What MMO ISNT linear?

Just because the main city is at the very start of the game making you travel all the way back and because the zones are all jumbled doesnt mean that other MMOs arent.

Yes all RPG games MMO and non-MMO are linear at their core. You are telling the story of  someone who starts out with humble begginings that ends up the hero saving the world yada yada yada.

Any GM/DM that is worth their salt will tell you one of the most difficult things to do is to get your players to  follow the path you want them to take so you can show them your scripted pieces(encounters). There are many ways to do that.  There are many t methods to  hide the linearity and they way to do that is to make it seem like the players choice that they go to place a or b and not that they were given a yellow brick road to follow all the way there.

What games like UO, EQ1 and FFXI did fairly well for the most part was hide the linear nature of the game so that even though if you stepped back and looked at the big picture and saw that yest the game is at its core linear, you didtn't actually feel that way when playing it. A lot of that had to do with mixing content of different level ranges in the same zone, how the zones were connected and designed. Other things that helped were rich fatcion systems very very different playing experience for different races.  All the tracks in Warhammer are pretty much identical even down to having an NPC quest giver that roams up and down  each track giving out the same type of quest with identical rewards. The NPC name and race may be different , but its just a copy paste job.  Playing a Dark elf in EQ1 was a very different playing experience  from playing an ogre or halfling.

Originally posted by j_jonson

What MMO ISNT linear?

Just because the main city is at the very start of the game making you travel all the way back and because the zones are all jumbled doesnt mean that other MMOs arent.

What mmo isnt linear???

ummm, Eve online, UO, Dransik, Ashen Empires

just a few for starters, plenty more

Eve is anything but linear....

Originally posted by Indo

Eve is anything but linear....

Sandbox all the way

Originally posted by TheBrewer

Originally posted by j_jonson

What MMO ISNT linear?

Just because the main city is at the very start of the game making you travel all the way back and because the zones are all jumbled doesnt mean that other MMOs arent.

 

What mmo isnt linear???

ummm, Eve online, UO, Dransik, Ashen Empires

just a few for starters, plenty more

Isn't Ashen Empires......what Dransik became?

Originally posted by j_jonson

Originally posted by TheBrewer

Originally posted by j_jonson

What MMO ISNT linear?

Just because the main city is at the very start of the game making you travel all the way back and because the zones are all jumbled doesnt mean that other MMOs arent.

 

What mmo isnt linear???

ummm, Eve online, UO, Dransik, Ashen Empires

just a few for starters, plenty more

 

Isn't Ashen Empires......what Dransik became?

Kinda, but now they are two complete seperate entities. Prolly the reason both arent linear