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<blockquote data-quote="Ravenheart87" data-source="post: 7679786" data-attributes="member: 79274"><p>Demos? There is a fifteen day trial. I thought I'll put my prejudice away and give it a chance. I'll copy-pasty my comment from MassivelyOP:</p><p></p><p><em>Pathfinder Online is a new record holder for me with the shortest MMO session after I wanted to delete a game.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Character creation starts with selecting race and looks. There aren't too many options yet, which wouldn't be a problem in early access if there was at least a single human male face that doesn't look like a retard or a rapist. I didn't check other races, but I'm convinced that PFO might be the first game to do something against the "sexy elf chick" stereotype since Mialee from D&D3e Player's Handbook. Boy, that illustration still gives me a few weeks of erectile disfunction.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>After selecting the least ugly face you arrive in an empty generic forest, and start reading boring texts, doing short kill quests, getting mauled by monsters, talking to bland NPCs, trying to wrap your head around the advancement system, etc... Oh yeah, there is pvp too, but for that you'd need to find other players which game seriously lacks.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>One of my favorite parts of the game is combat, where animations, sounds, and the attacks' effects live their own little lifes totally independent from each other. Advancement is level- and class-less, you spend your XP to buy feats, which you can combine as you wish. That sounds good on paper, but... I usually say that I hate talent trees, but I'm not judging them any more because but this game has a feat jungle with no visual help to make it at least a bit transparent. So if they managed to capture something from pen and paper Pathfinder it's being bloated and hard to digest.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>While PFO might have some other features other than being ridiculously boring and empty, the first hours weren't enough to convince me that I want to do anything else besides clicking on the red X on the upper right corner. I feel pity for those who were ripped off during the Kickstarter and I can't imagine if there's really someone out there paying subscription for this.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ravenheart87, post: 7679786, member: 79274"] Demos? There is a fifteen day trial. I thought I'll put my prejudice away and give it a chance. I'll copy-pasty my comment from MassivelyOP: [I]Pathfinder Online is a new record holder for me with the shortest MMO session after I wanted to delete a game. Character creation starts with selecting race and looks. There aren't too many options yet, which wouldn't be a problem in early access if there was at least a single human male face that doesn't look like a retard or a rapist. I didn't check other races, but I'm convinced that PFO might be the first game to do something against the "sexy elf chick" stereotype since Mialee from D&D3e Player's Handbook. Boy, that illustration still gives me a few weeks of erectile disfunction. After selecting the least ugly face you arrive in an empty generic forest, and start reading boring texts, doing short kill quests, getting mauled by monsters, talking to bland NPCs, trying to wrap your head around the advancement system, etc... Oh yeah, there is pvp too, but for that you'd need to find other players which game seriously lacks. One of my favorite parts of the game is combat, where animations, sounds, and the attacks' effects live their own little lifes totally independent from each other. Advancement is level- and class-less, you spend your XP to buy feats, which you can combine as you wish. That sounds good on paper, but... I usually say that I hate talent trees, but I'm not judging them any more because but this game has a feat jungle with no visual help to make it at least a bit transparent. So if they managed to capture something from pen and paper Pathfinder it's being bloated and hard to digest. While PFO might have some other features other than being ridiculously boring and empty, the first hours weren't enough to convince me that I want to do anything else besides clicking on the red X on the upper right corner. I feel pity for those who were ripped off during the Kickstarter and I can't imagine if there's really someone out there paying subscription for this.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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