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RIFT Got a high rating, why? [Mod Edit]
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Edgar F Greenwood
I think the game getting a B is about right, it's solid in most area's and is pretty polished when it launched. I felt myself never excited while playing it, maybe I'll try it again in the future, but honestly, I want something new, not something that's be recycled through so many MMO's. The Rift content that I played, was never an eye candy to me, it was just there and it was all right. I have so many other games to look forward to that are coming out either this year or the next few, that are bringing so much more to the table.
Wildstar (2013) & Elder Scroll Online (2013)
Playing: Diablo 3, WOW, Far Cry 3 & X-Com.
Enjoyed: WOW 5 1/2 yrs, LOTRO 3yrs, GW 1/2yr, DFO 1yr, EVE Online 3yrs, and Huxley (Beta).
Failed to impress: GW2 3months, Tera Online 6 months (best combat system in any MMO I've played) STO 1/4yr, Aion 1/2yr, AoC 1yr, CO, Fallen Earth, DDO, EQ2 1/2yr, WAR 1/2yr, Lineage 2 and FF XI 1/2yr, FF XIV.
From my own experience, the first couple of days I played it, I would have said an A+. After about the 5th or 6th day a solid B, then after 2 weeks having tried both defiant and guardian sides and all the souls, with the highest level a 31 (Average about 2-3 hours a day playtime), and then unsubscribing and uninstalling before free time was up, a D.
Just curious, but why do people write "nub" instead of "noob" or "newb"? It's not even pronounced the same.
nub
[nuhb]
–noun
1. the point, gist, or heart of something.
2. a knob or protuberance.
3. a lump or small piece: a nub of coal; a nub of pencil.
4. a small mass of fibers produced on a card, dyed brilliant colors, and introduced into yarn during the spinning process.
nub
[nuhb]
–noun
1. the point, gist, or heart of something.
2. a knob or protuberance.
3. a lump or small piece: a nub of coal; a nub of pencil.
4. a small mass of fibers produced on a card, dyed brilliant colors, and introduced into yarn during the spinning process.
Come on, dont be that guy... no opinion is right or wrong.. thats why it's called an opinion.
Opinion:
1. A belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.
2. A personal view, attitude, or appraisal
I played it from level 1 to level 2 andd i think the whole game is the same..
I only received 1 piece of loot during my grindfest, graphics sux (i have a 17 year old GAMING computer & it can't run it on max!!!! i payed 2500 dollar back then !!!!!)
I saw run a chicken and i though, damn i wanna look like that on lvl 2, then i dinged lvl 2 and i wasn't a chicken ??ç!!!!!
There is also combat with your keyboard & mouse... RIPOFFFFFF, all other games are with a keyboard & mouse too !!! omg !!!
The only semi- cool thing is that my dude looks like a level 3 by level 2 instead of looking like some peasant !!!
This is my detailed review from the buddy weekends (ps i did not buy the game (yet))
How about the 14 pages complaining about the big "world event" which made the game unplayable atm? People crying to Trion to stop the event so they can actually play? Just a glimpse of that, a 20 pages topic:
http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?158856-Phase-2-Lag-amp-DC
How about the most gold spams and hacks, which were not resolved? People who call Trion just to hear "i'm sorry, no technical assistant is able to help you now", being sent from one place to the other, hours of phone calls without any solution?
http://forums.riftgame.com/showthread.php?158360-Major-problem-at-Trion
No Guild Bank. Not even a LFG tool. {mod edit}
Seriously your complaining about it not having guild bank or LFG tool, you do realize WoW did not launch with those features
. Rift will be getter later in the next patch. As for gold spams and hacks most of it has been reduced since launch if you played the game you would now.
Yea the world event isn't the best reminds me of lg issues that came with AQ event hopefully they resolve the issues, either ways its not deal breaker since there other things to do.
Except those posts he is refering to was created today and yesterday.
The opening mark is highly subjective. I consider both LotRO and Aion to both be better games. Then again, I also consider FFXIV to have the potential to be a better game than Rift, which is why I'm playing the former instead of the latter.
The problem with Rift isn't that it isn't a good game. It's that it's completely and utterly uninspired. It does absolutely nothing to move the genre forward.
It might not move the genre forward, but FFXIV has moved the genre backwards.
