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Wizard/Pirate101 - Just for kids?
MightyUnclean
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Hey folks,
I've heard a lot of good things about Wizard101 and Pirate101. Question is, are these MMO's just for kids? Or are they fun for all ages?
Thanks!
I've heard a lot of good things about Wizard101 and Pirate101. Question is, are these MMO's just for kids? Or are they fun for all ages?
Thanks!
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Yeah, I hear you. Just curious what others' experiences have been. No harm in trying, I suppose. I just don't want to be the only adult on a server full of kids!
1) Combat is too slow. Every single attack has to go through a long, repetitive animation. You can turn off animations, but you can't speed it up.
2) Chat is really crippled. It relies on a whitelist where you can only say certain words. And it's not a very long list of legal words, so you often end up fishing around for synonyms to try to find something allowed if you want to say anything.
3) Shortly before I quit, they had some promotion where if you bought something in some real-life store, you'd get some in-game item that was ridiculous overpowered. It's a weird sort of pay to win that I've never seen elsewhere, in that it wasn't that expensive, but would be quite the hassle if you wanted to buy it. PVE is so easy that you could ignore it, and I don't know if they still do stuff like this anymore, but it's something to keep in mind if you were hoping to PVP.
The game is aimed at kids, but can also be enjoyed by adults. If you like turn-based games, I'd suggest testing Wizard 101 for its unique turn based gameplay.
The system is card-game like so that you draw 7 cards at once from your desk to choose from. Then you'll have to deal with never knowing which cards you'll draw; Trying to discard cards to hopefully draw better cards next turn while at the same time trying to not run out of cards; Buff cards that can be really powerful if you use many in a row to affect same attack; Debuff cards that are also really powerful; Card elements; Saving points to use powerful attack cards; Etc.
There's a lot going on in combat once you reach higher levels, and the card based system + failure chance on attack cards make every battle a bit different and force you constantly think your choices. It's entertaining for an adult too.
Apart from combat the game is a bit childish. It's not a bad game, and there's actually quite a lot of side activities to do. But you'll either have to like the combat, or the rest of of the game won't be interesting due to everything being designed with children in mind.
I'd suggest testing Wizard 101 if you like turn-based gameplay. It's unique, and while the game is P2P there's a free trial area.
Wizard101 and Pirate101 are both simple on the surface but hard to master -- probably particularly so in the case of Pirate101. There is plenty of nuance for an adult player and there are a surprising number of adults who play and play regularly. Wizard101, in particular, has a robust and active community specializing in a number of areas including housing, pets, combat guides and the lik
I concur with everyone else though. Download one or the other and give it a go. You are the best judge of whether you like it. It's definitely worth that much!
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You can turn off the animations in Wizard 101??? I know Pirate 101 has an option for that, but have they done something similar for Wizard 101?
If they have, then I'll definitely have to return to the game. Slow animations was one of my biggest gripes with Wizard 101.
You are posting some laughably bad content, please desist.
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W101 is a "card based" deck game where wizards and baddies battle it out. When combat happens, a "combat circle" appears with 4 places on each side. Up to 4 players can fill the slots by just running into the combat circle. This means that groups are not needed, but can make the game more enjoyable with the right players.
Each wizard has a major school of magic, like Life, Fire, Myth, and so on. There are 7 schools in all (or at least were). Each wizard also gets to choose a minor school. You won't have access to as many minor school spells as your major. As you level, you get better spells. Then, you build decks based on the spells you have.
I found W101 a fun and enjoyable game at age 50-ish. Lots of kids around the game, but that's to be expected.
The only complaint I had, and it is understandable why they have this, is the crippled chat. Kids under 13 can only use a very limited set of emotes/chat bubbles. Chatting with them is nigh impossible. Older kids can type in chat, but it is heavily filtered and if you can't spell, a lot of your words will be "unseen."
Hope that helps a little.
PS: Thought I'd add this: This game is HEAVILY cash shop based.
VG
For comparison, in Hearthstone, you get 90 seconds for your turn. But nearly all of your time in the game is either thinking about your move or waiting for your opponent to do so. Once you choose to attack or play cards or whatever, it plays out very fast, so that if two players both move quickly, rounds can proceed very, very fast. In Wizard 101, most of the time in combat isn't waiting for anyone to decide on a move. It's waiting for slow animations to play out after you've decided.
But Wizard101 animations are so slow, I read a book between turns when soloing.
VG
Fun is ALWAYS subjective,let's get that out of the way.
Good-.....cheap low end graphics but done very well and with good animations.
Bad-....game plays the exact same from level 1-100+"boring,long travel linear questing".
They had a nice game design idea but for obvious reasons did NOT expand their thinking beyond level 50-55 and/or Waterworks.
Since Waterworks their design began to fail hence why they tried to change up to critical's as a design change.They "sort" of took feedback but like all devs and websites,that was sort of a nice marketing ploy but did not seem like any feedback mattered as they went with their idea even after many did not prefer their idea.
Criticals=a VERY weak idea,it either works or it doesn't ,pretty shallow for game design if you ask me.The tradeoff is also NOT a good one,you can sacrifice a LOT of damage to avoid taking criticals and even then sometimes can't be avoided,so you traded off tons of damage for nothing....sigh.
The very REASON for ONLINE gaming is to concur with other players but KI seemingly ruins every part of that via this so called "child protection" that just about EVERY single child knows how to get around,but hey it looks good in the press right?
Also the AH is not really an AH but is hard controlled,reasoning is they don't want you trading or selling any cash shop items>>"greed"unfair business that is one sided,forgets their customer is every bit as important.
Little things irk me about THEIR business like this so called child protection ,yet they run "chance"gambling in the game,yeah two faced much?
Back to the idea of FUN?Well if we call the game FUN then every single game on the market is fun because all this game does is very linear questing 24/7 non stop.
Crafting is very weak and time consuming,obviously they don't want you earning too much since the packages/bundles/cash shop is their main focus.This is never more evident than since Waterworks,they have NEVER allowed you to earn anything as valuable or even as good as the Malistaire realm,so yeah a lot of greed and change of fair business practices since that era.
I also noticed a LOT LESS gear once they started working on P101,so they began to put in less effort and LESS effort never sits well with me.
bottom line?It was rather FUN for and up to Waterworks,since then an obviously trend towards cash shop and the FUN factor has been lost.P101 i never lasted beyond day 2,so i have no real truthful input on that game,other than to say it was not attractive enough to myself in those 2 days.
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