I tried playing the game since 2010.
Despite multiple attempts, I cannot get into this game despite the fact that I have spent countless hours in other MMOs.
I want to play this one because I am long time dnd geek and crpgs fan overall. Isometric crpgs are my favorite types of games.
I have no problem getting into lotro, eso, swtor, wow, etc.
I don't know maybe it has to do with the fact that this game doesn't main story like all those theme park MMOs or crpgs i have played.
On the other hand i played mount and blade warband which doesn't have main plot and yet it is one my favorite games to this day.
When i finish the tutorial area, i feel kinda overwhelmed despite the fact i have been playing games since early 90's.
I do not know if something not right with me.
On top of that, the interface of this game that really bugs me.
There is something about it, that I really do not like, hard to describe it.
On the surface, the game looks good but there is something about it.
I would be thankful for any advice how can i get into this game.
Thanks for the info,
Cheers
I discovered that this game only exists last month, and I had exactly the same feeling as you, that this game is extremely complex, with countless options, leaving me 100% lost, frustrated and irritated.
I was particularly disappointed with this game because the character's Enhancements were absolutely ridiculous and poorly constructed. And what's worse... this game's wiki makes a point of describing how Enhancements, spells and everything else work in an extremely confusing and superficial way. When I go to the wiki, for example, to read about what "Universal Spell Power" does, the wiki shows a giant, super detailed text, where it says a lot of things, but in fact it says absolutely nothing. The wiki should be more direct and explicit, explaining EXACTLY what each thing does, but instead, it always starts the texts saying that this thing had this upgrade, and that later it got another upgrade, and because of so much information talk absolutely useless, the wiki text spends more than 15 paragraphs without saying absolutely NOTHING!
And that's not my problem, because I'm not a native English speaker. I noticed that native English speakers have the same problem. This game uses very subjective descriptions on purpose to leave players lost in a complex game.
Plus, I spend 10 minutes doing a quest and 2 hours tidying up my inventory.
It's terrible!
Okay... I've kept playing this game since I discovered it, not just because I particularly love complex things and I love discovering game secrets. And look, modesty aside, I'm a veteran expert in discovering secrets of all games. I've played a lot of LOTRO, STAR WARS TOR, Star Trek Online, Tibia, Diablo2, among thousands of other great games, but this is by far the most complex.
You know that old cartoon from the 80s called Dungeons and Dragons? So it is. About three days ago I went on YouTube to review one of the chapters, called "The Servant of Evil", and my friend...that's when I noticed how much the aesthetics of this game are identical to the cartoon! This drove me crazy. If I was already suspecting that this game was not only based on the work of JRR Tolkien, but also on the tabletop role-playing game and the cartoon, after watching that old chapter of the cartoon, I saw that it was worth my effort to persist in continuing to play.
And when I say "effort", I don't mean that the game is bad, but that I was insisting on playing, no. When I say "effort", what I mean is that I have motion sickness, where I can't play 3d games without getting dizzy, nauseous and wanting to vomit. In LOTRO I had this problem a lot, but in Star Wars Tor, I didn't. So for me it has been a pain in terms of stomach health to play this game. Just yesterday I was at a party where we did 5 missions in a row, and I had to leave and go to the bathroom, because out of nowhere I had a huge stomachache, but I came back after it went away.
I know this game gives warnings at the bottom of the website about health risks, but these warnings are only for those with epilepsy problems. I understand that it is not necessary to give such warnings to people like me, precisely because the symptoms are irrelevant, just nausea, and all 3D games cause this to me...not just this one, so this game is not to blame in my case. I chose to play and it is my responsibility for my health.
But this game is so complex that I have to infest the screen with shortcut bars for both magic and items. And the time I spent on the wiki, compedium, reddit, among others to understand Enhancements was worth it... a lot! Now, even though I'm a beginner player, I already know a lot, and I'm soloing reaper 1 with ease and without breaking any items. I repeat...my insistence made me extremely strong. And the fun is becoming exponential. But it's worth remembering that to be so persistent, you need to like... a lot... complex things. And I repeat: this great game is really extremely complex.
This was the second RPG I've played where it's really fun to discover secret passages and other types of secrets in general. I thought "The Quest For Glory5" was the only action RPG that had this, but I was wrong. This D&D game has much more, in a way that is contagious and fun. Sometimes I do a mission that I should do in 9 minutes in 2 hours, just because I keep using a lot of macumba on all the doors looking for secrets and invisible things with my Wizard spells. It's the best. At least I like that. And every now and then I discover a few things, thanks to my lvl 1 rogue. So, is this great game worth it? Certainly yes. It's beautiful!
