Vanguard: Saga of Heroes

Official VG Trial Isle launched today.  Here is the link... 

http://vanguard.station.sony.com/isleofdawn/

This will give you access to the Free Trial - Isle of Dawn.  It is levels 1-10 and you need to subscribed to leave the island.

Time to set yourself free...Heroes Reborn

Unless they've substantially changed the mainland, having 10 levels of polish isn't going to help. It'll just piss more people off when they see the difference between the trial and what they end up paying for.

The trial is made from the Kojan landscape and objects and all game-mechanics are the same.

Beside seeing a lot less people, whats this big difference youre talking about?

I just stumpled across a thread on the VG forum where people say that the starter isle is too easy so give a false impression (+ gear you get is too good).

Originally posted by WisebutCruel

Unless they've substantially changed the mainland, having 10 levels of polish isn't going to help. It'll just piss more people off when they see the difference between the trial and what they end up paying for.

It's sounds like maybe you need to try the game again. I started playing Vanguard 2 weeks ago. I get very good performance, have found very few bugs, and there's tons of content. I'm enjoying the game a great deal and plan on staying :)

Originally posted by WisebutCruel

Unless they've substantially changed the mainland, having 10 levels of polish isn't going to help. It'll just piss more people off when they see the difference between the trial and what they end up paying for.

LOL,are you for real?This game did not and will not ever need polish.I played this game from day 1 and it has ALWAYS been a better visual game than anything i have ever played.I might add that i never had any problems others were ,the odd invisible zone load chunks,that's expected with a much higher poly game than the garbage people are used to.

As far as easy goes,i didn't notice anything different than ALL games,where it is ALWAYS easy to play the early levels.Actually if anything they were at times more challenging than a lot of games.

There may be a few ideas in VANGUARD that people may not or do like,but i guarantee a ton more effort and polish was put into this game than say WOW a 5 year old game,that has done NOTHING  to polish it up.You got Blizzard raping players for millions and putting nothing back into the game,and here you got a game that was designed by a small DEV[Sigil]and yet put more effort into the game.I realize Vanguard was a newer project ,but hey RUNESCAPE a F2P game put out the effort to upgrade there graphics why can't Blizzard?This is why i don't support crap like WOW,when i do support developers it will be the ones that have actually put out the effort.

It's now a SOE game,but it's still not there fault,players out there are trying to use console type PC's for gaming.You can play console graphics in any BLizzard game or enjoy a much higher quality game in VAnguard.IDK but i'd much rather pay for quality over hype or pay for something ,just because it can run on a 10 year old PC lol.

I pay attention to the gaming industry quite closely and there still is not one game out there in the MMORPG genre that can equal,Vanguards quality,well FFXI can but is like WOW for ancient graphics.It really says a lot when the only other visual and quality game just so happens to also be an SOE product...EQ2.I don't play anything right now,so no i'm not a fanbois, i just have to speak out ,when i hear rubbish about quality of games.I have never playe LOTR i hear that game has quality,but i have seen a lot fo there HD videos and it's not in the same class visually as Vanguard,even there newest installment,that mines video shows poor texture use and very bland looks.

Vanguard is a very good game with a few flaws and an empty world,the latter they have no control over.It is too bad or i would be playing Vanguard myself,i still wouldn't play a game like WOW just because it has a lot of players,i don't need to show off to anyone,i just want enough players to interact with.

Originally posted by Wizardry

Originally posted by WisebutCruel

Unless they've substantially changed the mainland, having 10 levels of polish isn't going to help. It'll just piss more people off when they see the difference between the trial and what they end up paying for.

LOL,are you for real?This game did not and will not ever need polish.I played this game from day 1 and it has ALWAYS been a better visual game than anything i have ever played.I might add that i never had any problems others were ,the odd invisible zone load chunks,that's expected with a much higher poly game than the garbage people are used to.

Sorry, graphics don't equate "polish". For someone who "pays attention to the game industry", you're not showing that knowledge here. Vanguard never needed polish? You're either seeing the past through rose colored glasses, are simply trolling for fun, or are an extreme fanboi. I won't say which since I really don't know.

