YMMV / Rift

• Alt-itis: First-time players may suffer from this. There are five "Callings" (which follow the usual RPG "Warrior, Mage, Rogue, Cleric" thing, plus the fifth Primalist), which are to souls (classes) as Super Tropes are to tropes. Each Calling has 8 distinct souls by default (with up to 3 additional souls purchasable using credits), and you (eventually) get to pick three of them to use in combination. So, you're probably going to be doing a fair bit of tinkering to see not only which Calling is right for you, but which combination of souls is best for you. Downplayed in that creating a single character gives you access to exactly 20% of all possible character configurations for a token fee. If you want to see and try everything, you only need five different characters, which is more than most MMORPGs can say.
• Awesome Bosses: Akylios. When first introduced, it was apparently a guild-raid level challenge worthy of any WoW encounter, such that it was celebrated with a YouTube video commemorating its first defeat. Even watered down to casual level play as part of an "Intrepid Adventure", and presented in a format it's nigh impossible to ultimately lose to, he's still a hell of a cinematic set piece, and a meat grinder easily capable of killing inattentive party members repeatedly - at the end of a gauntlet that will test all your basic and core play skills.
• Les Yay: If the Ship Tease between Uriel Chuluun and Kira Thanos isn't canon, it's pretty damn close. In the last part of the story of their "relationship" Mulia says that Kira has entranced Uriel's heart. In the headquarters of The Unseen, one of male agents asks if Kira would find his tunic attractive, to which he is told he is 'squirreling up the wrong tree.'
  • Which, if you think about it, gives the Defiant starting zone a distinct Bury Your Gays vibe, seeing as how Uriel's father Rahn tells you that she died defending the main Defiant city from the Guardians. (Although it's slightly more justified than most: After all, Uriel is a Squishy Wizard—and a reckless one at that—and wouldn't have had Kira there to protect her).
  • There's also Enqyeke Chinua's self-admitted "schoolgirl's crush" on Asha Catari.