Features - Tabula Rasa reinvents itself with Operation Immortality

[HEXUS]

Operation Immortality has kicked off and lead designer, Susan Kath, tells us all about the changes to the MMORPG.

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[Cannyone]

I suppose I'm not the average MMO gamer. I never had any issues with "Boot Camp" in Tabula Rasa. What I did have issues with was being nerfed, missions that consistently failed to work, and the Thrax being made more and more Uber (in an attempt to force players to team up!?!). Add to that the promised features they never implemented, the dwindling player population, and the ruined "in-game" economy, and what have you got left? You have a $15.95 bill to pay.

Believe me when I say: I really wanted to play and enjoy Tabula Rasa!! I like the story, and generally prefer Sci-Fi to Elves and Dwarves. I tried to really "test" during the beta, and many of the problems I reported the game still has... After a brief stint off I played TR obsessively for several months. I recommended it to my friends. I tried to promote it in online forums. I tried to be friendly and helpful "in-game". I continued to send in bug reports. And I sent in Feedback, feedback and more feedback! But Destination Games and NC Soft aren't listening to their players.

Then I see an article like this, which only confirms the fact that they still aren't listening and just want to bilk another round of new players, before they close shop and move on to their next looser project! Still it makes no difference to me. I've finally moved past wanting to play Tabula Rasa. There will be other games in the future that have a Sci-Fi theme and ARE fun to play. Destination Games somehow forgot about that last part... And just making the game "more challenging" doesn't count.

[Jokerdog33]

hear hear, someone give us a proper sci fi mmorpg plz

[Cannyone]

There are 3, or more, possibilities on the horizon... Star Gate Worlds, Kights of the Old Republic Online, and Star Trek Online. Plus there are games like Huxley and Jumpgate Evolution, which seem to be less traditional MMORPG and more FPS, and Space Simulator. All of these have a certain appeal, but we'll have to wait and see how they pan out.

[directhex]

I thought i'd give this a shot. it was part of a 2-for-£15 deal. installed it on Saturday, had a network failure on Sunday & Monday, and uninstalled it on Tuesday

I'm not a big MMO fan. Can't get the hang of them, can't keep interested in them. I'm too into story-driven games for "kill 77 red salamander" type quests. And I just don't feel TR was a "good" MMO.

The graphics aren't very good. Better than WoW (but what isn't?), but WELL short of the bar set by LOTRO, which was released 7 months earlier. The missions are uninventive, and perhaps most importantly, there's no motivation to team up with anyone else. At least with Auto Assault it was sorta the point that the world was barren & deserted.

So not worth my time, really. I've still not found a post-AA MMO to keep my interest for long.