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Has anyone tried Rift or RYL (Risk Your Life)
« on: January 05, 2013, 01:58:14 AM »
I haven't found anything yet that has caught my interest, but parts of Rift look familiar. Anyone try either of these?
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Re: Has anyone tried Rift or RYL (Risk Your Life)
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2013, 03:36:22 AM »
I played Rift. It was fun until I got to the grindy parts.

Supposedly they've gone over some of the grandy parts since I last played (first six-eight months) but no first-hand experience there.
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Re: Has anyone tried Rift or RYL (Risk Your Life)
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2013, 04:15:15 PM »
I played in the Rift beta (which means my info is old, I realize), but didn't choose to play after that. It was a very solid game with minimal bugs even in beta. The character progression system is good, and the game looks nice (if more than a little "generic swords-and-sorcery fantasy:). All-in-all, it is a very professional and well-executed game...that failed utterly to "grab" me in any meaningful way. I ended the beta with two reasonably well advanced characters that I could care less about.

That sort of engagement, however, is an utterly subjective thing, so I encourage people to take a look at the game. Objectively, it works well and is nicely polished...and what fails to grab me might work really well for someone else.

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Re: Has anyone tried Rift or RYL (Risk Your Life)
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2013, 07:24:13 PM »
I played RIFT.  I enjoyed the game a great deal except for a few things.

1) The end-game dungeons.  Every boss mob had multiple 'one-shot' attacks.  Heck, even the end-game rifts had bosses with it.  It was very annoying and frustrating.
2) Customer support.  This is the game where I got banned, multiple times, for a single conversation in broadcast where I asked another player if any of their "guild members" would like to join us for a dungeon.  I was getting "you've been banned" emails for months afterwards, the dude had serious beef with me.

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Re: Has anyone tried Rift or RYL (Risk Your Life)
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2013, 07:50:50 PM »
I play RIFT (alternating with LotRO), on the Faeblight server. Since we don't have globals, you can find me as:

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Re: Has anyone tried Rift or RYL (Risk Your Life)
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2013, 03:28:42 AM »
I tried it, found the environment to be extremely gorgeous, but found too many game mechanics that were beyond frustrating for me and stopped playing.

Which is a shame because the environment is beautiful.
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Re: Has anyone tried Rift or RYL (Risk Your Life)
« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2013, 03:41:50 PM »
Played RIFT, had issues with the community, but if you've played WoW (which I haven't) I'd expect it would be nothing unusual for you.

I really liked the game but was playing it mainly solo without raiding. I could craft anything useful, then they started requiring raid stuff to craft the best items and I lost interest. Suffered when I played (first 14 months or so) from having to do all the content to level 1 character to max, so got repetitive on subsequent characters. You can alleviate some of this by PvPing a lot.

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Re: Has anyone tried Rift or RYL (Risk Your Life)
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2013, 11:34:08 PM »
I have to admit I was extremely lucky which shard I got on, and extremely lucky that a high level officer of a nice guild recruited me in the newbie tutorial zone while alting in Rift. This guild on this server on Rift ranks with the best supergroups that were on CoH. I truly am very happy.

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Re: Has anyone tried Rift or RYL (Risk Your Life)
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2013, 04:09:00 PM »
Psylenz!  Good to see you on these boards.  I just downloaded the Rift trial. Sure is purdy.  I hope to meet up with you in-game.