Hmm, Rift again. I must say my interest has piqued somewhat since I watched the New Mage soul reveal and the fact they've said they've addressed the melee punishing from the initial game.
Feels a shame that much of what has followed the game has lacked a certain kick. TOR was great for immersion, until you reached level 50. TERA was far too lacking in character/plot/immersion (even if the Castanics are/were awesome), The Secret World is somewhere between TOR and Rift: plays a bit like Rift/WoW (it's a hotbar MMO, so it's to be expected), but has a strong story element. It also has an active dodge, but currently no end-game at all (which is stupid and not worth defending - though is getting a raid soon).
I also love its dimension system (basically all the 'servers' are one, and you can play with people from any other dimension, and even form Cabals - the game's guilds - across them). Will it last? Maybe not, but I do love its modern setting with dashings of Lovecraft, Gaiman, King and Moore inspired fiction.
It's hard not to like a game that actively refers to 'London-Below'.
I do wonder though if Rift will be able to survive beyond Guild Wars 2.
I personally hope it does, though I've not played in a long while.
Also, I feel I owe a lot of people an apology - most notably those who were playing TOR when I was: Obviously I've never been the most reliable person, but things came to a head at the beginning of this year that caused me to act very irrationally. I won't go into major details, suffice to say that my world crumbled around me.
It's taken me the best part of the year to pull myself back from how low I'd sunk, and I'm just now beginning to see some semblance of normalcy.
Depression is a wretched thing, and it's always a slow process recovering, but that is happening now. I don't know that friendships can be mended, or even if worse yet, I caused apathy to set in. But I hope there's something to build on.
Anyway, I've never stopped thinking about the almost constant enjoyment I had with the Haven, so I just wanted to make it known that a lot of you are people I respect greatly.
