The game is EASILY 9.0. I am on the higher levels. My main is even higher then the guy in my sig. This game is a GREAT game. Just got to not listen to the haters.
It's funny when people try to state their opinion as fact). I tried War for a couple of weeks and got bored with it. Everquest 2 is the game that I like much more. I love being able to think for myself!
Whats even funner is I didn't state whether this was opinion or fact. Just said it was a easily a 9.0. Don't be a troll and go back to the vanguard forums.
The only FACT I can say is no matter what anyone says its still a great game.
A well deserved score for WAR, although I still haven't forgiven IGN for giving one of my favorite games a 3/10 just because the game was too hard for the reviewer (he pretty much even said it in his lousy review). Gaming journalism is just a big joke every now and then.
A well deserved score for WAR, although I still haven't forgiven IGN for giving one of my favorite games a 3/10 just because the game was too hard for the reviewer (he pretty much even said it in his lousy review). Gaming journalism is just a big joke every now and then.
A single review is highly subjective and not worth much, but when there are lots of postive reviews then a game picks up notice. It's nice IGN added its voice to the positive reviews WAR has been receiving.
yea and look at all the horrible reviews the game is getting... im taking notice
9 seems a bit generous to me, I would give it 7,5. Not bad but can be improved.
But it is off course my personal opinion. Still, the game do have things that do need improvement like the balance between the 2 sides, more dungeons and the rest of the citys. The graphics is more a 7 then a 9 or 10.
Im sure WAR will be a 9 in 6-12 months but it is just not really there yet, a 9 should be almost perfect.
Giving a MMO like WAR a review before anyone has truely played endgame content is stupid. I'll wait 6+ months after release before I believe any review of a Class/level based MMO. Anything before that is either fanboi hype or haters bogus reviews to sway new players away.
dude, why not just give it 3 or 4 years ? that way, ya know, the reviewers will have alot more info to go on. Dont limit yourself to just 6 short months !!
HAHA! relax everyone knows reviews on MMOs are totally worthless.
I'm sure that reviewer has time to level to a decent level before he reviews .
How can anyone give a MMO a true rating if they dont actually experience all the aspects of the game?
Anyway I'm not saying WAR is a bad game, I'm just saying these reviews don't hold much weight.
Do you think someone who levels to 10 is qualified to review a game were the cap is 40 and endgame is a game onto it self? yeah i thought so.
I knew it would get a 9.0 or above, they really know mmos over there . Now will you trolls go away...it's official!
EDIT: all you guys coming in saying the game is not a 9.0...what level are you. state your level. the games excitement kick in for me at level 24. we had a few amazing keep battles, one lasted an hour. until you experience that i dont think you should be saying what score it deserve and does not.
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"They really know mmos over there"
They gave Asherons Call 2 a 9.0/10. That game FAILD, not only did it suck it ended up shutting down. AC1 was a great game and it got rated worse.
The point?
Reviews mean nothing, if you like the game great, that still wont change my mind or many others.
IGN gives is 9, 1UP says its a B (8), other sites give it a perfect score 10/10. To its credit, not one site I could find gave it less than an 8, which is a pretty good trend indicator, though I think no newly released MMO should be rated higer than an 8, but that's just me.
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The game is EASILY 9.0. I am on the higher levels. My main is even higher then the guy in my sig. This game is a GREAT game. Just got to not listen to the haters.
Wow, I am incredibly flattered that I made it into your "hater" list, and I'm number 1! Can I put you as number one in my "WAR Fanboi" list? Then we could be "stupid lists in our signatures" buddies!
BTW, this game is no where near a 9. Not even close. I'd say it's probably around a 7.
Tried: LotR, CoH, AoC, WAR, Jumpgate Classic Played: SWG, Guild Wars, WoW Playing: Eve Online, Counter-strike Loved: Star Wars Galaxies Waiting for: Earthrise, Guild Wars 2, anything sandbox.
I knew it would get a 9.0 or above, they really know mmos over there . Now will you trolls go away...it's official!
EDIT: all you guys coming in saying the game is not a 9.0...what level are you. state your level. the games excitement kick in for me at level 24. we had a few amazing keep battles, one lasted an hour. until you experience that i dont think you should be saying what score it deserve and does not.
