramblings. Which pretty much sums up the internet, sure, but still. I figured he'd be panning the latest version of whatever LEGO game was released this week. Just seems more the RPS type is all.
P.S. The Magicka series is great.