Vanguard

Burgy99 · Post by **Burgy99** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:16 pm

newegg has 7600's for dirt cheap right now

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:38 pm

7600 is shit, is why they're dirt cheap

6800 jabowns the 7600's

7800 and 7900+ are all pretty decent

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:22 pm

my BFG Tech 6800 GT card still rawks after a year and a half

Menlaan · Post by **Menlaan** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:37 pm

nm, stupid post

Lionking · Post by **Lionking** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:56 am

I want Vanguard! My 7900GT will own it!

P.S. I have a 6800 collecting dust...

runamonk · Post by **runamonk** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 9:38 am

I have a 7800GT and so far it's been great. Not sure how well it'll run Vangard but hopefully it won't be too bad.

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:06 am

So I watched the 15 minute walkthrough on Vanguard....I'm hoping it was just lagging because of the video taking but the devs were getting like 2 frames per second anytime they ran. Why the fuck would you post a movie like that displaying your game running like absolute shit?

runamonk · Post by **runamonk** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:09 am

So far I'm not at all impressed with the screens I've seen of it. It really looks like something done 5 years ago or something. I like some of the ideas I've read that Brad has for it but who knows if they will actually come to light.

Honestly, I don't think I'll be able to spend much time on any of these types of games anymore. They just don't hold my attention like they used too.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 3:10 pm

Lionking wrote:I want Vanguard! My 7900GT will own it!

P.S. I have a 6800 collecting dust...

send it to me then foolman~ or at least pm me with how much you'd want for it~

Post by **Martrae** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 3:23 pm

I'm gonna give it one more try then uninstall it. It's laggy as hell and my graphics are so low it reminds me of the Zelda Gamecube game.

Lionking · Post by **Lionking** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 3:41 pm

Martrae wrote:I'm gonna give it one more try then uninstall it. It's laggy as hell and my graphics are so low it reminds me of the Zelda Gamecube game.

Eh? How DARE you disparage any Zelda game?!? LionKing faction -100

:cry:

Durothil Skyreaver · Post by **Durothil Skyreaver** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 5:18 pm

They came out and acknowledged that the game is running like shit the other day.

Post by **Martrae** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 6:14 pm

Sorry LK

Granh · Post by **Granh** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 6:21 pm

With AMD 64 3500, 1gig ram & a 6800 GT it's playable, but with medium to low graphics. They do look like dog shit at low settings, but cranking it up to high just for fun they look pretty nice. Game mechanics are pretty fun, mainly because they're different. Gathering, fighting, questing and pretty much everything else is nothing like the handheld walkthroughs of WoW. While they're not as bad as EQ1's "I need a sammich", which will then lead you on a wild goose chase to find griffon eggs and kill poor bunnies, the quests are more involved than say, WoW, EQ2 and pretty much anything else out there now.

If you're tired of getting to max lv in a week then wondering "what now", VG will be a good alternative.

Rotj · Post by **Rotj** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 6:40 pm

im still downloading this fucken game. god damn

Durothil Skyreaver · Post by **Durothil Skyreaver** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 11:02 pm

Rotj wrote:im still downloading this fucken game. god damn

Hah, after you download it you have to patch it. That takes just as long!

Rotj · Post by **Rotj** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 11:29 pm

oh god are you kidding me? im also running out of hard disk space.. didn't partition enough from my mac os. son of a bitch. tempted to say F this beta already :|

not to mention reading the beta boards.. my goodness.

Post by **Arlos** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 11:38 pm

*shrug* I am on record for quite some time predicting Vanguard would fall far short. I repeated it when they had to get bought out from MS because they would've been shut down otherwise.

Everyone is talking about how brilliant they were for creating the original EQ. I repeat again: All they did was make a 3D engine for a DIKU mud. The mechanics, most of the design plan, hell, even the classes and spells were direct copies of DIKU. It was so blatant at least with pre-Kunark EQ that one of the original creators of DIKU sued Verant for copywright infringement, and only dropped the suit after he was allowed to read over the source code.

Yes, it was still a monumental task to create EQ. But always remember, the skeleton, framework and guts of the game design had been done for them already back then, their biggest work was on creating the 3D engine. This time, they're having to start from scratch, and it's clearly not something they're handling overly well.

-Arlos

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 12:49 am

you said a lot of nothing their arlos

the gameplay is fine

some neat mechanics and ideas

it's just the graphix that suck donkey balls so hard that it's almost unplayable at this point

Burgy99 · Post by **Burgy99** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:10 am

I'm also interested in the 6800 if Tikker changes his mind or something ^_~

Durothil Skyreaver · Post by **Durothil Skyreaver** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 1:15 pm

You need like 21gigs to be safe.

Post by **Tossica** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:43 pm

I have a feeling the specs will drop quite a bit before launch.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 5:25 pm

if they get it optimized properly, it'll probably be worth checking out

Markarado · Post by **Markarado** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 10:00 pm

I'm still looking forward to playing this game when it comes out. I'll probably buy a new comp to play it and use my old comp for a second account to craft or something ;p

Granh · Post by **Granh** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 4:22 pm

Hope this is a tentative date and not actually something that VG is shooting for...

Vanguard: Saga of Heroes

PC
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