"WoW Alternative," kind of like the Zune to the iPod
lol enjoy your zune
Well to be honest zune was better then the ipod, people buy apple products becuase of marketing, if apple literaly marketed shit and painted it white people would buy it and eat it. the IPAD is a prime example of this.
I'm sorry but that "article" was biggest load of typical MMO "preview" crap aka hype. It offered so little information, yet writer managed to fill whole page. I could swear there is generator for these articles somewhere, so similiar they are.
I'm sorry but that "article" was biggest load of typical MMO "preview" crap aka hype. It offered so little information, yet writer managed to fill whole page. I could swear there is generator for these articles somewhere, so similiar they are.
Well any piece of information that goes your way that says "Why you should..." is going to be a hype opinion piece. No matter what the subject is.
I finally understand where this game catters to and why I am interested in it and can see myself playing it at launch but not so long term-ish if GW2 or TERA comes out: burnt out WoW players.
I read it. I still don't see anything about RIFT that makes me want to pay attention. It's a nice looking game, I get that. Nothing else yet has shown me how this game will stand out.
pretty much this.
I failed to spot even one original idea
hell, they even mention it in the article
In terms of gameplay, Rift's structure is by no means unique or inventive. It plays, for lack of a better comparison, almost identically to the games that came before it -- EverQuest, World of Warcraft and the like -- and makes no effort to hide that fact.
Its structure yes eg its very core, there are a number of features in RIFT that are twists on preceeding games but there are also some new features such as RIFTS and dynamic landshaping content.
A couple of games have had landshaping content such as SWG's restuss event etc but none have done this dynamicly.
theres more little features in RIFT that could just well make it a great game with enough of a difference to suceed, to me from what I have researched and read it seems to be pulling on the heart strings of everyone be it those of a bygone era with the extensive class sytem and social features, those of the modern era with its polished mechanics and then those of the future era with a number of not yet tried MMo systems.
I have high hopes for it just have to see how it delivers if it doesnt fudge it TOR will be soon i don't care if its wow in space its Star Wars.
I finally understand where this game catters to and why I am interested in it and can see myself playing it at launch but not so long term-ish if GW2 or TERA comes out: burnt out WoW players.
"WoW Alternative," kind of like the Zune to the iPod
lol enjoy your zune
I think a better comparison would be iPAD and a netbook. Sure, tons of people buy iPADs and the NetBook is a lot less flashy, less user-friendly nd doesn't have that funky Apple logo on the back. But people who know what they're doing, know that a netbook is 10x the ipad's functionality for 1/3rd the price. On the hand, even after they buy netbooks, they secretly feel less "cool" than all the clueless people who are happy with their cool iPads and totally oblivious to the PROs and CONs of things...
WoW is the iPAD of MMOs
Truly, i've often wished that i had never played any other MMOs and could just play WoW and think that it's the greatest thing ever and there is nothing like it. Ignorance is bliss.
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Tried: AO,EQ,EQ2,DAoC,SWG,AA,SB,HZ,CoX,PS,GA,TR,IV,GnH,EVE, PP,DnL,WAR,MxO,SWG,FE,VG,AoC,DDO,LoTRO,Rift,TOR,Aion,Tera,TSW,GW2,DCUO,CO,STO Favourites: AO,SWG,EVE,TR,LoTRO,TSW,EQ2, Firefall Currently Playing: ESO
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What made WoW stand out from EQ2 and DAoC; may as well say FFXI & Horizons and a dozen other fantasy MMORPGs that came before it?
Polish.
What's RIFT shaping up to be? The MMORPG genre 3.0 / I don't see any reinventing the wheel here, but it looks friggin' smooth.
The only thing that made WoW stand out wasn't the polish (other MMOs were polished by then) it was the massive advertisement campaign combined with the gameplay being aimed at casual players who didn't play MMORPGs.
Bullshit and I'll tell you why.
The game had a huge following before it was even announced. (I was a WCII and WCIII fan) and for a good year and a half word of mouth spread WoW before the first commercial hit the hair and money went into advertisement. When they hit like 2.5 million they used that in an ad and then it exploded.
WoW killed the other fantasy games when EQ1 and EQ2 had movie trailers and was courting Hollywood.
Thank you, word of mouth is exactly how WoW got big, they didnt have some huge campaign, I remember seeing commercials in the Movie Theatre for EQ2, and thinking "that looks pretty cool." Then when I went online and looked at the gameplay I thought "O man that does not look nearly as epic as the trailer" and said screw it.
