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Wildvixenn
Member Posts: 23
so whos going to play on the criminal side with me? and what are your character names going to be!!! ^_^
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I am in the beta and loving it - I preordered the game yesterday as well. Defiantly will be playing a criminal again. Names I'm not sure - I will most likely try to get Ettin or Effigy if I can.
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We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives.
~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Im gonna play!!
i been waiting since 2006! My char name is JiggaCon and my bro will be playin 2. I cant wait 
. Maybe i play cop, cuz everyone will be playin gangsta.
ooo coolies!! I can't wait eather. And is the game really that good? it looks like a fun game. I'm looking for a game that I can play because I have time off now from work!
5,000 twelve year olds.
I remember being 12, was a great time when I enjoyed video games with my friends NOT because they were good or bad,but because it was...FUN. a lot yall adults got to stop disN on the young crowd,as im sure you were that age and enjoyed Vgames too. lol all this elitest attituede krap is so WOW these days >.0 . id rather play with 5k 12year olds than 5k Aholes who put ya down just because you dont got that perfect aim or 10,000 hours on FPS's.
Good game..but becomes old and repetitive boring really fast..if they dont put more mmorpg features in it for longevity and for prople to pay for it without feeling ripped off its not going to last long with a nice population.
This. It's a great new concept, just what this genre needs. But it has to be more MMO like.
I thought about this myself. Although I'm not in the Beta and have just viewed the content of the game via You Tube it got me wondering how many times can you bust the same dudes without it getting repetetive?
For me , I would be an Enforcer. I don't quite understand it all just yet but 1 thing for sure , this game will have short legs if its juat about busting criminals ( and the same people) all the time. I'm guessing there will be more elements to the game than just arresting baddies. I know the customization has alot going for it but hell if I wanted to create stuff I have pencil and paper right here. I don't need to pay someone 10 bucks a month to do that.
where did you pre-order your game at to git in the beta?
This is going to be a long post. Sorry guys. I'm in a typing mood tonight.. lol
Agreed, Bob, you are a very wise man. Most gamers always fall for the media hype everytime. It's like they are total media whores and never learn of past circumstances of what happined to other over-hyped games. Everytime when a new interesting game comes out they assume things and then take it as if it is going to be the second comming of jesus. Then when they finally get their hands on it and play it for a couple of hours they realize it wasn't what they were expecting. It's going to happin with this game just like it going to happin with the new Starwars game that Bioware and Lucasarts are working on. People get so caught up in the spin of what the game trailers show them that they end up wasting there time and money on somthing that turned out to be a total dissapointment.
Game companys way way back 10 years ago made games to make money this is true, but some of them also made Massive Online games in the spirit of gaming itself. In this day and age, I don't think there is any companys like that anymore, and if there are. They are very few and far between. Game companys now-a-days make games to make loads of money. Bottom line. If they can make somthing look real good and dupe people into buying their product they will take their money and run. And in that they have succeeded. I have seen this happind with my very own eyes time and time again.
Media is a very powerful tool, because nieve people watch it and assume things from it. Like for instance the News you watch on T.V, or Talk Shows. Your only hearing one side of the story, and it's the same thing with video games. They are going to show you the best of what that game offers, but will never show you the bad things about it, because they are hoping that a bunch of nieve people will go ou a buy their product. Unforunitly there is alot of nieve people out there who never learn.
That is why I'm going to take my time and see how this game pans out for awhile before I go out and waste my money on another Game that I find out is a total dissapointment.
You should of seen my bf when that game called Call of Duty modern Warfare 2 came out. Dont know if you guys have heard of it? I'm not into the first person shooters myself.... I suck at them. Anyways when it came out. He was like a total spastic mongoloid over it and I told him that he shouldn't get all retarded over a game he hasn't played yet. Low and Behold he goes out and buys it, comes home, and plays it for 3 hours. Then he tells me it's the worst one he ever played in the series. LOL
Don't think though that I think this game is going to be bad, because that isn't what I'm saying. What I am saying is, don't take what you read in forums, what you see in game trailers, or what the game developers say in blogs, to heart so much, because those guys just want you to buy their game thats it. Most of all don't assume it's going to be the playstyle of what your going to love, because in most cases you are setting up for yourself a major dissapointment. You know what I mean?
