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Post by Housewife Brittish on Mar 12, 2015 3:28:50 GMT
I pretty much try every medieval game that I come across as long as it looks decent. I have come across two games recently that could end up being fun for short term entertainment, nothing serious. Savage Lands and Reign of Kings.
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Post by Housewife Brittish on Mar 15, 2015 0:53:51 GMT
Did anyone else tune into the shards round table and or participate in the play test today?
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Post by Membrane_on_Vacation on Mar 16, 2015 1:44:50 GMT
I'll check those out. I didn't see the shards thing actually, but I haven't backed them yet and don't get the E-Mail updates.
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Post by Housewife Brittish on Mar 16, 2015 2:42:25 GMT
I wouldn't recommend Reign of Kings anymore, turned out to be a weird one.
You aren't missing much with the Shards play test, there isn't much to do in game yet, you basically just get a feel for how it'll be in a very basic form. I really like the ideas the developers have for this game but in the end it's still just another auto attack game, done in the correct way though.
ESO is going free to play soon and I would recommend this. I know a lot of people want to hate on this game for various reasons, maybe because it's not like the single player Skyrim game, or it had bugs at the beginning, not many systems at the beginning. A lot has changed since these people quit and wrote the game off, it is a lot different than it was at the beginning as systems and fixes got added. At first I was one of the people feeding into that negative hype, not wanting to try it because of that. I decided to give it a go one day to see for myself and I was surprised. I've now been subscribed to this game for a long time now and I believe it's the best mmorpgish game out at the moment. Although I don't find it very mmorpgish and know it's not the perfect game, or my ideal game, there still is nothing else out there that comes close to what ESO is doing. Hopefully there won't be a pay to win store now that it's going free to play, I haven't looked into anything related to this.
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Post by Envy Gaming on Mar 16, 2015 2:51:09 GMT
Started playing ESO last week and am having a lot of fun. Can't wait to get high enough to try some PVP. The game has definitely improved and is certainly worth a try. What struck me the most is what a contrast the game quality is to SotA. When I go back to SotA now, it feels like a dinosaur and shows just how unpolished and amateurish the game is. I'm still playing SotA though, and having fun with pvp.
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Post by Membrane_on_Vacation on Mar 16, 2015 3:06:44 GMT
Are there particular servers I would need to play on in order to come across either of you two? Or is it a true MMORPG.
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Post by Housewife Brittish on Mar 16, 2015 3:20:59 GMT
I believe there are two different servers NA and EU, but both these servers have multiple other servers you connect to for ping reasons, the world is one big world but NA and EU are not connected world wise. If you live in NA the only thing that would prevent us from playing together would be the faction system. You need to choose the same faction as the people you want to play with.
I'm pretty sad that this game is going free to play, was loving the sub model and so were the rest of the subs. I've almost never ran into people trolling, usually everyone I meet is mature, totally different environment than a buy to play or free to play game. The flood gates will be open to all the under age annoying kids. I'm not even sure why they went free to play in the first place, they had a lot of subs at the time, enough to support the game I'd think, not many expexted this.
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Post by Housewife Brittish on Mar 16, 2015 3:31:19 GMT
If you start to play ESO, I'll tell you something that will help you out in the long run. Make sure that you pay attention to quests, some of the quests have different outcomes depending on your choices, some stuff that is irreversible. I never knew this when I first started and I didn't catch onto this until I noticed that I did something that I wouldn't of wanted to do. I ended up redoing my character just because of this, so make sure that you pay attention if you care about this kind of stuff.
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Post by Housewife British on Jul 6, 2015 1:54:50 GMT
Is anyone else going to try out Camelot Unchained? Looks like it could possibly be a good game, only thing so far that kind of sets me back on it is the crafting system, some weird piano organ magical thing to create stuff? Hopefully for them that crafting thing turns out better than it sounds. Will be a sub model too, which will drastically cut down on the casual roleplay faggot presence.
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Post by Housewife British on Jul 6, 2015 2:17:37 GMT
I forgot to mention that the current idea of how stealth will be sounds very odd too, will have to be one of those things that I'd have to try before dismissing it as trash. Not sure how some people think up ideas like this and think it's a good idea.
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Post by dodgy on Jul 6, 2015 3:07:39 GMT
I'm gonna get into eso
Anyone want to run together?
