As some of you may know, one of my favorite MMO’s out there (to the point where if I have some extra cash and am lacking sense), is Vanguard. “Now Rix, what is wrong with you?”, is what is going through your mind more than likely. But hear me out on this.
Massive explorable landscapes: Vanguard did these well (even if there are still parts of the world where if you jump you’ll land and fall through the world). I had flashbacks to EQ 1, especially Ruins of Kunark. I would love some excuse to go off and explore Ord Mandrell or find some hidden area of Alderaan. But at the same time these have draw-backs, even years after it’s release their are vast swaths of land barley touched and used, full of bugs and broken stuff.
Class and race choices: Vanguard did this very well too, from every race having it’s own feel and look, to even bringing back the need to learn another races language on the RP servers. Even races had their own relations on and off their own islands. Classes faced similar choices and consequences. A Dread Knight could actually be refused service by some merchants and healers while Monks and Shaman’s were universally welcomed. Classes also went through many changes as they leveled in addition to the normal go find a trainer and get your new level skills. At level 15 a monk chose one of three specialties for the class, which would limit what skills and abilities they had for the rest of their career. I want to see a race list for TOR with what stat adjustments and the like. We know the classes, but some of the progression just does not sit right with me.
Quest system: Vanguard was old school, go to this guy talk to him, he’ll point you in the right direction to find quest givers, stumble across a quest giver in the middle of nowhere, find a item that gave a quest. There is no holding of the hand there is no let me mark it on your map for you, they give you generally good directions and you can find what you need rather quickly. Sometimes random stuff would be in game for a single patch and it’d be gone forever with the next. I would rather see this in the game than a WoW/Bethesda style compass holding your hand on every step, just as long as we don’t get Morrowind’s directions.
Overextending themselves: The devs of Vanguard did this, really really well. Everything was half done when this shipped and the open beta showed, I would have personally shipped the game one island at a time then added one per expansion. If the space combat isn’t done when TOR is ready to be put on the DVD’s, then it needs to not be there. Same for anything else, this is Bioware’s time to show if they can pull this off, we’ll see the truth next year, or even during beta.
Man ugg just sickens me that people continue to make posts/questions about the same thing over and over back to back. It is like they didn’t even botehr to even look at the forum title board let alone read any forums or do a 2 second google search and find multiple ddefiniative proveable sources. Instead People post quests that have been answered over and over and over and treat it like no one has answerd it to them”perhaps they didn’t look”. What is even worse is then others get on the band wagon and make a post that is total bullshit, litterally an utter fabrication, no truth what so ever, sometimes wishfulthinking but many times it boggles my mind where they come up with such drivel.
Then the last straw hits, soemone DOES post correct info, even links a few responses and gets flamed for it…..Or they say where is your proof when you actually quoted a dev or have a recording linked…
Lastly adding insult to injusry you get a random warning from a moderator for..get this..”off topic” disscussion.
Stupid people attract more stupid people I guess …. I dunno, I just dunno…so Fustrated. I jsut don’t even want to go on the forums at times even though I have a wllspring of information collected. Also happens a pet peive of mine is totally baseles truthless garbage talk is put up as truth by people, I jsut can’t let it stand. /rant over. I’m surprised this hasn’t happened to beskar. Unless that Forum moderator post was about a sit rep like that.
Srry if my posts seem pretty random, it is jsut the only forum where I havn’t been BOO’d for my opionion, and facts seem to mean soemthing here.
Pardon my typos hands hurt.