D&D Online NDA Lifted

[Wrenn]

Yay, the NDA has been lifted. Not that it matters, as most testers broke their NDA already to report on how awful this game is.

Look at the DDO forums at mmorpg.com or go to the game's official forums. The best part of the test, for me anyway, is reading the vast majority of the comments.

I hope you guys didn't get your hopes up about DDO.

[Psy]

was in stress beta. It's not worth the time. It's singel player with irl ppl.

[megalomaniac]

so basically in DDO you don't grind on mobs anymore, no, you grind quests over and over again? At least I have the choice whether to "grind" on quests (and hardly ever the same ones) or mobs, they don't. But I'm not exactly surprised, the game didn't sound very good from the beginning...

http://www.notaddicted.com/forums/showthread.php?t=220 is fun, also for his "5 out of 10 dark elfs" pic... health and mana regen only in taverns? debuffs only wearing off in taverns? freaking instances over and over and over like in GW? EEK

[Taos]

so basically in DDO you don't grind on mobs anymore, no, you grind quests over and over again? At least I have the choice whether to "grind" on quests (and hardly ever the same ones) or mobs, they don't. But I'm not exactly surprised, the game didn't sound very good from the beginning...

http://www.notaddicted.com/forums/showthread.php?t=220 is fun, also for his "5 out of 10 dark elfs" pic... health and mana regen only in taverns? debuffs only wearing off in taverns? freaking instances over and over and over like in GW? EEK Sounds like LotRO will be just as bad as this.

[old ass guy]

bad game

RF online ftw

[soltys]

so basically in DDO you don't grind on mobs anymore, no, you grind quests over and over again?

Well, generally you grind mobs in quests :) Plus you get the exp bonus at the end of the quest for killing "more completely" - so I've heard.

Either way, it's the same static stuff repeated over and over again, as in any other game.

[Wrenn]

Yes, you grind quests over and over again. However, you must do the same quest repeatedly, with less and less experience gained, in order to unlock further quests.

The biggest complaints I have heard about the game are:

No explorable world. It's all instanced dungeons.
No crafting.
No storyline.
VERY slow levelling (some beta testers took two weeks to get to level 5)
Forced grouping . . no solo at all.
No player housing.
No PvP.
Player customization is lacking.
(there's plenty more, but what's the point in listing them)

[Arreco]

Well they scewed themselves when they thought they could turn PnP into a MMO. The game is desgined to reflect a DnD session. The problem is that DnD itself isn't what is the over all enjoyment. The enjoyment of DnD is the enviroment in which you play it. Hanging out with friends acting crazy and fucking with the DM's head. I knew the game would floop the moment I read how they were gonna run it. You just can't create that type of game into a MMO. It just won't fly.

[Craylon]

played the stress test and really liked it

even tough i always argue about how much cooler a non-instanced world is it was a nice experience.

after playing d&d i kind of remembered what i liked in the computer games and p&p i played bevore lineage2. riddles, jumping, klimbing, collapsing caves, enemies that are there for a reason and not just spawn...

i dont want to diss l2, i still like it and prolly will play it till the end of days i really wonder why the quest are so crappy.
when all ppl say its a pvp game, why arent there 200 pvp quests in l2
(escorting npc from a to b, executing player c, a caravan that brings taxes from heine to innadril castle, things that can be stolen from castle lord z, elmor vs aden battles, quest for a permit to hunt a raidboss...)

bottom line is that ncs imagination stops at killing 500 mobs at point a then walking to point b. i think in l2 the fact that player can fight players is more like an excuse to implement nothing else.

[Wrenn]

Cray,

I consider Castle Sieges pvp quests, as are battling for hideouts and clan wars.

[Xan]

Cray,

I consider Castle Sieges pvp quests, as are battling for hideouts and clan wars.
Good one <3
Still i love L2 for the thing that players can shape the world.
I remeber old day on bartz when one side of server controled DVC and other side got FG.
Its all about ppl in l2 and what they will make with thier server.

[Tika]

Hasbro should never release any games, period. They ruin every game they make. DnD games were good when Bioware had rights to make them. I am sure if Bioware had the rights to make DnD Online, there would have been massive customization as well as PvP.

[eneyla]

Hasbro should never release any games, period. They ruin every game they make. DnD games were good when Bioware had rights to make them. I am sure if Bioware had the rights to make DnD Online, there would have been massive customization as well as PvP.


It's a shame that legal shit ruined that of course.

oh Baldurs Gate 2, never leave me baby :dwf_cry:

DnD Online is pretty enjoyable not as a MMORPG but a throwback to oldschool questing with a bunch of fuckin twats and rogues who like to get you killed by leading you on into a trap which unleashes a fireball unto your face and charring your balls off.

If people are looking for gameplay simliar to L2 they sure won't find it here, besides the max Level in DnD ruleset is 20, unless you start getting into the epic part of it, which reaches all that crazy demigod shit, then you're just fucking it up by running left and right slaying gods, except Helm of course, since he's some fuckin eyeball you'll never ever see. This games about crazy adventures with morons which give you storys you won't forget, like that one cleric who thought it'd be smart to run past those 2 statues which looked very suspicsious opening a trapdoor a beholder comes flying out of and it just fucks you uppp

It's a decent pve experience at any rate.

[Craylon]

all i can say is i still like it :)

wheter or not it can be called a "true mmporpg" is up to a debate but it feels to me like a real cool game with quests being +++more intelligent then l2 grind.

while l2 is more mmp and less rpg i feel the atmosphere of ddo will allow ppl a great more deal of rpg

so i guess in a month from now for me it will be:
l2 daily as many hours i can spare, some on the weekend
ddo whenever i get a group of friends together at the weekend to play an adventure