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F2P Cast: It's Always Sunny in Neverwinter (Ep 60)
This week illness strikes a host and we are forced to make it a husband and wife duo show! Magicman and Damina talk Neverwinter, give an update on the never ending Waren Story saga, and splash in a little MOBA chat. Your bombs and feedback round out this all new episode!
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if it wasnt for individual class story's not being there id probably just roll out 1 character to endgame and just sit on him as the way i see it class story's is key to rolling alts witch SWTOR witch nailed individual class story but Abombed the free to play model
but as said the combat looks awesome and indeed has me excited on the quality of graphics so yay its a 50/50 chance ill retain a Neverwinter toon after 6 mos of playing
My thought is that the Neverwinter story is like basic training, used on first characters as people get a feel for what's possible in the Foundry. I believe within a few months, very few people will play through the story and will opt instead to play campaigns from their favorite creators. Even when or especially when leveling alts.
I personally look forward to getting several toons to max level and then enjoying their different playstyles in Foundry content. If I'm not alone, I believe PW will make some nice cash selling character slots, especially as they release the new "must have" class/build. Hopefully I've amassed a nice cache of Astral Diamonds before then...
before she seemed like she was just there for sex appeal.
Da bomb for Aion have heard good things about it but never bothered to play it until recently
graphic wise game looks nice, probably has the most in depth character creation and i hear you can fly, wish i started a long time ago.
I'll start with the bombs:
DaBomb for wizardly online from SOE for posting up a wiki about the game. It realy helped me with my quests and dungeons.
Another DaBomb for a for Nvidia GeForce Experience, it's still on beta but what it does is to optimal your game setting with your computer hardware. It's still don't have a very much big list of games that can be optimal but there is Planetside 2 and Hawken.
About the question of the week.... then i heard the names Lara croft and Nathan Drake on the same sentence with "or" at the middle... i swear i heard a thunder, i just wanted to break something!!!!
But when i chilled out i thought about it and... well Nathan Drake is for me. I have PS3, DON'T JUDGE ME!!! I just don't know Lara very well yet. I still can change my mind, hope the new Tomb Raider will be a mind blowin.
Great show MMOBOMB cast, Keep it up! :)
For waren story i have to say that u have NO idea how many people here in greece like these type of games like linage 2 or waren story idk why but people here seem to like these types of games although there are a lot of better mmoms than waren story with better graphics/story line/combat and so on
For the moba game mentioned i got no time to try/like anything new i will stick to LoL for now
Da Bomb for i quess being lucky or unlucky(dependin on how she judges it)and having a man with no chesthair lol i remember the stream that day 1 of the best streams every :P
A-bomb to pwe and raiderz if it wasnt for teras f2p "tranformation" i doubt pwe would even release the update and still even if they released it really pwe?really?1 year for 5 lvls and like 2-3 dungeons?i am probably never going personally back to raiderz(at least not pwes version)after what i've seen
Question Of The Week:unlike most here u will be suprised that i choose drake over lara croft i've played both games but i liked the uncharted series(1 2 and 3 so far)more than the lara croft ones the only reason i would say lara croft instead of drake would be cause she has boobs but that would be silly so i will go with drake
REALLY awesome show this week i really enjoyed myself when Damina ruined your moment about your "non-existing chest hair" keep up the good work and see you next week
Thanks for a mother great show :)
First off, before I start watching the show I'd like to give a HUGE A-BOMB to Turbine, they had a 12-hour scheduled maintenance (for supposedly an upgrade to back-end systems, including accounts and billing) which now is 48+ hours and there's still no ETA in sight. This affects their accounts page, as well as all their games - everything but the main website and forum is offline.
/clicks Play.
mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/634/feature/7129/Get-Everything-You-Want-By-Playing.htm
Now:
STAY AWAY this will end up like all their other titles of pure garbage.
WOW, ok where to start: 1) ‘”We’re doing this acrobat routine without a net. We’re going full free. Ground up. We’re not starting as a subscription game and changing. This is a free game from day one. So, our current presale options do not include monthly stipends that usually accompany lifetime subscriptions (like STO). I’m not sure that there’ve been many Western MMORPG”s to do this from the beginning and I’m on the edge of my seat to see what happens. ” – DO you all understand what this means? IT IS EXACTLY LIKE PWE, and all their other titles. THERE ARE NO MONTHLY SUBS in PWE but we all know it is the most expensive “F2P” PAy to win POS on the markey. They are saying the removed the tier payment from STO like it is a good things THIS IS A BAD THING!
2) Star Trek is great because fans pay and ALLOW the market to be balanced with dilithium, in game coins, and cash shop coins. I can level up to level 10 and get over 2K dilithium in quests right now. Go to the market and turn it in for Zenny or put it up to gain in game cash. The prices are balanced because PEOPLE PAY MONTHLY for the tiered BENEFITS.
