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General => General Chat => Topic started by: Lasiien on May 08, 2007, 11:32:11 am
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Seen some good reviews and i also know darkly is reviewing it. Wondered if you'd post some thoughts here d ? Is it worth trying out?
Feeling a bit overdosed on wow atm (not quitting or anything but just bored !), anyone else thinking of checking this out?
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Afternoon. I was trying to get it in for review... still not placed a review yet and doesn't look like I will (bah), so not played it yet...
But yeah, some pretty positive reviews are cropping up. I've surfed a few msg boards scouting about it, and seems like they've built it around some pretty impressive instanced quests with strong storylines type thing. And fairly varied classes (ie healer type gets CC and a heal which procs off his melee strikes so not just sitting back botting - or that's the theory anyway!) which can be customised with traits, to an extent, though a tank is of course still a tank fundamentally.
Tempted to try it out even if I don't get a review, though it might be worth waiting a little while for the first patch to iron stuff out anyway (some hiccups with some stats being borked, and the economy a little unbalanced in places).
Been too busy atm to do much of anything, as you may have noticed, not come back to wow yet! Tbh feeling a little burnt out on the high level game ourselves. Been piddling around with alts a little on Thunderhorn but that's about all :)
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ahh right :) i thought you had said you had it for review - my bad :)
The press seem to be giving a far far greater reception than i expected which is what has risen my interest really, i think i may get it and try it out.
And yeh i know hels has been playing her squiddie :) You should feel no pressure about high end stuff if it's no fun :) Though spaceman squidface alliance types is not the way to go ! ;)
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Just got the commission through to review it this aft, hehe :)
So will be trying it later this week, assuming they send it without pissing about....
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I've tried it out, it seems like D&D online in middle-earth. I didn't play much of D&D online, so might be a scewed view ;)
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i liked ddo though :)
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The quests sound like DDO in some ways, but don't think there's much other resemblance, it's closer to WoW than DDO from what I've read. Soon find out anyway :)
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Must ... get .... epixs .... gnii ...
Sax.
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rolled Cardannach on Snowbourn for anyone who might wanna hunt me down, it's the server carco said he rolled on too.
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Copy not turned up yet. Will prolly have it for the weekend, so will roll on that server too. What class is card then?
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hobbit tank ! ;) (guardian)
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Short-arse! ;)
Guardian is a pretty cool class by all accounts. That's what Hel wants to be :)
I can't decide between loremaster (the sort of cc-caster I'd usually play, but apparently a bit borked atm, be fixed up soon enough I would guess) and burglar (summat a bit different).
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hels might like champion more i think, they are the dps 'smack everything about a bit' melee types. Guardians are supposed to be more defensive type tanks but not really seen too much yet as I only just rolled ;)
Loremasters are apparently gimped as you say, but hey what do ppl know ? :) It sounds like the kinda class you like (bit of cc/heal/nuke). Captain might be a viable choice also to duo a bit with hels if you both have a copy (as you can heal and buff a bit, but not full on healer, sound a bit like a wow pally to me).
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Yeah, the guard is the defensive tank very much, I thought champ originally for Hel but in some ways it sounds like a combat rogue (even has combo points)... and she fancies trying out summat more survivable, bit fed up of being a paper bag ;) Will have to try them both I guess :)
Best duo seems to be guard-minstrel, but cba playing a healer atm, even though it sounds like quite a cool healer class. Then guard-lm, as lm can heal somewhat.
Not sure on the Captain, as you say pretty much pally but with a (small) pet.
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i guess get her to try them both, guardian is all about threat and threat management etc. The champ still gets to wear heavy armour (just not the large shields) from what i have read, but then again i am a noobie :) Xanic is playing a burgler and says it plays very much like a wow rogue, so i dont think champ is quite so close but maybe try em both as you say and see.
... or you could make hels heal you for once... isn't it her turn ? ;) *runs away*
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Aye, champ gets heavy armour, but to dps has to basically sacrifice all block/parry etc which means can get ripped up a bit esp by elites and such. There's some flexibility in switching in a shield and dps mode off, no doubt, will have to try it all out. Many alts ftw ;p
Didn't know Xan had the game, cool. Thought burg was a bit different in that it's more tactical, CC/debuff and conjunctions, which is what appealed to me, a tactical rogue. Though they do have a lot of the same abilities like cb/vanish etc it would seem.
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Xan is just using a buddy/trial that came with carco's box is all i think.
