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if you liked eq but lothed the poor population cuase every one else left a long time ago........

try vanguard. its eq with vastly superrior graphics and a but load more people. not my cup of tea personally, becuase im more a casual gamer and having to group anything worth while is justtoo time consuming for me, but for those that do have the time, this is the game for you.

better finnish your computer first though. it takes a machine with serious balls to run it. if you dont have atleast a duo-core processor, 2 gigs of ram and a high end video card, forget about it.

LOTRO looks like a cartoon on saturday mourning. i think their developer is either a group of women with no fassion sence or a drag queen. not kidding. open beta, go see for yourself.

age of conan while is inspiring for nudity and blood letting, like mortal combat, i see a serious population problem there as i invision any parent worth being called a parent deleting it the first time they see their kids playing it. may be wrong, will wait and see.

i liked the game play as much as i like WoW game play. polished? rofl, whatsup with those flaming yellow pants, bright red shirts, gay hats with feathers in them? OMG you look like a friggin pimp. but, i can see how SOME people would like it. game play is WoW. gona appeal to the casual market. well, will if you thought huggie bear on starsky and hutch was the bomb......

polished is a word i guess......

DDO looked a hell of alot better than lotro does. but then, so does every game out on the market still running.

not bashing the mechanics. it plays fine. unlike your assessment, there are bugs, justwatch a blacksmith hamering ir someone doing crafts for a bit. turns into a mr roboto slide show. there ARE bugs. but im sure they will have them ironed out before launch.

it plays fine. but for me, if i canrt get into my characters, i dont really enjoy playing. i could take a buggy game with cool characters long before a smoothly running game dressed like a pimp.

but thats just me. im sure the kiddies will love it. not sure how many adults will be able to stand running around the world dressed like a drag queen with bad fassion sence. thankfuly, that is something they can easily change.

i dont know, it might just be me, but the game feels alot like city of heros more than a fantasy mmorpg based on tolken. they did a good job with the NPC,s, but, its just too damn hard to look at all the pimps running around. keep in mind, i didnt like the way WoW looked either and it turned into a hit. still dont like the way it looks, but it is still a good game.

to each his own. back to vanguard for me untill i cant get a group anymore, or something better LOOKING comes out.

I took a look at the Conan website the other night, because I'm thinking of spending some of my tax return on a new PC and wanted to see if any games were on the horizon that could be interesting, and I must admit I'm intrigued. Reading their initial description of the game, and some of the FAQ, I must have encountered the word "brutal" or "brutality" twenty times. It made me want to don a loin-cloth and beat a puppy to death with my bare hands. Of course, that might've just been the PCP talking.

Actually, though, I think it looks pretty neato.

Edited, Mar 22nd 2007 8:05am by Barkingturtle

Haha, that about sums it up.

It's pretty, and I agree that it's about as polished as any game I've ever seen at release. The quests work, and there are lots of them; the lag isn't bad at all; you get gear and consumables at low levels to boost you along.

It just didn't hook me, and I'm easily hooked.

It's a good point. I think my highest character was a mid-20's minstrel.

I got a character to the high teens, and enjoyed LOTRO for the most part, but like Samira, it just didn't grab me. It wasn't the type of quests so much as the way I felt like I was being lead by the nose constantly. I like things to be non-linear, so to me a big world full of lots of different paths to choose from is paramount, and I just didn't get that from the game. I felt like I had to do every single quest available to me just to level, and I thought about how I'd feel on my second hobbitt, and I would be frustrated. I may pick it up down the road once some more content is added or something, but for now I'm playing WoW again and having a good time playing horde seriously for the first time.

right now, im hooked on vanguard. the characters justrock. well, the necro does anyway. havent played my monk or dark knight since i got feign death for my necro.

i can see fustraition on the horizon though. already there is quite a bit of waiting around for a healer or tank to get a group moving. when the players get more spread out in levels, that will only get worse i feel. till then, having a blast.

i will buy lotro eventually. when im done with vanguard. i like the first20 levels in any new game. weather it holds me longer si another story. i will buy conan too. gods and heros looks good also.

be happy we have choices. and be happy they are not all exactly alike. we live in a great time for pc gaming.

/snicker

I'll have to admit, that Conan game looks tantilizing. If the rating meant anything it would make it even more tempting since it's rated M and supposedly no kids would be playing it. Too bad that isn't a reality.

Not Illia, I don't think (honestly don't remember if he had said anything about it), it's what I had heard from various sources.

And, it has a good concept, just who knows how the implementation will go.... DDO sounded good in theory too =P