Wait, at first I thought what I was reading was deja vu, then I realized it was just someone saying the exact same thing 10 other people have said. If you are not willing to understand SE's process, give it 6 months and come back. They will have a unprecedented amount of content by then and most likely an AH. Trust me, this is what they did with FFXI.
Oh yea, the game impressions? I liked it, it was unique, and there were tons of things to do. Until I realized what a massive grind the damn game is...
mugengaia, isn't this your sig:
GRIND sucks? You wanna be max level in a month?
Since when did society award easy-goers and lazy-fools?
MAKES ME PHOBIC OF STUPIDITY!
Just thought it was kinda funny
*Edit* I see someone already commented on it and you replied, my bad, it was just cracking me up when I first read your post
Oh yea, the game impressions? I liked it, it was unique, and there were tons of things to do. Until I realized what a massive grind the damn game is...
mugengaia, isn't this your sig:
GRIND sucks? You wanna be max level in a month?
Since when did society award easy-goers and lazy-fools?
Oh yea, the game impressions? I liked it, it was unique, and there were tons of things to do. Until I realized what a massive grind the damn game is...
-Then-
Jesus christ for god's sake, can they at least add some kind of tutorial so first timers aren't turned off by SquareEnix's complete lack of consideration for noobies?!? First time I logged into this game, I ran around doing absolutely nothing for 2 hours.
Ok, the more I read your post the more I am cracking up, You kinda need to pick a side, are you mad cause there is tons of things to do or are you mad that you spent 2 hours with nothing to do???
I do feel your pain on the performance side, game runs ok (just ok) on my system (i7 920) but only ok, but it runs perfect on my daughters comp (Duel Core 2.4gz) that right, not a core 2 duo but an old Duel Core, I can't figure out why it runs great on hers but a little slugish on mine.
Honestly I'm a little curious about why one is getting crappy performance, because I've been laying the game on a comp with an Intel Pentium dual cpu E2200, 3 gb ram, and an HD Radeon 4870. I'd assume that this means I've been playing on a worse computer, but running on the highest settings at 2560x11600 I've yet to catch any hitches in the game from my hardware.
I don't mean to be rude when I ask, but I'm curious just what the hell you're doing with a computer like that to make it wheeze while playing this game.
For all I know maybe the game just isn't optimized for Nvidia and what not, but you have had the exact opposite performance experience I've had.
If I could play the game in Full Screen mode without getting a black screen, I'd be more than happy to play it more. Unfortunately, I can't seem to fix the issue. Even reinstalling drivers and updating DirectX didn't fix the problem. Ah well. I'll wait until the kinks are ironed out before I play it.
~Miles "Tails" Prower out! Catch me if you can!
EDIT: Oh.. That sign? Well, yes.. umm.. you see, Rouge put that there as a joke! It's all her fault! She's always picking on me!
Try puting it at the same resolution your destop is, at least it worked for me.
Already tried that. Didn't work. Still got a Black Screen. I suspect it's because I have nTune installed on top of my latest Nvidia Drivers, but I dont know. I only use nTune to adjust my GPU's Fan and nothing else.
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FFXIV is the first MMO ever in my long history of alpha's & betas MMOs that I don't want to play after the first day. It's not even the technical issues, which I sort of expect (though not really in this case, considering the game goes live in like 10 days), or even the abysmally bad UI (well, yes some of it comes from this aspect). It's the game design decisions what really killed it for me:
- 48 hour leves... WTF???
- 50 char chat... Seriously?
- no in-game help of any kind (at least tooltips should be a total given in this day and age)
- no saved crafting recipes, hello???
- no saved skill bar per profession, requires macros...
Worst thing is, I was really looking forward to this game, as I like playing MMOs that are group-focused and crafting focused, but this is not going to be the one.
Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz, 6GB DDR3 RAM, and an ATI Radeon HD 5870. All of my settings are maxed and I run this game with no problems at all, except that I can't figure out how to turn Vsync on with my card (used to Nvidia cards) and so I have a tad bit of screen tearing.
