I am going to be doing this abit strange.......

Star Wars Galaxies, now let me make clear it gave me the best MMORPG experiance I ever had and still today no mmorpg has matched that experiance FOR ME!!. While I did start with M59 and abit of UO, it was SWG that made me fall in "gamelove" for this genre.

Now why do I post this as being the worst ever made is not because of the issue's the game had, not because the changes the game had, but pure because it made me believe it would become a sort of norm where this genre would be heading which has sort of ruined almost every other MMORPG experiance that came after, perhaps if I didn't have the SWG experiance other MMO's might have been more enjoyable.

Originally posted by red_cruiser

Originally posted by DexterMMO

 
Nice now it wont become a faction vs faction theme park that everyone complains about after overhyping.

Beat me to it. Agree 100%.

[Update] THQ's chief spokesperson has issued a statement denying the rumor that it has canceled its 2014 projects.

"THQ has not cancelled its 2014 line-up, and has not made any decisions regarding the planned MMO. As part of the ongoing review of our business, we have made decisions to ensure that the company is strategically addressing the most attractive markets. As we have previously announced, we have dramatically reduced our commitment to the kids' boxed games sector which leads to a significantly more focused release schedule moving forward. Our slate for calendar 2012 and beyond is focused on high-quality core games and continues to build our digital platform and business. We are excited for our pipeline of original and high-quality content along with our relationships with some of the best talent in the industry.

The first time I saw KoA.R I got this Wowifide feel as if Skyrim was made more cartoony, but after seeing the whole interview of the game (on gametrailers) while it has very similar feature's like Skyrim it actually looks very intresting and wil be a game to look forward to for me.

ME3 will be a instant buy for me regardless....

Originally posted by Deolus

I'd probably spend it all on tradeskills as I usually do :)

 

 

 Same here, would probably also spend it on mats or small time investments for those new into game X, just enough to get them started.

I don't know the settings of the games mentioned but have you tried looking into ingame-settings, I know the first and most logical thing to do, but sometimes it might have been forgotten.........

Originally posted by Latella

Why publishers keep allowing again and again for  the same communities to infest every competitive online game out there despite the common knowledge that they will bring nothing but lag and drama and randomlanguagehere chat flood  is beyond my understanding.

This is especially true when it comes to f2p games, since usually most players from those countries do not pay a single cent in their whole gaming careers due to their  crappy economy.

There is games out there that got it´s community and competition destroyed due to lag and hacks and the publishers seem not to give a damn.

 

 

People will also complain when servers are country or IP restricted, though they don't complain about lag but complain about not being able to play with people all over the world, which in my opinion is what most "online"games should be about instead of being restricted to just your own country. Already been there when internet was very restricted, thankfully no more

Sure there might be randomlangauge barriers or issue's, sure there might be lag, but lets face it do you OP walk the street in your own town/city and have fun with everyone you see in that street? Do you think that everyone in that street has a job or brings something to the economy, keeping in mind that the US has the biggest debt of all country's all over the world and technoligy still trumphs miles ahead in the country's you see as having crappy economy.

I am also sure that community's can help or destroy games but I am fairly sure that gamecompanie's/publisher do give a damn especially if it's the publishers own servers, thinking otherwise would be highly ignorant in my opinion.

Originally posted by kakasaki

Rule number 1 to making the "WoW" killer:

 

DO NOT MAKE IT LOOK LIKE OR PLAY LIKE WoW!!!

 While I do not believe in the making of a "WoW killer"

I do believe that a game so completely different from WoW with high polish, fairly bugfree, stable on most min-spec.gaming systems will be able to create good player numbers, so in that I agree with kakasaki.

I am not totaly against OP's idea because several years ago I had a similar yet slighty different idea, where players would be able to connect to other MMORPG's with the character they created in MMORPG A. This idea popped up when I was playing Star Wars Galaxies and could connect SWG-chat to EQ players-chat and thought to myself what if in the near future we would be able to connect our characters into other MMORPG's instead of at the time chat only.

But I wish gamers would step away from the idea of "WoW killers" and that they just want/hope on new, good and/or better games, it shouldn't be because something might be a WoW-killer but simply because something else might be or become a more enjoyable game experiance than they previously had.

Originally posted by Puremallace

Originally posted by Sorrow

Exactly as I have said for the past few months Bioware and EA have zero experience with MMOS, now we are getting to see just a small part of the incompetance and lack of experience I have been warning about.

 

The big question now..

Are you still as big a fan now as you have been ? 

HOLD on...I am pretty sure I can TOLD YOU SO... you did good too

Bland, Cookie Cutter with nothing new
General Discussion « Star Wars: The Old Republic

12/07/11 4:48:52 AM

SWTOR bores the absolute hell outta me, 

I have NEVER been this bored with any AAA title ever made. The scary part is, you can't even say this is a POS game wrapped in a pretty package, the graphics are subpar for this point in the evolution of the industry. Personally I just do not get the appeal at all.

I tested every class to 50 and there just is nothing in this whole damn game that deserves an ounce of the hype this game is getting. I just can not get my head around it.

 

Oh and get ready for an amazingly bad launch, the servers are so piss poor that they have to stagger yall in like games use to do 10 years ago... hello, the technology has evolved. Moo Moo Move along the shoot little cow, the next cow is coming in behind you.

One thing they did not take into account, their website and forums are on the same server farm as thier game servers, and even though I pointed this out during beta multiple times, it was never corrected.

SO, headstart day 1, they bring up the servers, but guess what all the impatient kids out there are piled up on the forums, eat up the bandwidth, overwhealm the server farm, and crash the servers over and over as people are trying to log in and make characters.

