Archage is terrible!

HappyFunBall · August 2014

Tried the beta last night and man, it's almost exactly like every other Asian MMO, which means, total mindless, unimaginative crap. Is it really THAT hard to have some new ideas? Especially for Asian MMOs.. they are carbon copies of each other in play style and design.

You start in the same mindless 1-2 quest area, with 2 kinds of mobs always endlessly spawning, do 1-2 kill x of y, talk to this guy, get x of y items, then move onto the next area which you do EXACLTY the same thing, which looks exactly the same. That really all you do for many levels. You hit level 5 in about 15 mins, which to me, is completely challenge-less. You hit level 10 in 40-50 mins. Lame.

I bounced to 5 of these areas, each with only 2 mobs, which have pretty much zero AI, then I gave up.

This game only has 4 races, and as usual, they don't stray from the mage/fighter/thief/archer classes, plus another dot mage type. Wow, how imaginative.

The character design is the same anime type stuff which one race has those retarded dopey enormous eyes that simply MUST exist in every Asian made game, for some reason. All the default females look like they are 15 years old, but you can give them an older face by tweaking it. I couldn't find any options to change height and body type at all, just the face/hair.

The quests are completely mindless. You have zero interest to even read the dialogs, or care about the story. The first cut-scene in the game makes absolutely no sense. You have no idea what you are watching. I skipped the rest of the cut-scenes since they added nothing to the game.

The graphics are beautiful as are some of the creature types, but that's just eye candy, and doesn't help the actual game much.

In the chat, there were people saying ESO is shit, and "I love this game" and I was besides myself wondering what they actually loved about it? ESO is 100 times better than this garbage.

They add a ton of crafting, housing, and the pvp, but I couldn't stay interested long enough to bother.

The base game formula is simply too mindless for me. I could write a script to play 1/2 of the game for me.

Leveling, like so many games now, is tedious and boring, and just a means to an end, as people run to end game, pvp, etc. You don't enjoy the ride at all, which means, there's only 1/2 a game there.

There wasn't even a character doll where you equip items! You just double click them and they go into a standard inventory window.

I'm glad I don't follow hype, because then I don't get let down too much. That being said, I STILL thought this game would offer more than all the other Asian MMO clones. It doesn't. Just more of the same with only a couple expanded features.

Tyvolus4 · August 2014

Originally posted by HappyFunBall
Tried the beta last night and man, it's almost exactly like every other Asian MMO, which means, total mindless, unimaginative crap. Is it really THAT hard to have some new ideas? Especially for Asian MMOs.. they are carbon copies of each other in play style and design.

You start in the same mindless 1-2 quest area, with 2 kinds of mobs always endlessly spawning, do 1-2 kill x of y, talk to this guy, get x of y items, then move onto the next area which you do EXACLTY the same thing, which looks exactly the same. That really all you do for many levels. You hit level 5 in about 15 mins, which to me, is completely challenge-less. You hit level 10 in 40-50 mins. Lame.

I bounced to 5 of these areas, each with only 2 mobs, which have pretty much zero AI, then I gave up.

This game only has 4 races, and as usual, they don't stray from the mage/fighter/thief/archer classes, plus another dot mage type. Wow, how imaginative.

The character design is the same anime type stuff which one race has those retarded dopey enormous eyes that simply MUST exist in every Asian made game, for some reason. All the default females look like they are 15 years old, but you can give them an older face by tweaking it. I couldn't find any options to change height and body type at all, just the face/hair.

The quests are completely mindless. You have zero interest to even read the dialogs, or care about the story. The first cut-scene in the game makes absolutely no sense. You have no idea what you are watching. I skipped the rest of the cut-scenes since they added nothing to the game.

The graphics are beautiful as are some of the creature types, but that's just eye candy, and doesn't help the actual game much.

In the chat, there were people saying ESO is shit, and "I love this game" and I was besides myself wondering what they actually loved about it? ESO is 100 times better than this garbage.

They add a ton of crafting, housing, and the pvp, but I couldn't stay interested long enough to bother.

The base game formula is simply too mindless for me. I could write a script to play 1/2 of the game for me.

Leveling, like so many games now, is tedious and boring, and just a means to an end, as people run to end game, pvp, etc. You don't enjoy the ride at all, which means, there's only 1/2 a game there.

There wasn't even a character doll where you equip items! You just double click them and they go into a standard inventory window.

I'm glad I don't follow hype, because then I don't get let down too much. That being said, I STILL thought this game would offer more than all the other Asian MMO clones. It doesn't. Just more of the same with only a couple expanded features.

go find a game you like and play that.

SirBalin · August 2014

AA has a lot of end game thigs that are really different, sandboxy and fun. The combat is traditional tab target...blah, quests are ok i guess...doesn't send you all over the world for quests which is nice, but the game at end game is really in depth.