New World - Before You Buy

New World (PC) is Amazon's big attempt at an MMORPG. How is it? Let's talk with some first impressions.

#NewWorld

[GraphicJ]

Beware, while the game IS fun, great crafting, fun gameplay but causes many freezes and crashes on many PCs. It’s a gamble to purchase it. Game beeds to be optimized.

[rinchu]

Me: Hey that character looks like me!
gameranx: My guy looks like an idiot.

[tamar]

I love how I always watch the "before you buy" videos after buying the game

[HassanThelander]

Jeff bezos watching this somewhere in a swivel chair stroking a cat

[abbassakina]

People confuse this game, it’s actually supposed to be a game based on the real life events of how Jeff made the company

[mannybains]

They need to make the old world first

[jneilzz]

Being an old-school runescape player, this game really brings back a nostalgic feeling of it. It's not quite the same but definitely a breath of fresh air for MMO's. I didn't expect yo like it until I played it. Doing anything and everything in the game itself feels immersive. I already have 50+ hours into it and so far loving it. Playing solo and with friends are a blast. Having an open world pvp option is also so much fun.. I can't put my finger on it, but the game for me has a different feel that no other MMO's have done before. It does have some bugs that need fixing but I have hopes for this games growth, it has so much potential to be great. All I have to say in my opinion its worth the $40 I spent on it. Give it a try!!

[kieranbritten]

I’ve put about 20 hours in so far and I’m not overly impressed. The one thing I will say though is that New World has the potential to be great, if it takes the right direction going forth

[massimo]

my Fav thing about this game so far has to be the teritory control. The fact that I am apart of a group of people who own the town and have to protect it through war and open world pvp just seems very interesting to me

[NineThree]

You nailed this before you buy to a T. I've been playing on and off since launch and your impressions are spot on. Even to the point where I think the World itself is what keeps me playing, atm. It certainly isn't the questing, but pvp is pretty fun to break it all up.

[faultycommodity]

"Sneaky-Creepy Guys?" Excuse me, we, The Syndicate, are People of Science... LOL! Kidding aside, excellent video as always <3

[matthewbergman]

“Slashing wildly is a bad habit you’ll need to break once you hit the mid/late game”

Says the guy who hasn’t reached level 20 hachet.

[neverfear]

agree with everything you said
the respec option is great for trying out different abilities and moving stats around to better benefit a different fighting style and its really affordable to respec with no cooldown times, you can respec as much as you want for a small fee of ingame gold.
the world is a bit empty atm and soloing can get boring but with all the different skills to level up you can get easily distracted going from one point to another on the map and sink hours into it.
they do need more quests choices and customization it can get pretty monotonous especially when i revisit the same area for the 5th time doing a reskin of the same quest for different items.
id give it a few months to ripen before you buy the game

[ladyinwaiting]

I bought this game after watching a friend play it for a couple hours and heard him tell me how much he loves it. I can honestly say that I do not regret buying it one bit. I have only put in about 8 hours but I have loved every moment that I have spent in the world. I love that your not forced to focus on one thing. I agree that the story and questing is a bit boring. The beauty and the amount of other things you can do is what keeps me coming back. I am not a pvp person so I doubt I will be participating in any of that stuff. Still worth the money!!

[graysonjd]

“New World” is how I feel when I see a brand new gameranx video and an opportunity to hear the sweet coo of Jake’s voice

[locke]

This is my first MMO and after coming from Ark:SE with 9k+ hours I have found my new favorite game

[jdf]

I have 72 hours in the game so far. It's a fun experience. I love leveling. But pvp really don't come until you are higher level. Like in the 40s. Which will take time. You get clapped otherwise. It does need some kind of mount system. But it's a fun game. I am part of a company and it's great to be part of tbis community.

[madbros-r-us]

One good thing about the game is that you're really WORKING for your levels. It's not something to where you're power-leveling 2-4x every hour. The traveling sucks ass but so far I'm only 8 hours deep and level 16 but I'm enjoying it.

Another annoying thing are trolls. You can't server swap your character to avoid people in areas so you have to literally deal with someone who's fucking up your quest by killing the mobs/boss/looting or skinning what you need.

Edit: I'm lvl 32 and it's getting a bit repetitive, but once you have the items for expeditions and the Azoth staff, you can do corrupted portals and finally move up to Brightwood and see other areas of the map than just ever fall and what's below.

Edit again: level 41 and another nuisance is having certain storyline quests requore partying to complete them. Other than that, still good.

[TheRagingWoody]

I only have about 50 hours into it, but I really enjoy it. There’s so much to do crafting wise, that my ADD mind never gets bored.

[unrealdevop]

Warning: If your buying this for the PVP, don't bother because it's super broken. They just fixed an invincibility exploit....one of many used to win war and take territories from other factions.

There's also a lag bug the attacking party regularly uses....Exploits are so openly used in taking hard earned territories that it's not uncommon to see one color controlling an entire map by simply using hacks/exploits to rob you of a fair fight for your territory...

If you care about PVP at all don't buy this game because it has serious game breaking exploits that are regularly used in pvp and will be seen all over streams.