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Vindictus: The Official Review
SBFord
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Vindictus has been hailed as a groundbreaking new MMO with a physics-based engine that renders some pretty incredible animations. MMORPG.com's Bill Murphy has been playing Vindictus and has a lot to say about Nexon's latest MMO. Check out Bill's review and then leave us a comment.
Vindictus might very well be the most bang for your buck you’ll see all holiday season and into 2011. It’s free to download, free to play, and as long as you show signs of restraint, you’ll never have to pay a dime. Usually F2P games offer little to no production value or come off as some cheap knock off of a better game. Vindictus is neither of these things. Developed by Nexon using Valve’s Source engine, it’s easily the prettiest F2P game around and also one of the most fun. It’s not without its drawbacks however, which mainly come in the form of shallowness and repetition: two things which are sort of commonplace with the action-RPG genre. It’s a hard game to review really for this site, as Vindictus isn’t your normal MMORPG.
Read Vindictus: The MMORPG.com Review.
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Apparently the EU version is coming on the 2nd Dec, hope it is true cause i really would like to play this game.
u just made me reallly happy
Fingers crossed!
There's no way to jump in Vindictus. It's a disadvanced.
If you are/were a fan of games like Phantasy Online. Then you'll find this game quite fun.
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Geez 8 out of 10, another fail for mmorpg. Is this game is an 8 out of 10, mmo's are in deep deep troubles.
we can hold our fingers crossed till 2 dec :P
3 classes? All gender locked? How lazy is that...
Might be a good game to play for a week.
First off, giving such a shallow game an 8 is rather stretching it a bit don't you think? Not to say it is not fun to play initially, but it gets olds fast.
Suggestion, every time you get on a boat check your connect speed to the host because whoever started the boat is the host. If you don't have a decent connection to them (displays on the party window) get off the boat, you are just wasting your time. Some people out there with really bad connections.
It is a cute game though, just that it is more or less an updated Diablo without as much content. You should expect more in this day and age.
I downloaded this game on a whim. I've found it to be an amusing combination of Diablo and Legend of Zelda with environmental physics and fairly meaty combat. I've been playing a Fiona character (sword and shield) and have been having fun for a couple hours at a time.
I'd never dream of playing it for hours on end, though. Being F2P, it makes a great distraction for a little while, but it's not a game I'd recommend moving your guild to.
For the price (I've spent exactly $0 so far) I'd say it's worth the download.
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"Give a man a fire, and he is warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he is warm for the rest of his life."
The game deserves an 8.
Its better than Champions Online OR Star Trek Online, as well as better combat and more amazing animations than sWTOR or LOTRO.
The game deserves an 8.
Its fun as hell, and its...... eeeeeeeeeeeentiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiireeeeeeeely........ free!
Boo on any nay-sayers.
Vindictus is a fun game but not an MMO. It's a shallow Diablo-esque dungeon crawler with lost of instant-on fast paced action.
As a second class world citizen aka European I am locked out, so it can go to hell as far as I am concerned.
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I agree. To suggest an 8 in a category of Massively-Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game is going to run the gammet of resposnes for many; laughable, rediculous, shock, dishonest, strange. Maybe some of those reactions might be a bit harsh, but the score is inaccurate in the context of being a Massively-Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, as far as I'm concerned.
So, Ford, I only question the context of comparison and inclusion for Vintictus in the mmorpg category to come up with an 8; a game that is really a lobby-system Cooperative Role Playing Game.
Immediate Cons
Heavily instanced
Repetitive nature
Shallow nature
3 classes
Gender-locked classes
All hack and slash combat
No open world player interaction
Static game-play
Linear game-play
Just as Guild Wars 1 was and 2 will be a CORPG, if ANet delivers on what they have planned, I’d assume the score scale is changing from 1-10 to 1-20, where Vindictus has an 8, and GW2 has the potential for an 18.
Over the last couple of years as more shoe-box, lobby-system, heavily instanced, linear cooperative oriented games hit the shelves, why don't reviewers and sites fail to categorize them more closely to what they are, rather than align them to what they aren’t?
