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avoid this one..dont waste your hard earned money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I followed this game from beta,I had very high hopes for this game,Its concept is a solid and exciting in theory.But,Vanguard Fails to excite,and its a system hog,It takes 17 gigs of HD.You have to have a very good system to get the graphics up to where its not bland and its fun to adventure in.I originally thought maybe being on Sony's servers would mean,it would be a seamless world,with few crashes,I was wrong!!!The game lag's terrible and I am on FIOS 15mb down 2mb up.I rarely get that kind of lag on EQ2 and even the laggy BF2 is not as bad as this game is,The server boundries are noticed everytime you go thru them which is often because if your in a group and they got a slower connection you find ourself 6-10 secs ahead of the people you were with.This game at this time is a failure,I do however have hope for it,But,I would recommend not buying this game at this time due to what i have said,also I will mention other things that need to be fixed these are not all of them but,a small list... the map is useless,grouping and being able to tell where your group members are,combat system is lame,crashes,I bought the game 5-11 and it is 5-12 and i have crashed 10 times at least.I have a duo core amd processor and 2 gig of ram so should not be crashing at all..

Bottom line,dont buy this game,its a waste of 40 bucks.Get EQ2,WoW or LOTRO or wait for Conan to come out.

Vanguard Beta Part Two

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I won't bore you with all of the background on Vanguard (VG), you can read that most anywhere. I bought VG after a close friend had told me of their experiences and that I should try it out.

First, the good. VG is a huge world, with three separate continents to enhance your experience. Lots of different classes and races, character design down to eyebrows, cheeks, etc. I believe that this game has made the best Paladin class I've ever played. You can level in three different categories: adventuring (the normal killing monster method), diplomacy (an in game card game that I hated), and crafting (making items to sell and use yourself).

VG is NOT for everyone. If you like to solo more than grouping, I'd say you need to be careful what classes you play (Necro's solo well; Clerics don't). This game pushes you to group. The game as it is requires a fairly high end system to run it. Travel is very lengthy when compared to other MMO's.

VG needs more work. Why do I say that? Having played in betas before, it has that same feel still. Zoning between areas will always turn off your torch, can make your horse disappear, can drop you from the game, takes forever, etc. Huge swaths of land have nothing on them, just dead space. Helmets have no graphics yet. This last patch refigured the bonuses on gear above level 30 or so, the end result is all of the crafting tools I was using are now no longer useable by me at my level ... sigh. Crafting complications post patch have gone thru the roof I'm told, I can't verify that since I have no crafting tools anymore that work ... sigh. Several quests were bugged in at least one stage. The Auction House is not as detailed as other mmo's and has less options. The mail system charges you a fee to send items which I found annoying.

VG has a lot of promise and could really benefit from several months of work, but can it survive to do that with a paying user base it it now? Only time will tell.

Addicted to Vanguard

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game has come a long ways since it's inception almost a year ago. Since Sony acquired it, game performance has improved tremendously. It is possible to solo to 50 (although dropped gear and group questing rewards are much better than the soloable gear, as it should be!). Crafting is just difficult enough to feel quite accomplished once you've mastered it. Diplomacy is unique to Vanguard, and offers a sphere of its own that doesn't require crafting or adventuring to enjoy. If you've enjoyed Asheron's Call or Everquest, give Vanguard a shot - it is a lot more polished now.

If you choose to try Vanguard, type /join craft and /join dip while ingame to gain access to the friendliest community I've seen in an MMO. There is no fear of asking questions in this game.

Addicting Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: March 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am thoroughly enjoying this game. Diplomacy is actually a lot of fun and crafting is a whole new experience (though it does get a little boring). Adventuring is a blast and, while still pretty buggy, is totally addicting!

Fun but time consuming

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First off I'd like to say that Vanguard is a fantastic game. Easily the best MMORPG out there to date. Huge world, no zoning, amazing graphics, interesting combat system.

Its biggest drawback comes from the rediculously high system requirements. I'd suggest having a X1950+ to play this game as well as 2 gigs of ram.

Other drawbacks are fixable in time; crashes to desktop, in game bugs, gold sellers..etc

I had to take a shower after trying this one...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 19
Date: March 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Let me start off with saying that I used to play Giuld wars, and am now playing WoW, like many other people. So of course I was looking for somthing more challenging and in depth. I have read that Vangaurd had that to offer, but that was the beginning of my downfall in the MMORPG saga. I purchased this game after I got out of work today, after reading many,many reviews online, most of which were eitther love it or hate it type reviews. I decided to take the chance and go out and purchase the game and a now worthless SOE game card. Shortly after installing the game and downloading the one hour worth of patches I finally got the game up and running.....Here's where I started to become nauses. Character creation is joke, the game offers you with many diffrent facial and body proportions. theses customizable features are so vaugly diffrent from one or the other it looks like your character barely changes apperance when you adjust them, even WoW's limited charctrer creation features were noticeable. that was strike one for Vangaurd.
Here comes strike two. o.k. now that your lovely linear character is completed, it's now time to move out to the world and prepair to fight...... SLITHERING SLUGS........WOW, pretty epic, huh? and that is what you will face after a standing guard appers before you and tells you to kill 6 roaming farmers for him, but be careful, you have to get by the (said with an epic booming voice) SLITHERING SLUGS!!and at this point I threw up in my waste basket.He steps up to the plate, the pither hurl's the ball to the batter, he swings, and....ohhh he misses, STRIKE TWO!!
Alright next batter is up to the plate this one is for all the marbles. After slautghering the fearsome farmers, and slugs. I ran around looking for a vendor to sell my precious discolored farmer fangs to. finally afeter countless hack and slash slug killing i made it to town and ran up to the vendor, but wait he didn't want my discolored farmers teeth.So after all my grinding, slow leveling progression, slug killing, and collecting farmers teeth, i got nothing and at this point I'm sitting on the toilet with diareaha from being so repulsed by this game. The pitcher throws the ball to the batter, the batter swings.........you know what happens,
My conclusion to Vangaurd is this. I CAN HAVE MORE FUN PLAYING A TEXT BASED DOS VERSION OF THIS GAME!!!!

