Vindictus

[IAAW]

Re: Vindictus

Hell, I don't know. Maybe people call Vindictus an MMO just for ****s and giggles? Also, I think part of it is because Vindictus is operated by a free-to-play MMO company, and its community, being used to calling games MMOs thanks to Nexon, proceeds to refer to Vindictus as an MMO.

In my opinion, if it is a game that is massive (instance-based or not), supports multiple players, and is an online game, it can be considered as an MMO. But, that's just me.

@OneHandNow: Well, the combat is fluid; fighting is repetitive, but fun; fun and/or intense boss battles; the list goes on, pretty much. And, like I said, I wouldn't call Vindictus awesome just on those characteristics, but I do consider Vindictus a good game, and something worth checking out to see if it pertains to your interests. Not to mention that there's plenty of new content coming eventually, just as long as Nexon doesn't hold back content like with Audition when they still had it under their belt.

[OneHandNow]

Re: Vindictus

Vindictus =/= Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game?




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[IAAW]

Re: Vindictus

People will describe things how they want to describe them in many cases, whether it is the right description or not. For example, I could call cookies, well, cookies, but someone else may call them biscuits. But, I digress; I apologize if I believe in a meaning that is apparently wrong.

[Xiaounlimited]

Re: Vindictus

I chastise labelling the game as an MMO, because it lacks major factors in the "massively multiplayer" part. There's no persistent world. There isn't true player interaction outside of instances beyond marketplace trading. Colhen and Rocheste serve as, in essence, the world's game lobby. I use Diablo 2 as my prime example because it still, to this day, has more players than Vindictus. Does the sheer volume of people online make it an MMORPG? Hardly. GunBound also likely has more players than Vindictus. Does that make it an MMOTBS? Uh, no. You're interacting with a small set of people for a set period of time. What in this exactly denotes "MMO"?

The reason I disapprove of this misnomer so greatly is that people getting into the game have a right to know exactly what the game is without muddled misconceptions. MMO in this era is synonymous with persistent world and deep player interaction - not instanced mission grinding.

With all that said and done it's just a personal gripe. Vindictus is fun, play it if you have a bit of time to kill but don't expect the best game ever

[OneHandNow]

Re: Vindictus

Instanced games.. meh. Where's the competition?

[Xiaounlimited]

Re: Vindictus

WoW retail

[flaeejk]

Re: Vindictus

The best new MMO in 2010, IMO.

[Xiaounlimited]

Re: Vindictus

New content update on Wednesday. Should keep people busy for like... a week.

lol

[Garquillex]

Re: Vindictus

I think this game is very good because of the progression system and how you're able to optimize your player-skills a lot more than... perhaps every online action RPG outside of Guild Wars PvP.

Fiona - lvl 27
Evie - lvl 15
Lann - lvl 9

My only complaint so far is how shallow Evie and Lann seem compared to Fiona.

Instanced games.. meh. Where's the competition?

Competition? You mean who kills the spawn first?

Anyway, it's a cooperative game, not a single player game with a bunch of other players running around you. There's supposedly a PvP addition in the future.

[Xiaounlimited]

Re: Vindictus

I think this game is very good because of the progression system and how you're able to optimize your player-skills a lot more than... perhaps every online action RPG outside of Guild Wars PvP.

If you mean by that you can max pretty much everything, sure.

I almost have all my skills maxed to r8

[Garquillex]

Re: Vindictus

I used "player" to try to refer to everything except the in-game skills >.<

Although the game seems way too easy with a full team. Solo or 2-man seems much more fun and challenging than being able to beat on the boss all day while he chases your allies.

[Xiaounlimited]

Re: Vindictus

I can solo everything except Red Tyrant atm. Game wasn't meant to be hard

[Renevatia]

Re: Vindictus

Sorry to revive this thread, but someone had to do it.
Anyone play on West? Started on Late October finally caught up lol.

[FontSize72LOL]

Re: Vindictus

The game is still going pretty strong, there is a facebook event going on right now and if they can get up to 85k followers by April 18th (They're at 83.1k now) They'll remove the token system for a month and give out a bunch of prizes, so needless to say, if there was a time to start playing this game, it would probably be now.

(Yeah i kind of rezed this thread. Figured no point in making a new thread if one was already up)

They've done alot in the last few months. Lots of nice raid content now.

Btw, I play on West.

[IAAW]

Re: Vindictus

I'm still waiting for Karok to come along, but I'll probably start playing again if Nexon implements XE servers for Vindictus. Other than that, just patiently waiting for that big guy to come along, and at this point it probably won't be long now if Nexon is following Mabinogi Heroes' update string.

(I know I could just be playing Vindictus, but XE servers/Karok would be great for me since I have a tendency to solo everything. That and I like Karok; he has so many interesting qualities. XE servers would just sweeten the deal and/or get me to play again.)

EDIT: I guess the least I can do for now is update the OP.

EDIT: There, that should be better. Nag me if there's any info I need to alter.