First of all, I know what you’re thinking, a free to play RPG? Micro-transactions. Well in Vindictus, I haven’t seen big advertisements on it other than on there main page. If you think the little box ruins the experience you sir are wrong, how else are they suppose to make money from a game they release with no fee.
Besides that, lets get into the gameplay. Vindictus is a action based RPG, how it works is you get a quest from a NPC in a shop, the shop is just a empty house, and the NPC’s are just drawn and show up on the left. You get in contact with the NPC’s and they will eventually give you a quest, and some of them even have multiple quests, generally bonus quests. Then you walk out to the docks, launch a boat and start the quest.
This is were we get into the action part of the game, the quest you’re starting is linked to a mission, which is linked to a battle. These battles are instanced, so you have a set group to go do them with. These instances are also peer-to-peer so if you chose a server that’s not near you, it doesn’t really matter because your not playing the main point of this game on there servers, its locally. The one example that pops up in my mind for instanced battles is Guild Wars, its how they did it where you explore the outside world with just you and a party, but in Vindictus is you explore a linear dungeon, its not open, its a straight path that gets you from one end to the other.
The classes aren’t all released yet but they got the core RPG classes in there. That includes: Mage, Tank, and a DPS. The DPS wields two swords and light armor, as to be expected. The tank is the usual except in female form. The mage is also a female, but that’s to be expected, from my perspective anyways. The next class to be released looks like an uber tank. He is massively built, and he has a big ass hammer. Look’s interesting to say the least.
Anyways I have been having a good experience with Vindictus, you should give it a try because it is probably going to be what your not expecting.
