I appreciate the detail, but have to mention that your criteria are vastly different from my own.
To me, linear questing is not so terrible as long as the combat is engaging. I used to play AoC to death.. well.. I actually paid for it for a few months, when people were leaving in droves.
For me the most important aspect in a MMORPG is combat, everything else is secondary.
While I can appreciate open worlds and non-linear questing, to me the actual activity I spend doing all of those things has the greatest weight and rightfully so, since most of the time you actually spend in game will be engaging in combat, unless it's the type of game where crafting is its own form of combat e.g. Vanguard/EQ2 (or a card game like diplomacy).
So to me this review is honestly next to worthless, no offense.
This is a sequence of characters intended to produce some profound mental effect, but it has failed.
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I appreciate the detail, but have to mention that your criteria are vastly different from my own.
To me, linear questing is not so terrible as long as the combat is engaging. I used to play AoC to death.. well.. I actually paid for it for a few months, when people were leaving in droves.
For me the most important aspect in a MMORPG is combat, everything else is secondary.
While I can appreciate open worlds and non-linear questing, to me the actual activity I spend doing all of those things has the greatest weight and rightfully so, since most of the time you actually spend in game will be engaging in combat, unless it's the type of game where crafting is its own form of combat e.g. Vanguard/EQ2 (or a card game like diplomacy).
So to me this review is honestly next to worthless, no offense.
This is a sequence of characters intended to produce some profound mental effect, but it has failed.