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Don't waste your money on this game
Ashtor
Member Posts: 7
I have played most games: Everquest, WoW, Everquest II, Eve Online, Anarchy Online, Dark Age of Camelot, Ryzon, A Tale in the Desert, City of Heroes, Guild Wars, Final Fantasy and they are all a hundred times better than Dungeons and Dragons Online.
I just created my forum account so I could warn people not to waste their money on this game. The lag is horrendous and the graphics are extremely poor. I can play real time shooters such as Battlefield 2 at 1280 by 1024 with very little lag on my system. Not Dungeons and Dragons, couldn't get the screen resolution past 1024 by 768 without the game being unplayable. Plus the graphics and text are so poor they obviously aren't being rendered at that resolution they look little better than VGA graphics.
I have a fast system and a good DSL connection and yet I couldn't run through an almost empty city without my path constantly being reset due to lag. Zoning into dungeons is a joke with the lag involved. The crucial puzzle test I thought I had to pass to get city access was bugged, and only reloaded with all the pieces in place when I exited and re-entered the instance.
The coding for this game must suck because Everquest, Wow, Everquest II and CoH have far better graphics and run like a 100 times faster.
My advice if you want to play a buggy game, with unbelievable lag and with graphics which look like they are 10 years old then this is the game for you. Otherwise don't waste your money.
I just created my forum account so I could warn people not to waste their money on this game. The lag is horrendous and the graphics are extremely poor. I can play real time shooters such as Battlefield 2 at 1280 by 1024 with very little lag on my system. Not Dungeons and Dragons, couldn't get the screen resolution past 1024 by 768 without the game being unplayable. Plus the graphics and text are so poor they obviously aren't being rendered at that resolution they look little better than VGA graphics.
I have a fast system and a good DSL connection and yet I couldn't run through an almost empty city without my path constantly being reset due to lag. Zoning into dungeons is a joke with the lag involved. The crucial puzzle test I thought I had to pass to get city access was bugged, and only reloaded with all the pieces in place when I exited and re-entered the instance.
The coding for this game must suck because Everquest, Wow, Everquest II and CoH have far better graphics and run like a 100 times faster.
My advice if you want to play a buggy game, with unbelievable lag and with graphics which look like they are 10 years old then this is the game for you. Otherwise don't waste your money.
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In America I have bad teeth. If I lived in England my teeth would be perfect.
This game is very dissimilar to most MMORPG and can be a little foreign to someone approaching expecting a carbon copy standary MMO with the D&D label.
Seems like a problem with DDO to me.
Sounds like your system is the problem, not the game.
I agree it's not worth buying
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Running the game was never a problem for me. Thing is that things moved so fast at times, especailly in missions it was never an issue anyone since you rarely had time to apperciate the graphics. I have 1gig of ram so that might helped. Things were choppy at first but then I set the optiosn to sync with my moniter refresh rate and that cleared up all the problems. That really should be on by default I think since it can be annoying if you don't mess with the options.
DDO isn't worth it I feel because it's the same as Guild Wars but with a monthly price and doesn't look as pretty. If there was more to the game like soloing to higher levels or even being able to use smaller groups and everyone didn't look like a carbon copy of each other after a while and an actual world to explore and hunt in I might actually pay to play. Only really because it's a Dungeon and Dragon game, and an Eberron (big fan of the setting) one at that. That's the only reason I'd even consider going back to DDO if changes were made.
Running the game was never a problem for me. Thing is that things moved so fast at times, especailly in missions it was never an issue anyone since you rarely had time to apperciate the graphics. I have 1gig of ram so that might helped. Things were choppy at first but then I set the optiosn to sync with my moniter refresh rate and that cleared up all the problems. That really should be on by default I think since it can be annoying if you don't mess with the options.
DDO isn't worth it I feel because it's the same as Guild Wars but with a monthly price and doesn't look as pretty. If there was more to the game like soloing to higher levels or even being able to use smaller groups and everyone didn't look like a carbon copy of each other after a while and an actual world to explore and hunt in I might actually pay to play. Only really because it's a Dungeon and Dragon game, and an Eberron (big fan of the setting) one at that. That's the only reason I'd even consider going back to DDO if changes were made.
I mean, I don't even play the game, so I'm no fanboy or anything. I played for a month.
The graphics are WAY better than every game you mentioned except maybe EQ2. I have an old computer, it's pretty much crap, and I can run DDO on fairly high graphics with no lag at all, and a good frame rate. I don't know what you are talking about.
The problem I had with the game just being a all around let down. A microscopic world that was limited to a souless city and sewers, cellars and a few other places to adventure. No woods, mountains, swamps or anything to run around in.
The guy is right don't waste your money but for other reason.