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Post by Housewife British on Jul 6, 2015 3:32:10 GMT
ESO's pretty much the only worthwhile mmoish game at the moment. It does look like it's dying off now that the free to play pay to win hype has ended, there were way more players when it was sub based. What faction are you going to be playing? people have to be in the same faction to play together.
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Post by Dewderonomy on Jul 6, 2015 6:59:50 GMT
I had looked into ESO, but there's a hefty price tag for a game that's got a lot of bad press among fellow gamers. It didn't look like Skyrim, more like an MMO a la WoW and company.
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Post by Housewife British on Jul 6, 2015 14:06:33 GMT
I waited to play ESO for a while, there were some people complaining, giving bad feedback after the beta, so I fed into that and didn't give it a chance. A couple months after beta and hurting for a MMO to play, I decided to give it a chance and I'll say that it's worth the money. The price tag is average for most games now and I was loving the sub model at the time, not many casuals to be seen. Yes the game isn't Skyrim, but what most people don't seem to understand is that there a huge difference between a MMO and a single player game, development wise you are unable to do a lot of the things in a mmo with a fairly large open world than you can get away with easily in a single player game. The game is by far the best MMO out at the moment in my opinion and I've played pretty much everything out there that is up to today's standards. Yes is is not a perfect game, you basically just run quest to quest forever, a lot of the systems are very basic, boring, but at the same time, no other game is doing what ESO is doing. It is far from my ideal game too, it's a carebear game, it's safezone theme park mostly but as I said before it's still better than anything out there at the moment. I've never found myself playing the game, thinking that this doesn't feel like an Elder Scrolls game but it's definitely it's own new breed since it's built to perform in a MMO environment. Some of the area's in the game are gorgeous too, I've never ran into an MMO that looks as good as ESO, but I know that I do have specific tastes. There are even npc's that sing real bard music. not the fake synthetic "bards" that we have in Shroud, the ones that do it out of their man cave with technology to make up for their lacking ability to play a real instrument. But to the point, I wouldn't feed into the bad reputation the casual Skyrim fanboys gave the game, you need to try this one for yourself to see. G2A has the game listed cheap, I haven't compared it to anywhere else to compare price though.
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Post by Dewderonomy on Jul 7, 2015 1:41:07 GMT
I gotcha'. Still, anything more than $20 is too much just to "try" - especially if it isn't doing anything revolutionary. I have $200 down on Star Citizen currently, because it's at least attempting to do something spectacular; if a game isn't breaking the mold, it better be F2P or something to get my feet wet. I got too many unplayed games to throw money at "been there, done that."
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Post by Housewife British on Jul 7, 2015 6:24:17 GMT
A long time ago I used to be the same way, now 50-70% seems normal for a game to me, I do realize that it is a huge waste of money since I also don't play the majority of the games that I bought too. The way I look at it right now is that yea ESO isn't the perfect game but it is far better and different than most of the other trash that is out there in the mmorpg world. There isn't going to be a decent Mmorpg release anytime soon and aside from ESO not being garbage, that's what really keeps me playing it. The only hope that there is at the moment is Shards, Crowfall and Camelot Unchained, those are still in the beginning of development and it'll be a while before they are released. All of those games mentioned have some really odd attributes to them and could very well end up being trash too. ESO is solid for what it is and will give me my mmorpg fix until something decent get's released in the distant future. As I said before, you need to try the game before hating on it, I was on the fence before too, thinking the same things that you are, now that I've experienced the game for myself, I think the skyrim fanboys that are crying about it are retarded.
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Post by Housewife British on Jul 7, 2015 6:26:07 GMT
50-70$*
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Post by Housewife British on Jul 12, 2015 5:35:44 GMT
Going on 1500+ hours in ESO and haven't finished all the story lines yet. lul
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Post by templara on Jul 12, 2015 12:54:19 GMT
My list of gud gaems:
Space Station 13 - best RP experience EVER (but only on strictly rp servers) Realm of the Mad God - if ur into grinding and permadeath that game where ur a hunter and have to shoot homosexuals jumping at you from the bushes
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Post by Dewderonomy on Jul 12, 2015 16:47:25 GMT
that game where ur a hunter and have to shoot homosexuals jumping at you from the bushes Grundvald Shardfall?
