So, as a part of my drive to play even more MMO's I downloaded Anarchy Online.
My initial impression as I made a character? eh.
As you know by now, I'm a fashion dork on these games. I just want my character to look different than any other character. I know, it's crazy but there it is.
So, I'm not impressed by the character generation. The races are human variants- within the context of teh story there are only humans. They have been gentically modified to be very different than baseline Earthy Humans. They are the middle weight human looking ones, the fast combat glass cannon humans, the mage/psionic humans, and the tank infantry humans. some uninspired race names, but you can't bat 1000%.
Skin choosing? even less inspired. thin, medium, or large build. no height adjustment. And presorted face hair combo. That's it.
Strike one. But, hey, it could be like EVE and have some really deep content with a kick ass crafting system (not that I'll ever find that out, I hate crafting)
I load into the tutorial. With my high accuracy glass cannon shooter, figuring range is a good thing in a Sci/Fi game of lasers and mind bullets.
So, I get into the tutorial and the first thing I notice? Everquest era graphics. And, I'm like, wtf? I go back to windows and pull up the pdf manual to check the specs. I exceed the recommended...maybe it's my settings?
I get back into the game to check my settings and bump it up if I have too. I can't find the menu to do that. Or to invert the mouse controls. WTF??
Strike Two.
I move on. Time to learn the controls (standard stuff really). Pick up a newbie mission. It's a rat hunter mish. Kill three creatures and report back.
Not a problem, I figure. I equip my long range rifle. Make sure I maxed out my accuracy for my glass cannon.
And proceed to miss every target that runs up and rips me a new one. It took me 8 tries to kill one "rat" from range! WTF???
No n00b mission should be this hard. And then I think, "maybe it's me. Maybe I suck." So I hang back and watch the other rookies. They're dieing just as fast as I was. It's raining n00b blood out here. That's not good!
I know they were noobs because other starting players were bypassing that area and headed toward the city like they knew where they were going. So, anyone wasting time in a tutorial zone has got to be a n00b.
so, yeah, n00bs are dying left and right. I'm on a rubberband to the respawn point, and I"m not happy.
Strike Three.
I hit the large button marked exit, and left the game.
All in all, it gets 1 star for trying and a thumbs down for playability.
My initial impression as I made a character? eh.
As you know by now, I'm a fashion dork on these games. I just want my character to look different than any other character. I know, it's crazy but there it is.
So, I'm not impressed by the character generation. The races are human variants- within the context of teh story there are only humans. They have been gentically modified to be very different than baseline Earthy Humans. They are the middle weight human looking ones, the fast combat glass cannon humans, the mage/psionic humans, and the tank infantry humans. some uninspired race names, but you can't bat 1000%.
Skin choosing? even less inspired. thin, medium, or large build. no height adjustment. And presorted face hair combo. That's it.
Strike one. But, hey, it could be like EVE and have some really deep content with a kick ass crafting system (not that I'll ever find that out, I hate crafting)
I load into the tutorial. With my high accuracy glass cannon shooter, figuring range is a good thing in a Sci/Fi game of lasers and mind bullets.
So, I get into the tutorial and the first thing I notice? Everquest era graphics. And, I'm like, wtf? I go back to windows and pull up the pdf manual to check the specs. I exceed the recommended...maybe it's my settings?
I get back into the game to check my settings and bump it up if I have too. I can't find the menu to do that. Or to invert the mouse controls. WTF??
Strike Two.
I move on. Time to learn the controls (standard stuff really). Pick up a newbie mission. It's a rat hunter mish. Kill three creatures and report back.
Not a problem, I figure. I equip my long range rifle. Make sure I maxed out my accuracy for my glass cannon.
And proceed to miss every target that runs up and rips me a new one. It took me 8 tries to kill one "rat" from range! WTF???
No n00b mission should be this hard. And then I think, "maybe it's me. Maybe I suck." So I hang back and watch the other rookies. They're dieing just as fast as I was. It's raining n00b blood out here. That's not good!
I know they were noobs because other starting players were bypassing that area and headed toward the city like they knew where they were going. So, anyone wasting time in a tutorial zone has got to be a n00b.
so, yeah, n00bs are dying left and right. I'm on a rubberband to the respawn point, and I"m not happy.
Strike Three.
I hit the large button marked exit, and left the game.
All in all, it gets 1 star for trying and a thumbs down for playability.
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