Another newbie review...
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 11:19 pm
What I love:
Stanzas the whole system is nifty cool.
The price of mounts, and general scarcity of them.
The animals.
The material variety, and the effects they have on things you make.
The fact that all the races are the same, ability-wise.
The idea of fighting a war against giant bugs from the center of a living planet.
I love the hand-drawn look of the in-game maps.
The fact that you have to walk everywhere at least the first time.
The fact that traveling between regions is exceedingly difficult.
What I like:
The fighting is interesting, at least for melee and somewhat for magic.
The fact that you can queue an action.
The difficult level gaining nicely offsets the fact that you can learn anything.
The ability to learn anything.
What I dont like:
The missions are exceedingly boring and meaningless.
The harvesting system, while creative, is annoying to me. I just do not like the green bubble idea at all.
Some creatures respawn very quickly, and it encourages camping to a high degree.
I do not like how you can use defensive magic skill points for offensive magic stanzas and actions.
I do not like how you do not lose all your stuff when you die.
What I hate:
I hate the towns at least the Tryker towns. The Tryker towns are very boring, and all look the same.
I hate the NPCs in the towns. Some are useful, most just walk around randomly, and are nothing but background filler. They do not even talk! They annoy me to an extreme extent I would rather have the towns be barren than to have 50,000 mutes wandering aimlessly. Give them something to say! Give them something to do!
I hate the teleporters they should have stairs you just walk up or down, not teleporters that take forever to load (even a few seconds is annoying).
I hate how you cannot go from one room to another in the same building via the teleporters without exiting first (the exception being the newbie island towers).
I hate the combat-orientation of the game. Either you poke things or else you get things to make things to poke things. That basically sums it up either you fight, or you support fighters.
I HATE how you cannot sit in chairs.
I hate how you cannot make chairs.
I hate how you cannot eat.
I HATE how you can just swim everywhere in the Lakelands I can go anywhere easily, and I am only level 40! There needs to be sea monsters, and boats.
Most of what I hate relates to lack of depth beyond just kill the yubo, gain exp, kill another yubo sure, there is much more to it than that, but so many missing details
Oh, and I hate how you cannot "forget" actions and stanzas to get the points back (or at least drop your exp the equivelent amount) so that you can learn other ones in their place.
Stanzas the whole system is nifty cool.
The price of mounts, and general scarcity of them.
The animals.
The material variety, and the effects they have on things you make.
The fact that all the races are the same, ability-wise.
The idea of fighting a war against giant bugs from the center of a living planet.
I love the hand-drawn look of the in-game maps.
The fact that you have to walk everywhere at least the first time.
The fact that traveling between regions is exceedingly difficult.
What I like:
The fighting is interesting, at least for melee and somewhat for magic.
The fact that you can queue an action.
The difficult level gaining nicely offsets the fact that you can learn anything.
The ability to learn anything.
What I dont like:
The missions are exceedingly boring and meaningless.
The harvesting system, while creative, is annoying to me. I just do not like the green bubble idea at all.
Some creatures respawn very quickly, and it encourages camping to a high degree.
I do not like how you can use defensive magic skill points for offensive magic stanzas and actions.
I do not like how you do not lose all your stuff when you die.
What I hate:
I hate the towns at least the Tryker towns. The Tryker towns are very boring, and all look the same.
I hate the NPCs in the towns. Some are useful, most just walk around randomly, and are nothing but background filler. They do not even talk! They annoy me to an extreme extent I would rather have the towns be barren than to have 50,000 mutes wandering aimlessly. Give them something to say! Give them something to do!
I hate the teleporters they should have stairs you just walk up or down, not teleporters that take forever to load (even a few seconds is annoying).
I hate how you cannot go from one room to another in the same building via the teleporters without exiting first (the exception being the newbie island towers).
I hate the combat-orientation of the game. Either you poke things or else you get things to make things to poke things. That basically sums it up either you fight, or you support fighters.
I HATE how you cannot sit in chairs.
I hate how you cannot make chairs.
I hate how you cannot eat.
I HATE how you can just swim everywhere in the Lakelands I can go anywhere easily, and I am only level 40! There needs to be sea monsters, and boats.
Most of what I hate relates to lack of depth beyond just kill the yubo, gain exp, kill another yubo sure, there is much more to it than that, but so many missing details
Oh, and I hate how you cannot "forget" actions and stanzas to get the points back (or at least drop your exp the equivelent amount) so that you can learn other ones in their place.
