Vanguard Online.

[little ninja]

Re: Vanguard Online.

Looks nice, but vaguely reminiscent of World of Warcraft, artistically. The job system reminds me muchly of Everquest (which, while not totally bad, has been perennially plagued by balance issues). I suspect, given the number of classes that have been held from release, that they are having similar issues with game balance, which is never a good sign.
MMORPGs are sort of weird animals. They mutate and adapt over time. Sometimes for the better (Anarchy Online)... sometimes for the worse (Star Wars Galaxies). It all depends on the skill level of the designers and developers. Unfortunately, if this really is the team that put together Everquest, I don't hold out a whole lot of hope to see a balanced gaming environment for quite some time.
Icemage

I think all MMO's go thru balancing problems on jobs. IF its not the Devs making them to powerful or to weak. Its the player base flooding to the job. To that come to mind are Ninja in FFXI, an Hunter in WoW.

Even though they are the original EQ peeps. You cant hold their old problems on a new game. Maybe they are more prepared to deal with isssues they at one time wernt.

[Manatra]

Re: Vanguard Online.

Looks nice, but vaguely reminiscent of World of Warcraft, artistically.

That's because both games get their inspiration in high fantasy.

[DakAttack]

Re: Vanguard Online.

That's a good shot, but I see too much Everquest art style involved. It looks so bland, but shiny nonetheless.

So has anybody played it?

[Icemage]

Re: Vanguard Online.

Here's a somewhat better picture showing Vanguard:

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p226/Aaediyen/untitled.jpg

Looks nice, but vaguely reminiscent of World of Warcraft, artistically. The job system reminds me muchly of Everquest (which, while not totally bad, has been perennially plagued by balance issues). I suspect, given the number of classes that have been held from release, that they are having similar issues with game balance, which is never a good sign.

Regardless, from what I've heard from people who've played the game, if it were to be released in 6 months it would be quite polished and fairly good. Unfortunately it's being released at the end of the month.

MMORPGs are sort of weird animals. They mutate and adapt over time. Sometimes for the better (Anarchy Online)... sometimes for the worse (Star Wars Galaxies). It all depends on the skill level of the designers and developers. Unfortunately, if this really is the team that put together Everquest, I don't hold out a whole lot of hope to see a balanced gaming environment for quite some time.


Icemage

[Legal Fish]

Re: Vanguard Online.

I'm going to wait 6 months to buy it anyway.

[Manatra]

Re: Vanguard Online.

Here's a somewhat better picture showing Vanguard:

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p226/Aaediyen/untitled.jpg

Regardless, from what I've heard from people who've played the game, if it were to be released in 6 months it would be quite polished and fairly good. Unfortunately it's being released at the end of the month.

[little ninja]

Re: Vanguard Online.

Unless you have a computer capable of running a small planet I wouldn't concern yourself. I'm currently weighing up the options of a $1500 upgrade against buying a Wii or PS3 and saying to hell with it.

LoL basically. After a time my system got way overheated, so i had to shut it down. something i never had happen to me with WoW or FFXI.

[Manatra]

Re: Vanguard Online.

ABout the screenshots, the ones on the wiki are from when Vanguard didn't have the lighting system implemented (basically it was running in 'fullbright' mode). The newer screenshots actually show it with lighting and it looks much better... Though I am not really a fan of Vanguard.

[Grizzlebeard]

Re: Vanguard Online.

Unless you have a computer capable of running a small planet I wouldn't concern yourself. I'm currently weighing up the options of a $1500 upgrade against buying a Wii or PS3 and saying to hell with it.

[DakAttack]

Re: Vanguard Online.

Make sure you guys let us know if it's worth a try.

[Coinspinner]

Re: Vanguard Online.

Open Beta has begun and the NDA has officially lifted. The official site is getting hammered pretty bad right now, but I remember that Fileplanet members can download the open beta client right now. Not sure if it's paying members only or not though.

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[Coinspinner]

Re: Vanguard Online.

Everything on the wiki was gleaned from official screenshots, videos, interviews, dev forum posts, and other official sources.

I can kinda see where Dak might be going with this. Perhaps terrible was not the right word, but everything does look plastic -- like the world was modeled with barbie dolls. This was the same complaint I had with EQ2 (and most western games actually). It's just not very appealing/immersive/whatever

I agree. I don't think it's terrible and can live with it though (which is what I said about WoW too.) Should look a lot better when they get environmental shadows working, not that any machine in existence would be able to run it with them on. :x

[Jei]

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A lot of my best MMO friends are going to play Vanguard. I still want to play with them but I wasn't too attached with EQ1, not even the original one so I'm really thinking hard here :/

[neighbortaru]

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Which screenshots are you referring to when you say the graphics look terrible because for some reason I think you're talking about another game?
While it isn't the best quality video if anyone can watch this and say the graphics look terrible I question their level of vision or sanity.

I can kinda see where Dak might be going with this. Perhaps terrible was not the right word, but everything does look plastic -- like the world was modeled with barbie dolls. This was the same complaint I had with EQ2 (and most western games actually). It's just not very appealing/immersive/whatever

[Balfree]

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Been waiting for this one for a couple of months now, I want in and I hope to see some people there from here, hey J if you get in let's go on same server