All Posts by Adamantine

Leave me alone with that AoC crap ! Having to press multiple keys instead of only one doesnt make a better combat system. Thats just as "innovative" as this stupid combat system from "The Witcher" where you had to click on the opponent at a certain time.

Best combat systems I know of are in Vanguard and Guild Wars.

Originally posted by Lydon

Guild Wars, because it's skill-based.

GW is classbased. Oh, of course you use skills to attack. But that you do in class based systems just as well.

Originally posted by MasterPain55

i've tried every mmo that exist and i would say city of heroes/villains has the best combat system, it almost feels like an action rpg which is a good thing.

To some it may be, but to others it isnt.

Am playing since release.

Yes wasnt that great in beginning, but I never left, simply because VG is closest to what I really want to play on the market, and there is nothing closer to my vision of the perfect game even at the most distant horizont.

(Which sucks a lot)

Originally posted by Manestream
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I havent even bothered this time around,[...]

So you wasted my time reading through all your crap just to say AT THE END that you havent tried ???

Pfft.

A simple "This game had its chance, I cant be bothered anymore" would have been enough, you know.

Originally posted by Bronks

Maybe if you read some of the (tons) of posts about how far Vanguard has come in the past few months you would stop hating. [...]

Or maybe just leave him be.

Originally posted by Ugarit

Originally posted by rasgrix

i liked it a bit but not alot, so i think ill wait for the new mmogs (darkfall, aion, huxley etc.) to come out first then i will decide

 You'll have to wait for a LONG LONG time for Darfall lol.

Imo Huxley, no interest, SGW, no interest (looks like a tabula rasa clone)

Aion = mix of  Lineage and World of warcraft ^^

Darkfall is very different from what Vanguard is.

There was never much R to CRPGs.

And giving UO as an example makes me wonder you think that Oblivion was a better RPG than Baldurs Gate, Planescape: Torment, Neverwinter Nights 2, etc, all games who had classes.

I would strongly disagree. Having only skills is in fact much more limiting in possibilities, than having classes.

Originally posted by JustBe

The game is another bland and generic fantasy game [... blabla insult blabla generic claim blabla ...]

Says who, on what basis ?

And about the "generic fantasy" part, do you like fantasy at all ? You sound like you simply dont want to play fantasy.

Well crafting might be "best ever made", though some games (original SWG and EVE) are often mentioned as even better.

But honestly, I am still not really happy with it. Do you really have to stay at work benches for weeks and months to get your maxlevel crafter ? Is that really such a great idea ?

Originally posted by Psiho246

Originally posted by Inzra

Originally posted by dragon1613

WoW is by no means the best MMORPG out there. Just has the most subs.

But really it doesn't make sense, it's got 10 mill subs, millions more than any other game, and it's ranked at some 20th or so?

 

Cause its a commercial game. Britney Spears surely has more fallowers, but is her music really better then that of "The Doors" or I dunno "Metallica"?

Even better example.

Originally posted by Inzra

If WoW is the biggest MMO out there, shouldn't it get higher ranking?...

makes me question the entire list... kinda unfair for games that perhaps should have been higher ranked

Aha.

So the british Sun and the german Bildzeitung are the best newspaper of their countries because they sell more issues than any other ?

And Windows is the best operating system ?

Harry Potter is the best computer game ?

Technics does the best hi-fi systems ?

China is the best country ?

Walmart is the best shop ?

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I'm quite amused about the priority people set on mounts, boats, and houses. Thats no true game content, is it ? Its decoration.

Plus of course, I DO play a game with mounts, boats, and houses (Vanguard). So its way hard to miss them, hehe.

Um. Actually I was surprised about how well AoC did. I expected a lot bigger disaster then that.

In the end, all that people complain about AoC is that its the game they described over there at Wikipedia, dont they ?

Originally posted by Nekral

others 18 (from which most is GW)

Why would you know that ? One of the two guys who said they played GW even said he didnt voted at all.

Vanguard

If there would be no Vanguard, I'd probably play GW.

If neither Vanguard nor GW, well choices get very dim then.

And yes, I'm definitely into games with complex and interesting classes, like VG and GW are.

I'm not excited about Darkfall either. Be it released or not, Darkfall looks like a conceptionless chaos to me. No classes, full PvP, full looting, weak itemization - whatever you ask for, they always choose the easier route. So thats the future of MMOs or what ? Meh.

