Cyber,
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The most obvious of these two me is the "long wait times to get into the action" - Sorry, this one I really can't agree with. Play any other MMOG and the wait times are 2-3x what you see in PS.
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Dont compare downtime in a RPG to downtime in a FPS. It makes you look silly. What downtime is there in Tribes? Unreal Tournament? Or maybe you dont want to focus on non-MM games. Ever play 10six? I could log on, grab a gun, armor, mods, gear, and vehicles and head to an enemy base within 2 minutes.
PS has 1/50-1/100 the weapons/armor/mods/gear that 10six had. PS has a fraction of the complexity. Yet PS has more downtime. Hmmm....
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There's some other ones that are questionable, each continent in PS has it's own rather unique feel compared to the others. For instance while Cyssor / Amerish and Forestal are all 'green' each one plays and feels signficantly different then others.
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It doesnt realy matter what the terrain looks like when the developers designed the game so that the ONLY thing that mattered was bases. They didnt design in a way to keep frontlines out in the wilds. It happens sporadically, but 95% of the fighting happens around bases.
Keeping that in mind: the devs decided to see just how lazy they could be and designed FIVE bases for the ENTIRE world for handling almost ALL of the combat. Of COURSE a reviewer is going to say everything looks the same.
If the devs do one of the following (or both), then it wont be an issue:
1. Find a way to move the front lines out into the terrain
2. Spend a few hours making some more god damn base designs
Until they feel like doing either of these, one an important game design, and the other a simple task requiring a minimum of effort... then a reviewer should be free to critisize.
2003-06-07, 10:13 AM
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