I played Lineage 2 since the chronicle 1.
My pc was so bad it couldn't even run the game. Today, I look back at those early days of my gaming life.
By finding more time this summer I stood between these choices:
Force myself to play an old chronicles, although I was never really that good at the game anyway or try a new mmorpg.
I am glad I chose the right patch.
On the 21st of July I started my adventure into Rift.
I feel though as it is my responsibility to compare both games and help those who lived in the world of Lineage 2 for a long time and are searching for something equal good.
What can I say, Rift delivers.
I won't even talk about every feature this game has to offer, I just want to shine some light on some core elements that make this mmorpg so good.
Endless activities: quests that are actually fun, rewarding and not too easy, yet no too grindy. A feature that was a big lack in Lineage 2. Now I know. Perhaps Wow has a better quest system, I just can't say.
Housing- taken from WoW, was copied by Runes of magic, a game I also think is
weak compared to this. Lootable objects, visitation, big spaces to work with and a lot of creativity plus hard work.
That alone is very comfortable as it relieves you from tiring battles
A big variety of customization (mainly after creating your character). Possible, unlike Lineage 2, affordable, unlike Runes of magic.
The armor and weapon changes show off your hard work in the game.
Clan, raid, dungeon finder.
A feature that annihilates many mmorpgs that I played before.
Like I said, I never got my hands on WoW, but Rift has something that neither L2, RoM, Runescape, or Silkroad or any game before offer
:
a amazing way to find clans, groups of people just to have fun
I was never a big social man. I did advertise myself in online games, many times I played without even belonging to a guild. Rifts system offered me a guild on the first several hours of the game.
Partly, because people are more cooperative and social. But this might depend on many factors.
The combat itself is good. I play mainly as a rogue archer, and I have the time of my life. No stupid dealing with the amount of arrows you have, the skill tree is open to many changes and leaves all the previous mentioned mmorpgs in the dust. You choose your skills, you work on your stats and can even craft almost all items you need. No longer is crafting limited to the dwarfs, which is fantastic.
And the best part: it's free
Perhaps one of the negative points I can see with this game is the fact, that it has p2w elements.
The shops allows people willing to spend money mounts, certain abilities and changes that you can't normally partake, but honestly, the f2p players get all the same content a paying player has. The paying people are just getting shortcuts.
This is tolerable since the developers need to make money some way to ensure future updates.
But this is not supposed to be a rant on Lineage. As a matter of fact, even the great improvement I have felt in Rift, there is one thing Rift could not beat Lineage. The art of style, the soundtrack mainly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqkm8IKG3CQ
This is one element of Lineage 2, that I have not seen better in the other mmorpgs out there. I guess that is why it is difficulty looking back at it.
But honestly, many of you saw the new Ertheia chronicle. They are spinning from the original game faster than ever before. Even if it is f2p now, the true people searching for the classical L2 will need to go to a private server eventually.
The features that Rift offers persuaded me to take it up instead of Lineage or any other mmorpg.
I am not saying that Rift is the best game out there, but I would say it's perhaps the best in the
f2p market.
From the reviews I read, Gw2 is supposed to be better in many aspects. I can't agree or disagree on this statement, I just wanna tell you that:
I am glad I got to experience L2 and now Rift. The single player games on my pc were not giving me the satisfaction I searched for. Now, I am actively playing and enjoying raids, pvp, pve, crafting, fishing and spending time with my faction. I recommend you to do the same.
