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"Full Review" now up at MMOHUT
HanoverZ
Member Posts: 1,239
Full review is now up following last months "First Look" video.
http://mmohuts.com/free-trials/mortal-online
Final Verdict: Poor
Mortal Online is troubled by a clunky, glitchy UI, a sparse population, a terrible starting experience, and a frankly un-fun design, in my opinion. If a PVP-centric, first-person glitchfest is up your alley, by all means, have a go at it. As of July of 2011, the game is still buggy, and many features (such as housing, hunger, etc.) are not functional, or functioning improperly. The game would be much better if it at least TRIED to make itself fun in the first hour of play, but the newbie experience is so confusing and half-assed, few people are going to have the patience to stick around – and people are what make an MMORPG work.
I win!!! LOL@U
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Hm, I think this review was linked together with that MO video impression done by same site, so its a bit old.
Overrated
The review is from experiences the author had with the game in July, it is not old.
Also:
"Mortal Online is troubled by a clunky, glitchy UI, a sparse population, a terrible starting experience, and a frankly un-fun design, in my opinion. If a PVP-centric, first-person glitchfest is up your alley, by all means, have a go at it. As of July of 2011, the game is still buggy, and many features (such as housing, hunger, etc.) are not functional, or functioning improperly. The game would be much better if it at least TRIED to make itself fun in the first hour of play, but the newbie experience is so confusing and half-assed, few people are going to have the patience to stick around – and people are what make an MMORPG work."
I completely agree with this closing statement.
Excellent review, tells it like it is. So refreshing to see a real honest review instead of the crap that so often passes for reviews on many sites.
Pretty much my experience on every trial I have played. I am sure the regulars will come in and trash the review with every other bad review the game has recieved.
Either the reviews are wrong or the game is bad..........
Excellent review. She describes her experiences in the game and what she says tends to collaborate many of the posts I have read in this forum and the official Star Vault forums.
I tend to find her review more credible than this review http://fullspectrumgaming.com/2011/08/23/a-month-later-mortal-online/ . I also think I read in that thread that the author of that review quit the game, after praising it as he did.
http://www.entropiapartners.com/?r=22415
haha this review so is so funny. its a great example of the wrong type of person playing mortal online.
Cons: - Confusing and difficult UI, – Poor tutorials, – Difficult gameplay and open PVP make for a low playerbase, – Limited character customization
gameplay is difficult? you complain about that? lol? sounds to me like she just can't handle mortal online and I have no idea what she means by limited character customization...since mortal online one is actually better then most mmos they review.
Those "free" game reviewers need to stick to their "grindfest free eastern themepartk mmo's" they are not suited to play and review a game such as mortal online because they just review it in the wrong way and compare it to all the other theme park eastern grindfests they love.
Made me laugh, especially the first three things she saw in-game.
obviously the reviewer is a carebear...
It's a proven historical fact that beer saved humankind.
Yeah, this reviewer was clearly too responsible as a gamer. To be the right type of person, you have to be willing to support an inferior product by shoveling money into the hands of an undeserving developer. One who has no interest in trying to do their job correctly.
The reviewer only plays F2P Korean games, nomatter how good the tutorials he wouldnt know what to do.
I also think Mortal Online is a bad game but for different reasons.
This is what the reviewer did.
Creates character, kills a rabbit, dies and loses the rabbit ears he looted, gets mad, goes back to town, doesnt see any exclamation points above NPCs > Logs off.
It's a sad fact that this is the fate of 90% of new players who try Mortal Online. It's not WoW. So they leave.
For the few proud sandbox aficionados that stick around after they can't find exlamation points above npc heads tend to enjoy the pvp and free flowing nature of the game.
Never trust a screenshot or a youtube video without a version stamp!
"Oh, press H for help. I don't want to do that" 3:25
"i'm not really sure how to do things. and this isn't really doing a good job kind of explaining it." 5:13
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/4401212#4401212
Just a quick reminder. This is the same person that didn't want to press "h" for help, then complained about the lack of help less than 2 minutes later.
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/4401533#4401533
Also, could you point out why this merits a second thread. From the two places I quoted a month ago, it doesn't seem like there is any notable change from the review as discussed a month ago. Without any new information, this looks like a duplicate thread being used to rehash a negative review.
i dont think this guy should be doing reviews, that fact that he spent more time talking about seeing a horse peeing than any of mos actual features is a joke.
MO certainly isnt newbie friendly, sv also arent helping themselves or the game with the current lack of information and features aimed at easing players into the game. But this is just a poorly executed review by someone way out of their depth. Yet he still has a point but only in the fact that mos newbie experience needs alot of work. If i hant baught the game originally i doubt i would have palyed it again after that first day. But since i baught it i forced myself to paly and after the first few weeks my entire opinion of the game changed dramatically when i realised how much fun i was having with it and how long ago it was (uo) that i had this much fun in a fantasy mmo
there are 2 types of mmo, imitators and innovaters.
