Tabula Rasa

I've been curious as well, since new copies of the game are $10 or less in various game stores and as far as I know the servers are still up.

It seems like it would be a unique enough experience to try out for that price, even if it doesn't last. From reading impressions of the game it sounds like it's fun to a point, where you've just done everything there is to do in the game and there's very little incentive to continue on.

I have learned, that, unfortunately Tabula Rasa is gonna be dropped. Richard Garriot has severed ties with NCSoft, and that, combined with a very small number of players has led to this game's demise. Too bad, I rather enjoyed it.:(

I have learned, that, unfortunately Tabula Rasa is gonna be dropped. Richard Garriot has severed ties with NCSoft, and that, combined with a very small number of players has led to this game's demise. Too bad, I rather enjoyed it.:(

Caemyr

Really? What is your source? I know Garriot left but that doesn't mean the game is dead. After a search of the Play NC and Tabula Rasa offical websites I can find no reports of the game's cancellation. Since I am an active play I'd like to assume they would make sure their customer base was informed about any impending cancellation.

Hopefully they will only reorganize the company to better suit the small player base. The game took a little effort to get into but once I did its proven to be surprising fun. The open world of a MMO is a very welcome and long over due change to the dried up and boring hallway shooter most FPSs tend to be.

He has no idea what he is talking about. I recently picked up Tabula Rasa when it was being sold for 97 cents, and have been enjoying the game. No plans to shut down, and no announcements from NCsoft.

EDIT: Yeah, what is said is actually true. Sorry, I fail. =[

I have learned, that, unfortunately Tabula Rasa is gonna be dropped. Richard Garriot has severed ties with NCSoft, and that, combined with a very small number of players has led to this game's demise. Too bad, I rather enjoyed it.:(

Caemyr

If you want detailed none formal information about Tabula Rasa from an ex players perspective then here it is coming from me. One thing I must say is that I played the game from Beta and a few months after launch, I'd imagine that many patches have occured since then so a few of the issues I will mention may of been fixed.

It's very much a reticle based game, you'r pointing your reticle at things and shooting your gun, the reticle gets bigger as your gun recoils and you miss more. That's the entire game, that's everything. Oh yeah you can melee also! In fact there is a class called the Spy who are completly melee focused and wield blades that look like they would break if you sat on them. There is one problem with melee: On launch the developers discovered that the monsters are not using their special attacks often enough, so they patched it. Now the monsters ues their special moves all the time! Every monster has a kick attack, it's 100% accurate it will never miss and it knocks your character on the floor for like 10 seconds. If you're a spy you will walk over to a monster to hit it and get kicked then wait 10 seconds, get up and hit it once again before getting another kick and waiting 10 seconds again! Yay FUN!

All the characters look like Bonno's cousin no matter how hard you try to make yourself look unquie. There used to be a lot of bugged quests but i'd imagine they fixed most of that now (I would hope so anyway). The PVP side of the game is tacked on, completly out of place and none sensual. You have a very limited amount of skills to your chosen path, offering very little varity in ways of killing things, unless maybe if you played a bio engineer, in which you had skills that you could prat about with and then realise you could of just shot your needle pistol and killed the monster in half the time. Richard Garriot has abandoned it and has gone into hiding in his castle.

It's quite well presented, the Strider war machines are nicely annimated in the way they drop from the sky and come out of the ground like in War of the Worlds. Fireing a machine gun from the top of a battlement onto a group of attacking aliens makes you feel like captain hero. It's got C4 type explosives in it. That's all I can be bothered to write.