All Posts by ASmith84

darkfall is doing something like that. it plays like oblivion but in an mmo world.

maybe they are just really good at keeping secrets?

darkfall, you just have to wait till it comes out.

you can wait till darkfall comes out. it acts like a fps but in a mmo world.

well with people being as cheap as they are and havnt upgraded their computers for 6 years i doubt it. people still play ultima online with its graphics out of date so i doubt this game would do anything about it. now i believe wow will not be on the top of the mmo list because of games like darkfall coming out but it will never die it will just become like ultima online, its still there but noone really cares.

yes i would still want to get out. i would rather be a mortal than have a neverending life with no sex.

In eve you as the player really dont do anything. all you do in eve is click and watch. you cant even manually move your ship around you just tell it to go somewhere. how can anyone feel like they accomplish something if they do not directly do anything to accomplish it? this works well in rts's because you are the commander and direct your army to victory but it does not work too well with one ship.

also the whole stay inside the ship thing really does not make any sense to some people including myself. what is the point of being a vegetable in a ship with all that money you get for mining or whatever? you DONT DO ANYTHING what is the point?

now to your topic a sandbox is where you can control whats going on in the world and play the way you want to right? you can still do what you want in eve just cant leave your ship.

here are a few things you can do. break your computer or lock yourself out of your house.  how about going to the mall or a club? meet some new people and do everything they want to do.

Darkfall Online will probably be the biggest competition to wow. Darkfall is actually showing that their can be a different way to play mmo's and i am sure everyone is curious to see it. hopefully the wow people can try it out and see that you do not have to spend 5 hours a day playing a game just to accomplish something like get a new sword. maybe itll even let them go outside a little bit and have a social life. i am just kidding of course.

skill is defined as the ability, coming from one's knowledge, practice, aptitude, etc., to do something well. now how do we apply this to games? do we add levels and as you play more you get experience points to gain these levels? is this truly skill? i think not. when you gain a level you are better at everything. now how is this possible if you never use that one attack skill? how can you put a point in that skill to make it better if you barely even use it or havnt at all? you dont have the knowledge of it, you never practice it, so you really have not increased your skill. sure you can use your special moves or whatever all you want, the fact is you are still limited by your level. it is all calculated and rolling dice to see if you hit and how much damage you do. now how can you get better if the game pretty much decides who wins?

now lets look at a different type of game. one that has no levels or any stats. lets us look at first person shooters. since i have more knowledge of call of duty than halo ill use cod as an example. in call of duty its pretty simple how you play, you point your gun and shoot the other guy before he shoots you. a few things you have to keep in mind. aiming and shooting is more accurate than firing off of your hip but it slows you down. in this game you have the terrain that you can use to your advantage. this calls for stradegy and tactics that are use by the players to get into better positions to win. this also requires people to communicate to further increase their teamwork and chance to win. you can also go deeper into the game by memorizing the maps and develop plays on them but thats only if you really get into the game.

now this leads to my question, how can you say a game like warcraft requires skill and games like call of duty do not? what is the skill in warcraft be a higher level? whats the skill in call of duty shoot the other guy before he shoots you? that requires practice to develop faster reflexes and knowledge of the weapons in the game. leveling up requires playing longer pretty much. in warcraft you can tell who won by just looking at the other team. if they have all the cool gear on they spent months to acquire they will win you have no chance whatsoever. the only time you  hace to actually play the game is if two teams of people who put in the same amount of their life in the game go against each other. in games like call of duty someone who just started can actually kill someone who been playing for say a year or so.

i am hoping that darkfall will bring true skill to the new generation of mmo's.

the biggest problem most people have with wow i think is the fact that it takes so much time just to do anything in that game. the dungeons take like 4 hours which is pretty much all the free time some people have. think about it, 24 hours in a day right. 8 hours are suppose to be for sleeping so that leaves16 hours left. most people work around 8 hours so that leaves 8 hours left. so if you spend 4 hours on a game that leaves 4 hours left to eat and bath drive to and from work and so on. so pretty much you have to have no life unless your willing to only play on the weekends which will take you even longer to do anything in it.

also in order to actually stand a chance in pvp you have to have all those coollooking weapons and armor you get by doing dungeons or racking up a bunch of gold which can take a long time to do. so in the end you spent like 3 to 4 months just to stand a chance in pvp which cost you around 50 bucks. so instead of just buying two games you bought one game and spent the same amount again just to stand a chance against other players in that game.

greatness takes a long time to achieve.

nothing new has been said about this game i think.

darkfall is the better game simply cause it is DIFFERENT. aion looks cool, but in the long run its the same thing.

i got bored today and looked at some of my older posts when i first joined this site.  all i can do is just laugh at them. i feel like i have really grown up since then and its only been a year to. i encourage everyone to just take the time to see all your old posts and have a good time with it.

it makes more sense if you look at it this way.  this is like real life you have the people who dress normal, dress in dark clothes all the time, and the people who dress in weird ways just to stand out. everyone hates the standout people who in return hate everyone else and are the least in number, while the normal people outweigh the dark people.

its been posted before.

so what heres an idea DONT LOOK AT IT. think of it this way your character is told the knowledge needed to complete the quest. he then puts it in his or her memory and marks it on a map he or she is thinking of. so really your just looking into your characters mind.

ultima online. it was the first successful mmorpg.

i dont see the problem with it. as with real life your have people who dont like each other as well as people who dont really care if you look different.  people can even go as far as being racist if you cant form groups with other races but lets not go there.

1 so is every other mmo

2 any proof behind this?

3so is every other mmo

4 ignore them maybe?

5 would you rather hold down the up arrow?

6 so does every other mmo developer

7 they are made to balance the game out

8 they are probably busy with bigger problems

9 they have to do something to get ban

10 people with older computers can play, graphics dont make games fun its the gameplay

11 they actually listen to new players and tried to help them?

your reasons arnt enough to stop people from playing i think.