Who the hell are you to say whose opinion means more then anothers??? noone. Someone who played 10 mins opinion is just as valid as yours. For some reason if a game doesnt pull u in right away its no good, and to them it really IS no good. Dont try to say who can state opinions or not, I cant stand ignorance... It didnt deserve a 9..... id give it a 6.0 TOPS, and thats being generous. It's a good game for lil kids and people new to the mmo genre and people who hate player skill and risk vs reward, just not my cup of java
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I only joined a guild at lvl 14 on one of 4 servers im on. have so far 2 lvl 14 and 2 lvl 13's and only 1 has a guild...WAR definately doesn't make you join a guild to have fun just like the one above me said
Purpose in life is not to gain things, but experience. - Rover64dd
I had to stop reading that review after he said this game is very social, and the world so well designed that the population is never spread out.
I'm on a high pop server, Ive been on 3 like it. Theres 2 hour queues to get in the game, yet when you are actually in it, there is no one around. The game is barren and it is specifically because the world is designed with large numbers in mind but the servers obviously dont support the numbers of people needed for the amount of zones provided.
As for the social part of the game lol This is deffinatly the most anti social game out there. You can do everything solo, there is no reason to group. Noone talks. The community and the game on the whole because it does not encourage it by its game design, is anti social.
I agree with the first part of the review this game does have a lot to do, however all of it seems unfinished and needs work, especially the combat.
I dont think this guy played the game for very long to be honest, either that or reviewers have given up trying to hide they have been influenced by advertisers. I think the Gamespot review is more honest about what to expect in the game, although the score does not match up with what is said in their review.
I had to stop reading that review after he said this game is very social, and the world so well designed that the population is never spread out. I'm on a high pop server, Ive been on 3 like it. Theres 2 hour queues to get in the game, yet when you are actually in it, there is no one around. The game is barren and it is specifically because the world is designed with large numbers in mind but the servers obviously dont support the numbers of people needed for the amount of zones provided. As for the social part of the game lol This is deffinatly the most anti social game out there. You can do everything solo, there is no reason to group. Noone talks. The community and the game on the whole because it does not encourage it by its game design, is anti social. I agree with the first part of the review this game does have a lot to do, however all of it seems unfinished and needs work, especially the combat. I dont think this guy played the game for very long to be honest, either that or reviewers have given up trying to hide they have been influenced by advertisers. I think the Gamespot review is more honest about what to expect in the game, although the score does not match up with what is said in their review.
if i had to rate the game i would also say its very social as i have a very huge guild. constant chat going on all the time, evrey 5 minutes some one is going on a keep raid and askin anyone want to come. also guild events going on every day. the problem i seen with other mmos is that everyone and there mother has a guild. most guilds are small, and the large guilds are private. so in a nutshell its very social. just cuase you dont go into town and 1000s of people spamming enchantments and stuff doesnt mean it not social. but if you dont have a useful guild i can see it being a problem.
I had to stop reading that review after he said this game is very social, and the world so well designed that the population is never spread out. I'm on a high pop server, Ive been on 3 like it. Theres 2 hour queues to get in the game, yet when you are actually in it, there is no one around. The game is barren and it is specifically because the world is designed with large numbers in mind but the servers obviously dont support the numbers of people needed for the amount of zones provided. As for the social part of the game lol This is deffinatly the most anti social game out there. You can do everything solo, there is no reason to group. Noone talks. The community and the game on the whole because it does not encourage it by its game design, is anti social. I agree with the first part of the review this game does have a lot to do, however all of it seems unfinished and needs work, especially the combat. I dont think this guy played the game for very long to be honest, either that or reviewers have given up trying to hide they have been influenced by advertisers. I think the Gamespot review is more honest about what to expect in the game, although the score does not match up with what is said in their review.
This game is as social as you want to be. I am in a guild and we do PQs, Raids in places like Gunbad and Altdorf Sewers on regular basis. Tier 2 and Tier 3 events are almost daily need. So for me this non-social part doesn't exist.
I have made some very good friends and i have no complaints.
