The other Guild Wars 2 press beta weekend is here and gone, and Massively was there every step of the way. Keep tuned in at all hours today after only more guides, impressions, videos, and Q&About get you ready for the highly anticipated sequel to buy Guild Wars gold.
My Guild Wars 2 beta weekend started off using a whimper rather than a bang. When i enthusiastic you and also got lots of the sexy 2/dragon logo before character creation, one of several video cards around my gaming tower made a decision to throw in the towel the ghost. I didn't know this right at that moment, so when I slogged through the game's opening sequence, I wondered why it had been running like pure Charr poo despite having the settings dialed down.
I can barely move the starter village, and after fifteen minutes or possibly even longer, I closed the client in disgust. Later I fired up EverQuest II on that same system and experienced similar subpar performance, i really quickly downloaded the GW2 beta to my laptop.
Ah, since was a lot more like it. Here was the Tyria I'd glimpsed via screenshots and video during the last month or so, and that i rolled away an Engineer to assist decide if ArenaNet has anything to present you with a crusty old newb.
When Warhammer launched (smoothly My business is told) the group of us who hit 40 first most stopped playing and went back to WoW. I joined after this during the early December and swept up to the slower leveling bastages and eventually many people were hitting 40 in late January. That is right around when Darkfall powerleveling opened and everybody jumped ship to try out the game we've been years and years for. I canceled my subscription last week prior to a 3-month period was up. Beyond all of us I believe you will discover only one or two bastages still hanging on their subscriptions.
As usual To be sure with your comments. I almost jumped into TERA and after DF2 I came across so that it is an “ok” game but nothing new enough i always could really say hadn’t been used already in a lot of other games. I guess with it I became buying a open world Vindictus that we didn’t find. My business is still holding some hope out for Darkfall powerleveling but honestly at this stage the entire MMO genre will be cottage type cheese whether or not this was milk in a glass so to speak. It's nearly curled up. But unlike farm cheese it hasn’t turned into another creation that is aged and delicate over the original product.
Because the times of Ultima into the ones from vanilla WoW and beyond through RIFT and SWTOR I can not even continue to count the number of days /played in MMOs. Sure we a quality times however for each of the memories I am able to recall I could recall two times as many P.O. minutes where I did spent $50 using a product that really should have never left alpha stages, or was a repeat of some other product.
Honestly I'm growing a growing number of happy with the Indie scene late in terms of gaming on the whole. For $10-15 I am finding games which are similar in results, if not better, than most of the $50-60 games I have bought lately. Course Indie MMOs have a problem so that it is. With that being said We have did start to turn my back about the big gaming companies that merely recycle the same kind of stuff. Yes needless to say I will be getting ME3, and D3 but I will seriously reconsider paying for new games from companies like Activision/Blizzard and EA. If ME3 somehow results being the let down that Kingdoms of Amalur, SWTOR and DA2 were I might completely write down other games by Electronic Arts. We've already sworn i will never be finding comfort WoW, even before MoP was announced and officially jumped the shark. I'll probably purchase the Starcraft 2 expansions in addition to Diablo 3, but honestly I already envision that we will get a lot more entertainment and value beyond Torchlight 2 for $20 than I am going to outside of D3 for three times as often.
Sorry for the sidetrack, to MMOs, I agree along with you. Like I said I delay some hope that ArenaNet/NCsoft will seem to extract something totally new with Darkfall. If hardly anything else at the very least it's going to be Buy to Play. However in regards with other upcoming MMOs and current ones, My business is done with them. We have attempted to get back to a few of the classics like LOTRO, DDO, EQ2, etc but I merely can’t. I will be so tired of them. In addition to being far as new MMOs popping out, I know that they never meet whatever we are told. I needed such high wants SWTOR only to find when the fourth pillar wore off that it was the same old / very same i happen to be doing for years now.
In addition to being far as progression goes, the very thing that utilized to interest me about MMOs, fails today. Everyone either has what are named as Welfare-Epics or Elitist gear. Personally I wish that MMOs would quite trying to cater to both casuals and hardcore gamers inside the same game. It simply isn’t going to work.
Neuronomad says:
February 28, 2012 at 4:29 pm
Yet another thing to that I think was mentioned both by Keen along with other people is how much blogs and forums play into opinions. Personally when i have stated before I rely heavily on Keen and Graev’s opinion as well as a few other sites. We have begun to forgo forums all together like MMORPGs while there is just excessive fanboy replies and on the flip side way too many hater replies. There isn’t the favorable balance like this I see from sites like this and Kill Ten Rats and so on.
I believe many people rely too much on blind reviews on message forums, rather then reading actual articles from people who really play the game. I believe a whole lot better by reading blogs like Keen And Graev when looking for actual information for making decisions on.
Buhallin says:
Nov 28, 2012 at 4:41 pm
“This may not be an issue with me, or perhaps you, this is the trouble with the games. We don’t try this with games like Reckoning, Skyrim, or Cod. We’ll play those for 100 +hours and set them aside having our fill.”
