Been a casualcore (10-20 hr/wk average) MMO player for almost 10 years now, but 2013 is the first time in a while where I'm not really looking forward to any upcoming MMO. TESO looks interesting but until I get a chance to play a demo or beta I'm no…
I can see two similarities that GW 2 has with Skyrim.
1. Both games have a beautiful worldspace that encourages you to explore all the nooks and crannies.
2. Thanks to branching personal storylines and random events, both games offer each player a…
I used to love open PVP back when I had just graduated from college and had plenty of time to play. I roled open PVP in SWTOR and hated it for three reasons:
1. Faction imbalance - on most servers empire outnumbered republic at least 3-1. Even i…
Well, I'd like to take a moment to compare my experiences in GW 2 to what happened at the launch of SWTOR and Diablo 3.
GW 2 - minor annoyances like overflow server and trade post being down. WVW queues way too long. However, I'm still progressi…
The key factor the OP didn't mention is population. Most of the problems that the games he mentioned had were less a problem with the game itself and more a problem with the sheer numbers of players all trying to access it at the same time. It's the…
I played the beta last weekend and honestly I can't wait for release. The art is decent, combat is fun and the storyline is better than anything I've experienced in other MMOs. I experienced a few annoying bugs but nothing game-breaking. PVP was als…
I'm saying this as a guy who's done market analysis for high tech (although not for games specifically):
Three million subs seems rather optimistic by June, though certainly not impossible. Even if Bioware was selling "generic sci fi game," they'd…
1. Elder scrolls
2. Shadowrun (based on roleplaying game, not the horrible shooter)
3. Mass Effect
4. Dragon Age
5. Paranoia, as long as there was permadeath, free-for-all PVP and "phat l33t" loot had a way of randomly failing during critic…
Originally posted by deathlylink Some of the more intelligent arguments for the negative sides of this game that I have seen. The balance between positive and negative are pretty good. Even though I probably wont grab this game if I get in to the be…
Zylaxx, I'm not going to slam your review since as you say you prefer sandbox games. I did want to take you to task for saying the Bioware devs were lazy in the number of races available. I asked about races at a PAX panel and was told that Bioware …
Im a huge Guild Wars fan but many of my buddies are hardcore Star Wars fans who will only be playing TOR. So I'll probably play both, especially if they both launch at the end of the year (likely for TOR, possible for GW 2).
@ OP - you have a quad core, 8 GB of ram and a 1 GB video card and you're worried about whether you can play an MMO? I'd bet you could easily play the next Crysis on near max settings. IMHO you're going to be wasting your money to upgrade because at…
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Originally posted by BattleFelon
Thirdly, GW 2 major competition will come from Diablo 3, not WOW. They're both at heart action-rpgs and buy-to-play. GW 2 looks to have way more depth and features, but never u…
First of all, a lot of the ArenaNet founders are former Blizzard employees who from all I've heard left amicably. I doubt they have this irrational hatred of WOW or need to "kill WOW" that I've seen from other developers (cough Mythic cough).
Seco…
Currently at 16 points and looking for ways to boost my score. I haven't played in a while thanks to LOTRO, but I need that raccoon minipet danggit.
Was wondering if some of the more hardcore GWers could give me some advice:
1. What's the easies…
If it was any other MMO, I'd simply think this was a heart-warming story. But considering it's Mythic and WAR, I find it unintentionally hilarious. And I'm saying that as a guy who painted up pink Eldar guardians for a 40K breast cancer fundraising …
Originally posted by Harabeck I'm very skeptical. To me it sounds like War's public quests on a larger scale and without the reset timer, nothing more.
WAR's biggest problem was that there was no compelling reason to do most of the public ques…
Originally posted by arenasb Does he actually get paid to review games? That kind of incompetence will get you fired in the jobs that I've had.
A lot of sites use freelancers to crank out game reviews. These freelancers are often paid in produ…
It really pisses me off when reviewers try to get a first day review based on their beta experiences. Beta is NOT launch. I saw Star Trek reviews come out 3 days after launch and it was obvious that the reviewers were basing their opinions simply on…
Originally posted by Yamota Can't really compare the two.
AoC - PvE game with PvP tacked on
WAR - PvP game with PvE tacked on
AoC focuses on awesome GFX and PvE where as WAR focuses on casual PvP with RvR. So you really are comparing apples to…