Hello! Well, it's been another day. I'm
not having much luck working up the confidence to live stream so I
thought I might as well continue my blog postings. I have character
flaws, but enough of that for now. That will be another post
altogether. The first game I wish to talk about is one that I
really wanted to review in the last post because I liked it so much.
Here we go!
Lord of the Rings Online:
I was very surprised by this one. If
you have any kind of a decent video card definitely download the high
resolution textures. The geometry involved with the graphics isn't
very complex but they make up for that with a lot of low polygon high
quality textured objects. I was also very impressed with the water
which is something that I look for when I make up my mind about a
games graphics quality. The gear that you get early on all matches as
well which is something that I like to see in a game.
I played a human hunter. The quests in
the game are nicely intertwined between side quests, and main story
quests. There's also a fair amount of phasing so your sense of
progression is nice as well. The combat was intuitive. Being a ranged
class is pretty fun. They give you a lot of answers to deal with mobs
whether you're kiting, or trapping.
They story so far is intriguing what little I've experienced of it so far. I haven't exactly played as much of this game as I would have liked, but I'll be playing it more soon. As I've said before my goal was just to gather a first impression of the game. The quest tracking isn't the best but I'd say it's nearly equivalent to what you get with the standard World of Warcraft quest tracking.
Much like Rift a lot of the content of
the game is pay to play. I've been reassured that you can still solo
for free all the way up. What I've heard though is that it will be
very grind intensive. I don't mind a grind though. Like Rift you'll
end up spending a lot if you want to unlock everything. I'd say it's
well worth it though. I'm not saying buy it all at once either.
That's a little extreme. I'm saying unlock what you want to play when
you're able to play it. There's plenty to play through it you want to
go full completionist with it.
Arche Age:
Ok this one I'm going to make short and
sweet. I didn't like this game. I didn't even really play it enough
to give it a fair chance. You can go ahead and download it and see
for your self. It's pretty mediocre. The combat was repetitive. I
liked what little of the story I did get to see. Early on my
character died, and I got a message about recovering some of the
experience points I lost.
I've been spoiled on not having this
happen. It started with World of Warcraft and it is just something
that I expect. After having this happen I just quit playing and
uninstalled the game. I'm sure the game is fine and I probably just
noobed it up and got killed when I shouldn't have had any chance of
it. It's just something that I wasn't able to get over so I quit
because I personally feel like MMO's should be past this kind of
thing.
Well that's it for now. I really need
to spend a lot more time with these games because I feel like I'm not
doing them enough justice. I'll be back in a day or two with more on
these free to play-ish MMO's.
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