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Topic: Thorough review of Navy Field (Read 3211 times)
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Stormwaltz
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It's a Korean online RTS. William R. Trotter has been reviewing games for 20-some years, and knows his shit. He likes NF, but questions Korean grind-design. http://www.wargamer.com/reviews/navyfield_review/Posting this because I haven't seen any reviews of the game in North America. Cross-posted on The Other Site |
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Yoru
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All that link gives me is an endless bout of 'interstitial' ads.  |
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Righ
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Presumably you are not letting the site set a cookie. It was decent review, even though the reviewer doesn't have a clue about soccer, soccer hooligans or the abysmal state of the Scottish national team.
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Margalis
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I used to play Shatterred Galaxy a bit, which was a Korean massive RTS game. It was pretty cool. Actually it might have been the best massive game I've played.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Hoax
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Its still around and has a free trial I believe, I was thinking of trying it out some time ago.
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If Trotter likes it I'll be giving it a try. He introduced me to some of my favourite wargames, notably the Combat Mision series and has always had a great amount of credibility as a reviewer for me. (He used to review for PC Gamer or one of the biggies but still took time to review little indy wargames that were always pretty cool.)
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Speaking of marketing, we're out of milk.
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Margalis
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Shattered Galaxy is certainly worth trying. It does a lot of things right.
The maps are objective based instead of "kill everybody", teamwork and strategy are very important, there is no resource management (which I like at least in this case) you can customize units a lot, there is a level system but lower level guys aren't useless.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Hoax
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I should have said trying it again, I played it for a few months when it first had a beta.
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A nation consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual's morals are situational, then that individual is without morals. If a nation's laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn't a nation.
-William Gibson
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schild
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I question anyone that takes 6 pages to review an actual game. Especially when all 6 pages are about the game.
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JoeTF
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I read it till "the insane complexities of precision manual fire-control". Someone pull that guy away from crack pipe please!
NF is a huge, gigantic mega grind done exclusively through pvp. In other words, it's grind, but kinda pleasant.
The core mechanics of actual combat are fun, pretty much on every level (destroyer and bb require totally different styles of playing), but the game is so damn shallow. All you can do, literally, is join meaningless pvp instance, repair, join again, until you leveled enough for a bigger ship. Then buy it and...go join the same meaningless pvp instance again and again.
Personally, I had enough of it somewhere around level 50, but one of my friends managed to get Lev95 and is still hooked up on it. I guess it depends on how much you like fragging people.
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WindiaN
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Sounds like it could be fun, maybe i'll check it out, pvp grind is way better than a pve grind.
I played Shattered Galaxy in beta too, that game was really really fun, that was back when I thought it was crazy to pay monthly for a game so when it was released I quit :/ I heard you can play for free now but they gimp you with stats or some shit like that
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