WoW on the other hand... I was sitting in spanish class and my friend (Who played Warcraft and Starcraft religiously) and he started telling me about WoW and how it was going to be "Like...the best game ever..."
So what happened? Everyday he would tell me new info about the game that he would read online, and the day the game came out, I picked it up at target and played it for days. Then I told my friends about it, and at first they all thought it sounded lame, then they watched me finish Deadmines and all ran out and got it.
People need to stop acting like Blizzard didnt make a great game, they did, and sadly the only thing that killed WoW was that it got too big, and it lost what made it special in the first place. That it was a new original fantasy adventure.
Side Note: My friend who told me about WoW all year, ended up waiting a week to get the game because his pre-order was sold at gamestop. Funny how things work out.
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I for one am quite eager to give this puppy a spin during the Beta Events.
What will likely make/break it for me is the PvP server rules and how they manage open world PvP.
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I'm sorry but that "article" was biggest load of typical MMO "preview" crap aka hype. It offered so little information, yet writer managed to fill whole page. I could swear there is generator for these articles somewhere, so similiar they are.
Well any piece of information that goes your way that says "Why you should..." is going to be a hype opinion piece. No matter what the subject is.
I finally understand where this game catters to and why I am interested in it and can see myself playing it at launch but not so long term-ish if GW2 or TERA comes out: burnt out WoW players.
Its structure yes eg its very core, there are a number of features in RIFT that are twists on preceeding games but there are also some new features such as RIFTS and dynamic landshaping content.
A couple of games have had landshaping content such as SWG's restuss event etc but none have done this dynamicly.
theres more little features in RIFT that could just well make it a great game with enough of a difference to suceed, to me from what I have researched and read it seems to be pulling on the heart strings of everyone be it those of a bygone era with the extensive class sytem and social features, those of the modern era with its polished mechanics and then those of the future era with a number of not yet tried MMo systems.
I have high hopes for it just have to see how it delivers if it doesnt fudge it TOR will be soon i don't care if its wow in space its Star Wars.
EQ2 players will feel right at home too.
I think a better comparison would be iPAD and a netbook. Sure, tons of people buy iPADs and the NetBook is a lot less flashy, less user-friendly nd doesn't have that funky Apple logo on the back. But people who know what they're doing, know that a netbook is 10x the ipad's functionality for 1/3rd the price. On the hand, even after they buy netbooks, they secretly feel less "cool" than all the clueless people who are happy with their cool iPads and totally oblivious to the PROs and CONs of things...
WoW is the iPAD of MMOs
Truly, i've often wished that i had never played any other MMOs and could just play WoW and think that it's the greatest thing ever and there is nothing like it. Ignorance is bliss.
"Id rather work on something with great potential than on fulfilling a promise of mediocrity."
- Raph Koster
Tried: AO,EQ,EQ2,DAoC,SWG,AA,SB,HZ,CoX,PS,GA,TR,IV,GnH,EVE, PP,DnL,WAR,MxO,SWG,FE,VG,AoC,DDO,LoTRO,Rift,TOR,Aion,Tera,TSW,GW2,DCUO,CO,STO
Favourites: AO,SWG,EVE,TR,LoTRO,TSW,EQ2, Firefall
Currently Playing: ESO
For some reason, my son and all his friends have Zunes and enjoy them immensely, something about easier/cheaper to obtain music.
But I will say, Rift is starting to look more interesting, guess I'll have to add it to my list of games to keep an eye out for.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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Thank you, word of mouth is exactly how WoW got big, they didnt have some huge campaign, I remember seeing commercials in the Movie Theatre for EQ2, and thinking "that looks pretty cool." Then when I went online and looked at the gameplay I thought "O man that does not look nearly as epic as the trailer" and said screw it.
WoW on the other hand... I was sitting in spanish class and my friend (Who played Warcraft and Starcraft religiously) and he started telling me about WoW and how it was going to be "Like...the best game ever..."
So what happened? Everyday he would tell me new info about the game that he would read online, and the day the game came out, I picked it up at target and played it for days. Then I told my friends about it, and at first they all thought it sounded lame, then they watched me finish Deadmines and all ran out and got it.
People need to stop acting like Blizzard didnt make a great game, they did, and sadly the only thing that killed WoW was that it got too big, and it lost what made it special in the first place. That it was a new original fantasy adventure.
Side Note: My friend who told me about WoW all year, ended up waiting a week to get the game because his pre-order was sold at gamestop. Funny how things work out.