I love this trend of MMOs making you feel really powerful from the beginning.
It’s so refreshing, and joyful.
Games like Black Desert Online and nowLost Arkjust want to be fun right away, and it’s great.
You immediately get several dazzling skills you might pulverise hordes of enemies with - and you do.
It’s brilliant fun.
And all the time, I’m waiting for reality to set in.
I’m waiting for this Prologue to end and the game to go, “Aha!
Now, let’s start again,” that ultimate opening comedown.
But it doesn’t - at least from what I’ve seen.
And the game seems to just want to give you more.
There are loads of lovely touches in the game as well.
I’ve never seen that before!
Lost Ark is all pace and enthusiasm, and hammy drama and cringey bulging cleavages.
It’s bright and it’s cheerful, and it’s hard not to like.
Plus, there’s depth - there’s maybe even more combat depth than in Diablo.
So I need to actively think about where I am in a melee rumble.
Some attacks contain several attacks in their own right.
It’s a hefty arsenal.
There’s also huge scope for customising what you’re able to do.
There are all kinds of things.
But I’m trying not to get too bogged down in it yet.
I don’t want choice paralysis to ruin my fun while I’m so breezily romping around.
If I want to sober up and take things seriously, re-specs seem to be available.
But I’ve seen a bit of it and it hasn’t dampened my enthusiasm yet.
I’m still powerful, I’m still smashing the lights out of anything that comes before me.
So, I’m still impressed.
Lost Ark is blowing up and I can totally see why.