I knew it would get a 9.0 or above, they really know mmos over there . Now will you trolls go away...it's official!
EDIT: all you guys coming in saying the game is not a 9.0...what level are you. state your level. the games excitement kick in for me at level 24. we had a few amazing keep battles, one lasted an hour. until you experience that i dont think you should be saying what score it deserve and does not.
Who the hell are you to say whose opinion means more then anothers??? noone. Someone who played 10 mins opinion is just as valid as yours. For some reason if a game doesnt pull u in right away its no good, and to them it really IS no good. Dont try to say who can state opinions or not, I cant stand ignorance... It didnt deserve a 9..... id give it a 6.0 TOPS, and thats being generous. It's a good game for lil kids and people new to the mmo genre and people who hate player skill and risk vs reward, just not my cup of java
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Have you come up with something new yet POOPY? your starting to sound like a broken record. For as many times Ive died with my Witch Hunter in WAR if they had death penalties Id ether have no money or Id lose more exp in PvP than gain. And its not that I suck, I don't care how skilled you are when your a light armor wearer and do melee when you get mobbed by a some tanks your not going to last to long. Same way if I follow people into battle they won't target the tanks on my side first, they will take me out because I do a lot of dmg but yet Im easy to take out if everyone focuses on me.
War may not have any risk, but It does take tactics to defend and take keeps. I spent 4or5 hours last night defending and taking keeps untill we had owned all of T2. We had scouts on the look out giving the warband info. Needless to say It was the best experience Ive had in an MMO, this game is just damn fun to me and thats all there is to it.
This game is as social as you want to be. I am in a guild and we do PQs, Raids in places like Gunbad and Altdorf Sewers on regular basis. Tier 2 and Tier 3 events are almost daily need. So for me this non-social part doesn't exist.
I have made some very good friends and i have no complaints.
I have met quite a few decent people in the game, and been part of some fun groups. But having to join a guild to even see some people talking, or to get PQ, RvR, etc going seems to be a very big flaw in the design of the game.
It is strange that noone outside of a guild talks, noone really groups outside of their friends, or stays grouped for particually long. And I think that is soley down to the game design. Especially being on a high population server and seeing PQ, and RvR zones being completly empty, with no chat which does make it feel like I am playing a single player game. Public quests are not so much a problem (Its pve at the end of day who cares ;p), but I brought this game for RvR and there is very little, I also expected at a bare minimum for some kind of chat going on.
I will still wait and see, like I said this game seems unfinished but it deffinatly has a solid basis to build on and they are trying to improve the game quickly it seems, and with changes that are being requested, I will stay playing the game for that reason alone.
Just right now I do not see this game as a 9.0 game or anywhere above 6 atm. I think that if the game was designed well as an mmo, then it should naturally have people talking constantly outside of guilds/small groups. And there should be at least small numbers of people running around in the same general areas, especially on a full server.
I have never encountered an mmo where it is anything like this, even AoC with tons of instancing had more people running around, and felt more alive (which is worrying) than War does at the moment.
edit: this is a response for both people that quoted me, funny enough you both have said the same thing. Get a decent guild, which is all well and good, but you should not have to do that in any mmo to get people talking, or interacting with others, especially one that by its designed should have people constantly fighting, and interacting with one another, even if that interaction is to say 'shit I got ganked plz help'
I knew it would get a 9.0 or above, they really know mmos over there . Now will you trolls go away...it's official!
EDIT: all you guys coming in saying the game is not a 9.0...what level are you. state your level. the games excitement kick in for me at level 24. we had a few amazing keep battles, one lasted an hour. until you experience that i dont think you should be saying what score it deserve and does not.
Who the hell are you to say whose opinion means more then anothers??? noone. Someone who played 10 mins opinion is just as valid as yours. For some reason if a game doesnt pull u in right away its no good, and to them it really IS no good. Dont try to say who can state opinions or not, I cant stand ignorance...
It didnt deserve a 9..... id give it a 6.0 TOPS, and thats being generous. It's a good game for lil kids and people new to the mmo genre and people who hate player skill and risk vs reward, just not my cup of java
Wow, and you say you hate ignorance. Did you read your last part about kids and people new to mmo's?
