OPEN FOR BUSINESS AND PAIN...

Let me start by saying....I think they got it right this time.

The most common criticisms i hear are exactly the things that make Vanguard the best game to come down the MMORPG pike in a very long time. Can't hack it? go back to Disney Online, noob.

This game is hard. It takes effort. Doing alot of the things you took for granted in other recent MMORPG's does not come easily. You will not blaze to 70 in twenty-eight hours, ready to Leeroy a 40million-man march on BossMobWithFireForHair_002.

This is a game to be enjoyed. Vanguard is about the journey, not the destination.

This is not to say the game couldn't have used one more month of Beta, but the patches are coming, and are so far very effective. Compared to the whole history of online game launches, this one is well above average for server stability and playability, and here we are, just a week or so out. I'm sure i'll be able to see my enemy's health actually going down in the very near future. For now, i'm just learning to relentlessly press the attack till they drop, which seems to work just fine.

This game is not for everyone, such as those people who expect to get free xp just for not logging on for a couple days, or those who are used to a fast track pre-planned progression of safe little instanced xp farms.

Vanguard makes you EARN that shit, yo.

There's alot to be said about this game, it's a pretty exciting release and i'd like to go in-depth with my perspective on it, from a DK's standpoint, and i will. But this will do for opening night.