If a review factors graphics into account..

[Xavier Horovitz]

You ever get your issue resolved?

You know what, I did. Took two trips to the Live Chat. Both guys I got on there were very kind and helpful. First I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the client. When that didn't work, I was informed to try picking up and equipping a weapon (holding X to equip from ground). Everything immediately fixed when I did. I could instantly start picking up ammo, switching weapons, and so on. Crazy stuff.

[Taaltos]

You came at me first. Naturally I bit back. Take your PC elitism elsewhere.



Never said I was against good graphics. Good graphics, bad graphics, doesn't matter. Hell, the best game I've ever played is Dwarf Fortress. Google that thing and observe its graphics.

Please don't judge the rest of the PC Gaming community by his actions.

I love my consoles, but I prefer my PC for most games. I have my consoles for Guitar Hero and Rock Band and for whatever my kids wanna play. xD

oooh, and netflix. xD

[Xavier Horovitz]

Your signature sums it all up for me anyway. yet anotehr satisfied customer willing to settle for the mediocre.

"Enjoying the game on my Xbox despite the issues -- looking forward to the future."

Yeah, server issues on Trion's part. Not my system.

@ gryph CoD fans wouldn't even know the difference lol. As long as they got their casual unbalanced shooter.

[Oceanhawk]

Tell that to all the indie developers raking in tons of cash in graphically inferior games that are chock full of character, story, and gameplay on Steam.

This isn't an indie game catering to the fringe crowd. This was marketed as a mainline MMO with an unusual hook of being toed to a TV series. One thing to release a game that targets a specific audience that is ok with poor graphics as long as the game play is awesome. This game could have gotten way with it too if the game play was better.

Yeah please apologize for me pointing out the idiocy of the OP comment on graphics. Thanks for helping me out. LMAO

[Xavier Horovitz]

Please don't judge the rest of the PC Gaming community by his actions.

I love my consoles, but I prefer my PC for most games. I have my consoles for Guitar Hero and Rock Band and for whatever my kids wanna play. xD

oooh, and netflix. xD

Yeah, I suppose the word "often" or "most" works for the complaint. It isn't everyone. I know that.

[Taaltos]

You know what, I did. Took two trips to the Live Chat. Both guys I got on there were very kind and helpful. First I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the client. When that didn't work, I was informed to try picking up and equipping a weapon (holding X to equip from ground). Everything immediately fixed when I did. I could instantly start picking up ammo, switching weapons, and so on. Crazy stuff.

Glad you got your issues resolved, hope you're enjoying your game.

[Drekor]

I wouldn't say they should be ignored.

Having amazing graphics is 9 times out of 10 a negative to a game since they often negatively impact performance. Having terrible graphics can be equally bad if they distract you enough from the gameplay. Although most pvp'ers would reduce graphics to minecraft levels to prevent performance issues.

If you have a good art style or if you do "realistic" graphics well enough then they go pretty much unnoticed as you are more immersed in the gameplay/story to even notice minor graphical issues.

[Taaltos]

This isn't an indie game catering to the fringe crowd. This was marketed as a mainline MMO with an unusual hook of being toed to a TV series. One thing to release a game that targets a specific audience that is ok with poor graphics as long as the game play is awesome. This game could have gotten way with it too if the game play was better.

Yeah please apologize for me pointing out the idiocy of the OP comment on graphics. Thanks for helping me out. LMAO

The gameplay is fine, the story is fine, Arkfalls are fine, graphics are fine.

What were you expecting?

Hell, the graphics are great, looks better than BL2 in my opinion. Cell Shading at it's worse.

[Xavier Horovitz]

Glad you got your issues resolved, hope you're enjoying your game.

I am, much more so now that I can play properly :P

[Oceanhawk]

The gameplay is fine, the story is fine, Arkfalls are fine, graphics are fine.

What were you expecting?

Hell, the graphics are great, looks better than BL2 in my opinion. Cell Shading at it's worse.

While there are parts of the game I really enjoy like the main story line. There are many more pieces I detest. The best part of the game, the story line, is really well done. It has me anticipating each step like I do a good episode of my favorite tv series. The problem is that the story line is fairly short and when finished you are left to doing side quests and silly car racing things that I have no interest in. The game devolves into a mess of repetitive quests that all feel like they are exactly the same.

They did throw in the old MMORPG standard of reputation questing but in its current form it ends up being really silly because you can literally only finish one quest per faction each day and a second quest that can only be done weekly. Not much of a time synch.

Other things that are frustrating in the game, at least for me, are the UI, chat and the inventory system. I use inventory system loosely because frankly it's so bad that it is more frustrating then useful. The UI while functional is clearly built for consoles but any time you need to search online to find out how to exit the game, you know you have a problem.

Chat is borked beyond belief and honestly is the most poorly designed game element ever included in an online game. The tossed in VOIP for good measure but even that is unbelievably broken. Imagine being forced to listen to a mouth breather getting yelled at by his mom for not cleaning his room, the entire time you are grouped. Yep it's that bad (the defaulted to voice activated instead of push-to-talk.)

The one thing the game has going for it is the TV series tie in. However that is potentially it's weakest link. The SyFy channel isn't known for having a good track record for original series. They tend to cancel even good shows with decent ratings simply because it is cheaper to replace the show with a reality based show like wrestling or Ghost hunting (May the fleas of 1000 camels infect the underwear of the person that came up with the idea for reality shows.) So once SyFy channel cancels the series some time in the next 1-2 years what happens to the game?

So to answer your question, I expected a MMO that had long term potential. I think that is a fair expectation. It isn't what was delivered despite the fanboys saying otherwise. If your idea of doing Arkfalls all day is fun then I guess we have different definitions of the word. Had Arkfalls been implemented like Rifts in Trions other game then I might agree with your assessment more.