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I don't know what the OP is talking about since I use a subpar dell system with on board video and have virtually no lag at all since I upped my ram to 1gig. The game is beautiful even on lower detail settings and while there are bugs I rarely see them. I've been mmoging for 10 years and have played most mmog's as well and this is the first game I wasn't tired of in 3 weeks. Been involved in it since the beta and still love the game and to this day have only one level 10 and he's not even at the max rank yet. I've been too busy playing all five characters and have no interest in doing only the highest xp quests (like many do who seem to have the need to hurry). vga graphics? give me a break.
2.5+, 1.5 GB, 9600 XT) and it ran just fine and looked good enough.
Infact, it was one of the more boring betatests I ever did, because
there were hardly any issues, compared with testing marathons I had,
like AO and Shadowbane. The graphics are really ok and I never lagged
one bit.
On the other hand, I never bought this game, because it is simply too restrictive and too small. The word Massive in MMORPG
certainly doesn´t apply to DDO. The Routine looks like : Inn,
shopping/repairing, take quest, go to instance, Inn, shopp....etc. And
if you decide to make a second char you have to do pretty much the same
quests all over again. "Ah yeah", the avid enthusiast (fanboi) says:
"but the quests have to be played differently with different
characters". Yeah, right....
I´m currently playing the 7-day trial with my gf and my brother and
it´s quite fun, but there´s one thing for sure. Nobody wants to pay
subscription for this. It´s fun to meet with friends, go clean a
dungeon and logout, but there´s nothing in it justifying the monthly
price of a full-grown mmorpg.
My issue with the game is that you are tied to doing one thing: log in find a group and crawl a dungeon (the same one over and over and over and...). I prefer games like UO that are very open ended. In DDO you log in , ask what do I feel like doing today and there is only one answer.
I got to the point I could crawl some quests without even thinking... chest over here, traps here, around corner is a giant, blah blah blah... boring ....
I left after a month, character was level 9.4. I just siad whats the point one day and haven't looked back.
- Beat most of the dungeons solo
- Could kill most monsters in one blow
- Got over 120 platinum
- I have full-plate, helmet, belt, cloak, boots and bracers.
- I've only 2 hours a day getting my stuff. I should be level 5 now, but started to characters at the same time and erased one.
I'm already bored with the game and I'm not even level 9 yet.
Most of the dungeons in the harbour are very soloable, agree. Did you try the marketplace dungeons yet? They're a bit better, and the ones in the houses are VERY cool.
The dungeon crawls are the only saving grace of DDO imo.... everthing else about the game is pretty weak, imo, but the actual quests (once you get out of the harbour) are a lot of fun. Still say it's not worth buying. But I have fun once I'm out of the Harbour. Some of the outdoor encounters are very cool.
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Most of the dungeons in the harbour are very soloable, agree. Did you try the marketplace dungeons yet? They're a bit better, and the ones in the houses are VERY cool.
The dungeon crawls are the only saving grace of DDO imo.... everthing else about the game is pretty weak, imo, but the actual quests (once you get out of the harbour) are a lot of fun. Still say it's not worth buying. But I have fun once I'm out of the Harbour. Some of the outdoor encounters are very cool.
Dude if I'm already bored playing the game what makes you think I want to play the REST of the game? Dungeon Crawl suck. I like to have the crack your smoking. I did Water Works with a few people last night and it was still boring.
It's cool to trash games and very uncool to like them alot. Hopefully all of us find a game we like in the future (I doubt that it ever happens for some of you) and you can bet it will be the same negativity on the forums. After the fun years of UO, EQ ,AC, AO and DAoC I played nothing new that interested me and I left those games quickly. I didn't spend my time on forums bashing them though and I kept trying games till I found one I like. I can see that if you are bored by a game then you move on but to spew the hatred like I hear is kind of rediculous.
There are lots of us that do like the game although I don't come up for air often as I'd rather be playing than argueing. Don't like a game then don't play it. But if you haven't tried it don't follow what any of us says and try it for yourself. Otherwise you become a clone waiting to be told what to play. Good luck and Good bye. I'm done with these hate spewing forums.
Unless you work for Turbine, I see no reason to take anything here personally, Jeddec. If you do, well....I would seek other employment, as I don't see them being around much longer, esp. if LoTRO also flops.
I think you miss the point of why many people complain (or HATE, as you put it).
Firstly, nothing ever changes if people don't complain and critisise a product's shortcomings. It's the squeeky wheel that gets the grease.
Secondly, many people grew up on D&D and love it. They also love MMOs. To see D&D rendered as a MMO (I don't think it qualifies as a MMO myself, but anyway) so poorly, it's just a travesty. It pisses people off to have such a beloved IP turned into......this.
People complain (or hate), not so much because what it is, but because of what a D&D MMO could have been, and this was just a piss-poor effort on Turbine's part.
They thought they could quickly put togethor a game, slap the D&D label on it and people would gobble it up while they went and got themselves fitted for new moneyhats. Well, they were wrong.