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Title: Eve Online anygood?
Post by: Beefcake on August 06, 2003, 09:30:51 PM

Kinda caught my eye in the store today. Is it any good or not really worth it?

Title: Eve Online anygood?
Post by: Saurdaukar on August 06, 2003, 10:02:22 PM

I tested it for awhile - very pretty and great scope - but I couldnt figure it out to save my life - might be easier with a manual.

Title: Eve Online anygood?
Post by: WestyAH on August 06, 2003, 10:39:24 PM

It looks beautiful and the premise is a good one but it's boring as all hell.  I did the beta and quit a few days before it went pay-to-play.  What it turned out to be wass not my cup of tea.

 Captaining a ship from external chase view guiding it thru the universe with a basic mouse gesture got old on day one.  And the space combat is no better. You point your mouse and click on the screen to indicate the direction you want your ship to maneuver and the guns are auto-fire. Nothing for you to aim, arm or shoot. The winner is typcially whoever has the best gear or whoever can get a group of players to gang bang someone.  
 And the different races and thier sovereign territories mean squat as you can travel to and fro with impugnity.
 Can't land on planets. No person-person interaction.  The core of the game is flying about space, mining different asteroid ores in order to buy better ships, equipment, skills and abilites. In effect it's a mining sim with space ships and stuff tossed in for flavour.

Title: Eve Online anygood?
Post by: Staga on August 07, 2003, 07:45:37 AM

Yep, It was boring.

Title: Eve Online anygood?
Post by: Mickey1992 on August 07, 2003, 07:51:10 AM

I was in the beta too.  Bugged to hell right up until launch.  It's a space mining sim with chat.  It's beautiful, but gets old REALLY fast.

Title: Eve Online anygood?
Post by: Beefcake on August 07, 2003, 05:51:10 PM

Thanks for the input guys. Based on the info I think I'll play  Darkspace (http://www.darkspace.net/) for now. Not as much eye candy but alot more skill involved in combat. Plus you can build up and govern planets.

Title: Eve Online anygood?
Post by: Mickey1992 on August 11, 2003, 12:37:01 PM

I was at Best Buy today and they dropped the price of Eve Online to 19.99.  They didn't even have a copy of BF1942. :(

Two whole shelves of boxes of Star Wars Galaxies.  Seems people heeded other's advice.

Title: Eve Online anygood?
Post by: acepilot2 on August 11, 2003, 05:41:18 PM

While it does have its many flaws, I think SWG in general is a great game with more potential than the DEVS realize.  Its not too bad, its pretty, and fun too.


pilot72

Title: Eve Online anygood?
Post by: Chaos68 on August 11, 2003, 08:59:59 PM

Unless you like to sit and watch your ship mine for HOURS ON END then this game is not for you.

Title: Eve Online anygood?
Post by: Martlet on August 11, 2003, 09:42:42 PM

Good story line.
Great graphics.
Point and Click.

I, personally, hate point and click games.

Title: Eve Online anygood?
Post by: ZOSO on August 11, 2003, 11:01:05 PM

While visually stunning, the gameplay is lacking, and it's just chock full of bugs and downright design flaws.