The issue really is to you – it’s in whatever you expect. Because you say, people play such as Skyrim for 80-100 hours also it’s considered massive and awesome. SWTOR holds 200 hours of content by the point you receive a single character to 50, also it’s not enough – people get bored and enquire “what else is there to do?”
Unfortunately, it’s challenging to build content that people can engage in for 1000s of hours. Previous MMOs got by on social elements and obsessive-compulsive reward pursuit, but everyone is tired of that. They really want that new joy back, and believe only when they’d make smarter games – nevertheless the games you remember really weren’t that good, we were looking at just new. Therefore you’re tired with the revolutionary. Unfortunately, nobody learns how to make smarter games to cause you to happy. Hence, the cycle.
I almost bought Arma2 last week nevertheless keep holding off. As long as they perform a stand alone that does improve on some of the troublesome areas which you mention I would become more than prepared to spend $30-$40 for doing this.
One question I have had will be the longer a server have been running I assume which the more probable hood which the server will have some more developed characters that will terrorize anyone not used to the server correct?
We have enjoyed watching your videos as well as others on DayZ. That said I'm not overly impressed with many in the bugs and glitches that we have observed videos of besides in Arma 2 however in the DayZ mod at the same time.
With Arma 3 on the way soon My business is wondering when the DayZ modders can be dumping further improvements for the current engine and commence using Arma 3 once it releases.
As the game does browse be very open ended and fun, furthermore , it looks to become grievers paradise and call me a carebear but I've enough grief outside games to have to endure it in games. I'm sure at last it is precisely what is holding me back a lot more than some of the bugs I have seen.
Hey, definitely let us know how that Darkfall visit goes. I was always intrigued by that game but I’m also one of those who have been avoiding it since release because of the bad press it got then.
And as far as EVE goes, I always wanted to be part of the drama actually! Part of all these crazy wars and scams I read all over the place and gets me all excited. Whenever I play the game though, I just end up ratting or doing missions to the point I get super bored of it all and quit. I guess I need to join a more active corporation, but whenever I tried before I was treated as “the spy” and I just gave up…
Probably one of my favorite aspects of PvP combat that makes unique is the incapacitation of a player when they reach zero life (excluding the rare and freakish decapitation). This starts a 60 second or so window where you get to decide the fate of the fallen player, or have some choice words with them. There are no revive spells in Darkfall, but when someone is in this state, anyone can help them back up without need of any spell or item. If the person lays there for too long, they will bleed to death and expire. The option is also your to deliver the final blow to send the fallen player back to their bind point naked, and ironically this is called the “Gank” skill by the game. Incapacitated players will yell out “HELP ME!” when reaching zero life, which can be heard from quite a distance away.
When Blizzard updated Diablo 3 with the new Paragon levels a week or so ago, and then Steve made that lovely graph and just laughed in our collective faces when we asked how long it would take to reach Paragon level 100? And we all nodded and looked at that graph, and then we went about our day to day business.
Well some people haven’t gone about their day to day business. They’ve taken that Paragon level 100 and seen it as a challenge, and they’re about to overcome it. One player, Alkaizer, just hit level 97. In a week.
This December, Path of Exile will be not only entering open beta but introducing its new Act 3 expansion. What's this? An expansion before the game even launches? Yeah, games are nutty like that these days, but the folks at Grinding Gear Games say that they've already raised over $1.2 million in crowd-funded support during closed beta.
This new expansion will add an extra 50% of content to the game world, introducing players to the ruined city of Sarn and providing some backstory on those who exiled them to Wraeclast. PvP arena combat will also debut in a patch before Act 3 launches.
You can currently pre-purchase the game when you spend as little as $10 worth on in-game credit. This will get also get you a closed beta key while you wait for open beta in December.
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My Guild Wars 2 beta weekend started off using a whimper rather than a bang. When i enthusiastic you and also got lots of the sexy 2/dragon logo before character creation, one of several video cards around my gaming tower made a decision to throw in the towel the ghost. I didn't know this right at that moment, so when I slogged through the game's opening sequence, I wondered why it had been running like pure Charr poo despite having the settings dialed down.
I can barely move the starter village, and after fifteen minutes or possibly even longer, I closed the client in disgust. Later I fired up EverQuest II on that same system and experienced similar subpar performance, i really quickly downloaded the GW2 beta to my laptop.
Ah, since was a lot more like it. Here was the Tyria I'd glimpsed via screenshots and video during the last month or so, and that i rolled away an Engineer to assist decide if ArenaNet has anything to present you with a crusty old newb.
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Because the times of Ultima into the ones from vanilla WoW and beyond through RIFT and SWTOR I can not even continue to count the number of days /played in MMOs. Sure we a quality times however for each of the memories I am able to recall I could recall two times as many P.O. minutes where I did spent $50 using a product that really should have never left alpha stages, or was a repeat of some other product.
