Is Defiance a Console MMO?

Altho just starting myself the game seems very much a Console (especially UI) with MMO elements. I play on a PC and it is a bit, well, hard to say except my urge to login and play is driven more by the significant cash I payed out than a desire to 'shoot-em-up'. Also not knowing all the ins and outs of how to play the various controls and average twitch skills at best, I am beginning to wonder. A regular (cheaper) console game like COD or the like might have been a better idea. However I am sticking with the game and started looking for a guild to join to get some positive help.

Aside from UI and some lack of comprehensive graphical options the game is what it says it is. It's obvious this game was made very console friendly but it isn't that impacting on the PC version. Instead of saying its a console game with MMO elements realize that it's a TPSMMO with RPG elements. MMO just means massively multiplayer online which it fills every aspect of the definition, what you expect/assume an MMO is doesn't apply especially since this isn't the normal fantasy MMO.

This game is a better spent $60 then CoD every was IMO. (No hate for CoD)

Yes, yes it is a console MMO. Just like DCUO felt "clumsy" being ported over to PC, Defiance kind of feels the same. Though I also wouldn't quite call it a fully fledged MMO either, at least not yet; needs some work. Red Dead Redemption's multiplayer kind of plays the same as Defiance and I don't call that an MMO. To me MMO means more than "massive multiplayer online", it needs the basic elements of it....... and Defiance is lacking the social/community part, and that's a big one.

Yeah for the console side of the MMO if there is voice chat in the game . It is really lacking. But supports Party Voice Chat on the console Also the inboard text chat is clumsy. If you do not have a keyboard. Pretty much useless to you.

Yet overall though Defiance is really one of those few games that I know that all my friends would play and we'd just Party up and waste things and yell at each other. As not everyone has a great PC or has access to one but a console is nice to see that Trion did something like this and opened up showing how a Console MMO should at least try to be. Even with all of its bumps but it is new and consoles are very server depend. So lots of stress on them.

Hopes in the future that things turn out great and things get going smoothly. Even though a bit bummed that I think I never did get my Pre-Order stuff...and yes I did read that but eh...a car and a gun is no big lose if I didn't get it on not enjoying the game as it is rather fun and challenging.

This game is a hybrid. It can't be classified as a MMO nor a FPS. Something of both.

People are afraid of not having everything arranged into neat little categories. Throw a hybrid at them and they'll argue back and forth... MMO! FPS! You're an idiot...its an MMO! Listen Bone Head, this is an FPS! LOL

TQQdles™

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Originally Posted by Dolnor

This game is a hybrid. It can't be classified as a MMO nor a FPS. Something of both.

People are afraid of not having everything arranged into neat little categories. Throw a hybrid at them and they'll argue back and forth... MMO! FPS! You're an idiot...its an MMO! Listen Bone Head, this is an FPS! LOL

TQQdles™

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MMO is a subgenre and it's a TPS.
-shakes fist-
Commence argument. lol

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Originally Posted by Dolnor

This game is a hybrid. It can't be classified as a MMO nor a FPS. Something of both.

People are afraid of not having everything arranged into neat little categories. Throw a hybrid at them and they'll argue back and forth... MMO! FPS! You're an idiot...its an MMO! Listen Bone Head, this is an FPS! LOL

TQQdles™

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Actually, you are an idiot (I mean that kindly, I swear!) This can't be an FPS since that requires the whole First Person point of view.

on the pc it feels like a single player game with a bit of 4 player co-op and a lot of random people running around with no interaction with them.

This game is a console co-op. Nothing more.

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Originally Posted by Ikagawa

Actually, you are an idiot (I mean that kindly, I swear!) This can't be an FPS since that requires the whole First Person point of view.

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Thank you, may I have another? -)

Then maybe a RSPS (Right-Shoulder-Perspective-Shooter)...MMORSPS -)

TQQdles™