Re: What other MMORPGs do you guys and gals play?

On 24 Jan, 12:18, Palindrome <damon-no...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:15:12 +1300, jami...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jamie

Kahn Genet) wrote:
I tried EVE last year, but it turned out to have really bad beginner
tutorials, a help system I couldn't figure out how to access on my own,
awful story writing that was full of spelling and grammatical errors,
shockingly bad looking player models, stupid limitations that make no
in-game sense and yank you out of suspension of belief - e.g. having to
manually jump to avoid delays at jump points, and a combat mechanic that
has to be seen to be believed so bloody boring.

I like Eve, personally.  The skill-learning system and relatively
steep learning curve for game mechanics keeps the herds of twinks and
powerlevellers away.  I can live with a few typos - I've tried out
many Far East/Korean games and the English is mangled beyond belief
most of the time.  Come to that, in most big patches Blizzard corrects
a few spelling mistakes.

The only thing that I didn't like about Eve was that the motivation to
play was the same as WoW at max level. In most MMOs, you level and
the motivation is to gain a level and get some more abilities. In WoW
at max level, you can't get any more levels or abilities so you need
to play to gain rep and money to make your character more powerful.
That is the motivation throughout Eve - play to gain rep and gain
money to buy parts for your ship and to gain skills. I get bored with
WoW when it hits that level and so Eve didn't last a long time for me.


I don't know what you found bad about the tutorials, btw, as I found
them hassle-free.  Mind you, having played many sci-fi games on
computers over the years, I didn't really need the tutorial, although
like all sensible player I did do it once, all the way through.

Lots of people found the Eve tutorial dificult. I don't remember what
the question was but *everyone* who asked for help on it asked the
same question. I think that it might have been a problem caused by
anticipating the next thing that it asked you to do and doing it
before pressing the button to go onto that part of the tutorial.

For me, the best game that I didn't play enough is probably CoV /
CoH. One of our group lost interest with the slow levelling speed and
so we came back to WoW. I almost went back to it when I got a bit
bored of WoW before the expansion was announced.

In fact, Blizzard timed the expansion perfectly if their goal was to
keep me playing :) It prevented me from going back to CoX and
dragged me away from WAR before I'd finished with it - either of those
could have taken my monthly fee from WoW.

steve.kaye
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