Honestly I'm growing a growing number of happy with the Indie scene late in terms of gaming on the whole. For $10-15 I am finding games which are similar in results, if not better, than most of the $50-60 games I have bought lately. Course Indie MMOs have a problem so that it is. With that being said We have did start to turn my back about the big gaming companies that merely recycle the same kind of stuff. Yes needless to say I will be getting ME3, and D3 but I will seriously reconsider paying for new games from companies like Activision/Blizzard and EA. If ME3 somehow results being the let down that Kingdoms of Amalur, SWTOR and DA2 were I might completely write down other games by Electronic Arts. We've already sworn i will never be finding comfort WoW, even before MoP was announced and officially jumped the shark. I'll probably purchase the Starcraft 2 expansions in addition to Diablo 3, but honestly I already envision that we will get a lot more entertainment and value beyond Torchlight 2 for $20 than I am going to outside of D3 for three times as often.
Sorry for the sidetrack, to MMOs, I agree along with you. Like I said I delay some hope that ArenaNet/NCsoft will seem to extract something totally new with Darkfall. If hardly anything else at the very least it's going to be Buy to Play. However in regards with other upcoming MMOs and current ones, My business is done with them. We have attempted to get back to a few of the classics like LOTRO, DDO, EQ2, etc but I merely can’t. I will be so tired of them. In addition to being far as new MMOs popping out, I know that they never meet whatever we are told. I needed such high wants SWTOR only to find when the fourth pillar wore off that it was the same old / very same i happen to be doing for years now.
In addition to being far as progression goes, the very thing that utilized to interest me about MMOs, fails today. Everyone either has what are named as Welfare-Epics or Elitist gear. Personally I wish that MMOs would quite trying to cater to both casuals and hardcore gamers inside the same game. It simply isn’t going to work.
Neuronomad says:
February 28, 2012 at 4:29 pm
Yet another thing to that I think was mentioned both by Keen along with other people is how much blogs and forums play into opinions. Personally when i have stated before I rely heavily on Keen and Graev’s opinion as well as a few other sites. We have begun to forgo forums all together like MMORPGs while there is just excessive fanboy replies and on the flip side way too many hater replies. There isn’t the favorable balance like this I see from sites like this and Kill Ten Rats and so on.
I believe many people rely too much on blind reviews on message forums, rather then reading actual articles from people who really play the game. I believe a whole lot better by reading blogs like Keen And Graev when looking for actual information for making decisions on.
Buhallin says:
Nov 28, 2012 at 4:41 pm
“This may not be an issue with me, or perhaps you, this is the trouble with the games. We don’t try this with games like Reckoning, Skyrim, or Cod. We’ll play those for 100 +hours and set them aside having our fill.”
The issue really is to you – it’s in whatever you expect. Because you say, people play such as Skyrim for 80-100 hours also it’s considered massive and awesome. SWTOR holds 200 hours of content by the point you receive a single character to 50, also it’s not enough – people get bored and enquire “what else is there to do?”
Unfortunately, it’s challenging to build content that people can engage in for 1000s of hours. Previous MMOs got by on social elements and obsessive-compulsive reward pursuit, but everyone is tired of that. They really want that new joy back, and believe only when they’d make smarter games – nevertheless the games you remember really weren’t that good, we were looking at just new. Therefore you’re tired with the revolutionary. Unfortunately, nobody learns how to make smarter games to cause you to happy. Hence, the cycle.
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One question I have had will be the longer a server have been running I assume which the more probable hood which the server will have some more developed characters that will terrorize anyone not used to the server correct?
We have enjoyed watching your videos as well as others on DayZ. That said I'm not overly impressed with many in the bugs and glitches that we have observed videos of besides in Arma 2 however in the DayZ mod at the same time.
With Arma 3 on the way soon My business is wondering when the DayZ modders can be dumping further improvements for the current engine and commence using Arma 3 once it releases.
As the game does browse be very open ended and fun, furthermore , it looks to become grievers paradise and call me a carebear but I've enough grief outside games to have to endure it in games. I'm sure at last it is precisely what is holding me back a lot more than some of the bugs I have seen.
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And as far as EVE goes, I always wanted to be part of the drama actually! Part of all these crazy wars and scams I read all over the place and gets me all excited. Whenever I play the game though, I just end up ratting or doing missions to the point I get super bored of it all and quit. I guess I need to join a more active corporation, but whenever I tried before I was treated as “the spy” and I just gave up…
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Well some people haven’t gone about their day to day business. They’ve taken that Paragon level 100 and seen it as a challenge, and they’re about to overcome it. One player, Alkaizer, just hit level 97. In a week.
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This new expansion will add an extra 50% of content to the game world, introducing players to the ruined city of Sarn and providing some backstory on those who exiled them to Wraeclast. PvP arena combat will also debut in a patch before Act 3 launches.
You can currently pre-purchase the game when you spend as little as $10 worth on in-game credit. This will get also get you a closed beta key while you wait for open beta in December.