Throne and Liberty

has potential. shame it's empty after a year or so

geil, aber in einem tag schon lvl 51 ist für meinen Geschmack schon etwas zu schnell.

Throne and Liberty is the great surprise I reallly [b]really[/b] wasn't expecting. I completely disregarded this game for 2 years because of the F2P/P2W Korean aspect, until recently when I randomly saw some content on Youtube that got my attention. I realized that the game was of much better quality than I thought (visuals, gameplay, UI, world, etc), so I watched a bit more content about the state of the game and realized that the game might actually be good for me and since it's free to try I decided to jump in. The [b]P2W[/b] issue is really a problem once you reach the very endgame in PvE or if you are here for the PvP. Fortunately for me, I don't care much for PvP and I never really commit to MMO endgames because I don't have thousands of hours to sink. And regarding the daily gated content, I think it's only an issue for huge no-life that want to play 8 hours a day. The [b]leveling experience[/b] in the current state of the game is really good, it's even the best I have had in a MMO and I played a dozen in the last 20 years. There is lots of things to do without being to messy or becoming a chore and the content is very diverse. The rhythm is good. The quests are relatively interesting and even the side quests are well integrated. The world is really well built, beautiful and interesting. And the gameplay hit that perfect spot between tab target and action that makes it tactical enough without becoming too boring. The [b]UI and menu[/b] is really the selling point for me. Usually games from Asian developers turn me off because of the awful UI and menus but TnL is doing an amazing job making the many systems not too daunting. The UI is clean and good looking and the menus make it easy to track your progress and decide what to do next. The [b]voice acting[/b] is probably the weakest point when leveling. Not only many side characters have terrible VA that often don't match the character at all but VA sound often breaks. It's not a huge deal though. [b]Visually[/b] The game is super impressive, many solo games wish they looked that good and run that smoothly, and for a MMO it is by far the best looking I have seen. And for a Korean game I love that they kept a "grounded" vibe. Overall the game offers at least a good 150 hours of great time for free or close to. The grind level and overall difficulty is good (as far as I went). The MMO community really are the most hypocritical, entitled, crybabies. They will whine about WoW all year long but dismiss anything that isn't the big 3 because they don't have 1.000 hours of free content. Of course I would have love for the game to have a better business model, maybe it would have changed this game from being "a good 100 hours" to "one of the best game of my life, one I would spend hundred of hours in", but it is what it is and the game is still extremely high quality.