free download, and free trial to play now. seems they added a tutorial starting area too.
has anyone tried it yet?
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free download, and free trial to play now. seems they added a tutorial starting area too.
has anyone tried it yet?
has anyone tried it yet?
Now? It's had a free trial and tutorial for a long time. You can get to like... level 2 in your skills or something and then you can't progress further until you buy a subscription.
I played this game while in closed Beta a few years back, and then made a trail account sometime last year. It was fun. It's got good gameplay, and everything is customizable. It's almost like a MMORPG Morrowind.
You can create your own spells and skills from skills and spell abilities you learn as you grow. It's by far the best skill system I've seen.
The grammar in the game is poor though. They started with this wonderful system and added all the text and stuff afterwards, leaving it lacking.
If the community was there, it'd be a great game, but it seemed very barren to me when I played my Trail account. (It was a lot more open and welcoming when in closed beta, but that's only because everyone was together testing and the GMs were around playing and talking with you).
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bah, it cant be much worse then eve. ill download it tonight and give it spinn.
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bah, it cant be much worse then eve.
Yes...yes it can. Methinks you didn't play the same Eve that I did.
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i didnt really play eve at all. i spent a couple weeks TRYING to play eve. mostly learning all the nuances about how to play it. honestly, it was intresting. there are alot of things in eve that would certainly carry over to a real space economy if it was fueled by private enterprize minus the wars of coarse.
as intersting as it was, it was never realy fun or excieting. i think mabe the higher end pvp might have provided some of that.....several months down the road....after many many nights grinding away for coin and or trudging away at minning or trade skills......mabe.....
but if i was going to bother putting in that much effort for entertainment, especially something so related to a real economy, i would find an intersting second job that paid real money instead. something that would be intersting if not fun or excieting. you know, something like....work.
so no, i probably didnt play the same eve you did. probably never will if i can help it.
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i just got into ryzon. can see why its free. the critters look like they were drawn by a 5 year old or someone on a bad LSD trip. gona explore a bit/
as intersting as it was, it was never realy fun or excieting. i think mabe the higher end pvp might have provided some of that.....several months down the road....after many many nights grinding away for coin and or trudging away at minning or trade skills......mabe.....
but if i was going to bother putting in that much effort for entertainment, especially something so related to a real economy, i would find an intersting second job that paid real money instead. something that would be intersting if not fun or excieting. you know, something like....work.
so no, i probably didnt play the same eve you did. probably never will if i can help it.
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i just got into ryzon. can see why its free. the critters look like they were drawn by a 5 year old or someone on a bad LSD trip. gona explore a bit/
shadowrelm wrote:
i didnt really play eve at all. i spent a couple weeks TRYING to play eve. mostly learning all the nuances about how to play it. honestly, it was intresting. there are alot of things in eve that would certainly carry over to a real space economy if it was fueled by private enterprize minus the wars of coarse.
Eve does have a PvE game. There are NPC pirates out in space to kill and loot. I actually had alot of fun with the PvE battle quests (and lost a couple ships). It was just rather limited and secondary to the PvP game.
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didnt bother with the corperations. was no point untill i was actually in a position to atleast survive a pvp attack much less win one. and it was clear that was going to be many many skill points away. months.
found the pirates. found the pve quests. entertaining but not really fun. click target. click approach at whatever weapons optimal range, click attack. sit back and watch to make sure his three life bars are going down faster than yours. warp somewhere if not.
it was as boaring as the action at the beginning of EQ1, MINUS the cool looking monster filling your screen making all kinds of noise.
the graphics were very good, the planets, moons, gasses, and such. the detail of the economy and the nuances to everything from weapons to skills was very indepth.
but the action, while interesting, was not excieting. attack, warp if your life bars go down faster than theirs. all teh while circling a tiny little red target icon with star wars type laser sound effects. did you know in reality, a laser would make no sound at all?
in EQ1, you had an orc or skeleton or dog in your face filling your screen growling, barking, or grunting while you watched the life bard on auto attack. here, same mindless mechanics only no video to keep you entertained while it was heppening.
just my opening. it was interesting enough to download and play with it for a little while, just wasnt for me. im sure there are some people who love it, im just a bit more shallow then them i guess. more lazy too, i dot intend on holding down a second job for entertainment. im lazy like that. typical WoW type gamer. no depth to me at all. gimme the grunting orc.
found the pirates. found the pve quests. entertaining but not really fun. click target. click approach at whatever weapons optimal range, click attack. sit back and watch to make sure his three life bars are going down faster than yours. warp somewhere if not.
it was as boaring as the action at the beginning of EQ1, MINUS the cool looking monster filling your screen making all kinds of noise.
the graphics were very good, the planets, moons, gasses, and such. the detail of the economy and the nuances to everything from weapons to skills was very indepth.
but the action, while interesting, was not excieting. attack, warp if your life bars go down faster than theirs. all teh while circling a tiny little red target icon with star wars type laser sound effects. did you know in reality, a laser would make no sound at all?
