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Lineage 2: whos addicted???
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| Stassi |
Ok, I love this game, who plays? What server you on and what do you wanna be when u grow up :P
I'm AkroBatik on the Bartz server, and im considering either phantom ranger or shadow knight (Dark elf). |
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| Aya Brea |
| it looks sooo good, and so tempting, but since i've already started with ffxi, i don't want to get into two of those types of games at once. wouldn't be too good for me :eyespop: |
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| Stassi |
| quote: | Originally posted by Aya Brea
it looks sooo good, and so tempting, but since i've already started with ffxi, i don't want to get into two of those types of games at once. wouldn't be too good for me :eyespop: |
if you do that, kiss your social life goodbye! |
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| Vamphyrric |
| quote: | Originally posted by Stassi
Ok, I love this game, who plays? What server you on and what do you wanna be when u grow up :P
I'm AkroBatik on the Bartz server, and im considering either phantom ranger or shadow knight (Dark elf). |
I played the open beta last month and I wasn't very impressed.
Let's start with the obvious. The game is gorgeous. No questioning that. However, upon starting the game we see its first flaw, lack of character customization. The character creation screen allows two faces, 5(i think) hairstyles, and 2 different hair colors. That's it. Everyone looks the same, aside from armor and weapons. Not really a huge problem, but it bothered me.
Next we come to one of my bigger issues. The user interface. I really hate the point and click system that NCsoft used. It just feels too clunky to me. Also, it becomes even more unweildy during stressful situations (ie. group pvp).
Leveling up is quite tedious as well. If you have ever played Everquest you can tell right away that the level grind on L2 is much steeper. I mean if killing 1000s of mobs that con green/light blue (enemies that are 3-5 levels lower than you) is your idea of a good time then L2 is the game for you. Ok, so maybe you want to take a break from all that leveling and maybe make some cash. What do you do? That's right kill 1000s of mobs that con green/light blue that have a 0.08% chance of dropping something rare. Or you could activate a quest where you go kill an infinite amount of certain mobs for x reward. Fun.
Finally we come to my biggest gripe about the game. Botters and exploiters. What is a botter you ask? A botter is someone who uses a third-party program to hunt/farm/level-up without actually having a person behind the keyboard controlling the character. Most of the people who did this would sell the adena(currency in the game) the had obtained from days of nonstop farming on ebay. Now this, in and of itself, wasn't the problem. The problem was hunting areas become so saturated with botters that it became difficult for regular players to find anything to hunt. Then we have the exploiters. The people abused a certain quest to obtain obscene amounts of money in very little time. So now we have an economy flooded with millions upon millions of adena. This coupled with the promise of no character wipe at the end of the beta leads one screwed up economy during retail.
The game wasn't all bad though. I liked that it was very pvp oriented. I liked that if someone pissed me off I could just kill them. Although the karma/pvp system needs some serious reworking. I'm also sure that the end game castle sieging and clan v. clan stuff would be really fun.
So is L2 worth 15 bucks a month. In a word. No.
Well, lets just say that NCsoft has a lot of work to do before I would consider paying for this game.
Oh yeah, I played an assassin on the Seighardt. Got her to 27 before the beta ended. Also got a lot of screenshots that I would post, but I don't have anywhere to host them. |
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| nova2wl |
the thing is though exploiting will be around for just about every game...its hard to get rid of them all..
i didnt much like L2 though i only played for abit at a friends house. The pvp is great though so if thats your thing then swing over there |
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| arleetec |
| quote: | Originally posted by Stassi
Ok, I love this game, who plays? What server you on and what do you wanna be when u grow up :P
I'm AkroBatik on the Bartz server, and im considering either phantom ranger or shadow knight (Dark elf). |
Sup taso!!! I got a few friends playing it. I'm not gonna start since I'm addicted to FFXI. Playing them both would mean 0 hrs of sleep. hahaha
If I do check it out I'll make sure to get on ur server so u can babysit me, lol. If u ever try FFXI come to Ifrit server I'll show u the ropes.
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| Stassi |
| quote: | Originally posted by arleetec
Sup taso!!! I got a few friends playing it. I'm not gonna start since I'm addicted to FFXI. Playing them both would mean 0 hrs of sleep. hahaha
If I do check it out I'll make sure to get on ur server so u can babysit me, lol. If u ever try FFXI come to Ifrit server I'll show u the ropes.
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how is FFXI anyway?
For the person bashing L2, the Leveling in this game isnt a fraction as bad as EQ was, if your killing greens and blues, you suck.
And about botters, botters are fun, cause they usually dont attack players, even if you attack them.
game is still buggy but thats expected.
also, who cares about the fooking hair styles, if you want that im sure you can find barbie online or something. |
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| Vamphyrric |
| quote: | Originally posted by Stassi
how is FFXI anyway?
For the person bashing L2, the Leveling in this game isnt a fraction as bad as EQ was, if your killing greens and blues, you suck.
And about botters, botters are fun, cause they usually dont attack players, even if you attack them.
game is still buggy but thats expected.
also, who cares about the fooking hair styles, if you want that im sure you can find barbie online or something. |
Anyone who's played this game for an extended amount of time can tell you that it is far more efficent to kill greens and light blues than it is to go for whites and above when soloing. Go read up on L2 message boards.
I agree with you on botters though. Griefing them can be fun. I like throwing piles of 1 adena on the ground when they're fighting 2-3 mobs. Most bot programs place a higher priority on picking up loot than most other actions. So they get beaten on while they try and grab your money. Or I'll run by them and use Sting and hope the bleed effect works. |
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| Stassi |
| quote: | Originally posted by Vamphyrric
Anyone who's played this game for an extended amount of time can tell you that it is far more efficent to kill greens and light blues than it is to go for whites and above when soloing. Go read up on L2 message boards.
I agree with you on botters though. Griefing them can be fun. I like throwing piles of 1 adena on the ground when they're fighting 2-3 mobs. Most bot programs place a higher priority on picking up loot than most other actions. So they get beaten on while they try and grab your money. Or I'll run by them and use Sting and hope the bleed effect works. |
Im clanned so im pimping with good Items passed down, I almost kill most whites with one special attack, it works out well.
I really dont care how the value of the Adena could be killed cause all i care for is PvP, and this game focuses on that and it has a good PvP system. The adena trick for bots sounds fun :).
The way i see it, there are no better MMORPGs out there right now, this one is the best.
Of course nothing compares to UO in its golden days, but its a fun game. |
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| Vamphyrric |
| quote: | Originally posted by Stassi
The way i see it, there are no better MMORPGs out there right now. |
Agreed, and its because of this I've been considering going back. I can't decide between L2 and CoH. I'll probably just wait and see if I make the EQ2 beta before I decide. |
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