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Offline Grayeagle

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Rift .. the next big thing?
« on: January 31, 2011, 11:58:17 AM »
http://www.riftgame.com/en/

Hiya .. I know I am easily amused, however ...

I heard of this game from a guildmate in EQ2 and immediately blew it off ..
..no way .. I am interested in 'another' game right now.. RL is suckin big time.

Well . . he asked me if I wanted a VIP key to the beta ..so sure, I'll go look.

-sigh-

After a few hours in the beta I stepped out and pre-ordered it.
That should say worlds about it.
They have taken the best of all that has gone before and added a few of their own ideas
.. I know the phrase has been over used .. but this *rocks*

There is so much I could talk about ..but just one bit grabbed my attention ..out of many that totally sucked me in.
ie: Archery.
Best I have seen in any game I have played ..the animation smacks of the Lady in Avatar when she pinned the colonel to his seat in his mech..
..the ballistics feel and look right, the rate of fire .. I mean .. if you're a marksman and have trained to hero level, you bet you could draw, nock, aim, and fire at a pretty good rate.
I mean.

And that is just one bit.
The forest 'looks' like a forest .. not a few x'd polys with tree images on them.

Ah well .. checkout the screenshots .. they look like cutscreen images rendered for marketing
.. yet they are in game shots.. it looks *that* good.

Even running with settings on 'ultra' ..anti-aliasing, shadows, and all .. frame rate was smooth as butter.
They've come a long way since first texture maps in AW :)

a lil desktop image I modified for myself ..

Ya .. they really did the ladies 'right' :)
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Re: Rift .. the next big thing?
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2011, 12:22:02 PM »
Quote from: Grayeagle on January 31, 2011, 11:58:17 AM
http://www.riftgame.com/en/

Hiya .. I know I am easily amused, however ...

I heard of this game from a guildmate in EQ2 and immediately blew it off ..
..no way .. I am interested in 'another' game right now.. RL is suckin big time.

Well . . he asked me if I wanted a VIP key to the beta ..so sure, I'll go look.

-sigh-

After a few hours in the beta I stepped out and pre-ordered it.
That should say worlds about it.


Pfffft.   Fairies and pixie dust.

Give me iron and cordite anytime.

;),
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Re: Rift .. the next big thing?
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2011, 01:15:56 PM »
So the archery's definitely better than Mount & Blade's?
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Re: Rift .. the next big thing?
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2011, 01:23:58 PM »
Quote from: moot on January 31, 2011, 01:15:56 PM
So the archery's definitely better than Mount & Blade's?
...Surely not. :noid
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Offline Grayeagle

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Re: Rift .. the next big thing?
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2011, 06:28:09 PM »
never played Mount an Blades so dunno ... it did seem very 'right' tho, lil wooden sticks flyin thru the air an all  :)
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Re: Rift .. the next big thing?
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2011, 07:11:55 PM »
Quote from: AKWabbit on January 31, 2011, 12:22:02 PM

Pfffft.   Fairies and pixie dust.

Give me iron and cordite anytime.

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Re: Rift .. the next big thing?
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2011, 08:53:52 PM »
Seemed very much a WoW clone to me when I was on the beta.  If there is another Beta phase I'll test it some more.
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Re: Rift .. the next big thing?
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2011, 10:29:15 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-U4IqhN3VU


seriously? This is crap.

Take a look at final fantasy 14 combat system.. slowed down to 75% of full speed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqM0NOvxL74


Insanely better than rift. And when as utterly failed as FF14 beats ANY game in anything other than perhaps graphics there's something to say about that  :t
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Re: Rift .. the next big thing?
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2011, 09:48:07 AM »
I was sent a BETA key by Trion but largely ignored it.
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Re: Rift .. the next big thing?
« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2011, 09:25:48 PM »
Hey GE, thankee sir, trying it out the now!! (got in on the beta - not generally my type of game, but a bit bored here in the high desert lol....)

Thanks again fella, and good to see ya.

:salute

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Re: Rift .. the next big thing?
« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2011, 07:00:35 AM »
Just another MMO. *YAWN*
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Re: Rift .. the next big thing?
« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2011, 08:58:28 AM »
GE you should give M&B a try.  I hear they've got a multiplayer variant out now, you might like it.
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Re: Rift .. the next big thing?
« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2011, 09:35:06 AM »
Looks like fun.
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Re: Rift .. the next big thing?
« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2011, 09:40:09 AM »
GE, didn't you jump into EQ when it came out in beta and then stay there a while?

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Re: Rift .. the next big thing?
« Reply #14 on: February 05, 2011, 07:15:11 PM »
aye Katana ..was in EQ1 from a couple days after launch till EQ2 came out .. been in EQ2 off and on since then, with side trips to vanguard, Conan online, DnD online an such. Still in EQ2 .. fun stuff and still a lot to do on my chars there.

Rift is 'different' . . still a lot of stuff needed to flesh it out but they have a leg up on EQ simply because the graphics engine is over a decade newer and able to do a lot more ..still a beta but a lot more there than any other game I have been part of at launch.



..taken today outside the castle/city of Meridian, Defiant side. Skyll the Marksman/Assassin/Blade Dancer (first combination of skills I tried) .. a long way from EQ1 and what chars looked like then :)

As for the vids posted ..watched 'em .. 'shield fighting style' .. felt a yawn comin on .. not a whole lot of dynamics in hidin behind a shield with a sword swipe now an then .. the environment looked a little bare .. 90's style :)

As far as bein a WoW clone, EQ Clone, .. all the way back to Pong Clone .. -shrug- . . they learned from others and have a few ideas of their own thrown in. I hear they are estimating 6 million players at the 6 month mark.

Personally .. I think they need Barbarians ..and Gnomes .. and Halflings ..and have said as such in feedback ..
..and the 'guys' need to be more beefy in shoulders and chest, not so much in waist .. they swing a blade for a livin :)


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