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Never have I tried so hard to like a game

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Never have I tried so hard to like a game

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Darka
02.04.2012 , 02:47 PM | #91
Quote: Originally Posted by Kakarris View Post
The game needs some variety in it's quests. Some puzzles, some bombing runs, some racing, anything! Leveling really is a chore.
Excellent Point
Something me and a friend were discussing, where were the Star Wars Movies inspired quests? A Speeder bike chase through a forest? A disabling of a tractor beam? Contacting a Pilot in a Cantina for a flight? those short of things
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Truvu
02.04.2012 , 02:53 PM | #92
Quote: Originally Posted by LeonBraun View Post
I never felt Rift would be big at all, and got bored of it after 3 days played... The one I felt would be a better game at the same time they were both in development was TERA.

I figured they would be released at close to the same time, and TERA was released out east and is due here in May. Not sure how it will end up being, but it still looks like it has some decent prospects.

That being said, people who dropped WoW over Cata or negative hype about MoP, I'm sure will be going back there when it's likely it could be the best expansion released to date.
Personally I'm not as hyped for TERA as I am for Guild Wars 2. Honestly TERA will just be another Rift for me since it has no prior lore or history, so it probably won't turn out too well. Because of that reason I didn't even bother trying Rift.

I didn't plan on going back to WoW (I played semi-actively all throughout Cata after starting in Vanilla) since the lore has been absolutely butchered (See the Dragon Soul final cutscene..) . However the Account-Wide Achievement feature might get me back IF it's implemented properly. Basically I want all my feats of strength and titles related to them on my other characters.. Raid/Dungeon titles might be nice too but it probably won't happen.

Other than that MoP seems fairly boring and I wouldn't go back without it.

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Filthy
02.04.2012 , 02:56 PM | #93
This game sux, im done.....
been here sens beta

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DragonAgeOrgins
02.04.2012 , 03:01 PM | #94
I think people just expected so much from this game. It's not a bad game by any mean's however it did not "change way MMO's work" way everyone would thought. It's a grind no getting around that. I suppose people assumed that their wouldn't be a grind or it would re invent the wheels of MMO.

I believe some people are just tired of grinding in general. Personally I play for the story. I hate having to go out and grind and come back to beat some elite standing in my way. I am really confused how some people "space bar" and have fun just killing nameless NPC in groups of three.

This is a good game but everyone just had really high limits. Perhaps Guild Wars 2 will be different. It's not just this game, die hard warcraft fan's are sick of that game as well. At least this game has NPC voices and a compelling storyline.

Still I am going re-install Witcher 2 this month and play for a bit. This game is good and I will keep subbing but I don't know just sometimes feels not what I expected. Too much grind, not enough cut scenes.

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Wythias
02.04.2012 , 03:08 PM | #95
Quote: Originally Posted by Nemmar View Post
You can't be serious.

If not, then i dont know what to say. WoW questing is boring and a grind that has no actual purpose (you dont care why you're doing it) and its just a stepping stone to the end game.
There are 1 interesting quests for 100 boring ones... usually cause they are just a mini-game of some sort.

SWTOR doesnt feel like a grind at all. If you've played any bioware single player game, you know its exactly the same thing all the way to level cap. Its a formula that works and millions work. I really cant understand people who dont like it and yet purchased this game.
I don't agree with you at all. WoWs leveling like I said is like a classic Arcade game (Contra, Double Dragon etc etc) virtually lacking in any sort of story, but having a lot of fun.

I have played Kotor, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age, Dragon Age Awakening, and Dragon Age 2. I love all of these games to the extreme, and still find myself playing them to this day whenever I feel like the current wave of games isn't to my taste. I have played through all of them many many times, and enjoyed every second of it. So to me this doesn't really feel like those games.

If anything it's like Vanilla WoW quests, with cut scenes. Don't get me wrong the story is quite amazing, and I care about the characters. It's just the quality of the normal quests, and such things like that, that make me feel like it's really grindy.

