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Anyone know a game like this?
Okay, i've looked and i have YET to find something that fits this description (damn you SOE for taking pre-cu from me!).
Visuals - I don't need totally detailed, beautiful graphics. I think runescape's graphics are plenty for me. Still I would like something colorful and, if possible, not too earth-toned. Also, I don't care if it's 2D or 3D.
Controls - All I need is WASD or arrow keys for movement, the rest...i don't really care. Oh, also, i'd like for the camera to be able to be behind, but a little above, the character, with some distance in between. If not, if it's in an equally useful place, that's fine with me.
Pets - A big reason I play mmo's is so that I can get cool pets in em, expessially if they can fight with me!
Price - I don't care if there's a fee, but i won't object to a cheap/free game
Vista - It needs to run with vista...I really need XP...
Crafting - I'd like a deep crafting system, but it's not a deal breaker...unlike that last one...seriously, if i can't play the game I'm gonna be sad.
Map size - I need plenty of room to stretch my legs in a game if i'm going to like it.
Things I will object to - Ultima Online (I met no kind people last time I played that) MapleStory (sadly, i can't get it to work)
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Hey Den...the closest game I can say matches what you want is Vanguard. I played it for 6 months but left due to RL and other games. It had its faults but what it had and what you are looking for is pretty close:
Pets - lots of them
Crafting - huge options and mini game. Main reason why I stayed on.
World - If you have the right rig its gorgeous, massive, instance free and you can roam a lot
Avatar graghics - it is as you say, just behind and up a bit
I personally needed more from a game and the people I played with were at different time zones so I got sick of looking for groups to do quests. However I did have fun with it and I played at launch when it was bugged to hell. I hear they have several different kinds of mounts and flying ones now as well. Flying mounts in the game are available for 5 minutes if you pay for them and its worth flying around, pretty amazing really. I would recommend trying a trial to see what you think but you do need a tough rig to play it.
Not for me but does match a lot of your wish list. Not interested in AoC?
I don't really know what the big deal with AOC is actually, do you? Anyway I actually was thinking about Vanguard. It looks pretty sweet, I'm probably gonna need to build myself a new computer for it though, unless I could run it on like, low. Keep in mind, the best I've had on this computer was WoW...would I be able to?
Well I was running it with the following:
4800 dual core AMD
7600 GT 256 mb
2 gig of ram.
Now I was getting around 20-35 FPS on around medium but the graghics were still great. I bought another 7600GT 256 and hooked both of them up and the FPS went to 40 on average. Since then I have upgraded to a 8800GT 512mb but I haven't played with this.
TBH you need 2 gig of ram as a minimum. If you want to upgrade and don't have cash to splash out you can get very cheap CPU's and very cheap cards that would do a good job.
Also they have really fixed up a huge amount of bugs and performance issues so that will help to. Vanguard had 3 career paths, crafting, diplomacy and fighting. I did enjoy how I could go weeks without fighting. I managed to build ships in the end and that takes time.