Well, um, actually, not all plants derive their nutrients from the soil. You do realize that there are some plants that don't even need soil, don't you?
Even though I haven't bought SoL, I ran in to a couple snags playing EQ last night:
First, it took the patcher a considerable amount of time just to update itself... and after that, the program was somehow unable to find any dns servers.
Okay... exiting and subsequently re-starting did fix the problem, after a whole new barrage of updates. On the plus side, the new updater is much prettier than the old one.
Finally, I got to play the game... since I haven't purchased the new software, didn't see much new, personally. I did notice that the model for the "decaying skeleton" was updated. It looked alot better, now, besides the fact that it had no animation for attacking. This did create the problem of a few people almost stealing my kill.
Word of caution: Torment is very heavy on the dialogue, and fairly light on the action. If you don't plan to read all of the extensive conversation trees, you might prefer Icewind Dale or Baldur's Gate. That being said, the character models and spell effects in Torment look much better than either of those games, and you can actually talk to your party members outside of scripted events (and they usually have something interesting to say, as well).
Agreed.
The Anime-style character portraits were really sweet, but definitely didn't justify the 172 meg download.
And yes, the graphics were terribly dated.
It might possibly be worth playing if it was free.
At least it's not as bad as Nexus: Crossroads of the Winds.
That being said, there's not supposed to be a tutorial.
It's an MMORPG... you're supposed to get one of your friends to teach you how to play.
If none of your friends play, you're not gonna pick it up, anyways.
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Well, um, actually, not all plants derive their nutrients from the soil.
You do realize that there are some plants that don't even need soil, don't you?
If you "could do without" it, then just don't read it.
Even though I haven't bought SoL, I ran in to a couple snags playing EQ last night: First, it took the patcher a considerable amount of time just to update itself... and after that, the program was somehow unable to find any dns servers. Okay... exiting and subsequently re-starting did fix the problem, after a whole new barrage of updates. On the plus side, the new updater is much prettier than the old one. Finally, I got to play the game... since I haven't purchased the new software, didn't see much new, personally. I did notice that the model for the "decaying skeleton" was updated. It looked alot better, now, besides the fact that it had no animation for attacking. This did create the problem of a few people almost stealing my kill.
Word of caution: Torment is very heavy on the dialogue, and fairly light on the action. If you don't plan to read all of the extensive conversation trees, you might prefer Icewind Dale or Baldur's Gate. That being said, the character models and spell effects in Torment look much better than either of those games, and you can actually talk to your party members outside of scripted events (and they usually have something interesting to say, as well).
Agreed. The Anime-style character portraits were really sweet, but definitely didn't justify the 172 meg download. And yes, the graphics were terribly dated. It might possibly be worth playing if it was free. At least it's not as bad as Nexus: Crossroads of the Winds. That being said, there's not supposed to be a tutorial. It's an MMORPG... you're supposed to get one of your friends to teach you how to play. If none of your friends play, you're not gonna pick it up, anyways.
You probably didn't find that here because it won't be released in time for Christmas... unless you're talking about next Christmas.
The last few that came out that I can think of were Starlancer, Tachyon: The Fringe, and Allegiance.
I passed up all of these to purchase X-Wing: Alliance.
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