The game itself, aside from the occasional screen tear, runs flawlessly and I fall into category two of Geldonyetich's post, "I played the open beta and plan to go ahead and buy it, even if it's not perfect." In fact, I'm buying the collectors edition as is my fiance and several of our friends.
I understand the game is not 100% but then again, SE has a crap ton of things turned off in the game so that you don't do it all before launch. Perhaps it was dumb of them to remove certain portions of content because then it makes it appear as though there is more grind than there actually is. On top of that, there is this very annoying mouse problem people keep talking about. They have the hardware mouse turned off so that they can test the software mouse for PS3 users. It's stupid considering the PS3 will have its own beta testing more towards PS3 Release. Thankfully there are work-arounds for this and I highly doubt SE will keep the software mouse turned on any longer than need be.
As far as the game goes, I think the combat far exceeds that of its predecessor, FFXI. I mean, for once I finally feel like I'm in the game rather than sitting here hitting a button every few minutes. I just like that the combat is a lot speedier than it once was.
However, I am not viewing this game with rose-colored glasses on. There are things that need fixing but I have faith that SE will fix these things. If not before launch, soon there after.
Not everyone is going to be pleased with the game, its just the way of the world. Thank god we are not all the same and we have the ability to be individualized.
Honestly I'm a little curious about why one is getting crappy performance, because I've been playing the game on a comp with an Intel Pentium dual cpu E2200, 3 gb ram, and an HD Radeon 4870. I'd assume that this means I've been playing on a worse computer, but running on the highest settings at 2560x1600 I've yet to catch any hitches in the game from my hardware.
Screenshot or it didn't happen.
Drop the next-gen marketing and people will argue if the game itself has merit.
Originally posted by mugengaia...<SNIP>... I'm sorry, but if anyone actually thinks this game is going to compete against any of the top MMOs in the market, you must be shittin yourself, because it's not going to happen in the current state. The game is missing the very basis of friendly and clear concepts to succeeding.
As much as this sounds like it should be true it's just not. If you think it is I suggest you play ffxi... the interface is damn near exactly the same and the sign up is so difficult ~currently~ you can barely start a new account and it was never much better.
It maintained ~500k users for ~6 years... (really only started to dip at announcement and beta of ffxiv.) 500k steady users puts them in the "dofus, wow, aion, lineage 1&2, and runescape" category... eg: one of the largest p2p user bases in the world.
I'll wager it does at least as well as its predecessor because it plays better now than ffxi did at launch (japan or here). Shrug.
To me the game gave off an hundreds-of-hours-of-content aura that wasn't added yet. The cities themselves wreak of "space that will be filled in a few months" and the guildleve system wreaks of "soon there will be 100+ guildleves in every city."
Like the beta was just a taste, (and a test), and soon there will be so much to do we'll all shit our pants in shame recalling threads like this one...
Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz, 6GB DDR3 RAM, and an ATI Radeon HD 5870. All of my settings are maxed and I run this game with no problems at all, except that I can't figure out how to turn Vsync on with my card (used to Nvidia cards) and so I have a tad bit of screen tearing.
right-click on the screen, start Catalyst Control Center, in the menu at the top left choose 3D, you'll see some options (AA-AAA-AF-AI-Mipmap-All), choose All, now you scroll down until you find Wait for Vertical Refresh, you have four optios (Off - off, unles app choose on - On, unless app choose off - On. Choose the one you like
snip LOTRO? I guess this was in an ok state, for an easy-mode , wow-lite game. Aion? Was ok, but they really were launched in Asia for several months before US launch, and the game was/is pretty shallow. /snip
Have you played Wow lately? LOTRO is a challenge compared to Wow... ast least you have to press your keys quickly and use skills, Wow is like an "I win button" fest.
I am all for games that make you think a little. MMO's since Asheron's Call / AO have gone to easy mode with little to no challenge. I don't equate grinding with challenge however.
I'm not going to comment on how terrible or how great FFXIV is - but an observation I have made - your air flow in your PC must suck - or you don't have the latest drivers.
I have...