I'm not gonna quote everything that Vixenn just posted lol BUT, I completely understand what she's sayin. Another way to look at it is how movie trailers always do it. Ya ever seen a trailer for a movie thats all *BOOM! POW!!* *HEADS ROLLIN* action hero jumps through the window and takes out like 10 guys in the most badass fight sequence you've seen EVAR! And, for the next month while waiting for the movie to release you think its gonna be the best action flick ever made.
*Fast Forward* Walking out of the theatre opening night thinking...wow...the ONLY cool part of that movie was.... the scene from the commercial.
Am I saying this is what APB is gonna be? Not at all. I'm not in the beta, so I haven't been hands on yet, but from what I've seen of gameplay it looks like it'll be a badass twist on a shooter MMO, with a lot of customization. But lets don't let ourselves be fooled by the flashy commercials and jump into it too hard :P.
To be honest sometimes its not the games fault at all its our own. When you sit back for months and do nothing but hype the game up in your head, by the time it comes out you have this HUGE, almost unrealistic, expectation of what the game should be. Let's all be realistic though, how many MMO's have smooth launches? Even if the launch itself goes off good, everything in the game isn't gonna be polished right away, it will need time, patching, more content implemented, and so on so forth. So after you've hyped it up to be this BEST GAME EVAR!! the reality of it is it won't be, atleast not for a while. They need to see what works for their player base, what the players want changed and added, and then tweak accordingly. Then, after the tweaking, added content, and patching has gone on for a while, you might just have exactly what you had hyped upf for so long, but at that point you've already left the game after the first week because it immidietly wasn't some kind of god game off the bat.
Let's all just be smart consumers and open minded, and I'm sure APB will be so much more of an enjoyment for everyone
I've been playing the beta for months now - I am not going to go into detail about anything but as they have stated before their model was counterstrike. They want something that is instant action and it's what the game provides. They have also stated that they want something that will capture people in the rinse repeat modes ala counterstrike - which is why that game does so well, it's simple yet everyone knows what is going on.
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We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives.
~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
I'll be playing criminal side, look for the russian sniper
unless I decide to go with my Mario clan idea, then look for Mario and any other Nintendo looking character.
Russian Reapers: Unseen, Unheard, Untouchable
Taking over San Paro to day, see you there.
Yeah I'll see you all in game but unfortunately for most of you will be in cuffs :P
we'll see about that
Russian Reapers: Unseen, Unheard, Untouchable
Taking over San Paro to day, see you there.
sorry for going a bit offtopic, personally i love the game but i will try to stay neutral in my saying here....
people gotta remember its a so called sandbox games, there is not the things in a "normal" mmorpg, your quite free to do what u want without being forced into anything more or less, when that is said i can see why it also seems to be very little content for some people, what matters to me is that if people get creative they can crate there own "games" .. let me give you an example.
Street racing... 1 person lay down some waypoints, 1 man on each waypoint (to check they pass it) another guy holds the cash, and you rase a dude for money. its not an feature in the game, but u can do it if u want.
if it was an option, then people would use it, but they wouldt think out of the box and come up with there own stuff, even tho they would be able to make such events.
anyway, yes there is little content, and it can get repeative if you only forllow the ingame layed out features ... but if you think out of the box, then u got a ton of stuff u can do.
its my thoughts on it so far.. playing the beta.
I got to play this for one night before closed beta ended and I enjoyed my brief time trying it out. In fact, I really enjoyed the scant hours I got to play it and I was suprised by how much I enjoyed it. I do agree the gameplay content is a bit sparse and it could get repetitive far quicker than other MMO's, the quck and easy action is something I am looking for now after grinding the hours away in many many MMO's over the last decade. I like the action/shooter mechanics (big shooter fan here), the amount of customization and the mix of PvP and task related gameplay.
"If all you can say is... "It's awful, it's not innovative, it's ugly, it's blah.." Then you're an unimaginative and unpolished excuse for human life" -eburn
I hardly understand what is being said above, either its terrible broken english or just a 6 yr old learning to type.
Must be 18 to play the game..
I like this game, I preordered, and I'm thinking of going enforcer. I really wonder tho, since MMOs are living games, how they are gonna provide enough content to keep players for years and years..
OK, then 5,000 adults with the emotional capacity of a 12-year old.
lol..... yeah right
I agree with this so much that...well...its almost orgasmic. However, some companies like ArenaNet (im referring to their game called Guild Wars 2), go further with their dev blogs and answer all the big questions that players (and game interviewers) come up with after reading a newly posted blog and they post the Q & A section regarding a particular blog a few days after in their news sections.
