Originally posted by Laviathen

THERE IS ONE BEING MADE CALLED  FRONTIER 1859

frontier1859.com

 

I just checked the last couple of links out. One doesn't load for me, and this one isn't even in development. It is just a concept for a game, that the owner is trying to sell.

I remember a Korean MMO named Priest was going to be Western/Horror. I think that was canned a long time ago though. I think I would look forward to a Sci-Fi/Western like Firefly the most.

Originally posted by Delanor

Originally posted by Kyleran

 

Your estimates are optimistic.  Maybe in Asia you'll see 10-20 servers, but here in NA you'll be lucky to support 5 unless this game finds a sponsor and starts a good advertising campaign.

 

I am assuming that there will be good advertising campaigns, of course.

You're assuming that it will ever be released in NA. As far as I know they don't have a publisher for any NA release. The game is supposed to be out in a couple of months. It's going to be difficult for some to import a copy. If you really want to try out the game, I don't think they will be banning IPs. So you could import a copy or wait until they finally get a publisher squared away.

It was good for an introduction, as well as an advertisement for their website. It wasn't a gameplay trailer though, so we still don't know how the game will look when you are actually playing. Also, the human in armor didn't look like he belonged in the Stargate world at all.

Lamborghinis are nice cars. If you have a quarter of a million laying around that ya just don't know what to do with. :P

Originally posted by Nasica

Is that -2degrees F or C ?

Either way, thats COLD.

F

BTW, those packs I think you are talking about are just hand warmers. Worn by QB's and WR, as well as some Corners.

Green Bay plays at 6:30pm EST. That is 2 hours from now.

Originally posted by dannis

By the way, wasn't Funcom supposed to have like a big press conference or something like that this week or soon?

Funcom invited a lot of fansites/press to their offices in Norway. They are there over the weekend. So we should be getting a lot of new information and videos soon. The contest winner, Avery, is supposed to be there as well.

Well this one is kinda hard to answer because the Prestige Classes were just removed from the game. Or they were merged into what class you would be. The Prestige Classes were what decided the craft that you would be able to do.

Latest news of Prestige Classes from TTH:

According to Gaute, the prestige classes were "limiting players" and that the Funcom development team decided to take more of a "salad bowl" type approach. What this means is that the prestige class abilities would be spread out through the various existing classes will be integrating many of the features previously announced for the various prestige classes.

There is more info about the Prestige Classes here. That's how they were before the latest change at least.

Originally posted by Vampir

Im refusing to see it i dont like all the hype for a somewhat low budget monster film, that there just using mystery to create "hype"

when in reality im more then slightly suspicious that its just a cover up for a bad movie.

Actually the CGI is pretty good. The "mystery" is just in the trailer. You get to see what's going on and the destruction that is being caused for the most part. Jets, bombs, tanks, explosions, and of course the monster. It does have the feel of Blair Witch, but it definitely is not a low budget film. There were no men in monster costumes stomping on miniatures that's for sure.

Hmm, just watched it. Was entertaining, but I'm glad I only paid matinee. This style of filming is definitely not for everyone. I was disappointed with the ending, as well as most of the others in the theatre with me.

*spoiler maybe*

Have you ever been recording with your camcorder and then run out of tape or the batteries die? That's how this movie ends. With no conclusion.

With the release of the new website, they also released a brand new trailer. Well now you can get it in both 480p and 720p. Posted at the official site today.

Famine  Community Co-ordinator     Join Date: Mar 2006	Full format list: Web (25 MB) | 480p (66 MB) | 720p (144 MB) __________________ Glen ‘Famine’ Swan Community Coordinator – Funcom “Conveying player feedback and communication between the developers and the community”

Originally posted by maskedweasel

 

Originally posted by Zorvan

I have a Gametap account and love it. Great way to try games out without buying them.

 

Hey so, whats the performance of the games like? Is it streaming or do you download them locally or what?  Some of the games they had on there were pretty awesome but if it streams it might hurt performance.

You can play by streaming, but you can also just wait until the game is completely downloaded before starting the game up as well. Either way the performance was pretty good when I tried it out a few months ago.

There is a new video showing a lot of work from the Concept Artist Romano.

Seen at Onlinewelten

It is time for our community to meet a person who is a great deal responsible for the breathtaking sights in the Spellbornian universe. In this Dev video, Romano Molenaar will take you to the beginning and tell how the different parts of the game spring into being, from the description and clean paper sheet.

You can find this video here.
Enjoy the watch!

Video is in English.

Clicky

Yeah, it's been shown in a lot of recent interviews as well as in gaming magazines. Funcom never confirmed or denied it until now. The official page still shows them as selectable classes though.

Here is a screener taken by TTH of Age of Conan.

Camera Path Video

It shows the updated graphics engine in action.

Over at TTH they have posted a couple of exclusive screenshots.

Exclusive Screenshots Round #1

People say that a picture is worth a thousand words. If that's the case, you'll literally be innundated with tens of thousands of words  about Jumpgate Evolution over the next few months as the Ten Ton Hammer staff kicks off our bi-weekly exclusive screenshot series!

It will probably get listed sooner or later, but only because of its popularity. It is from the makers of Hellgate London. That's not an MMO either, but it is listed as well. This game is heavily instanced. Even more so then Guild Wars if that's possible.

Here is a new trailer for it, hosted at Gametrailers.

Originally posted by Sabradin

check that new trailer out too

Nice. It goes through a lot of the different features that AoC will offer. The website looks nice overall. They have removed the information about the Races and Classes though.

It also seems to hijack my tabs in Firefox. Hmm, could be something on my end though.

I watched the video and Hellgate itself was not the Worst Game of the year. It was a title they mentioned when talking about the biggest disappointments. It was also not one of their choices, and was just mentioned because of an upcoming review of the game.

Here is a link to the review though.

What I Liked: This is a tough one. When the game is working the graphics are capable of some pretty pictures and the action is fun in spurts but there were few times when I wasn't complaining about the drab levels or the limited monster models.

What I Didn't Like: Client instability, managing inventory, the glut of worthless items, lack of quest variety, lack of monster variety, lack of level variety, the Evoker class as a whole, weak storytelling, no option to respec, repetitive combat, the terrible chat window and poor single-player support.

...

Final Score: 4.0 out of 10

Posted at TTH, it's the second part to their Q&A.

In part 2 of our video interview with Funcom at CES 2008, developers Jørgen Tharaldsen and Jason Stone share their excitement about the home stretch of development leading to Age of Conan's launch this March.

See the video here.

*edit* new link here