I like the idea of double boxing. I may consider doing that w/ eq2. How's the beta btw op?
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I like the idea of double boxing. I may consider doing that w/ eq2. How's the beta btw op?
I like it a lot, loads of content, beautiful graphics, etc and so on.
You will not be disappointed.
so is it november yet?
Typically double boxing is lame, why? Because many that do it are greedy farmers. It also detracts from the realness of the game, by one person having two personalities at one time. Not to mention the social aspect of the game that is what a MMORPG is after all and boxers I guess are introverts that only like to play with themselves...sigh...Quote:
Originally posted by OpStar
People have their hobbies, and MMO's are mine, its what I enjoy.
Some of my friends drink (I don't) some smoke (I don't) some have other expensive hobbies (my car and my computers are about my only ones).
So to me 30 or 45 a month for a video game is nothing, especially not for the hours of enjoyment I get playing them.
Normally I double boxed because I had two computers anyways and I hated losing xp/skillboxes when my jedi died.
I'll probably double box EQ2 also, at least for awhile because my roommate will be overseas for six months and that way I won't have to wait around and wait on groups.
To each their own though.
wow, i was under the impression that introverts wouldn't even play mmorpg's much less be on the web w/ others period.
LoL a mmo'er complaining about someone playing a game all the time.
Oh well, luckily its my 15 a month, so I can play how I want. ;)
To your question I've started playing MMO's when they were still MUD's that were on BBS's, maybe that just makes me old?!? As for the controls they are highly customizable and make gameplay very smooth once you learn them. The content is abolutly endless, they are constantly updating and adding stuff. The graphics are top notch. The customer service is fine the post about having to buy a new cd is BS they will delete inactive chars after 3months but he would not need a new CD Key. Boring?!? Any MMO is only as fun as the person playing it. I do enjoy the game as do many other people look at the numbers, and I would never put in the same leauge as EQ or WOW it belongs in the pros and those games are the minor leauge. I do have some loyalty to Square they have put out some of the best RPG games out there to date I enjoy the storyline and gameplay. Blizzard Has my money everytime they make a game starcraft and warcraft are in a class of their own for RTS games WOW is W3 zoomed in and if you enjoy W3 then you would probably like WOW I will play it. SOE Well I played all of their games at one point in time but planetside was the worst it was a great game but the online code had way to many problems and SOE really did nothing to try and fix it. So yes that is my opinion for whatever its worth.Quote:
Originally posted by OpStar
That's your opinion. I've played a lot of MMO's, have you?
FFXI's main problem is it control scheme, but there are a lot more, including the fact that its boring.
I'm glad you enjoy it, but please don't try to put it in leauge with EQ2 or WoW.
HAHAHAHAHA.
EQ is the minor leagues?
In MMO's you have three great franchises:
Lineage, EverQuest and Ultima Online.
Lineage = MILLIONS of people play it.
EverQuest = 5+ years
Ultima Online = The original
I'm sorry, but FFXI doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with those three franchises.
Opstar hit the nail on the head pretty much.
Although me personally, I wouldn't rank Lineage up there with EQ and UO. Sure its got a ton of subscribers, but you take away all the people that play it in computer cafes over in Korea and that takes a huge chunk of the population away.
I imagine if every cafe in the US offerend the chance to play WoW or EQ2 the server pops would be huge as well ;)
True, but based on number of players it at least deserves a mention :)
I duel boxed in eq for a bit mainly because I did not want to spend over an hour looking for a group every night. It was much easier to get my cleric and warrior and go get some exp that way. (edit: I should mention that getting a group for the cleric actually usually took like 5 minutes hehe, but i wanted to play my warrior mainly) I usually would put one or both on lfg (looking for group) and when i got a tell for a group i would log one out and join the group. Also when I played with friends and if we were short a healer or a tank (the person who gets beat on by the mob), I would duel box then too. (when you play the tank and healer you better be paying attention all the time! hehe) I got burnt out of duel boxing after a while though and decided to just stick with one char. But there were some people who duel boxed just to pl one of their chars up etc and some people that were lame too.Quote:
Originally posted by BremenCulhaven
Typically double boxing is lame, why? Because many that do it are greedy farmers. It also detracts from the realness of the game, by one person having two personalities at one time. Not to mention the social aspect of the game that is what a MMORPG is after all and boxers I guess are introverts that only like to play with themselves...sigh...
Epecially some people who had like 6+ accounts and made their own group and stuck with themselves, which I thought was really odd considering it kinda ruined the point of playing an online game
EQ2 is very graphic intensive actually. Check to make sure that your graphics card is supported or else you might not be able to play the game. (Quite a few graphics cards on laptops arent)Quote:
Originally posted by Boneycat
Oh and one last thing. I'd like to know how video intensive these games are. I want to be able to play it on my cheap Toshiba laptop which has the following specs: 2.0 celly, 512 2100 ram, intergrated vid ram intel chipset. Buying another laptop just to be able to play one of these games is not an option. Thanks for any and all input.
WoW for me.. I love the warcraft universe. EQ2 is decent but needs alot more work than what I seen.
alright can we go a little more in depth here with the comparison??? I'm trying to decide between the two and since I aven't really seen much of either I have no idea what to go with.
I'm a casual gamer, and the main reason I play these MMORPG is to hunt in groups and play online with friends. I'm not into the grind AT ALL. I'd rather go out and do a bunch of adventures designed for my x level character, and when I get better, go to other quests designed for my x +1 level character.
EQ2 is absolutely like that. You described the gameplay to a T.Quote:
Originally posted by Paladyr
alright can we go a little more in depth here with the comparison??? I'm trying to decide between the two and since I aven't really seen much of either I have no idea what to go with.
I'm a casual gamer, and the main reason I play these MMORPG is to hunt in groups and play online with friends. I'm not into the grind AT ALL. I'd rather go out and do a bunch of adventures designed for my x level character, and when I get better, go to other quests designed for my x +1 level character.