EVE Online - the MMO set in space - that isn't Star Wars or Star Trek. I remember hearing about this game about the same time I was thinking of starting Warcraft but as we all know I ended up going with WoW until I got bored. I'm also bored with all the games I currently own and I have until Tuesday to wait to get my grubby paws on L.A. Noire (narf, narf, narf). So after some poking around on the world wide web I decided to give the free two-week trial of EVE Online a go.
After roughly forty-five minutes of installation (I watched an episode of SVU and ate take away in the interim) I was able to create my character. I went for my standard Scoville Bessler female template only in EVE Online I spent nearly an hour tweaking her look. I have to say that EVE has the best fucking character design template I have ever seen. Seriously. The level to which you can tweak your character's looks (including excellent scars, aging, and freckles!) is impressive but the ability to manipulate your character's expression is top-notch. I managed to give Scoville my common expression of the Red Hook brush-off combined with smirk. I hope I can a pic of her for you folks.
Now the downside of such awesome character design is that you are only creating your portait. Your in-game thingie you move around and interact with the 'verse with is the ship you helm. At the point I am at, I don't have much in the way of ship customization, so basically I'm driving around space in the equivalent of Plymouth Horizon. Wheeee! Sigh. However, I am also thinking of sticking with my crappy ship and just tricking it out with cool tech. Por la Raza!
So, how's trucking around space? I'm still in the tutorial but it's kind of cool. It's a gorgeous game, which is good because I spent a lot of time autopiloting back and forth on training missions. However that time in transit actually was pretty helpful because there is a galactic shit-ton of stuff to read, look at, and star maps to examine. I hope I can actually do some exploring with out total risk of being turned into space dust.
One thing I have to say I really dig about EVE is the openness of the class system in that, there is no class system, no levelling per say, it's all how you play the game. You build skills, talents in order to do what you want to do. Additionally EVE seems to be pretty solo player friendly, which is always an upside to me. I also dig the fact that the game world is player driven and created - to clarify a lot of corporations are player run and they dish out missions. Neat. I'm looking forward to playing some more tonight.
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I've done a bit more searching around and reading of guides, watching official tutorials on teh youtube, and I'm starting to feel a little daunted by EVE. I think I might be getting that "this is gonna be addicting" feeling. IDK though, the monthly fee is $14.95.
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Jesus - this Fleet Commander is awesome. This is watching South Koreans play Starcraft.
Impressive space combat:
After roughly forty-five minutes of installation (I watched an episode of SVU and ate take away in the interim) I was able to create my character. I went for my standard Scoville Bessler female template only in EVE Online I spent nearly an hour tweaking her look. I have to say that EVE has the best fucking character design template I have ever seen. Seriously. The level to which you can tweak your character's looks (including excellent scars, aging, and freckles!) is impressive but the ability to manipulate your character's expression is top-notch. I managed to give Scoville my common expression of the Red Hook brush-off combined with smirk. I hope I can a pic of her for you folks.
Now the downside of such awesome character design is that you are only creating your portait. Your in-game thingie you move around and interact with the 'verse with is the ship you helm. At the point I am at, I don't have much in the way of ship customization, so basically I'm driving around space in the equivalent of Plymouth Horizon. Wheeee! Sigh. However, I am also thinking of sticking with my crappy ship and just tricking it out with cool tech. Por la Raza!
So, how's trucking around space? I'm still in the tutorial but it's kind of cool. It's a gorgeous game, which is good because I spent a lot of time autopiloting back and forth on training missions. However that time in transit actually was pretty helpful because there is a galactic shit-ton of stuff to read, look at, and star maps to examine. I hope I can actually do some exploring with out total risk of being turned into space dust.
One thing I have to say I really dig about EVE is the openness of the class system in that, there is no class system, no levelling per say, it's all how you play the game. You build skills, talents in order to do what you want to do. Additionally EVE seems to be pretty solo player friendly, which is always an upside to me. I also dig the fact that the game world is player driven and created - to clarify a lot of corporations are player run and they dish out missions. Neat. I'm looking forward to playing some more tonight.
Add:
I've done a bit more searching around and reading of guides, watching official tutorials on teh youtube, and I'm starting to feel a little daunted by EVE. I think I might be getting that "this is gonna be addicting" feeling. IDK though, the monthly fee is $14.95.
Add 2:
Jesus - this Fleet Commander is awesome. This is watching South Koreans play Starcraft.
Impressive space combat:
New MMO new lingo, what the fuck is "carebearing"? I like "ratting" as a term for hunting NPC pirates.
Yeah, I think I'm just gonna stick to flying below the grid and not get involved with any intergalactic conflicts. Hmmm...now should I be a bounty hunter ratter?
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