The Secret World (PC)

[Yoshi]

The Secret World drops subscription fee but isn't free-to-play. I might buy this during a Steam sale now.

Ditto. I like the world.

[Chux]

It's $15 on Amazon right now.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B007VTVKG6/
We jumping in chums?

[MechDeus]

That's a pretty good price. I'll do it if other people will, otherwise I'll wait to see if Steam Winter Wallet Rape 2k12 does a 75% off.

[Chux]

I can wait.

[MechDeus]

I might have to buy this right now.

[Yoshi]

I'm waiting for the Steam sale, but I definitely want this. I liked it during the trial.

[MechDeus]

This game is still so unfinished. Quests bugging out, pausing a tutorial video broke the entire thing and now help messages of any kind won't appear properly, glitchy spawns, wacky aggro glitches, targeting that doesn't work right, animations that bug out on a consistent basis, enemies that spawn faster than they can be killed at appropriate levels making escort quests impossible to do, etc., etc. The worst part about quests bugging out is that you can't drop them, you instead have to go run around and find other quests until you can push the current quest off the list and then go back and pick it up to start over. Who the fuck thought that made sense on any level?

The graphics and atmosphere are really good and make it worth slogging through at least for a little while, but the game needs some serious work. I can't believe they thought this was worth a monthly fee.

[Yoshi]

I'm going to take a wild guess and say I am halfway through Kingsmouth, and I really think it's fantastic. I haven't run into any of the bugs Mech mentioned (patches maybe?), and I just finished my first of the highly touted investigation missions. I got stuck on one part, but overall it was very well done and a lot different than "standard" MMO quests. If you hit "B" it brings up an in-game browser so that you can Google for some of the out of game references needed. I guess you could also order pizza, though there's no /pizza.

When I actually bought this, I re-rolled from Illuminati to Templar. I haven't seen any major differences yet, other than the "base" where go near the beginning before going to Kingsmouth. I'm using as Assault Rifle with Combat Medic skills to leech heal, which theoretically will be a good solo build but also a valid end game healing one as well.

[Yoshi]

This is $15 today on Steam with no subscription required. I highly recommend it to anyone who is a fan of the genre, based on its theme, story, and unique mission types.

[Yoshi]

Mech mentioned this in the Mario Kart thread. Rather than continue to drive (pun intended) that thread further off topic, I'll try to pick it up here with the new content trailer.