I7 920, 8gb DDR3, 4770 ati GPU, Asus Rampage II, a Shitty NZXT case with front/side/rear fan
And I play everything on max with barely a stutter, and my PC stays cool. You have a better CPU/GPU than I, but you must have it in some retail e-machines case. Or your Mobo, which I don't think you listed is bottle necking, if it sucks, in that case I doubt you could run Crysis smooth on max settings, I could have sworn there were mightier GPU's on the market that have stated stuttering problems in Crysis - but I could be wrong.
FFXIV is the first MMO ever in my long history of alpha's & betas MMOs that I don't want to play after the first day. It's not even the technical issues, which I sort of expect (though not really in this case, considering the game goes live in like 10 days), or even the abysmally bad UI (well, yes some of it comes from this aspect). It's the game design decisions what really killed it for me:
- 48 hour leves... WTF???
- 50 char chat... Seriously?
- no in-game help of any kind (at least tooltips should be a total given in this day and age)
- no saved crafting recipes, hello???
- no saved skill bar per profession, requires macros...
Worst thing is, I was really looking forward to this game, as I like playing MMOs that are group-focused and crafting focused, but this is not going to be the one.
wow many days pass and people can't understand that we play beta version
beta version= a lot of bugs, lag, incomplete game
i play cataclysm and i could say you that wow cata have same problem, many areas had bug when you want to get quest doesn't exist, many zone withoud music and bug bug and more bug
you really are WoW lover that you mind is close for new products in the world
i believe that SE in ffxiv excellent end game content like ffxi, if you dont play ffxi, you are kiddo
Honestly I'm a little curious about why one is getting crappy performance, because I've been laying the game on a comp with an Intel Pentium dual cpu E2200, 3 gb ram, and an HD Radeon 4870. I'd assume that this means I've been playing on a worse computer, but running on the highest settings at 2560x11600 I've yet to catch any hitches in the game from my hardware.
I don't mean to be rude when I ask, but I'm curious just what the hell you're doing with a computer like that to make it wheeze while playing this game.
For all I know maybe the game just isn't optimized for Nvidia and what not, but you have had the exact opposite performance experience I've had.
If I could play the game in Full Screen mode without getting a black screen, I'd be more than happy to play it more. Unfortunately, I can't seem to fix the issue. Even reinstalling drivers and updating DirectX didn't fix the problem. Ah well. I'll wait until the kinks are ironed out before I play it.
~Miles "Tails" Prower out! Catch me if you can!
EDIT: Oh.. That sign? Well, yes.. umm.. you see, Rouge put that there as a joke! It's all her fault! She's always picking on me!
Try puting it at the same resolution your destop is, at least it worked for me.
Already tried that. Didn't work. Still got a Black Screen. I suspect it's because I have nTune installed on top of my latest Nvidia Drivers, but I dont know. I only use nTune to adjust my GPU's Fan and nothing else.
~Miles "Tails" Prower out! Catch me if you can!
Try running it using the windowerxiv posted in the tech section of xivcore.com. It wraps the windowed mode and placing it to where it uses the full screen (great if you like to alt-tab alot as well) along with that comes a hardware mouse which took the ui from feeling like a laggy mess to enjoyable for me. Now my only complaint with the ui is just too many confirmations to do simple tasks which Isn't all that bad imo.
very fast download, self installing and so easy that any non-computer person can easily use it.
Originally posted by Symone Originally posted by unbroken snip LOTRO? I guess this was in an ok state, for an easy-mode , wow-lite game. Aion? Was ok, but they really were launched in Asia for several months before US launch, and the game was/is pretty shallow. /snip
Have you played Wow lately? LOTRO is a challenge compared to Wow... ast least you have to press your keys quickly and use skills, Wow is like an "I win button" fest.
I am all for games that make you think a little. MMO's since Asheron's Call / AO have gone to easy mode with little to no challenge. I don't equate grinding with challenge however.
mmm... asheron's call. One of my favorite mmo's of all time... I can't get anyone to try it and everyone has more or a less moved on because it's so ugly only its mother could love it anymore... if only it wasn't so ugly it makes blood pour out of your eyes it would have been a popular game. Same generation as eq1 but looked at least 2-3 generations behind... at its best. What a horribly ugly game with spectacularly fun game play for the most part.
