CrazyGamer

Dungeons & Dragons Online, and Guild Wars (i have no life). Vanguard has the best graphics by far of any of the games I just mentioned. Mr Sharkey needs a new computer if he thinks the graphics aren”t up to par. What is he talking about?

What sensible MMO developer wouldn’t try to use the interface from the most popular game of all time (WOW)? Also, what fantasy MMO doesn’t have “boring quests and highfantasy cliches”"? Even the great WOW has those…all pretty much cloned from D&D way back when I was starting to game on the PC in The late ’80s (yes - 1, too, am an old-timer at 39). I hope your readers are bright enough to try Vanguard for themselves, as your magazine has a history of low review scores on newly released games that were pushed out too fast (which, I agree, Vanguard was). I know, not your problem. You are just doing your jobs, and you do your jobs well, most of the time. I think you missed it on this game, though.

I have an idea: You shoufd get reviewers who actually enjoy the type of game they”re reviewing.

It sounds to me like Sharkey doesn’t really like MMOs at ail. If you needs any help in the reviewing of MMOs, I will gladly volunteer, as long as you put me on the payroll.

I have tried just about all of the MMOs out there (except Auto Assault, as it was shortlived).

With the exception of EQl. I tired of the others very quickly. WOW was just too darn easy (no hate mail, please). Leveling l-to-70 in a month is OK for some people, I guess (4 gazillion subscribers cannot be wrong)…but I prefer a challenge. I’m looking forward to enjoying Vanguard for a long time. I just think Sharkey blew it with this review, and hopefully, the game will make it - even though he pretty much burned it to the ground.

Granted, there were a lot of bugs when Vanguard released. Things are much better now, which makes me wonder when Sharkey reviewed it. The March 29 patch fixed all the bugs that I had problems with. Maybe I am just lucky, but I doubt that.