Now, log into all their other GAMES that have no TIER payments (PWE) and it is all over priced broke economy. The billions of ingame gold to get 1 of anything forces you to do dungeons and attempt to sell the same item to some poor sucker who still doesnt get it. Soon everyone stops bein that sucker, and realisez ‘I need X item to get into dungeon to get item to make money. BUT I cant do item without item so I do not have money…so how to get item to start the cycle?’ YOu pay REAL cash, by the thousans, to stay on this expanding comeptitve edge. Soon, enough suckers stop to exist, only guys with gambeling like addiction problems are there to pump time and or cash into this system and it is a game over scenario. Gamers usually just F2P there for the social aspect not the gameplay. This is something you cannot do in Never Winter as it is instanced world soooo…IT is really a crap chute for the wallet.
3) He sort of lies saying ‘ I’m not sure that there’ve been many Western MMORPG”s to do this from the beginning” HELLOOOO your PWE partnership…all their games started like this! YOURS from CRYPTIC (STO) IS THE ONLY ONE they signed on that has tiers. SO YES, they existed before and they are HORRIBLE!
4) God, brainless consumers wake up! BOYCOTT this garbage! Do not play it unless they install a better F2P model. Frankly, It is not surprising, and Star Trek is the ONLY PWE game I play because CRYPTIC still has a great model at a low price. Id play PWE if it had a sub and sub perks. But as it is , NO TIERS = MAss cash by the thousands to stay competitve.
In conclusion, Don't get suckered into this copy and paste model of Perfect World. It is their way of tearing Cryptics tiers out by showing this CEO the revenue of PW. He is lying, (but lies safely by using "probably" verbage).
D-Bomb to Cryptic as well for listening to beta feedback!
A-Bomb for overzealous fans... my current gripe is with overzealous D&D fans with unrealistic expectations but that kind of stuff is spread all across the being a fan of D&D is not bad, in fact it is great, but, fans, please do a reality check once in a while.
As for question of the week - neither. I don't think they are bad characters or bad games but I'm just a huge Legacy of Kain fan and... well, Tomb Raider and Uncharted marked if not the death, at least a long hiatus of my favorite series. Good thing that LoK will return soon... well, perhaps we might see an actual announcement in a couple of years but I'm really getting off-topic.
I am still not sold on Neverwinter. It's an arcade game, and although Dungeons and Dragons has had arcade games in the past, I don't usually associate the name with arcade hack and slash. The customization found in games like Baldurs Gate and Neverwinter Nights series was somewhat followed in DDO from Turbine however they are sorely ill-represented in this game. It has been severely watered down. I've never been an altoholic, preferring to stick with 1 character till everything is maxed and I mean EVERYTHING, but I could not imagine going through the same content over and over again. And these classes are kind of dry with not so many choices to make your character unique so I can see maybe 4 alts average from even altoholics..
Waren Story... The MMO's that flourish in the East are muuuch different than the West.. They still enjoy Lineage 2 and even Silkroad Online over in the East.. It's really sad that companies cannot mold to the region they are trying to sell to. So many old school Eastern MMO's are closing so fast over here in the West because there is no longer any room for these types of games. If you want to break into the industry in the west, you had better have something comparable.
First off, What is going on Damina ! ..Did Bigpoint stop sending you "Free" credit's to promote thier game.. " Gameglobe "?
With thier new content i was really thinking that was All Your's for your Da Bomb !
Guess in the end it finaly bored you to..Oh well, In the end you better take side's with the True Gamer's huh !!! hahahaha. ;)
Question of the week ..
Alex:] Come on Lara. My (beep) is lost in the jungle and it's up to you to find it. Oh Lara you dirty dirty adventurer. Let's see what's under you skirt. Lara, no panties? You know I like that.
100% for Lara, And Thank you Grandma's Boy for that special unforgettable moment !
Till next week , Again Thank's for the Show.
Inflictious
Sins of a Dark Age is currently my favorite game to jump into. The gameplay is really smooth for an early beta. The community is great, but very small currently. This is my only gripe with the game. You can sometimes wait for 15+ mins to get a game. We NEED people to log on. There are over 1,500 keys left on this very site!
The Realm Quest system adds a lil extra ooomph to the game. Very traditional MOBA, but then the realm quests throw a wrench in the mix. Sometimes, going for the quest isn't the best play. Muhuhahahaha!
Please give it a shot guys, just don't insta-bash the title just because its a MOBA. I too, was a dedicated LoL player from mid beta through season 1. I grew to loathe the game, and it's retched community! SoDA's a fresh look on the genre; with a great community ta boot!
Bomb of the Week: DaBomb for IronClad Games for releasing a patch on Valentines Day that was extremely thorough on balancing and bug fixes. If they keep the hard work up I believe this game has a true chance to take the genre by storm!
Wednesdays are the best Magic! Chest hairs, toothbrushes, and pants oh my!
BarenChestBombed by Damina! HA! That's awesome!
Take care Magic, Damina, and all you Bombers!
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