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2012 is an Olympic year with athletes from around the world gathering in London to compete for the 'best in the world' title. But what about us? What about those of us who let our characters strut their prowess? Don't we deserve an MMOlympics? We think so and have The List of events we'd like to see included. Read on!
Read more of Suzie Ford's The List: The MMOlympics.
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8/07/12 8:32:08 AM#2
UO can offer sailing Rift can offer soccer with the soccer skull ball you can buy on ember isle Lotro and several others can offer equestrian
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8/07/12 8:46:37 AM#3
Aliens hunting - Face of Mankind. I mean there is shooting in the olympics, but hey it a lot more fun with a living target....that is also trying to kill you. Hmm then again they tried it once with living targets, however do not believe the bird tried to kill the one shooting them. Racing - Fallen Earth Horse, buggy, car, motor, etc you name it and you can race it in Fallen Earth. Arena style shooting - Firefall Not only do they try to kill you, they can actually shoot you as well. Only thing more fun then shooting aliens, shooting other humans. Whatever you want - Second life Hate it or love it, but if you really want to create a virtual olympics, Second Life seems to be the best platform to hold it on. You should be able to create a lot of different event, maybe even all the event in the real olympics. |
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8/07/12 9:10:57 AM#4
Very amusing article, Suzie. I'd have to say that the Olympics mirrors the MMORPG world quite well. An obscenely bloated budget spent mainly for the self aggrandisement of the "Parent Company", to create a vast and self important spectacle that includes none of the values, and bares little to no resemblance to the roots of its source material.
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8/07/12 9:36:54 AM#5
GW 2 will introduce keg brawl, which from the description sounded like rugby with kegs. You can also have olympic snowball fights, or base jumping (wtihout parachute though). Swimming is in, too. Oh, and it wasn't that hard to synchronize dancing in GW - it had a built in option to start dancing at the begin of the next 10 second loop. Everyone types in /dance *, and unless they took so long that they missed this loop, everyone would start at the same time. Organizing big dances like INC Frosty etc. did was still a lot of effort, because with so many people, someone is bound to miss the loop, and they had to gather all this people and devise a choreography in the first place. I'll wait to the day's end when the moon is high |
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8/07/12 9:49:30 AM#6
dont forget the troll-athlon!!
wow.... making a troll and bringing him to barrens to ... troll
eve.. trolling in jita
LoL.. joining a random match and trolling people for being nubs
the troll-athlon!! RIP Ribbitribbitt you are missed, kid. Currently Playing EVE, POTBS Recommendation of a game you probably haven't tried: POTBS, Atlantica, L2 |
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8/07/12 10:04:41 AM#7
Don't forget Gnome Punting. This could replace shot putting.
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8/07/12 10:07:05 AM#8
There are some nice mountain peaks to base jump from in Azeroth, sometimes we go to them and slowfall/parachute off and see how far we can travel in one jump. We even get extreme by first ramping our mount off the peak, dismounting and catching a slowfall from a teamate or deploying a parachute, time falling and distance is factored into the overall score.
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8/07/12 11:41:47 AM#9
Well done article. KonGrats.
Pardon any spelling errors |
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8/07/12 11:56:55 AM#10
Originally posted by Rockniss
and the landing should also be factored in! |
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8/07/12 12:00:05 PM#11
suzie ford comes up always with innovation while writing her articles . pretty cool actually
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8/07/12 12:01:20 PM#12
<3 this article, nice Suzie! Originally posted by Suzie_Ford He mentally trains on the Brandywine pipe weed. Physically, he prepares by afk swimming under the docks in Darkfall. |
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8/07/12 12:26:11 PM#13
Synchronised dancing GW? Erm, hell no, SWG thank you!
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8/07/12 12:53:42 PM#14
EQ2 cross-zone races on Leapers and Gliders.
All games these days have ground and flying mounts. Those are pretty straight forward. EQ2 however, has two other mount types - Leapers and Gliders. Leapers jump super-high and move quickly across landscapes while gliders jump up and glide - they move faster than flying mounts but are notoriously difficult to control in the air.
I've always thought that having races on either of those two mounts would be pretty fracking awesome - especially the gliders.
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8/07/12 12:53:46 PM#15
No Keg Brawl for GW2?
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8/07/12 1:29:26 PM#16
(EDIT: uh oh... fail quote....) thank you ~ i just watch a INC Frosty dance video. It is awesome.
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8/07/12 3:24:15 PM#17
Sorry to burst your bubble, sync dancing is really easy in GW1 lol, all you need to do is type /dance * (the space * is important), which then prepares a sync with people in the area who also do that.
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8/07/12 5:10:46 PM#18
Originally posted by Zooce Bahaha that is awesome. I especially love the AFK swimming under the dock in Darkfall. I am entitled to my opinions, misspellings, and grammatical errors. |
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8/07/12 5:37:49 PM#19
The MMOlympics...
Where the obese and lazy can still achieve greatness. The way mmo's were: Community, Exploration, Character Development, Conquest.
The way mmo's are now : Cut-Scenes,Cut-Scenes, Linear Story, Cut-Scenes...
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8/07/12 8:03:13 PM#20
Originally posted by WellzyC lol.. Funny thing is, some of the best players around the world that I have seen or even know are no where near obese and live pretty active lifestyles.. They are just good at video games..
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