Can't really say why, you'll just have to trust me on this one. Imagine WoW with non-cartoony graphics, boats that you can control and craft yourself, flying mounts, horses at low level and player housing. Ok I guess I can say why, but there's so much more.
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I assume you mean all the good things from WoW, with a lot less of the bad.
It's nothing like WoW. Nothing.
Make a difference!
If its not like WoW I'll like it.....when you can almost pull off lvl 30 in 1 week of playing a game its too easy for my tastes.
I want something with a challenge and big raids like EQ had.
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Ok, you need to explane yourself.
What you posted was like walking upto someone and saying "Hay, i know somthing about your girlfriend, but i cant tell you".
Come clean.
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Although gear was a reason to raid, my biggest reason was because it was just simply amazing to me to see lots of people (sometimes hundreds literally) working together to reach something and taking it down....
Sorry, Cope. Can't say much more at this time, but you're wrong. Re-read my O.P. for insight.
Bloodworth, I just can't say more. Obviously I can say that the levelling will take a lot longer, as will travel. Brad is a smart mother I can tell you that, so is his staff.
I'll start my own SWG... with Black Jack... and Hookers!!!
In fact, forget the SWG!!!!
So Vanguard isn't a game where you kill fantasy monsters. Loot them to get in game wealth or to upgrade equiptment. I take it you don't gain levels of 'power' in Vanguard either. Also NPCs in this game must not give out quests for you to do.
Sarcasm off. Vanguard is VERY similar to EQ, EQ2, WoW, DAoC and other games of the type.
It is nothing like EVE.
So Vanguard isn't a game where you kill fantasy monsters. Loot them to get in game wealth or to upgrade equiptment. I take it you don't gain levels of 'power' in Vanguard either. Also NPCs in this game must not give out quests for you to do.
Sarcasm off. Vanguard is VERY similar to EQ, EQ2, WoW, DAoC and other games of the type.
It is nothing like EVE.
Well, then based on your over-simplified discription, EVERY MMO is like WoW... hell, Hello Kitty's Adventure Island is like that for the most part, even Toon Town. Please...
If you're going to make an arguement, do it based on specifics. Otherwise we'll be back here arguing about how Vaguard is like Frogger. They both take skill to level, the more you advance the harder they get, it's fun to play with friends but can be soloed, rare loot drops in hard to reach places, you can drown if you miss jumping on the log, your wrist will begin to hurt after an hour of play...
I'll start my own SWG... with Black Jack... and Hookers!!!
In fact, forget the SWG!!!!
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You have to read between the lines on this post. One thing we know about Anarchyart is that he is not the least bit hesitant to express his opnions. So if he, for the first time ever, "can't say any more", something is holding him back - like an NDA. And of course he can't be an NDA squealer because he has said many time they are all Satan's spawn.
Grats on getting in man and I'm glad you like it so far. Check back in a month ....
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I have not doubts that Vanguard is going to be a game of more than 1M subscriber and maybe like some magazines said before: "The WoW killer" of course that if SOE do his part of the job well.
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http://www.veguild.org
Can you answer one thing for me? Is combat as slow as it looks in the official videos?
In many of the Brad released videos I see a dual wield player standing there rocking back and forth waiting to swing. I hated just standing there in WoW waiting for my 3.8 weapon to swing, if my rogue had been the same... Put that together with mobs that have too much life and it wasn't a pretty scene. In the videos it appeared to take 2x as long as WoW to kill dungeon mobs. If combat is slower than WoW, it will be a huge turn-off. The mobs didn't look challenging, just clunky and slow to kill.
One thing I think game makers under-value is the appearance of activity. I remember in SWG with my slow rifles, sure I would fire one shot every 3 seconds...but it would shoot a bunch of visible beams for 1.5 seconds. To me *pew-pew-pew-pew-pew* after 1.5 seconds was way better than *pew* after 3 seconds.
Can you answer one thing for me? Is combat as slow as it looks in the official videos?
Combat is based on the Player & Creature Speed. The faster the Player gets at swinging their weapon & using abilities, the faster combat is. It's the same for MOBS, so you do need to be careful...
If you're looking for a simple answer, combat gets quite crazy & fast paced as you advance. Oh, and this is all commen info from the OF's...
I'll start my own SWG... with Black Jack... and Hookers!!!
In fact, forget the SWG!!!!
So just from this thread: Leveling will be slower. Travel will be slower. And there will be more group content?
Because of statements like these from Sigil and other sources, myself and a few friends I play with really aren't that excited about the game. We all are kind of afraid to play without an open beta or a demo. 3 of us got sucked into EQ2 when they added PvP, because we liked the way Trial of the Isle played. One guy disliked it so bad he quit after about a month. Me and the other guy lasted another week or two, but we couldn't duo anything at that level. We joined a fairly large guild a little bit in, but noone would ever help with all of the content that required at least 5 people. I understand Vanguard will be one big world, that will be huge after the 2 foot high walled zones in EQTrash. But one huge thing I liked about WoW was solo to small group content everywhere.
Don't even get me started about entire evening AFK during my EVE trial, due to travel time...
Combat is based on the Player & Creature Speed. The faster the Player gets at swinging their weapon & using abilities, the faster combat is. It's the same for MOBS, so you do need to be careful...
If you're looking for a simple answer, combat gets quite crazy & fast paced as you advance. Oh, and this is all commen info from the OF's...
Okay, thank you. I thought the videos were of level 20 or 40 characters, but maybe I am remembering incorrectly.
I'll start my own SWG... with Black Jack... and Hookers!!!
In fact, forget the SWG!!!!
Combat is based on the Player & Creature Speed. The faster the Player gets at swinging their weapon & using abilities, the faster combat is. It's the same for MOBS, so you do need to be careful...
If you're looking for a simple answer, combat gets quite crazy & fast paced as you advance. Oh, and this is all commen info from the OF's...
Okay, thank you. I thought the videos were of level 20 or 40 characters, but maybe I am remembering incorrectly.
NP, and no, you remember correctly, but that was a very early stage of combat tweaking. They've sped up combat since then.
I'll start my own SWG... with Black Jack... and Hookers!!!
In fact, forget the SWG!!!!
let me just say that vanguard is a rpg game, i think what you may be looking for is more of a action game. judging by the available information it is not going to be fast paced combat.
it may be similar to eq2 except more strategic, to someone that is looking for fast paced action packed combat i think it may seem a bit slow..... here is a quote from the faq.
http://www.silkyvenom.com/pages/faq.php?faqid=125
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HA HA HA.......
Thats rich.
Like saying "This game is just like WOW but in a good way" LOL
You kill me you really do......
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Ok I think its getting a little obvious who is in the Beta etc etc....
Please take more care with this stuff guys, our NDA rules are not a joke.
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