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Yeah, but what does it have to brag about? It"s been firmly established that current working titles (LOTR, etc) can mysteriously offer a similar experience with 1/2 the hardware requirements. Thanks for being so specific in your comparisons! Woah!! Stop the presses! If the game has "OMFG!!11...

You started off by saying that you didn"t see what was so great about WoW"s battle system or how the quests were just "kill 10 mobs". You then launched right into why you like that Vanguard sent you into dungeons to tie in some lore. Thats really wonderful... I applaud your enjoyable...

I hate to break it to you, but quests that send you into dungeons - even different parts of dungeons - is not remotely groundbreaking or new. If you think this makes VG unique, I think you need to check out other MMORPGs. Simple solution. Put your own private forum up where you and all your VG...

I wonder why more companies haven"t done lifetime subscriptions. How do people feel about this mode of billing? My guess is that it depends on the average retention period of an MMORPG player. If you work under the assumption that most players get a years worth of interest from a product and...

The guy is a fucking clown. People in this thread might disagree with each other, vehemently, but this douche bag and his crying about getting out of the thread is just comedy gold.

I did not beta VG. I have, however, had experience with the "released product". If VG beta had ingame surveys that were triggered upon quest completion or dungeon exploration , kudos!! My next question would be, did anyone at Sigil read those surveys???

My point with regards to the reviews was that people keep overlooking the fact that VG is still a game, and a game needs to be enjoyable from the moment you start. People who dismiss a review because the reviewer didn"t play it for a year are missing the point of a game review. It"s a review...

Weren"t people saying similar things about VG"s Beta? I am also in LOTR beta and one thing I will say is that they really seem to be trying. I was pretty amazed the first time I completed a quest, and an ingame survey popped up asking me to provide all kinds of feedback on the quest; ranging...

60-70% are some of the better scores that VG got. Many of the reviews are substantially lower. However, as preschoolers like Morderick will point out - if the reviews don"t gush over Brad"s spawn, they must all be wrong! Obviously if you haven"t played the game for 200 hours to find that one...

If you are telling me the majority of reviews were positive, please by all means provide the list. I didn"t say the reviews were all 30%... I said the bulk of the reviews were mediocre.. in the 60-70% range, and that is pretty shitty for a team with as much MMO experience and funding as Sigil...

Incidentally, VG got mediocre to shitty scores on just about every review site out there. Are you willing to throw all of those out the window and say that the entire collection of reviewing sites just mysteriously missed the mark on VG? Would you feel the same if they gave the game glowing...

I"ve not heard anyone complain about queue issues since TBC. I"ve not seen a queue once on Moonrunner since then, and yes - we did have queues leading up to the expansion, at which point they either physically upgraded for the expansion or upped the queue limit.. /shrug.

And we see how well "success" of the past translate into success of the future.. AMIRITE? nudge nudge wink wink Brad/EQ. Isn"t that Brad"s line?

Oh look, a bitter QQing VG Fanboi with a WoW axe to grind - who would have thought ??? First off, I wouldn"t even go down the road of WoW vs. VG - its just not even applicable at this point. Even if you do want to go throwing gas on that fire, I would get your facts straight. Toss out the old...

I think SWG did a stellar job of proving that a solid IP does nothing but give you a foot in the door. From that point you have to actually deliver. If SOE/LA had put together a really solid team of devs that produced a fun game, they would easily have millions of subscribers. Its nothing short...

A game review isn"t supposed to give you a complete dissection of the entire game; it"s supposed to give you an idea of what to expect if you buy the game. If I was to write a review about WoW, would it make sense to talk on and on about BWL and Naxx, or talk about my experience for the first...

You mean like SWG?

I see a lot of effective use of HDR lighting in the LoTR pics. It looks x1000 more warm and "alive" than anything I"ve seen VG do.

What the fuck is that in the pic? It looks like a little old lady with big shoes.

I"m curious about r.gun"s screenshots. In the first one (high performance), I see the WoW-esque fading out of the tower in the background. I think that does wonders to bring about perception. C"mon... who didn"t used to watch Bob Ross paint and he"d do that "mist" stuff to seperate layers of...

Brad, the original Voodoo card came out in 1996. The Voodoo2 was released in 1998. Everquest was released in early 1999. I"m not sure why you are using language like "...until the Voodoo2 was released". I am not trying to nit-pick dates here. I am simply saying I remember back in those days...

Is that the same tired shit you will tell John Q. Customer who buys the game? Are you going to pop out like a cartoon character when he loses interest 1 hour into the game and say, with a big smile, "give it time! see the whole game!". I think we"ve been over this ground before. Games should...

I"m saying in most cases the FPS in EQ1 from release was fine. If you are talking about *specific* instances, such as raiding, then you should say "I had to stare into walls while in a raid to cast my spells". Otherwise, you give the impression that in order to cast spells _at all_ hindered your...

I really think Sigil gambled and lost with regards to the tech in Vanguard. I don"t understand why Brad had such a hard-on for that specific engine but the end result is that too much emphasis was put on bells and whistles versus tangible fun gameplay. I can understand wanting to future-proof...

Can you elaborate? It"s not like you can just pry out the processor and cram in something faster. A new processor generally involves a new chipset and motherboard, new RAM, and if you are talking about a beefy vid card, you are most likely looking at a new power supply. So.... Unless you...

I never recall FPS issues in EQ, even going back to beta (I was in beta4). I recall the default configuration had the first-person perspective viewpoint as a smaller window in the upper left above the chat window; ie - it wasn"t the "fullscreen" UI that exists today. So please don"t even try...

When you compare VG, side by side, to current offerings I think you are going to have a tough time justifying the entire "upgrade to play" concept. You can talk all day long about whats "under the hood", but the actual end result (animations, the "plastic look", some of the models, etc) just...

Does anyone else think the face has a hint of Will Ferrell?

This is what I don"t understand about the "omg ... but but... you can farm instanced content!" argument. Honestly, with the length of instances in most games to the variety of drop tables, competition for items you want IF they drop... I don"t see the problem. Additionally, the population of...

How is this any different from, say, Andorhol in Western Plaguelands? I know its not exactly the same thing because Andorhol is hardly a raid "city", rather you can kill a named mob for the Scholomance key. It just sounds like what we have already in other games on a slightly larger scale...

The dungeons in WoW are indeed fairly linear. However, I don"t see why they couldn"t create more instances with multiple points of entry kind of like Stratholme. That is to say, it seems like more of a design decision than any kind of technical barrier. Conversely, I also don"t see why a...

I expect this kind of silly thinking from typical posters, but if Brad actually thinks this way then VG is doomed. Devs need to think outside the box with regards to their games and quit trying to categorize and label so much. Focus on making a game that is fun, WORKS and draws people in. It...

Did Brad say that he was looking for minimum 300k subs? I"m sorry but I have a hard time believing that any dev with some pride wouldn"t be shooting for "as many subs as my game"s success allows". Did you read Brad"s wall of text? He laments on and on about how people are pigeonholing his...

And for all that power behind the new engine, many of the models still look like shit. Go figure. Didn"t Nino say they had an art patch coming? I guess that is still in beta as well?