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oh btw try Lasiien also (i am planning to try a couple of classes whilst getting a feel for things etc). Am mostly out this weekend though anyway, might be around sat evening/sunday if you have the game by then
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Ahh ok, cool. We'll all try out a few then :)
Not got it this morning, bah, so dunno if it will turn up tomorrow. Did get my new hard drive though, so will give me time to fit that. Only a matter of time before this one goes bust and doesn't recover via the magic of chkdsk /r...
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I take it this is another monthly subscription game and if so how much is it?
(I think I need to start playing non-subscripton games more :D )
Brigh :D
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lord of the rings online brigh, subs ?7/month before tax or so
And yes i know what you mean, but i already told you that you dont have to pay subs to play planetside just buy BF2142 ;)
p.s. off topic, sax said you had been invited to a really cool outfit or something and you're having fun ? How's it going over there? ;)
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I've been looking at the price of battlefield 2142 earlier on play.com but I think I still prefer the bigger battles in planetside, as a lot of people have left you end up with all 3 factions on the same planet so you get some amazing fights without having to travel to another planet.
I'm currently on trial in their academy outfit, once you have proven yourself (to stop faction hopping) they then let you into the full blown outfit.
Having great fun with it at the moment and they just had a major patch which improved one of the people carrier transport and there is another coming in 2 weeks now so for once Sony is trying to inject some life back into it.
Might keep my eyes open on ebay for a cheap copy of battlefield though :D
I doubt I will play LOTR for now though, I might change my mind if it gets the thumbs up.
I'm in the process of downloading the free 14 day trial for SWG atm just to have a look about :D - did anyone play it for long?
Brigh :D
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Cool brigh, glad you're having fun and that the outfit trial is going well (hope you get in!)
I played SWG for a couple of months and it wasnt too bad, had some nice ideas. The problem at the time was you ran out of content very quickly, but I'm sure that has changed now after patches and expansions. There was talk that SOE completely murdered and killed it, or at least thats what lots of ppl i know say :) For 14 days though I'm pretty sure it'll be a bit of fun
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Well I got in last night and had a storming session - nice to be doing special ops rather than the zerggggg.
Played SWG and got to level10 after a day so my free trial is now over, it seemed ok but as I don't have an instruction manual and I can't find any scanned ones on the net it is difficult. The chat interface looked annoying as all I could see was people spamming selling credits for cash etc.
I think I will stick to PS for the time being :)
Brigh :D
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How's everyone finding LOTRO?
I received the game as a birthday prez this week, so giving it a try. Made a dwarf guardian called Cernli on Snowbourn and a hobbit burglar called Cern on Laurelin as I wanted to see what a RP server is like (never tried one).
Really enjoying it so far, stunning graphics and the gameplay is fun (I'm normally rather allergic to quests but have enjoyed the quest driven gameplay so far, they've handled it pretty well).
Bit short of time to play much and off on hols soon, so it's very much a casual thing for me, but will look out for you all. What are your character names (other than Cardannach)?
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Heya Cern,
Found that Turbine had a good look at current MMO's on the market and incorporated some of their features (just like Blizzard did for WoW really). Things like EQ2's group combo's, CoH/CoV badges (deeds/traits) & the blatant WoW ui ripoff :).
The story quests are nice and it's really cool how it's woven into the main LotR story. All in all it's a nice game, though I'm unsure it'll keep me busy for long, but you never know.
My main is Katsui (still trying lots of different classes/races as well), Las has Cardannach & Lasiien (what a surprise :p) and D&H are ... well ... Darkly & Helez.
Think quite a few from Prydwen are playing on Laurelin also, though none of the people I really know. We're all still on Snowbourn and will look out for you :).
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heya cern,
what eko said really :D They have done what i think blizzard did with wow really, and have stolen from lots of other MMOs and combined it in the lotr universe. Story is very strong so far and i've enjoyed some of the quests as it really makes you feel that the whole lotr story is being played out whilst you are leveling up.
Having some fun playing anyway, even though there is nothing original here really. I guess partially because I can actually relate to the lore (in wow's case i cant much as i hated RTS games ;)
Anyway, happy (belated) birthday :D
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Happy birthday Cern :)
Actually the more I play Lotro the more I'm reminded of various bits of DDO, it really is a hybrid of all sorts of games. But seems to work well thus far. As everyone else says, what it will be like at higher levels remains to be seen. Monsterplay sounds like a larf though... we shall see....