Eve ?

I've heard it is a very good game . So my expectations were quite high . I downloaded the demo and started playing . I quit after 5 minutes ...

Anyone had the same experience ?

Ha yup. Everybody built it up to be some deep and rich MMO experience, but I found it bloated, clunky, and not user friendly. Quit after 10.

It's not that I can't figure out complicated games, it's just that the way the game was presented made me figure it's not worth my time to figure it out and try to get into it. So I reinstalled X3 and started playing that. Much better.

It is a great game.. once you can climb over the learning curve of being smart (aka. common sense and gut feel), basic economics and controls.

I'm not forcing you to like, get it. EVE isn't meant for everyone, just like Korean MMOs and their grind fests (but seriously? who finds grinding fun?)

Ha yup. Everybody built it up to be some deep and rich MMO experience, but I found it bloated, clunky, and not user friendly. Quit after 10.

It's not that I can't figure out complicated games, it's just that the way the game was presented made me figure it's not worth my time to figure it out and try to get into it. So I reinstalled X3 and started playing that. Much better.

EVE Online was easier for me to pick up on than the X3 games, which goes against standard preconsceptions set into place by other gamers.

There's plenty of ways to go in EVE, even trading has upwards to fifteen roles involed -- and even more in combat fleets. Basically take your time and explore your options. There's a neat new tutorial system set in place that's vastly superior to the one I used when I started, so that's a definite plus. It outlines your career paths and gives you little rookie missions as to what you should expect. You don't get to experience the fullness of the game if you play for a mere five or ten minutes, but I don't blame you. I'd happy take up STALKER or Mass Effect any day.

Anyway, EVE is an open ended MMO where you get involved in the game world and drive the storyline. It may sound like propaganda like the Butterfly Effect trailer, but it's true; players and their empires clash as NPC factions interact with each other based on what they do.

Ha yup. Everybody built it up to be some deep and rich MMO experience, but I found it bloated, clunky, and not user friendly. Quit after 10.

It's not that I can't figure out complicated games, it's just that the way the game was presented made me figure it's not worth my time to figure it out and try to get into it. So I reinstalled X3 and started playing that. Much better.

Wasdie

I don't want to spend hours and hours to understand a game . I want to understand it from the beginning so I can like it ...

You don't have to, champ. It's your money and your time, some like WoW, others like EVE and some like MW2. What can I say? :P

[QUOTE="Wasdie"]

Ha yup. Everybody built it up to be some deep and rich MMO experience, but I found it bloated, clunky, and not user friendly. Quit after 10.

It's not that I can't figure out complicated games, it's just that the way the game was presented made me figure it's not worth my time to figure it out and try to get into it. So I reinstalled X3 and started playing that. Much better.

I don't want to spend hours and hours to understand a game . I want to understand it from the beginning so I can like it ...

Ha yup. Everybody built it up to be some deep and rich MMO experience, but I found it bloated, clunky, and not user friendly. Quit after 10.

It's not that I can't figure out complicated games, it's just that the way the game was presented made me figure it's not worth my time to figure it out and try to get into it. So I reinstalled X3 and started playing that. Much better.

I quit after 200 hours. It's gameplay is 100% in right clicking menus, which is boring as hell. No interaction whatsoever with the avatar of yourself you are watching.

The only thing they got going for them is immersing CGI advertisements lol

Anyone who quits a complex and an immense MMO like EVE after 5 or 10 minutes lacks the patience to play the game at the first place.

Yes I did learn how to fly my ship and several other things that were based too much on clicking stuff .

No , I don't lack patience , the game lacks that special something to introduce new players to their universe .

As it was said, far to much clicking on stuff. Where's the direct control of your ship? Seriously... you can't give me a good reason why it isn't there. Why do I have to click to go everywhere? X3 Reunion and Freelancer do just fine with that.

I can say for you all to try WWII Online for more than 10 minutes but none of you will. You'll all just get bored of it and walk away never wanting to play again. That's fine with me.

I can tell 99% of the time if I am going to enjoy the game within the first 10 minutes of me playing. I either don't like it and walk away, like it and keep playing, or don;t like it but feel I haven't seen enough to make a proper judgement. With EVE I found out really fast that I just wouldn't like it. Don't worry, I do that with 99% of MMOs. They just seem like to much a time investment for to little of a reward. The reward of course is just enjoying myself.

You are in direct control of your ship. But if you're wonderng why you don't see the crew, it's because they don't matter and they come standard with a new ship. Not to mention there's no such thing as a bridge anymore, but that's more into the lore of the game and doesn't matter right now.

Of course, we're not going to axe murder you for not liking the game, I play off and on because I can't stand more than a month or two at one time.

The huge problem is that there is no good reason for any visuals in this game, because complete control is given via context menus. This is a game you'd play on DOS, for me these are not fun anymore in our current generation. If they completely revamped the user interface to give you more direct control, so that the visuals are integrated in some way, I might love the game.

The learning curve is really steep and the game in general is very deep and unfriendly for newcomers.

As it was said, far to much clicking on stuff. Where's the direct control of your ship? Seriously... you can't give me a good reason why it isn't there. Why do I have to click to go everywhere? X3 Reunion and Freelancer do just fine with that.

I can say for you all to try WWII Online for more than 10 minutes but none of you will. You'll all just get bored of it and walk away never wanting to play again. That's fine with me.

I can tell 99% of the time if I am going to enjoy the game within the first 10 minutes of me playing. I either don't like it and walk away, like it and keep playing, or don;t like it but feel I haven't seen enough to make a proper judgement. With EVE I found out really fast that I just wouldn't like it. Don't worry, I do that with 99% of MMOs. They just seem like to much a time investment for to little of a reward. The reward of course is just enjoying myself.

Wasdie

X3 and Freelancer are not MMORPG's where hundereds vs hundereds ship fights are happening. How can you even fight in a situation like that with a direct control. Screw that, how can you manage lag?

Here is a good reason.

As it was said, far to much clicking on stuff. Where's the direct control of your ship? Seriously... you can't give me a good reason why it isn't there. Why do I have to click to go everywhere? X3 Reunion and Freelancer do just fine with that.

I can say for you all to try WWII Online for more than 10 minutes but none of you will. You'll all just get bored of it and walk away never wanting to play again. That's fine with me.

I can tell 99% of the time if I am going to enjoy the game within the first 10 minutes of me playing. I either don't like it and walk away, like it and keep playing, or don;t like it but feel I haven't seen enough to make a proper judgement. With EVE I found out really fast that I just wouldn't like it. Don't worry, I do that with 99% of MMOs. They just seem like to much a time investment for to little of a reward. The reward of course is just enjoying myself.

Wasdie

THe music is sorta good. Sfx are like pew pew. So when I play i make my own sound fx. Like pew pew KABOOm.KLONE360

Full game immersion has never been better.

[QUOTE="KLONE360"]THe music is sorta good. Sfx are like pew pew. So when I play i make my own sound fx. Like pew pew KABOOm.Sheppard212

Full game immersion has never been better.