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KaiserAlexander
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The game has 10 content patches, and will soon get an expansion that gives the game awesome features like player housing.
The content delivery is top notch, and you really get the most out of your monthly fee.
supporting rift means supporting a high standard in content delivery of mmorpgs [mod edit]
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Good graphics and sound, lots of ways to play, best dev team ive seen. Its as close to a sure thing as they come in an mmo these days.
Long time lurker, first time poster here. I will come out of my shell to support Rift. From a PvE point of view, this game has everything I could ask for. The PvP is enjoyable too, albeit a little un balanced.
With the addition of guild and player housing, and the locales you will unlock from raiding, I am more excited for Storm Legion than I have ever been for any expansion. Taking as much time off work as I can afford from November 13th onward. I hope more people pick this title up.
I played for the first month after release, hit level 38 and quit. Its a good game but still a generic themepark, no amount of rifts can change that. Currently getting my sandbox fix from eve but i think when im ready for themeparks again this will be the game I go to.
If they ever expand the game beyond combat (I realize that housing among other things is being implemented but it still isnt quite enough) then I will return in a heartbeat
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Rift started out very WoW and has since branched out into many non wow systems and features. The WoW option of playstyle is still there and you're more than welcome to play Rift that way. However, I don't want to just play Rift like I would play WoW and fortunately the game has expanded and continues to offer new ways to experience the game.
Storm Legion will push Rift even further away from the WoW mold and that is a good thing in my book. However, I still enjoy the fact that I have those standard hubs, dungeons and raids available to me if and when I feel the urge.
RIFT is the best MMO I have ever played, and I've tried a lot of them. TRION pushes out content so fast you literally never have time to be bored, and it's QUALITY content. Absolutely amazing stuff.
The amount of stuff they are bringing out in their expansion is more content then most games LAUNCH with. They are tripling the world size just for starters.
Absolutely amazing game and the first 20 levels are free so why not give it a shot
The only thing you'll miss is Panda's or wandering around maps being bored collecting pies for Centaurs.
When I wake up, the real nightmare begins
how so? What new ways?
While Rift expanded, they just grabbed up other game ideas, to my knowledge. Is there something unique to Rift?
I'm not intentionally trying to be difficult, but frankly, I'm a tad bored of playing the same rehashed ideas from game to game. Rift has Public Quests / Events / Rifts .. Rift has public housing. Just asking if by something non-WoW, that means something brand new?
It's been awhile and this game fell off my radar.
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currently level 10 on the 20level free trial .... not that bad a game for a themepark. but for the first 3 days I did not meet a player soul. seems that the newb zone is not very populated and that tells something.
I like the world, but I miss options. Vendors have nothing worth buying, loot drops are generic, usualy I have to rely on crafting to craft anything workable.
Rifts are fun. But they are either too easy (same or lower level as my char) or instantly deadly (anything higher level than my char. It looks as if the difficulty scales on a logarithmic scale.
Btw where are the elements ? I hit a fire creature with a water spell and I dealt the same damage as if I hit somehting else. Does not make sens.
Took me 5 minutes with their website to remove Rift from my list:
- Only 6 races. => Gah.
- Darkelves exist (Yay !) but have no dark skin. => GAH !
- Enforced Racial wars. => SUPER GAH !
- Only 4 Classes with the riddiculous forced multiple time subclassing like I know and hate it from DA:O. => Thanks, but no thanks.
Just to be clear, I dont oppose subclassing and multiclassing at all. What I consider riddiculous is getting forced into subclassing and/or multiclassing, just to gain numerically a high "variance". That variance is a fake.
Any such system will have multiple subclasses that have synergy. These combination will be what will be played in the end.
That means if you have 12 subclasses and force the player to choose 3 of them, best case scenario is that you get 4 actual classes out of it. Because rarely will players choose subclass combinations of low synergy - and if they do, they will get most likely frustrated. They will for sure not gain entrance into the more powerful guilds.
MMOs are highly competitive environments. Being underpowered is not an enjoyable fate.
I played Rift til about level 40, but then quit because it made me miss WoW too much and because my PC couldn't really handle Rift very well.
