PlaneShift
Gameplay => General Discussion => Topic started by: Mage of Darkness on May 18, 2004, 02:26:58 am
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not to destroy hopes or anythign but did anyone play Guild Wars during the 3 day event? that was a sick game dude and although eralavent to planeshift it has an affect since guild wars will be free what will that due to this community now i do realize they are different in ways such that guild wars is based on teams a lot of the way but you could also solo so in the end it is an rpg with its lvling and upgrades and such im just concerned that this will take away from this game.
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meh, my brother showed me the link, but I fogot entirely about it until you posted this thread. so no, I didn\'t get to play it. it looked ok though, from what I saw.
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It was sweet as hell. It\'s free, I was a monk/mesmer, both dialup people and broadband people don\'t get very much lag if any at all.
Didn\'t really care though, my loyalties lie with Planeshift. Always have and always will. Planeshift will always be my favorite MMORPG, till the day I stick my sorry butt in the grave.
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I played it for a while one day... uninstalled it before E3 was over and was back on PS. The player interaction system was at an even lower level than PS is at right now. Otherwise it\'s just Diablo 3-d, which figures where it\'s coming from.
I like the business model and a lot of other ideas about it, but there isn\'t going to be any RP at all with it, so not that interesting to me.
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not interested
thats not really how i wanna play a mmorpg
guess it will be a last resort if i cant get cb to work when it comes :O
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GW was pretty nice.
But PS won\'t be harmed from it, PS got a whole diffrent focus group.
The game\'s main thing is monster bashing. Sure, there are PvP missions and stuff, but to be able to even harm another player you have to first get really good weapons and skills (skills in GW are things that you activate and they give you temporary changes, e.g. striking faster but easier to get hurt). And to get skills and good weapons you have to bash alot of monsters all the time.
But for a monster-bashing game, it\'s really good. Best monster-bashing game I\'ve played.
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GW sucked so bad.... You couldn\'t even make a guild. Lots of the game is solo area, and the chat was awful coz it was so buggy. It may be better in a later version, but I probably won\'t get it.
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I\'d heard it was great for a beta version, don\'t know myself. I\'m more interested in PS, spend most of my online time here or browsing web comics
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I dont think that it will take anything away from plaeshift it\'s not like you have to choose one or the other, so a lot of people will have both.
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It isnt even a Beta *rolls eyes* it was an alpha test you peoples the beta doesnt come til later.
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my wife wants it, so we might end up with it when it comes out.
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It will definately pull some people away from PS by looks alone, but a majority would play both I think! Personally I will try it when it comes out just as I will play the new release of PS when it comes out, then we go from there :] Right now I am not worrying about either I am buying Final Fantasy 11 for PC and will start playing that soon, just found out yesterday that I got my mastercard from the bank so yep its going to be FUN FUN!!
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Originally posted by Ineluke
it\'s not like you have to choose one or the other, so a lot of people will have both.
Yeah, people can play both, but then they play less from each. Instead of playing PS 100% of their free time, they\'ll play only 50% (crude numbers), so it does affect the in-game population at a given time.
Originally posted by DepthBlade
It will definately pull some people away from PS by looks alone
It won\'t draw much from PS because PS\'s focus group is RPers, while GW\'s focus group is monster bashers.
If there are games that should worry about GW then it\'s PristonTale, EverQuest, etc, etc, etc.
PS will only gain from it, because powerlevelers and monster-bashers will prefer to go to GW, so most of the PS population will be RPers. Also, when a PS player will have a sucky day he\'ll just go to play GW, pk for a few hours until he\'s calm, and then go to PS :D
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It will draw more then a few I believe, this community is not all RPers just maybe the ones who post on here(make it obvious) and some in-game but there is a majority of people waiting to see the release come out so they can do some good old fashion hack-n-slash fighting, its the simple truth about it all!
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Oh and you have done a survey on the \"Role Players\" to \"Hack n Slashers\" ratios have you?
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I don\'t think a survey is necessary at all, the results will become pretty obvious once the release comes out :P Hack-n-Slash gaming is addicting, power leveling is addicting these days everyone just wants to be the best at everything , have the highest levels and the most bling bling in everything! I see very few people who just want to roleplay like actually roleplay instead of ok lets go raid the tunnels and look for the bad guys, kil them, take the treasure, buy l33t armor and repeat this scenario to get more bling and more exp!
