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Love Hate Relationship with this Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: August 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Having never played a MMORPG before Asheron's Call, I was floored by the immensity of the world and the depth of things to do. I subscribed to the game in early 2000, and other than a few months away from time to time, finally official unsubscribed at the release of AC's 2nd expansion pack, Throne of Destiny, this past month.

I spent 5 years of my life spent playing Asheron's Call, investing 5-10 hours a week. I have tried many RPGs since, but nothing has hooked me like AC did.

Unfortunately, my experience with AC was dysfunctional at best. The first year was amazing. I met many friends, and had a blast exploring. After 2 months I realized that my level 13 swordsman (without any magic) could barely hold his own against even the weakest of mobs, so I re-rolled. I created a spearman on a whim, and went to the packed Mossie Fort to level. It was there that I met Corrozus, my soon to be good friend and patron. Every night for a year we played together...laughed together, struggled together and leveled together. Everything that Dereth had to offer was explored by our ever-increasing alliance.

I was a level 31 plinking away at Granite Golems in the Dires with my spearman the day that Turbine introduced the first wave of mobs that became the first chain on a link that lead to the ultimate death of the game. They were acid wielding, shield carrying skeletons, and my character couldn't touch them. In fact the mobs were so difficult that I heard rumors that players were now re-rolling en masse to create characters with Life Magic.

As anyone who has played AC knows, Life Magic was broken from the start, and it took a while for the player base to learn this, but once we did, the game became a mere shell. Soon, uber characters abounded, and friends we once played with daily went off to level up their new uber toons. It seemed almost overnight everyone was level 50 killing Olthoi and Lugies in XP leveling dungeons while friendships and allegiance began to crumble.

It was at this point that the original devs left, and the new team not only continued to allow life magic to remain unbalanced, but they built virtually all content around it. It was at this time that I began to dislike the game I once loved. I had few friends that weren't uber-focused. Allegiances became quest oriented as opposed to exploration oriented. And the devs catered to the elite players and ignored the average game player.

Housing came and went, and I quit and re-subscribed several times. My playing time decreased severely to the point were I might log on once a week to seem no one from our allegiance on.

Asheron's Call, it could be said, died a premature death because it listened to the 1% gamers who lived online. AC kept feeding the game XP and loot to keep them happy, and soon even a newbie couldn't step a few clicks outside of town without running into a level 79 mob.

The Throne of Destiny expansion pack is more of the same. The game is all but dead, and simply exists to pull in funds to support Turbine's up and coming releases, D&D Online, and Middle Earth. I won't be trying either. Just like a bad relationship, my time with Turbine is over and I want my 5 years back.

this is the best game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: May 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

i would give this more stars if i could but unfortunetly the limet is 5. I love the alligence system, the easy to use controls, and the cool world that really makes you think.

I also think the little mini actions you can do are cool, like *mock* and *snowflake* and *ymca*, even though they don't do anything in the game. they are funny.

This game is definetly the best rpg i have ever played, although there are a couple things that could be improved, such as the NPCs, or non-player charecters, for those of you who don't play any other RPGs. The game relies a little to much on players(not that i think this is a bad thing or that they should change it at all) but some more detail with the non-player charecters would be kind of cool. This is, however, still one of the best games i have ever played, and i have played a LOT of games.

Not recommended for those with a life

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: July 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is bound to be an unpopular review. Ever notice that panning a product is not considered helpful by most people? Once you get this far, you're hoping that the reviewers will ratify your purchase decision.

Well, this is a great game, I imagine, if you're a gaming addict with nothing else to do. On the other hand, if you have other responsibilities and interests that will prevent you from investing many hours daily in this game, you should skip it altogether. It's way to complicated, and the other players are way too immersed in it, for you to have any fun with anything less than an all out effort. You simply cannot dip into this game for a half hour here and there and expect to glean anything but frustration. I played it for a couple of weeks, saw the writing on the wall, and cancelled my account.

This game is one of my all-time favorites!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 21
Date: February 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you don't like crowded towns, build up enough strength tomove out to a non-starter town EXAMPLE: if you started in Rithwic,move it out to Eastham! Plus, if you want to get some items from monsters, you gotta kill them yourself! Anyway, this game is just plain AWESOME! I play it with my friends every single day, and it never wears out. Me and one of my friends are RPG buffs, and we totally LOVE the game! My other friend we play with isn't and RPG buff, (action's more his style) BUT HE PROBABLY LIKES THE GAME MORE THAN WE DO! I highly reccomend.

Bob's Crities

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: October 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Asheron's call is a game for serious role-players. I liked it because it was more interactive and "sociale" than other role-plays. It had a couple problems with "lag" or a time when the server can't handle all the info and the perfomance does screwy things for a couple seconds. Dazzling effects!

Lord Goryon The Valorous

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is by far one of the best online pay-to-play games out there. It works on a wide variety of computers, unlike everquest which only works on a handful of computers and also everquest requires a 3d card, which AC does not. the world the game takes place in is HUGE and all of it can be explored, from forests to deserts to high mountains. Getting your character started is fun and easy, starting with customizing your character down to the last detail, like eyelashes, and starting level building is much easier than in EQ and UO, you do not start as helpless as a baby, able to be killed by anything that happens to be near you, you start with basic weapons, and you can kill monsters close to town, and monsters inhabiting shallow dungeons.

All new players are given a "newbie" quest, they can range from as easy as delivering a letter to retriving a powerful axe from a dungeon swarming with monsters.

I have much to say about this game, but i suppose ill stop here, all i can say is that this game is TRULY great, and worth the price.

A riveting, exiting, and adrenaline puming RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 05, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game is very unique. You will get hooked. The developers at turbine have made the game so that it is not always the same thing over and over again. They change the game as you play. For example, if i started the game a month ago i would have things that a person that just started will never be able to get. The enemy is always changing, evolving, and getting smarter to keep up the pace of the game. Overall i think that this is a wonderful game and that it will be a top seller. If you can afford it buy this game i would recomend getting it.

P.S. its worth it

Superb

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The graphics in Asheron's Call are spectacular. The wide range of map use gives the game more of a user friendly environment. Instead of constantly being bogged down by a small map. This game gives you the advantage of creating of 150 different characters and each other characters have their own styles, which gives this game the chance less conformity. This game is a deffinite buy.

WARNING.. if you have any kind of life DON"T buy this

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is EXTREMELY addictive. It has no real story line but a plot that never seems to end. With the realationships you will develope over a short period makes up for a kind of second world only a lot funner. Also this game is very custimizable meaning you can do just about what ever you want from powerleveing by killing things 5X more powerfull then you, sit in town and chat and trade all day, or even develop a monarchy which will allow you to gain TONS of xp just sitting there. One bad thing is the magic system is WAY to powerfull a lev 30 mage could kill a lev 500 Diamond Golem if they had to. Its been 6 months and I'm finally leaving the game hopefully anyway.

Been playing since after Beta and best game I have ever play

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Before I bought AC I was interested in Ultima 9 which was a complete flop. Then, my brother had me play AC and one of the biggest things you notice are the graphics. Just clicking on the Life stone which saves where you will be teleport to is beautiful. All the magic is fun and most of the people are great. I recommend a video card that can support the modest graphic requirement. I think the ten dollar fee is accurate since the great people at turbin always update the game each month with new world events and climate to new armour, weapons, quests, and new lands. All of which you would have to pay for a new game completely anyways. But, with AC you never have to buy a new game because AC is always a new game each month =) I recommend this game if you want to be addicted I have been playing for 1 1/2 years and I don't plan on buying anything else until AC2 Thanks Turbin for a game you spent making for around 6 years I believe.

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