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D&D is the best game EVER !
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I worship this game. I have so much fun. People who don't like it are just the agents of the other game developpers. They write just to sabotage this wonderfully done game.
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Rolling On The Floor Laughing Too Hard To Stop And Scaring The Cat, Meanwhile My Mom Walked In And Thought I Had Eaten Poisonous Mushrooms And She Called The Paramedics And They Took Me Too Mad House And All Of This Is Your Fault You Stupid Fathead Piece Of **** With Your Lame Jokes That Make Me Laugh This Much You Bastard
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No offence Laun, but thats not even funny.
This game is clearly bleeding players at an astonishing rate. There is a reason for that.
On a positive note, well, umm....its not as bad as DnL I guess.
What do you base that theroy on, Die?
I am not disputing you...I just dont see it.
If expecting quality from a game makes me an "agent of other game developers", then I guess I'm an agent, along with millions of other folk.
ROFLMAO.. Dude gamez dead...
After getting bored with the quests and world of EQ2, I decided to give this game and Ryzom a go via the free trials and fell in love with DDO.
Yes, the content is not as numerous as most but what there is I find to be of a much higher standard than the usual "kill 20 spiders" routine.
I really like the graphics and atmospherics of the game, EQ2 just seems too bland and pasteurised compared to this game.
It's strange because I have never been a fan of grouping but DDO has changed my mind, the community is amazing, truthfully (Ryzom's community good also)
For me, these games are about the character you create and develop along the journey and DDO's character progression is brilliant, playing a caster is so refreshing that I get a different spell every level and not fireball rank 1 or 2 and so on, that always took something away from levelling for me, not many choices.
I am grateful I am able to make my own decisions on what games I like and not what people on forums or reviewers tell me I should or should not like because I bet a lot of people overlook this game.
Yes, the content is not as abundant as most mmo's but more content is going in this month, next month sees an increase of total content by 30%, pvp added, auction house etc. IMO, things are only getting better.
Is easier for dev's to develop 'kill 20 of these generic spiders at lvl 50, the same ones you killed at lvl 1 and lvl 5 and lvl 10 etc" (different colour spiders to me, don't really cut it as well thought out content)
This is a good game, if you have not tried, download the free trial, make your own mind up.
You must not leave until you free Arlos and have gathered your party safely in this hallway.
I thought the content that I actually got to play was pretty good, however I couldnt find a group that would consent to doing anything other than the same damn mission over and over and over..
I worship D&D, I am a D&D nerd.
DDO is NOT a D&D product, it is an action game with a D&D skin...it is a nice action game, but it is not what they advertise it to be.
- "If I understand you well, you are telling me until next time. " - Ren
Well, where the hell are my paychecks, then? Because I played this game when it was in beta and even tried the trial a few months later, and I will always believe: DDO SUCKS. And Anofalye is right, it is nowhere near being a true D&D experience. Just another waste of a really fantastic IP. Just my opinion.
I don't like cheese, however, I don't go round the supermarkets asking people who pays them for eating the stuff! I don't leave notes around the place saying cheese sucks!
Thankfully, I don't need to be told or paid to like a game.
You must not leave until you free Arlos and have gathered your party safely in this hallway.
Well, We3, I applaude your post, as its very easy to grasp your likes of the game and why you like the different aspects.
May I ask though, how long have you played for? I am going to guess less then or about a month? I say that because I felt the same way...until I maxed a toon in 14 days, and realized thats it. there is NOTHING else to do but run the game again with a diff toon.
BTW, Turbine likes to promise new this and that, improved X and exciting new X, but they often fail to deliver.
Don't hold your breath. AC2?
DDO will die. The no regen health, mana, rest shrines? Static content, brutal boredome of repeating cintent over and over?
I said in another post "its like they want you to read an Archie comic over and over and try to laugh at the same jokes every time."
I have been playing for just under 2 months now and not bored yet. In terms of restarting out the game with a different toon, this was no different from when I was playing WoW, got to 60, start again.
Whilst I also respect your opinion on DDO, I can never understand why people who don't like the game feel the need to come into the forums of the game they don't or no longer play and continually feel they need to warn people that it is crap or rubbish. (Be that DDO or any other game).
