"there are other games you can play" - so if I play a tank or ranger it's okay, just not a spell caster? Maybe that's why in PvP they say:"kill the healer first"?
The best description of Wushu was done by Gary Gannon over at Gamebreakers- this is the fantasy/martial-arts version of EVE. I you play it for the 'quests' you're missing the whole point.Those are just the newbee trainee stuff- it's 100% sandbox.
On the one hand you have the Tolkien family that does the books etc.; and on the other you have the Zaentz corporation that is in Hollywood and exploits Tolkien in the same way that any Hollywood company exploits any property they get their hands on…
I think that they're 2 different teams that don't really have anything to do with the other.
The graphics people have a head start tho in that a company can license a really good graphics engine, while you can't do that if you're in the story/game…
When I first saw the commercial for MoP I thought that they were going to introduce the Pandas as a Third Faction and that would be a totally brillliant move that would bring WOW gameplay up to date with all the other more recent games.
When it l…
Originally posted by vee41 Originally posted by Thillian GW2 hardly offers any reasonable exploration.
It is not exploration if you follow a mark on your map for the next Vista or Heart Quest.
Exploration is if you can walk off-path and dis…
For years I looked for a good Lovecrafty MMO that would recognize the way the world really is. Struggling against evil in a world you can't hope to change but you struggel anyway. Nowadays everyone in MMOs are going on about 'dynamic events' that c…
Originally posted by ProPatria Well the starship combat is engaging...if you can get past the concept that in our far flung future massive starships will circle each other endlessly firing from ranges no farther than 10 km's!!!!!
The ground combat…
"Ten or so years ago, players weren’t necessarily considering whether or not to play the latest and greatest MMO based on the answer to the now ubiquitous question: “So, what is there to do at level cap?” Maybe some of you were, but the notion of re…
Originally posted by Cursedsei I'd actually have to disagree about the idea of necromancers not fitting in with the Sylvari motiff. As a relatively new race (we are talking probably 25yrs old at the start of GW2) everything is still a rather new exp…
When I first saw pictures of the Sylvari I though "Cool, now I get to be an Ent!" ( and go to Divinity's Reach-their version of Minas Tirith). What Tolkien would call an Olvar.. Calling them Elves minimizes them. Even in LOTRO you can't be an Ent.
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Guild Wars 2 is being released by NC Soft.
NC Soft also publishes Aion whose Anniversary is at the end of September.
NC Soft has no reason to compete with it's own games.
It's nice that you're getting to write again.
This and the last 2 columns are an interesting change of pace from the usual facts/criticism articles that one sees at MMORPG.com.It's sort of like the screenshots section that way.
In closed so I can't but in 3D Vision the whole thing is gorgious.
Has anyone noted DX-11 Tesselation effects? I'm not even sure what that would look like.
I don't know about violence but I was watching the press conferences on both TV and the live streams and I thought it pretty funny all the swearing that the TV coverages had to bleep out.