The questions are very specific with what-happens-if-this-happens type of questions and the devs give specific and honest answers to these questions so that we as players can get a clear understanding how different systems will actually play out.
Take this Q & A as an example:
"Will dynamic events reset? For example, if an NPC dies in a dynamic event, will that NPC die forever for everyone in the world, or will she eventually respawn? What if players kill a boss in a dynamic event, and I logged off for the day and missed it? Are dynamic events really just one-shot, large-scale quests?
Colin: Dynamic event chains can reset. As chains, they move along paths based on player participation and event outcome. If an NPC dies in a dynamic event, their corpse might sit there waiting for players to come resurrect it and kick-start the event chain again, or it may re-spawn some time later.
Our event chains will never be lost to everyone in the world forever, they’ll simply cycle back into different states based on their outcomes, or they might not be actively running based on the current state of the event chain. If you and other players push an assault on the centaur base event chain to the point where you kill their commander, eventually the centaurs will choose a new commander and the event chain can begin again.
Changes from events will not be permanent and last forever, but they will change the world directly and last for a period of time long enough that it feels like what you did matters and has an impact. If we wanted every event we designed to run only once, we’d need to hire approximately 100,000 people to make enough events to fill GW2. Since our budget isn’t quite that big, we’re going for the next best thing and creating awesome cycling event chains that allow you to experience a wide variety of ever-changing content, but allow us to use event chains more than once.
With our dynamic event system, you’re never really missing the fun stuff, just experiencing different fun content than someone else at a specific time. It gives the world a feeling like there is always something exciting and fun going on out there that you may have never seen before. You don’t feel let down because you missed an event; instead, you’re excited to discover the next event!"
(http://www.arena.net/blog/colin-johanson-answers-your-dynamic-event-questions)
This is just a great example of giving players specific and honest answers; yes the dynamic events are cyclical and they trigger chains of events based on players actions but the changes are not permanent, events can reset and the npcs will eventually respawn. It is true that these answers still do help to build up the hype and probably even more so as alot of the answers like this give examples of the different mechanics in action, but at the same time, it ensures that the players know exactly what to expect from the game so that they wont be left over-hyped to the release day of the game and turn out disappointed after trying out the game.
The other fact that make their blogs so successful is the fact that they have been tight-lipped about the game for 4-5 years and have released (very detailed) information about the mechanics during these past 2 months or so (so they only post about the mechanics and systems that actually work) and along with the fact that the devs had a great history of holding promises and making one of the smoothest launches of mmo (its genre is debatable but ill just generalise it) game to date with their launch of guild wars 1, and with the fact that it scored almost the same ratings as did WoW back then, its easy to see the great hype it created. A hype that with the reasons given above, seems that it will actually be well deserved.
In conclusion, setting Arenanet's successful history aside, more mmo devs should be collecting reoccuring player's queries, answering them and posting them on their website with specific and most importantly, honest answers so that players won't be assuming too much about how the different mechanics of the game will play out and in turn, won't get overly hyped up for the wrong reasons when it comes to trying out the actual game.
Looking forward to EQL and EQN.
I played in the Beta (about 3 months) and will be waiting at least 2 months before I even concider buying APB.
The game has alot of great ideas and potential, but it also has alot, ALOT, that needs to be worked on.
Tried: EQ2 - AC - EU - HZ - TR - MxO - TTO - WURM - SL - VG:SoH - PotBS - PS - AoC - WAR - DDO - SWTOR
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ITS TOO HARD! - Matt Firor (ZeniMax)
well i for one always loved taking the grand theft auto games and beating the missions, and alot of the time between them ild get side tracked destroying and pillaging as much as a could before the army finally managed to take me down, a few times i held out against the best the national guard could send at me in heavily fortified concrete parking garages for hours taking out tanks and helicoptors with rockets and explosives =D never had invulnerability or anything, just the ammo drops off the poor nat guard bastards and respawning heal supplies.
so if this mmo is going to give me that same feel, with other people to shoot at, o ya im all over it like stink on a turd. expect the unexpected, if i can sit around on a rooftop somewhere with an anti tank rifle and shoot anyone that looks like someone i dont like in the head, boom ur dead =D
i figure this will slot me into the criminal elements of the world, since cops are supposed to be good guys and not randomly kill civilians or unarmed perps ect, and i have a twitchy trigger finger that just goes off on its own sometimes (more then once have i accidently gunned down a mission npc in gta before and had to load from a save to fix it hehe)