A similar game?

achilles809 · October 2007

Would anyone know of a game similar to VG- large land mass-Boats/mounts - player homes/cities. I would hope that it has decent graphics ( decent being a lil more than the eq2 goblin that rotated its body to attack me :P) anyways if thier is a similar game to this ( oh yea, im hopeing for no eq2 loading zones every 14 steps lol ) please advise as to title and genre

would be freatly appreciated considering i cant play this game and apparently nobody plays it anyways lol

achilles809 · October 2007

cmon guys, i see the # of views going up and up, has no one some good information as to a game similar to this w/o the mega high requirements?

rengwerda · October 2007

there is no similar game. Vanguard is it. its an ambitious game world and was from conception.

I hope your point that you are trying to make is that Vanguard does all this and is great at it. and that the community perticularly on this news site hate the game. its sad.

but as soon as there is a game that does all this I'm in..... but i have a sneaking suspition that Vanguard is starting to live up to its capacity as a great MMO.

achilles809 · October 2007

I was actually really hoping for a game like vanguard w/o the monster system hog that it is, consdiering my graphic card isnt all to good, i doubt i could run it even though i want to so badly, oh well lol still open to any game suggestions

rengwerda · October 2007

yeah ok, i get what you mean now. its a hard one, because the bigger and more "ambitious" the game the more it goes the way of using up system resources. WOW works better as does EQ2 but both are massivly tried and tested now and in fact are graphically a lot simpler.

keeping up with games means you have to keep up with Hardware. its just a fact of life with our machines.

as annoying and costly as it seems.

consider getting a better card?

achilles809 · October 2007

I was considering that but with this laptop it would be a pain in the arse

its an integrated card, which i was hoping might be able to run the game on low decently ( SINCE THE GAME LOOKS AWSOME :P) but most ppl have said no, which makes me not want to spend money unless i got sum chance at success, also the chip is embedded in the mother board, making it a pain to install a card and then disable the chip ( ive read how to do it , but got no idea how

lmfao)

Thillian · October 2007

Originally posted by achilles809

Would anyone know of a game similar to VG- large land mass-Boats/mounts - player homes/cities. I would hope that it has decent graphics ( decent being a lil more than the eq2 goblin that rotated its body to attack me :P) anyways if thier is a similar game to this ( oh yea, im hopeing for no eq2 loading zones every 14 steps lol ) please advise as to title and genre would be freatly appreciated considering i cant play this game and apparently nobody plays it anyways lol

Ultima Online, but thats not decent graphics.

EQ2, but thats without boats, player non-instanced homes, player cities, owned flying mounts, and huge land mass (it's zoned-game)

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No sorry can't think of any. Maybe you can dig deep into asian F2P 2d games that may have those features.

And btw, its not true nobody plays this game. It has 30.000 pop (mmodata.voig.com) on 4 servers which means 8500 on each. Pretty good.

achilles809 · October 2007

i was wondering if maybe u think my integrated might be able to run vg, maybe at low settings decently? i really really really wanna play the game, but i dun wanna have to buy a new comp to be able to

Wardden · October 2007

Check out the vanguard specific forum they have a sticky to a site that will check your computer specs and tell you if you meet the reqs both minimium and recommended

Thillian · October 2007

Originally posted by achilles809

i was wondering if maybe u think my integrated might be able to run vg, maybe at low settings decently? i really really really wanna play the game, but i dun wanna have to buy a new comp to be able to

What's your computer ? - graphic card, ram, cpu.

achilles809 · October 2007

yes i know of that one, system requirements lab lol it told me i pass in everything except the darned graphics card, and its a laptop, making an upgrade evil in regards to price cost ( like 350$) and installation ( which i got no idea how to do on my own) but then again, system lab said my card wouldnt let me play lotro and i played on med- high specs just fine ( med texture quality, mos of rest were high excep draw rate lol ) anyone try VG with integrated but rest of thier comp was decent? any luck? or complete failure?

