Tabu..wait... Richard Garriott back from the dead

[caladein]

I know there have been better versions of Sarah (generic heroine person). That said, they really hit her with the ugly stick in the FilePlanet ads...

[LK]

It's not an NCSoft game unless it has a forgettable female spokesmodel with an unforgettable chest.

[Merusk]

Fileplanet is giving away Tabula Rasa beta keys to Founder members.  If anyone is an interested Founder memeber.  I think they're limited. 

I just remembered that I was on the end of a 6 month account last night and DL'd this.  It won't install.  I'm sure I completed the download and it's the correct file size, however it just locks-up when you run the .exe while reporting 00 memory use in task manager.  Perhaps the download was corrupt, and I'll give it another shot, but it doesn't bode well.

[Huevos]

i was able to access beta the same day pre-orders went on sale (after people bitched about being tricked the devs opened it up) and have had no technical issues installing or playing. 

definitely will be buying on release.  maybe it's just a side effect of playing vanguard since beta that every other game seems so much better... plus no gnomes.

[Yegolev]

Super, be sure to come back and tell us how it is.  We lost our Vanguard nut, so we're down to just the UO nut and the FFXI nut.

[Mrbloodworth]

Super, be sure to come back and tell us how it is.  We lost our Vanguard nut, so we're down to just the UO nut and the FFXI nut.

I am also in the beta (no NDA break to say that). But i'm not nuts about it.

[sam, an eggplant]

Everybody's in the beta. That's what's annoying, that we can't talk about an essentially open beta. Saying it sucks does break NDA, you know.

[Sky]

I have no idea why there is still an NDA.

Oh wait, yes I do.

[Venkman]

i was able to access beta the same day pre-orders went on sale (after people bitched about being tricked the devs opened it up) and have had no technical issues installing or playing. 

definitely will be buying on release.  maybe it's just a side effect of playing vanguard since beta that every other game seems so much better... plus no gnomes.

How long have you been playing?

[Der Helm]

I am also in the beta (no NDA break to say that). But i'm not nuts about it.

It isn't ? Great! I am also in!  :-D

[Signe]

I've been in for a while.  Righ is in, too.  Gee, I wonder why we never bump into each other?   

[HaemishM]

I'm in too, though I've only played once.

[LK]

I think the biggest question I'd ask of any MMO, including this one, is "Describe the first 30 to 60 minutes game play."

[Sky]

It's pretty useless to speculate with so many people having already played it and under NDA. It's been made pretty clear we're not going to be that site, even if the NDA is stupid at this point.

In non-NDA news, anyone notice PC Gamer gave Garriot his own pulpit to pimp TR column to discuss mmo design?

[Miasma]

I think the biggest question I'd ask of any MMO, including this one, is "Describe the first 30 to 60 minutes game play."

Of course once in a while the first introductory quest is actually fairly well done and it's everything from 60 minutes on that sucks.

[Mrbloodworth]

Funny thing is, i hear the keys given away at sites, and places like file plant, are time limited, they don't go to the end.

[Merusk]

So, I finally got it installed.  It *was* a corrupted download (thanks Fileplanet!).  It still took a while to unpack and then run the installed, but it's 2.2gig I can accept that.

I think the biggest question I'd ask of any MMO, including this one, is "Describe the first 30 to 60 minutes game play."

What if you don't make it that long into the game?  What then?

Funny thing is, i hear the keys given away at sites, and places like file plant, are time limited, they don't go to the end.

You're correct.  The file planet one ends either tomorrow or the 20th I don't recall which. The 20th makes more sense, but I've seen dumber.  You can also only play after 5pm central (6est/ 3pst).  (All this is covered on the FP site so I'm not breaking an NDA here.)

 I believe the preorder keys are open until the end of beta, and -of course- then into the pre-release days.

[BigBlack]

NDA down for Journalist types.

He seems optimistic, but he seems easy to please as well.

I'm sad to hear there's not much in the way of interesting questing.  I'd hoped for something more along the lines of Neocron-like environments in a state of total war; it sounds more along the lines of your typical MMO fields of baddies.  Was hoping for more of a feeling that you could go 'behind enemy lines' and whatnot.

[sam, an eggplant]

NDA down for Journalist types.

We know. That article is dated july 30th. And still, none of us can talk about it.

[Venkman]

It's an MMO with a fairly different combat UI.

[Hoax]

Thanks for the link, was a decent read but seriously people who say shit like this make me laugh:

I want to preface this with a note that this is a game still in Beta. Lots of things can change before launch

Sounds like it'll be worth the free trial and $50 but nothing more (too bad) but god I totally agree with the sentiment that NCsoft needs some kind of station pass system.

[schild]

I'm a games.writer. And I'm not pulling any punches anymore.

First Impressions:

I'm going to play it more before release for a proper review. But I'll sum up the newbie mission.

It's f'ing dreadful.

The controls are wonky, the UI is a wreck, and it's very obvious that in terms of Vision, all they had was HEY, IT'S A DARK FUTURE LOL LET'S MAKE A GAME. I'm sitting here wondering where all the money went and at this point I'd rather be a fruity faghag with a harp.

I don't like it. It's one of the worst Intro Missions I've ever seen. If it wasn't my damn job, I would have just uninstalled it. I am _upset_ with where all that money went. Because it apparently didn't go into fun.

[Merusk]

 

[Ragnoros]

[Trippy]

schild is being kind (in his own special way). He'll find a lot more complain about after he plays it some more.

[LK]

Marvelous.  Thanks for saving me from whatever hype machine they were going to start up over this game, schild.

Well, I gave up MMOs for now anyway.  What with the next 4 months or so being 360 gaming gold.

[FatuousTwat]

Things must have changed in the last 3 or so months because back then the game was pretty fun... I had to quit after about 3 or 4 week though, RL wee.

Edit: Feel free to edit this or whatever if I'm breaking NDA... Don't think I am.

[Bill]

Garriott, or General British as he is known in-game joined my group the other night and had a brief chat with me and a friend, which was somewhat entertaining.

I will attempt to use emoticons to illustrate my feelings about the game. If this counts as breaking the NDA, well sue me. The following represents my weeks worth of play.

    :-(         :-D      :-(      

[sam, an eggplant]

I'm a games.writer. And I'm not pulling any punches anymore.

It pisses me off that I can't respond to this. Oh well.

[schild]

I'm a games.writer. And I'm not pulling any punches anymore.

It pisses me off that I can't respond to this. Oh well.

hah, owned.

[Engels]

Its like Schild's secret fantasy come true; he can sit and trash a game to his heart's content, everyone's gonna read it, and noone can respond! Enjoy it while it lasts, bucko, because I'm in beta too, and when the NDA lifts, I'm gonna  and  and  and 

so there.

[Venkman]

I want to preface this with a note that this is a game still in Beta. Lots of things can change before launch

Not the important stuff though, not at this late date.

[Hoax]

The way you quoted that makes it look like I agree with that retarded sentiment...

Damn you Darniaq!!  DAAAAAMN j00

[Venkman]

I want to preface this with a note that this is a game still in Beta. Lots of things can change before launch

Not the important stuff though, not at this late date.

And Hoax absolutely agrees with this retarded sentiment*

 

* just kidding. See his post below this one.

[schild]

Internet is hard today, isn't it?

That's ok, it's Caturday.