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WoW or Guild Wars or lineage II??? witch 1 is better 4 me?

Eddie.CEddie.C Member Posts: 5
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hi, i want to start to get into the mmorpg thing but i really dont know if i should get world of warcraft or guild wars... or lineage II any suggestions to wich 1 i should get or wich 1 you prefer would be a great help... oh an also wich would run nice on my pc (if either)

my pc::

768mb ram

ati radeon 9100 igp with 64mb of on-board graphics

intel pentium 4 CPU 2.8GHz

??????????

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  • BhazirBhazir Member Posts: 321

    can you put a bit more preferences?

    But as first mmorpg I would suggest WoW, it is easy to learn and control and it is fun to play as well. Expect a lot of bad apples in the community though.

    Guild Wars won't give the real mmorpg feeling if you ask me, and I have the feeling a lot think the same.

    For Lineage 2 I would say go for it if you have a lot of spare time and like grinding. It will be pretty hard if it is your very first mmorpg.

    And I suppose all 3 games run well, not on maxed setting though ::::39::

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  • sdoughtysdoughty Member Posts: 149
    As a first mmorpg I would say guild wars, its a one time payment and it is very easy to get into as quests tell you how to play the game, if you play properly you never have to grind either, which is a rare thing in mmorpg. WoW i did not enjoy in my day of playin, quit after an hour, thankfully it was open beta so i didnt pay :) and lineage 2, i would say just dont play it, there are far better games, however, well lets just say there is a way of playin which is very very easy. If I were you I would check out City Of Heroes, or wait for City Of Villains, very cool game in my opinion, plus you can get a 7 day free trial of CoH which is long enough to get a good feel of it, however dont start playin as a complete noob if you try, go and look in the games forums, find some proz to help you out for character builds and things. Im one of these gamers who jumps from game to game alot, dont stick at games for long, WoW - 1 hour, Lineage 2 - 30mins, CoH - 7days, Guild Wars - 14days, FWO/SRO - 3 yearsish. I was once a noob to mmorpg, and I got asked to play the closed beta of fung wan online, and I loved it, however it sucks, Ive played it not long ago and it is a really bad game. First mmorpg's may amaze u with there huge communitys and big flashy skills, did for me, but if I were you, dot about, go in as many free trials as possible, sign up for many beta tests.

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  • VoluptificusVoluptificus Member UncommonPosts: 16

    Any mmorpg will be hard to begin with, it is more the style (fantasy,sci-fi etc..) and the mode (PvE,PvP,RvR, all this mixed im various ways) that might influence your choice.

    Guild War is too impersonal with almost everything instancied, btw it is a good game.
    WoW is a good game too.
    L2 is hard, very hard but so many people like it..

    Nobody mention Matrix OnLine though it is a very good game, not worse that others that have the fotm.SOE just bought the game and we can expect some positive changes, if you like the movie y'll like the game.

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  • KHAAAN!KHAAAN! Member Posts: 37

    The above posts sum up pretty well the gameplay differences of the three candidates (Guildwars is easy to get into the game but lacks the atmosphere of a true MMO - WoW is likewise easy to have fun but costs 12$ a month and Lineage II is rather slow and heavy but does have a better longevity than the latter two)

    What has not been covered is the technical aspect:

    Guildwars doesn't need much hardware power considering it's modern look and stunning graphics. Your Graphics Card will struggle a bit with the game but then it will with most new games and as I hinted at before: For the quality of graphics Guildwars provides, it is remarkebly low on hardware requirements.

    WoW does also not need much hardware power, even though a full 1 gigabyte of RAM would be extremely beneficial (GW is less RAM intensive). Being a true MMO with sometimes hundreds of people displayed in one area with hundreds of different outfits and appearances, it will stutter and lag sometimes even if your machine would be much better. People live with low framerates in MMOs when entering cities since Everquest and it doesn't look like MMOs will provide the smooth gameplay of games like UT2004 in the near future ;)

    Lineage II uses the Unreal Tournament 2003 engine and primarily needs RAM. It won't stress your Graphics Card as much I think but you should have at least 1 gigabyte of RAM for this game, preferrably even more. Since the UT2003 engine isn't too new, the game will run smoothly outside of cities on your machine (the engine is said to be heavy on the CPU and 2.8 GHz is more than enough)

  • SONOFAGUNNSONOFAGUNN Member Posts: 414

    KHAAAANN!!!

    sumed it up pretty well, I had been playing with a 64mb card in WOW and GW...

    WOW seemed to be better with the 64mb card, and the gameplay is good also

    GW I didn't have too many complaints with the graphics but I know that I had them dialed down to a medium quality or so.

    If you are unsure that you are going to want to stay with mmo's GW is a good choice due t the no monthly fee. If you are sure then WOW is a better choice.

    The communities of both seem a bit on the immature side (before I am flamed... not all or even most of the players but there is a lot).

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  • nubbinsnubbins Member Posts: 245
    save ur money to buy a better video card image

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  • ElnatorElnator Member Posts: 6,077

    First MMO? WOW... no question.

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  • TeeBeeNZTeeBeeNZ Member Posts: 259

    For a first MMO, I would say try Knight Online, its free and explains the basics. once youve played that for a while you can upgrade to the high lvl MMOs.

  • _myko_myko Member Posts: 333

    Gotta be Eve Online, do the 14 day free trial. If you make it through the 2 weeks, you are ready for just about any MMO.

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    PvE in general is pretty lame, if you think long and hard about it. You are spending your time beating a severely gimped AI that would lose to a well trained monkey. Best not to think too long and hard why you are wasting time playing games in general actually...

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