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Guild Wars (http://www.guildwars.com/e3-2004/e3-event_client-download.html)

Yes, its E3, and only playable/enabled after May 12.  and until May 14.  don't miss it!

Front Mission 4 (http://www.square-enix-usa.com/seui/index.htm?/seui/registerFM4.html)

Yes, its by Square-Enix. and both are/will-be free!

Now i'm going to knock myself out.

go go go!!!
Guild Wars is now available!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow, those screenshots look nice.

And:
Good!

Downloading now. :)

Front Mission 4 = Old, as in, been out over here for years....

Meh. Guild Wars seems to be very good.

Nice graphics, game mechanics seem promising, and everything plays smoothly.

A bit difficult though - if you're in a party of two without any warriors. :mellow:

Anyone else planning on playing it?

i chose... something like mesmerist/illusionist...
(http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~gandalf/Guild%20Wars%20ss1.jpg)
brilliant!
amazing!
i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~gandalf/Guild%20Wars%20ss2.jpg)

not more of naked people stuffs...

ill prob download later  ;)  

FM3 has been out here years, Pete, I've played it through a good 6 times.

FM4 = Me want now!

Oh ok, my mistake, got 3 and 4 messed up.

ooh it looks really neat even though sometimes a bit shocky..though that could be the fault of my pc

And those are free?
they're just demo's,no?

yeah, im pretty sure guild wars is just a free trial, they're gonna do closed beta testing later this year i think.
played guild wars, thought it was pretty damn good. but then i ran low on virtual memory for some reason, so i didnt get to play for too long.

It's an Alpha version, and only active until tomorrow, too.

Guild Wars HAS been in alpha testing for at least a month.
(at least, someone in there said that he was an alpha tester and been in the game for a month...)

The demo's open for everyone specially because of the E3 convention.

Currently on a gaming streak... 12 hours straight.

straight from the thing:

only about 8 hours left for Guild Wars...
And I'm proud to say I've played my fill of it :)
it has its querks, but i just love the game play

especially when you get a good group going for a co-op mission.
thing to have in a group: Warrior/Monk, Elementist/anything, Warrior/anything, Ranger/anything.
Even better if there's another secondary monk
leave the Warriors to do melee attacks, elementist and ranger with ranged bow attacks and spells
the Warrior/Monk(and any other monks) keep the warriors healed

and you get to have fun coloring your weapons and clothes :)
changed most of my female Elementalist/Mesmerist clothes into bright yellow :D

played the game til i had no regrets, i'll be hoping for an open beta...

Yeah, just finished playing... was a bit annoying on the Arena when I died first almost every time, but once I switched to Ranger/Warrior (instead of Elementalist/Ranger) and got some decent team-mates, we actually won a few times.

My only real complaint is the quirky movement, and not being able to queue actions until your energy rises.
Oh, and the fact that turning the screen changes your movement direction. That's very annoying.

left click for targeting/moving, right click for zooming/screen-change, and scroll button inbetween the two mouse buttons for zooming only.
at least that's how it worked with my mouse, and used it to the best with my Monk/Warrior's bow/healing-spells and Elementalist/Mesmerist's bow/attack-spells.

got used to how it works after a few hours of continuous play and started anticipating how it'll affect the screen ;)
queuing spells... hmm... true.  but then my elementalist's gale-firestorm-lightningorb combo (in that order) usually killed or severely maimed my targets most of the time...

(hahahaha I played Guild Wars for 30hrs or so out of the last 48hrs! very much a shame that i had a final exam on the first day of E3... otherwise... :devil: )

Bah, if you were moving with the WSAD keys then W doesn't mean forward, it means the direction the screen is facing, and if you use Z to look behind you, you suddenly start travelling the other way! :angry:

personally, moving with the keyboard keys is more hassle than its worth: you can do other things while your character is running towards the far-away point you've clicked.

like pressing ctl to see if there's any monsters hidden behind trees and turns in the direction your screen is facing, using the right-button on the mouse to swerve your screen direction(while your character's running direction doesn't change) so you could do a full 360-degree scan, do tab to switch weapons, and shift to see where your allies are.  i think pressing E or R lets you change targets, too, but those i haven't used much... ctrl seemed an easier key to remember

after that, have your left hand securely planted on the 1-8 number keys for fast and easy access to your equipped skills.

not an easy feat to do with the WASD keys for movement...

did you ever do the 1st Co-Op mission? the last part of it was a long race against time where you run for about 2-3min non-stop to make it in time before a horde of monsters storm against a fort.
unless you get stopped by a pair of scorpions along the way, you can do it with 30-40sec free time...

(oh yeah, did i mention i completed all 5 of the co-op missions? they were amazing. great scenery, needed a lot of strategy/planning for many places, team play a must.  too bad there were only 5... and the last one didn't even have a story-line completed for E3)

i seriously want to be in the closed beta testing...
(http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~gandalf/gw004.jpg)
Yes, that's my elementalist there in the center of the screen, right of the two guys.  best to have zoom at its farthest setting almost all the time, so that you can see a pretty good distance in all directions from yourself.

Pffft, it is if you know how to use a keyboard properly. :P


Yeah, got to a bit that kept bouncing us back though. Fortunately one of the other guys started running back before we started getting chased, so just as two of us were going to be mobbed by about fifty Charr, we completed it. :)


Aye, had it almost constantly zoomed right out. Zooming in is only good for getting pretty screenshots. :P

With Guild Wars E3 alpha testing over(for now... closed beta and full version release is yet to come), only thing left in this thread is Front Mission 4...

Anybody else other than me registered for the CD?
Anyone get it yet?

I'm still waiting for mine... and if I can get it... :|

I'll get FM4 as soon as it comes out.