Dead Frontier A post apolocalyptic zombie MMO, says it has over 100 real world guns. Appears to be a top down 3D shooter with pretty decent looking light effects if the video is accurate.
I got an email a while back telling me that they were going 3d and changing the engine, never bothered trying it again. The game was horrifically laggy with more than 2 people on screen originally, so things can only have improved.
Dead Frontier A post apolocalyptic zombie MMO, says it has over 100 real world guns. Appears to be a top down 3D shooter with pretty decent looking light effects if the video is accurate.
Thanks but I already got that one listed somewhere. It's uh I've never heard anything good about it.
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Dead Frontier has me interested right from your summary. Is it a game like combat arms (Basically servers like CSS and whatnot) or are you in a city with other players?
Dead Frontier A post apolocalyptic zombie MMO, says it has over 100 real world guns. Appears to be a top down 3D shooter with pretty decent looking light effects if the video is accurate.
Thanks but I already got that one listed somewhere. It's uh I've never heard anything good about it.
Oh, i never even tried it, i just saw zombies and figured someone might be interested enough to test it out. Apparently its ass though from what you guys say.
I saw an add for this Divine Souls action MMO it looked pretty neat...i haven't searched it up yet though, not a lot of free time...do we have it listed already?
Finally another person that plays Dungeon Fighter Online. I grew up playing games like Final Fight and Streets of Rage so I've been completely hooked on this game too. I was kinda surprised there was no thread about it on the forum. From what I understand when it first came out there wasn't much to do which turned off a lot of people. Well they've been pretty steadily adding new content every 3 months or so and it is definitely worth another look. My username in the game is xcletus10. I have 2 characters in their level 50s so look me up if you ever need help with anything.
Got invited to check out Xen Online, a Ragnarok Clone if I've ever seen one. It's currently in closed beta, but I'm completely uninterested in even applying to join.
I also saw a commercial on Dutch television for Maestia. I was just sitting there staring at it and trying to explain to my mom why it's insane for Maestia of all games to throw television commercials at us. It is one of the blandest MMORPGs I've seen in the past year and I don't see why anyone would favour it over a plethora of other free titles. I guess this does mean there's a lot of people playing Maestia now, so that's attractive to people who enjoy playing games with other people.
My current day job consists of listing stuff. Yesterday I spent 3 hours turning archive boxes so that the text on them was facing in my direction and the rest of the day writing down what was in all those boxes. As a result of this mind-numbing job I have no motivation to update my MMO database in Access. As much as I usually enjoy lists and the updating thereof I am getting my fix-and-then-some elsewhere.
It does not help that the free MMO business is finally booming in the west. I've been telling everyone that the free MMO concept works and that it's cool, but now that some big companies (Bigpoint, Turbine, Perfect World, Gpotato, Sony...) are joining the bandwagon my workload has increased quite a bit. I can afford judging a lot of games by their cover, but big titles like Champions Online deserve a more thorough playtest before I fling faeces in their direction.
I also have more difficulty with bringing news of new titles, because the difference between pay to play and free to play has become vaguer with games like Lord of the Rings Online. I have paid a monthly subscription for that one for a while and now you can play it for free, even though you'll probably spend money or buy a subscription for it if you like it. And Warhammer Online is even more confusing: sure you can play the game for free, but only the Tier 1 stuff. I am now reading all the headlines because a lot of the F2P titles are so big they get treated like proper pay-50$-for-a-DVD titles by gaming magazines and websites. Sites like http://www.gratis-mmorpg.com still help me a lot because they spend far more time on this stuff than me. I don't want to be too dependent on copying news from other websites, but I would need more time to collect my own information from actually playing games.
It also doesn't help that between LOTRO and Torchlight I have no interest in downloading more games at the moment. :P Torchlight is rad.
I can afford judging a lot of games by their cover, but big titles like Champions Online deserve a more thorough playtest before I fling faeces in their direction.
Apparently they're adding a bunch of new content to CO along with the freemium model roll-out. Though for some reason they're neither advertising said content to existing players, nor the F2P model to the general public. Cryptic need a better PR department.
I can afford judging a lot of games by their cover, but big titles like Champions Online deserve a more thorough playtest before I fling faeces in their direction.