Context is a component of credibility, and I think the copy-written review might be fine, this score is out of context with the games’ classification on mmorpg.com and in the genre.
Is it a big, open-world MMO? No.
Is it a hell of a lot of fun? Yes.
Enjoy the game for what it is, and not what you think it should be. Oh, and it can be played pretty effectively without paying a dime, as opposed to most other F2P games.
Good review.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
boring after first week.... next! :P
F6 or /jump works.
It is a little different of a jump from some other games.
The game doesn't hide what it is, but what it chooses to do it does very well. When judged against what it's advertised to be, it deserves the 8.
To some, but I'd still say it's worth the price, wouldn't you? Ya know, free.
I won't say that I'll be playing this game feverishly every night for years. It's isn't that deep or varied a game. But, for free, it's a lot of fun. It can sit on my HDD, and I can play it whenever I wish.
One other thing I'll say - the combat system in Vindictus alone has increased my interest in other titles, like DCUO and TERA, neither of which I had been seriously considering. If the combat in either of those is anywhere close to Vindictus', I'll be interested.
Hell hath no fury like an MMORPG player scorned.
You know, I wouldn't complain if you were reviewing it as an action RPG because even gender-locked classes could be passable.
But giving this an 8.0 when reviewing it as a MMORPG is utterly absurd, especially when repetitive AND shallow are in the cons for the game.
Again, agreed.
errr... didn't the author say that he is not reviewing it as an MMORPG and regards it more as a hack-and-slash action rpg? So what the hell are people like EricDaniel or Chick_Aslin complaining about?
"It's a hard game to review really for this site, as Vindictus isn't your normal MMORPG. I have to rate it for what it is, instead of what it's not. And as we'll explore in this review of Nexon's newest title, Vindictus is a whole lot of fun and an extremely satisfying multiplayer action-RPG. For fans of hack-and-slash games, there's a lot to love here."
I really cant wait to try out the EU version since diablo 2 is getting boring again although it gives me more fun than 90% of the MMORPGs out there. I guess I will like the game if I can have fun with a 10 years old 2D Hack-And-Slash which is simply about farming items mindlessly
I think people are not understanding this game and rating on what they want as opposed to what it is.
first of all, not having "jumping" is not a disadvantage. One can "roll" out of the way which serves the player as a way to avoid a swing or attack. it works perfectly fine and in my opinion is far better than the whole jumping spam that we see in some of these games.
But still, one can move out of the way.
As far as gender locked classes being lazy, again, one must realized that apparently each of these "classes" is actually a character from some story. So it's more about connecting with this story over creating "you" in the game. Though one can customize some aesthetics.
It's the same as playing a game where one is Lara Croft or Duke Nukem. Or heck even the new Dragon Age 2 which one has to play as male. It is what it is.
As far as being heavily instanced, well, it's a game that is not creating a world but is more of a lobby type game. It is what it is.
One might not want to play an instanced game but it's similiar to Guild Wars in that there really isn't a world but you gather your party at a staging area and head out.
The fighting can be quite fun if you like fast paced mouse clicking fights. the game is very repetitive so one can easily burn themselves out if they aren't careful.
There is a lot of attention to detail within the confines of what this game is trying to be. Whether this details is lost on people or not is antoher thing entirely.
If one is looking for quick fast pace combat fun then the game works. If one is looking to groom a character over the levels in a large dynamic world then the game won't satisfy.
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Class number 1:
Combo, dodge, combo, dodge, rinse, repeat, got stale after 3 days.
Class number 2:
Spell, spell, dodge, melee or if you're using her other weapon, combo, blink, combo, blink, buff, combo, blink
Class number 3:
Combo, block, counterattack, combo, block, counterattack
This game is in no way whatsoever adaptive. You're going to be stuck doing the samething over and over for your entire duration of the game unless you're Korean and know how to abuse certain glitches.
OMG!!! Is the EU server really launches on 3th DEC?????? Oh i hope it's true! I can't wait for this game!!!
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