achilles809 · October 2007

Originally posted by Thillian

Originally posted by achilles809

i was wondering if maybe u think my integrated might be able to run vg, maybe at low settings decently? i really really really wanna play the game, but i dun wanna have to buy a new comp to be able to

What's your computer ? - graphic card, ram, cpu.

toshiba Sat a135-s4467

basically 1.6 dual core intel core duo ( first gen)
1 gig ram ( getting 2 gigs as of next week)
and some suck ass intel chip, aint sure of the exact model but the laptop is bout 7 months old, and wasnt dat cheap so i guess it might be the better of the suck ass chips lol

Thillian · October 2007

Getting a perfect computer for VG and for other modern games is not as expansive as it may seem. You don't need to spend 500$ for 8800gtx.

x1950 for 150$ with 2.13 intel dual core and 2GB ram costs all in all around 500$ with a solid PSU.

You can get your graphic information in startup-run "dxdiag" How much memory and what chipset.

Zippy · October 2007

Originally posted by achilles809

Would anyone know of a game similar to VG- large land mass-Boats/mounts - player homes/cities. I would hope that it has decent graphics ( decent being a lil more than the eq2 goblin that rotated its body to attack me :P) anyways if thier is a similar game to this ( oh yea, im hopeing for no eq2 loading zones every 14 steps lol ) please advise as to title and genre would be freatly appreciated considering i cant play this game and apparently nobody plays it anyways lol

The closest thing to your description without boats is Horizons. But beware the adventure side of Horizons is very bad (I should say it was very bad when I played) but the crafting and building side is amazing. While the core crafting mechanics of HZ is not as good as VG the building and overall crafting is much better. The building in Horizons is second to none. You can build around 20 buildings on your plot. Build bridges and tunnels to reach unreachable content. Juts a shame the rest of the game was so bad and the people that ran the game were so unstable.

Euthorus · October 2007

A similar game would be Asherons Call 2 - about the same graphics as well

Kyleran · October 2007

Originally posted by achilles809

i was wondering if maybe u think my integrated might be able to run vg, maybe at low settings decently? i really really really wanna play the game, but i dun wanna have to buy a new comp to be able to

VG was designed with the assumption that people would have upgraded their computers to a certain level by time it was released, but unfortunately this turned out to be a miscalculation on Brad's part which he admitted in an open interview shortly after the SOE buyout.

Most older laptops aren't using PCI express video, and he said AGP (which my box has) isn't going to cut it.

So if you are using a Dell 1710 (or the new 1730) you're going to be doing fine, but if that isn't the level of your laptop, I'm thinking you should steer clear of VG.

Another consideration is hard disk space, VG takes up almost 20 GB of space...most older laptops are running under 100 GB and its a cram to get it on there.

Also, most older laptops have 1 GB of ram, and this game definitely benefits from 2GB.

edit... I see you have a newer laptop, so the real question might be..what sort of video card did they put in it?

achilles809 · October 2007

Originally posted by Kyleran

Originally posted by achilles809

i was wondering if maybe u think my integrated might be able to run vg, maybe at low settings decently? i really really really wanna play the game, but i dun wanna have to buy a new comp to be able to

VG was designed with the assumption that people would have upgraded their computers to a certain level by time it was released, but unfortunately this turned out to be a miscalculation on Brad's part which he admitted in an open interview shortly after the SOE buyout.

Most older laptops aren't using PCI express video, and he said AGP (which my box has) isn't going to cut it.

So if you are using a Dell 1710 (or the new 1730) you're going to be doing fine, but if that isn't the level of your laptop, I'm thinking you should steer clear of VG.

Another consideration is hard disk space, VG takes up almost 20 GB of space...most older laptops are running under 100 GB and its a cram to get it on there.

Also, most older laptops have 1 GB of ram, and this game definitely benefits from 2GB.

edit... I see you have a newer laptop, so the real question might be..what sort of video card did they put in it?

Apparently im runnning an intel accelerated sum shit with 3d accelerator, i think i might be fine, considering my friend found a program that emulates graphics for games using the processor ( best part of my computer lol) 3.2 gigherz ftw

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