Apparently they're adding a bunch of new content to CO along with the freemium model roll-out. Though for some reason they're neither advertising said content to existing players, nor the F2P model to the general public. Cryptic need a better PR department.
I am actually keeping track of the CO thread and it mostly seems like Cryptic has reduced their CO team to just enough people to develop F2P while everyone else is working on Star Trek. PR is probably done by an intern while the phones are manned by the cleaning crew and website development is maintained by the 2nd playtester who happened to have some experience with Java.
Soul of the Ultimate Nation (S.U.N.) has been bought out by Webzen from Ijji. They're currently migrating accounts and working on server stability (which seems to be all over the place). At least now you don't have to put up with that horrible Ijji launcher, just a slightly less horrible Webzen website launcher.
These website launchers are really annoying. None of these sites will remember your log in info.
Soul of the Ultimate Nation (S.U.N.) has been bought out by Webzen from Ijji. They're currently migrating accounts and working on server stability (which seems to be all over the place). At least now you don't have to put up with that horrible Ijji launcher, just a slightly less horrible Webzen website launcher.
These website launchers are really annoying. None of these sites will remember your log in info.
Wow that clears up that entry. Atlus also ditched the game by the way.
Tried to get Pandora Saga using their downloader but the client "can't find an internet connection." Gave it a couple more goes but no dice. Stopped trying.
Fileplanet put Allods Online up on their main page, saying stuff has been added. Anyone been keeping up on that one?
I've still been playing Allods since their 3rd closed beta. I still really enjoy it. Been max level for a while and I have done all the endgame content (six heroics, a 24 man raid instance with 8 bosses that resets once a week, flying around on the astral ship to different allods, and the two newest things: Arena of Death (two sessions a night, lets 24 league and 24 empire into an arena (must be max level and have patron buff active) to fight for chests which can contain gold, epics gear, or legendary gear tokens) and Melting isle which is a factionless PVP zone where your only allies are whomever is in your party or raid where you run around killing other people to open chests which contain epic and legendary gear.
For some reason Divine Souls is still down. As soon as they hit OB their servers crashed or something and they've not bothered to get them back up. So that's looking good.
Also, Battle of the Immortals is an awful game. Avoid.
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Fileplanet put Allods Online up on their main page, saying stuff has been added. Anyone been keeping up on that one?
I've still been playing Allods since their 3rd closed beta. I still really enjoy it. Been max level for a while and I have done all the endgame content (six heroics, a 24 man raid instance with 8 bosses that resets once a week, flying around on the astral ship to different allods, and the two newest things: Arena of Death (two sessions a night, lets 24 league and 24 empire into an arena (must be max level and have patron buff active) to fight for chests which can contain gold, epics gear, or legendary gear tokens) and Melting isle which is a factionless PVP zone where your only allies are whomever is in your party or raid where you run around killing other people to open chests which contain epic and legendary gear.
How viable is true F2P play? Both the "pay money to not get stacking debuffs on death" and "pay money to not risk gear" sound a bit pants, depending on severity.
Fileplanet put Allods Online up on their main page, saying stuff has been added. Anyone been keeping up on that one?
I've still been playing Allods since their 3rd closed beta. I still really enjoy it. Been max level for a while and I have done all the endgame content (six heroics, a 24 man raid instance with 8 bosses that resets once a week, flying around on the astral ship to different allods, and the two newest things: Arena of Death (two sessions a night, lets 24 league and 24 empire into an arena (must be max level and have patron buff active) to fight for chests which can contain gold, epics gear, or legendary gear tokens) and Melting isle which is a factionless PVP zone where your only allies are whomever is in your party or raid where you run around killing other people to open chests which contain epic and legendary gear.
How viable is true F2P play? Both the "pay money to not get stacking debuffs on death" and "pay money to not risk gear" sound a bit pants, depending on severity.
