TheMeph

I have to admit, i am slightly disappointed. The scenery looks good, but all the characters are shiny and look like they have a thin coating of Teflon or varnish making them look like plastic and unappealing. The combat is meh. I don't like that I have to keep the button pressed to attack. Give me back auto-attack any day and a real tactical view. the one they have here is bad and limiting. The screen zooms out just a few feet above the characters, and you only get a good view of the immediate area. You will have to try to drag the camera around to find the targets and give commands, and it snaps back to the characters making it annoying to have to refind the target. Magic.. where did all the other schools go? How did we go from 4 schools of magic to just 4 spells? Bleh... Not impressed.

The game breaker for me is the phasing system. You can't play with your friends or family unless you are all in the exact same step of the exact same quest, otherwise you all get separated into your own little realities and it becomes a solo quest. My son was disappointed that even tho we were grouped i could do nothing to help him kill the elite mob I had already killed before, and he had to wait till a random person came by to try to duo it together. Completely ruined it for me, not being able to play with family. Not re subbing.

The biggest complain I have on this game, other than size limitations, is that the in-game tooltips are next to useless. To be specific, the star-hapiness rating they give for animals. For example, when you open the tool tip for a tundra exhibit, it tells you that tigers only have 1 star happiness rating, but 3 star happiness rating in tropical exhibits. So you build a tropical exhibit, and if you want to adopt a Siberian tiger, you find out that Siberian tigers have a 3 star happiness rating for Alpine exhibits, and absolutely hate tropical ones. It is like that for every animal. Developers could at least been consistent, or added more detailed tool-tips instead of vague generalizations.

Meh... You will see everything that can be seen on your first day. Every day after will just be a rinse and repeat experience. I want to see what all the 10/10 reviewers think 1 week after release after all the hype is gone.

I want to like it, but I can't. Feels like a linear hack and slash game to me. Hardly any weapon or armor diversity, and just reeks of shallowness. The customization and openness just isn' there.

12 hours in and most of that was spent trying to get the ship AI to do their jobs. Miners wont mine, traders won't trade, nobody will do anything unless you find some complicated workaround. Completely broken and unplayable. There is no way to proceed unless all you want to do is shoot your 1 gun.