Gold - Tabula Rasa [Sep 06, 2007, 11:30 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
NCsoft announces Tabula Rasa, or rather Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa, is gold,
and the science fiction MMORPG will offer its namesake clean slate on October 16
for preorder customers, and October 19 for everyone else:
NCsoft Announces Launch Date for Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa
Gaming legend's widely anticipated online space adventure to launch October 19th
Thursday 6th September/...NCsoft® Europe, the world’s leading developer and publisher of online computer games, announced today that Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa® has reached gold master status and will launch commercial service in Europe and North America on October 19, 2007. Pre-order customers will begin their three-day head start on October 16.
One of the most anticipated PC games of the year, Tabula Rasa is gaming legend Richard Garriott’s newest title, which combines a vast, persistent game world and rich storyline with fast paced action. Set in a near-future science fiction storyline, players create characters that must fight to save humanity against hostile alien enemies while trying to gain control of the universe. The game introduces several innovative elements to massively multiplayer online (MMO) games, including a Character Cloning System™ that allows players to explore different character classes without having to create a new character, and dynamic battlefields where players experience the frenetic action of combat in an ongoing war.
“It has been a heck of a journey,” said Richard Garriott, the game’s Executive Producer. “The fact that we are getting ready for the final stretch towards launch feels great, but it is also just the beginning. I think we’ve managed to do something truly unique and I hope that the gaming community likes it as much as we do. Now, I am looking forward to a really fun ‘end of beta event’ for our incredible testers, and focusing development on new planets and innovations for future expansions of Tabula Rasa.”
The standard edition box of Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa will be available at major retailers at an expected retail price of £29.99 / €44.99 and at the PlayNC® store (https://secure.plaync.com/cgi-bin/Store.pl?language=en-gb). Customers will be able to purchase the recently announced Limited Collector’s Edition box from major retailers at an expected retail price of £49.99 / €69.99. Both products include the first month of online game play. After the first month, players will be charged a monthly subscription fee of £8.99 / €12.99. The game is rated 16+ by PEGI (www.pegi.info).
For more information about Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa go to http://www.rgtr.com.
I dunno why people are screaming about it.
As Cabezone said, it's that the game is turning in to an average MMO.. below average, IMO. The game was touted as next-gen for a very long time, and still is. When the main guy behind a game bad mouths all the other games that are both out and coming out, saying that those games are not innovative enough and "stale", and then releases the exactly same fucking thing, that's what I'm screaming about.
Every patch has moved this game away from the awesome game it _was_ and replaced it with a ho-hum version of itself. I agree, the combat system was and still is enjoyable. But that's it. And that gets boring after you kill the same mob a few hundred times. There's what, 8 different mobs?
I really hope the next few patches improve things. I'd like to see a few of the things RG's been discussing, such as the capturable bases. And yeah, they may be working right now, but I haven't seen it. Perhaps they could bump up the bane's strength a wee bit so it's a challenge. Or, I dunno, dynamically make it harder or easier depending on how many people are in the area. 6.5 years and this is what they have. What a let down.
Edit: typo.. I learned how to use bold today. wee
This comment was edited on Sep 6, 17:47.
As Cabezone said, it's that the game is turning in to an average MMO.. below average, IMO. The game was touted as next-gen for a very long time, and still is. When the main guy behind a game bad mouths all the other games that are both out and coming out, saying that those games are not innovative enough and "stale", and then releases the exactly same fucking thing, that's what I'm screaming about.
Every patch has moved this game away from the awesome game it _was_ and replaced it with a ho-hum version of itself. I agree, the combat system was and still is enjoyable. But that's it. And that gets boring after you kill the same mob a few hundred times. There's what, 8 different mobs?
I really hope the next few patches improve things. I'd like to see a few of the things RG's been discussing, such as the capturable bases. And yeah, they may be working right now, but I haven't seen it. Perhaps they could bump up the bane's strength a wee bit so it's a challenge. Or, I dunno, dynamically make it harder or easier depending on how many people are in the area. 6.5 years and this is what they have. What a let down.
Edit: typo.. I learned how to use bold today. wee
This comment was edited on Sep 6, 17:47.
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