Anyone play Planetside?

[Lonyo]

Also, is there a free trial? (Buddy system or something?) because I don't want to pay for the game only to find it sucks.

Any info would be appreciated, seems like an interesting concept at least, and updated too

 

[ramulack]

there was a free trial avail for download at fileplanet, but looking at it right now its in CLOSED status

 

[dakels]

Planetside has one MAJOR issue. Its a MMOFPS. Therefore the lag is rediculous and syncing problems are all over the place. Granted I tried it early in its development but the overall concept has flaws within current technology. I hear its gotten alot better now but its still pretty laggy. The problem is that with FPS games you load the whole map and player data is sent back and forth for the whole map. With a MMO player data and object must be sent dynamically as you move to different areas. This causes alot of lag and desyncing. For a RPG game it works since you are usually fighting NPC's on the server and not on a client PVP style, and also the type of turn based action is not as time senstive as say aiming a gun at a moving target.

 

[Smilin]

I found it to be a very fun game but it will burn out and get repetitive quickly. The size of the battles is unbelievable but every other feature can be found in another game.

 

[HardWarrior]

I played for 9-months, BR20, CR4. I REALLY liked it until Sony started playing with game "balance".

 

[Gurck]

Sony bites, don't bother.

 

[HardWarrior]

Sony sucks as far as PS went.

 

[blazer78]

well without ps2 there would be no final fantasy x, x-2 and XII

well, i hope its not too late, but u should be getting into lineage II a MMORPG, but i'm not sure whether ur into rpgs so u can check lineage II out at www.lineage2.com