They need to figure a way to slap ac2 graphics on ac1 and re-release it under another name to take away the ugly graphics stigma. ~le sigh~ Pity ac2 was complete trash, it was very pretty.
FFXIV is the first MMO ever in my long history of alpha's & betas MMOs that I don't want to play after the first day. It's not even the technical issues, which I sort of expect (though not really in this case, considering the game goes live in like 10 days), or even the abysmally bad UI (well, yes some of it comes from this aspect). It's the game design decisions what really killed it for me:
- 48 hour leves... WTF???
- 50 char chat... Seriously?
- no in-game help of any kind (at least tooltips should be a total given in this day and age)
- no saved crafting recipes, hello???
- no saved skill bar per profession, requires macros...
Worst thing is, I was really looking forward to this game, as I like playing MMOs that are group-focused and crafting focused, but this is not going to be the one.
I am rather in this camp on the subject of this game.. I played close BETA and my comp had a heck of a time running the thing smoothly (I think my motherboard may be going south on me after 6 years...)
What I did see was breathtaking graphically and I know the game will be great, but I am going to give it a month or so before messing with it.
There are some games that I choose to call "Short term commitments" as in they are probably good for 6 months of play or so before the game either wears on your nerves or bores you to tears. I might go back to it, but I can't see myself playing more than those 6 or so months.
Aion, WoW, WAR definitely fit that bill in different ways.
Other games engender a more dedicated commitment.
FFXI, AC, AO, CoX fit that bill for me.
Part of it is the gameplay but a large part, for me, is the community the game attracts.
If the community is chock full of elitist ass-hats, I lose interest in playing fast.
I really don't want to mess with this game during its' first month or two, as I am sure it's going to be besieged by players who won't play long, but ruin the experience for others during their play time (not to mention RMT'ers).
TLDR: It's going to be a good game, but I am giving Launch and 59 days past a miss on playing to avoid whiners and RMT'ers.
I'll tell you why this game sucks, or maybe it's the company: almost two weeks into the OB, and I still cannot download the game through the freaking official downloader. Why am I supposed to go through torrents and stuff to download a few simple files?
Originally posted by Sober55 I'll tell you why this game sucks, or maybe it's the company: almost two weeks into the OB, and I still cannot download the game through the freaking official downloader. Why am I supposed to go through torrents and stuff to download a few simple files?
I keep meaning to post the fix for this and forgetting to do so-- try uninstalling pango media booster. It's installed with a few hundred games as a download manager for initial install (very silently usually, its spyware effectively) and it downloads stuff in the background on your connection...and uses ports ffxiv expects to be able to use which seems to flat out pooch the torrent patcher in ffxiv. YMMV, but it's fixed a half dozen people who were having the same issue.
- no in-game help of any kind (at least tooltips should be a total given in this day and age)
FFXI was very much like that as well. You had to buy books, and hope that zam had some sort of info to help. Yellow gremlin has been a good resource for me on 14. i agree with the complaint here. I think they should at least have tooltips for equip so you can compare easily w/what you are wearing.
I love the fact that they at least give you waypoints on the map for guildleves. That was a frustrating thing in FFXI. So many quests were extremely vague and you had to buy a strategy book just to figure them out.
- no saved crafting recipes, hello???
FFXI is like that as well. You had to research recipes often and it eventually made you memorize them. I honestly don't agree with this complaint. It's just a different way to learn the craft.
- no saved skill bar per profession, requires macros...
I wholly agree with the "no saved skill" comment. You should be able to switch classes easily without reloading every skill in your bar again. This is a tiny problem that gets irritating when you like to switch from gathering to fighting. I'm sure it is something they will fix soon, tho. As far as macros being important, that is very true. It's hard to target your party members when you want to heal in the middle of a fight, for example, and macros usually make this easier. The macros thing in ffxi was annoying to me, but I got past it once I learned how. I was hoping 14 wouldn't rely on it so much, but it is exactly the same, unfortunately. It's just another thing you have to learn.
