Vanguard: Saga of Heroes Return attempt 1
May 1st 2009 05:16
I've had in my mind a desire to play something beautiful. Naturally with my SoE game pass, I installed Vanguard and logged into my Druid; lvl 22. I turned the settings to max quality, and just sighed a breath of pleasure. The game is BEAUTIFUL! Grass swayed with the wind, texture and realism burst into my eyes. WOW! I remember why i started playing the game in the first place.
I ported to an area that was supposed to be near my level; 17-24 and started grabbing the local quests (a side note here; i can't stand quest grinding. My biggest peeve about WoW, EQ2, and Vanguard is the focus on crappy collection and kill quests. They've all been done 10 billion times. I'm SICK of them). As I was grabbing the quests i got a group invite and moved off to the huge castle nearby. We promptly began killing spiders for a quest.
I immediately noticed a few things.
1) I got bored REAL quick. Each battle consisted of the same exact thing. hit #3, 4, 5, 6, 2 repeat.
2) spell effects were nice, but not really stunning. If you've seen any of my other screenies from EQ, you'll notice that the spell effects are abundant, but not distracting. See above screenie for how... subdued these seem in Vanguard.
3) I had some awesome buffs, cast instantaneously, but didn't really seem to add anything to the game. (what i love about EQ is that each buff, of significance, changes how you play your character)
After about a half hour i Logged and booted up EQ. not as pretty, but still more entertaining.
I might play some EQ2 for the pics, but other than how nice it looks it feels so, constrictive.
Freshly ported and set to Max Quality
I ported to an area that was supposed to be near my level; 17-24 and started grabbing the local quests (a side note here; i can't stand quest grinding. My biggest peeve about WoW, EQ2, and Vanguard is the focus on crappy collection and kill quests. They've all been done 10 billion times. I'm SICK of them). As I was grabbing the quests i got a group invite and moved off to the huge castle nearby. We promptly began killing spiders for a quest.
Groupmate and me killing some spiders
I immediately noticed a few things.
1) I got bored REAL quick. Each battle consisted of the same exact thing. hit #3, 4, 5, 6, 2 repeat.
2) spell effects were nice, but not really stunning. If you've seen any of my other screenies from EQ, you'll notice that the spell effects are abundant, but not distracting. See above screenie for how... subdued these seem in Vanguard.
3) I had some awesome buffs, cast instantaneously, but didn't really seem to add anything to the game. (what i love about EQ is that each buff, of significance, changes how you play your character)
After about a half hour i Logged and booted up EQ. not as pretty, but still more entertaining.
I might play some EQ2 for the pics, but other than how nice it looks it feels so, constrictive.
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