Rift Planes of Telara

Probably the best MMO i've ever played even though it was beta. Has anyone heard of it or played in the beta? It's amazing, I might even quit WoW for it when it releases. 
Website:
http://www.riftgame.com/en/
My Video of the Game's Greatest Feature (low level):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFvVRngVZ-k

I have other videos of the game as well, and there are a bunch of gameplay videos out there.

For those of us not interested enough to delve through their website in search, highlight what makes it so entertaining, what's unique about it, and what makes it worth signing up for?

With Rifts, the game is constantly changing because it's a dynamic quest system. The class system is very in depth, there are 4 main classes, Warrior, Cleric, Rogue and Mage, each of those classes have 8 subclasses and you can select 3 of each subclass to form your class. So, that makes for a lot of diversity in the way you play the game. As for me I play a Cleric with 2 healing specialties and a shadow damage spec so i can quest and do dungeons well. The game world is pretty large for one without an expansion (at the moment since it's in beta). The Gameplay and Graphics are very top notch and there are a large variety of crafting skills. You aren't bound to a specific leveling scheme since there is dungeon, grinding, pvp, rift closing and questing. Combat is very smooth and pvp is fairly balanced. The Quests are very interactive and there are Uber Rifts (not called that) that occur each day where some kind of demon or something attacks a main village and you need to team up with other players to take it out, you get good items and exp. Closing Rifts gives items to players that allow you to buy special gear.

I don't know what else to say...

I checked out the website, and it looks sort of cool. I registered for the beta, but ... lol.

It looks like a crappy WoW clone

It looks like a crappy WoW clone

That's exactly what I was thinking.

It looks like a crappy WoW clone

A lot of the themes and story look striking similar, but I (hope) think the 3 class mechanic will be a good point.

A lot of recent games tend to be "crappy WoW clones" or at least look like WoW. I mean, WoW is big, and it's obvious people will be trying to emulate WoW to emulate their success, lol. Of course, hopefully it'll be different. D8<

I love this game... Best beta I have participated in.
They took a lot of pages from WoW's book, and made them so much better.
Plus these random invasions or rifts added excitment. I was never bored..
However, I was on a low population server, and we got overwhelmed by the shear number of rifts open at once. I submitted a complaint about it though so hopefully they remove it by launch.
You guys should sign up for the beta, it is very fun.

A friend of mine got 2 beta codes and handed one to me, I'll write up a first thoughts on this game when the beta opens up Tuesday or whatever.

Being pretty much hyped up as a wow-killer is tough to live up to, I'm skeptical as to if this game can actually deliver.

So far, an amazing beta. Its a bit buggy but..its a beta. lol.
Next task, try the dungeon system.

I've never heard of this, but I took a gander at the videos/screenshots. I'm judging by videos, but the gameplay graphics appear much nicer than WoW. Just sayin'. I haven't played WoW up till like 2 weeks before Cata dropped. I won't ever play WoW again. It's boring now. The only thing Cata did for me that I found interesting was being able to fly in Azeroth, but I don't actually care so meh. I don't plan on playing this. I plan on playing D3 and The Old Republic when those release - a while from now ._.

Fun game, but it doesn't like ATI cards currently, I uninstalled it as it's hard to enjoy at 8fps on the lowest settings.

An MMO that's a crappy WoW clone? Absurd.

I wonder how long this will take to change for WoW. Just replace Doom with WoW and FPS with MMO.

It already has. Not all MMOs are WoW clones. You do have to admit that there are way too many games that try to use WoW's format, and it doesn't make any sense. After this long, you think that devs would realize that nothing is going to beat WoW when trying to use that format. I can't believe that producers actually still ok projects like that, because they nearly all ultimately fail, or go ftp in a year or two. I can just imagine an office filled with delusional people high-fiving and telling each other that their game is going to sell more than WoW, or at least take enough people away from while long enough to make a substantial profit.

It isn't a WoW clone, when you consider almost nothing WoW did was original. WoW took the best from other MMOs and RPGs, and that's what made it outstanding.
Now Rift does the same thing, except makes it so much better, as well as adding their own elements to it. The random Rift events add randomness that you don't normally see in an MMO. You can have all your quest objectives/givers wiped out if people in the zone don't take out the rifts.
You have a better replay value with Rift as well. I know 'replay value' is normally used for games that aren't MMO, but there are so many different ways to play a toon. You pick your 'calling' which allows you to pick your 'souls' or classes. Each calling has different 'souls' but they all have a tank soul, heal soul, and DPS soul. You pick 3 of these 8 souls to create your own character. That gives you way more customization then WoW does. Your class isn't set in stone in Rift.
Also, I prefer the graphics of Rift over WoW, and it only dropped my FPS by 3. (8 FPS in WoW, 5 FPS in Rift)

Who cares. Play it if you like it or don't. That's what it boils down to.

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Its a WoW clone. I can tell that you're not going to see it though, because you're defending it too vehemently.

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Its a WoW clone. I can tell that you're not going to see it though, because you're defending it too vehemently.

It is a WoW clone, though it does what a lot of them don't do, and it improves upon some of the mechanics (such as the talent system).  Will it topple WoW? likely not, but it'll be a good game regardless.

Who cares. Play it if you like it or don't. That's what it boils down to.

This.
IDC if it's WoW or the Anti-WoW, if it's a fun game, it's a fun game.
Let's all get over this WoW-killer bullshit because we all know it ain't going to happen.

Also @Redyugi: how the fuck can you enjoy a game at 8/5FPS? That's the reason I uninstalled Rift, I got 8fps around people, while on WoW I can rock a steady 22+.  They need to fix their ATI issues.

I enjoy it because... hell if I know.

I just found it excruciatingly hard to play at that FPS

It would be agony to play anything at that rate. It's like playing a flip-book.

Except flip-books aren't as interactive as Rift.

Except flip-books aren't as interactive as Rift.

way to miss the point.

Well I am finally getting internet access to my desktop, so I assume my FPS will be much higher on it. Laptops aren't the best for gaming.

disagree.

What I meant was.. My newer, better desktop will give me more FPS then my older laptop.

My mate got an invite and spent forever trying to download and patch it then the current beta phase ended

Your mate must have a shitty connection. Took all of an hour for me. Course, the uninstall from last beta might not have deleted everything..
But 5 days??? To download and patch? Shitty connection or he lied to you. lol

Bump as they are hosting open betas til this coming monday