I have played EQ2, WoW and Eve but no longer go into message boards about these games and warn people that it may be crap. What I like about a game, others may detest and vice versa.
About repeating content, a quest in WoW or EQ2 can have you killing 20 spiders at lvl 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60 etc, just because the spider can be a different colour, in a different place and have more hitpoints does not mean it is not repeated.
I don't max toons in 14 days so perhaps that is why the game is not for you and you need something that can offer more and that is fine and there is nothing wrong with that, move along to a game that can accomodate your needs.
I can't understand this need for people who don't like something to try and get others to not like it. As I said earlier, I don't like cheese but don't stand at the cheese counter telling people the reasons why I don't like it, try to prevent them buying it or slagging off the company that makes it. If you met someone in the store like that, well, you'd think they were weird, wouldn't you?
In terms of the rest shrine system, I love it, as a caster it brings a tactical edge to the game, saves me wasting mana and can be an achievement in a hard dungeon to reach the shrine, a sort of mini goal within the main dungeon goal.
You must not leave until you free Arlos and have gathered your party safely in this hallway.
The DDO Sucks posts would be fine if they gave credit where due. For all of Die_Scream's "sucks" posts about the game, two posts above even he says he felt the same way as We3ster until he maxed his first character. People say the same things about WoW at 60. If someone can get even 2-4 full weeks out of a $14.99 game, that's usually pretty good nowadays.
And let's be honest, a lot of "quest" content in other games is a joke. And the term "persistent world" is often a joke too as the monsters you just killed respawn minutes later and jump you from behind. I don't know too many persistent worlds where someone heroically kills a Big Bad Evil Guy and then the person standing nearby says, "I got next," as he waits for it to respawn.
In another thread, Die_Scream said, "No wonder everyone runs like hell through them, there is absolutely no surprises, no exploration, and no caution needed." Come on. On your 10th time (as you said) through, yeah, there's no surprises left, but I find it hard to believe anyone can say that on their first or maybe even third time through. In other popular MMO's, you usually see every danger ahead of you clear as day. The Big Bad Evil Guys are standing right there within 20 feet of where you expect them to be, and even a blind character can see the "traps" in front of him.
You're telling me having the floor fall out from under you wasn't a surprise? Or how about the traps in the gargoyle cave in Redwillow? You didn't have to explore probably more than you even wanted to in that 3-Barrel Cove quest with the huge fire furnace trap in it or in Vault of Night or Twilight Forge? You didn't need to use any caution for the tons of traps in the Redfang quest or when fighting elite fire reavers? You just marched right on through Taming the Flames, Tempest Spine, Xorian, and VoN3 your first time in them?
There's plenty of things to rag on DDO about without ragging on things it actually does well.
I think grimboj summed DDO up: "The game is fundamentally fun but its longevity is seriously flawed." Still, give credit where due.
Pvp? Didn't they say this game was never going to be Pvp? Not in their vision? Wonder why they're going against their vision? Wait...cause they're desparate! Pvp never saves a game. The masses don't like Pvp.
Auctionhouse? For what? Magic items drop like candy in this game. The entire world is just FILLED with super powered magic items. It's ridiculous. THere's no need for an AH--just go run a quest and you'll probably get 4 of what you're looking for.
Turbine laid an egg with this one. They know they did. They're just trying to keep people playing long enough before they pull the plug now to try and savlage SOME of the money they're going to be losing on this project. Their goal is just like it was for AC2, mark my words: Keep some people around long enough to buy the expansion, and once they buy it--pull the plug. They just have to string you along a little while longer, a little while longer...
This is why the game is only 15 dollars now.
Pvp? Didn't they say this game was never going to be Pvp? Not in their vision? Wonder why they're going against their vision? Wait...cause they're desparate! Pvp never saves a game. The masses don't like Pvp.
Auctionhouse? For what? Magic items drop like candy in this game. The entire world is just FILLED with super powered magic items. It's ridiculous. THere's no need for an AH--just go run a quest and you'll probably get 4 of what you're looking for.
