SoR, has some innovative ideas and definitly breaks away from the typical Fantasy MMO. The problem is either they released it too soon or no matter how much they patch the game, it just won't be a contender amongst the bigger titles comming out this year (EQII, WoW, CoH). I really wanted to like this game and gave it a fair shot, but lack of a decent tutorial and lack of content that is not in game, but included in the manual just hurt the launch of the game. The community is one of the best and very helpful for any new players that decide to pick the game up, but saddly to me the game just fell short of what I think could have been a great adventure. At least give it a couple of months for it to workt he kinks out and get a couple of patches in. Maybe by that time they will have the game up and going like they had hoped it would be at launch. I mean hey, CoH was far from polished when it came out and 7 months later and a couple of patches and it's finally getting to the point that the developers wanted it.
I first looked at this game during the final beta before launch and it was sorely lacking. No tutorial, no help from the community. Didn't look that pretty. It was easy to get lost with no npc direction and it made yo... Read Full Review
A lot has changed in Ryzom in the last six months, heck a lot has changed in Ryzom since its launch in 2004, unfortunately not much else has changed in MMORPG's in the last 5 years. Why is it a good time to take another ... Read Full Review
