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Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO Macro Super II for Canon

06/07/2005 01:55:02 AM · #3

Hell yeah I play it! My Character's name is Nevaria Leafsworn. I'm a ranger/necromancer level 16 at present. I got to that level in, like, 1.5 weeks after finals at college when I had DSL. Now, though, while I wait for my family to switch into the fast lane (any day now, I hope) I can't play. Lemme know about your character?

Originally posted by buzzrock:

How good is it>?>?
Gimme a mini review..

Ever heard of Runescape? Lemme tell you this: the graphics suck and as with most MMORPG's there's a monthly fee.

This is not Guild Wars. Guild Wars has...er...well, WOW quality graphics? I haven't played it myself (WOW, that is) but I've seen it played. From what I hear, the WOW servers are frequently down and, what, 15 bucks a month to play?

Guess how many servers Guild Wars has? One. Guess how many times it's gone down? They could probably be counted on one hand. Guess how much it costs to play a month? Nada. You buy the original game (coming to a warez site near you soon, I'm sure) and then every couple of months they will release a new expansion that you can choose to buy or not. Pretty cool so far?

Unlike most (all?) MMORPG's to date, the focus is not on questing (to be sure: one can do this and should, at first, so as to get to a high level faster and with more fun) but on PVP. As the name suggests, the focus is to join a guild of other players and then, as a part of that guild go out and kill, maim, disembowel, etc. another guild in an arena combat setting. I think the maximum number of people allowed to fight on a team at once is somewhere around 6--not including pets and the like. Guilds can get their own, personalized capes (coolness bonus +10) and one can use dye (rather expensive, unfortunately) to customize the color of their armor which is itself customizable to a point via mixing and matching various types and pieces.

ummm...did I mention killing and disemboweling? Actually, there isn't any disemboweling graphically represented in the game per se, so you have to use your imagination on that one.

I should be an official spokesman of the game and get paid, no?

So yeah, Havok (my D&D character's name is Psavok, and that rhymes: interesting, huh?), hit me back and when I am finally able to play again, I'll put you on my friends list and we can play together--

--oh, yeah, and buzzrock, you can create little mini parties of friends or, as is more often the case complete strangers who, as is also often the case, quickly become friends...or not...ahem, and go questing together. It's a lot easier to kill monsters that are twice as big as you if there are 4 of you there to [insert witty remark about killing and disemboweling here] it.

Where was I? Oh, yeah... Guid Wars: it's so great, it's *guilded* ha ha heh heh hoooo! NovaTiger is not winning appeal with that one... :)

David.C

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

06/07/2005 04:46:54 AM · #4

I've been playing since Feb in the Beta weekends -- it hasn't lost it's punch yet!

Most recent character is an Elementalist/Monk, named Cryptic Karma, at 12th level after a couple of days playing.

Adding to mini-review:

As mentioned, the game is free to play online as long as you like -- ever so often, plans for 2-3 times a year, an update will come out with more territory, added skills, weapons, etc. This will cost, but nobody has to buy it to continue playing the game the same as they have been -- the idea is you get more options if you want, but don't have to take them.

Player-vs-player -- this is the main thrust of the game. Sure there are player-vs-envionment in the game, and no-one has to go against someone else if they don't want to but this is what keeps the game from getting stale. It's not about how well the single person can do, it's about a team working together against another team. The developers have done a good job of providing hundreds and hundreds of different skill, weapon, armor, rune, etc options to keep the variety going, but it doesn't really matter what equipment you have as long as you know how to use what you have well in a team environment.

Replayability -- Most games get very predictable, very quickly after the player 'gets use to' how the computer controls the opponents, with GWs the opponents aren't predictable -- their human. Any stategy has a counter strategy and someone on the other team is likely to come up with it and change how they play at any time.

Did I mention the teamwork is the focus of the game?

David

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM

06/07/2005 04:53:45 AM · #5

I play it! My PvP character is Konador Maxxus W/Mo and my RP character is Zephiyr Syzan E/R :) It's a great game!

floyd

Canon EOS-5D

06/07/2005 05:38:07 AM · #6

Grrr - I've been working really hard at not buying this one. I tried it on beta and liked it but I doubt I'll be able to get my wife interested in this one. We played EQ together for years and we're playing WoW together at the moment.

I guess I might give GW a try sometime, though.

John

ganders

Canon EOS-40D

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

06/07/2005 05:48:43 AM · #7

It's a fun game; it certainly doesn't have the depth of something like EQ but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

One thing that slightly worried me before I got it was the emphasis on PvP in everything I'd read (including this thread!) - however I've found that the RP side, while relatively shallow, is still good fun.

If you're still resisting FloYd, then you probably don't want to know that play.com has it for £18... ;-)

Tokina AF 12-24mm f/4.0 AT-X Pro DX

06/07/2005 06:00:29 AM · #8

Originally posted by ganders:

If you're still resisting FloYd, then you probably don't want to know that play.com has it for £18... ;-)

With free shipping and no monthly fees :)

Beagleboy

Canon EOS-30D

06/07/2005 07:59:25 AM · #9

This game seems very cool. Something I would probably love to play since I used to love AD&D when I was younger. A DPC clan would rock!

yeoua

Canon PowerShot G2

06/07/2005 09:24:03 AM · #10

Definitely a fun game, and you don't have to spend 5 hours at a time. You can just jump in for 30 minutes and still have fun, though I tend to stick around longer than that.. heh.