Turbine laid an egg with this one. They know they did. They're just trying to keep people playing long enough before they pull the plug now to try and savlage SOME of the money they're going to be losing on this project. Their goal is just like it was for AC2, mark my words: Keep some people around long enough to buy the expansion, and once they buy it--pull the plug. They just have to string you along a little while longer, a little while longer...
This is why the game is only 15 dollars now.
You obviously don't like the game and I assume are not playing it, so why bother talking about it? I have played both WoW and EQ2 extensively but since I quit both games, I no longer go onto their websites or read their forums on this or their own websites. I've moved on.
Perhaps you should too.
You must not leave until you free Arlos and have gathered your party safely in this hallway.
Syngexx & Lamethrower:
you guys are fucking trolls.
Asheron's Call 2's downfall was Turbine's decision to close it, but it was Microsoft in the beginning who totally ignored the problems that plagued it.
Get some things to do in life that don't involve self-justification through the insulting of online games. Seriously.
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Some ppl like this game ( like me
So before yuo do a post ... play the game...like 1 / 2 weeks to know about the game
ps: sorry bad english
Have fun
The reason my post and other post deleted is it was a commercial, something like "we level up your character". And i quoted that message and wrote
"You have to pay me to play this piece of shit."
Thats why my post is deleted and you don't have to play this game for a week to understand that its crap. Dont force yourself to like this game. If its crap, its crap. Just say it.
You obviously don't like the game and I assume are not playing it, so why bother talking about it? I have played both WoW and EQ2 extensively but since I quit both games, I no longer go onto their websites or read their forums on this or their own websites. I've moved on.
Perhaps you should too.
And your high horse is where exactly ? People like you disgust me more than the ones that continually bash with no ryme or logic behind anything they say. Instead of trying to counter legit issues raised the fanboi instead retorts to this same tired old excuse because in the end this is all they usually have left.
DDO ?
Is an ok game but it breaks no molds and hardly can be called an MMO. I would say its in the same realm as GW and they really shouldn't be charging a monthly fee for the game. As well the game does fail to capture what D&D is all about. What is D&D all about ? Its about a hell of a lot more than the game its about the fiction the novels the epic journies with comrads in arms. You stop at the local tavern listen to a bard's tales and rest up with a plate of spice'd potatoes before you continue on your way. DDO is not like this at all period nada end of debate. However if you were looking for a good representation of the table top game that DDO fits the bill nicely. Its a decent adaptation of the game but thats it. It captures nothing else that is D&D. But its one serious flaw other than that is content. Everyone blitz's through the quests because everyone knows where every nook and cranny is and they know where every mob is. The ONLY thing that changes with difficulty are the HP's of the said mobs and their saving throws thats it. So still everyone blitz's through the quests in hopes of getting something they need out of the X number of chests in the run. If they don't get it they quickly leave the quest and run it again or move on to the next one and do it the exact same way. Why is this happening ? DDO needed about 10 to 20 times the quest content that is has now. It also needs a decent back story to tie everything together. So given its all instance based I am still hard pressed to call this an MMO but rather that Storm reach is just a battlenet lobby that people use before they go into the next dungeon run. This is of course all totally dependant if you can get a group or not.
DDO is not casual friendly and you are totally dependant on others for your game play. If You sign on and have only an hour or two to spare and can get no group in the first half an hour you are pretty much SOL for that session. Now does this mean it needs solo content ? I'm still undecided because DDO EXCELS in group play. Thats how its really meant to be played. But what else is there to do once you have run every dungeon in the game 2 or 3 times ? Believe it or not thats really easy to do.
In the end DDO is niether better pure quality wise than games like WOW and EQ2 nor is it really worse. But rather it is different. Its not the worst game ever and no where near even the best. It's just an average game. An average MMO that still needs lots more work and tons more content. Certainly more work before Turbine can justify the $14.99 a month subscription cost.
Meh. It's not D&D. It's a D&D Derivative. I'll wait for Neverwinter Nights 2 for my AD&D fix.
Forget DDO, forget MEO...
Turbine just needs to revive Asheron's Call 2 and put more into making that the kick-ass game it could have been.. then I'd be happy :-) AC2 had everything in place that they'd need. A unique world, unique classes, unique races, plenty of lore to draw from, an awesome crafting system... Everything they need is right there. They just need to do it right.
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