[Poruchiik]

From first glance of this game I wasn't going to pick it up because of the art style being so freaking comical... but it has definitely grown on me. I was either going to pick up this or The Elder Scrolls Online. Since TESO has gotten some really bad reviews, I decided to pick this up.

I've played it for about 4-6 hours now on a Mechari Warrior. I really don't get why people are comparing it to SWTOR, apart from the cutscenes here and there. There isn't the long ass conversations which I think was essentially SWTOR's downfall, the leveling I think is relatively quicker compared to what SWTOR was. IT took freaking ages to level in TOR.

It reminds me alot of what GW2 was at the beginning and also WoW. The Combat is alot like TERA's with dodge mechanics. TERA imo was definitely the most addictive MMO combat in a long while, too bad the player base for that diminished very very quickly.

The main draw to this is the hybrid of fantasy and sci fi elements. I've played alot of MMO's over the years from WoW to GW1 to SWTOR, from TERA to GW2 to Age of Wushu and I have to say it's pretty freaking polished from a starting point of view.

My main gripe with this game though is that the UI needs to fixed a little at the start... but good thing is you can do that on your own. Chatlog with all the NPC say spam was really freaking annoying, I'm so glad I found that format chatlog button to disable that and the gold coming up.

The most surprising element of this game though is the little nods of tongue-in-cheek humour throughout the game, especially when you ding a level. It definitely doesn't pretend to be something that it isn't: a launching MMORPG in a hugely saturated market.

If anyone wants to join me I'll be on the unofficial Oceanic Pergo server at launch which is a PvP server. More than likely I'll be on the Dominion Side.