Ok. Does anyone have a clue why the previous poster wants MMOs to die ?

He rambles endlessly and I even agree with a lot of stuff (Diablo boring, no idea why that game was such a success, etc), but I still dont understand why he wants that MMOs should die out completely as a genre (which wont happen anyway).

Originally posted by Thillian

Originally posted by IAmMMO

VG is improving, but it will have tough time going head to head with Aion later this year.

THe same was said about AoC thousand times and it actually had an opposite effect on the population.

Not saying that Aion will be linear korean style mmorpg while VG is closer to non-linear sandbox style.

Well, that will only happen, though, if Aion (and Warhammer) will be games that suck, like AoC is. I am not under this impression.

I am very happy though that the devs consider it a main priority to get new players into the game, because thats what Vanguard really needs right now.

The FOTM tank is currently the Paladin who benefits the most from the Melee DPS bug.

The Warrior is currently the worst tank as they have a certain aggro problem, compared to other tanks, mainly because they only get +20% aggro from their defensive style.

But that changes all the time.

Slow leveling is actually not an issue with the solo Warrior.

They have quite impressive dps. Killing 2dots is not that much slower on my Warrior, then on my Sorcerer.

They cant take on tougher mobs though. A 3dot might be about the maximum you may manage, or maybe a 4dot in brilliant equipment and perfect strategy ?

While Dread Knights have been reported again and again to solo 6dots... only when they hit maxlevel and max their gear, but still.

I remember 4 faces/hair styles.

I have to say the only new model I've seen (male Qalian human) looked simply wrong and riddiculous, not at all "sexy". If they give such oversized and stupid looking shoulders to my tender elf I'm not sure what I will do.

Originally posted by StinkyPest

[...] Is that intentional, that having casters be that much stronger than pure melee classes in nearly every situation? Granted I haven't been around VG much, [...]

Now you got me confused. What are you talking about ?

Monk and Rogue gets:

- A LOT more HP than any mage.

- Good evasion - good enough to pull mobs in APW without healing. I heard Monks (probably drunken ones?) can reach 70% ?!?

- Ability to feed aggro to the tanks.

- Rogue: 30% aggro when being in stealth

- Monk: Instant Fake death to shrug of any aggro, anytime.

Granted, Rogue and Monk arent the brightest solists. But they die probably a lot less often than, for example, Sorcerers, when solo. They again have much better defense, about twice the HP, and either Fake Death for Monk, or Evac for Rogue, to escape dangerous situations. Granted - the Sorcerer has Evac too, but when I had to use Evac on my Sorcerer, I seldom succeeded, as the mobs where disrupting and killing me before it went off.

Sorcerers are nothing but glass cannons.

I think MMOs are just at their beginning, testing things out.

Originally posted by LordRelic

You cant be hardcore when a game is based on stats ie any and every mmo to date and in development.

Hard-core is skill based ie fps games games that take atleast some skill..

example playing CS: 16 on 16 and taking out the whole team with  a knife.. thats hardcore or you hax one of the two.

Aha.

Therefore, Chess takes no skill, as you dont need good reflexes for it ?

Interesting theory.

Originally posted by Porfat

[...]  It is not WoW fault they got slaughtered its their fault for not being better games.  [...] 

A game that really wants to stand up to WoW must be a blast to play and not a copy of WoW.   That will be the trick but I believe it can be done.

To the first sentence: exactly my thought.

I really dont know if I would care about a WoW killer, would it ever be released. A WoW killer would be played by WoW kidz - no ? So why would I want to play whatever a WoW kid likes to play ? I dont play WoW either, so ...

And I guess a WoW killer, if anyone here wants to make one, simply has to follow the WoW scheme:

1. low hardware requirements
2. beginner friendly
3. easy gameplay (easy like Diablo 2 / WoW - not just trivial. Simply nothing complex)
4. massive advertisement
5. family friendly (no bloodbath in nudity like AoC)
6. relatively bugfree (not truely bugfree, Diablo 2 / WoW never was either)

If you manage that, and manage to be original enough to be a different experience (after all, WoW *is* a different experience than Diablo 2), and maybe even get a big IP (such as Harry Potter), you could end up being the true WoW killer.