Dungeons & Dragons online ressurected or burned?

[chase raynar]

when i heard about DDO going free to play i gave it a try and got hooked.
did anybody else try it? do you think its still going down or will it survive?

 

[Traskelion]

I downloaded it. I installed it. I opened the program. I saw the splash screen. I opened a browser and searched the forum/website, and found that pictures of in-your-face scantily-clad women were the norm. I uninstalled game before starting it up. There may or may not be a good game in there, I dunno. Personal choice here. If you like it, good. Play it.

As for me, I'm not so desperate for entertainment that I'll sit there and be called a knuckle-dragging neanderthal by the developers.

 

[Gxas]

Borderlands is out today. DDO is way in the back of my mind now.

I had thought about trying it, but with WoW, I wouldn't play it. I was spoiled by WoW, nothing is as good.

 

[thiosk]

I don't understand why scantily clad women in a game developed by some of the biggest male nerds on the planet is out of the norm.

If you are going to have women, they might as well be scantily clad.

Its the same for the guys, would you really want to stick with this guy...

 

[Knight Templar]

As for me, I'm not so desperate for entertainment that I'll sit there and be called a knuckle-dragging neanderthal by the developers.

I think you're talking it a bit personaly, and if such a quality exculdes a game from being played by you then that is a very large amount of games you will never play. On reflection maybe thats not a bad reason to avoid a game.

 

[Traskelion]

I don't understand why scantily clad women in a game developed by some of the biggest male nerds on the planet is out of the norm.

If you are going to have women, they might as well be scantily clad.

Its the same for the guys, would you really want to stick with this guy...

....I don't understand what anything in that image IS......and I still instinctively fear it for reasons I do not know.

 

[dukethepcdr]

I downloaded it. I installed it. I opened the program. I saw the splash screen. I opened a browser and searched the forum/website, and found that pictures of in-your-face scantily-clad women were the norm. I uninstalled game before starting it up. There may or may not be a good game in there, I dunno. Personal choice here. If you like it, good. Play it.

As for me, I'm not so desperate for entertainment that I'll sit there and be called a knuckle-dragging neanderthal by the developers.

What did you expect? "In your face scantily-clad women" have been part and parcel of medieval fantasy and mythology since the stories that games like DnD were first told around camp fires. In fact, if anything, the stories have been tamed down considerably in the last few generations. You should try reading some of the early translations of the myths before the political correctness police got a hold of them and watered them down. Even some of the stories just about every kid knows thanks to the candy coated versions put out by Disney are considerably more risque and violent in their original form.

Give it a rest already and don't be so sensitive.

DDO is an awesome game by the way. It beats the snot out of other MMORPGs, even the ones that dont have a play for free option.

 

[Talendra]

It is quite a good game, I played it a while ago, but I do not really play MMORPG's enough anymore to warrant subscription. So this game is perfect for me, been having some fun with friends on it lately.

 

[Abedeus]

It's a good game, especially since it's free. But it has a shop now, where people buying items/classes have an advantage over normal people.

And for MMOs, only Aion holds my interest for now.

 

[chase raynar]

i especially like the mandatory team work in the higher difficulty levels.
if your cleric will rush the enemy instead of healing and neutralizing conditions the team will fail. if you do not have a thief to disarm the nasty traps you will fail.
without tanks you will be crushed.

i know, i know, that's the way its supposed to be in most MMO's but somehow it feels tighter in DDO. every class has such a distinct role [ okay maybe barbarian and fighter arent that different so not every class ]

maybe its the fact that bad groups fail so spectacularly that makes the team work stand out
when you play in a good group its a ton of fun.

maybe you should give it another go traskelion. to be honest with you i havent seen any scantily clad women in game. all characters have very sensible armor and not a chain mail bikini.