Thats pretty ignorant, seeing how I have kids. New to mmo's? Probably played longer then you.
Risk vs reward? WTH are you smoking? Not only did you join this thread saying someone was ignorant but made yourself look like that to.
Look man, your the kid. You may not have a kids age, but only a kid contradicts himself that bad. Seriously, if this is not your game then leave the forums. I do not understand why you people insist on jumping on everyones thread if it states this game is good. Quit the game, quit the forums..
Im not a fanboy, I just believe you should not put down something other people enjoy just cause you don't. I don't give a F&*% if your just stating your op, let people talk freely about the positives about this game and keep your IGNORANCE out of this.
I'd give it 6.0 TOPS. Yeah cause your signed by game companys because of your vast knowledge on good games. Step off scrub.
Way too many design flaws to be considered -almost the perfect- game. Many ideas thrown in indeed, but some of them slap the others. I foresaw that scenarios were going to kill world RvR, I also knew that the lack of penalties added to ephemeral rewards instead of consistent ones makes people not to care about who has keeps.
The quests are far from being perfect, the pve isn't challenging at all and the reaction/rubberbanding effects make it look bad. That's far from the 9 IGN gives.
Graphics are also far from being perfect, have you seen the facial textures closeups? looks like they are made for cellphones, some elements like flags, trees, etc are jaggered and totally inmersion breaking.
The music enviroment isn't a 9 neither. I think nobody would dare to deny this.
What Im enjoying is the team work and seeing how a well rounded party of my guildies change the fate of scenarios, that's something that deserves a 9 imho, so does the character learning curve, I see as I keep on improving and beating myself, but that's only a part of the game. I've never looked at IGN to get MMO fed anyways.
Im always suspicious of these gaming companies that hand out ratings......They get too many perks to view them objectively......How many games does IGN give a 1.0?
yet they game diablo 2 , score of 8. if i recall. thats how much i trust them. at that time. that game had noone even close to it.. 9.0 for war is way overhead..
Just because IGN or any site/magazine gives a game a rating, it doesn't make it "official". If you like the game, great. If you don't, that's fine too. Play the games you like and don't begrudge others for liking different games. The fanboys and anti-fanboys both have to go.
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IGN gave a 9 out of 10, And WOW got a what? I think people over at IGN need to be slapped repeated until they know what cloning is!
It's funny when people try to state their opinion as fact). I tried War for a couple of weeks and got bored with it. Everquest 2 is the game that I like much more. I love being able to think for myself!
Whats even funner is I didn't state whether this was opinion or fact. Just said it was a easily a 9.0. Don't be a troll and go back to the vanguard forums.
The only FACT I can say is no matter what anyone says its still a great game.
WoW is a bad game (personal opinion there) and it didn't have a great start.
A well deserved score for WAR, although I still haven't forgiven IGN for giving one of my favorite games a 3/10 just because the game was too hard for the reviewer (he pretty much even said it in his lousy review). Gaming journalism is just a big joke every now and then.
I am curious what game was that?
A single review is highly subjective and not worth much, but when there are lots of postive reviews then a game picks up notice.
It's nice IGN added its voice to the positive reviews WAR has been receiving.
indeed it is helps to shut up the haters but then again it does fuel the fire for the ignorant
yea and look at all the horrible reviews the game is getting... im taking notice
9 seems a bit generous to me, I would give it 7,5. Not bad but can be improved.
But it is off course my personal opinion. Still, the game do have things that do need improvement like the balance between the 2 sides, more dungeons and the rest of the citys. The graphics is more a 7 then a 9 or 10.
Im sure WAR will be a 9 in 6-12 months but it is just not really there yet, a 9 should be almost perfect.
dude, why not just give it 3 or 4 years ? that way, ya know, the reviewers will have alot more info to go on. Dont limit yourself to just 6 short months !!
HAHA! relax everyone knows reviews on MMOs are totally worthless.
I'm sure that reviewer has time to level to a decent level before he reviews
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How can anyone give a MMO a true rating if they dont actually experience all the aspects of the game?
Anyway I'm not saying WAR is a bad game, I'm just saying these reviews don't hold much weight.
