D&D online, anyone playing?

[jonnyutah]

I downloaded the free D&D online last night. anyone else play it here?

I only played about 10 minutes of it last night but it was fun and very playable. I love the real time combat system... very cool. quality seems to be much better than the bulk of korean/asian free 2 play mmorpg's out there.

I don't play rpg's much at all. I have never played a D&D pc game or even the paper/dice games but the fantasy fused with scifi setting is pretty cool in this game. The graphics are good and it can even run on a intergrated graphics card. :) and it has real time voice overs!

I have yet to find any online players though...

[jonnyutah]

Are you serious? no replys?! wow.

after putting in two hours as a elf I can say i am loving this game. combat systems usually turn me off of most mmorpg's but this game has a deep action combat system like demons souls. but with a large open world to explore. The best part are the dungeons and temples. There are traps, puzzels and huge dungeons. I can't speak for previous D&D games but this version feels like demons souls, a touch of zelda and some diablo mixed in to me

there is some comical moments too. your npc party voice acting sound like a 80's he-man cartoon LOL

[pseudonym]

I've never tried it, I thought this thread was about D&D Game Board or whatever it's called.

[JSoup]

Never was much a D&D fan (I liked reading the artifact manual, though). Might give this a shot if I ever get a dedicated connection for my laptop.

[Wraith Storm]

I bought the game when it originally came out and my girlfriend and I played it for a while. I had to at least give it a shot because of my love for Turbine.
But I knew even before I purchased it that I would hate it.

The game mechanics and everything were great. It had that Turbine love they put in all there games. But then they fucked it up with something new, something they had almost always avoided before. Instances. :grrr:

I HATE FUCKING INSTANCES and will play NO MMO that has them. I don't understand how a game can be labeled an MMO when every area is designed around Anti-MMO concepts.

[portnoyd]

I played at launch and finished all the content in ~2 months. I promptly quit when something to do was easily 2-3 months off. I was probably the first person in the whole damn game to get a pair of boots off the dragon in the first content patch... and they didn't work at all.

I then came back 2 years later and couldn't get into it. They shot themselves in the foot by not having level 20 available at launch.

[BHvrd]

I HATE FUCKING INSTANCES and will play NO MMO that has them. I don't understand how a game can be labeled an MMO when every area is designed around Anti-MMO concepts.

I agree with this statemnet very much. Although other than the original Everquest and Eve there aren't a whole terrible lot of MMO's out there that don't have instances in some form or another. D&D though is HEAVILY instanced and definetely not really an MMO which i'm sure is why now it's free.

This is ultimately why Star Trek Online or The Old Republic don't interest me. I want a living breathing world, not instances. I'll stick with Star Wars Galaxies for now cause the main world is open, there are instances, but done really well imo.

[portnoyd]

Instances = insane campfests.

That's one reason why FFXI was not as good as it could have been. That and the 24 hour pops, rampant RMT and finite instanced zones (Dynamis as an example) made dungeons a big letdown.