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Eh, I've made my Perfect World thread, maybe I can get some others interested as well.
edit: ahh yes, now that I re-downloaded the client it's become clear, the lag is actually worse than it used to be, fuck shadowbane
Yeah I'm pretty much lost in this interface all over again but some stuff is coming back
Anyone else cares I'm Fleck the vampire Thief on the Test server
Behold:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gONQVuR98TE
Pretty much the whole game is like this, taking your character out in the wilderness and selecting mobs for your character to rip through in a shiny way. I got bored with it after a few days.
It's a nice free browser/timer/text based wrestling simulator mmorpg.
I've been playing since christmas and I'm still entertained by it.
http://lunia.12foottall.com
For those who don't remember, this is the isometric action-game beat 'em up MMO, gameplay reminiscent of arcade style "team up" fighters like the TMNT games.
Steam, Planetside 2
Plus, Zu has asdw-support.
http://ea-land.ea.com/index.php
Steam, Planetside 2
That site looks eye-raping, though. x_x
And yes please. I've still got a lot of room for them and it's good to read some honest opinions on these games. There's a lot of "lol korea grindy grindy engrish m i rite" and "wow! it doesn't cost money, that's interesting!" while it would be a lot more interesting to read some decent reviews instead.
Ok here's a quick review of Rubies of Eventide (stealing JamesDM's formatting):
Race/Class/Level: Indis Druid Level 25 (3-4 weeks of play, I was very desperate at the time)
Rating: * out of 5
Player Base: Low / very low. It's really low because there's really only 4-5 zones anyways. If you did a who you'd only see about 100 people playing tops. The player base consists of people who for some reason are FANATICAL about the game, and have been playing for ages, or people who got tricked into trying it because it's free. The latter probably leave immediately. It's very easy to find groups because there is such a limited amount of things you can actually do.
Storyline: I can't even confirm the existance of a storyline. You start out in a training camp of sorts with a few guys who try to poorly teach you the mechanics of the game. Then you're pushed out the door and wander over to the nearby town where you can pick up quests and so on. Not really sure why you do these things though.
Graphics: Bad. I'm trying to think of a game for comparison, but I really can't. Poorly textured, shitty blocky 3D models. They're running on an ancient Lithtech engine I believe. It's very bland-looking. The zones are basically flat terrain. This screenshot explains it better than I ever could (yea I guess that thing in front of the guy is supposed to be an Ent... hahahahaha).
Gameplay: Combat is probably the most atrocious system I have ever encountered in any game ever, EVER. You run around fine until you attack something / attract aggro by being to close. Then it switches over to some sort of bizarro pseudo-turn-based system within a certain radius. This will also aggro all other mobs within the radius. Mobs not aggroed who walk into the radius will then join into combat. Then you press buttons to do your crap and things die (probably you). It's actually far far worse than I can do it justice in words. It's confusing, hard to grasp and terribly unpleasant.
Fun: It amazes me that this game garners the love it does from it's hardcore fans. It's not fun at all, it's difficult to get into and looks like shit. The learning curve is so steep that the fans defend it by saying that the community is so helpful that you can just ask for help. This is true. The community is very helpful.
Bugs: Tons of bugs. 50% chance of crashing when zoning to a new zone which takes ages on any computer. Plenty of crashing going on. The game is never updated, with patches coming "next Tuesday". It's no surprise, since it's a fan-run game. The one coder probably barely touches the game at all.
Summary: Just no. Bad graphics, bad gameplay, no story, steep learning curve. Helpful community! Yay!
Thanks. Hopefully you had more fun with one of the other games.
I've changed the picture to a link, I want to keep the loading time of the OP as short as possible. :
I'll do Rappelz now.
Race/Class/Level: Janus Level 20ish Asura Cleric
Rating: *** out of 5
Player Base: Medium to High. Tons of people in towns selling things. Lots of people out in the noob zones, but there's plenty of creatures so it isn't much of an issue.
Storyline: Story doesn't really have a large role in this game. As far as I can tell they throw you in there. There's a tiny blurb of story on the main website.
Graphics: Quite good. Very anime inspired characters. Pretty sweet-looking armour and weaponry. Super slutty armour for the females. Nice effects and animations. Terrain and monsters are all passable. Example: http://rappelz.gpotato.com/images/screenshot/screenshot04.jpg
Gameplay: Pretty much a lot of questing that involves killing many of the same monster with slightly different names. ie. Raging Hawks and Angry Hawks. It's fairly grindy. Combat has lots of flashy effects and is pretty fast. You get warped around a lot to different areas, so that can be kind of confusing at first. The classes with pets have an enormous amount of pet options available to them.
Fun: Fun for a few weeks at least. There's plenty of class and race combinations to try out and fighting things is decent. They give you a mount very early on (I can't remember, but maybe even as early as level 10), which is awesome. Every game should do this.
Bugs: Didn't encounter any. Lag slowdown in populated areas can be very bad.
Summary: It's decent. Play with friends because most other people will be involved in their own affairs. It's easy to get into and looks pretty. Most people will get sick of the grind after a while though.
I couldn't stand Rappelz in open beta. I tried it for a little while, but it wasn't rewarding for me to pay attention to what my little toon was doing. It didn't help that the Engrish was almost worst than in Perfect World.
I definitely gotta try this Perfect World.
http://www.playrequiem.com/
Closed beta, not exactly sure how you can get in other than being a FilePlanet subscriber. If closed betas don't count as free then ignore this post.
If you want a beta key, there are about 4500 left by signing up for a free mmorpg.com account.
well I'm downloading the client from FP (well, in line to), so I'll check it out in a bit. looks bloody. but it also looks like korean grindfest #12841 so I shall see
Requiem was being promo'd as an optional microtransaction game at GDC.
throw it in with the fail games
but I'm optimistically unenthusiastic
also I'm not feeling the horror vibe. monsters are kinda creepy looking I guess, but its not too terrifying when you're chopping them down en masse. the music is pretty much non-existent and combined with the boring surroundings, yeh.. not horror not spooky and not even creepy.
combat is standard fare, nothing really wrong with it. loot dropping on the ground is pretty annoying though.
the only "unique" element of requiem is its excessive blood, at least compared to any mmo's I've ever played. death animations include severed heads and limbs and some enemies will have death throes and spasms. corpses and body parts will also roll down hills. enemies and your character will also get more and more bloodied as their HP goes down. I have some pics of this.. hold on
although I rarely notice myself as such. I wish being bloodied was more of a momentum thing, as in kill more enemies in rapid succession and get more covered in blood (and get more xp or something too, like TRs kill combo'n)
At level 20 you get the ability to use Possession Beasts. You turn into a giant monster thing for a minute or two after a bar fills up, there are apparently several different monsters you can turn into. I am liking it, its a nice free MMO.
I am even liking it more than Perfect World, just because I feel that Requiem has a bit more of an atmosphere about it.