All Posts by Pietoro

I think Ryzom's vendor system is really one of its best features. If nobody buys your stuff, you get base vendor price, regardless. So there's no way to lose. =)

Originally posted by BigMango

Originally posted by Tnice

9. Start small.  Make it great and then release expansions.

Sure. So the people who will have grinded in 1 or 2 weeks to the end of their small world will be sitting there without anything else to do. So they will come back in masses to Vanguard's huge world which will have improved by then.

Originally posted by Zaush Working to overcome obstacles, even tedium, was one of the challenges that make games fun IMO.

From looking at those comparisons, I'd have to say:

Vanguard's greatest weakness is poor lighting, imo. With bad lighting, stuff just looks dull and sterile. LotR uses colored light and such better,  which complements their models. The best models in the world, if lighted badly, will not hold up as well to a scene that is pulled together better.

Originally posted by amorone

@Kaz

  Why not really save yourself some time and just go play a first person shooter?!?! I don't get this rather new mentality of MMORPG players that just want to sprint to the end/level cap and then just go around fighting other players. That is in no way, shape or form the spirit of a MMORPG game. Where did this shift begin?!?!?

Originally posted by dand3

Marketing it as "Time Sink = Challenge" was brilliant.  The hirsute chest-beaters get to trumpet their commitment to harder, harsher, darker, without the game actually requiring any unusual skill beyond the ability to tolerate monotony.

I miss this game from time to time... I miss the world. I miss my dragon.  I don't understand why! The game was so broken...

I would fly across zones, and find really cool stuff out in the middle of nowhere, and be sad there was no purpose for it.  I think that even with the graphics' age, the design of the world itself was very well done. Too bad there were no mobs or life or purpose to 90% of those interesting-looking places. But as an Explorer type of player, I guess that's what I really enjoyed, regardless of the majority of the game having no point but as a crafting grind.

Met some very nice people too, I guess the community was what held this thing together. And I really have to say, another game needs to have dragons as a race, similar to how Horizons did, and do it right. If dragons could keep HZ gasping along for as long as it did, just on their own, imagine what a better game could get from having them! Outside of the player towns, and dragons, there is really very little else that really was interesting gameplay-wise about HZ, in my opinion.

Even so... I miss HZ sometimes. I have the music files in my playlist and get all nostalgic when I hear them. And then I wonder what is it that makes me feel that way? Some kind of HZ secret sauce or hidden masochist gene or something. Anyone else ever feel like this?

Originally posted by damond5031

How dare you question his credentials, you may look only to his profile to see he's been a valued member of this community for some time. Look at this guys previous posts and you will see that he is quite unbiased; he should expect an apology....Good day Sire...Good day..

How about game mechanics and server that actually work? Just a guess.

Originally posted by Danger
  You seem to be one of many.  To top it all off the sleeze balls changed the company name to free them of any debt.  

Whee double post!

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Originally posted by Gresesmonkey
A horrible game can be really fun if you have the right people to play with, a great example of this is RYL. A very low budget game, a very basic game, but in my opinion, one of the most fun games I have ever played, 2nd only to Pre-CU SWG. Anyway, here is a link to my encounter with a member from wow's community today.

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h237/gresesmonkey/RetartedWOW.jpg

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Originally posted by Novaseeker

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The only reason it's talked about so much is because it's the biggest game out. Like someone else said, if the game had 100,000 ppl playing, I would still hate it. I don't care, it's just a bad game all around. It has some good spots, but then again so does Post-NGE SWG.

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Thats the reason why it's hated so much.  The core MMO community wants more niche games, and doesnt want the icky/noob factor to blemish their untarnished ubarness.

You have the entire professional reviewing community against you as well (which gave WoW across the board great ratings, and they are not n00bs) ... and I know you will say it isn't relavant, but au contraire, it is.  It's fine for YOU to not like WoW, it was not designed for everyone.

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Originally posted by Exmond
Great troll!  9/10

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Originally posted by Fade
very nice post.   i played ryzom on two seperate occasions and what really turned me off was the lack of other players.

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