All Posts by gagaliya

Just want to make one point, licensing your own "state of the art" engine to a competitor is definitely a sign of financial / funding problem.

There is NO justification whatsoever to give the engine your flagship product will be based on, to a competition. Essentially you are allowing the competitor to make a product just as good(and with bioware, you bet they will make it good),  to compete with yourself. Even more troubling is your own product has not been released yet, and this licensing will DELAY it further giving even a bigger advantage to bioware.

To me it's all signs of desparation for funding, i mean short of project cancellation i dont think any company would choose to give away their top secret core asset.

And no it doesnt matter if bioware is making star wars or fallout, they could make power rangers online for all i care.. All mmorpg compete  with each other, especially so when two are based on the same engine.

 But this is good news for us gamers, even if hero's journey turns out to be vaporeware at least you know bioware will show off the HJ engine in their game.

Here's a topic for you old people :)   what existing or upcoming(near future) mmorpg most closely resemble DragonRealms? 

Obviously i dont mean graphics but in term of  the core systems such as combat, trading, economy, itemization/rare loots, etc.. and just the overall social aspect of the game (sitting around in guilds teaching skills, festivals, etc..)

After all those years of graphical mmorpg, i still havent found a single game that even comes close to what dragonrealms had to offer.

personally UO had potential but the bugs and balance destroyed it.  anyway what game do you guys think is closest to dragonrealms.

All i want to do is playing DragonRealms in 3d graphics!  is that too much to ask! 

It's like one nightmare after another with all these new piles of **** mmorpgs been released everyday.  Hero's journey, where art thou?

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Originally posted by Renian

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But in a general sense, is the combat similar like DR? where it's based on 1 or 2 critical hit kills as oppose to a "you hit mob for 10 damage" spam until mob reachs 0 hp?

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You'll have to do HP kills rather than crit kills.

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Will you physically trigger each swing or just leave on auto attack?

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Auto-attack, but you'll have to work together with your group members to trigger special attacks; it's a manual effort. Then of course there's skills that can be triggered.

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Also will the armors and weapon be similar, instead of just adding AC it will actually protect your body vs weapon. For example plate will protect dagger but not as much vs blunts.

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Unknown by me. Possibly.

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Originally posted by Renian

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Seriously the combat system in DR must be carried over!! This to me is what will make or break the game, and a personal dream of mine to see DR's combat system in full graphical glory!

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Some of what you saw in DR is going to be in HJ. Balance, if I remember correctly, be in HJ. I know position will be a factor. Unfortunately, there is no targetting specific body parts as you saw in DR. I wanted that, as it rocked in Gemstone to just lop off a critter's leg then shove my sword through its eye. But alas, bandwidth issues screwed us out of that, according to David Whatley.

At least we get sweet Chrono Trigger-esque combo attacks.

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i can live with not able to target body parts. But in a general sense, is the combat similar like DR? where it's based on 1 or 2 critical hit kills as oppose to a "you hit mob for 10 damage" spam until mob reachs 0 hp? Will you physically trigger each swing or just leave on auto attack?  Also will the armors and weapon be similar, instead of just adding AC it will actually protect your body vs weapon. For example plate will protect dagger but not as much vs blunts.

wow! this is amazing, i cannot believe there are still people out there who think the same way as me.

I played DR for 7 years from 7th grade until the end of high school - by then like others I was drawn into everquest and awed by the huge 3d landscapes. Yet just a couple months after the newness wore off, it was glaring obvious the game mechanic systems(combat, social, events, etc you name it) cannot EVEN COMPARE to that of DR. The next 6 years was like a bad dream of moving from 1 mmorpg to the next in search of a graphical DR (daoc, ao, ac, shadowbane, ac2, lineage2, wow, etc), you name it, i played it.  Unfortunately they are ALL THE SAME CRAP with a different coat of graphics.

Nothing came close to what DR has to offer, noone even DARED TO TRY. When you tell the post-mud generation mmorpg crowds and their developers what some of the aspects of DR were like, they all just stared at you blankly.

I am so glad you guys GET IT, i guess one truely have to play the simu games DR/Gemstone to fully appreciate and understand how superior and beyond their time those games are - not the graphics of course, but the intricate game mechanics and systems.

Now as to Hero's Journeys, i hope of course they will bring many aspects of DR - festives, special merchants, guild halls for socializing and learning, etc etc over. But if there is ONE THING and ONE THING ONLY to migrate over from DR, it absoutely must be the combat system. If i see HJ with the wack-a-mole approach to combat (xxx hit yyy for zzz damage, xxx spell_name hits yyy for zzz damage) spam like EVERY SINGLE MMORPG out there, i will lose all faith in humanity (ok maybe not..).  Seriously the combat system in DR must be carried over!! This to me is what will make or break the game, and a personal dream of mine to see DR's combat system in full graphical glory!  As a professional developer myself, i know how difficult it is to code but simu have to try! Otherwise it will just be another mmorpg lost in a sea of dead or dieing mmorpgs.

/hijack

my fondest memory of DR was as a newbie trying to make money, decided against slaving over the conventional rat/goblin pelt trades, i would instead goto the rock troll area and collect all the broadswords dropped by the dead trolls (no high levels want them due to weight). Load it up until i was about to fall over from overweight literally, then make my 1 hr trip all the way north, take the ferry to a castle city(forgot the name). All this time, pray no mob will catch me(if i was engaged, it's pretty much certain death due to overweight).  Once at the destination, i would sell the broadswords to a merchant for good money then relax and enjoy the quiet city by chatting with the high levels that often socialize there. Each trip would net me at least 1-3 golds, after 1 month i was one rich newbie and didnt have to worry about money for a long time.