Bumping this from WAAAAAAY back but I just picked this up a few weeks ago and I absolutely love it. It's like a hybrid of Skyrim and Fable. I'm about level 30 going pretty much full finesse. There's a simplicity to the combat that I like but at the same time I never find it boring. Finished the House of Ballads and the Warsworn this past weekend. I'll probably finish the Travelers and Scholia Arcana this weekend.
I know it's not exactly a hot new release but has anyone played it?
It's been a long time, but from my memory of playing the entire game through the end and putting maybe 50 hours into it...
It played like a cartoony MMO that wasn't really an MMO, but tried to be in disguise. It was that way from everything to how quest were given out, exploration, to the way the open world was set up. That gave it all the shortcomings of a MMO game. Considering they were going to attempt to go in that direction before everything fell apart it isn't a surprise. The combat was too simple in my opinion, and the same thing ended up being done over and over. Some of the skills you could get and items you could farm ended up being virtually useless. I didn't really like the art direction. Different groups and factions seemed to be thrown in there so they could have some type of variety, but reasonable interaction between them like a realistic world would have was absent. Worst of all for me the plot was lackluster. Not only was it kind of meh, but the elements of it have been done many times before, and you could see things coming a mile off. Considering the big names for creative talent they had working on it makes all the worse. A fantasy, or really any genre, RPG without a good plot is a deal breaker for me. It's a big reason I play them.
It was just alright enough to not be bad, but unless somebody has a lot of time on their hands and has nothing better to play I wouldn't recommend the game to anybody.
