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Sweet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game rocks vary hard if u ever get it look up plache and or get'r done and i will be willing to help anybody out

The Absolute Best Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is very addicting. It is a lot of fun, because there are tons of people to interact with. There are some rather rude people, but overall most of them are nice. Quests are fun with groups, but mainly I like to just hunt solo or with a friend or two. I highly recomend this game.

Best MMORPG ever made.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Screw EQ, this game is where it's at. I have been playing AC1 for around 4 years, had three accounts, countless vassals, and made great friends.

The gameplay is smooth because the graphics are just complex enough not to slow things down too much. There are always people on playing, huge guilds, people to hunt with, fellowships, great loot, great economic system, towns packed with people and countless quests. With monthly updates and patches, and a new expansion coming soon with a whole new server and an extra character slot per server per account, its definitely worth the monthly charge. I have tried EQ and DAoC, and went right back to AC1 after my trial was up... it's just that good.

Buy this game! (Just NOT USED, because once the subscription coupon is used, you cant get an account with the disk) and look me up on the Morningthaw server: Alani al'Aqbar.

Confused

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: April 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've confused. I'm not reviewing the game, I'm asking a question that I think some new buyers of this game would also like to ask. One of the people who reviewed this game noted that there was a $9.95 monthly cost for playing this game after the first month which you get free. So what you are saying is, thats $120 a year, plus the cost of the game??? I don't understand...I thought you could buy and play. Mind clearing this up for all of us? Thanks.

Great Fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game 4/11/02 and have had nothing but fun! Very social!

The best game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the best game. To back this up I have played it for 2+ years and they keep introducing new content.

Best MMORPG I have Played.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Asheron's Call 1 was my first MMORPG and as such it will probably always have a special place in my heart. I think this is true of many first games I have played in a genre. Doom, WarCraft II, and Super Mario Brothers (for NES) all hold similar positions.

At the same time AC1 has many things that led me to leave it for AC2. Unfortunately I found AC2 even more disappointing. One of my main issues with AC1 was how far behind I was.

I had heard of graphical MUDs back in the days I played real MUDs. At the time however they were very unimpressive. I ignored the genre until a friend of mine asked me to help make a patent relating to MMORPGs. As research I got a copy of my first MMORPG, AC1.

Back in my MUD days nobody cared what sex a character was. In fact many of the MUDs I played had three sex possibilities, male, female, and neuter. As a Joan of Arc fan I often prefer female characters. So when I joined AC1 I played on Morningthaw as Coventry Joan.

Coventry Joan was a spec UA, run, healing. At the time, I had no clue what they were but had read somewhere those skills would be useful. I got to level 35 with this character. Many times I had been told I should re-roll because it was a badly designed character, which was true.

After getting to about level 15 my wife started playing, on the same account, on HarvestGain. It was quickly found we couldn't share the account if we both wanted to play so I bought a new account, and a new computer. Great excuse for a computer btw. I bid farewell to my MT friends (Clan Wartorn) so I could join my wife's server. One of the things that bothered me about playing on that server was that most people thought I was a woman IRL, including my monarch. Instead of correcting them and at the same time humiliating them I was glad to move on to another server to play a male character.

In HarvestGain I quickly met new friends like Jocasta. As I got up in levels I wanted more and more to take part in PK. What I found was that PK on white servers was very unbalanced. Really, the only people who I could fight would almost always mop the floor with me even with my improved character design (4 school mage w/ mana C. spec) because only really high players went red.

Another thing that always bothered me about AC1 is the exploiting. Around the time I left it was at it's peak with combat macros, Insta-OG plug-ins, and XP chains. Also I had such a late start there was no possible way I could build a powerful character that could compete. So when AC2 came out I was very relived to not only get into a PK server but to get into a server from it's very beginning.

When AC2 let me down I did consider returning but because of all the reasons I had left plus the things that pampered me in AC2, like better graphics and actual music, I could not. All in all though it is the best MMORPG I have ever played.

I give it an 8 out of 10.

Player Information:
Coventry Joan of Morningthaw
Miyamoto Yoshi of Harvestgain
U Know Who of Darktide

FUN FUN FUN - But xp chains and combat macros are a bummer

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing since beta2 of Asheron's Call and I have to say during the first 2 years the game was the most immersive online roleplaying game I've had the joy of experiencing. It's still in my opinion one of the better MMORPGS out.

This game has the most content for any online MMORPG (and you get more of that with Dark Majesty) to date but many of the quests are poorly documented in game (hard to find without other people or having to look on 3rd party websites).

What ruined the immersiveness for me is the online community moving away from the roleplaying aspects and playing the game for experience and hunting. From my perspective what ruined the closeness that people used to have was many factors but mainly xp chains which factors around monarchys for experience points rather than friendship (People in the olden days didn't know about xp chains and joined on the basis that you liked your patron not because you had to pledge to him/her for xp chain placement). Combat macroing has also ruined this online world because it also adds to this moving away from playing the game for exploring, friendship and immersiveness. Combat macroing is for experience points and that's all.

~~~PROS~~~

-Rich lore (story line) that sets up the story of why you're here and why these Empyrean people that used to live in this land of dereth have disappeared.

-Low system requirements - I'm still able to run the game on a pentium 166mmx with a voodoo1 card. The system requirements may say minimum 300mhz but I'd say 300mhz is more of a recommended requirement because 166mhz with a voodoo1 and 64megs of system memory run the game fine! And though the game may be 4-5 years old it looks much better than screenshots give credit for.

-HUGE world and HUGE amounts of content and always getting more content through monthly patches

~~~CONS~~~

-If you move away from the games story line and immersiveness (which is easy to do if you run into the xp oriented people) the game becomes a hack/slash fest and all there really left to do is kill things (Look beyond that and you'll have fun).

-Combat macroing ruins quest dungeons and immersiveness.

-XP chains ruin the player interaction and makes the game move to a mindless kill the same monster quest. XP chains have had a chain effect slowly moving people away from forming groups around friends to making these groups formed around greed, and the soul purpose of forming the groups for self based XP.

This game is the best!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I love AC. Different types of chars. And you can design your own character template even! I've been playing for over a year, and my husband has for 3 years. The Devs come up with new story lines and changes often. There is an update every month. There really isn't a partiacular type of char that it favors, different chars have their advantages against different types. We pay $9.95 a month and it is well worth it. In fact we are condsidering a third account. You can have 5 chars per account.

A-C kicks A-S-S

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: October 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

AC is not like those other MMORPGs, you won't beat AC in one week.

Regardless of if you are exploring the ruins of an ancient Empyrean armory, or fighting off waves of the mysterious Virindi, AC has something for everyone.

If you enjoy exploring, taking down gigantic monsters several times your size, or even fighting others, this game is perfect for you. With countless pages of lore (that is optional to read - if you don't like reading you can just skip it all), and with monthly PATCHES CONSTANTLY ADDING HOURS AND HOURS OF CONTENT, there is NO END to the adventure.

-Borderline of MT

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