orcishgamer: I had to wait 20 minutes for someone to come in my live chat session, he said they were slammed due to the sales and the new subscription-less thing.
shane-o: Bloody hell. Well at least I can go to bed now. I expect your review of the game by the time I get up :P Have fun
My review: weird game, has a lot of glitches (seriously annoying UI ones, such as illegible text in quest boxes), classes, if that's what you want to call them, feel funny. I do not have a sense of what I am doing nor if it is un-doable if I end up not liking it.
The missions are story heavy, with lots of voice acting, and usually involve multiple steps. They tend to be a little better than "fetch me nine goblin butt-cheeks", if only because it's more like, "light 6 zombies on fire with this can of gasoline and then kill them", which is okay, I was probably going to kill them anyway, and the fire part sounds fun. I don't need to hunt down an inordinate amount, taking more time than I wanted to spend. They have managed to make some repetition in quest steps, 2 quests have ended with, "Kill the big, fat zombie, he's suddenly terribly pissed at you." He wasn't there before, but yeah, he's a big, fat zombie, guess I'll stab him with my sword.
The skill allocation system is complex, maybe this is good. You have AP and SP, I think the latter is Skill Points, you spend these to equip better gear, if you want to equip a better sword, you need enough skill points for it. If you spent them in pistols, well, I guess give the sword away. It may or may not unlock actual skills, can't freaking tell. Anyway, the idea is, equip the skills on your passive and active action bars that you want to use for your current role. I suppose this lets some folks switch between roles like healer or tank, dunno how well that works really. AP is for buying the skills. Yeah, like I said, it's fucking confusing. The "wheel" looks really simple but I'm still puzzled by it. I guess at least it's not a "tree".
Finally you get to pick between 3 factions:
The crazy, religious douchebags that want to control the world
The nihilistic douchebags that want to control the world
The power hungry douchebags that want to control the world
I went with the crazy, religious douchebags because they have better uniforms, which I guess I don't get to wear. Instead I get to wear blue jeans and a hoodie... because my obviously late 20s character must be reliving his 16 year old days. Without fail all the female avatars are wearing bikini tops, some with a leather jacket, some without.
They tacked in achievements too, guess all the cool kids do it now that Warhammer Online did and WOW quickly copied.
Yeah, dunno what to say about this game, it's only 15 bucks, so it's not some ridiculous investment if you don't like it (or maybe it is). I might just fire up Kingdom of Amalur instead.
EDIT: It seems the graphical glitches are a result of running Crossfire GPUs, possibly any kind of dual CPU set up, but for sure AMDs in Crossfire. You can fall back to DirectX 9 as a workaround, possibly, haven't tried it yet. It's something to be aware of if you have such a machine.
