Anyone else pick up Global Agenda during the Steam sale?

[Krakn3Dfx]

Global Agenda was $7.50 one day during the Steam sale, and I initially blew it off even for that price until I saw that "No more monthly subscription fees" line on the product page, which made it 100% more acceptable, especially for $7.50.

So I picked up a copy and gifted my son a copy. I gotta say, it's a pretty cool mix of Borderlands and WoW. Apparently there's only one zone right now, the desert, but I understand there's a major upgrade coming that will add at least one more zone and a lot of quests.

I also jumped into a few of the 4-player coop random missions and had a lot of fun with that. I'm not too much into PvP, but coop PvE is really appealing, and the end boss battles are cool.

I dunno how much life the game has in it for me, but I've put about 7 hours into it so far, and have enjoyed them. It's got the same problems most MMOs have with having to run a marathon mile just to get to a quest spot, then if you die, you respawn back where you were and have to run it again, but the game looks good, supports DX10, and feels nice to play.

I give it a recommendation in that it is a fun shooter with some MMO trappings and has taken the Guild Wars path instead of trying to maintain a WoW billing structure.

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

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http://account.globalagendagame.com/GAregister/orders/Thegame_shop.html is the site to buy it if anyone is interested. If you join, add me as a friend, in-game name is Krakn.

 

[JoshGuru7]

I looked into this a bit at launch. How is the co-op in terms of class interaction? Pretty similar to Borderlands?

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

I looked into this a bit at launch. How is the co-op in terms of class interaction? Pretty similar to Borderlands?

It's not a 1:1 situation, but there seems to be some pretty good variance as far as classes are concerned. Also seem to be a good number of people on playing the coop and PvP missions. It's not a perfect game by any means, and as an MMO with a monthly fee, it would seem pretty slim on content, but as a free to play online FPS, it does a good job.

 

[JoshGuru7]

How's the learning curve, ie does one person screwing up wipe the group?

I play with a group that has a couple of very experienced gamers and a couple of "beginners". Games like Borderlands have worked really well for us because you only need one or two people to really be on the ball, but games like L4D2 can be difficult when you need everybody to play at a high level.

 

[Nintendesert]

My brother told me it's a good solid game. I've really heard nothing but pretty positive things from people that play it. The price is right too, one time fee at a very low price and no monthly subscription costs works well for me.

 

[zinfamous]

I considered it b/c the price was sexy--but I am forsworn to stay away from mmo and the like. :sneaky:

 

[tedrodai]

Yeah, a friend talked me into it because of the "no monthly fees" on top of being only $7.50, but all I've done so far is make a couple of characters and take them through the tutorial section at the beginning. Said friend has since had his internet connection turned off (idk why), so I'm waiting for him to get back in business before delving into the game.

 

[Wardawg1001]

Yea I picked it up during the steam sale. With the monthly fee I would have had to turn it down even at that price, but with no fee I figure I should be able to get at least $7.50 worth of enjoyment out of it.

Haven't played it yet, been too busy with Neverwinter Nights 2 Platinum. Its next on my list though.

 

[Krakn3Dfx]

How's the learning curve, ie does one person screwing up wipe the group?

I play with a group that has a couple of very experienced gamers and a couple of "beginners". Games like Borderlands have worked really well for us because you only need one or two people to really be on the ball, but games like L4D2 can be difficult when you need everybody to play at a high level.

I jumped into my first 4 player coop mission at lvl 11 and everybody else was 16-19. I didn't really know what I was doing or where to go, but we still made it through and got the end bonus for no one dying. Not much of a learning curve at all to be honest.

 

[KIAman]

I was playing during beta and it was a fun game. Although they had a very hard time balancing the game. Robotics was overpowered for a while then melee specced sniper was hugely OP then the assault/medic combo became the new OP.

When they started load testing their servers with 60v60 battles and crashed every time, I quit the beta.

 

[bactiman]

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I got it during the thanksgiving sale, put in about 135 hrs into it so far. Definitely a sold game, pretty well balanced between the classes. They are supposed to come out with an expansion either this month or next. My in game user name is zandra.

 

[JoshGuru7]

I got it during the thanksgiving sale, put in about 135 hrs into it so far.

That's the problem with Steam based MMO's. You know how much time you are spending on them

 

[Jjoshua2]

I got it for 7.50. I'm in an agency that uses TS3 and is in an alliance if anyone is interested to join one. I have an assault and a medic and they are both fun. I think I'm going to try robo next. Getting to lvl 20 is most of the fun it seems. I hope they do add another zone and quests. That should make it go to lvl 30.

 

[zokudu]

Its an alright game. I think the 4 person missions are cool and the bosses are really intense at times. The multiplayer however played exactly like a slowed down TF2 with limited classes. The whole game was built around not questing for those who didn't know. The concept was to run those missions and PvP scenarios until the level cap but they gave in and made the desert for 5-17.