NovaTiger

Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 APO Macro Super II for Canon

06/07/2005 12:12:56 PM · #11

Originally posted by Beagleboy:

This game seems very cool. Something I would probably love to play since I used to love AD&D when I was younger. A DPC clan would rock!

Yeah, but we'd have to use arrows instead of cameras. Lol!

Havok

06/09/2005 06:40:01 AM · #12

Originally posted by Beagleboy:

This game seems very cool. Something I would probably love to play since I used to love AD&D when I was younger. A DPC clan would rock!

Yeah that would be nice, but the sigil for a Guild Hall cost about 50-70k. I know you don't need one, but it wouldn't hurt having a hall.

I guess if I ever come across a sigil I guess I'll start up a DPC clan.

Discraft

Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX DC for Canon

06/09/2005 06:43:19 AM · #13

is this really a MMORPG free play.

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06/09/2005 07:17:26 AM · #14

Originally posted by Havok:

Originally posted by Beagleboy:
This game seems very cool. Something I would probably love to play since I used to love AD&D when I was younger. A DPC clan would rock!

Yeah that would be nice, but the sigil for a Guild Hall cost about 50-70k. I know you don't need one, but it wouldn't hurt having a hall.

I guess if I ever come across a sigil I guess I'll start up a DPC clan.

You get one free if you win Hall of Heroes!

ganders

Canon EOS-40D

06/09/2005 07:24:21 AM · #15

Originally posted by Discraft:

is this really a MMORPG free play.

Not exactly; they're very careful to avoid using the term "MMORPG" when referring to it. It IS online, it is multiplayer (although it's perfectly possible to play solo) and it is an RPG but it's certainly not an MMORPG in the EQ/WoW mold.

It is, however, free play :)

Kavey

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

Sigma 18-125mm f/3.5-5.6 DC for Canon

06/09/2005 07:28:51 AM · #16

Originally posted by Konador:

I play it! My PvP character is Konador Maxxus W/Mo and my RP character is Zephiyr Syzan E/R :) It's a great game!

Is this the thing I got or was that something different?

Havok

06/09/2005 08:26:14 AM · #17

Originally posted by Konador:

Originally posted by Havok:

Originally posted by Beagleboy:
This game seems very cool. Something I would probably love to play since I used to love AD&D when I was younger. A DPC clan would rock!

Yeah that would be nice, but the sigil for a Guild Hall cost about 50-70k. I know you don't need one, but it wouldn't hurt having a hall.

I guess if I ever come across a sigil I guess I'll start up a DPC clan.

You get one free if you win Hall of Heroes!

True, but I hear winning it from HoH is pretty random. Something close to a 1/8 of chance of actually getting one. Either way it's gonna take me sometime before I come across one. I just started playing less than a week ago ;_;

Message edited by author 2005-06-09 08:29:33.

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06/09/2005 06:07:48 PM · #18

Originally posted by Havok:

Originally posted by Konador:

Originally posted by Havok:

Originally posted by Beagleboy:
This game seems very cool. Something I would probably love to play since I used to love AD&D when I was younger. A DPC clan would rock!

Yeah that would be nice, but the sigil for a Guild Hall cost about 50-70k. I know you don't need one, but it wouldn't hurt having a hall.

I guess if I ever come across a sigil I guess I'll start up a DPC clan.

You get one free if you win Hall of Heroes!

True, but I hear winning it from HoH is pretty random. Something close to a 1/8 of chance of actually getting one. Either way it's gonna take me sometime before I come across one. I just started playing less than a week ago ;_;

It used to be 1 member of the team but now it is 3 members of the team.

Yes Kavey it is! :D

Simms65

Canon EOS-6D

06/10/2005 01:10:16 AM · #19

I play as Lotho Tanner.
Game rocks, the great thing is since you arent paying monthly, they took out the horrible grind MMO type games have. It is most fun.
David

Sonda

Sigma 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Macro

06/10/2005 01:41:32 AM · #20

Picked it up a few weeks back, having a lot of fun w it :)

Kavey

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

Sigma 18-125mm f/3.5-5.6 DC for Canon

06/10/2005 04:36:02 AM · #21

Originally posted by Konador:

Yes Kavey it is! :D

Cool!

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

06/10/2005 06:07:08 AM · #22

Originally posted by Kavey:

Originally posted by Konador:
Yes Kavey it is! :D

Cool!

You should have a go on it if you can get Pete to let you, hehe :)

ganders

Canon EOS-40D

06/10/2005 06:55:06 AM · #23

From experience, I'd just get into trouble for making her motion sick if I let her play ;)

Kavey

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

Sigma 18-125mm f/3.5-5.6 DC for Canon

06/10/2005 07:02:38 AM · #24

I'm happier just chatting to real people about real things... these kinds of games are just not my thing... and the motion really does make me feel very sick... I tried my best to play EQ but the motion really got to me...

Message edited by author 2005-06-10 07:02:56.

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