Taliesin played Lost Ark because everyone else was playing it and it looked fun. There are lots of things in Lost Ark that Tali doesn’t generally like in games, like gender-locked classes and a cash shop which seems a bit pay to win. Can Tali get through that and enjoy the smooth action-combat, beautiful graphics and apparently really good endgame on his bard. (spoiler, no)
Here is Taliesin’s first impressions on Lost Ark and why it’s not for him
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I saw Korean MMO and I was like ye we'll see if the hype last here for a month before I play lol(worth mentioning I mean specifically with my friends and as of right now I think none of them are still playing the game and I had 20 people playing it LOL)
I totally agree regarding Lost Ark, was fun for a bit but yeah… Was done with it pretty quickly.
0:58 ah I already see what's gone wrong this game is not an arpg nor does it have a strong narrative
Didn't even bother to install this. I'm very familiar with this kind of business model, already playing one pay to win game😅
I tried it out, but as soon as I saw the control scheme for KB+M & controllers I noped out pretty quick.
Yeah man I get it , you don't like this type of game . Why try it then? You know what it was
It's so obvious that Taliesin and his community is just having different expectations, to the point of being contrarian about Lost Ark just for the sake of it.
But that's ok I guess, you play your boring game and I play mine
Lost Ark may be one of the most polished F2P P2W game ever, but it still feels like a mobile game to me. I think I’m probably just too old and the wrong generation to understand the appeal of Lost Ark. It feels like just not too long ago, people were up in arms about P2W in WoW, ESO, etc. Now all of a sudden everyone is 100% OK with F2P P2W in Lost Ark.
Maybe I’m just a an old boomer … but I can’t wrap my head around this. I’m not sure whether it’s a double-standard, or whether mobile gaming culture has finally conquered PC gamers, or what. I give up.
I liked the sound of the game when my bro described it to me. But then I had a look at the class pages and the aesthetic put me right off. It's like this whole final fantasy/anime/over designed style. Everyone is a pretty 20 year old. I'm just not a fan of that.
People underestimate immersion, I seriously cant believe a game created recently, tie your class to a specific gender and have so little variety, yeah u can change between lots of hair colors and that stuff.. but all options end looking generically the same. What about not looking like going to a night club party?
The pvp though…not gear based .The most fair pvp in any game that is easy accessible I have played. The pvp is GOOD . The pvp is skill based.
When I played the Russian version, they actually had story content for Level 1-10. It was abandoned for a cutscene of your story. I felt like that was a weird misstep but I understand why they did it.
It has happened… Tali has released a video on a game that he doesn't like. 1 step towards the quartering… It's a slippery slope my man lol xoxo
Story and lore are my jam… and I certainly didn't see any reason to give a damn about this game's story and lore when I tried it out. I really got mad at how annoying that priest guy at the beginning was… shitty voice acting with a whiny voice and the twist at the end of that arc about who he really was is so underwhelming and I couldn't even care less.
I mean combat is fun, even if I didn't quite get the hang of it… but not enough for me to care about it since I'm a lore nerd and all of my needs for story, lore and gameplay are perfectly satisfied playing Final Fantasy XIV and SWtOR instead. For the ARPG experience I'll just play Diablo II Resurrected.
Boring is damn right about Lost Ark. Nothing about the story interests me. Nothing about the lore interests me. Gameplay does have its moments, but like I said… I'm a story and lore nerd. I don't care if the combat is the most fun you'll ever have playing a game… if I don't get a compelling story to make me care about why I'm fighting that fight, with rich lore that makes that world interesting, with characters I feel invested in, which includes being well voiced… then forget it!
You ever play much D2, Path of exile, diablo 2, Grim, Torch? Well this is an mmo for ARPG fans. Like for me WOW is the lamest game in existence and id literally rather go to bed. So everyone is different, i feel sorry for people who dont get the game though its fantastic.
Great video my friend
The game gets better as you go, give it a shot it's free
I know what he means with the game "trying too hard". There's so many of these types of games that just 100% abandon all pretense of taking place in a believable, immersive world to just throw shit at you a 13 year old would think are cool. and that just gets so old after a while. It's like seeing an anime that looks alright, but falls into every single anime trope.
After watching Josh Strive Hays' "Worst MMO" series I discarded Lost Ark after a bit to be honest with a couple of red flags:
– Player revives in the in game shop
– Grindy Korean MMORPG
– Gender locked classes (so probably will focus on making Lost Ark a dress up simulator)
– Early game you're a god (dunno if it's like that later, but that almost always puts me off a game)
If it's great after a year I'll happily eat my words and be happy that there's another good MMO!
Im proud of u tali, i didnt even make it to the “download and install” portion of the game before i got bored of it and gave up 😂
I remember playing Diablo when wow came out, The way WoW was 3d and i could control the angle and zoom blew me away i felt like id jumped ahead 10 years in gaming, looking at Lost Arc i feel like ive jumped back 10 years.
Poor pacing then? That moment to breathe is important. Lol
I hope most people are not as biased are as you are and they let themselves to enjoy a F2P game which provides much more quality than your favorite game lately.
Yes – 2 hours will show you what a game looks like…. ehem – Suspect you didn't want to like it….
Yeah – that's fair.
Thanks for the review. I know not to try it now. Looks like it was made for adolescent boys. Gender specific classes? I'd be out on that alone. My baby girl is a warrior. (as in, real life she flies around in fighter jets) Gender specific classes annoy the heck out of me.
Lost Ark struck me as being a freemium, 3/4 perspective version of World of Warcraft. No thanks.
whats really bad about lost ark is its a FB click rpg / 100 fucking mods thats it come on bloke get on skyrim level 200+ or noob lol
I was done after waiting 2 days for the game to download/update, creating my character, and then finding someone took my name
I understand pretty much all the points Tali highlighted, and I really can't agree with any of them (apart from the really subjective ones, like feelings toward customization). They all sounded something that would come out of my grandfather's mouth, to be quite honest. Heavy boomer vibes, but hey, that's totally fine. I just feel like he started playing bored as all hell from something else, and it just transferred to Lost Ark.
Like every game that had no revamp to the early playing experience, the beginning is absolutely atrocious, in regards to pacing and story quality (but things do pick up after a while, and it's quite enjoyable). The best in-game systems are locked behind the tediousness of the early game, so there's that. It's a really good game if you stick with it, and it's an horrible experience if you just go through the early game and quit midway through.
yea i found it boring.
Exactly how I felt with WoW. Some games are just not meant for some people. WoW bored me within the first 3 hours I tried it. Hit 20 cap and quit.