Impressions of Sb

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 2:48 am

It's not all that good... actually it's not good at all... it lags, it crashes and it bores the hell out of me...

feels like another level up and kill sort of thing to me... I haven't played it enuff so this is my first impressions... I have to hack the same crap over and over till I get good enuff so I can hack another bunch of crap over and over till I graduate to another type of creatures..

Most of the time I wander around the map don't know where to go.. meet an enemy gets clubbed then I lost everything and start over again...

Thinking of returning this game... too bad I've already paid for3 months of it... I guess I'll keep playing it then.. who knows.. it might actually turn out good if it stops lagging... and that I'm a lil more powerful

porkchop · Post by **porkchop** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 11:59 am

Return it and buy warcraft 3 and play on battle net and get pwned by stupid mother****ing hackers...

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 12:07 pm

I agree. MMORPGs are a good idea, but the way they're done just seems to suck to me...I've found myself turning the game off after playing 10 or so minutes. Maybe I'm spoiled on the linear storytelling console games like Final Fantasy X.

Shagster · Post by **Shagster** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 12:15 pm

Originally posted by Burke
I agree. MMORPGs are a good idea, but the way they're done just seems to suck to me...I've found myself turning the game off after playing 10 or so minutes. Maybe I'm spoiled on the linear storytelling console games like Final Fantasy X.

Ive played them all and the only two I feel are worth a **** are galaxies and UO.

If you havent played them of course youll think they suck

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 12:24 pm

Originally posted by Shaggy
Ive played them all and the only two I feel are worth a **** are galaxies and UO.

If you havent played them of course youll think they suck

now I don't think it's too bad.. got a nice group of high level players that helped me out tuning my second character...

even got me alotta money... the game itself aint all that good.. but the people in there make it quite nice..

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 1:04 pm

Originally posted by Immortal
now I don't think it's too bad.. got a nice group of high level players that helped me out tuning my second character...

even got me alotta money... the game itself aint all that good.. but the people in there make it quite nice..

Well crap. I have nothing. Waa.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 1:53 pm

these games all need a dark side, bunch of players that just do evil crap like kill and rob u, raid towns, steal wisdoms and artifacts that type of stuf but they totaly go to being good and the monster are to be the only bad ones, have players being good and evil would help to lessen thos that join and ruin the game for others cuz part of the game would be a solid defense agaisnt these players. have some monters loyal to the evil guilds/teams/players so that a high level player could command a group of them, and have some random townsppl or knights be able to be lead by the good then have a few different groups of nuetral enemies.

also when i get into a game like this i really dont care to worry about weapons breaking or feedign my player, doesnt need to be that real.

now i knwo some ppl like the realis of these but u have uo, shadowbane, eq for that, they need to apeal to us other style gamers.

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 2:49 pm

you really have not seen anything until you hit 30+

the politics between the wars that is gong on the server right now is something yo cannot get in any other game

serioulsy levelling is the fatest in any other mopprg

i can get from 1-30 in a day, and that is only from about 3-4 hours of playing, you cannot do that in any other mmoprg without major powerlevlling

give it a shot, once you hit lvl 25-30, you will see the intriciacies of this game and how it all works ot

Right now the major war going on is between Lok-ri and Sol, and rumors are that Sol has allied with Lod, which is a bad move becuase veryone hates LoD on the server

Sol city will proabbly be the first to burn on the ground

immortal, i logged on my alt las tnight but i think you logged by the time i did sorry i missed you hopefully tonight i be on around 9 pm est

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 2:54 pm

How can you leave the town your in? I'd like to hook up with Immortal but maybe I just haven't read tge manual

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 3:02 pm

Originally posted by Burke
How can you leave the town your in? I'd like to hook up with Immortal but maybe I just haven't read tge manual

talked to runemaster and hit other options

yes manual is about 150 pages of very good info

highly reocmmend to read

this game has a high learnign curve beucase of the deatils

Rings890 · Post by **Rings890** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 4:03 pm

I only just started playing SB a week ago. I had been playing UO for the last four years and watched the as the game went down hill because of all the cry babys. SB has a nice feel to it and as you increase in levels you get into some good PVP.
All in all I like Shadowbane.

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 4:14 pm

I just ventured out myself.. an hour or so alone..

I killed the whole band of bandits.. one by one.. myself... each giving me almost 1000 xp... kick arse....

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 4:34 pm

hmmm another thing that bothers me is the log in... it never goes smoothly.... most of the time

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 4:36 pm

this game is better than UO.Way better.UO was fun first few years then it turned out into bank sitting trammies.

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 4:38 pm

Originally posted by Immortal
hmmm another thing that bothers me is the log in... it never goes smoothly.... most of the time

its going smoothly for me every time,np with it at all

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 4:44 pm

I got killed at some place called "Gobolds" and when I tried to go back, I got lost and got wiped out by some bandit camp.

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 4:48 pm

thats why u got co ordinates on your map.
u have to remember 2 numbers

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 4:50 pm

Originally posted by rivas
thats why u got co ordinates on your map.
u have to remember 2 numbers

No onew told me about any stinkin' coordinates!

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 4:58 pm

on top of your map :
there is LT, LG and ALT
lt and lg is your current location (number) and alt is i guess altitude.WHen u move the numbers r changing.

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 4:59 pm

Originally posted by rivas
on top of your map :
there is LT, LG and ALT
lt and lg is your current location (number) and alt is i guess altitude.WHen u move the numbers r changing.

