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Beta Tester (my opinion on the game)
mrverse
Member Posts: 119
Too sum it up in one word, i cant.. this game is actually pretty good for a stress test.
Good points:
Classes, some are a bit narrow than others but they also do it right. They have every class everyone could want.
Graphics, most amazing ive seen in an mmo, ever.. their is new mmos comin out but so far now this stands out on top. Animations are smooth i mean super smooth, everyone around you really looks and feels like a human/creature/midget whatever. Even fighting and swaying as you swing your blade or weave a spell is smooth. Ofcourse this depends on your graphics setting, mine were medium, and medium never looked better, i tried high.. thats better hehe.. everything from jumping to the wide arrange of emotes was just smooth.
Enviroment, excellent landscape, hills, meadows, ruins, pretty rivers/waterfalls.. even the towns feel just surreal, like its a town ya know? theirs plenty detail too everything so long you have the settings on, its worth it..
Action, plenty of action.. i randomly went off exploring with a buddy and eventually stumbled on a bandit hideout which is in ruins up north of a town.. bandit after bandit after wolf after bandit luietenants came at us.. plenty of action if you look for it definitly.. Quests also play a role in action sequences aswell (their are raids ya know) so yea expect more! Think lotr epic battle kinda action hehe.
Skills, as far as i know, skills are awsome, theirs definitly variety in the skills.. you can make the same class and have a totally different build from another since your skills come in sets of three or four, and thats not including your passive abilities..
Nice LFG system.. yea as good as CoV's system
Bad Points
Enemy spawns, different areas spawn faster than others.. but thats not what bothered me.. what bothered me was that some spawn at the exact same spot... i know this wont be an issue for long but just letting you all know, expect your kill to respawn at the same spot.. kinda takes away the realism but than again its only a minor setback but in areas where the enemies are crowded and mobs spawn quick.. mmm extra xp, extra action, extra fun
So yea thats my opinion on the game, hope it helps some people since i heard alot of people saying it sucks or its nothing special.. it truly is heh im even preordering.. in comparison to any other game i cant really, i can only compare the emotes/ease of movement to WoW but thats about it.
Oh and i have noticed people saying its boring.. most of those people went on soloing by themselves.. half the fun of an mmo is interacting with others..
as soon as i stepped in the world i started talking to whoever and made some friends, instantly made the game fun instead of boring.. not that it was boring for me originally but it definitly pumped up the fun factor
for those who like to solo.. well you'll either like it or hate it, this games more of a group based game from what ive seen... so yea that sums it up
hope many others enjoy it like i did.. im not even a lotr fan and thought this game was gonna be kinda gay but hell i got the beta key and tried it out hehe
(i know i probably missed some good points but eh ohwell you'll find out for yourself)
Good points:
Classes, some are a bit narrow than others but they also do it right. They have every class everyone could want.
Graphics, most amazing ive seen in an mmo, ever.. their is new mmos comin out but so far now this stands out on top. Animations are smooth i mean super smooth, everyone around you really looks and feels like a human/creature/midget whatever. Even fighting and swaying as you swing your blade or weave a spell is smooth. Ofcourse this depends on your graphics setting, mine were medium, and medium never looked better, i tried high.. thats better hehe.. everything from jumping to the wide arrange of emotes was just smooth.
Enviroment, excellent landscape, hills, meadows, ruins, pretty rivers/waterfalls.. even the towns feel just surreal, like its a town ya know? theirs plenty detail too everything so long you have the settings on, its worth it..
Action, plenty of action.. i randomly went off exploring with a buddy and eventually stumbled on a bandit hideout which is in ruins up north of a town.. bandit after bandit after wolf after bandit luietenants came at us.. plenty of action if you look for it definitly.. Quests also play a role in action sequences aswell (their are raids ya know) so yea expect more! Think lotr epic battle kinda action hehe.
Skills, as far as i know, skills are awsome, theirs definitly variety in the skills.. you can make the same class and have a totally different build from another since your skills come in sets of three or four, and thats not including your passive abilities..
Nice LFG system.. yea as good as CoV's system
Bad Points
Enemy spawns, different areas spawn faster than others.. but thats not what bothered me.. what bothered me was that some spawn at the exact same spot... i know this wont be an issue for long but just letting you all know, expect your kill to respawn at the same spot.. kinda takes away the realism but than again its only a minor setback but in areas where the enemies are crowded and mobs spawn quick.. mmm extra xp, extra action, extra fun
So yea thats my opinion on the game, hope it helps some people since i heard alot of people saying it sucks or its nothing special.. it truly is heh im even preordering.. in comparison to any other game i cant really, i can only compare the emotes/ease of movement to WoW but thats about it.
Oh and i have noticed people saying its boring.. most of those people went on soloing by themselves.. half the fun of an mmo is interacting with others..
as soon as i stepped in the world i started talking to whoever and made some friends, instantly made the game fun instead of boring.. not that it was boring for me originally but it definitly pumped up the fun factor
for those who like to solo.. well you'll either like it or hate it, this games more of a group based game from what ive seen... so yea that sums it up
hope many others enjoy it like i did.. im not even a lotr fan and thought this game was gonna be kinda gay but hell i got the beta key and tried it out hehe
(i know i probably missed some good points but eh ohwell you'll find out for yourself)
Comments
Bad Points
Enemy spawns, different areas spawn faster than others.. but thats not what bothered me.. what bothered me was that some spawn at the exact same spot... i know this wont be an issue for long but just letting you all know, expect your kill to respawn at the same spot.. kinda takes away the realism but than again its only a minor setback but in areas where the enemies are crowded and mobs spawn quick.. mmm extra xp, extra action, extra fun
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Wanted to expand on this a bit as I also found it one of the shortcomings of the current design. In the stage 3 newbie zones, you get a quest to kill Diseased Boars. Now there are not a lot of them spawned, and as I did other quests, I would pick off one if It was there. Well, at the end of all my other quests, I still needed a bunch 'o Boars. What I found was exactly what the OP found. Mobs spawn at the same point all the time. Now, in this case, the spawn point could spawn one of 3 different mobs : Boar, Wolf, Bear. I assume this is true of all the other spawn points as well. After running all over the place and finding very few Boars, I decided to settle down on this one Spawn Point and kill whatever spawned until I had my Boars. Shades of EQ1 !
Well, this sort of need to do spawn camping went out with DAoC and is totally absent in WoW. To bring it back in LotRO is rather sad. It is not a game killer by any means, and is easily fixed. But, is just one of those things that make one go "Hmmm, what WERE they thinking?".