MMORPG.com review of Horizons

Comments

• RJCox Member Posts: 2,686

  February 2004

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  It's numerical rating is misleading. It is closely bunched numerically with most other top rated mmorpg's. It does not belong in the same catagory as otheres close to 8.0. Are you saying that games that hover around 7.5 are really close in all around quality as those that are say 8.0?

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  Actually compare the score I gave it to the average rating the userbase of this very site has given it. I rated it at 7.3, the average ratting from all the users who have rated/reviewed it has been 7.4-7.5 or so, so if anything, I went HARDER on the game than the average user does.

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  More attention to actual gameplay quality should be addressed in this sort of review especially a review a couple months into release. It is almost like a preview. The gameplay aspect ratio should be more heavily weighted in final scores.

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  Such as? I feel that I gave a good all-around review considering I'm a little limited in the number of pages about a game the typical person wants to read. Sure, I could have gone alot more indepth into it, given 10 or so pages to work with.

  

  Richard J. Cox
  "There were much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."
• Makane Member Posts: 232

  February 2004

  I think HZ is a pretty fun game, right now anyway, and think it deserves the rating it has. It is all a matter of opinion though, and in mine HZ is at least as good as most other Big MMORPGs.

  /deepbow

  MAKANE
  (Horizons: Malakye Revan - Conjurer on Bounty)
  Lords of Stonekeep
• Umbrood Member UncommonPosts: 1,809

  February 2004

  Hehe, there was one thing in that review that made me laugh real hard though:

  "A few seconds lag", this in regards to the DB lag we have. If it were only a few seconds then i would scream of joy, it is often several minutes, especially when crafting while many people are online.

  To just have to wait a few seconds is rare, i would say the average waiting, (counting everything in), is somewere in the 15-20 seconds area, allthough this has improved a bit lately maybe closer to 15.

  I happen to know Kuono has played HZ some so the "Well another reviewer that got a ingame tour by the devs and wrote from that", does not hold. But seriously, I place the DB lag equal or even over the lack of support thing, and so does most people in the game that i have talked to.

  Aside from that, a good review.

  Glindin of ICE

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