I’d like to thank CGM for the Lords of Everquest demo. I haven’t tried it yet, but I have been wondering about this game for a while now. I’ll get my chance to scope it this weekend. Anyone have thoughts on this game? I worry that it might not control well or that it might lack balance. I guess I am really just worried that it might be an inferior Warcraft III clone.
I think your latter concern is the most likely scenario. I played it at GenCon and it didn’t grab me. My tolerance for RTS games is at an all-time low, however. Games like Kohan and Medieval: Total War have spoiled me.
If you click on the units a bunch of times, will they say funny things? That’s what customers like in RTS gaming!
I’m not playing another RTS unless it’s titled Rome: Total War, Battle for Middle Earth or Kohan: Age of Kings.
Or unless it looks cool and original.
The screenshots I saw early on had art that looked lifted straight out of WC3. No, I’m not kidding, and I wasn’t the first one to notice it. Have they changed anything?
Yes, other people HAVE noticed.
I tried playing one of those demos they released a couple of weeks ago, and it was incredibly dull. It feels like a WC3 mod.
Where can you grab the demo from?
you’re better off avoiding it, honestly. i’m sure google can turn it up if you really, really want to try it.
I can’t get the demo to install from the disk. :(. I wanted to at least try the game before passing judgment. This is an “exclusive” so it may be different from the one online. Guess I won’t be able to find out though. Stupid demo disks.
Which is the bigger copycat, Lords of Everquest or LotR: War of the Ring?
I had that same problem with CGM CDs, and then discovered that the cd had to be in my optical drive that was next in letter order from my hard drive. Thus, I had to install it from my DVD-RW drive and not my CD-ROM drive. At least I think that was the problem, because it installed without a hitch from the DVD drive.
Can you just copy it from the CD to your hard drive and install it from there?
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Maybe, but I shouldn’t have to. I may try that this weekend, but I had kind of given up on it. If it weren’t from CGM I would just unsubscribe or let my subscription end! That would show them! They would lose all my money forever! And ever!
sorry…it really did annoy me.
Everquest’s fantasy world is so dreary compared to the established RTS franchises i can’t wait to see how mediocre this egg will be when hatched. Since im a big fan of Blizzard ill be even more amused if Blizz can make a superior MMORPG.
Last I looked it struck me as an Everquest clone.
Another RTS. Enough already.
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Played EQ for 3 years and various other MOGs. From what I can tell of WoW it aint a clone. Unless you consider the whole kill -> level a clone. Then they are all clones of D&D!
More Diku mud clones. Kill and level with Tolkienesque/D&D fantasy creatures is pretty much a clone to me… what would you say strongly distinguishes WoW?
Am not saying I won’t play it (or EQ2, for that matter), but I’m not terribly intrigued by the description so far.
From my first-hand impressions of the title, it felt EXACTLY like Everquest. The combat felt the same, the classes felt the same. Maybe it’s got a great levelling or crafting system that will distinguish it, that’s not something they were able to show off at E3. But what we saw generally didn’t impress us. (The gameshark team, I mean - I’m not using the royal ‘we’) (although I could, you fuckers, who are you to question me? OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!)