» Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:18 am
I do also want FOO to be as close to the original FO's as possible, and if that means an M, so be it. I don't really look at the age rating when I buy games. I just want that feeling back that I had the first time I played these games somewhere around 2001-2002'ish. A big reason why I concider the FO series to be one of, if not the, best PC game series ever, is because it felt like I was playing a pen and paper rpg. And I really liked that, since I played a lot of pen and paper rpg from 1996 and forward.
As for AoC: I will have to admit that I only played it for 2 weeks, for probably atleast 6-10 hours a day, each day... at the release of the game. I was one of those who got to start playing the game befor everyone else. So I played 1 week befor the official release, and 1 weeks after the official release.
As for how much of the game I played? Pretty much all of it that was available at that time. Of course there was not that very much content to be had, which is understandable since it had just come out, AND had been rushed out as well. BUT, even though the lack of content, you would reach max level long befor you had played all the content.
So one thing that bugged me a lot with AOC was the leveling. Befor the game had even opened to the public, I was already in the 70's of level... out of 80. So in about 7 days I had gained 70+ levels already. And I think I reached level 80 on my 10th day of gaming. The last few levels took longer to reach, but only because I started up 3 other characters in my second week of gaming.
So, after 2 weeks of gaming, I had 1 character at max level of 80, one character at about 50 or so, and two characters around roughly lvl 35. And to me that's just... wrong... plain and simply wrong. So I stopped playing, did not even feel that I needed the last 2 free weeks I had left, had already goten everything I needed out of AoC.
I know the game has been updated a lot since then. But a guild friend of mine who went back to play it again at the end of last year said that it was not really that extreamly different from how it was in the start... mainly just more content etc.