Rift doesn't really do anything new, but that doesn't mean it's not polished to the nuts and really fun to play with others. For the record, I really didn't like the game until I hit about lvl 12. The newbie area blows.
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I dislike Rift for being old sausage in new casing but even then if i had been asked imho a rating of 7 for the level of polish it has is ok.
Rating of 7 means its a mediocre, technically working game that does nothing wrong so far but lacks any intersting content.
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Anyway! Rift got such a high rating - because the Guys from the Gaming-Mags never met Endgame. And that's the sad part of testing MMOs: none of these tests includes Endgame.
But seriously who cares? Some of you people act like the whole world is depending on it!
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The fact that the players reviewed the game at an 8.63...makes the MMORPG rating seem perfectly acceptable.
Its a good game, it's a lot of fun for a lot of people...pure and simple. If this threatens some folks, for whatever reason, well, that's their problem.
What feature did it steal from WAR, if you are refering PQs they have nothing in common with Rfits. CoH had lot more innovative ideas than WoW (which in fact incoporated a ton of features from CoH in later patches) guess which MMO did better?
That and a new generation of ADHD gamers who can't take the time to spell out slang properly while they jump from mmo to mmo delcarling them all garbage.
This is the post I woke up to. Thank you. So much truth in one little space....a space the size of a small nub and yet large enough to hold a big chuckle.
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I wasnt impressed for the most part all through beta. Got one of the free keys here and must say I am enjoying myself. Will it be a long term thing? Doubtful, far too many quality single player games coming down the pipe.
I like the class system that they have going on. There is more variety within each archetype than any other class based game I have played. I also like the production value for the most part, although avatar locomotion is annoying. Granted very rarely does any publisher get it right whether it be single player or multiplayer, but it is the ONE thing that you ALWAYS see, unless you go first person mode and that doesn't address the problem of seeing everyone else running around with the absurd gait and movements. Don't know about the quest text or storyline because I have felt absolutely no desire to read the reams of text that it has thrown at me, and as with every game in the genre it is entirely trivial because nothing you or anyone does will have any impact on the game.
Is it worth $15 a month? Dunno, probably not.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/7300033012
Lol, another "things were sh*t 5 years ago so it's cool to happen again, we should not mind". Yes, things are as bad as they were 5 years ago, in some aspects. Too bad for a "Next Generation" game, as the devs call it.
For me, the argument that "WoW did not launch with guild bank and LFG tool so it's normal for the new games not to have them" does not have substance. Those features exist now in that game. When you launch a new product which is in direct competition with WoW (which has those features today, i'm comparing the games today, because i can play them both today, i'm not playing one now and one 5 years ago) there is no common sense reason not to have them implemented at launch. There is absolutely no counter-argument for the positive impact of guild banks or LFG tools (i've said LFG tools, NOT Dungeon Finder)
On the second point, lag issues for this event compared with lag issues that came with AQ - again, they should have had the experience from that event and what a terrible thing that was. I think they Knew Really Well what was going to happen with this world event. I think they knew their servers wont keep up with so many players in one place. Still, they voted for the event to go on. Because they were trying to scam people into keeping subscriptions for another month.
Last thing, the links i've provided, as it was said before, were made today and yesterday.
I'm not looking for a fight. I'm just disgusted by the companies which launch terrible unfinished products and try to sell them as "the next big thing", scamming people into buying the box for a huge price, considering the product. And i have the same disgust for the review sites which rate such games so high. All i can think is that the reviewer played the game only for 4 days, to lvl 20. As long as we keep supporting these aspects, we're gonna get junk games forever.
I understand your thought process, but to expect a new game to have everything current games do is unrealistic. All these tools and systems require time and effort to devolp, if a game didnt lauch until it had every aspect of every other game before it games would never get released. Wow has been out for 7 years how is a brand new game supposed to offer as much unless it were devolped for a similiar amount of time?
It is about money. If they tell the truth about how bad a game sucks then nobody makes money because noone will play it . So instead they tell you it is good so you go buy it so they can still have a job tomorrow. Comprende ?
If i were to open a new restaurant on an alley where there's already an old, good restaurant, i cannot offer less than that one offers and advertise "i'm better than that old place" because i will just piss off my clients. That was in fact what Trion said, all their marketing revolved around "this is better than WoW".
Those tools i was reffering to were already developed before by many teams. Trion could hire people who did it before. There was no need to re-invent the wheel. It should not take years, really.