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3 days playing time review
daveospice
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1. Pvp - 3/10 - Probably the worst MMO pvp I've ever seen really. Open World pvp is nonexistent (even on a overloaded server) except on one planet (designed for pvp) in which the pvp there is completely broken and only so you can do your daily objectives. The pvp games themselves (battlegrounds) are laggy, and the response time for actions is terrible. You may attempt to throw the ball to your teammate only to have it be thrown to no one because by the time the action responded the person had moved. To top it all off there are no brackets, so level 10's fight lvl 50's. This isn't so bad because they do buff the level 10's to the level of 50 but they still miss out on skills and gear. Also, one of my favorite things to do in other mmo's was to max out my gear through crafting/selling/buying every last level per tier. So at level 19 I always liked to buy all the purple items I could, and go pvp my last level out to 20. Likewise for 29,39,49, etc... but this game destroys that "break from the grind".
2. Pve 5/10 - 5 points for the voice over acting/amazing quest line stuff. I like it a lot. The only problem is it does not reward grouping nor does it push grouping. It's linear quest lines cause you to not be able to group simply because it's annoying to have to catch someone up to the point where you are in the quest. Along those same lines, there's no benefit to grouping other than for the social aspects of the game. If they had made it beneficial to group, then they could have added a LFG system for the flashpoints which would have made the flashpoints 10x more fun and 10x less excersize in frustration. PvE itself is boring. Typically grinding to lvl 50 requires you to cycle between 3-5 skills over and over, and you get carpel tunnel because there's no auto attack and you have to actually physically hit the auto attack key if you want to get that "extra" attack in between cooldowns. Flashpoints in the later levels revolve around CC. This is an old school style of pve. Where you need to CC a creature (for a freakin minute long duration) and single out one creature at a time in a group. This is the most boring form of PvE there is on the planet. Why even bother with having five enemies and giving us cc abilities, why not just give us one really strong mob to fight? This just leads to a very boring, and tedious process to get through the filler in the dungeons. This game is very tedious. Your grind to lvl 50 will be full of tedious quests that require kill x amount of creatures, reach x objective on the map and activate it. Over and over. When will MMO developers realize that quality over quantity is better?
3. Community - the community is much akin to the barrens in WoW, or the general chat in Rift. It's just a bunch of random bigots/racist/ignorant fucks constantly commenting on tits, vaginas,gay people, black people, jews, you name it with the occasional question and answer, and a lot and I mean a lot of spamming for flash points and guild recruiting. Thank god there hasn't been any gold farmers yet!
4. Crafting 8/10 this is where the game shines in my opinion. Crafting no longer requires you to sit in one spot for hours on end grinding out the levels. Instead you get companions that you can send out (think the eve leveling system, skills over time) and it makes for a very easy and smooth transition into crafting that can be very rewarding. The best part about the system is that you can learn unique recipes by breaking down items (which can lead to you being one of the only people on the server with it) and on top of that you can crit when crafting that unique item, making an even better item. This gives a lot of unique feel to the crafting. In other games I hated how everyone made the same items, same quality, etc. Whoever designed this needs a raise. Minus two points for the idiot who thought slicing (money over time) was a good idea for a crafting skill.
5. Flying/space missions - 3/10 - really just a crappy version of star fox. The only reason I gave it 3 points is because it's the only pretty thing in this game. Graphics are nice here 
You do the missions once, you never look back and collect your exp and win.
6. Graphics - 5/10 - looks like someone took WoW and made it run maxed out on.... an original xbox. Really. The graphics are bad. So bad it's a joke. Not even because they don't have direct x 10/11 support or AA support... but because the art design for imperial agent/bounty hunter is a joke. My bounty hunter has looked like a trash can the entire fucking game.