In response to the OP, there is a noobie quest line you can follow that gets your character to about level 6 or so. You just have to follow the story line from the adventurer's guild npc that you initially talk to in the beginning. There are also guildleves that are considered tutorials for crafting and how the guildleves work.
In my opinion the lag between menus and such is too frustrating for me to play this game at launch. I like how things are set up in the game, and I can get past a lot of the stuff I need to learn to enjoy it thoroughly. But all in all, I'd rather wait a few months till they have things running more smoothly. Just crafting one item shouldn't take 5 minutes because of menu load times.
Ugh, why do we keep bumping this Horribly Terri-BAD review? It didn't run on the dude's computer. Fine. It's not going to run on a lot of people's computers. Moving on...?
You seem to echo what has been said in other threads, though your post isn't what interests me. It's your Signature. In your post you complain about the grind, but your signature seems to contradict what youv'e said. Interesting.. Sorry, just letting my mind wander! I tend to do that; being a genius fox and all.
~Miles "Tails" Prower out! Catch me if you can!
How's Sonic doing? And tell Knuckles my son says hi.
Sonic? He's getting ready to drag me off to outter space to stop Eggman from enslaving a peaceful Alien Race. Honestly, he's just dragging me around to pilot the ship. I don't even get to help! He's such a show-off. Doesn't make sense, you know. I'm higher on the food chain than he is! *mumbles*
I mean... It's an Amusement Park.. It's a deadly amusement park fueled by an Alien Race that can gift you with near god-like power and armed to the teeth by deadly robots built by a crazy mad egg shaped man, but still!
As for Knuckles? Well, he just sits on his buttox and shoos people away from his precious Emerald. Meh.. What Rouge sees in him.. Or is that the twinkle of the Master Emerald in her eye? When I ask her it's always "You're too young".. Feels like I've been 8 years old for 18 years now. Jeez!
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Wait, at first I thought what I was reading was deja vu, then I realized it was just someone saying the exact same thing 10 other people have said. If you are not willing to understand SE's process, give it 6 months and come back. They will have a unprecedented amount of content by then and most likely an AH. Trust me, this is what they did with FFXI.
mugengaia, isn't this your sig:
GRIND sucks? You wanna be max level in a month?
Since when did society award easy-goers and lazy-fools?
MAKES ME PHOBIC OF STUPIDITY!
Just thought it was kinda funny
*Edit* I see someone already commented on it and you replied, my bad, it was just cracking me up when I first read your post
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Did not even notice that, that's funny.
Ok, the more I read your post the more I am cracking up, You kinda need to pick a side, are you mad cause there is tons of things to do or are you mad that you spent 2 hours with nothing to do???
I do feel your pain on the performance side, game runs ok (just ok) on my system (i7 920) but only ok, but it runs perfect on my daughters comp (Duel Core 2.4gz) that right, not a core 2 duo but an old Duel Core, I can't figure out why it runs great on hers but a little slugish on mine.
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Already tried that. Didn't work. Still got a Black Screen. I suspect it's because I have nTune installed on top of my latest Nvidia Drivers, but I dont know. I only use nTune to adjust my GPU's Fan and nothing else.
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FFXIV is the first MMO ever in my long history of alpha's & betas MMOs that I don't want to play after the first day. It's not even the technical issues, which I sort of expect (though not really in this case, considering the game goes live in like 10 days), or even the abysmally bad UI (well, yes some of it comes from this aspect). It's the game design decisions what really killed it for me:
- 48 hour leves... WTF???
- 50 char chat... Seriously?
- no in-game help of any kind (at least tooltips should be a total given in this day and age)
- no saved crafting recipes, hello???
- no saved skill bar per profession, requires macros...
Worst thing is, I was really looking forward to this game, as I like playing MMOs that are group-focused and crafting focused, but this is not going to be the one.