Do you think someone who levels to 10 is qualified to review a game were the cap is 40 and endgame is a game onto it self? yeah i thought so.
Playing: Nothing
Looking forward to: Nothing
Its cute you think those numbers mean anything. IGN has given some of the shittiest games in the world better scores.
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"They really know mmos over there"
They gave Asherons Call 2 a 9.0/10. That game FAILD, not only did it suck it ended up shutting down. AC1 was a great game and it got rated worse.
The point?
Reviews mean nothing, if you like the game great, that still wont change my mind or many others.
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IGN gives is 9, 1UP says its a B (8), other sites give it a perfect score 10/10. To its credit, not one site I could find gave it less than an 8, which is a pretty good trend indicator, though I think no newly released MMO should be rated higer than an 8, but that's just me.
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Wow, I am incredibly flattered that I made it into your "hater" list, and I'm number 1! Can I put you as number one in my "WAR Fanboi" list? Then we could be "stupid lists in our signatures" buddies!
BTW, this game is no where near a 9. Not even close. I'd say it's probably around a 7.
Tried: LotR, CoH, AoC, WAR, Jumpgate Classic
Played: SWG, Guild Wars, WoW
Playing: Eve Online, Counter-strike
Loved: Star Wars Galaxies
Waiting for: Earthrise, Guild Wars 2, anything sandbox.
I only joined a guild at lvl 14 on one of 4 servers im on. have so far 2 lvl 14 and 2 lvl 13's and only 1 has a guild...WAR definately doesn't make you join a guild to have fun just like the one above me said
Purpose in life is not to gain things, but experience. - Rover64dd
I had to stop reading that review after he said this game is very social, and the world so well designed that the population is never spread out.
I'm on a high pop server, Ive been on 3 like it. Theres 2 hour queues to get in the game, yet when you are actually in it, there is no one around. The game is barren and it is specifically because the world is designed with large numbers in mind but the servers obviously dont support the numbers of people needed for the amount of zones provided.
As for the social part of the game lol This is deffinatly the most anti social game out there. You can do everything solo, there is no reason to group. Noone talks. The community and the game on the whole because it does not encourage it by its game design, is anti social.
I agree with the first part of the review this game does have a lot to do, however all of it seems unfinished and needs work, especially the combat.
I dont think this guy played the game for very long to be honest, either that or reviewers have given up trying to hide they have been influenced by advertisers. I think the Gamespot review is more honest about what to expect in the game, although the score does not match up with what is said in their review.
if i had to rate the game i would also say its very social as i have a very huge guild. constant chat going on all the time, evrey 5 minutes some one is going on a keep raid and askin anyone want to come. also guild events going on every day. the problem i seen with other mmos is that everyone and there mother has a guild. most guilds are small, and the large guilds are private. so in a nutshell its very social. just cuase you dont go into town and 1000s of people spamming enchantments and stuff doesnt mean it not social. but if you dont have a useful guild i can see it being a problem.
This game is as social as you want to be. I am in a guild and we do PQs, Raids in places like Gunbad and Altdorf Sewers on regular basis. Tier 2 and Tier 3 events are almost daily need. So for me this non-social part doesn't exist.
I have made some very good friends and i have no complaints.
Have you come up with something new yet POOPY? your starting to sound like a broken record. For as many times Ive died with my Witch Hunter in WAR if they had death penalties Id ether have no money or Id lose more exp in PvP than gain. And its not that I suck, I don't care how skilled you are when your a light armor wearer and do melee when you get mobbed by a some tanks your not going to last to long. Same way if I follow people into battle they won't target the tanks on my side first, they will take me out because I do a lot of dmg but yet Im easy to take out if everyone focuses on me.
War may not have any risk, but It does take tactics to defend and take keeps. I spent 4or5 hours last night defending and taking keeps untill we had owned all of T2. We had scouts on the look out giving the warband info. Needless to say It was the best experience Ive had in an MMO, this game is just damn fun to me and thats all there is to it.
I have met quite a few decent people in the game, and been part of some fun groups. But having to join a guild to even see some people talking, or to get PQ, RvR, etc going seems to be a very big flaw in the design of the game.
