Spent a few hours with the Wildstar beta.
Verdict: it's fun as hell.
The combat has been tightened up extensively, it's fast-paced and twitchy, but you aren't made of wet tissue paper like in GW2--you can actually take a few hits, even as a DPS class. XIV feels slower than a molasses glacier in comparison.
The game is gorgeous. It's like playing a Don Bluth film, only much more hilariously violent and gory. The character models aren't nearly as good as the scenery, but they're not bad either, especially since they seemed to fix the weirdness from earlier betas.
The humor and the setting is pretty much great. My only real problems with Wildstar are: 40-player raiding (yuck) and NCsoft (yuck).
I will probably play this alongside XIV to get my PvP fix, because XIV's PvP is incredibly lol.
Verdict: it's fun as hell.
The combat has been tightened up extensively, it's fast-paced and twitchy, but you aren't made of wet tissue paper like in GW2--you can actually take a few hits, even as a DPS class. XIV feels slower than a molasses glacier in comparison.
The game is gorgeous. It's like playing a Don Bluth film, only much more hilariously violent and gory. The character models aren't nearly as good as the scenery, but they're not bad either, especially since they seemed to fix the weirdness from earlier betas.
The humor and the setting is pretty much great. My only real problems with Wildstar are: 40-player raiding (yuck) and NCsoft (yuck).
I will probably play this alongside XIV to get my PvP fix, because XIV's PvP is incredibly lol.
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