Adventures in Archlord Beta
Yeah, so Archlord pretty much sucks. It's not even that pretty. I think the only thing that made it worth trying out was that badass summoned horse, Mercury. lol That sob can kick some ass. As you can see, its heavily Manga style. I don't have a problem with that other than the fact that there is absolutely minimal character customization. Can't hold a canlde to EQ2. *in many many MANY ways* In fact, the only thing I could see motivating Codemasters to do this game was money. Yep,.. if I had to tell you what seemed to be the over-all inspiration behind this game, I would say "money".
This is the BUGGIEST game I've ever played. Cave walls will vanish, bridges will vanish, random boxes will pop up with computer text symbols and an ominous choice of Yes or No, the third pet that is available to the Elementalist spawns with only a fourth of it's life and no way to heal it, then if it does die and you leave it behind before it blinks off the screen fully you wont be able to recast ANY pet without crashing the game and starting over, most of the quests I've tried are broken.... *sigh*. Even the Auction House is screwed. Put an item up for auction, someone buys it and you have to confirm or cancel the sale but UH OH,.. confirming the sale does nothing. So the item sits in your sales log taking up space and you cant delete it.
And the worst part about this game? There's no way to report a bug. In fact, you have to exit out of this fullscreen game, take a jaunt to the website, log into the forums, review them to make sure you're not repeating something they already know about, and THEN you can tell them about it if you feel you need to.
With EQ? /bug .... thats it... there ya go... type it in, describe your problem, the game and the developers do the rest. End of subject.
So yeah, people were ripping on this game all through beta. And all the problems I've listed are just a few that I can remember off-hand that directly influenced my class. There are several other classes I didn't have time to explore.
Here's the real kicker; they're telling everyone they're going to release this game and go live by Tuesday. HAHAHA! BWAhahahHAHA!
It's amazing what levels some folks will stoop to for money. At least EQ went for quality. Gameplay is SEAMLESS on EQ. There are little to NO bugs LEFT in the game. Only occasionally with patches.
But THIS game,... wow... just WOW.....
unoriginal...
poorly thought out....
poorly coded.... (haha CODEMASTERS! roflmao)
just pitiful....
And they want you to pay fifteen a month for this thing... lol.
Don't get me wrong, I do like the concept and it could be SO much better. But these guys just don't seem to give a rats ass. Too bad too... could've been a really fun game....