It is strange that noone outside of a guild talks, noone really groups outside of their friends, or stays grouped for particually long. And I think that is soley down to the game design. Especially being on a high population server and seeing PQ, and RvR zones being completly empty, with no chat which does make it feel like I am playing a single player game. Public quests are not so much a problem (Its pve at the end of day who cares ;p), but I brought this game for RvR and there is very little, I also expected at a bare minimum for some kind of chat going on.
I will still wait and see, like I said this game seems unfinished but it deffinatly has a solid basis to build on and they are trying to improve the game quickly it seems, and with changes that are being requested, I will stay playing the game for that reason alone.
Just right now I do not see this game as a 9.0 game or anywhere above 6 atm. I think that if the game was designed well as an mmo, then it should naturally have people talking constantly outside of guilds/small groups. And there should be at least small numbers of people running around in the same general areas, especially on a full server.
I have never encountered an mmo where it is anything like this, even AoC with tons of instancing had more people running around, and felt more alive (which is worrying) than War does at the moment.
edit: this is a response for both people that quoted me, funny enough you both have said the same thing. Get a decent guild, which is all well and good, but you should not have to do that in any mmo to get people talking, or interacting with others, especially one that by its designed should have people constantly fighting, and interacting with one another, even if that interaction is to say 'shit I got ganked plz help'
Who the hell are you to say whose opinion means more then anothers??? noone. Someone who played 10 mins opinion is just as valid as yours. For some reason if a game doesnt pull u in right away its no good, and to them it really IS no good. Dont try to say who can state opinions or not, I cant stand ignorance...
It didnt deserve a 9..... id give it a 6.0 TOPS, and thats being generous. It's a good game for lil kids and people new to the mmo genre and people who hate player skill and risk vs reward, just not my cup of java
Wow, and you say you hate ignorance. Did you read your last part about kids and people new to mmo's?
Thats pretty ignorant, seeing how I have kids. New to mmo's? Probably played longer then you.
Risk vs reward? WTH are you smoking? Not only did you join this thread saying someone was ignorant but made yourself look like that to.
Look man, your the kid. You may not have a kids age, but only a kid contradicts himself that bad. Seriously, if this is not your game then leave the forums. I do not understand why you people insist on jumping on everyones thread if it states this game is good. Quit the game, quit the forums..
Im not a fanboy, I just believe you should not put down something other people enjoy just cause you don't. I don't give a F&*% if your just stating your op, let people talk freely about the positives about this game and keep your IGNORANCE out of this.
I'd give it 6.0 TOPS. Yeah cause your signed by game companys because of your vast knowledge on good games. Step off scrub.
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Way too many design flaws to be considered -almost the perfect- game. Many ideas thrown in indeed, but some of them slap the others. I foresaw that scenarios were going to kill world RvR, I also knew that the lack of penalties added to ephemeral rewards instead of consistent ones makes people not to care about who has keeps.
The quests are far from being perfect, the pve isn't challenging at all and the reaction/rubberbanding effects make it look bad. That's far from the 9 IGN gives.
Graphics are also far from being perfect, have you seen the facial textures closeups? looks like they are made for cellphones, some elements like flags, trees, etc are jaggered and totally inmersion breaking.
The music enviroment isn't a 9 neither. I think nobody would dare to deny this.
What Im enjoying is the team work and seeing how a well rounded party of my guildies change the fate of scenarios, that's something that deserves a 9 imho, so does the character learning curve, I see as I keep on improving and beating myself, but that's only a part of the game. I've never looked at IGN to get MMO fed anyways.
I'm R32/RR31 before anyone asks.
Im always suspicious of these gaming companies that hand out ratings......They get too many perks to view them objectively......How many games does IGN give a 1.0?
yet they game diablo 2 , score of 8. if i recall. thats how much i trust them. at that time. that game had noone even close to it.. 9.0 for war is way overhead..
Just because IGN or any site/magazine gives a game a rating, it doesn't make it "official". If you like the game, great. If you don't, that's fine too. Play the games you like and don't begrudge others for liking different games. The fanboys and anti-fanboys both have to go.