All Posts by Josher

If I wanted to live in the 80s with text adventures, I'd use my imagination to think back to a time when I did.  But now, I'd rather play Crysis, MGS or Devil May Cry 4 or Spore.   I'm not sick of my nice, shiny new cars with GPS, integrated seat betls, rear view cams, better styling, fit and finish, ect.   I have no interest in driving an old Corolla or 3 speed, station wagon with an 8 track &  woodie sides, which is pretty much all a MUD is...an old relic that doesn't compare to todays entertainment.  Theres a reason I own a $2000 computer, PS3 and Xbox360...its not to play text adventures. 

Having an imagination has nothing to do with it...its called outgrowing something that entertained you 20 yrs ago.  My Atiari 2600 just doesn't keep my interest now quite like when I was 8.  Can you blame me?

If WOW is dull and boring in the begining, what MMO isn't?   So many different starter areas and places to explore.  Its all new.  If thats not fun, MMOs are't for you.  Reading the quests helps you know, kind of like an RPG.   I can see a movie being dull also is you only listen to it without watching.  WOW is about as good as it gets in the begining, unless FUN is being stuck in a game with no instructions, no clue what to do and no direction where to go.  All the power to ya if you enjoy that=)    

There was a patch on AO 2 months of so after release that basically cleared out 75% of the people playing.  I was in that group.  This patch sounds too familiar.

Bad animation kills any battle system right away, which eliminates just about all of them.

The best was WOW for the smoothness, nice animation and instant feedback.  Most other turn based MMOs feel like your reactions are all delayed.  When you ran and moved, you really were attached to the ground instead of skating over it.  It just felt more intuitive and instantaneous.    I loved the instant countering of spells and abilities.   It was mostly just a better version of EQ & DAOC.

I would've voted for AOC or PS, but both just felt like bad combination of systems.  PS felt like a lackluster FPS because I wanted the hits to feel right but I just kept thinking, "where is my headshot?" or "it really looked like I just hit him 10 times...".  AOC just felt like a bad action game.  The dice roles combined with the twitchy nature just never felt "right". 

Originally posted by Celestian

 

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Originally posted by Elsabolts
Blizzard is a business, they will be watching. They pretty much set the standard so my guess is new stuff and better things to come.

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If by set the standard you mean took everything everyone else had done before and slapped a new name on it yeap!

Blizzard will continue to drag down pvp into smaller and smaller areas and these esports events. I am sure someone will like it but I am not one of them. I started playing WoW because I thought it was going to be like DAoC... large scale world pvp... boy was that ever wrong. It's more like EQ1 with the worst parts of Quake thrown in.

 

Yup, Blizzard just slapped their name on the same ideas used a bunch of times before and has 10 Million players while everyone else has a fraction of that=)  Ya sure.  For some reason, BIGGER names like StarWars, Matrix and LOTR together couldn't manage to muster up those numbers.  Stupid me=)

He started a potentially unnecessary conflict in Iraq, but its not like he caused 9-11 during a brief few months in office.   The main problem wasn't Iraq obviously.  He didn't cause radical Muslims to hate us.  They've hated us for years;)  If we didn't go into Iraq when we did, its conceivable we would've had to go in later once it became a much bigger problem, much like Iran now.   Bring down a dictator when he's weak or bring him down when he can put up a fight?    As a country, can you just ignore someone punching you over and over again, hoping he'll just go away.   How many times do you get hit before you hit back?

Gas prices are high for many other reason than "the war".  Bush didn't cause China and India's fuel demand which is the biggest cause for the price hike now, right?   Bush doesn't control the speculators.  Our lack of drilling years ago, becoming more self sufficient, also has a lot to do with it. 

Did he cause the price of the dollar to plumet?  I know a lot of money has been printed lately, but is that Bush?

What did he have to do with the housing bubble crisis?   It was the banks and basic human stupidity and irrisponsible behavior, not Bush.

I was talking with some guys at work about it.  Wanted more info.   I don't like the guy, but I also don't think he's as bad as some people make him out to be.   How could 1 man cause all these problems?  Sounds like an easy scape goat rather than rational thought.  It just gets annoying blaming everything on him.

