First Thoughts: RF Online
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007My time is about up with the game now and I’ve went ahead and canceled my account. Already that should tell you something, that I don’t think the game is worth paying a monthly fee for and that is completely true.
I’ll be completely honest, it’s a game. Not a good game, not a great game, not even a bad game, it just is. There is nothing to keep my interest in playing it, and certainly nothing I need to spend $15/month on to see. It’s comparable to a couple of other games, some elements from a lot of different places, which, if done correctly, could make it great, and done the way it is, make it tolerable. Visually speaking it is nothing special, though that isn’t to say it looks like junk either.
Honestly, when it came time for me to decide if I wanted to keep spending money on this game I realized that I much prefer to play Space Cowboy Online than this, not to say they are extremely similar games but in presentation and various elements it is the closest to being the same thing than any other game I could compare it to.
I’ll say this to be clear, the tutorial that you can start the game with immediately left me sour as, at one point, I got stuck unable to advance the tutorial because a needed element seemed to be missing from the game. I thought I was just stupid and wasted time for about 15 minutes trying to find out how to do what the tutorial was asking me to (which had clear written instructions, which made it even worse) before I realized that it wasn’t me, the game itself didn’t have the element it needed to advance, and to me that just spoke volumes about shoddy worksmanship, something I could overlook no matter how hard I tried.
So, what does all this mean other than the game isn’t deserving of a monthly fee? To be frank, it means that I generally just wasted the money I spent on even acquiring the game in the first place, it just isn’t worth it, and that’s unfortunate because I was immediately drawn to the idea, the story, the sci-fi setting and everything else, it just failed to deliver.
Sorry folks, but I just can’t recommend RF Online.
