Paladins still nerfed ....

Pros: World of Warcraft is still the best MMORPG out there. It is less of a grind than previous MMORPG games but you can still choose to grind if you like. The interface is easy to use and much better than EQ games and various other MMORPG games. Even with a poor video card in terms of today's standards you still have a very appealing game to look at ... I am using a Geforce 4 MX440 64 MB card and it still looks great. I used to have a 6800 nu and yes it look better but there is value in this game when you don't need a super rig to run it. Now yes you do need 1 GB of ram but there is cheap ram out there. This game has a nice website you can go to for support and such and numerous people post there.

Cons: What I don't like about this game is how they have made the paladin class almost pointless .... we don't heal enough and we can't do much DPS so really we aren't needed .... yes we can rez players but I believe that another class can do something similar

There isn't enough variety in terms of how you can make your character look. They need to take a page out of that City of Villains game as it has alot of options to create different looks.

Engineering needs to be improved upon as they need to allow the character to create more items that one can use even if they are not an engineer ... you want to make money with a trade and this has been made difficult and really not fun with this path

Also overall I wish an mmorpg in the future would rely more on the people creating things instead of drops by creatures ... in this game too many powerful items are dropped when really they should be allowing players to be creative and run the economy

I wish there was more variety of beasts as so many look so similar.

Also with this patch server issues haven't gotten better and really not sure that a patch can help this but really they need to fix what they have on their side at Blizz ....

Posted: 06-Jul-2006 07:15:09 PM

Not an improvement over what Sierra did

Pros: I like the concept of the game as I have played similar games in the past like MicroLeague's Sports Illustrated '97 football game and also the various Sierra Front Page Sports Pro Football games. It is fun to be able to manage and then just play call a game instead of having to play arcade type games like Madden which get ridiculous after awhile with the high scoring games and unrealistic stats. Simulations are fun when done right. EA attempts to do a sim and so at least I give them credit for that cuz alot of people just won't play this type of game. They need to see extreme graphics.

Cons: It felt incomplete and yes it is a demo but it worries me cuz I assume the interface is going to stay the same and quite honestly it made for a horrible experience. They really need to change that if possible for the final product even at this late stage. It takes so long to move through the plays I found I was getting delay of game penalties and ahhh sheesh it is just not like what Sierra and MicroLeague had ... the interface was perfect for those games.

Posted: 06-Jul-2006 07:22:38 PM