They actually have made it much more viable as a true f2p. The big complaints that most people had were how you needed incense (without incense you do nearly no damage and loose a very large stat bonus) and holy charms (which prevent your gear getting cursed on death) and they have added in quests that allow you to obtain both of these (you can get a 4 hour incense buff from a daily that is just talk to an NPC in town, and you can also get a 24 hour patronage buff item for doing a quest that involves just running around and talking to 5 different NPCs all of whom you will have met by around level 20, you don't really need to use incense until around level 15-18 and they give you 7 24hour items on any new character. For holy charms there is a daily quest in the main city where the NPC will give you 5 holy charms for 20 silver, which is a very small amount from around level 15 onward. As far as the cursing of items goes, while leveling you tend to replace items so fast that even if something gets cursed you will prob. get a better item soon anyways. Plus the reputation gear tends to be very good until you are able to do heroics, if you take the time to earn the reputation, so if that get cursed you can just buy a new piece from the NPC instead of trying to get an uncruse scroll.)
If you want to do well in endgame PVP and content you will need to make at least level 4 runes for your heroic level gear, but that level rune is fairly cheap to make and the materials to make them are on the AH at reasonable prices nearly 100% of the time.
The only thing I have paid for in this game is a larger bag and a large bank vault, everything else I have gotten via in game gold or questing.
edit: also there is no stacking debuff on death anymore. Just gear getting cursed and not doing and dmg if you do not have your patronage active.
For some reason Divine Souls is still down. As soon as they hit OB their servers crashed or something and they've not bothered to get them back up. So that's looking good.
Also, Battle of the Immortals is an awful game. Avoid.
BoI is fun up until about level 50, then it's an inexcusable grindfest. It also has the "if you don't spend hundreds of dollars on the game, don't bother" style of PvP that's so popular in F2P games today.
I actually thought it had potential until about level 30-35, before it throws you in at the deep end. Then the problem becomes a dozen DAILY fetch quests that you need to do to get important items, money, and xp. And the fetch quests aren't just go here, talk to this person; they're do that 20-40 times in a row.
Plus, the difficulty curve for the combat sucked. Mobs were either way, way too easy, or giant damage sponges. And still way too easy.
There's a quest giver in Runes of Magic who says this:
I am Marisus, Secretary General of the Eye of Wisdom. People call me 'Boss' in private. I am currently forty-three years old, and my interests include exercise and assigning tasks to others.
So someone declared war on Frogster for mistreating their employees, closing threads they don't like and lying to their customers. His course of action was to tear down the website and write an angrily worded letter on the Runes of Magic forums. link
So someone declared war on Frogster for mistreating their employees, closing threads they don't like and lying to their customers. His course of action was to tear down the website and write an angrily worded letter on the Runes of Magic forums. link
The best part is this:
That's some impressive nerdrage there, though he's kind of got them by the balls if he can actually do the stuff he's threatening to do.
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Oh, i never even tried it, i just saw zombies and figured someone might be interested enough to test it out. Apparently its ass though from what you guys say.
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Ha ha ha shows how rushed i am right now, i cant read.
...And DOS is hurting, like usual. Ow.
http://pandorasaga.atlusonline.com/
Word.
See for yourself: http://xen.mayngames.com
I also saw a commercial on Dutch television for Maestia. I was just sitting there staring at it and trying to explain to my mom why it's insane for Maestia of all games to throw television commercials at us. It is one of the blandest MMORPGs I've seen in the past year and I don't see why anyone would favour it over a plethora of other free titles. I guess this does mean there's a lot of people playing Maestia now, so that's attractive to people who enjoy playing games with other people.
My current day job consists of listing stuff. Yesterday I spent 3 hours turning archive boxes so that the text on them was facing in my direction and the rest of the day writing down what was in all those boxes. As a result of this mind-numbing job I have no motivation to update my MMO database in Access. As much as I usually enjoy lists and the updating thereof I am getting my fix-and-then-some elsewhere.
It does not help that the free MMO business is finally booming in the west. I've been telling everyone that the free MMO concept works and that it's cool, but now that some big companies (Bigpoint, Turbine, Perfect World, Gpotato, Sony...) are joining the bandwagon my workload has increased quite a bit. I can afford judging a lot of games by their cover, but big titles like Champions Online deserve a more thorough playtest before I fling faeces in their direction.