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Post by templara on Jul 12, 2015 17:43:45 GMT
that game where ur a hunter and have to shoot homosexuals jumping at you from the bushes Grundvald Shardfall? No no lmao. Some old flash game. Think it was deutsch
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Post by Dewderonomy on Jul 13, 2015 23:55:45 GMT
Anyone heard of Pathfinder Online? Sounds like it might be an open PvP MMO.
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Post by Membrane_on_Vacation on Jul 14, 2015 2:47:06 GMT
Anyone heard of Pathfinder Online? Sounds like it might be an open PvP MMO. LotrO clone. Not content, but everything else. Kind of turned me off it straight away, never checked out gameplay though. Pump us some tube vids if you come across any you think are worthy!
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Post by Dewderonomy on Jul 14, 2015 4:49:12 GMT
Anyone heard of Pathfinder Online? Sounds like it might be an open PvP MMO. LotrO clone. Not content, but everything else. Kind of turned me off it straight away, never checked out gameplay though. Pump us some tube vids if you come across any you think are worthy! Wife is playing it right now. She died to wolves (of course) and lost everything but the clothes on her back, so that's one thing it's got going for it. Seems really early access. Based on the club she has, she was given two attacks: Bludgeoning (Primary) and Bludgeoning (Secondary). The primary attack was just that, a basic attack. The secondary attack, though, described it as a status-changing attack, where it would be used during "Opportunity strikes" (whatever that is - probably something if the opponent is unbalanced or parried for critical attacks), can create a Dazed effect or Stun an opponent, I think. So it looks like it's a little involved from just the initial "pick up your shitty weapon". There are different feats that look like you can expand on those attacks, but this is all conjecture based on what I'm looking at on her screen. Graphics are meh, comparable to SotA without the price tag. It's Unity-based, I believe, but doesn't look instanced (if it is, they're pretty fuckin' big). Otherwise looks pretty straightforward for an MMO, for better or worse. It's entirely free, to my knowledge; Sara didn't drop a dime on it. AND SHE KILLED SOME GUY HAHAHAHA. Got a fucking achievement and everything. Oh my god, I love my wife. Some mage was just red-lined casting spells and she walked up and took a swing from behind. Oh man, that was gold. And now she's looting - Oh shit he's back. AND SHE'S KILLING HIM AGAIN HAHAHA. Oh he went down. Wait he isn't a corpse, he's still techni- OH SHE KILLED HIM OFF BY HITTING HIS BODY WHEN HE WAS DOWN. Oh man, this could be an awesome game.
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Post by Membrane_on_Vacation on Jul 14, 2015 5:11:15 GMT
LotrO clone. Not content, but everything else. Kind of turned me off it straight away, never checked out gameplay though. Pump us some tube vids if you come across any you think are worthy! Wife is playing it right now. She died to wolves (of course) and lost everything but the clothes on her back, so that's one thing it's got going for it. Seems really early access. Based on the club she has, she was given two attacks: Bludgeoning (Primary) and Bludgeoning (Secondary). The primary attack was just that, a basic attack. The secondary attack, though, described it as a status-changing attack, where it would be used during "Opportunity strikes" (whatever that is - probably something if the opponent is unbalanced or parried for critical attacks), can create a Dazed effect or Stun an opponent, I think. So it looks like it's a little involved from just the initial "pick up your shitty weapon". There are different feats that look like you can expand on those attacks, but this is all conjecture based on what I'm looking at on her screen. Graphics are meh, comparable to SotA without the price tag. It's Unity-based, I believe, but doesn't look instanced (if it is, they're pretty fuckin' big). Otherwise looks pretty straightforward for an MMO, for better or worse. It's entirely free, to my knowledge; Sara didn't drop a dime on it. AND SHE KILLED SOME GUY HAHAHAHA. Got a fucking achievement and everything. Oh my god, I love my wife. Some mage was just red-lined casting spells and she walked up and took a swing from behind. Oh man, that was gold. And now she's looting - Oh shit he's back. AND SHE'S KILLING HIM AGAIN HAHAHA. Oh he went down. Wait he isn't a corpse, he's still techni- OH SHE KILLED HIM OFF BY HITTING HIS BODY WHEN HE WAS DOWN. Oh man, this could be an awesome game. lolz, yeah from some vids it appears to be pretty light on the features. We're use to that though, "it is just pre-alpha and we can't judge it till they are done!" right. may try it out if totally free...
