Podcast 29: Cindy, Karen, Yak – RIFT in Beta 5 and beyond

[muddy27]

So I know I said I wouldnt try out Rifts but I did and started playing Beta 6 my gameplay lasted but a day and I couldnt take it anymore and uninstalled. Here is my review:

Spent from 10am till 9pm downloading and installing the game yesterday never having played before untill Beta 6. Logged in and rolled on the Guardian side got to lvl 10 and logged. Woke up this morning rolled Defiant got to lvl 10 helped seal some Rifts and PVPed thru Warfronts a little bit. This is my thoughts and review on the game. Its polished and the graphics are really nice, also the soul tree is pretty nice but thats about it.

The game is way to easy I didnt need a single group while playing the whole time, the more and more these newer games come out the more and more I think its destroying this genre. If I wanted a solofest game id easily install and play one of the great classic games instead like Morrowind, Neverwinter Nights or Baulders Gate. There was no challenge. Even in Warfronts I see its the same Blizzard/Warhammer route thats been done before. I noticed alot of similarities between this and a few other games mainly World of Warcraft including Icons, Colors, UI look and design, Ghosting at death. There is no real penalty at death and I think thats lame. Coming from great games like Everquest, Dark Ages of Camelot, Ultima Online and Darkfall im inclined to uninstall this game and never look back, and its exactly what I just did. What ever happened to grouping? non instanced pvp? and open world dungeons? and also challenge and some kind of real death penalty? I see its the same tried and true formula used on the newschool mmo players thats all been done before.

This is just my take on it, whoever has fun with the game I wish you luck. I just need something more than what Rifts offers and I see I must look elsewere for that. I need meaningful gameplay and challenge. (also the quests on both sides Guardian and Defiant are exactly the same just slightly diffrent, and the game holds your hand to much) And the community is really immature as well. I clicked on my combat tab for a while to watch damage and a few hours later clicked back and the first word I saw was pubes and wow this and wow that and immature kids talking up a storm. Theres only 3 races per side! and now with the racials your basically forced into a certain race depending on your class. No thanks ill pass on this crap title.

[Yak]

Most MMO's are very easy to get to level 10. You didn't give the game more then 2 hours, 3 tops of your time. This isn't EQ Classic, so get it over it. Epic Fail in your review!

[h0tr0d (shaere)]

It's a good game but I played it already. It feels like warhammer meets AoC