TRIPPLE EDIT: Looking back now, it's not THAT BAD. I guess I just have a general hate for the genre itself but the similarities between WoW and Rift are too far and great. They still need to add their own touch of creativity to the game before I remove the title of "WoW Clone".
DOUBLE EDIT: I'll give the game another try.
EDIT: It's been confirmed it uses it's own engine but I still consider it to be a blatant copy.
Well I signed up for the RIFT beta a few months back and completely forgot about it. Just about three days ago I received an email confirming my access to the fifth beta event. I decided to install and download the game on Sunday to only find out that I only had access from Tuesday to Friday.
Tuesday finally comes around (yesterday) and I begin to play it in hopes that the game will live up to its hype.
IT DIDN'T.
While I was creating a character I noticed that the system quite resembled WoW's system except with a tad bit more flexibility. I had only tried the WoW trial version for a few days before discarding it and labeling it stuff. So far it seems to be somewhat better than WoW.
I move onto actual gameplay and with my awesome computer I crank the settings to max. To my surprise my computer STRUGGLES to keep it above 40fps. What? My computer could run two copies of Crysis if it wanted to. The forget? Ok they've probably built the graphics for future systems since it plans to stick around for a while like WoW, I guess that's fine.
Five minutes into gameplay and I finally realize. loving jesus. They used WoW's game engine. It's a blatant loving copy. The skills are exactly the loving same except renamed and even the god dam GUI/HUD has no changes to it. It's absolutely obvious that they used the WoW engine. There are also a stuff ton more of clues that lead to WoW such as the ring that surrounds select players and NPC's and such.
I shrug it off for a while hoping that they added in their own creativity as the trailers promised.
Nope.
Same battle concept as WoW. Right click then button mash the forget out of your skills. The quests are repetitive just like WoW which is the main reason I disliked both. Kill stuff, find stuff, kill more stuff. The same loving stuff.
I couldn't even bare the game long enough to see a god dam rift. Where the forget is those rifts your promised me? I mean sure I still didn't get out of the first town but that's because of the laggy servers, the spamstuff of NPC's, and the constant bombardment of quests on me.
Speaking of the first village, no tutorials. Nah, you're too good for that. Let's throw you into intense combat with no training or explanation at all. I mean the god dam village is being ass raped by the undead.
Moving onto another main feature that the game has to "offer" is the multiple soul system. So far I've only obtained two souls and upgrading either one doesn't seem to matter. The skills unlocked from both skill trees are once again the same exact moves except with a slight difference. "This move gives you 1% defense rather than 1% offense!" Seriously? Give me a break.
As for the servers, I understand it's still BETA but seriously? Constantly being disconnected from the server and getting constant lag spikes which results in my death is not what I would consider an enjoyable experience. Also have fun remembering what server you were on if you sign back on. My first profile was lost because I couldn't remember which server I was on because they're so loving handicappedly named that identifying your server is near impossible. The server list is also always constantly being refreshed every two seconds so have fun clicking on your server in time before the screen flashes and all the servers have been re-arranged.
And the last straw that broke the camel's back, the story. I don't even know where to begin. Let this line do the talking, "THIS IS THE DAY WE DIED!" But angels decided to revive you with barely any explanation and as to how they are able to do that? Makes total sense.
So far this game is crap and it's not worth your time nor your money.
To Be Brief: Basically like WoW except with better graphics. Hurrrrr.
