Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Quick Links
Played AA OBT for around 10 days
Pros:
Good graphic
Free(kind of) pvp system
Huge ocean area which you can actually do something on it (sea battle)
Non instanced player housing, although there is little you can do with the house and its only limited in some area thus every houses or farms squeezs up against each other. Sadly there is no room in the entire server to build another house now, ya I mean it, my guildes and I just checked in the past 2 days, you need less than 2 hours to check all the residential area avalible for each side (east or west, you belong to one of them) in the entire world.
Cons:
1.
Little content, only 1 small map for each level range, you follow the main road do some quests then move to the next map,and you are still on the same road, its like watching a highway movie. Most linear map in any MMO ive ever played.Top level players run around everywhere in like 5 days. There are 1/3 maps not released yet though. I believe the third map wont be so linear since it will be all top level zones.
About the map size: there are 3 continent, 2 are released (west and east), you will be mainly playing on one of them depends on which side you blong, each continent belongs to a faction. Around 8 to 10 maps on each continent , if you are riding a horse, which has speed of 9m/s (officially listed in the horse stats window in game), you need about 7 to 15 mins to cross 1 map.
2.
Extremly simplified resource production system, no matter what resource you want to produce, it takes only 3 steps.
a. Plant the seed( different seed for different resource, eg: seeds for flowers, little pigs for pigs, no difference except the names and graphics), seeds for all resources can be bought from npc vendors.
b. Decide if you are willing to use a specific item ( water for plant, beans for ducks, etc) to reduce the time needed by 10%,then wait.
c. Pick up the item.
3.
You need a big enough guild to play the game, and you need to stick with your guildies or friends all the time at higher levels ( I mean all the time, all) basically there is no 1v1, zergs swarming around at high level map (you cant pvp in low level maps), maybe its because there are too many players and the maps are too small, but its impossible for you to live past 5 mins if you walk there alone, even at 6 am korea time on monday. Remember the game is just in the second week of its OB and not even released yet.
Comments
I think the lack of places to build houses and insane mass zerg PvP is due to the high amount of players in limited map area thanks to it being beta.
This same thing happened in TERA with Guild vs Guild when level cap was 32 and actually made the BETAs my fondest memory of the game, if you spoke Korean you should have tried to get into a big guild for a lot of fun.
All of my posts are either intelligent, thought provoking, funny, satirical, sarcastic or intentionally disrespectful. Take your pick.
I get banned in the forums for games I love, so lets see if I do better in the forums for games I hate.
I enjoy the serenity of not caring what your opinion is.
I don't hate much, but I hate Apple© with a passion. If Steve Jobs was alive, I would punch him in the face.
Really? One of the selling point is supposed to be the game world's huge dimension. There is even supposed to be sailing between isles and continents....
Anyway, the first "map" or continent is supposed to be more theme park than sandbox. The later ones are full sandbox, instead.
Executive Editor (Games) http://www.wccftech.com
3 continents in the world, 2 are released, the "original continent" which is the the third one, and about the same size with the first 2 will be released at 1.16. You can sail between contienets, but its actually semi instanced, you need to load once in the ocean.
My opinion only stands for the first 2 continent though.
You sure? I hope so. The way the OP sounded the maps are just as bad as SWTOR's maps
not instanced.. its called zones...
a little guide to housing here.. Just read it myself.. now your not free to build anywhere you want there are certain areas on the noe island, then on the PVP island you have a bit mroe freedom if your clan owns that area or wahtever..
http://archeagesource.com/topic/1128-archeage-houses-and-castles-guide/
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
why do you say that?
I have not played it yet but i was alweays expecting a mix of a themepark game with elements of a sandbox game.. and from what i can see thats what they have got..
I never really got too hyped up about it really but I am interested and might even give the korean one a go..
The hype have been growing steadily for years and that usually means a lot of bitterness and QQ when the game fails to meet some people's totally unrealistic expectations.
Why? Because of this ones review? Go to real fansite forums and read other peoples reviews/impressions, there are hundreds of people who are enjoying this game more than any other recent MMO, but they preffer not to post here on this trolls nest forum.
But in general, you shouldn't be overhyped with AA, and that applies to all other MMOs the same way!