One of the dumbest things I've ever read on this site=)  We already have a union.  Our wallets.  Don't like the games.  Don't buy them.  Don't play them.   If no one plays the games, they have to change them so that we do.    Blizzard actually asked questions, did lots of R&D and designed WOW according to US and what WE wanted.   Look at the results.  And by "US" I do not mean, elitist, hardcore, MMO gamers with attitude problems.  I meant normal people;)

Theres many other hobbies out there besides games you know=)

Never take MMO advice from people who derive fun from frustrating or tedious experiences and then call it immersion.  Case closed=)

Horrible animation and repetitve low tech graphics turned me off within a few  hours.  Story and characters weren't engaging at all.  Yes, it was made on the cheap and for that, its great.  But I don't care=)  Its very hard to go from AAA titles down to garage games and still be entertained.   Call me spoiled.  I did't find the battle system all that great anyway.  Coming from God of War, Ninja Gaiden or Devil May Cry which have best battle systems by far, makes Mount&Blade look and play like a relic.   Don't give me that realism angle...slow and boring is slow and boring and I've been playing the Total War series for years, so I understand & enjoy realism and strategy=) 

They could've at least made a few more weapon swing animations.  Its the same stiff crap over and over again.  Again, its nice for what it is, but its not much.  I couldn't bring myself to pay to upgrade the demo and I wouldn't pay a monthly fee to play it either.  Besides, that battle system would crumble with a few actual players on screen at once.  A little latency and it all would go to hell in a hand basket.

Originally posted by Flywheel

Too much stuff in this game is broken and there is too little content - simple - even those with too little sense to leave after the first paid month will be leaving within a month or so after that, because put simply there is absolutely nothing to do after a certain point - any ideas you have of sieges being fixed soon and active forget it - Funcom have already proven that they cant fix s**t and there wont be enough players available and willing at the time to actually get a full siege going.

Anyone who does stay after, say 3 months, of playing needs to see a psychiatrist because they either have too much money, believe all the bulls**t Funcom are spouting, or are so desperate to play an MMO that they will put up with ANYTHING in the hope AoC will work. They certainly wont be there in 3 months because this is a polished game brimming over with content. This turd will take a hell of a lot of polishing before it shines.

People stuck with Eve through many rocky months of crap.  Some gamers will play anything.  Gotta love em.

Originally posted by suske

Originally posted by Dreamagram

Whether a sandbox game can succeed depends on your definition of success.

Can a true sandbox game make money? Yes.

Can a true sandbox game challenge WoW? No.

 

agreed. sheeple will play anything.

And nerds only play in sandboxes=)

Not nearly as well.  You can't wrap up Eve in a different package and expect people to sudenly love it.  The basic gameplay is boring as sin and not user friendly. 

Besides, much of what makes Eve, Eve is that its in space, there are little to no art assets needed to make the universe limitless in size and travel takes forever to keep that illusion of endlessness, there are exploits galore that the playerbase welcomes, no balance what so ever and nasty death penalties.   Basically taking the sci-fi away, sticking everyone on the ground with massive travel times, boring point and click control, no content, and a harsh death penalty, sounds like a whole lot of boring most people would skip playing, just like with Eve=)

What do you think Blizzard did with WOW.  They took just about everything that made MMOs boring, tedious, unintuitive messes and made it suddenly fun and interesting for the non RPG computer geek.   Eve is what it is BECAUSE its designed specifically for the biggest sci-fi, Trekkie, geek nerds who enjoy squabbling over virtual property.  The average WOW player is the opposite of that.

Blizzard would have to put a whole new spin on it and make it fun.  Basically if Blizzard made a game as open as Eve it would sell better than Eve, but not as much as WOW.  MOst people can't handle a sandbox.  Too exploit heavy, too unfair and too boring.

If 9-11 was planned by us, then it would make perfect sense that we would've found WMDs out in the desert as well.   Wouldn't that make the story nice and neat?  Which is easier...take down the twin towers with no one knowing or "finding" a few bombs with Iraqi markings wherever the hell we felt like it?   How can anyone disprove we found something in the desert?  If we could do one, why not the other?  Planting weapons on people has been going on for decades.

Logic, the conspiracy theorists worst enemy=)

Not all MMOs are created equal.  A good MMO won't be harmed too much by a few bugs or server problames at launch.  WOW comes to mind.  It was smooth for some and rocky for others.  But overall, considering the sheer size of the launch that dwarfed all others, it was a raging success by all accounts.  Any problems in the begining certainly did't hurt the game, thats for sure.

