Unskippable: Defiance
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Oh sure, you laugh at New Freedom, but when they bring back Freedom Classic it's going to sell loads. Genius marketing move.
I have to say I actually like that the annoying guy fronting the SPACE MAREENS is actually who you're working for. You say you're not running a limousine service, Grizzled Man, but who is paying for you spaceskymegacarrier if not us taxpayers?
I'd play a Storage Wars game. It'd have to be The Castle Doctrine style, an MMO in which you make bids on storage units afer briefly being shown them. You could them fix up the items, and the fixing up would sometimes go wrong and waste your money unless you focused on crafting. If you did, you could fix items for other players. Every once in a while a player would get a random quest like "I will pay you TEN THOUSAND STOREBUCKS for a broken garden gnome!" to throw wrenches on the gears.
I have to say I actually like that the annoying guy fronting the SPACE MAREENS is actually who you're working for. You say you're not running a limousine service, Grizzled Man, but who is paying for you spaceskymegacarrier if not us taxpayers?
I'd play a Storage Wars game. It'd have to be The Castle Doctrine style, an MMO in which you make bids on storage units afer briefly being shown them. You could them fix up the items, and the fixing up would sometimes go wrong and waste your money unless you focused on crafting. If you did, you could fix items for other players. Every once in a while a player would get a random quest like "I will pay you TEN THOUSAND STOREBUCKS for a broken garden gnome!" to throw wrenches on the gears.
If I had that EGHOST jumping out at me I'd need like ten changes of underwear a day. Jeeeeez.
Hello, I'm a disembodied manifestation of a computer program in your head. BOO!
Hello, I'm a disembodied manifestation of a computer program in your head. BOO!
I played the game for a month or so
Interesting concept - the classless system is a neat idea, plus the whole "arkfall" thing is kinda neat too - but it lacks something that WoW was reasonably good at incorporating later on: You effect on the game world.
It seems like no matter how often you wipe out hundreds of identical looking color-coded hellbugs, or bandits, or crazy cyborg miners, or emo alien deathsquads, then you never make any meaningly impact on the game world.
WoW at least got that somewhat right via instanced game-world content that changed as you did various quests.
Plus, while Defiance gear is balanced in such a way that an epic tier rifle isn't that much more powerful than a beginner tier rifle - then it just has a few more slots for 'synergy' bonuses, is a nice idea to make sure that high lvl players aren't that much more powerful than low lvl players... well... it also means that having played the game for a month and leveled your character up quite a lot feels like very little actual progression.
Heck, considering that PvP is neatly hidden away and in no way allowed in the main game world I don't see that much of a need for weapon balancing in the main game. Sure, it means that the devs don't have to do much for pvp balancing either, but it makes for a somewhat more boring PvE experience.
Interesting concept - the classless system is a neat idea, plus the whole "arkfall" thing is kinda neat too - but it lacks something that WoW was reasonably good at incorporating later on: You effect on the game world.
It seems like no matter how often you wipe out hundreds of identical looking color-coded hellbugs, or bandits, or crazy cyborg miners, or emo alien deathsquads, then you never make any meaningly impact on the game world.
WoW at least got that somewhat right via instanced game-world content that changed as you did various quests.
Plus, while Defiance gear is balanced in such a way that an epic tier rifle isn't that much more powerful than a beginner tier rifle - then it just has a few more slots for 'synergy' bonuses, is a nice idea to make sure that high lvl players aren't that much more powerful than low lvl players... well... it also means that having played the game for a month and leveled your character up quite a lot feels like very little actual progression.
Heck, considering that PvP is neatly hidden away and in no way allowed in the main game world I don't see that much of a need for weapon balancing in the main game. Sure, it means that the devs don't have to do much for pvp balancing either, but it makes for a somewhat more boring PvE experience.
Overall, I liked it. The pilot was full of genre cliches and terrible CGI bad guys and the season finale might have suffered from being tied too closely to the MMO, but there was a lot of good stuff in the middle, especially the second half of the season.Don Reba said:
I watched a lot of those rubber-forehead aliens [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RubberForeheadAliens] shows from the 1990s: the various Star Treks, the Stargates, Babylon 5, and Farscape. Defiance reminded me of those, but with the better production values, writing, and character work we expect from a post-Firefly/BSG science fiction series. Not that Defiance is as good as either of those series, not yet at least, but it definitely has potential. Especially if the Tarrs remain central characters. Datak and Stahma are the best characters on the show.
Looting, I'm assuming.kailus13 said:
Also I'm probably the only one who likes the made-up swear words in scifi or fantasy. It adds to the atmosphere, and in the best case shows what things that are considered taboo have changed.
Don't know what 'shako' is, though. If it's just a random word with no context, it's just out-of-place.