I also have more difficulty with bringing news of new titles, because the difference between pay to play and free to play has become vaguer with games like Lord of the Rings Online. I have paid a monthly subscription for that one for a while and now you can play it for free, even though you'll probably spend money or buy a subscription for it if you like it. And Warhammer Online is even more confusing: sure you can play the game for free, but only the Tier 1 stuff. I am now reading all the headlines because a lot of the F2P titles are so big they get treated like proper pay-50$-for-a-DVD titles by gaming magazines and websites. Sites like http://www.gratis-mmorpg.com still help me a lot because they spend far more time on this stuff than me. I don't want to be too dependent on copying news from other websites, but I would need more time to collect my own information from actually playing games.
It also doesn't help that between LOTRO and Torchlight I have no interest in downloading more games at the moment. :P Torchlight is rad.
I am actually keeping track of the CO thread and it mostly seems like Cryptic has reduced their CO team to just enough people to develop F2P while everyone else is working on Star Trek. PR is probably done by an intern while the phones are manned by the cleaning crew and website development is maintained by the 2nd playtester who happened to have some experience with Java.
These website launchers are really annoying. None of these sites will remember your log in info.
Anyone want to beta read a paranormal mystery novella? Here's your chance.
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Anyone want to beta read a paranormal mystery novella? Here's your chance.
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Anyone want to beta read a paranormal mystery novella? Here's your chance.
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I've still been playing Allods since their 3rd closed beta. I still really enjoy it. Been max level for a while and I have done all the endgame content (six heroics, a 24 man raid instance with 8 bosses that resets once a week, flying around on the astral ship to different allods, and the two newest things: Arena of Death (two sessions a night, lets 24 league and 24 empire into an arena (must be max level and have patron buff active) to fight for chests which can contain gold, epics gear, or legendary gear tokens) and Melting isle which is a factionless PVP zone where your only allies are whomever is in your party or raid where you run around killing other people to open chests which contain epic and legendary gear.
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Also, Battle of the Immortals is an awful game. Avoid.
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They actually have made it much more viable as a true f2p. The big complaints that most people had were how you needed incense (without incense you do nearly no damage and loose a very large stat bonus) and holy charms (which prevent your gear getting cursed on death) and they have added in quests that allow you to obtain both of these (you can get a 4 hour incense buff from a daily that is just talk to an NPC in town, and you can also get a 24 hour patronage buff item for doing a quest that involves just running around and talking to 5 different NPCs all of whom you will have met by around level 20, you don't really need to use incense until around level 15-18 and they give you 7 24hour items on any new character. For holy charms there is a daily quest in the main city where the NPC will give you 5 holy charms for 20 silver, which is a very small amount from around level 15 onward. As far as the cursing of items goes, while leveling you tend to replace items so fast that even if something gets cursed you will prob. get a better item soon anyways. Plus the reputation gear tends to be very good until you are able to do heroics, if you take the time to earn the reputation, so if that get cursed you can just buy a new piece from the NPC instead of trying to get an uncruse scroll.)
If you want to do well in endgame PVP and content you will need to make at least level 4 runes for your heroic level gear, but that level rune is fairly cheap to make and the materials to make them are on the AH at reasonable prices nearly 100% of the time.
The only thing I have paid for in this game is a larger bag and a large bank vault, everything else I have gotten via in game gold or questing.
edit: also there is no stacking debuff on death anymore. Just gear getting cursed and not doing and dmg if you do not have your patronage active.
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BoI is fun up until about level 50, then it's an inexcusable grindfest. It also has the "if you don't spend hundreds of dollars on the game, don't bother" style of PvP that's so popular in F2P games today.
I actually thought it had potential until about level 30-35, before it throws you in at the deep end. Then the problem becomes a dozen DAILY fetch quests that you need to do to get important items, money, and xp. And the fetch quests aren't just go here, talk to this person; they're do that 20-40 times in a row.
Plus, the difficulty curve for the combat sucked. Mobs were either way, way too easy, or giant damage sponges. And still way too easy.
Meh.
Next up, Forsaken World.
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I wonder what his opinions are on pina coladas.
The best part is this:
That's some impressive nerdrage there, though he's kind of got them by the balls if he can actually do the stuff he's threatening to do.
Someone save us from this angry nerd.
All hail Lord Nerdrage.
...Wait, what's with that part about Frogster spying on its own employees? O_o