Anyone play this? I'm unclear whether it is still in open Beta or if it's been officially released but I just started yesterday and it seems pretty cool.
At first glance I was like "okay, another lame WoW clone." Then halfway through the trailer they were like "oh and by the way you can build a spaceship and travel through the aether." And I was like "huuuuhhhh....."
The basic framework of the game essentially is WoW. I'd say in the ballpark of the quality of the original version (pretty impressive given that this is a free-to-play game) ... except that instead of starting off with "Now you are a man! Go kill some pigs!" It starts off with "OMG our ship is under attack we need to get the hell out of here and fend off a giant space monster in the process." After things settle down I think it ends up being a bit more like a traditional MMO, but so far it looks like there's more of an overarching plot. ("Hearthstones" seem to have an actual storyline centering around them. You don't just get handed one for now reason, there's a quest chain leading up to them that makes them out to be this mysterious technology you don't understand yet).
The feel of the game is very much like Outland from Burning Crusade, with a Draenei style mix of fantasy and high technology. I don't know what level you have to be to build an aether-ship, but it looks pretty cool. You can't man a ship all by yourself so I'm trying to get some friends into the game.
Right now I'm playing an Arisen Occultist/Psionicist. Arisen are undead, but with their limbs replaced with cyborg mechanical parts, which is a character idea I've always wanted to see and they look pretty awesome. Psionicists are sort of a weird mix between rogues, hunters and warlocks. They have some basic magical attacks, but their main ability is to spend 20 seconds forming a bond with the mind of their opponent, after which they can deal absurd amounts of damage (flavorwise they're basically destroying your mind). They have other abilities that let you form Mental Links faster.
If you're a gnome lover, the game has it's own resident "tiny" race called Gibberlings, which are more like furry mouse people. The thing I found particularly neat is that you don't play a single Gibberling, you play a cluster of three of them (they are born in pods of three and tend to stay with their siblings their entire life). If you're a gnome hater, well in this game you get to kill three times as many at once!
At first glance I was like "okay, another lame WoW clone." Then halfway through the trailer they were like "oh and by the way you can build a spaceship and travel through the aether." And I was like "huuuuhhhh....."
The basic framework of the game essentially is WoW. I'd say in the ballpark of the quality of the original version (pretty impressive given that this is a free-to-play game) ... except that instead of starting off with "Now you are a man! Go kill some pigs!" It starts off with "OMG our ship is under attack we need to get the hell out of here and fend off a giant space monster in the process." After things settle down I think it ends up being a bit more like a traditional MMO, but so far it looks like there's more of an overarching plot. ("Hearthstones" seem to have an actual storyline centering around them. You don't just get handed one for now reason, there's a quest chain leading up to them that makes them out to be this mysterious technology you don't understand yet).
The feel of the game is very much like Outland from Burning Crusade, with a Draenei style mix of fantasy and high technology. I don't know what level you have to be to build an aether-ship, but it looks pretty cool. You can't man a ship all by yourself so I'm trying to get some friends into the game.
Right now I'm playing an Arisen Occultist/Psionicist. Arisen are undead, but with their limbs replaced with cyborg mechanical parts, which is a character idea I've always wanted to see and they look pretty awesome. Psionicists are sort of a weird mix between rogues, hunters and warlocks. They have some basic magical attacks, but their main ability is to spend 20 seconds forming a bond with the mind of their opponent, after which they can deal absurd amounts of damage (flavorwise they're basically destroying your mind). They have other abilities that let you form Mental Links faster.
If you're a gnome lover, the game has it's own resident "tiny" race called Gibberlings, which are more like furry mouse people. The thing I found particularly neat is that you don't play a single Gibberling, you play a cluster of three of them (they are born in pods of three and tend to stay with their siblings their entire life). If you're a gnome hater, well in this game you get to kill three times as many at once!
(nor the time)
I might have to give this a try then.