Ok, but I have no clue where that place is, even with coordinates. I didn't write them down when I got there

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 5:02 pm

Originally posted by Burke
Ok, but I have no clue where that place is, even with coordinates. I didn't write them down when I got there

so next time u know what u have to do

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 5:25 pm

anyone wannan group up tonite? I plan on raiding them bandits...

the game has been lagging like **** this afternoon... I type a sentence it takes a whole min to be displayed.. they ahve to fix this crap!

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 5:30 pm

Well the login server is down right now, so I cant even sign on

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 8:20 pm

We are experiencing slow reboots on many of the servers this Holiday weekend. In case you get nervous, we have staff on hand to re-start servers that crash. Scorn in particular has been seeing some stability problems today, along with Chaos. Both of those servers are in the process of restarting. We will try and keep all of you updated this weekend if there are any new developments.

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 8:28 pm

definitely sb has some techinical issues think i said that in previous threads

it is a lot better then the first two weeks of release think this was bad...lol

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 8:32 pm

i wasnt even once lagged till tomorrow.yesterday was the first time when i had lag problems

Shagster · Post by **Shagster** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 8:40 pm

My favorite has always been UO. I beta tested every add on since the first release. I knew half the GM's on napa valley by name. They actually cleared tree's for me to place my large marble. And I had a beta account which gave me a few privelages.

I lived in Fel. I never had to be a bank sitting trammite because anything worth selling I posted on a uo sell forum. I was a pk to on certain occasions. Had a gm hider and fencer who scoped out fel dungeons. HOWEVER, When I ran into a noobie on fel territory. I immediately gated him to my large marble and HOOKED HIM UP!!! Because I wanted him to stay in fel instead of going to tram. It was awsome when I saw those people in a liche dungeon a few weeks later and they thanked me and all. I was a nice character and I probably made a lot of people stay with UO. So I guess nice players do make the game. Im still in contact with my partner I met when the game first started. I met him while mining in the cave right above britania. I was the 4th gm blacksmith on the napa valley shard (I think it was 4th).

I stopped playing because the routine got old and when UO2 fell through I thought it wise to look for something else.

Lineage is a boring game and everyone is an ass hole. Everquest is weird, I personally never liked it. AC is fun but gets old fast. DAOC is good but same as AC, gets old fast.

Now Galaxies is here...Im seeing this being my game for the next few years. Cant wait because beta 3 is really unstable. We just had a light saber test and the server crashed

But it was fun while it lasted.

Dont judge all mmorpg's on a single game. Try them, you WILL run into one you really like!

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 10:08 pm

one thing I hate most.. is that I cannot log in when I want to play...

like right now... I want to use it when I want to!

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 10:25 pm

ESC it and try again till u will log on
its some bug theyr working on fix

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 1:26 am

now I logged in... game server not availble... wooppeeee

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 3:52 pm

now I can't log in.. I know they have problems... I don't mind...

but why do they have problems when I want to play?

sheez..... are all mmorpgs this crappy in the beginning?

Ghosthunter · Post by **Ghosthunter** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 3:58 pm

Originally posted by Immortal
now I can't log in.. I know they have problems... I don't mind...

but why do they have problems when I want to play?

sheez..... are all mmorpgs this crappy in the beginning?

hehe this is really is not too bad compared to UO launch and Anarchy Online launch

if anyone has been through that this is nothing...hehe

I do get frustrated at times, but then I just come to speedguide and hang out

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 4:03 pm

Originally posted by davy19
hehe this is really is not too bad compared to UO launch and Anarchy Online launch

if anyone has been through that this is nothing...hehe

I do get frustrated at times, but then I just come to speedguide and hang out

you can't log in either eh?

damit all....

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 4:05 pm

even their forums get ****ed now and then.. .sheeeeeeeeezz

and I thought black and white was buggy

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 4:48 pm

yeap.. forums are as slow as the servers and most of the stuff I read in the pc support and other forums are how pissed they are about all this crap..

This is my first ever mmorpg.... and probably last one... I mean it is rather fun to play.. .but it's not worth my money nor is it worth the effort..

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 7:39 pm

this game is just pising me off more and more..

I had 30k.. used most of it on training and new armor.. great...

now I went to make some money... found 2 runes then got killed by frigging things that grouped up on me.. now not only did I not have the 2 runes Ifound... most of my armor is damanged now and I have no money to fix it... jsut great...

also this join group bug .. the window don't close and can't close.. I had to log off to get rid of that piece of ****

now I can't even log back in to play... **** this crap

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 7:50 pm

o well server problems ,they r always in mmorpg.this game is about pvp,attacking cities,nation against nation, we r nowhere yet,the game didnt even start yet

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 7:52 pm

that's the thing.. the game hasn't even started yet and there's so much trouble...

what the hell is going to happen when it does start?

I just cancelled my 3 month subscription until all this crap is fixed.. if it ain't fixed I'm not going to play anymore..

ub3r_n00b · Post by **ub3r_n00b** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 7:57 pm

welcome to the world of Everquest / any MMORPG...

thats all I gots to say

-Preet

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Mon Apr 21, 2003 7:59 pm

Originally posted by ub3r_n00b
welcome to the world of Everquest / any MMORPG...

thats all I gots to say

-Preet

I don't know why people put up with this and keeps playing

This is probably the most frustrating game I've ever played... ever...

and I've played some pretty crappy ones... this one tops em all