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Post by Dewderonomy on Jul 14, 2015 5:19:32 GMT
Based on the FAQ, it sounds like they're going for the kind of shit I'm looking for: goblinworks.com/pathfinder-online/features/goblinworks.com/pathfinder-online/faq/Only thing I'm concerned about is the decrepit outposts/settlements for low reputation (PKs, thieves, etc.) players, as they will impose penalties it sounds like. Don't know if settlements are mandatory or not, but it could be something that you have to balance murder and banditry with civil pursuits to even it all out, which is fine by me (blue PK, ready for action). I think they'll have a $15/month sub or microtransaction. They say (which we all know the value in that) they won't put anything imbalancing in the game, primarily cosmetics, but that's what all these games say, so we'll see. It's definitely something I'll keep an eye on; looks like it's got a lot of cool features. Based on the Pathfinder tabletop/pen-and-paper game, but with more freedom in character building. They do say that they can't think of anything more "interactive" than players killing each other, so that mentality (if it stands the test of the playerbase) is perfect. And according to them, this Early Enrollment is more about finding the direction of the game and less bug fixing, which means people might be able to influence it more than, say, SotA. lol Definitely gonna' be watching this one grow. It may be a sleeper hit for UO enthusiasts, or just another no-name in a sea of UO "successors" and knee-jerk developed anti-establishment MMOs.
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Post by Housewife British on Jul 14, 2015 17:22:31 GMT
Sub model is definitely the way to go and in my experience it creates a far better player experience. It's to bad that games like these rarely seem to get the funding they need. I doubt it's because the game is bad but people need to learn how to properly market their game. These people are a prime example of how not to release a game. Even though the game looks like it could be promising, at the moment I'd never pay monthly to play it as it is. if they managed to get enough money to add in what the game needs to be playable I would reconsider for sure. It looks like another Mortal Online, great concept but bad business decisions lead to it flopping.
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Post by Housewife British on Jul 19, 2015 20:23:12 GMT
This weekend I played the Shards Online playtest again, there was a lot less server lag this time but that could of been due to the fact that no one at all was playing, I was the only one on the server during the whole time that I played. Shards Online currently still remains to be the closet thing that I've played to UO. They added in some stuff to do this time around, some quests, area's to explore, I never got the chance to get very far though, due to the fact that there were to many enemies for me to handle alone. This game definitely is turning into a could be interesting game, their limited budget and lack of playerbase/backers kind of worries me though.
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Post by Housewife British on Jul 20, 2015 0:01:52 GMT
Camelot Unchained beta delayed.
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Post by Housewife British on Jul 29, 2015 3:12:13 GMT
I'm going to update my opinion on ESO now that I've experienced some new things after reaching absolute endgame. I still believe it's the best MMO out at the moment, that doesn't mean it's my ideal MMO or that it is the best, the fact that every other MMO out at the moment is almost complete shit plays a big part in why I think it's the best at the moment. Although now that I've reached end game and have learned some things, from what I've experienced ESO isn't much of a MMO. It's basically a theme park with other players running around. The game for me was interesting running quest to quest but at the point where I finished all of the quests was where the game became a disappointment. First thing I'll point out is that the game is a theme park and is about as casual carebear as a game can get. Soon as one finish's the storyline and all the other faction quests, you are than at a point where you have nothing left to do but rely on other players to do group content. There isn't really any worth while content after completing those for solo play if there is any at all, the majority of the content from there requires a group of players to complete. This might not sound so bad but basically it is near impossible to get a group of people to run content, you basically log into the game and spam the world chat for hours looking for a group, it's quite the joke and is beyond boring as fuck. There has to be a mysterious revolution going on to see so many people spamming to join a group for content everyday yet no one wants to actually join a group. The pvp is carebear and quite the joke too, usually lagging like star longs erection lags when it involves a women. Now at end game, I am in search for what to even do in game, there is no mmoish anything going on in game. I'd still recommend the game for casual play, there is a ton of solo content to do and other things to do before reaching end game, the game would keep someone busy for a while. If looking for pvp, this game is terrible, I've never played wow but I'd take a guess that it's more hardcore than ESO. After this analysis I would say since ESO is basically a single player game with people running around, I'd say Skyrim is a far superior game and I'll definitely be going back to that instead of playing ESO at this endgame point.
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