Its a bad theme park for the first 2 contenent aka the early to mid level area, but we dont know what it will be with the third contenent yet, which contains main top level areas.
I have a few clan mates who played the beta..
We are a darkfall clan and have been for years.. they really enjoyed testing Archeage and a considering we usually only like hardcore PVP games thats saying somthing...
I probally wont end up jumping on one of the korean servers and wait for an english version to come out next year.. but from what have read and the vids i have watched it seems to be what i was expecting..
the world is entirely seamless, no loading screens in open world. there is currently a bug though, that causes those loading screens when using boats or ships.
they are not called zones. zones = instanced.
the correct term is "areas".
you can do that already in the open beta, but those islands have to be designated as housing areas, which plenty are. the release of archeage will add 9 new areas, which of course will include more housing areas.
judging a game by its beta phase is never a good idea, wait till it releases in korea, which is today!
No instances are a totally different thing.. Instances are where there are multiple version of the same area/zone..
Area/zones are what older MMORPGs used.. From what he described this is what it sounded like..
There is a shortage of housing areas on the East and West continents sure. Even there some housing areas were never found/developed as they aren't always on the main roads, and carrying the required building materials made them less conveinient..
Once your Expeditionary Force (Clan/Guild) gets a land claim on the Northern continent Houses, Castles and Farms can all be placed within a certain radius of the claim. Lose the claim in a siege and attackers can ransack the housing there.
As to the housing, there is a 'family' system where upto, iirc, 7 characters can share a house/farm. So, make friends, buy into a time share, and all is golden.. heh heh
Executive Editor (Games) http://www.wccftech.com
I'd suggest reading this thread.
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/572/view/forums/thread/374602/page/1
Name two people on this forum who called AA the savior MMO. Please stop self-perpetuating your own ideas of hype. The game is generating healthy interest in something new. We haven't played it for ourselves (at least here in the west) so stop speculating.
It never was a sandbox but had sandbox elements. Its people like you and comments like this that fan this idiotic hype / fail device.
If your going to review a game, at least review it with factual information instead of spouting off at the mouth. I'm curious to know what level you even got too in the beta.
"In the immediate future, we have this one, and then weve got another one that is actually going to be so were going to have, what we want to do, is in January, what were targeting to do, this may or may not happen, so you cant hold me to it. But what were targeting to do, is have a fun anniversary to the Ilum shenanigans that happened. An alien race might invade, and they might crash into Ilum and there might be some new activities that happen on the planet." ~Gabe Amatangelo
seriously excited about outlaw scenarios.
Also props to Vunak23 to setting him straight!
Sharess Dragonstar - Midgard
Grievance is recruiting.
Excuse me, but have you been living under a rock for the last two years? AA has had a serious hype train going for it ever since it began to garner interest in the west. Plenty of people have very high expectations for it and it has been covered in depth by several gaming sites, always from a very positive angle and highlighting its innovative aspects. It has been called a sandbox more times than I can remember and if I had had a cent every time someone said "I'm waiting for AA" I'd be a rich man by now.
I can't see how critical posts like mine, expressing concern about actual beta testers' statements about quest hubs and linear "grind to endgame" design - which is not what I expected from AA at all - fan any hype. If anything they counter it.
Many gamers are so fed up with the WoW formula and desperate for something new that they'll buy into anything that claims to be next gen and open-ended. I'm just concerned that AA will get a lot of hate when people realize it's not as innovative as many had hoped. It seems to be a good game in its own right and I'll play it for sure, but I can't see how anything good can come from people having unrealistic expecations.
There is another upside to this drivel. Those simpletons who buy into this review will not be in Archeage when it comes out in the west. What you have done is cement there opinions and sent them on their merry way to whatever themepark takes their fancy.
Lastly, and what makes me the most happy, is that I will never have to bump into you in game, but unfortunately the downside is I will never have the extreme pleasure of corpse camping you into oblivion.
Anyone reading this, please use a better source to formulate your own opinion on this game. There is a very good thread on the main page of this forum section right now that I urge you to check out.
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/374501/postAction/reply
Now the very reason I can say these things is because I have been in the CBT5 closed beta. I have experienced all parts of the game, and can tell you that the information given is false, and much more in line with what Vunak has posted.