But looking back, it's by far the best (non WoW) MMO I've tried of the "search for the wow killer" era (WAR,AOC,AION, etc...).
The talent system in particular is fantastic, especially now, considering how dumbed down WoW's has gotten. I like how it's WoW 2.0 + a lot more, in the sense that it took everything good from WoW and added loads more that's also good.
Was tempted to take the yearly pass, but decided not to. Don't have time for an extra MMO.
The poster you are responding too said the gameplay was too much like WoW. Im assuming what he meant is that the actual (combat) mechanics of the game, not the content, is too similar to WoW.
And I can see where he is coming from. Not a huge deal to me, personally, but I definitely understand it. Its tough to explain, but WoW and Rift combat do feel very alike, but so do a lot of games. LOTRO, for instance, feels like a sluggish WoW. Even GW2, with its dodging and everything, doesnt feel all that different. Mostly due to the GCD/rotation system. EQ2 manages to feel a little different despite many of the same ideas behind, but maybe because its the one game not trying to mimic WoW (because it was developed simultaneously so wasnt able to be modeled after WoW)
Its actually only four races. Dwarves, 2x humans, 2 x elves, and bigger, blue humans.
That said, the class thing is a bit different. Rift kind of forces you to have 2 or 3 minimum set ups to be 'maxed'. There is no best dps build, because different fights favor different types of dps builds.
You are right about the synergy though, the trees have been greatly expanded for SL so not sure if there will be increased synergies or not. But for most souls there are maybe 3 choices to choose your other 2 souls from.
While Rift expanded, they just grabbed up other game ideas, to my knowledge. Is there something unique to Rift?
I'm not intentionally trying to be difficult, but frankly, I'm a tad bored of playing the same rehashed ideas from game to game. Rift has Public Quests / Events / Rifts .. Rift has public housing. Just asking if by something non-WoW, that means something brand new?
It's been awhile and this game fell off my radar.
Well, Im not a hardcore raider and I play mmorpgs for the social and non combat aspects first. I prefer support as my combat role which is usually heals or a mixture of heals buffs debuffs control.
So from that viewpoint, I play Rift a little different than the average mmo'er i guess. Lots of fishing and cooking, dying armor and clothes, crafting collaborations with guild mates, role playing, attending rp events and weddings. I also enjoy mentoring down and doing instant adventures as well as occasional mentored dungeons and always mentor down in lower level zone invasions.
Mentoring and Planar attunement has really opened up the game world and made almost every open world activity a group experience.
Being able to set out a campfire and a tent while fishing with other people is pretty cool. And when the zone invasions come, we mentor down, pack up, and go for it. There are a crap load of crafting recipes and they take resources from all over the game. So creating that perfect robe takes a lot of time and market savvy. As well as trading with other players.
Thats just the way I roll though. May not be your playstyle. All I know is that storm legion brings more variety to what I already like about the game, plus adds housing, hunt rifts, and world bosses. So im pretty much set with a good mmorpg experience with Rift. And the server I play on is really cool. Lots of decent people.
Once "content" became the genre code word for "more pointless filler fetch quests" I stopped caring about content.
Until the game stops being a WoW clone, I'll continue not caring.
Its just another one of those games. I played for a while and realized it was just mediocre at best. I did enjoy the random events popping up till thats all anyone ever did. But this was when Rift first went live.
I couldnt pin point the "challenging" aspect of this game. Maybe I missed it some where.
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Some people are so used to WoW that anything even slightly more engaging is "challenging". Hell, there's some crazies out there that call WoW hardcore, or pretend that "vanilla WoW' was hardcore.
I know! I find that funny as hell.
First time poster as well, but I'll come out in support of Rift. Everything since DAoC has been garbage not fit to be installed on anyones computer, let alone mine.
Rift gave me hope that developers still cared about their game and not just their profit margins.
We have gotten more free content out of Trion than Blizzard has released for WoW total. The game is a joy to play, and with the new expansion coming, I have to say this is the first time I have ever been excited about housing in a game. Every other game that had housing (EQ2, DAoC, etc) it was a total bore.
Give it a try, no harm in playing the free trial to level 20.
EDIT: Also those saying the game is bland obviously never played past level 5, and if they did then they are wrong and just a fanboy of some other game.
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