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Excidium
P. banal
Did they forget to put monsters in this game or what, I've cycled through like 12 streams and nobody ever fought anything.
Combat is horrible in this game, we've established that already.
No.The worst part about TOR was the non-existent or buggy endgame and shitty game engine (hero engine, same as this game).
I thought the leveling was quite nicely structured, and sending followers on missions was pretty fun. The PvP battleground could be pretty fun too, even if a couple of classes were severely imbalanced.
So while TOR may have been shit overall, it still had some qualities. TESO is just plain shit.
Two moments in the opening hour were so awful I had to walk away from the screen. The first was the gratuitous appearance of a blithering John Cleese, as a character wearing a pot on his head because WACKY! IT’S JOHN CLEESE FROM OFF OF THE MONTY PYTHONS, REMEMBER! LOOK! A POT ON HIS HEAD! Bleaurgh. The second occurred when someone emphatically informed me,
“You’re important, and everyone and everything we’ve ever loved is in danger.”
That’s not a parody – that’s word for word what is said.
Every cliché is in place. Your guide once alive again is a mysterious, shady figure you’re not quite sure if you can trust. In one town you meet the SHOUTY LEADER MAN WHO SHOUTS, and then the weepy lady whose husband got eaten by spiders or whatever. To give credit, a lot of the powerful, leader characters are women, but none has anything interesting to say. They’re cardboard, speaking in cardboard.
“You’re important, and everyone and everything we’ve ever loved is in danger.”
So it's realistic in some way at least.a lot of the powerful, leader characters are women, but none has anything interesting to say
Feels like a low-budget version of the Elder Scrolls.
So that is where all the money went...Char creation isn't half-bad:
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Too bad about everything else.
“You’re important, and everyone and everything we’ve ever loved is in danger.”
I've not played this since last night, but having slept (for 14 hours like an idiot) on it, I can give a judgement.
CONS:
Why is it even an online game to start with, I played for like 4 hours and never interacted with anyone else. My only interaction with other people was people repeatedly stealing kills from me, which I was fine with since the combat is no fun anyway.