05-08-2003, 10:54 PM
Hail all,
What seems to be an endless amount of recent games that are decent, I havenât been able to find a game I could sit on and enjoy thoroughly. Iâve played too many SP games; getting quite lonely. Though I have also played a ton of online games canât seem to find any decent groups to party with. The games I have tried recently are:
Asheronâs Call 2, Shadowbane, Star Wars Galaxies Beta, Unreal 2, Vietcong, and endless amounts of other semi-recent games (NWN, JK2:JO,Morrowind).
Asheronâs Call 2 is very polished, very accessible, and very fun. You gain more experience points doing quests and dungeons than grinding away the same monsters over and over. Which to me is good; quests can certainly drive you more then fighting the same enemy over and over. The only problem with this game is the skill system (balance) and not being in a fun group.
Shadowbane. To me this game was absolutely horrid. It is mostly a game for people who like to kill and steal off each other. No looting barriers, no PVP control, and when someone PKs you; you drop most of your items. Thieves seem to basically rule this game. Becoming invisible then backstabbing you, only way to detect them from what I saw was to become a ranger. In general, most of the players are VERY rude and only want to kill and steal. Yuck, what a bad experience.
I canât say much about the SWG Beta. But it is beta, and MMORPGs are not so fun with tons of bugs/crashes and imbalances.
Unreal 2âs game play is nothing new. The game seems pretty polished, and is fun to pick up and play a level once in awhile; but nothing mind-blowing. The graphics are extremely beautiful, and the only reason I picked this up was to test my system. Fortunately I can put every single setting up on highest detail and still play the game with no major slow downs. If you have a high end system, I recommend trying the demo out.
Vietcong is a real time war game, and I definitely recommend trying out the demo.
Iâm also wondering if anyone is planning to play a few upcoming games. A few are: Star Trek: Elite Force II (Definitely worth DLing the demo), Planetside (MMOFPS), Star Wars Galaxies, NWN Expansion, Knights of the Old Republic, 2nd Morrowind Expansion, and a few more.
Also if anyone is willing to game up together on a game, I would certainly want to do that.
What seems to be an endless amount of recent games that are decent, I havenât been able to find a game I could sit on and enjoy thoroughly. Iâve played too many SP games; getting quite lonely. Though I have also played a ton of online games canât seem to find any decent groups to party with. The games I have tried recently are:
Asheronâs Call 2, Shadowbane, Star Wars Galaxies Beta, Unreal 2, Vietcong, and endless amounts of other semi-recent games (NWN, JK2:JO,Morrowind).
Asheronâs Call 2 is very polished, very accessible, and very fun. You gain more experience points doing quests and dungeons than grinding away the same monsters over and over. Which to me is good; quests can certainly drive you more then fighting the same enemy over and over. The only problem with this game is the skill system (balance) and not being in a fun group.
Shadowbane. To me this game was absolutely horrid. It is mostly a game for people who like to kill and steal off each other. No looting barriers, no PVP control, and when someone PKs you; you drop most of your items. Thieves seem to basically rule this game. Becoming invisible then backstabbing you, only way to detect them from what I saw was to become a ranger. In general, most of the players are VERY rude and only want to kill and steal. Yuck, what a bad experience.
I canât say much about the SWG Beta. But it is beta, and MMORPGs are not so fun with tons of bugs/crashes and imbalances.
Unreal 2âs game play is nothing new. The game seems pretty polished, and is fun to pick up and play a level once in awhile; but nothing mind-blowing. The graphics are extremely beautiful, and the only reason I picked this up was to test my system. Fortunately I can put every single setting up on highest detail and still play the game with no major slow downs. If you have a high end system, I recommend trying the demo out.
Vietcong is a real time war game, and I definitely recommend trying out the demo.
Iâm also wondering if anyone is planning to play a few upcoming games. A few are: Star Trek: Elite Force II (Definitely worth DLing the demo), Planetside (MMOFPS), Star Wars Galaxies, NWN Expansion, Knights of the Old Republic, 2nd Morrowind Expansion, and a few more.
Also if anyone is willing to game up together on a game, I would certainly want to do that.