I am playing FFXIV with the following specs:
Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz, 6GB DDR3 RAM, and an ATI Radeon HD 5870. All of my settings are maxed and I run this game with no problems at all, except that I can't figure out how to turn Vsync on with my card (used to Nvidia cards) and so I have a tad bit of screen tearing.
The game itself, aside from the occasional screen tear, runs flawlessly and I fall into category two of Geldonyetich's post, "I played the open beta and plan to go ahead and buy it, even if it's not perfect." In fact, I'm buying the collectors edition as is my fiance and several of our friends.
I understand the game is not 100% but then again, SE has a crap ton of things turned off in the game so that you don't do it all before launch. Perhaps it was dumb of them to remove certain portions of content because then it makes it appear as though there is more grind than there actually is. On top of that, there is this very annoying mouse problem people keep talking about. They have the hardware mouse turned off so that they can test the software mouse for PS3 users. It's stupid considering the PS3 will have its own beta testing more towards PS3 Release. Thankfully there are work-arounds for this and I highly doubt SE will keep the software mouse turned on any longer than need be.
As far as the game goes, I think the combat far exceeds that of its predecessor, FFXI. I mean, for once I finally feel like I'm in the game rather than sitting here hitting a button every few minutes. I just like that the combat is a lot speedier than it once was.
However, I am not viewing this game with rose-colored glasses on. There are things that need fixing but I have faith that SE will fix these things. If not before launch, soon there after.
Not everyone is going to be pleased with the game, its just the way of the world. Thank god we are not all the same and we have the ability to be individualized.
Screenshot or it didn't happen.
Drop the next-gen marketing and people will argue if the game itself has merit.
As much as this sounds like it should be true it's just not. If you think it is I suggest you play ffxi... the interface is damn near exactly the same and the sign up is so difficult ~currently~ you can barely start a new account and it was never much better.
It maintained ~500k users for ~6 years... (really only started to dip at announcement and beta of ffxiv.) 500k steady users puts them in the "dofus, wow, aion, lineage 1&2, and runescape" category... eg: one of the largest p2p user bases in the world.
I'll wager it does at least as well as its predecessor because it plays better now than ffxi did at launch (japan or here). Shrug.
Shadus
To me the game gave off an hundreds-of-hours-of-content aura that wasn't added yet. The cities themselves wreak of "space that will be filled in a few months" and the guildleve system wreaks of "soon there will be 100+ guildleves in every city."
Like the beta was just a taste, (and a test), and soon there will be so much to do we'll all shit our pants in shame recalling threads like this one...
/end fanboi rave and rant
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right-click on the screen, start Catalyst Control Center, in the menu at the top left choose 3D, you'll see some options (AA-AAA-AF-AI-Mipmap-All), choose All, now you scroll down until you find Wait for Vertical Refresh, you have four optios (Off - off, unles app choose on - On, unless app choose off - On. Choose the one you like
Have you played Wow lately? LOTRO is a challenge compared to Wow... ast least you have to press your keys quickly and use skills, Wow is like an "I win button" fest.
I am all for games that make you think a little. MMO's since Asheron's Call / AO have gone to easy mode with little to no challenge. I don't equate grinding with challenge however.
I'm not going to comment on how terrible or how great FFXIV is - but an observation I have made - your air flow in your PC must suck - or you don't have the latest drivers.
I have...
I7 920, 8gb DDR3, 4770 ati GPU, Asus Rampage II, a Shitty NZXT case with front/side/rear fan
And I play everything on max with barely a stutter, and my PC stays cool. You have a better CPU/GPU than I, but you must have it in some retail e-machines case. Or your Mobo, which I don't think you listed is bottle necking, if it sucks, in that case I doubt you could run Crysis smooth on max settings, I could have sworn there were mightier GPU's on the market that have stated stuttering problems in Crysis - but I could be wrong.
wow many days pass and people can't understand that we play beta version
beta version= a lot of bugs, lag, incomplete game
i play cataclysm and i could say you that wow cata have same problem, many areas had bug when you want to get quest doesn't exist, many zone withoud music and bug bug and more bug
you really are WoW lover that you mind is close for new products in the world
i believe that SE in ffxiv excellent end game content like ffxi, if you dont play ffxi, you are kiddo
Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
Try running it using the windowerxiv posted in the tech section of xivcore.com. It wraps the windowed mode and placing it to where it uses the full screen (great if you like to alt-tab alot as well) along with that comes a hardware mouse which took the ui from feeling like a laggy mess to enjoyable for me. Now my only complaint with the ui is just too many confirmations to do simple tasks which Isn't all that bad imo.
very fast download, self installing and so easy that any non-computer person can easily use it.
