Atlantica Online

So the just announced Atlantica Online has a few screenshots available, a gameplay trailer, and some concept art.

(English)http://www.playatlantica.com/

(Korean)http://atlantica.ndoors.com/center/

This is a Korean developed MMO that appears at a glance to be a significant change in the status quo. I think the turned based play and graphics will make this game stand out from the crowd of the average games. The korean website appears to be much more populated with information which does not show up on the english site, but that may be due to my lack of understanding the language. There is a beta sign-up available on the website though.

I'm just hoping this game adds enough variety and plot to keep the game from hitting the boredom factor of intensely repetitive play.

What do you think??

I think i have to go kill 5 foxes again ...

No no..have to get 5 fox pelts that only drop so often ;). But lets hope not. lol.

I think that its very bizzare that a game which was just announched is claiming to be released THIS MONTH (July 2008, posted right on the front of their website). Perhaps they did it to avoid the fanboy hype that gets so absurd with other MMOs. But maybe they just spent very little time in development.

Asian developed MMOs (Korean ones in perticular) are famous for massive amounts of grinding. Although the idea of a turn-based combat system in an MMO sounds amazing to me, I'm worried that if this turns out to be a grinding game then the grinding would only be made that much more painful by the slower than normal combat. (Imagine it, instead of killing 100 rats to get to level 2, you have to plan a massive three hour long battle aginst the rat king and his 3000 soldiers to get to level 2!)

And do we have any information on the payment scheme yet? Will it be subscription based or will it be "FREE" with some kind of sinister catch? Will players be able to purcahse in-game advantages over other players using RL money? This sort of setup has become all too common these days, even more so with quickly developed asian MMOs like this one.

Assuming that they avoid grinding, have a fair payment scheme and deliver on their promise of unique turn based combat, this could be a great game. Fail on any one of those counts... and we have another awful MMO in a sea of awful MMOs.

Originally posted by Raltar

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I think that its very bizzare that a game which was just announched is claiming to be released THIS MONTH (July 2008, posted right on the front of their website). Perhaps they did it to avoid the fanboy hype that gets so absurd with other MMOs. But maybe they just spent very little time in development.

 2)

Assuming that they avoid grinding, have a fair payment scheme and deliver on their promise of unique turn based combat, this could be a great game. Fail on any one of those counts... and we have another awful MMO in a sea of awful MMOs

At 1)

Perhaps the game is already done and released in asia long time ago and the beta is for promotion only.

At 2)

You are totally right, but we do not know yet. Let us sit and wait how the game will turn out and then we can judge it.

Originally posted by Raltar

I think that its very bizzare that a game which was just announched is claiming to be released THIS MONTH (July 2008, posted right on the front of their website). Perhaps they did it to avoid the fanboy hype that gets so absurd with other MMOs. But maybe they just spent very little time in development.

Asian developed MMOs (Korean ones in perticular) are famous for massive amounts of grinding. Although the idea of a turn-based combat system in an MMO sounds amazing to me, I'm worried that if this turns out to be a grinding game then the grinding would only be made that much more painful by the slower than normal combat. (Imagine it, instead of killing 100 rats to get to level 2, you have to plan a massive three hour long battle aginst the rat king and his 3000 soldiers to get to level 2!)

And do we have any information on the payment scheme yet? Will it be subscription based or will it be "FREE" with some kind of sinister catch? Will players be able to purcahse in-game advantages over other players using RL money? This sort of setup has become all too common these days, even more so with quickly developed asian MMOs like this one.

 

Assuming that they avoid grinding, have a fair payment scheme and deliver on their promise of unique turn based combat, this could be a great game. Fail on any one of those counts... and we have another awful MMO in a sea of awful MMOs.

turn based is disgusting

That is all

Originally posted by nightwing70

Originally posted by Raltar

I think that its very bizzare that a game which was just announched is claiming to be released THIS MONTH (July 2008, posted right on the front of their website). Perhaps they did it to avoid the fanboy hype that gets so absurd with other MMOs. But maybe they just spent very little time in development.

Asian developed MMOs (Korean ones in perticular) are famous for massive amounts of grinding. Although the idea of a turn-based combat system in an MMO sounds amazing to me, I'm worried that if this turns out to be a grinding game then the grinding would only be made that much more painful by the slower than normal combat. (Imagine it, instead of killing 100 rats to get to level 2, you have to plan a massive three hour long battle aginst the rat king and his 3000 soldiers to get to level 2!)

And do we have any information on the payment scheme yet? Will it be subscription based or will it be "FREE" with some kind of sinister catch? Will players be able to purcahse in-game advantages over other players using RL money? This sort of setup has become all too common these days, even more so with quickly developed asian MMOs like this one.

 

Assuming that they avoid grinding, have a fair payment scheme and deliver on their promise of unique turn based combat, this could be a great game. Fail on any one of those counts... and we have another awful MMO in a sea of awful MMOs.

 

turn based is disgusting

well it depends, if this game has grinding then it wouldnt be very good since turn-based games are famous for taking a very long time to kill mobs

Maybe you guys are thinking of a different kind of  "turn based" than I am.

If its Final Fantasy style turn based then yeah, that would be a total joke.

But I was of the impression that since it says you would control up to nine characters that it would be more of a strategic turn based type of game, such as Vandal Hearts for the playsation (I really hope I'm not the only person who still remembers that game) or like the Tactics Ogre games. I'm sure you guys know the type of game I'm talking about. I know that sort of combat may be a little to slow paced for some people but I have always preferred strategy over button mashing and if this game can deliver that then I say more power to it.

To avoid grinding, I would do something along the lines of what Guild Wars did where you gained levels very quickly and the level cap was set rather low, so you could only become so powerful through grinding and after that you had to attain more skills and develop new tactics in order to become any better at the game. They already said that for this game you would have one main character and the other characters you control during a battle will be people you "hired" to fight for you. Perhaps it would only be your main character who levels and the "hired goons" could be just red shirts who have set skills and when they die you replace them. That would make sense to me.

But yeah, its an asain MMO. I'm probably asking for way too much here...