Goblin Squad Member
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OK...my experience with this game so far is just bad.
The graphics - on the highest settings on a top-end machine - remind me exactly of Everquest (the first one). Which was a great game. In 1999. Character animations look like Thunderbirds puppets.
That's when the game isn't crashing within seconds of launch, which it does two out of every three launches, or pretty much whenever I try to change the settings to improve the experience.
I must be missing something because other people appear to like this game which I guess means either they've never played any other MMO since DAoC, or they are prepared to get past the fact that the graphics make their eyes bleed. Me, I can't. It's just so amateurish - along with other design choices that make me think the dev team has been locked in a box since at least 2005. Almost worse than the presentation is that there just isn't much to do...and this close to release, I doubt that is going to change much.
I had really high hopes for this game because it has the best IP in the world to build on. But I guess Blizzard really has hired everyone who knows anything about MMO design.
I'm sure I'll get slated for bringing up WoW but it really is the elephant in the room here...I didn't expect PO to be as good at launch as WoW is today, but it's nowhere near even the quality of WoW when it launched in 2005.
Like I said - I love PFRPG and want to love this...help!