Vanguard: Saga of Heroes

Seriously.  I started to have symptoms even before I hit the cancel button.  I tried, I really did try...but I looked back at all the other games I have played and none have me as hooked as Vanguard and I cannot bring myself to cancel!  I think I need to see a shrink on this.  I really do love this game and the potential of it.  If Silius doesn't completely desytroy the magic that is Vanguard it'll be a miracle and Vanguard might be that great game it was meant to be.  Vanguard is really that good of a game despite all the bad things Silius is doing to it - it still rocks better than any other game currently on the market. 

I love the game. I hate that SOE runs it and I hate the people who are curretly in charge of its development.  Good thing is...lead designers come and go on games like this very quickly and I pray that Silius's time with Vanguard is short and then we can get Avrem back or someone like him.  

I am so hooked on this game.  I must be sick...sick I tell you.... like in the head.

What do you like about it? And don't just say "everything".

That is awesome you finally found your game , Congrats !

I liked Vanguard a lot actually.... the whole two weeks I played it.  But I quickly left once I got to the first big "adventure zone" area that is underground in the Human starting location.  After I realised that my machine wouldn't handle it, and there was absolutely no way I was going to get a new one any time soon... I cancelled and moved on.

Originally posted by Teala

Seriously.  I started to have symptoms even before I hit the cancel button.  I tried, I really did try...but I looked back at all the other games I have played and none have me as hooked as Vanguard and I cannot bring myself to cancel!  I think I need to see a shrink on this.  I really do love this game and the potential of it.  If Silius doesn't completely desytroy the magic that is Vanguard it'll be a miracle and Vanguard might be that great game it was meant to be.  Vanguard is really that good of a game despite all the bad things Silius is doing to it - it still rocks better than any other game currently on the market. 

I love the game. I hate that SOE runs it and I hate the people who are curretly in charge of its development.  Good thing is...lead designers come and go on games like this very quickly and I pray that Silius's time with Vanguard is short and then we can get Avrem back or someone like him.  

I am so hooked on this game.  I must be sick...sick I tell you.... like in the head.

This post crossed with your "God made women because mens brains are broken" quote gave me a good chuckle. Thanks for the laugh Teala.

Originally posted by Claes

What do you like about it? And don't just say "everything".

First my ranger...I love how rangers are in this game.  Second I love my character.  She is truly my alter ego in a world of make believe.  Third...the world of Telon allows my alter ego and me to adventure in a land of beautiful landscapes.  Forth...the openess of it...the complete feeling that I am free to go where I wish to and just adventure.   No game since Asheron's Call has made me feel like that.  I can just say today I am going over that moutain and see what I can see or find.   It never fails that I find a new adventure around every corner.   It is truly an epic type game unlike any that have come before it.  

I love the feel for the different continents.   I love the way you can adventure into a dungeon and just get lost in there.   Some of them are massive. 

If SOE were smart, they'd make quick work of GU5, then start adding new fluff content and work on fixing up Kojan.  Then they should really make the game shine by adding mount to mount combat, ship to ship, ship to monster combat and fleshing out the oceans and seas.   I am telling you.  This above all the other games out there can be the game that people will flock to to play for not months...but years. 

SOE needs to bring back good old dungeon crawling to these games with lots of tricks, traps, and riddles for players to overcome while adventuring into some of these dungeons.   Put in the ability to use ropes and hooks, make jumping puzzles and all kinds of stuff.   Things that will really make Vanguard shine brighter than any other game on the market.  In my eyes it is the best game out there right now.  I am serious, I recalled DAoC, AC2, AC, EQ, UO, SWG all the other previous games I have played and Vanguard is by far the best yet I have played.  If they'd stick to the sandbox feel of the game and just fix the dungeons that are broke and the bugs that remain and start really adding some awesome content for all levels of play - this game will be "the game".

Originally posted by Teala

 

Originally posted by Claes

What do you like about it? And don't just say "everything".

If SOE were smart, they'd make quick work of GU5, then start adding new fluff content and work on fixing up Kojan.  Then they should really make the game shine by adding mount to mount combat, ship to ship, ship to monster combat and fleshing out the oceans and seas.   I am telling you.  This above all the other games out there can be the game that people will flock to to play for not months...but years. 

SOE needs to bring back good old dungeon crawling to these games with lots of tricks, traps, and riddles for players to overcome while adventuring into some of these dungeons.   Put in the ability to use ropes and hooks, make jumping puzzles and all kinds of stuff.   Things that will really make Vanguard shine brighter than any other game on the market.  In my eyes it is the best game out there right now.  I am serious, I recalled DAoC, AC2, AC, EQ, UO, SWG all the other previous games I have played and Vanguard is by far the best yet I have played.  If they'd stick to the sandbox feel of the game and just fix the dungeons that are broke and the bugs that remain and start really adding some awesome content for all levels of play - this game will be "the game".

Couldn't agree more.

The devs will react this way:

- Cool we can do whatever we want and Teala will remain with us.

Devs are as simple as players.  If you hug a dog who pooh on the floor, he will continues to pooh on the floor.  It must be clear, direct, a link.  This is why guilds often get their ways with devs...if 2 or 3 guilds hit the cancel buttons, devs listen.  Even if these guilds are a minority and don't represent the majority in anyway, the devs, the simplest one, understand what these guilds are saying.

I feel sorry, both for you, and for Vanguard.  Cause I am sure some peoples does like you...and devs never learn.  They never learn about what is good, and what is not.  What makes the mass plays, and what doesn't.

Taele, a couple weeks ago i quit vanguard, deleted my characters, and uninstalled the game.  Needless to say i'm back at it.  Oddly, losing two level 50s didnt seem to phase me at all because this gives me the opportunity to hit all the areas i missed (i soloed my first characters and only did a few dungeons on my second one).  I've been using the xp off buff a lot and been farming some named to see deeper into their loot tables (wasn't possible pre-gu4).  atm i'm decked out in all rares from the blighted lands on my 22 dsc.