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Rift - new game just got out of Beta. AWESOME GAME!!!
Visage:
--- Quote from: rkynick on February 26, 2011, 03:42:59 PM ---Your screenshot selection makes it look like a bunch of prostitutes fighting monsters.
In any case, I've already explained why I dislike rift previously, namely that it promises innovation and yet offers up none and then promises to be different from WoW and yet is almost identical.
It would be one thing if they had merely said "here's our mmo" but they went ahead and said "suck on it WoW here's our mmo that's so much different from yours" and then whoops they forgot to make it different at all.
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Trion has actually actively stated hundreds of times that it does not plan to be a WoW killer in any way and no Trion member has ever said they are better than WoW or trying to compete with WoW. Also all the innovative features were not in beta that I am waiting to see how they pan out before I buy it. For one they have the shard system which basically means tons of servers that change in size as more people join, which makes it so there are no defined servers one person is stuck to, and also the servers can scale to meet demands of like giant battles. The dynamic rift system wasn't in beta and I haven't seen any streamers playing with it yet as most of them are just rushing up levels. I am pretty excited about it but I am going to wait a month or so for a valid review before I pick it up. If I was loaded with cash I'd just buy it now.
rkynick:
--- Quote from: Visage on February 26, 2011, 03:48:13 PM ---Trion has actually actively stated hundreds of times that it does not plan to be a WoW killer in any way and no Trion member has ever said they are better than WoW or trying to compete with WoW.
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Someone never saw the "You're not in Azeroth anymore" advertising campaign.
Which is just so stupid, so so stupid, on so so so many levels.
In any case, it's simply another theme park MMO, excepting that the rides flare in and out of existence at random.
naturemon:
--- Quote from: Drewpy on February 26, 2011, 03:44:15 PM ---It looks nothing or is nothing like WoW. I've played the beta. Completely different.
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Bullstuff, I've played the beta and it is almost exactly like WoW with different skins.
Visage:
I decided to trade in like 8 games to gamestop to get this because I haven't even touched a console game in like 2 years. They had 50% bonus trade-in credit so I actually got $110 for them. At first I was like "man it is pretty generic I am regretting this" but then an invasion happened and it was amazing. I was just in town grabbing a quest and all of a sudden in the middle of the screen it announces some kind of invasion, next second the whole zone is covered in rifts and spawn points, I'm in a raid trying to defend the cities from being captured, hunting down boss spawns, and doing rift events in order to end it. I really like the concept behind rifts and invasions.
tails:
I played it far too much during last closed and open beta with cc.
It was alot of fun. And i kind of miss it.
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