I tried out RF online for awhile last year.
Ehh.. meh...
It's really a shame too, I tried REALLY hard to like this game. It is SO pretty, and the music is wonderful. There's a very interesting Science-Fantasy premise to the whole universe too. (For example, this is post-humanity. We're so far in the future that standard homo-sapiens as we know it no longer exist. And the 3 races in the game are various offshoots.)
I still love the opening and incidental music and have some of it downloaded.
It's physical design and character design (though limited) are outstanding. Weapon designs are very cool. Effects are too.
Too bad about the actual gameplay sucking so badly.
MAJOR COMPLAINTS:
1) You can NOT customize the keyboard! If you don't like using the standard AWSD movement keys, you are stuck. I use my mouse left-handed and I want my numberpad on the right-hand side of the keyboard to be my movement control area.
But that doesn't seem to matter to most hardcore RF players because the game seems set up for "point mouse and click to make character go there" gameplay.
I HATE that style of play. Especially tactically.
2) So - in order to get to the REALLY good stuff in terms of content, I have to spend 30 levels farming my ass off? And then it's PVP all the way?
er... NO! That's why I play City of Heroes, so I don't HAVE to do that! It's why World of Warcraft is something I still love in spite of various areas where I have to grind, because I don't HAVE to do that in WoW to have fun!
Remember that concept? Fun? As in - this shouldn't be a JOB? Because that's what it felt like getting a character to level 20. I couldn't go any further than that, really.
And speaking of WORK versus FUN....
3) Wait a minute... so in order to gain the big money I am going to need for armor and weapons and such, my faction needs to be in control of this central mine area. And I need to get a mining tool and basically... leave my character in AFK mining mode... for 8 hours? Er... FUCK NO!!!
Minor complaints:
1) Limited Emotes - this game, despite being very anime, and very pretty, is not very RP friendly.
2) Wait a minute? I can't jump? At ALL? With any character? Mind you, this does prevent one of my "favorite" annoyances in both COH and WoW, the hyper hopping in place teeny-bopper. But it's also really weird.
3) Wait a minute... you mean all that pretty water and oceans in the distance and I can't get there because a) I can't jump and b) I can't just walk off of high territory to lower territory? Boy you people really have us on rails here, don't you?
I really cannot recommend this game. As I said - it's a real shame. SO much wasted potential! It's sad, because if you took those visual and design elements that I liked and applied them to a game like WoW or Everquest, you'd really have something.-Logan
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"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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Ehh.. meh...
It's really a shame too, I tried REALLY hard to like this game. It is SO pretty, and the music is wonderful. There's a very interesting Science-Fantasy premise to the whole universe too. (For example, this is post-humanity. We're so far in the future that standard homo-sapiens as we know it no longer exist. And the 3 races in the game are various offshoots.)
I still love the opening and incidental music and have some of it downloaded.
It's physical design and character design (though limited) are outstanding. Weapon designs are very cool. Effects are too.
Too bad about the actual gameplay sucking so badly.
MAJOR COMPLAINTS:
1) You can NOT customize the keyboard! If you don't like using the standard AWSD movement keys, you are stuck. I use my mouse left-handed and I want my numberpad on the right-hand side of the keyboard to be my movement control area.
But that doesn't seem to matter to most hardcore RF players because the game seems set up for "point mouse and click to make character go there" gameplay.
I HATE that style of play. Especially tactically.
2) So - in order to get to the REALLY good stuff in terms of content, I have to spend 30 levels farming my ass off? And then it's PVP all the way?
er... NO! That's why I play City of Heroes, so I don't HAVE to do that! It's why World of Warcraft is something I still love in spite of various areas where I have to grind, because I don't HAVE to do that in WoW to have fun!
Remember that concept? Fun? As in - this shouldn't be a JOB? Because that's what it felt like getting a character to level 20. I couldn't go any further than that, really.
And speaking of WORK versus FUN....
3) Wait a minute... so in order to gain the big money I am going to need for armor and weapons and such, my faction needs to be in control of this central mine area. And I need to get a mining tool and basically... leave my character in AFK mining mode... for 8 hours? Er... FUCK NO!!!
Minor complaints:
1) Limited Emotes - this game, despite being very anime, and very pretty, is not very RP friendly.
2) Wait a minute? I can't jump? At ALL? With any character? Mind you, this does prevent one of my "favorite" annoyances in both COH and WoW, the hyper hopping in place teeny-bopper. But it's also really weird.
3) Wait a minute... you mean all that pretty water and oceans in the distance and I can't get there because a) I can't jump and b) I can't just walk off of high territory to lower territory? Boy you people really have us on rails here, don't you?
I really cannot recommend this game. As I said - it's a real shame. SO much wasted potential! It's sad, because if you took those visual and design elements that I liked and applied them to a game like WoW or Everquest, you'd really have something.-Logan
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"Wake up! Time for SCIENCE!"
-Adam Savage
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