 

 

Mannnnn, you confused the hell out of me, especially the highlighted red part did that to me.

How is it even possible a person is able to play a game that he finds boring yet tested every class to lvl 50??

Sorry I don't get it.

Regardless me being a Star Wars fan the game didn't spark for me to get the game, I might in time. But I do believe it's a solid online game, yet the things that appeal to me in a MMORPG way where things I never read about or have seen.

To OP: I am sure that many people including me would like to see you explain what you mean with "I Told You So"??

Originally posted by Happyguy83

Originally posted by Raxeon

Originally posted by Xzen

I'd say that's a good ballpark for all 3 of those titles.

wow should be lower than 90

I was talking about the users score.

 

GW at 8.5 while WOW is 7.1?

 

After playing both for haundreds of hours I call (Not just regular BS) but FUCKING BULLSHIT.

 Ever stop to think that people might have different opinions about games then you do?

Personaly I don't feel any of the 2 games is better but that's a personal opinion, but you make it sound as if your opinion should be fact.

Originally posted by Dugath

Originally posted by select20

Of all these problems, and I have just hit 102 hours, I CTD sometimes. I never have had any problems with quests, lag, glitches, etc. My graphics card is only a Radeon 6770, 8 gigs of ram, and a I7-920. I'm always betwen 30-60fps and i'm playing on Ultra with a few of the distance sliders down just a bit.

Guess I'm one of the lucky ones.

 

Same Vid card, maybe everyone should buy one lol :)

 

580GTX here and same as those with no issue's so far and yes playing on ultra, but then again also been lucky with many MMORPG's where I saw so many people complaining about performance or other type of system issue's, yet didn't have those type of issue's.

 But hey..... don't have 100+ hours in it .....yet, so who knows what might happen

Originally posted by poefue
Been playing all weekend and finally got my ship around lvl 17 and jumped at the chance to experience some space combat. OMG was the first thing I could say. It is just like Starfox 64 and I love that game! Cannot wait till launch!

 I am a bit curious how many hours you have spend to reach lvl 17.

To me this seems awefull fast to get 17 lvl's in just a weekend.

Unfortunaly didn't get a chance to try the game, though I did have the invite, but the launcher issue prevented me from getting into the game itself.

Has Skyrim increased your criticisms of current/future MMO's?

Not really, Star Wars Galaxies has already done that for me due it actually being a MMORPG I really enjoyed and nothing has yet met that same enjoyement I got from that. Because in SWG I realy felt part of it's world and while I did enjoy a few MMORPG pass SWG I never felt as if I was part of the ingameworld, it actually felt the closes to a virtual world.

I enjoy Skyrim allot for what it is a singleplayer RPG.

Perhaps it has to do with me able to enjoy different type of genre's in gaming that I judge each genre on it's own.

Maybe, while SWToR  does appeal to me, it appeals to me in regular game way and still not so much in a MMORPG way. But obviously I am really only able to tell when I get the chance to try the game myself.

But for now got my hands full with LA Noire (pc), SaintsRow the 3rd (pc) and Skyrim (pc) and a couple of more single player games like Batman Arkham City (pc), so not betting on getting my hands on SWToR till perhaps a few months into 2012.

 Want to know why Skyrim is so successful in the MMORPG crowd?

Because people like me already enjoyed RPG's long before MMORPG's and for me it has nothing to do what is stated in the OP

Originally posted by gobla

Originally posted by Reklaw

Originally posted by Zenjinx

Is it just me, or does that look like an Escher drawing?

No probebly just you since Escher drawings looks very different and this looks just like a common isometric view, but nice never the less.

Escher places stairway's in way's that are near to impossible, the concept art of the mummy-online has normal paths and stairs.

http://www.mcescher.com/ 

 

Are we looking at the same picture? Because this is as Escher as you can get.

Don't know what kind of picture you posted here in this reply cause for me it seems blocked, but my comment was related to the screenshot in your OP that isn't Esher at all. While it does look good it aint Escher but just a good looking isometric view

Originally posted by Zenjinx

Is it just me, or does that look like an Escher drawing?

No probebly just you since Escher drawings looks very different and this looks just like a common isometric view, but nice never the less.

Escher places stairway's in way's that are near to impossible, the concept art of the mummy-online has normal paths and stairs.

http://www.mcescher.com/ 

There are a few things I would say never to but gaming aint one of them, perhaps not in the now, but in time I think and obviously hope that MMORPG's will again go beyond what singleplayer RPG's are able to deliver.

Tech. will eventually catch up and go beyond what we see today.....

SWToR will be a test case to see if a established single player IP can succeed when turned into a MMORPG, but regardles if it does or does not succeed more will follow, online gaming is already becoming bigger and bigger, just look at the many singleplayer games that use to be just that singleplayer games, but many of them already are starting with more online co-op or regular multiplayer play.

I'm picking up Sykrim this weekend and already know I am going to enjoy it more then current MMORPG's, since I aint playing any at the moment. But I also have to admit to often have this genre breaks, where I stop playing one genre and move to another. For me this keeps the genre's fresh en new after some breaks.

Simple answer really, none, simply because all of them have created games that people enjoy, for me it matters allot as a gamer even if I don't like many of the current crop of games I do see others enjoying them never the less.

Pretty sad to see so many people being so selfish in a social gaming genre.

I still have every pc game ever bought. I did sell (which I know regret) all the consoles and computers ranging between Vic20, C64, atari, sega, and some more including all games, my ps1 and ps2 I gave away to family. Do still have some old floppy games and even cassetetape games from the old.