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[Vanguard] I'M BACK SO THIS GAME IS GOOD AGAIN
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I'll be GISing around now, though. Because I'm interested.
And yes I'm a graphics whore as of late. :oops:
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Water effects are pretty bad, though.
I think I made a Druid, something like that, because the special ability spells they got sounded awesome. Something about these big OMG NUKE style spells that you could only use once you'd built up your bar enough. I don't know, it sounded awesome but I never got high enough level to use one.
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ANYWAY, the gameplay>graphics and it seems to deliver on the gameplay.
I was watching the walkthrough with the CEO and someone else and they were talking about dungeons and how it totally wasn't hardcore. They were talking about "you only need to play for something like 2 hours to have done something, then you can head to save area and log out and start it up again tomorrow." Maybe I'm just not an avid enough gamer, but playing games for 14 hours per week is just not possible.
Is it possible to get anywhere with say ~3 hrs/week of gaming?
I ordered off of Amazon.com's user sales for $15 after shipping.
Neat.
Anyone know how it worked out? If good enough I might give it a shot. I'm all about the necromancing.
Damn it.
Can you still take quests that require you to talk to people who kill you on sight? That was another wonderful "feature".
so yeah, waiting on that trial <3
The CE is about $15 shipped on eBay. The description doesn't say anything about it including a 3 month sub, does anyone know for sure if the CE does? Someone mentioned it in this thread but I am leery.
Thats what I read about the description of the Collector's Edition contents on GoGamer, though for some reason they were selling it for 90 bucks...
Races are no longer KOS,to other factions. wich some might think is a bad thing but you also don't get insta awsome faction, so for faction mounts / faction based qeusts you still have to grind to raise that faction. Usualy not a problem if your just killing in an area anyways.
They toned down the amount of chr custimization untell they can pretty much make their own, so to speak. So if you have played Eq2 you know what kinda of custimization of your chr you can expect, but it will prolly be another update or more before they get around to that.
*Perfect World
There was a comment on Amazon.ca about how the free 3-months isn't actually to Vanguard but to the Station service from Sony. You only get 1 free month.
edit: 5 hours est. to go.
I guess this is what happens when you patch from original launch cd's
In WoW all characters look different unless they are almost exact clones of each other. That's one of the reasons Blizzard has been avoiding "Barber Shop" style modifications for it would allow people to look identical after the fact.
You character weighing 20 pounds more than another character doesn't make them unique, it just sends more un-necessary information to the other clients. Having many more 'realistic' faces, hair styles and skin tones will make character creation more varied than 100 sliders that adjust stupid stuff like nose crookedness, neck length, and other very minute details.
Heh, I went for the Digital Download. I got about 4 or so hours left now, but its been going at it for about 18+ hours. Weeeee!
I thought about the digital download, but than the game is like 18gb so I figured the patch has to be less than that.
2hr 30min to go
What, make a boring game with an in-depth character creation system?
It worked for Cryptic. Hey-O!
I know I was bored enough to only play the 30 days and then quit. Not because CoX was a bad game, but more because of the forced grouping. Grouping was lots of fun when I could find one, but I went way too long at times having no groups and being utterly bored... to the point it became enough for me to decide against paying for what was otherwise a very entertaining game.
Bringing this around to the topic at hand... how's Vanguard handle grouping? Is it forced or can you solo for the most part and only group for bigger dungeons and bosses?
Also a feature i forgot to mention was thatthe put brotherhoods in so you can keep up with your friends. it sucks away xps when your solo though, butif you just keep grouping it dums a % of it to your offline members / anyone in the brotherood. Was nice for the short time my necro was in one. but it sucks up xps when your sol
Regicid: Trust me, the Rift Stones only help out a little bit, and cut down on two hour traveling from one continent to another. This is coming from the guy who despises the Plane of Knowledge in EverQuest, and think it was the worst idea in MMO history: the Rift Stones work, and they do nothing but strengthen the community by making it easier to get from Point A leagues away to Point B, while still giving you a lot of traveling time to actually get to a rift stone. It's usually about a ten minute ride from Tursh to the Rift Stone in Three Rivers, or whatever the town is called. Still quite a bit of traveling to do and sights to see.
Oh and I suppose I should ask what server is everyone on? I am about an hour or so away from finishing the update.
On a COMPLETELY unrelated note, I was watching my Ghostbusters DVDs and just realized that the Ghostbusters 2 DVD has 2 of the cartoon episodes on it. I have had these DVDs for a long, long time. What a happy surprise!
Essentialy if you chose too, you could go from 1 to 50 without going over the same content. I think from 40 to 50 you miht have to but there are enough places to grind that you dont really have to worry aobut quests.
Seradon is the server we are palying on.