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OmegaDestroyer
Hero of Order
Fox or Chicken?
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posted March 09, 2011 01:39 AM |
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RIFT
Anybody try try or buy it? How is it? I'm tempted but I'm not really that traditional of an MMO player. The only MMO I've been able to stick with is Champions Online.
Thoughts?
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The giant has awakened
You drink my blood and drown
Wrath and raving I will not stop
You'll never take me down
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xerox
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
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posted March 09, 2011 02:12 AM |
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Lol, I was in the beta (was basically open beta anyway, keys everywhere) and I can tell you this:
For those who bash WoW, don't play Rift.
It is a 90% CLONE of WoW! The interface is basically the exact same, even the colours on the loot is the same!
Its the same old boring fantasy classes like Priest, Mage, Warrior and Rogue etc.
9% of it is from other MMOs that aren't WoW. The main clone thing there is from Warhammer Online. The public quests are in as "rifts". Basically the exact same thing, though the concept has been expanded a bit.
Finally, 1% is their own creations. Because I can only come up with one unique thing about Rift. And that is the Talent tree system. Now talent trees were copied from Blizzards Diablo I think but anyway, the class system is pretty good. There are 4 main classes, and for each main class, there are 8 "subclasses" or "souls". Its basically like talent trees. You can choose 3 out of the 8 souls.
But in the end, the high number of options wont matter because there will always be a cookie-clutter best spec. WoW has the same problem, there is pretty much always one spec that is the best.
Like pretty much every single other MMO I have played, the animations SUCK. The animations are stiff and dead. The terrain is dull and boring. Its a huuuuuuuuge difference to lets say Cataclysm-era WoW where there is an extreme amount of detail and the animations are very, very smooth and fast.
No, I would not recommend Rift.
There is nothing new about it. Its just a WoW clone, but worse. And even I think that WoW has gone into decline recently since the main development team has gone over to their next-gen MMOFPS "Titan".
If you want a good MMO, I would suggest waiting for Star Wars: The Old Republic. It looks to have a very good story and unique quets system atleast and BioWare has like never disappointed me.
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OmegaDestroyer
Hero of Order
Fox or Chicken?
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posted March 09, 2011 02:14 AM |
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I'll pass on The Old Republic. I was not happy at all to see a series I really liked to be turned into an MMO.
Furthermore, Biowares last outings in the Dragon Age series has really made me look at their products with caution.
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The giant has awakened
You drink my blood and drown
Wrath and raving I will not stop
You'll never take me down
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mamgaeater
Legendary Hero
Shroud, Flying, Trample, Haste
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posted March 14, 2011 03:25 AM |
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Some of the rifts and invasions can be kinda sucky. i was a level ten running around silverwood and all of a sudden three rifts open up, establish footholds (basically they start to take over the zone) and then to top it all off a snowing massive invasion/takeover event happens. groups of hostile level 18's snowing everywhere, even in the main town; so i had to join a public raid for protection because they killed all of the city guards. it didn't stop me from dieing about thirty times though.
i'm not too big on mmo's anyway...
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Protection From Everything.
dota
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OmegaDestroyer
Hero of Order
Fox or Chicken?
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posted March 14, 2011 03:54 AM |
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I guess I'm not either. Just deleted Guild Wars again.
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The giant has awakened
You drink my blood and drown
Wrath and raving I will not stop
You'll never take me down
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emilsn
Legendary Hero
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posted March 14, 2011 01:53 PM |
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Bought it , playing it, not being addicted.
Ehh..
I looked at it and was psyched. Looked okay in graphics and the things you could do. Amazing. so many possibilities 
Yet, when you start the game. You choose your race and faction, 3 races pr. faction. you pick a class, out of 4 standard, rogue, warrior, mage and cleric.
They all have 8 different soul trees(talent trees) and you can have 3 activated at ones.
This fact sounded AWESOME!! but when you entered the world, you quickly recieve your first "Soul"(talent) and then 10min later your second and when you leave the starting zone you have all 3 leaving you COMPLETELY confused..  There is so much you can do that it overwhelms you.
But you keep playing, hacking your way through boring quest: Kill 20xthese and 10xThese.
It takes ages and nothing happens.
I am not addicted and MMOs have to be addictive But I will keep playing it till my three months run out and hope that it will grab my balls some day
It has so many good ideas and so many copies of WoW and other MMOs- as they say , why make a new system when you can use an already great system (they stole a lot yes, but you dont feel like you are playing wow)
My advice, you like WoW or another MMO you feel good about, stay with it. Rift has a long way to become WoWs replacement
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Don't walk behind me; I may not
lead. Don't walk in front of me;
I may not follow. Just walk
beside me and be my friend.
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baklava
Honorable
Legendary Hero
Mostly harmless
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posted March 14, 2011 05:45 PM |
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Quote:
Kill 20xthese and 10xThese.
Quote:
why make a new system when you can use an already great system
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"Let me tell you what the blues
is. When you ain't got no
money,
you got the blues."
Howlin Wolf
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mamgaeater
Legendary Hero
Shroud, Flying, Trample, Haste
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posted March 18, 2011 01:16 AM |
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"doo de doo, clearing some rifts"
*5 minutes later the rift reopens*
"i guess i'll do it again"
* 1 minute later the rift opens again*
"okay..."
*the rift reopens again*
"snow this."
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Protection From Everything.
dota
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xerox
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
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posted March 18, 2011 07:15 AM |
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what really annoys me of new MMOs, is that they are all pretty much clones of each other with like one major difference (in Rift, its the souls since the rifts are just expanded public quests from WAR).
I really hope that in the future, people will stop copying from each other and make an original MMO that is NOT Hotkey-based.
I am soooo sick of hotkey-based MMOs (which WoW and Rift and Lotro and pretty much all MMOs today are) where you just push the buttons of your keyboard 24/7.
I am hoping that Blizzard's Titan will be a good MMO that WILL NOT be hotkey-hased and that it will be so successfull that all future MMOs start stealing features for it and it basically sets the new MMO standard.
There are two MMOs I am looking forward to play, but they are ALSO hotkey based. It is the Old Republic, which I think may have way to many RPG elements for an MMO game (making it slow). Plus I just find the idea that a Storm trooper is tanking and a Smuggler somehow healing ridiculous. They should just have tried to move away from the old "Tank healer damage-dealer" trinity...'
Finally, Guild Wars 2 is an MMO I look forward too.
That world looks so amazing and creative. I usually think graphics on games are BAD when 90% of all other people say's they are GOOD (Rift is a game that I think looks like crap lol xD), but Guild Wars 2 looks really vibrant and cool.
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