The Secret World

[hello friend]

Parkour and slaughter is a winning combo, but I gotta say robots aren't very engaging as a concept. Still couldn't tell you what the game is about, all the lore and story passed in one ear and out the other. All I know is you're a robot and someone wants you to do something so you get a ship, but someone else wants you to do something else and they might have hacked your system. I think.

Come to think of it, The Secret World is like the polar opposite. Shitty combat (shitty platforming too, really really bad), but full of interesting lore and story, good atmosphere.

 

[Lhynn]

At first nothing makes sense because you dont remember anything. But you arent a robot. You are a Tenno, one of the deadliest forces in the universe, basically a super space samurai/ninja, and are helping Lotus keep the balance between Grinner and Corpus, in an effort to keep either side from taking over the sector. As long as they keep fighting eachother they wont be attacking neutral parties.

There are a ton of small factions in game, and you can ally with 2 of them at most. Thats the gist of it.

There are several big players. The sentients, big bad evils from the other side of the galaxy, nobody knows what they want. The Grineer, an army of clones that live for war and conquest. The corpus turned money into a religion. The Orokin, long dead civilization, you will mostly fight gone mad immortal soldiers from that side that survived by being trapped in the void. The infested, abominations created by the orokin to fight the sentients that escaped their control and are reproducing like roaches and are slowly taking over the less travelled space.

Theres a yuge clusterfuck of factions and characters and motivations and history to uncover, tho how you discover it is a lot less interactive than in SWL.


Still, the fun of the game is building and modding weapons and frames and trying new and interesting combinations, thats what the gameplay loop is all about. You build new shit, you try it, if you like it you get serious about building it up, formaing it and applying catalysts and making it into a monster.

 

[hello friend]

I imagine the game does get more fun once you have high leveled multiples of every mod, but it takes a loooong time to get there. Almost all my playtime I was working on the same fucking Excalibur build, playing the game would look like this: Daily login>Grineer gold farm>Orokin Chest farm. Oh yeah, I guess there were challenge missions as well. Was quite happy with the build tho, I just didn't have enough mana to fully support it.

The space ninjas look like robots.

Man, I was in a guild with access to pretty much everything too, still was grinding forever.

 

[Delterius]

I would D1P the shit out of a single player series based on TSW.

Just hire CD proyekt to do it. They work for polish wages.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

I imagine the game does get more fun once you have high leveled multiples of every mod, but it takes a loooong time to get there. Almost all my playtime I was working on the same fucking Excalibur build, playing the game would look like this: Daily login>Grineer gold farm>Orokin Chest farm. Oh yeah, I guess there were challenge missions as well. Was quite happy with the build tho, I just didn't have enough mana to fully support it.

The space ninjas look like robots.

Man, I was in a guild with access to pretty much everything too, still was grinding forever.

you need just 1 copy of any mod, with extremely rare exceptions you could always work around anyway.

according to the latest bits of lore, tennos aren't just robots, they're more like evangelions.

 

[Bigg Boss]

Sounds pretty gay to be honest. Secret World is for storyfags like me I guess. I love tactical depth in combat, but I also like quests that force me to use my brain and learn something new.

 

[hello friend]

I imagine the game does get more fun once you have high leveled multiples of every mod, but it takes a loooong time to get there. Almost all my playtime I was working on the same fucking Excalibur build, playing the game would look like this: Daily login>Grineer gold farm>Orokin Chest farm. Oh yeah, I guess there were challenge missions as well. Was quite happy with the build tho, I just didn't have enough mana to fully support it.

The space ninjas look like robots.

Man, I was in a guild with access to pretty much everything too, still was grinding forever.

you need just 1 copy of any mod, with extremely rare exceptions you could always work around anyway.

according to the latest bits of lore, tennos aren't just robots, they're more like evangelions.

Some mods you'll want to keep at lower levels. But you're right. Beyond those fringe cases, having multiples would really only be good for making the process of trying out different builds across multiple frames marginally smoother.

I never watched neon genesis. Evangelions are exoskeletons, aren't they? Is there a humanoid person underneath the frame exterior? Is it human?

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

i said too much already then, i ruined a lot of it for you, sorry, but after more than 20 years i took for granted i wasn't spoiling :V

 

[hello friend]

Nah I prolly won't watch it either, not a big fan of mecha.

 

[Lhynn]

Man, I was in a guild with access to pretty much everything too, still was grinding forever.

Its an action RPG like path of exile. Of course the grind is never over. Its exactly the same for SWL.

The gameplay loop is very fun tho, unlike this cashgrab.

 

[Zombra]

Guys! Big news! There is actually already a thread about Warframe and how boring it is!

YOU ARE ONLY ONE SHORT CLICK AWAY >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

Nah I prolly won't watch it either, not a big fan of mecha.

me neither, but in evangelion there's hardly more than 5 minutes of mechs every episode. but oh well, your loss

Guys! Big news! There is actually already a thread about Warframe and how boring it is!

YOU ARE ONLY ONE SHORT CLICK AWAY >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

look how interesting is swl that we have to resort to talk about something else :V

 

[Zombra]

Secret World died officially

Huh? What?

 

[Delterius]

Secret World died officially

Huh? What?

they have announced in the investment meeting that the team now works on 'recurring content'

guess what isn't recurring

everything that is good about this thing

 

[Lhynn]

Some fucker here called it ages ago, cant remember his handle but dude was absolutely right.

 

[Delterius]

Some fucker here called it ages ago, cant remember his handle but dude was absolutely right.

was it you

 

[Lhynn]

Some fucker here called it ages ago, cant remember his handle but dude was absolutely right.

was it you

Nope, i was one of the retards willing to give it a chance.

 

[Delterius]

Some fucker here called it ages ago, cant remember his handle but dude was absolutely right.

was it you

Nope, i was one of the retards willing to give it a chance.

me too brother

 

[Cromwell]

It hurts so much inside.

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

To this day i am still baffled they didnt turn it into a proper single player game.

 

[Delterius]

Even so, we had a nice run gentlemen.

Time to close the door and shut the lights on the secret world that never became.

F.

 

[Zombra]

Time to close the door and shut the lights on the secret world that never became.

You say that almost as if TSW wasn't worthwhile ... it may not have realized its absolute fullest potential but come on, there was (and is) some amazing stuff here.

 

[Delterius]

Goddammit Zombra that was meant to be the last post in thread for at least a month or two. Ruining my deep feels posts since 2004.

 

[vampiregrave]

Not exactly unexpected:

 

[Kem0sabe]

Told you so...