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Phydra
02.04.2012 , 03:23 PM | #96
Quote: Originally Posted by Traumahawk View Post
My personal experience:

It's like I hit an "interest" brick wall at around level 35. After leveling my main character, I get kind of interested in alts, but things start getting stale and agonizing somewhere in the middle of Alderaan. After that, I can barely bring myself to play. So I've got about 5 alts, average level of 34, all logged out in some cave somewhere--dead. It always ends the same...fighting the same pack of mobs I saw on DK, start to realize that I have umpteen more quests and fights just like this...eyes start to glaze over...I lose all care and want, and dive headfirst into a pack of elites. Smile and log off.
As much as I hate to say it, this is my experience/perspective as well. I initially blamed the excellent storyline (and wanting to find out what was next!) for pulling me to level 50 in under a month (something I have never done in my entire MMO life and I've been at it since MERIDIAN 59).

I think BioWare might have erred in making Taris such a gobstopper of a planet, as well as in not offering the choice of allowing for highly divergent quest lines across all the planets (e.g., 1-50 on each planet) even as I readily acknowledge the amount of assets, content, and code that would require is insane and could never have been supported in the timelines set.

It's weird for me, I liked the first character journey; but re-playability has always been a stumbling block here. I've got "alts" all over the place, but none of them have made it past 25 and frankly, I do not think they will.

It occurs to me that BioWare has set the bar so high in marketing and hype that it may well have given itself a goose egg; it would be extremely helpful for Legacy to be in place and offer something significant to get replayability off the back burner (i.e., make me excited at the concept of having more than 1 level capped character).

Should the legacy system arrive and it's less than mind-blowingly amazing, I am beginning to fear for my galactic life. (This is not a happy thought for me... not even a little.)
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VodouAdan
02.04.2012 , 03:24 PM | #97
This game has had a outstanding release, it has not even been out 2 months, and everyone is ************ about content. Ok if you unplug a bit and have other hobbies, would would not play for 50 hours straight then complain, the game has only been active for 60 days not. Stop complaining. If you don't enjoy it, go back to your other mmo.

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Wythias
02.04.2012 , 03:32 PM | #98
Quote: Originally Posted by VodouAdan View Post
This game has had a outstanding release, it has not even been out 2 months, and everyone is ************ about content. Ok if you unplug a bit and have other hobbies, would would not play for 50 hours straight then complain, the game has only been active for 60 days not. Stop complaining. If you don't enjoy it, go back to your other mmo.
Unnecessary hostility, I am just looking for help to get me hooked onto the game like I want to be. I mean I played WoW at launch for maybe a week, but a year after me, and my friend tried it out together then I really fell in love with it, and like I said played it for the five-six years until I quit when 4.2 launched. I am just trying so hard to like the game, and I am not trying to bash it, that's why I find your post too hostile.

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Bmonkeeus
02.04.2012 , 03:34 PM | #99
Quote: Originally Posted by Filthy View Post
This game sux, im done.....
been here sens beta
QQ lol

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Phydra
02.04.2012 , 03:35 PM | #100
Quote: Originally Posted by VodouAdan View Post
This game has had a outstanding release, it has not even been out 2 months, and everyone is ************ about content. Ok if you unplug a bit and have other hobbies, would would not play for 50 hours straight then complain, the game has only been active for 60 days not. Stop complaining. If you don't enjoy it, go back to your other mmo.
It's pretty common in the genre for a small subset of players to level cap in the first week, let alone the first month of a game.

It's pretty common for those who always do so to complain for want of new content to exhaust.

It's even pretty common for them to make/level many alts as they continue to complain.

What is not common is players showing up saying things like "I cannot bear to endure the leveling process again".

While there are all the common things happening, it is both noteworthy and portentous that complaints about replayability are even present, let alone becoming common.

Obviously, you may categorize it as you wish. That does not, however, mean anything more than that you cannot abide to hear an opinion different from your own.

Whatever.
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