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| quote: | Originally posted by Taranis
Yeah I was really underwhelmed by the demo. I had a fair bit of hope for this game, but I found the gameplay really boring, and apparently it doesn't really improve, as well as having issues with meaningless skill specs, overused tilesets for zones.
It basically just felt like running around holding down the 'fire' button and swinging my mouse around to aim at one or two monsters at a time, then move on until I run into another 1/2 monsters.
It's a shame because the core idea for the game is solid, and I think if they'd started beta earlier and given it another 6 - 12 months testing they could have a real winner on their hands. They're onto something with their idea of incorperating first person combat mechanics into an action-RPG, but they took the worst of both genres combat systems, not the best, and combined them.
Not really worth buying, imo, and definately not worth paying the monthly fee they're asking for the 'elite' service. Maybe after a years patching it'll be worth looking at again. |
It seems to me that this is going to be the way of online games anymore. Polished product or not, if you can ship it out and get people signed up, essentially paying for Beta, you've probably covered a lot of profit expectations and production values by now. It's the way I always felt about WoW. They're still changing some really fundamental shit in that game. People have been playing the late Beta version of WoW for almost 3 fucking years.
And who wins?
The companies, of course. There is little doubt in my mind that this game will improve. I feel as though the general premise of the game is attractive enough for me to want to be a part of its change, so I will strap in at the very beginning. 
Maybe once they can fire up the in-game advertising system (imaging broken down Coca-Cola billboards in a ruined city...not out of place, but product placement nevertheless) it will really create enough resources for them to overhaul the game in really great ways.
/wishful thinking
6 more days @.@
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