All Posts by Earley

What, are you on the Archlord payroll? Obviously you either aren't allowed to, or can't afford to play, other games. If you love to fall asleep at the keyboard because you've been grinding for hours, this is the game for you.

Dude this is really all academic. As soon as you actually have to manage the packetizing and latency issues involved in a game you see that using stamina to fuel both movement and fighting penalizes melee players because they have to use it to move to the fight and use it to close the distance. Combine that with the fact that melee attacking is way harder to synchronize, and ranged combat is easy as crap to work out in comparison, and the result is that melee is screwed. There is more than one way to use this kind of characteristic I agree 100%, but you'd do much better just to have movement be free, and everyone have a 'mana' pool for special actions because of the latency issues. My advice is: do something really different.

Originally posted by Ruthgar
I think that MMOs should have fatigue. I'm sick of wearing heavy armor, with back packs fuil of items,pockets full of hundreds of coins, and running around or swimming around without getting tired.

Originally posted by Gameloading
According to NCsoft,there won't be any level grinding.

Its best to ignore people like Peenk who rely on stereotypes instead of the actual facts presented to us.

Originally posted by Rattrap

Right

It might not be THE game everyone is waiting for

But it is THE game of the moment ,


So what you gonna do "haters" ? Play WOW for another year? Play sp games for another year?

What ?

I have basically the same question except for brightness. I would like the right mouse button to work on the vertical axis as well as the horisontal one and still steer my toon, and to adjust the sensitivity. The game is growing on me but I find it very difficult to really enjoy it with the fixed vertical camera. An alternative might be that if you can get the left mouse button to steer as well, I would be happy.

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Originally posted by brihtwulf

I disagree with your statement that you can't criticize VG without being flamed.  I have posted my criticisms many times on the forums here, and have layed them out logically without resulting to insults and attacks.  And I would have to say that MOST of the community has responded maturely.  Sure, there are the die-hard fans who don't want to hear a negative word about their "God of Games", but most people will listen to you, and if they disagree, will post their own rebuttal.  That's what discussion and debate is all about.  I don't mind people disputing my points.  I think it's good.  It's especially good to see those such things on official forums, but as this game won't have any, there's not point in going there.

Anyway, I don't think the game is the worst thing ever.  Do I like corpse runs?  Not particularly, but you don't have to do it in VG if you don't want (granted, you will lose a fair amount of EXP if you don't).  The performance is getting better.  However, I do agree with the people who have said the game is requiring too high of a machine to make it widely playable.  And it doesn't "force" you to group.  It's not like D&D Online.  THAT is forced grouping.  There is a "fair" amount of solo content.  And I think that as you continue your character's journey, you should have had time to meet others, work as a team, and form/find a group of friends to group with.  Sure, it's not WoW, where 90% of the game can be soloed.  But that's not really necessary.  If I wanted to do that I would play Guild Wars or a single-player RPG.

I will say that while Vanguard has potential and several features that attract me, it's not ready in its current state, and they are pushing way to hard to shove it out the door.  I feel bad for Sigil on one had, but they probably could have worked harder when they had the chance.  So in essence they have dug their own grave, and must now lie in it or find a way to quickly dig themselves out.

Originally posted by ippo
Must be your first mmo to think wow pvp is any good ^^^^

It is your processor. I have a 1.8GHz Intel Core Duo (not core 2 duo!), with a 128MB Radeon X1600 with 1.5GB of ram. That's very similar to your setup except the processor and I get 20-50 fps in all situations, with the graphics maxed in every category except vertical sync and Anti-Aliasing (just 2x  not 6x).

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Originally posted by Gameloading

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Originally posted by kylecameron1
One more thing why spend so much money on WoW when there are plenty of great free games out there that are great. And the reason Im asking you and not putting an opinion of what I thought of the game, is because I havent played it, so nobody can insult my opinion seeing as I didnt really give one other than dont obsess over World of Warcraft.

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Go play any quality pay to play MMORPG ( WoW or any other) and then come back here saying those free games are great.

I've played through a lot of betas and Vanguard is one of the least finished I've seen. The developers and fanbois in that game are some of the most annoying in the history of MMOs. The thing that cracks me up is how they whine about how immature WoW players are, then make it their business to be as pretensious and smug as possible. You simply can't criticize VG without being flamed, no matter how rational or well-founded your opinion is. I gave up trying to have any intelligent discussions about it and now I just make it known that the game is bad and will appeal mainly to players who enjoy the holy trinity of poor performance, forced grouping, and corpse runs (which is around 1.6% of the MMO market, or around 200k players).

Earley