Greystone Thorngage

Anyone in this, just got into beta, its pretty fun, has a diablo feel to it, nice visuals, and decent game play.

Binuven

I applied for the beta awhile ago. Would love to give my 8 series card a try with this.

I've been hearing both good and bad about it. I'm guessing it really depends on what you expect from a game.

I'd personally love to give it a shot, but I've already got my next game purchase set for Tabula Rasa. Can't get enough of that shit hehe!

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Greystone Thorngage

i run a xt1600 works fine

samanusuke

It does really depend on what you expect from a game. It's not an mmo, and will never have a role like WoW, EQ or any other of those games do/did.

It's essentially a first person diablo, or third person if you play one of the melee characters a la resident evil, devil may cry, etc.

I've been in for a while and I love playing the FPS classes, and the quest/item/skill system should be very familiar to any Blizzard fans.

They've done a lot of character wipes, so I don't really know how much game is actually there, but many of the mechanics of the game are highly adapted from Diablo 2. Waypoints, random instances, etc.

It's a really fun game and I pre-ordered, but I don't think its going to be something most people will want to invest more than 10 hours a week into or so. It's just not that kind of game. The fact that all healing is self-healing should be a telling sign of that.

Binuven

Yeah hehe. It's kinda why I'm sticking with Tabula Rasa.

It's a refreshing change from the fantasy setting. It's fast paced, the graphics are great. The need to group is slowly being introduced into the game, but only for instances. For the most part, the game is indeed soloable. If you want to play by yourself, it might require a little grinding on your part to get a few more levels to handle the challenges, or you can group and do the instances earlier.

If you get the chance to play this game, you might be pleseantly surprised, I know I was.

Will it be deep like EQ....I dunno, too early to tell, but the story is cool, the action is PACKED, the loot is plentiful, the humor is there (hearing the announcement over the loadspeaker for Post Traumatic Death Disorder briefings cracked me up) and with each tweak and patch, the game just keeps getting better and better. It's definately worth your time to look.

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Greystone Thorngage

Tabula Rasa was too slow, and repetative, didnt feel like there was much to it

(woot 1000 post, im officially a loser)

fildien

You have got to be the only person I've ever heard say that TR is slow. That game is so fast paced you can't even chat with other people unless it's voice chat. And I have something like 4 different character in their high teens/20s and I rarely play

It's a fun and different game I'll play it after release some mainly b/c all my friends have jumped ship from other MMOs to play it. I'm just not really into PC games at the moment.

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Mind Trick - Empire

Greystone Thorngage

slow as in boring, i ran back in forth for 3 levels. Also, ammo is too expensive

fildien

Yes, I agree with you in the early beta days ammo was costly. Allot has changed in the game though, allot

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Mind Trick - Empire

Sanchek

Anyone else play the demo of Hellgate? I'm not sure if I'm stuck, missing something, or the demo just ends not gracefully at all.