DDO is suprisingly good!

[Magusigne]

Not that you guys really care but..

I have been totally burned out on WoW for the past 6 months and mostly have been playing zombie panic HL2 mod until I buy my PS3 in june. I tried a trial of EQ2 and Meh...same thing as WoW...but then I tried DDO..and WOW it is a breath of fresh air.

Anyone ever thinking about trying it should. Its pretty fun for a dungeon crawler and they have released quite a bit of new content for it.

Just a random rant.

 

[Modeps]

I love acronyms so much, specially when I have no idea what they mean.

 

[lupi]

Originally posted by: Modeps
I love acronyms so much, specially when I have no idea what they mean.

:roll:

 

[AstroManLuca]

Dance Dance Orchestra?

 

[Mr Pickles]

Ding Dong Ocean?

 

[VashHT]

Pretty sure he means dungeons and dragons online......really not that hard to figure out.

 

[Maleficus]

If you mean Dungeons and Dragons online... wow that game was so incredibly terrible when it was beta i'm honestly surprised it is still around, even for an MMO it was subpar.

 

[Magusigne]

Originally posted by: Maleficus
If you mean Dungeons and Dragons online... wow that game was so incredibly terrible when it was beta i'm honestly surprised it is still around, even for an MMO it was subpar.

Thats what alot of my friends told me, but they are now playing this over WoW due to the massive upgrades DDO has recieved in the past few months

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: Powernick50
Thats what alot of my friends told me, but they are now playing this over WoW due to the massive upgrades DDO has recieved in the past few months

Is it a real Massive Multiplayer game now with a large persistent (non instanced) world to quest and run into players outside of your party in or is just about everything instanced like Guild Wars?

 

[Throckmorton]

I think it's instanced like GW. Not an actual MMO

 

[potato28]

D&DO, not DDO... and the acronyms are why I hate mumopugers.

 

[Magusigne]

Originally posted by: potato28
D&DO, not DDO... and the acronyms are why I hate mumopugers.

its MMORPGer not mumopuger

This is why I hate people that hate the acronyms MMORPGers use...*Sigh*

 

[Robert Munch]

Originally posted by: Powernick50

Originally posted by: potato28
D&DO, not DDO... and the acronyms are why I hate mumopugers.

its MMORPGer not mumopuger

This is why I hate people that hate the acronyms MMORPGers use...*Sigh*

mmorepig?

 

[ockky]

the dungeons blow away any of wow's instances, that's fo sho

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: lupi

Originally posted by: Modeps
I love acronyms so much, specially when I have no idea what they mean.

:roll:

Man, I'm a total jerk!

 

[mryellow2]

DDO is still instanced. There are now large outdoor areas to explore (these are also instanced). It's quite a different feel from WoW. If you were ever into pen and paper d&d it really does a great job of capturing that same texture/feeling.

 

[sourceninja]

i tried it about 3 months ago. I did not like it at all. At least I think that was what I tried. Either way, I'm sick of paying monthly fees for games.

 

[SaltBoy]

Originally posted by: AstroManLuca
Dance Dance Orchestra?

Okay, I LOL'd

Originally posted by: Mr. Pickles
Ding Dong Ocean?

Okay, I LOL'd even harder :laugh:

 

[Lithan]

I know a girl who was in beta for it and she left it for Wow... basically only played it because her Guild wars guild got a bunch of invites and did guild nights in it. She told me it was pretty meh. Anyone stuck with it can say whether it got much better or just OP and her have different taste?

 

[coloumb]

Originally posted by: Powernick50
Not that you guys really care but..

I have been totally burned out on WoW for the past 6 months and mostly have been playing zombie panic HL2 mod until I buy my PS3 in june. I tried a trial of EQ2 and Meh...same thing as WoW...but then I tried DDO..and WOW it is a breath of fresh air.

Anyone ever thinking about trying it should. Its pretty fun for a dungeon crawler and they have released quite a bit of new content for it.

Just a random rant.

Glad you are enjoying it.

I found DDO to be "eh..it's ok". I played the game from release to about a week before pvp was implemented.

One of the most annoying aspects of DDO that I hated was the Cleric role. Granted, it's great the devs want to follow the rules, but it was way too costly to carry around a bunch of wands to heal party members because my "rest limit" of heals expired between rest areas. This meant you're group couldn't have any "artards" else the entire group would suffer [no heals for you!].

The player base in DDO definitely seemed more mature...

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: Powernick50

Originally posted by: potato28
D&DO, not DDO... and the acronyms are why I hate mumopugers.

its MMORPGer not mumopuger

This is why I hate people that hate the acronyms MMORPGers use...*Sigh*

You haven't seen the ZP review of The Witcher.

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: potato28

Originally posted by: Powernick50

Originally posted by: potato28
D&DO, not DDO... and the acronyms are why I hate mumopugers.

its MMORPGer not mumopuger

This is why I hate people that hate the acronyms MMORPGers use...*Sigh*

You haven't seen the ZP review of The Witcher.

ZP ftw. I always say mumopuger now, too.

 

[skace]

I played DDO pretty much all the way through right when it came out. Certainly not a bad game, the problem was that it was an "MMO on Rails" which is a really weird term when you think about it. Sure, lots of people playing something like WoW are probably going to go through Wailing Caverns. But not everyone is, and the experiences will change throughout, but with DDO's lack of content pretty much every single player was doing the exact same dungeons. In fact, it was so bad that people were leveling up by doing the same exact dungeons multiple times in a row, which is beyond depressing.

The very cool part about DDO, is that it actually had challenge. You enter a dungeon with a limited amount of semi-unrefreshable resources. Like a number of times you can cast a spell, etc. And you have to complete that dungeon with those exact resources, which makes it pretty interesting.