1. Bergelmir

   9

   Very good games, but not easy to handle. Fan of First Person Shooters and big action, this is NOT for you.

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2. Tukka

   5

   My primary problem with this game lies with its antiquated user interface. The font is horrible and cannot be scaled up except in chat windows. The inevitable result for me is discomfort and eyestrain whenever I try to play this game. For me, this is a complete deal-breaker. Apart from that, the game is highly intimidating. PvP is a huge focus of the game (really, almost everything in the game has a PvP element, even if its an indirect one) and there are a lot of trolls, scammers and people who will generally just do anything they can to get ahead. Very little in the way of clear-cut goals are presented to you, so to maintain interest in this game, you need to develop a passion for it and be very self-motivated (or else, play with someone who is strongly motivated and will bring you along for the ride). There are lots of roles you can fill in EVE, but finding your place can be very difficult. You can't really play through the tutorials and the PvE missions (which get boring fast) the game puts before you and be a competent contributing member to a group of pilots, especially in PvP. You need to receive training from a player-run corporation or else take your lumps and lose a lot of ships (probably both) before you're any good. And that means you'll be flying cheap little frigates or maybe cruisers with cheap fittings for a few months. This will try your patience. Another problem with finding a role to play in EVE is that the game heavily rewards skill specialization, and skills in this game are earned passively. If you want to be a battleship pilot, that's great, but to be an effective battleship pilot, you need a lot more than just the skills necessary to actually fly a battleship. You also need the respective support skills that will allow you to fit the right array of modules, and reasonably high level of skills in using those modules effectively. If you want to fly a covert ops frigate for performing reconnaissance, you need different suite of abilities that have a limited amount of overlap with the skills necessary for performing other roles. Manufacturing or research require a different host of abilities. So while you may be tempted to try on many different hats and spread your skills around, the more you do so, the longer it will be before you achieve mastery in any one thing. What this game does offer is a player-driven world/sandbox that is unlike anything offered by any other MMO.… Expand

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3. orctowngrot

   4

   This game has immense potential. Which is a wierd thing to be saying about a game that is already 8 years old. The ideas of what they ultimately want to do and the coming integration with DUST 154 could help EVE to become one of the greatest gaming experiences possible. Unfortunately right now, this is a game for a very narrow audience. To play EVE you need to be working, mature and PATIENT. You should be interested in in-game politics, faction forming and building a personal profile over many months. Its the kind of game that probably appeals to about 5% of gamers. There is zero instant gratification. Character development is extrememly slow. Accumulation of asssets and in game power is also extremely slow. It will take a new player MONTHS to get anywhere. It also takes hours of real life time to move your character around the imaginary galaxy and gather your resources. You can speed things up by spending REAL money and buying your in-game assets, so this game is the kind of experience that can end up being VERY expensive. The developers are also gloating openly in their email about ripping players off, with nonsense like an in-game monocle for $60. You will lose it also if your in-game character dies. LOL. As I said, this is not a game for everyone. I'm scoring it a 4/10 to warn people that this is probably NOT the game for most of you. For a few though it might be the perfect game. It costs nothing to download the client for a two week trial. If you find in those two weeks its not your game nothing lost. But you might love it and find this the perfect 10/10 game for you. definitely downoload and try if you want a taste of a good sci-fi MMO which might be bloody awesome when they publish DUST next year.… Expand

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