I've had fun playing Rift for the past little bit. My only complaint with the combat, besides being pretty much the same ol', same ol', is the spell effects. The spells are so boring looking and have very little feeling of impact or damage. That's just me though. I'm still liking it anywas. I'm having more fun than I was in SWTOR.
Originally posted by Gorwe Thanks strangiato. I'm glad that I'm not the only one who sees the potential. Unfortunately, it seems that even GW lost themselves in Warhammer lol. And PvE is not vs AI. PvE is the same thing as Skyrim dam it! Now look me straight in the metaphorical eye and tell me that you wouldn't Skyrim like game set in the old world(Empire let's say). God dam these MMO players of today are really clueless-PvE is also not defined by dungeons before you say anything. Nor the raids.
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Funny, I thought the best thing about Warhammer was the pvp zones. You could wander into it at level 1 and have a ton of fun. Meanwhile PVE was canned, standing in place mashing buttons doing kill 10 rats quests with the occasional dynamic quest. Maybe that's what you meant about PVE not being developed.
It was doing things off the beaten path where WAR was good PvE wise. the game world was good, and you were rewarded by poking your nose around with ToK unlocks which gave you more lore. the public quests were actually really well done, about 100x times better than Rifts (which are pretty much uninspired garbage...95% of em are 5 waves of kill tasks with a single mob on wave 3 and 5...invasions are awesome though).
If Rift's game world was half as interesting as WAR's this article wouldnt have to be called "Returning to Rift"-people wouldnt have left to begin with.
Granted I only played the first two zones since the game was empty, but I don't remember there being much off the beaten path. Given Rift hired 90% of warhammers team, its no surprise its exactly the same minus the rvr.
I just updated and logged in to check it out after being away for over a year. I wasn't that impressed. I think what really turned me off was the cesspool that the chat channel had become. It was equal to or worse than Barrens chat. No thanks. I don't log into a game to be subjected to that garbage. Oh, and that was on the RP server, Faeblight, which always seemed to be more respectful before.
I know the term "immersion" is a very personal thing and debatable, but to me this game earns the medal for "most anti-immersion possible". My first try endet at level 5, my last one 2 days ago after less than 5 minutes, both times with a complete wipe of the game. Sorry but I'm old school and hate these modern crap.
I played in Beta and came back when Rift went F2P. I absolutely love it! I put my EQ2 on hold and already have 12 characters in Rift. I like the options in the game store and already bought extra bag slots, an extra bank vault, all the available character slots and upgraded my main with an extra tradeskill. Come to play, you will not regret it!
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Granted I only played the first two zones since the game was empty, but I don't remember there being much off the beaten path. Given Rift hired 90% of warhammers team, its no surprise its exactly the same minus the rvr.