The best recent example, AOC, on the other hand has been embarrasing, but all of us in beta were well aware of what was going to happen=)  Vanguard, and Tabula Rasa were other recent launches that if gone better, might've put both games in a different situation they are today.

Eve on the other hand had a terrible launch but people who play that game are far more tolerant than the average gamer.   CCP got away with things other developers would've been raked over the coals for.  Then again, its playerbase just doesn't care all that much for how well it plays.  Exploits for example are considered gameplay, where in other games, they would just be considered exploits.  You can consider that good or bad.

Its the people who still think sitting at a camp for 5+ hrs a day for a year is actually fun.  They were the vilians back then that accepted lousy gameplay and still beleive to this day the game was actually fun.  It was the people you remember.  The fond memories are from them, NOT the game.  The games were essentially horrible and simplistic time sinks.    I thankfully saw through all of it and never involved myself in that sort of no-life hell.  And it was.  You could not have any sort of meaningful progression without sitting down non-stop for hrs.  Good luck if you had a kid to tend to, much less a wife or fire in your kitchen=)   If I wasn't just out of college, I wouldn't have touched any MMOs.

"You want to stop PLAYING???.  How dare you!!! Get out of the guild!!" 

I think some vets are more clueless than the newbs.   Most people playing MMOs in the begining had lots of time on their hands.  Some of us grew up and can't play the same way.  Some are still the same after 10 years and sorry to say, still think the same.  THAT's the villain.

So its another AO.  Got it.   AO needed a lot of time to become good but by then no one cared.  AOC seems to be following the same pattern. 

People do know that any game that will be revealed has already been in development for a couple of years already.  Its not like they'll announce, "Our next MMO will be based on Starcraft!!!" and then a few minutes later, some guys will start writing down a business plan.  Any MMO BLizzard is announcing will probably be 1/2 way done by now.  They probably started a month or 2 after they released WOW when the official numbers, reviews, great press and hype could be put all together in a nice little package to show the bean counters.

GO do a quickie search of the WOW boards around launch.  November 04 I think.  Notice the lack of people complaining about bugs or how the game is unplayable.   The server issues were ISOLATED and certainly didn't cause the masses to leave.  I wonder why?  There's more outrage about those server issues NOW then back then=)

Hit page 380 and work your way down through those 1st weeks.  Notice how there aren't LOADS of threads about how much the launch sucks, can't play, horrible bugs, ect.  Compare the tone with AOC's board.  Its all you need to know.

Its interesting and the creature creaotr is fun, buts its NOT a MMO in any sense of the word.  Its a single player game where you can share things you make with others.  Thats the only interaction you'll have with other players.    Like Sim City anbd the Sims, it all gets boring and repetitive before long.  If you don't have much of a need to share your stuff with others, theres not much longevity to it.

The AI will make or break the game.  I"m curious how the ecosystems will work, if you stick some happy fun loving critters in the same world with a War-like carniverous beast.  Will the beatss just go around and kill and eat everything and take over on their own?  Will the world expand on its own depending on whats living in it or is like Sim City where you have to micromanage every little detail? 

Originally posted by Sunrider

 

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Originally posted by mbd1968

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Originally posted by Zorndorf

 

And don't forget.
In TBC you can take your personal flying mount and FLY ALL over cities, mountains, forests, rivers and LAND ANYWHERE you want without EVER seeing a (Conan) loading screen. :))
Seamless open true 3D world will be repeated in WotLK
So much more to program but so much more breathtaking.
As are underwater worlds of course.
That's something different than to have a loading screen for ... a door that opens to an inn.
 
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and don't forget... more quest to slay 200 pigs to gather 10 of their left testicles, so you can grind rep with the chicken faction....

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and the crazy new ability given to all players to replace all your mad epix within the first week of the expansion

Overexagerated clap trap=)  Yes, newbs in green were able to replace their newb greens with new newb green a week into the expansion, much like you did when you went from lvl 10 -20 or 30-40 or 40-50.  Most other people weren't replacing much of anything until their high 60s, esspecially not from solo quest rewards.  You had to go into dungeons for that. 

Dont' like replacing your older gear with newer better gear?   You should've quit once you hit hit your 20's if that didn't float your boat.  if it took you all the way through an expansion to realize this, BOGGLE.