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No idea but gratz on Thread #13k

Not that YOU had much to do with it...

A group of my friends are looking into it. Several of them are old D&D fans and have played 3.x for awhile (I pretty much got out of D&D before 2nd edition, so what do I know?).

Dunno if I'll be playing or not. The game system is pretty good, and it will be interesting to see how they mesh that into an online world. I do know a guy who played in beta, and he says that some things are "really good", and other things "not so good", whatever that means. They do have the idea of instanced dungeons right from the get-go, and "adventures" that are more then just dungeon crawling/clearing that are tied to groups of people (kind of a blend between "quests" and "missions" that we've seen in other games).

If enough of my friends get into it and commit, I'll probably buy some game time and play it just to hang out with them online if nothing else. Right now, we're all kinda split between CoH and WoW, so it'd be good to get the whole gang in one game for a bit. Although, honestly, I'm still having mucho fun with CoH... ;)

When to get out, for one thing.

Old skool 4tw!

Unless they totally redo the battle system, I won't be getting near the game. I played the beta, and I really can't recommend the game at all, even to DnD fans. The fighting is just so extremely unintuitive that I couldn't force myself to play it for longer than a few days (you click-click-click to hit something, and have the option of holding up a shield to block an attack, but opponents' attacks don't seem to have startup animations, so blocking is almost completely arbitrary). A friend of mine told me that they've done some work on improving the game in this regard since they received so many complaints, so it might be better now.

Another problem that bothered me was that almost all the character models are pretty unappealing. The humans look ok, but the elves look like shriveled little emo children and the other races look like bug-eyed aliens.

Also, keep in mind that it's not really an MMO. Everything's instanced except for the towns.

The only thing it really has over the other popular MMOs that are currently out are the cool, narrated dungeon crawls. Too bad you have to deal with the rest of the game all the while, though.

What surprised me is that this game launched on tuesday but none of the stores around me are getting it till at least thursday.

I really don't have enough negative things to say about DDO. The hype was enough to get me interested a year or so ago, but after the beta, you have to pay me to play that steaming digital ****. That game is garbage, the team dynamic makes player individuality irrelevent, the combat system is trash, requiring no more thought than Diablo, the functions of each class give the overriding impressions of being an afterthought, there is no little to no customization of avatars, and worst of all.
Everything is instanced.

The entire game feels forced, pigeonholed, and utterly uninspiring. If I could, I would have everyone in Turbine that had anything to do with slapping the D&D name on this heap of crap dragged into the street, sodomized with a gnarly chairleg, forced to fist their own grandmothers, and pleasure themselves with a bowl of broken glass.

There really isn't a fitting punishment for the people responsible for this game.
It is not, and has nothing to do with D&D, aside from the name, and a few generic elements. It's more akin to a slightly less well balanced and implemented Guild Wars, only not as fun to play.

((the above statement paid for by a dyed in the wool D&D fan, grossly dissappointed in the result of all that goddam waiting.

Oh come on, you know you want a chance to play with these guys.

No idea but gratz on Thread #13k
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hey, thanks. and btw, grats on troll #500k. where do you find the time?

I'm not sure where noting this was the 13,000th thread in Forum=4 was trolling but.... okay?

Apparently I average 25 trolls per post

Magic missile!!