All Posts by compooter41

I really don't think that there is enough "mass" interest in the Super Hero genre to sustain multiple super hero games. Especially two games developed by the same company.

Investors... PULL OUT NOW!

Honestly it was a terrible game. At launch many of the Pay2Play features including voice chat did not work. I would have been happy if they extended the free beta while still working on getting the base game to work. But they didn't... they chose to exit beta and start taking people's money so they could play a broken game. This is very bad form in my opinion.

I posted and reported several bugs while in beta in hopes that they would not release but they did anyways...

-Nate

This is a very limited article... it's vews are straight foward and obviously writen by an avid SWG player. And I'm not saying that anything is wrong with this... But take into consideration some of the qualities and features that non-fps games include. Make the article more broad and General:

For Example; I have played many of the more popular MMO's and I have one thing that I honestly hate about almost all of them, The leveling treadmill! I'm sorry but If I repeat the task 1,000 times I hope I'm at lvl 100 or I'm going to be Pissed!... but of course that's too easy.

Soooo, the Game I would like to take the skill system from would be EVE-Online which allows training of skills to be time based and the skills train night and day, even when you aren't online! Some may look at this as more of a hassel, but for normal people it's nice to know that while you are at work or in school that your char is still doing something and you look foward to coming home to play with your newly learned skill.

For Graphics I would like to say that Everquest II has some of the most beautiful graphics I've ever seen in an MMO, However... Load times for zones of 2-3 minutes (even on the lowest setting) have made me decide that it wasn't worth it to play EQII.

For Quests which I myself hold dear to my heart. I would like to do a mixture of World of Warcraft and EVE-Online. What I like about the WoW system is that each person has a different quest/s and doing a set of quests for a person will progress you through the game and onto the next npc with quests. However making the replayability somewhat low. EVE has more of a dull repetitive system. However doing the mission progresses you through the game like WoW. But also the npc's remember what you've done for them in LP (Loyalty Points) and after you build up a bit of LP they offer you great rewards in return. So all the time that you put into doing repetitive Missions is repayed to you, not in the usual gold and items way, but in a really expensive or important artifact kind of way. And then I would also like to relate a pretty good quest system to Runescape and EQII. The ill looked apon game of Runescape has a well thought questing system and here is how: In some of the quests, if you complete them and the land is suposed to be changed or different in somekind of way... it looks that way on your screen! If you plant grass in a part of the world for a mission... it grows and stays that way forever. Moving onto EQII, NPC's actually talk and tell you what to do for a mission. This is anoying when they yell at you while passing by but at late times of the night it is nice to close your eyes and let the npc do the reading for you.

Ahhh... the Community. Well I must fist tell you that the people who play the chars of MMO's make the game. Let me give you a bad example of community... Runescape. Full of 10 year old boy just learning how to cuss I often kept the public chat off; favoring peace over "YOU ***** ****!" Now I do not have virgin ears and I am not prude to explicatives myself however using them in a meaningfull way and not FLAMING all the time makes the community a better place.

Player Housing: for this topic I would like to look towards The Sims Online and Second Life. Actually skip Sims... it's like the offline version so... I'm sure most of you know what it's like. But Second Life, Wow... You can do ANYTHING in that game! You can make everything from wallpaper to a household bong. You can make a clapping Monkey toy to sit on a table. You can make your house 10 stories tall or float on a cloud of nothingness at unthinkable hights. From Mansions to Malls, from Single Family Homes to Apartments and Condo's. You can make what your heart desires! You want a garage? Make it. You want a couch? Make it! You want an Alien to open your door when people knock... MAKE IT!!! In the article above you hear of mainly 3 or 4 MMO's but why not take the qualities from the games that make them what they are? But as for me... However nice they are, I don't really fancy paying a monthly or weekly or yearly rate (in game or out) for a house.

As far as crafting goes... I think that EVE and Second Life beat the others yet again. EVE for it's complexity of making items. Basically you mine the ore for an Item and refine the ore into the minerals needed. Then you make copies of the Blue print of the item you would like to create in a "research facility" which you must own and then run the  blue print though a "factory" which you also must own with the necisary minerals. A long process... but well worth it and not tedious at all. And then... Second Life again... you can create anything but the coolest stuff can only be made by the best of programers. I did not find the language easy to learn but some do. But after you have the basics you can make things from vehicles to teddy bears and sell them for whatever price you want and still own the code which is hidden from your buyers.

And the Make or Break for ALL MMO's is LAG... if you can't handle 20 billion people on your servers then BUY MORE!!!! and then get more BANDWIDTH!!!

That's all I can think on right now but tell me what you think,
-Nate