on its own, its pretty cool
relative to the other mmorpgs out there - its jsut a huge rip off and all around terrible
if ur an old skool gamer (certainly meaning pre-pc rpg days), youll be dissapointed to say the least
if you are new to the mmog world (new meaning last 4-5 years) then you will probably have fun playing it.
will eventually be a case of everyone having an identical character.
this is known as the FOTM phenomenon
I beta tested UO and hated it
so did i! what server? i was one of the best known PKs on my server (chessy). people camped my house for fucks sake. i had over 4,200 confirmed solo murders on my pk.
oh and basing UO off of its beta test would be like basing the human development of flight off of the first wright brother's flight test.
UO was the greatist game of all time, pre trammel patch. after that EA owning OSI just sent the company down the drain patch by patch. it pretty much went downhill after richard garriot left OSI.
however, its hardly what all mmorpgs are like. its a fegging 2d engine. top of the line rpgs have gone past 3d rpg engines and moved into the fps based engines allready.
back to WoW tho - like i said the game isnt bad, its just a replicate of things that were implemented time and time again, years upon years ago. relative to its competition, the only thing keeping it alive is the huge company backing it up. its kind of like coming out with another 8 bit scrolling action game, and convincing people new to the gaming world that its worth money.
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