I had a really hard time getting into this one. In fact, only played it until I had a max character and didn’t get into the PvP or Faction War stuff at all. I just couldn’t get motivated to play. I don’t know if it was that I was so far behind the leveling curve and felt left behind in some things or if I just am no longer into those types of game styles, or if the game itself just didn’t appeal to me.
When this game first hit my watch list I was skeptical on if it would be any fun. The story was interesting, but not really soul catching. The mechanics were a bit newer which always presents a different challenge. Instead of fantasy based it was more realistic, more on the historical aspect of gaming rather than mythical. Apparently I am attracted to more mythical games unless you are going completely realistic, like Division I & II.
The other aspect that I found a bit challenging was the grindy nature of leveling. It felt that you couldn’t do much without a group, which is hard when everyone is so far ahead of you in leveling. The second play through for me was much better, but that was only because I had someone to play with, and then a group who were already geared that helped us get ours and showed us how to “game the system” a bit to get other parts we needed to be successful in helping with the Faction Wars, which we never did get involved in as the time that they were being held never seemed to work out for us.
The visuals in the game are definitely beautiful and have a lot of depth. The way in which the game plays is smooth and there is so very much that can be done without necessarily participating in the PvP aspect of the game. We certainly didn’t really even finish the story, but then the story wasn’t really engaging to begin with, at least for me.
This game competing with a few others that are far more interesting to me creating a challenge on my gaming time. As a mother of two school aged boys, I don’t always have the 4-6 hours in the evening to dedicate to dailies, wars and raids that other players do. I guess gaming for the most part isn’t really in line with family life, or at least not in the same way it once was for us.
New World had/has potential and is a good game for mechanics and the play style, but it just didn’t grab me with the story, which then made it hard to stick to and go back to as something I WANTED to play. For now I have left the game collect dust in the corner of my steam catalog. I might go back at some point, but I doubt that will be the case. There are other older games that I am more drawn to in comparison. I gave it two shots to catch me, but it just didn’t.
For those of you who enjoy it, great. It just wasn’t for me.
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