And I haven't played Vanguard since after release. My comment in my original post was not a knock against the game, but simply a logical statement. Now, if the rest of the game now equals or exceeds the quality of the trial isle, that's fine. If it doesn't, people will complain. That was my only point.

Originally posted by WisebutCruel

Originally posted by Wizardry

Originally posted by WisebutCruel

Unless they've substantially changed the mainland, having 10 levels of polish isn't going to help. It'll just piss more people off when they see the difference between the trial and what they end up paying for.

LOL,are you for real?This game did not and will not ever need polish.I played this game from day 1 and it has ALWAYS been a better visual game than anything i have ever played.I might add that i never had any problems others were ,the odd invisible zone load chunks,that's expected with a much higher poly game than the garbage people are used to.

 

Sorry, graphics don't equate "polish". For someone who "pays attention to the game industry", you're not showing that knowledge here. Vanguard never needed polish? You're either seeing the past through rose colored glasses, are simply trolling for fun, or are an extreme fanboi. I won't say which since I really don't know.

And I haven't played Vanguard since after release. My comment in my original post was not a knock against the game, but simply a logical statement. Now, if the rest of the game now equals or exceeds the quality of the trial isle, that's fine. If it doesn't, people will complain. That was my only point.

VG looks amazing from long time ago, but now with GU6 they have imroved it even more. As example Afrit (45+ lvl outpost) is changed abit and now looks even better. The only problem there was the performance that currently is greatly improved also. I dont know how much from the world they have improved but there are graphics updates all over the world.

Originally posted by WisebutCruel

Originally posted by Wizardry

Originally posted by WisebutCruel

Unless they've substantially changed the mainland, having 10 levels of polish isn't going to help. It'll just piss more people off when they see the difference between the trial and what they end up paying for.

LOL,are you for real?This game did not and will not ever need polish.I played this game from day 1 and it has ALWAYS been a better visual game than anything i have ever played.I might add that i never had any problems others were ,the odd invisible zone load chunks,that's expected with a much higher poly game than the garbage people are used to.

 

Sorry, graphics don't equate "polish". For someone who "pays attention to the game industry", you're not showing that knowledge here. Vanguard never needed polish? You're either seeing the past through rose colored glasses, are simply trolling for fun, or are an extreme fanboi. I won't say which since I really don't know.

And I haven't played Vanguard since after release. My comment in my original post was not a knock against the game, but simply a logical statement. Now, if the rest of the game now equals or exceeds the quality of the trial isle, that's fine. If it doesn't, people will complain. That was my only point.

The rest of game HAS changed dramatically since you last played during release. Trial island is a subset of the rest of the game; not a special version of it.
 

I would suggest that you try out the FREE trial.  If you like it you can pick up a a copy for $10 on ebay. Your original statement did sound kind of "trollish" to me.

Originally posted by Wizardry

Originally posted by WisebutCruel

Unless they've substantially changed the mainland, having 10 levels of polish isn't going to help. It'll just piss more people off when they see the difference between the trial and what they end up paying for.

LOL,are you for real?This game did not and will not ever need polish.I played this game from day 1 and it has ALWAYS been a better visual game than anything i have ever played.I might add that i never had any problems others were ,the odd invisible zone load chunks,that's expected with a much higher poly game than the garbage people are used to.

As far as easy goes,i didn't notice anything different than ALL games,where it is ALWAYS easy to play the early levels.Actually if anything they were at times more challenging than a lot of games.

There may be a few ideas in VANGUARD that people may not or do like,but i guarantee a ton more effort and polish was put into this game than say WOW a 5 year old game,that has done NOTHING  to polish it up.You got Blizzard raping players for millions and putting nothing back into the game,and here you got a game that was designed by a small DEV[Sigil]and yet put more effort into the game.I realize Vanguard was a newer project ,but hey RUNESCAPE a F2P game put out the effort to upgrade there graphics why can't Blizzard?This is why i don't support crap like WOW,when i do suppo