Best MMO out currently.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 15
Date: February 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Yeah it was released about a month early in there are still a few bugs that people are working through but bugs aside Vanguard is the best MMO out there currently.

The world is huge and engaging. The best way to describe it (to those that have played wow) is that it brings the endgame to the entire game (well 10+ -- newbie zones remain newbie zones). Tough mobs, deep dungeons and deep play from 11+

Can't recommend it enough to anyone who enjoys MMOs

Warning - this game may not be around much longer

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: May 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Fair warning, recently this game was purchased by Sony Online Entertainment and most of the original developers fired because of poor sales and low subscriptions. This game may be discontinued in the near future so keep that in mind if you are considering buying this product. Vanguard was a very hyped up game that turned out to be a sour lemon.

Junk

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Graphics are so over-done that you wind up making the game look worse than EQ1 to get a solid 50+ FPS, which ends up dropping to 10 FPS when you run near a group of players.

Combat is boring, repetitive, uninspiring, etc. Crafting is 10x's worse.

Anyone who enjoys the game hasn't gotten much past 30 or has their own regular group to play with.

If you buy this game, you'll spend hours looking for certain classes of a certain level who are willing to do a certain portion of a certain quest line. Good luck with that.

Not the Vanguard it used to be

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Vanguard SOH had a lot of hype and expectation when it launched. From what I hear, the launch was pretty rough and a lot of people were very dissapointed. The old reviews reflect that.

But the VG that exists today is NOT the same game you played last year!! Sony has been working very hard on fixing things and adding stuff. They just offered a free month to previous account holders, and everyone who came back to try it out remarked on just how improved the game is overall.

If you've never tried VG, this is not your ordinary MMO. Yes, there's plenty of adventuring in a giantic, almost seamless world. 3 huge continents to explore, dungeons galore dot the maps, 16 starting races and 19 starting classes. Graphics are gorgeous and Sony is constantly bringing in improvements (like expanding on the available character creation models).

You can adventure as you would in any MMO, running around exploring, doing quests and killing things. But you can also build your own house on a plot of land of your choice, go sailing the ocean in your own boat, or delve into the spheres of crafting and diplomacy.

VG's comabt is a slight expansion on typical MMO fare. Most moves are cool-down based, but you have the addition of several layers of stances (determing more damage vs. better defense, for example), and specials that are only activated at special times (like in response to a successful dodge). There are also effects that can be triggered by a special (like stunned) that can be utilized by another class's special (if the special is linked to a 'stunned' vulnerability, it gains bonuses). Level cap is currently 50, but there is also end-game raiding available.

But if you're tired of just 'running around killing stuff' (since that's all most MMO's are), there's still so much more to do in VG. When you need a break from the adventuring grind, try out crafting or diplomacy. Unlike most other MMO's, VG crafting requires actual skill and thought, and there's consequence for goofing. All items require basic materials, some utilities (like solvent or glue) and can be enhanced with special dusts to give it bonuses. Various steps in the process can have choices of how to proceed (like choice A giving lots of completion progress, but no quality upgrade; or choice B which gives a little completion and a little quality upgrade; or choice C which gives a lot of quality upgrade, but no completion progress). You have a set number of points you can spend to complete your crafted item, and each step costs points. Run out of points and you're done, even if your item isn't. You just wasted all your materials. Run out of important materials (like a solvent) or have missing equipment and you're done, materials wasted. But crafted items are also quite decent for players in VG (unlike other MMO's where crafting is next to useless) and some things can ONLY be gotten from crafters.

Diplomacy is the third sphere in VG. It is the realm of social persuasion, where you engage in 'parley's with various NPC's to obtain gear, get permission to build a guild hall (only diplomats can get the guild hall plot) or even provide city-wide buffs. Buffs last for 1 hr usually and can be for adventurers (e.g. +to all stats), crafters (+to a crafting skil) and diplomats (add cards to your deck). Diplomacy is played out like an online card game, except that UNlike Legends of Norrath or the other MMO's, VG diplomacy is FREE! Yes, I said FREE! No buying cards online and paying even MORE money to play this game. It's included in the VG game itself.

The best part of all this is that it's YOUR choice how to play. You can level each of the three spheres (adventuring, crafting, diplomacy) completely independant of any of the others. No more required levelling just so you crafters can get that next recipie! If you don't want to go and kill things, you don't have to. Just keep working on your crafting and leave the killing to everyone else. Diplomats also can completely avoid adventuring if they want. But with so many starting classes and races, I'm sure you'll find some class to try the adventuring sphere with too. It's just really nice to have a CHOICE for a change.

And that's really what VG is about: having a choice of how you want to play.

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