I'd recommend checking out Illyriad. It's an sandbox-ish resource game, very similar to Civilization and many other online RTS games, but minus the constant need to spend money to get anywhere with it. Likewise, it has a great community that is very…
I tried this game for a little bit (that meaning about an hour). It has some cool concepts in it, but so many basic aspects of the game were a turn off. Cool features only work when they rest on a good game; without that, they're just slightly enjoy…
I like what I've seen of the living story so far; it's a cool concept, and I always enjoy when games push the story and world to continue moving forward.
However, there needs to be some sort of 'option' for this event as a whole to be really ama…
I tried this game out as well. I wasn't disappointed because I had little-to-no expectations for it, and I'm glad I didn't. Although the game looks good (walking through trees aside), it just wasn't fun; as pointed out in the review, you basically j…
Originally posted by rmk70 I think they could do good things if they made WvWvW more meaningful. It just doesn't feel like you're really contributing to anything...
Same with sPvP but on a smaller scale.
I'd like to see amble progression…
Originally posted by Pokket
I am just going to give an unbiased opinion on BioWare's approach with "story"
I don't mean to butt heads here, or attack your argument, but by definition all opinions are inherently biased. There are no objective opini…
For an amazing game, yes. If it can beat buying or trying any other games, offer entertainment and storytelling that rivals the best of television or reading, and allows me to not feel like I'm sinking time, then I think something like that would be…
When I was a kid, side-scrolling games were really hard. I kept playing them though, and I got used to the general control schemes that went along with the genre. Same goes for FPS and fighting games - once I started learning the general schema to a…
Sitting around the PoK looking for members or the same with trade chat was never fun. It was just tedious and boring. I never logged into any game, as far back as EQ, and said "man, I can't wait to sit and look for a group so I can play the game". N…
Most people who play MMOs probably aren't on this site. They probably aren't even using the forums for the games they play. Ten-twelve years ago, maybe that was the case. But I would bet that it's safe to say that the quiet majority of MMO gamers no…
MMOs first and foremost are a business. Many people are going to look at a game with relatively bad graphics now and, even if it's got a ton of awesome features, say "That's all fine and dandy, but why does it look like crap?" Unless it's stylized a…
Since I bought GW2 I've dabbled with a few other MMOs just to test the waters, as well as to see old games.
I logged into DCUO because I wanted some true 'action' combat; while GW2 is much faster than older games, sometimes it's nice to play a s…
Don't mean this in a negative sense, but this game sounds like a big mix of SWTOR and GW2 with a bit more stat customization. I wasn't too optimistic at first, but I'm starting to get more and more excited.
I've finally hit that point of non-excitement for the genre. GW2 is fun, but only in short bursts; for some reason, I can't seem to play the game more than an hour or so at a time before I need to do something else for a good while. All the other ga…
I don't think it'd be a terrible idea - if anything, it could be a nice way for people who played the game at launch and left to see all the changes Cata made to each classic zone.
But, like people have said, it wouldn't really matter too much - un…
Saying this is the 'death of a genre' (or that there ever was an end) is like saying that some kids' crappy drawing signifies the end of art. I don't understand the amount of melodrama that surrounds MMOs/videogames.
I think I'll look at this somet…
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I think Blizzard is on to something with these 'mini-games'; the entire industry is starting to realize the popularity of the pick-up and play gaming that comes from Facebook, phones, etc, and there needs to be more of that within an MMO now to be a…
Lol, what is up with all the animosity towards this being labeled a sequel? It's not a bad thing, but it is a sequel by definition.
It sounds to me like Anet is fixing everything that was wrong with GW1, which sounds great to me. There were a few …
A major problem with this list, and many forum posts and articles like it, is that it attributes success to games that haven't yet been released. GW2 and TSW both sound very promising, I'll give them that. But haven't we as fans of the genre learned…