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slingblade25 Novice Member Joined: 3/14/07 Posts: 27	3/14/07 12:01:36 PM#21 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Its all comes down to fun.If the game is fun they will play !
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parmenion Novice Member Joined: 10/02/04 Posts: 255	3/14/07 1:11:49 PM#22 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by Bzrk Originally posted by Dathmar Nice one....looks good. Although this preview mentions the gods of Olympus ? Isn't this Rome Rising ? Not Greece Rising Yes, the previewer got it wrong. I can imagine it gets confusing sometimes, but a bit bit more research couldn't hurt either though. There's no conflict broadly speaking... Mars=Ares the greek and roman god of war. Mercury=Hermes the greek and roman messenger of the gods. Jupiter=Zeus the greek and roman king of the gods. Juno=Hera the greek and roman queen of the gods. etc etc Rome pretty much appropriated the greecian gods and built in some of their own astrology just as they later appropriated christianity. Religeons evolve to combine and adopt a great many belief systems over their histories, look at easter bunnies and easter eggs, they have nothing to do with chistianity their roots are in spring fertility rites, just as christmas trees etc is to do with the winter solstice and druidic nature roots.
BillTanner Novice Member Joined: 4/26/05 Posts: 37	3/14/07 9:59:46 PM#23 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) It's a common misconception that the Romans just appropriated a bunch of Greek gods and changed the names. Romans simply viewed "gods" differently. Early Roman gods were thought of as spirits, responsible to very specific details of life and the world. What was of the most importance in worship was knowing and tracking the complicated beauracratic relationships of these gods and appeasing the right ones. They did not live lives in parallel with mortals, as the Greek gods did. Over time, as tastes changed, the Romans wanted more out of their gods, so they could feel civilized and worldly, and there was very little actual mythology in the Roman pantheon. So they borrowed a lot of the Greek and Etruscan stories, and aligned them with the appropriate gods that seemed to match. Zeus and Juno were just as important in early Rome, and Juno was very much influenced by Etruria, not Greece, though much later she was identified with Hera. This pragmatic borrowing, called 'syncretizing', was what made it easy for Rome to assimilate the myths and gods and rituals of a hundred different religions over the many years of their reign. Anyways, way off topic. This game looks pretty amazing. I wasn't really going to give it much of a chance, but they seem to be getting their stuff together and I think I want to try it, as long as its not some WOW clone.
kashaun Novice Member Joined: 11/02/05 Posts: 217	3/14/07 11:12:06 PM#24 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by Salvatoris This is kind of a bummer. The camp system they have talked so much about is really just visual interface for managing your character and minions... I thought most of this game sounded a lot like guild wars, but the prospect of well done housing, even if you pack it away when it isn't in use, gave me some hope that this would be more of a real, in-depth MMO and not another multiplayer RPG in disguise. The combat animations look pretty cool, but I doubt this is going to have the kind of persistent world and player interdependence that I need in an MMO. They have some pretty gutsy plans on the table, so some concerns I can understand, since I have them myself. Still not a lot of detail about the social aspect of the game beyond the bath houses and grouping, but they plan on adding other nations at times, and eventually have them vie for control over certain territories. Something like a world campaign on some rts games. Never give up and never surrender!
Darule Novice Member Joined: 9/28/06 Posts: 39	3/15/07 1:26:51 AM#25 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) I must say that graphic wise, this game looks amazing. the details are quite impressive. I also like the idea of having several minions and etc. This is my most anticipated game so far. hopefully by time of release, this game won't disappoint me.
kishe Hard Core Member Joined: 2/28/04 Posts: 1849 firefighter lvl90	3/15/07 3:32:46 AM#26 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Like said above...as single player the storyline would work well but with 10000 children of god, destined to save the world are put in same room...it kinda loses its fancy.
Chronos39 Novice Member Joined: 10/13/06 Posts: 11	3/15/07 4:53:04 PM#27 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Graphically the game is more fine than past year. They do a great work with optimization and it can run in middle configurations (a little big like Lineage 2) and it is important because of lots of people. Also the game is not entirely intanced like Guild wars, zones of combat are not intanced, only some little places, it's a big difference with Guild Wars. And this game looks interesting because of lots of features and myabe possibilitiés with items, update of areas will come quickly, and maybe at the same time crafting. It's a game to see and surely will hit the same number of players with Lineage 2 and maybe Wow. Next gen mmorpg is near. :)
crusher143 Novice Member Joined: 6/28/06 Posts: 177	3/15/07 6:31:15 PM#28 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Good written preview :). I wanted to add that this game will have the exact same loot system like Diablo2 had. Items with random stats etc. And also you can find for example "the axe of brutality :P" which usually drops from a boss from a normal mob like it was in D2, the monster lvl must be right but sure a boss has a better drop chance. Thats what Ive read once, this game looks really promising and much better than War or AoC but thats just my opinion. PvP will be there too, first just in arenas and later with addons if they are adding new races like egyptians, greeks or wutever then also with real PvP. Raids, well raids if I didnt misunderstood it, it wont be like 40 man bashing one big boss its more like 40 fighting vs a big army a real war and not this button smashing at one boss mob till he is dead /zZzZZzZ boring. Also you can have minions so you dont need 40 real ppls. Ah well I dont have this now all in my mind how it exactly was :P but you can go to www.godsandheros.com to the forum and read the blog entries. And sorry for my poor English ^^