Regardless to anyones opinions of the reviewers compententcies he hit the nail on the head, the game is poor. I honestly wish someone would buy MO from SV so we could get a solid sandbox.
"Sometimes people say stuff they don''t mean, but more often then that they don''t say things they do mean"
I agree 100%. I don't have much confidence in MMOHut, and only by a huge coincidence I agree on the verdict here.
One can only hope
I win!!! LOL@U
I'm on the fence on this one. However, there is a large part of the MMO population that doesn't realize that not all MMOs are themeparks. I once saw a similar review on a different web site for a different game (also not a themepark) and the two reviews are nearly identical.
I'm not saying MO is without issues, far from it. Just that reviewers who expect a themepark are not going to have a clue what's going on.
Same old stupid argument of MO fanboys : its not WoW so they leave.
Its so easy to think this way, you hide behind that excuse since the beginning. "This is beta" "this is not WoW" "go back to WoW" etc etc...
Did it ever come to you that many people actually don't like WoW but still find MO is a piece of rubbish? actually I'm sure there are only a minority of 13 year old WoW players among those who leave shortly after trying MO.
I don't like WoW, I hate it, I like good games with good communities, I enjoy playing LOTRO, EQ1 and DarkFall. When I try MO, just like most people, I know a bit what to expect : a realistic medieval full loot game where you don't get any sort of assistance.
Well guess what, EQ1 back in 1999 was exactly like that, and EQ1 was a much harder game than MO will ever be, it never had any sort of exclamation points and you had to find quests by speaking to NPC's and typing the right questions or giving them certain items which you had no indication on.
Crafting was complicated, recipies had to be written on a piece of paper you had no indication on what to do etc...
And I'm not even speaking about PvP servers which were even worse you could get ganked about everywhere including cities and since guards weren't OP spawning invincible dudes who 1shotted you and were actually roaming and could even be killed and had a faction, you were even less safe than in MO.
but EQ1 had loads of stuff to do, loads of different places to explore, a working AI, group mechanics, real PvE, lots of lore based quests to discover, deities, factions, and so many dungeons prolly the best dungeons to be designed ever in a MMO.
So MO newcomers leaving isn't because they think its fucking WoW, they leave because it's rubbish, bugged as hell and that there is just nothing to do but a big gankfest with inexistant PvE.
its as simple as that.
If MO was like Skyrim in MMO version, it would have over 10 000 players.
Let’s go down a list of the things I saw within the first few minutes of playing:
1) A horse peeing.
2) A naked, mottled man’s penis.
3) THE SUN.
^^ pure amusement lol, although she obviously wrote the review to smash it to bits, that part had me in stiches for a long time lol..
agree with the reviewer, thats exactly how i felt when the game was first released... tho it had more bugs and half the world was splodged with the same texture green for miles and miles.. hopefully they have fixed that..
yeah its 2 funny. someone should vote this the worse review ever.
I find this even more funny
Pros: – Open world PVP, – Skill-based leveling system, – Focus on realism
Cons: - Confusing and difficult UI, – Poor tutorials, – Difficult gameplay and open PVP make for a low playerbase, – Limited character customization
Lol the Open PVP is to blame for the low population numbers :O ..thats a first for me.
I agree with you I do not think the low pop is due to the open PVP. I think it is due to being a bad game and, SV has some blame as well.
I would like to quote you from the official forums.
"I feel she was the wrong person to be reviewing mortal online."
Is everyone that has done an official review for the game the wrong person?? All the reviews are he same. You have even been hyper critical of the game lately. Either the game is bad or all the reviewers are wrong?
Meh, according to MO's fans, people who don't like MO are all WoW lovers.
Well, the game is not in a very good state, and it doesn't take a carebear WoW-fan to realize that. They could have brought in some hardcore sandbox lover and the verdict would have been roughly the same. Actually, a lot of hardcore sandbox lovers have been trying MO, and most of them left. Was it because they had a secret urge to go play WoW, or was there another reason?
MO fans need to let go of the misconception that a sandbox = annoying, non-logical and frustrating, and that anyone who doesn't like bugs, lack of content and placeholder system is a carebear who should to go back to WoW. Also, the attitude that "MO isn't for anyone" isn't really working, now is it? If the game is only for the select few who likes it in its current state, it's just a failure as MMOs go.
If the starter experience was better however, if the game worked OK, and if you had fun stuff to do besides meaningless PvP, MO would be flourishing by now. But it's not - and that's not because people are too carebear; MO isn't hard, it's just poorly made.