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So really pleasantly suprised ! :)
Ok , you all know that time when you just have to tell people how you feel ? well this is one time I do.
I have been very sceptical about Wilstar and reading about it and looking at screenies etc has not really taken my interest .,... until now .. I got sent a voucher code off GMG supposedly personal to me for 25% of Wilstar with access to the Beta weekends , so I thought what the heck that's quite a good discount so nothing really to lose.
I have got to say that I couldn't have been more wrong about this game , while indeed it does have a certain cartoony look it looks and feels really solid like cartoony but not , kinda hard to explain , so far after an hour of play I can honestly say it looks feels and plays brilliantly.
So from a skeptic with no interest at all in the game to someone who now cant wait for full release and the chance to really get my teeth into this game .. that's me !
I am being totally honest here and I don't often get this feeling that I have to tell everyone about a game.
If you have been feeling the same as I did , try it you may just be converted like I have. 
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I had almost no interest in this game at all and now that is changing fast. PAX East had a lot to do with that, so I'm giving it a real go this weekend beta, so far so good! I am getting VERY excited for this game. The dev team alone have me extremely interested, they seem to actually listen to the audience, communicate with them and that helps build the amazing community around this game so far.
I think this game will be a slow burner though, it will have a good 500k+ right off the bat, but then continue to grow with new consistent content updates, youtube videos of raids and pvp. I think when people start to see the videos and what this game has to offer, it will get more people to try it.
Very happy to see ppl like you (reading for a long time your posts) to join wildstar. Not because they were fanboys but as ppl who played it and have fun.
Currently Playing: ESO and FFXIV
Have played: You name it
If you mention rose tinted glasses, you better be referring to Mitch Hedberg.
I really don't know why people are comparing this to Wow , for me the only similarity is the cartoony look , but as I said its a cartoony look that feels solid and right .
It plays and feels like WoW to me personally, I know people fall on both sides of that opinion. I love the cartoony look, I'm not knocking it at all, it feels great!
Currently Playing: ESO and FFXIV
Have played: You name it
If you mention rose tinted glasses, you better be referring to Mitch Hedberg.
I was also one of those who was not interested, I used to tell everyone it looked like WoW. Then my first beta I played to level 5 and claimed it to be a WoW clone.
Closed beta entered week 3 and I was bored and realized my beta invite was being wasted. So I logged in and leveled up a bit. I was then this game is nothing like WoW out side of the typical questing hub system.
I would compare the graphics more to a game like Kingdoms of Amalur than I would WoW. You see though WoW is cartoony it's overall graphics and texture are garbage. Where this game as KOA did, makes cartoony look good.
I too overlooked this for it's cartoony graphics. And it's WoW-style gameplay. But I saw a good video over on youtube on a guy's 1-49 beta impressions and that was enough for me to take one of the many free keys for this weekend. I'm pleasently surprised at how polished this game is. I still dislike the quest hub centric gameplay, but apparently it's get really challenging as I'm leveling so it may not be too bad. I'm a huge dungeon fan for MMOs, so anything like vanilla/WoTLK WoW is great to me. I'm still skeptical, but I might just pre-order this. I was going to wait a little longer for ESO impressions to settle, but it's just get worse by the day while WildStar is growing.
What I think it's hard for me to get is the lore. I'm just not attached to it anymore then a F2P asian trash game. I loved the lore in the raids in WoW, and even basic questlines. I'm also far from a sci-fiction lover, and really have never enjoyed a sci-fi game. But there's just 'something' here making me think this game will be great.
Whenever i step outside, somebody claims to see the light
It seems to me that all of us have lost our patience.
'cause everyone thinks they're right,
And nobody thinks that there just might
Be more than one road to our final destination--
I did, with the screen shots movies and graphics. But once i have played this weekend, i really love the animations and graphics. I cant wait for the game to come out, by then i should have a graphics card to max it, and i will like it even more. I really love the mouth animations of the first guy, and the face animations. I suppose to many animations of the npcs dont matter, but to me it is a big thing.
I really like it, feels very smooth and good, even on med which i had to play on.
I dont see how you can say that, especially since teso runs worse. I have to play Teso on almost lowest setting with a r7 250, which isnt much of a graphics card. If you dont play teso at close to 50fps the combat doesnt work at all. Even with the highest end cards such as the 290x, and the 780ti, one cant run the game at 1080p, and i mean a constant 60fps. Not to even mention the teso doesnt have full screen.
It sounds like me your just a elder scrolls fan, that wants to troll the wildstar post, where some one enjoyed it. I would like to throw this at your attempt at it. Ever watch the npcs talk in the teso, it looks like the Canadian's in south park. They dont even look like people talking. Unlike wild stars almost perfect animations of people talking.
NO I just played the beta again and I cant buy this game and sub.
I don't care about the look but its just not good enough,if it came out a view years ago or had no subscription maybe.
what pissed me of is the screen is full of useless crap telling you things you know and cluttering the screen,and what put me of most was flashing you got to finish this mission whish I had.
it looks like a casino with lights flashing and the gameplay is average.
I hope its the final death of the typical theme park mmo.
the joke is just like FFXIV there will be about 10% of mmo players sticking it out and loving it I don't care its not interesting at all.
Running teso with i5k-something and gf770 every setting maxed and no performance issues, runs smooth as butter and very short loading times. I'm going to try it out one of these days on my old amd X4-970 quadcore with gf570 just to see if the old horse can run it smooth enough for some coop times to be had at my place.
What comes to Wildstar, I dont mind the cartoony look, I actually like cartoony art style if it's done properly, but what I dont like atm is so many people saying it's going to be a raiding game, and I dont care about raids at all. If the game has any other end-game content that might interest me I'm definitely going to give it a try closer to fall probably.
Not having a constant 60+ fps is not smooth as butter, and there is no way your 770 is running teso at a 60+ fps at all times. With 1080 res, and everything set to max, I am sorry its just not happening. So to say this game, which has low end graphics, that cannot even be run at 60+fps at 1080 is smooth as butter is a joke. Its impossible, because there is no full screen so you cant SLI. When a top of the line card like a 780ti, which there is no better single card, cant max a not so good graphic game like this, that uses a old engine. To say its smooth, well that is not my idea of smooth.
Man you're bitter. If someone finds it interesting to them..then who are you to say who can and cannot have fun.
Whenever i step outside, somebody claims to see the light
It seems to me that all of us have lost our patience.
'cause everyone thinks they're right,
And nobody thinks that there just might
Be more than one road to our final destination--
Not impressed at all.
The advantage of having a cartoony game is graphics performance and a less cluttered environment. Seems like it just gave them an excuse to use lazy crap programming.
Laggy turning, movement response.
Delay casting, blizzard is the only one that has ever gotten this one right. You cast a spell and it goes off, it doesn't feel like it's waiting for the server to respond. This alone is a reason I don't play other games.
I'd take Rift over this any day, and there is only one game I'd pay a monthly fee for and that would be WOW.
Until someone in the game industry refines spell casting and character movement to match blizzard, I will not pay them anything.
Next.
I'll have to check the exact FPS tomorrow when I have time to play again, but so far it has ran smooth as butter to my standards at least, if the game ran poorly for me I'd be quick to whine about it too.
Dont check there is no reason to. You think its fine, that is fine. It doesnt matter that i dont follow that standard. There is already enough posts on, 290s and 780s not being able to max the game. As well as I have had a over clocked 290 to 1050 1350 and it doesnt get a constant 60fps. The point is TESO is far from being a smooth running game. But I cant justify spending money on something that ran that poorly, where its refering to wildstar. When TESO is so far from being optimized its not even funny.