Bottom line - Someone on this design team got some of their really brilliant ideas through, in fact I'm sure the team had a LOT of brilliant ideas. Unfortunately, as we all know.... EA is the devil and kills anything good. So what they probably did was say hey you need another year to make this the best MMO ever and polished to no end? Hell no. We release it TODAY BITCHES. We cash this cow in! Respect. So basically the game totally blows not worth 60 bucks wait for a free trial so you can play the single player aspect (questing) finish the story line and quit. The story is truely awesome
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oh i bet it looked insane on the bioware server but when they tried to run it on regular computer it wouldnt run so that had to put everything to low so now the game look awfull and take lot of ressource to run(probably should have designed the game on the expected computer they would run in the first place like arenanet!in gw1 they used laptop to design their game!why ?simple if it run on the powerfull laptop it will run on regular computer
Sorry, with all due respect but: you played for 3 days and already know about PVP and crafting enough to rate? Hm.
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Jeebus, we're still getting 'reviews'?
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
Lol 3 days of playing time by the amount of hours your played or that you only played for 3 days?
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P2P LOGIC = If it's P2P it means longevity, overall better game, and THE BEST SUPPORT EVER!!!!!(Which has been rinsed and repeated about a thousand times)
Common Sense Logic = P2P logic is no better than F2P Logic.
You actually wasted 3 days and $60 on this fake MMO ? Sorry, man. Lets hope 2012 you make better decisions with your time and money.
Tyv version 3?
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
Pretty much spot on,all those reasons are pretty much why I passed on this mind you I had alot more playing time then 3 days but it doesn't matter 3 days 3 months the game is just not that good for an mmo if it was a single player game then ya I would of payed.
They spent to much time doing the VO which is just window dressing for the game but who knows they could come out with some hail mary patch and open ended space pvp which would help it greatly.
I have grouped more in this MMO than I have in most of the recent MMOs in the last few years, so to me the game is very group friendly and actually encourages it. Also I have never seen any rude or barrens type chat on my server, People have actually been very friendly and helpfull. I must have chose the only good server I guess lol.
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I ignored replying to this because I hoped it would just die... but people got baited so i'll bite the hook too.
I disagree with your review in it's entirety, although I respect that this may be your actual opinions and not a troll post. I feel your ratings are off base especially when compared to the other games on the market that it's competing against. You're obviously rating this game against some mythical magical god game that doesn't exist. Like everyone who downs the graphics I also disagree with that and look forward to your reaction when you and everyone else see's character models in GW2 and Arche Age are worse, The environments are whats great looking.
Everything I say is my opinion or personal preference. You may or may not find it useful to your cause but regardless I am entitled to it.
Just so you are aware, the "i've never seen it happen so it doesn't happen" excuse doesn't work.
Realy? Where in my post did I say that I have not seen it so it never happened lol. I said I have not experienced it on my server and I must have been lucky and picked a good one. Please get some reading comprehension and also don't make assumptions, they rarely pay off lol.
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Why? explain yourself.
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Sure was enough time for gamespy to call it 'game of the year'.
And where in my post did I accuse you of doing it? I just said for you to be aware of the fact. Maybe it is you who needs reading comprehension. It's not good to try and point out something when you fail in doing so yourself. lol
I have been playing SWTOR since first day of headstart and i rate it 8/10. Does anyone care?
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If it needs to be explained to you then you seriously need to go back to school.
Did you read your own post? You quoted me directly therefore you were speaking to me and implying that's what I was doing. Also what was there was to fail about? You called me out and I answered you lol.
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Wrong section.
Well you can que up for warzones at level 10 and Illum isnt anything but a glorified warzone....what am i missing?
Pretty much felt the exact same way on just about all your ratings, Crafting was the high point for me also, Community sucked pretty bad on WTF (server) also unless you find WOW and Arrow to the knee jokes funny..it just came to a point where i switched channels to guild despite needing to get grps for flashpoints...
I read my post but apparently you didn't. I quoted you and made a statement to be aware of a fact. I never accused you of such and so you assumed that I did which made you jump to a conclusion and fail. The fact that I need to explain it to you just shows how lacking your are in thought. Maybe next time you should think before typing instead of finding unessessary times to add lol to your posts.
srs troll is srs
It beat out Rift,Earthrise and DC universe....Congrats?
If you've read your posts and don't see what I am saying then it's pointless to keep bickering with you. I won't keep doing this with you as it is pointless and just clutters up the forums. Have a good one and I really mean that.
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that's OP's opinion, at least he didn't wait 6 months to figure that he didn't like the game
I see what you're saying, I am just saying that you are wrong. KTHXBAI!