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Palazious 50 Pirate PoTBS
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Palazious 75 wizard EQ
Paladori 50 Champion LOTRO
Poppa Reaver bugged at rank15
Is there someone honestly roleplaying a Sonic the hedgehog character on an mmo video game forum.
That is...well...I dont know what that is. How am I the first one to question what the hell is going on in here?
^what he said.
I am all for games that make you think a little. MMO's since Asheron's Call / AO have gone to easy mode with little to no challenge. I don't equate grinding with challenge however.
mmm... asheron's call. One of my favorite mmo's of all time... I can't get anyone to try it and everyone has more or a less moved on because it's so ugly only its mother could love it anymore... if only it wasn't so ugly it makes blood pour out of your eyes it would have been a popular game. Same generation as eq1 but looked at least 2-3 generations behind... at its best. What a horribly ugly game with spectacularly fun game play for the most part.
They need to figure a way to slap ac2 graphics on ac1 and re-release it under another name to take away the ugly graphics stigma. ~le sigh~ Pity ac2 was complete trash, it was very pretty.
Shadus
I am rather in this camp on the subject of this game.. I played close BETA and my comp had a heck of a time running the thing smoothly (I think my motherboard may be going south on me after 6 years...)
What I did see was breathtaking graphically and I know the game will be great, but I am going to give it a month or so before messing with it.
There are some games that I choose to call "Short term commitments" as in they are probably good for 6 months of play or so before the game either wears on your nerves or bores you to tears. I might go back to it, but I can't see myself playing more than those 6 or so months.
Aion, WoW, WAR definitely fit that bill in different ways.
Other games engender a more dedicated commitment.
FFXI, AC, AO, CoX fit that bill for me.
Part of it is the gameplay but a large part, for me, is the community the game attracts.
If the community is chock full of elitist ass-hats, I lose interest in playing fast.
I really don't want to mess with this game during its' first month or two, as I am sure it's going to be besieged by players who won't play long, but ruin the experience for others during their play time (not to mention RMT'ers).
TLDR: It's going to be a good game, but I am giving Launch and 59 days past a miss on playing to avoid whiners and RMT'ers.
PS.
Tails Rocks !!!!
I'll tell you why this game sucks, or maybe it's the company: almost two weeks into the OB, and I still cannot download the game through the freaking official downloader. Why am I supposed to go through torrents and stuff to download a few simple files?
I keep meaning to post the fix for this and forgetting to do so-- try uninstalling pango media booster. It's installed with a few hundred games as a download manager for initial install (very silently usually, its spyware effectively) and it downloads stuff in the background on your connection...and uses ports ffxiv expects to be able to use which seems to flat out pooch the torrent patcher in ffxiv. YMMV, but it's fixed a half dozen people who were having the same issue.
Shadus
In response to the OP, there is a noobie quest line you can follow that gets your character to about level 6 or so. You just have to follow the story line from the adventurer's guild npc that you initially talk to in the beginning. There are also guildleves that are considered tutorials for crafting and how the guildleves work.
In my opinion the lag between menus and such is too frustrating for me to play this game at launch. I like how things are set up in the game, and I can get past a lot of the stuff I need to learn to enjoy it thoroughly. But all in all, I'd rather wait a few months till they have things running more smoothly. Just crafting one item shouldn't take 5 minutes because of menu load times.
Ugh, why do we keep bumping this Horribly Terri-BAD review? It didn't run on the dude's computer. Fine. It's not going to run on a lot of people's computers. Moving on...?
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