I too am not a fan of MMORPGs either. But this one has mananged to pull me in fairly well. I played EQ, DAoC and CoH and all of them were the same. What made me stick with any one of them was for the community, just like any other game. I used to RP at the Castle on Chathouse.com back in the day where community and friendships where everything.
The real advantage of this game is that since the servers seem to be limited earlier than other games where, you make friends a lot easier and interact with more of the same people. And if you really get pissed at someone you can duel them (i have yet to see someone turn down a duel) - it's a great way to blow off some steam.
All of the classes are very well balanced so you don't ever feel gimped. Soloing isn't hard, but grouping is easier.
And IMO there really isn't that much difference between this and an fps, for this reason. The real interaction still relies of twitch skills and reaction times. Sure PvE is a lot of 'auto attack', but when you have another person who can possibly out think you and really adapt to you, the game gets to be really tricky. And as you get better at dueling, you get better at everything else.
This game feels like a Warcraft game, that lets you be one of the unique heroes from Warcraft III, there just happens to be alot of them running around too.
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I too am not a fan of MMORPGs either. But this one has mananged to pull me in fairly well. I played EQ, DAoC and CoH and all of them were the same. What made me stick with any one of them was for the community, just like any other game. I used to RP at the Castle on Chathouse.com back in the day where community and friendships where everything.
The real advantage of this game is that since the servers seem to be limited earlier than other games where, you make friends a lot easier and interact with more of the same people. And if you really get pissed at someone you can duel them (i have yet to see someone turn down a duel) - it's a great way to blow off some steam.
All of the classes are very well balanced so you don't ever feel gimped. Soloing isn't hard, but grouping is easier.
And IMO there really isn't that much difference between this and an fps, for this reason. The real interaction still relies of twitch skills and reaction times. Sure PvE is a lot of 'auto attack', but when you have another person who can possibly out think you and really adapt to you, the game gets to be really tricky. And as you get better at dueling, you get better at everything else.
This game feels like a Warcraft game, that lets you be one of the unique heroes from Warcraft III, there just happens to be alot of them running around too.