in EQ1, you had an orc or skeleton or dog in your face filling your screen growling, barking, or grunting while you watched the life bard on auto attack. here, same mindless mechanics only no video to keep you entertained while it was heppening.
just my opening. it was interesting enough to download and play with it for a little while, just wasnt for me. im sure there are some people who love it, im just a bit more shallow then them i guess. more lazy too, i dot intend on holding down a second job for entertainment. im lazy like that. typical WoW type gamer. no depth to me at all. gimme the grunting orc.
wow, having acid trip flashbacks. dogs with snouts as long as their bodies. buffalos without faces and eyes on their horns. its like a bad trip through fun land.
they can forge metal to make guns, harness energy for energy weapons and yet...live in tents.
one thing that sticks out, something i think alot of "free to play" games focus on, is the complexity of their skill based advancement. eve comes to mind. doac is another one. they seem to think that the majority of gamers want to sit down and figure out the cookie cutter fromula for the perfect leet dude like they did in UO so long ago.
i am willing to bet the geeks who write the code are infantly excieted about being able to maniplate everything down to the finest detail even to the point of making which skills or spells you do get more potent than the others AFTER you have chosen a skill tree path AFTER you have chosen a class.
if they put half as much thought into the actual combat as they do in the effectiveness of each and every facet of being able to fight, they might have discovered, like eve, like eq2, and like all over button smashing action, that it was missing something fundamental to keeping people engrosed.
fun.
target, click attack, scroll through gee wiz buttons to find that perfect combination that makes the monsters red bar go down faster than your red bar.
or if your watching tv while playing because even the evening news is more entertaining, forget the gee wiz buttons. speck everything into hitpoints and hitpoint regen, like you do with every game launched since UO, and just hit attack and wait till the sound effects tell you its dead while you channel surf.
the developers seem to think the "fun" is all about specking your toon with the infanite ability to define each and every little action down to the minutest detail.
and that may be "fun' for them.
the other 12 million gamers are still gona play WoW.
just another geek game designed by geeks for geeks. it isnt even a good mainstream gamer playform to build from. the graphics are too poor.
specking and pvp. making either one of them the focus of the game is the surest way to make a game "free to play".
Warhammer is next. it wasnt DoAC,s bugs that made it a tiny little nich game. it was the basic focus that the developers mistook for "fun". specking, respecking and pvp. pvp is fun for about an hour. after that, even with large scale pvp, for most gamers it is just....boaring. something to do while channel surfing. thats also why pirates of the burning sea, shadowbane, planetside, Aserons call(now dead), EVE, and anarchy online are all.......tiny little niche games.
but the first 20 levels in all of them are fun. well most of them. AC2 and this little thing, ryzon pretty much suck from the very beginning. even Tabula Riza did a better job.
oh, yea. be still my heart.
they can forge metal to make guns, harness energy for energy weapons and yet...live in tents.
one thing that sticks out, something i think alot of "free to play" games focus on, is the complexity of their skill based advancement. eve comes to mind. doac is another one. they seem to think that the majority of gamers want to sit down and figure out the cookie cutter fromula for the perfect leet dude like they did in UO so long ago.
i am willing to bet the geeks who write the code are infantly excieted about being able to maniplate everything down to the finest detail even to the point of making which skills or spells you do get more potent than the others AFTER you have chosen a skill tree path AFTER you have chosen a class.
if they put half as much thought into the actual combat as they do in the effectiveness of each and every facet of being able to fight, they might have discovered, like eve, like eq2, and like all over button smashing action, that it was missing something fundamental to keeping people engrosed.
fun.
target, click attack, scroll through gee wiz buttons to find that perfect combination that makes the monsters red bar go down faster than your red bar.
or if your watching tv while playing because even the evening news is more entertaining, forget the gee wiz buttons. speck everything into hitpoints and hitpoint regen, like you do with every game launched since UO, and just hit attack and wait till the sound effects tell you its dead while you channel surf.
the developers seem to think the "fun" is all about specking your toon with the infanite ability to define each and every little action down to the minutest detail.
and that may be "fun' for them.
the other 12 million gamers are still gona play WoW.
just another geek game designed by geeks for geeks. it isnt even a good mainstream gamer playform to build from. the graphics are too poor.
specking and pvp. making either one of them the focus of the game is the surest way to make a game "free to play".
Warhammer is next. it wasnt DoAC,s bugs that made it a tiny little nich game. it was the basic focus that the developers mistook for "fun". specking, respecking and pvp. pvp is fun for about an hour. after that, even with large scale pvp, for most gamers it is just....boaring. something to do while channel surfing. thats also why pirates of the burning sea, shadowbane, planetside, Aserons call(now dead), EVE, and anarchy online are all.......tiny little niche games.
but the first 20 levels in all of them are fun. well most of them. AC2 and this little thing, ryzon pretty much suck from the very beginning. even Tabula Riza did a better job.
oh, yea. be still my heart.
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