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**Prince Toad** · 10-02-2006, 09:50 PM

Well, I got bored the other day, so I decided to download the 7-day free trial version of D&D Online. Messed around with it today.

Positives: being a rogue actually made me feel useful, for one. That never happens. I sort of sucked, but that's just the dice. The built-in voice chat is nice, although it'd be better if I could figure out how to make my own mic work. Um... the controls are pretty intuitive, also.

Negatives: combat was pretty stupid, at least for me. I have to manually turn to face my opponent if I want to attack him? And if he moves, I have to follow him around by hand? Lame. I might also have to click on him to attack every time he moves, but I could just not have found the the key for that. It also felt like my hands needed to be in three places at once-- one on WASD, one on the set of number keys on top (which has a name, which I forgot), and one on the mouse. Frustrating. I don't really like the control bar setup thing-- seems like I should be pushing a different set of keys for using a skill (ex: Open Lock) and for selecting a weapon, a la Guild Wars. I don't see why they divided wealth into pp, gp, sp, and cp. I suppose I can see sp and cp, but pp are just annoying. It'd also be nice to have more convenient shops.

I dunno. Overall, I sort of liked it, despite all those negatives, but I'd need to play it more to give a more comprehensive review. Anyone else played it?

10-02-2006, 09:50 PM	#1
Prince Toad PC Mod Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Rookery Gender: Posts: 11,428 Thanks: 43 Thanked 59 Times in 50 Posts Points: 46,017.55 Bank: 26,666.46 Total Points: 72,684.01 Donate	Dungeons & Dragons Online Well, I got bored the other day, so I decided to download the 7-day free trial version of D&D Online. Messed around with it today. Positives: being a rogue actually made me feel useful, for one. That never happens. I sort of sucked, but that's just the dice. The built-in voice chat is nice, although it'd be better if I could figure out how to make my own mic work. Um... the controls are pretty intuitive, also. Negatives: combat was pretty stupid, at least for me. I have to manually turn to face my opponent if I want to attack him? And if he moves, I have to follow him around by hand? Lame. I might also have to click on him to attack every time he moves, but I could just not have found the the key for that. It also felt like my hands needed to be in three places at once-- one on WASD, one on the set of number keys on top (which has a name, which I forgot), and one on the mouse. Frustrating. I don't really like the control bar setup thing-- seems like I should be pushing a different set of keys for using a skill (ex: Open Lock) and for selecting a weapon, a la Guild Wars. I don't see why they divided wealth into pp, gp, sp, and cp. I suppose I can see sp and cp, but pp are just annoying. It'd also be nice to have more convenient shops. I dunno. Overall, I sort of liked it, despite all those negatives, but I'd need to play it more to give a more comprehensive review. Anyone else played it?