Story, adventure, atmosphere etc. are all amazing thanks to ragnar tornquist making it feel like dreamfall/the longest journey.

Controls, animations, UI, combat and skill system are all horribly designed and implemented.

This game needs an extra 6months - 1year development time at least, but EA are rushing it out the door and will kill it with poor inital perception and player sentiment - so frustrating!

Really sad, I wanted this game to do well but even as much as i like the former aspects over the latter I have to be realistic... people wont buy this or play it for very long at all..

Gonna flop harder than AoC imo ;_;

Harris1st

Germany7046 Posts

May 19 2012 22:50 GMT

#82

On May 14 2012 08:21 deth wrote:
Story, adventure, atmosphere etc. are all amazing thanks to ragnar tornquist making it feel like dreamfall/the longest journey.

Controls, animations, UI, combat and skill system are all horribly designed and implemented.

This game needs an extra 6months - 1year development time at least, but EA are rushing it out the door and will kill it with poor inital perception and player sentiment - so frustrating!

Really sad, I wanted this game to do well but even as much as i like the former aspects over the latter I have to be realistic... people wont buy this or play it for very long at all..

Gonna flop harder than AoC imo ;_;

THIS

makes me so sad

wasting this much potential for the short term money

Epicfailguy

Norway893 Posts

June 15 2012 12:48 GMT

#83

New beta-weekend, starting later today.

They have upgraded combat, jumping, and lots of more. Looks good!

Edit: http://www.mmorpg.com/giveaways.cfm/offer/349/The-Secret-World-Beta-Weekend-3-Hell-Raised-Key-Handout.html
Free beta keys, get yours before they run out, 3.5k left :D

Pufftrees

2449 Posts

June 17 2012 05:34 GMT

#84

Started a character and playing the beta atm. I am streaming, if you want to see just pm me and ill give you link.

ParanoiaDHerO

United States183 Posts

June 18 2012 00:22 GMT

#85

This game is very so-so.. Seems like it should of been single player but they threw in pvp and "open world" to call it an MMORPG.

Snuggles

United States1865 Posts

June 20 2012 19:44 GMT

#86

I got my invite WOOOH PUMPED FOR THE WEEKEND! It's nice they let u have one extra key, I invited my best friend

Epicfailguy

Norway893 Posts

June 20 2012 23:04 GMT

#87

Everyone can join next weekend btw, you don't need a key..funcom invites everyone to come play and try it before you buy it

There will be massive pvp as well

Alabasern

United States4005 Posts

June 24 2012 09:36 GMT

#88

They got monsters down.

Warri

Germany3208 Posts

June 24 2012 11:01 GMT

#89

I dont understand why they would build in so many solo instances, which are like 3 minutes short and every time you have to reload the map costing you another minute. This is the most frustrating thing about the game if youre playing with friends.
The graphics look okayish, a bit outdated but good enough for an mmo, but they really overdid it with the audio. 16gb game which i wouldnt bother to install on a ssd because there are just so many audiofiles for every single non relevant daily quest npc...
Dont like the travel system either :|

Epicfailguy

Norway893 Posts

June 24 2012 18:32 GMT

#90

Ah come on, the music in this game is stellar and its a big part of the setting/mood..if you're gonna rant on something, please let it be something else than the size of the installation.

Like gameplay, clunky combat and whatnot..

Skilledblob

Germany3392 Posts

June 24 2012 19:03 GMT

#91

I have to agree here with most guys. The setting is great but what will kill this game is the bad graphic and the combatsystem. To me it feels like FunCom blew all their money on AoC and now they had to do Secret World with cheap grahics and hotkey based combat most people are tired of after several years of WoW

Khaymus

United States750 Posts

June 29 2012 17:19 GMT

#92

If anyone is interested in seeing how this game is. I will be streaming pretty much all day!

http://www.justin.tv/khaymus

(stopped streaming for a bit while I try to fix the constant crashing -_-)

Ayaz2810

United States2763 Posts

June 29 2012 17:29 GMT

#93

I played a few of the beta weekends and found it fun, but forgettable. I'm honestly looking forward to GW2 more now that I have played TSW.

It's a shame... the game seemed to have some amazing potential.

trias_e

United States520 Posts

June 29 2012 18:23 GMT

#94

I'm in playing and having a blast. I find that combat system to be improved since I last played a month ago. It's a real shame that this game is so under the radar. It's got a spirit to it that most modern games lack.

Khaymus

United States750 Posts

June 29 2012 18:33 GMT

#95

This is starting to piss me off. I keep getting "out of memory" error and crashing.

I am running 64 bit windows with 16GB of ram. How the fuck am I running out of memory? I also have a 7800 video card...so I know it isn't that either. Anyone have a fix for this?

nennx

United States310 Posts

June 29 2012 20:36 GMT

#96

sounds alot like ff14

Sermokala

United States14102 Posts

June 29 2012 20:43 GMT

#97

thats just a natural thing thats been happening with 32 bit operating systems.

trias_e

United States520 Posts

June 30 2012 08:02 GMT

#98

Game deserves more hype as a great single player RPG. I don't even care about the MMO aspect yet. It's a fantastic successor to Vampire: Bloodlines. Fantastic writing.

This is a good in-game preview. A bit spoilery, but conveys much of what this game is about, spiritually, creatively.

loiop

34 Posts

June 30 2012 08:28 GMT

#99

Interesting graphics and atmosphere, everything else looks dull and I don't care about lore.

Archeage is the only big-budget mmorpg that looks somewhat promising to me currently.

Talin

Montenegro10532 Posts

June 30 2012 08:42 GMT

#100

This shouldn't have been an MMO. That aspect of the game is just going to drag it down into obscurity which is a shame given how much fantastic content it has.