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I think he only meant to say that a lot of the more recent entries into the PS noob of the month club have been overtly well, n00b.
If it draws some off I?m good with that, less people for the die hard Role Players among us to police. Besides it gives those of us with no interest in other games an advantage ;)
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tygerwilde dude i want a girl that likes games with me that would kick bum ( sry for like of profanity i felt the WTBs might not like it)
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Hey back to Giuld Wars is it free as in I have to buy it but don\'t have to pay per month, or is it free in general.
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I think it\'s a free, you have to buy the game but no monthly fee, then of course with Planeshift, no need to worry about that.
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Pah. I get more fun playing MB than I did guild wars.
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I wonder if u know ? GW it\'s a game with a strong team behind. NcSoft. With great games yet released:
Lineage, Lineage2, City of Heroes and so on..
And the graphics ?? omg it was \"breathtaking\". Never seen before in a MMORPG.
I like it very much, but it was just an alpha release, without leveling (all players capped at lvl 15), without trade abillities and many more \"without\".
And a last thing, if i\'m not wrong, in NcSoft team is Richard Garriot aka \"Lord British\", i\'m wrong ?
No i\'m not
PS
Take a look at Tabula Rasa and Exarch
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Yes, GuildWars is a commercial game that you must purchase to play. And no, there will not be a monthly fee. The company, ArenaNet (sound like BattleNet?), plans to release expansion packs for the game every 6 to 9 months which you are not required to purchase, but you can if you want the new content.
There are some wonderful articles on the http://www.arena.net website too. I recommend checking them out.
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Saw some screenshots and I am getting even more excited to play it! I played Final Fantasy 11 last night, figured id go play it at my friends house before purchasing! DAmn it was sweet! Except my friend was this little teddy bear guy who was a black mage :P I definately going for advanced white mage or some sort of advanced warrior!
P.S Maze Makers blow but give good EXP!
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Originally posted by Xordan
GW sucked so bad.... You couldn\'t even make a guild. Lots of the game is solo area, and the chat was awful coz it was so buggy. It may be better in a later version, but I probably won\'t get it.
That\'s what you get when playing in the alpha :rolleyes:
Anyways, I have great faith in GW, and I\'m not sure wether to play that, daoc or wow. It\'s going to be a tough fall.
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actually, from what I read, the new content will mostly be streamed to you directly as you play, like the monthly patches you get in other games, but without the wait.
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yes that is true its all streamed instead of having a large download for patches every so often they fix it themselves and it is totally streamed to you instead of haveing to wait. :D
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I hate the streaming thing. Every time I go into an area I have to download and then load everything! Why can\'t they just put everything in folders inside the game\'s folder like normal games instead of making us download each area again and again?
Sure, it could be good when they update stuff in the client, but why do I have to download a whole area every time even when it\'s unchanged instead of downloading only the part that got changed and have everything in a folder?
And it\'s not like it saves hd space or something, it all goes to the temp folder.
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No Linux client, so it automatically gets the thumbs down from me.
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No SaintNuclear. No no no bad wrong no.
Once you download new content, you keep it. It does not go away to save harddrive space like a temp folder.
If you return to an already visited area and find it taking a little longer to load, it\'s because there is additional new content.
Loading was unbelievably fast during E3 because the content had already been streamed once.
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I know, after I visit a certain area and come back to it it takes less time to download.... Unless I restart the game \\ reboot.
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Man, I played this unbelievably hot Ranger-babe. It\'s like, the only reason I went to play it. I was prancing around with my bow and it looks *so* hot! I just *know* I\'ll be staring at that ass all day when the game gets released.
Oh, and it was free of course. :D Otherwise, I didn\'t think it was that much FUN. Very good graphics, though.
What\'s the use of a massively multiplayer hack \'n slash game, anyway?
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That leads me to the conclusion that as long as a game has gratuitous sex and explicit nudity you will play it regardless of any other contributing factors.
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Doesn\'t everybody? :D
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ugh, immature.
anyway, i checked out the game and i thought it looked pretty cool. i didnt get to play it though; i never even heard of it till i read this, but i think it looks pretty good. i think ill try it out when the full version comes out. ill still play ps too though:)