Originally posted by rayehino

Wow Mal sounds like the ultimate white redneck.  Dont watch TV since half the parts are made over seas.. doesnt use a car or any modern age appliance since they are made from over seas.  Just shaves with a buck knife, wears diapers of cow hide.  naturally they kill the cow themselves... must not live in a house since lumber is imported and god you know they cant be on a computer since half the circuits and boards are made in asian countries.

WOW Mal is so anti asian but naturally they arent using any asian based items.. i mean that would be just profane to such a moron.

Opps is that a Motorola Modem.. better smash it...

 

What a hypocrite ... dont speak about stuff when half your life and your personal use is made from overseas.. moron

A bit over-dramatic.  Maybe you learned that from terrible anime? *gasp* *stare at opponent for 20 seconds* *gasp* *pull out oversized weapon* *stare at opponent for 20 seconds* *overly expository dialogue with DEEP DEEP philosophical meaning* *stare at opponent for 20 seconds*

OMG!! POWER LEVEL 9000!!!

How about customization AND gameplay? THAT is the point of what I wrote.   Do you really think one must be sacrificed in order to obtain the other, or some half-and-half mix job is necessary?  I'm glad that some of you are okay with hack job games, it is just a shame that you don't ask for more.  If you did we would get both sides of the equation and maybe, just maybe, our money's worth.

As for anime, why in the world are you dissing that genre?  It is a HUGE market in Japan and has worldwide appeal.  Anime movies/series have won top awards including Oscars.

Christianity has a huge market and worldwide appeal as well, but you don't see me buying into that crap.  Next time you watch your favorite anime pay attention to it.  I mean REALLY pay attention to it.   It should turn your stomach to listen to the dialogue alone, nevermind the pathetic story lines.  Shrug. 

But have fun in City of heroes, you can do the exact same mission in the exact same environment over and over again, but at least it has good customization, and thats all that matters, right?

I have played COH/COV, and no, it is not all that matters.  They sacrificed good content and gameplay for great customization.  Once again, the either/or phenomenon.  Wouldn't it have been great if that game had better content and ideas to go with the customization and nice controls?  Oh yeah, that's right... dumb yourselves down to whatever level they provide for you.  You guys make a great audience...  Later tonight I've got a sock puppet show for you, oh and I forgot the sock.  You'll love it.

One last thing, click to move is fine in an RTS, but an RTS != MMO.   It is lighter on bandwidth to use point and click, but these days it just comes off as awkward compared to other MMO's.  Get out more.

- Mal

Did you even bother to read the hands on? Ok, I gather you really want character face and hair customization...do you enjoy playing with dolls too?

Yes, I read it.  I cringed often.  Dolls... HAHA, you so funny... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.  Idiot.  People like you are the problem.

I see you play Eve, hows the character face customization there?

I played it for 2 hours on a friends invite.  Are you looking at Pyro's post instead of mine?

Perhaps Asian devs are more interested in the abilities of the character than thier superficial looks.

They're not, that's part of the problem.  It's a game mill system - keep churning and hope a few thousand gullible Americans will bite each time.

As to your gripe about click to move and it being lazy... How would you propose to move three characters at once?

I didn't say click to move is lazy, I said reusing the same graphics for each individual person is.  However, I hate click to move, and there is ALWAYS a better way.  Will they try to find it? No. 

It's my opinion that your probably not very knowlegable of either anime or MMO's... at least this one.

I used to be a big fan of Anime, and one day I woke up.  As for this MMO, I keep an eye out for all future MMO's, waiting for the one that will work for me.  I have few hopes because companies like this one know people don't expect much. 

And so, I voice my irritation in hopes that someone creating a game will see that we want all the features, not just some.

- Mal

Pyro -

Yes.  I expect more than walking around and seeing me everywhere I look.  Don't like it? Too bad.  I also hate click to move, but I'm too hung up on toons that are the same to even give the game a real try.  Glad you can get past that kind of laziness, but I can't.  It demonstrates a lack of caring that will show through in other parts of the game.  Shrug.

No choice for face, hair, etc... Surprised? Not at all, afterall, it is an Asian game. I just wish they would leave their crap overseas instead of infesting our shores with it.  Our children are dumbed down enough by your idiotic anime (do you anime lovers even listen to the dialogue or just look at the pretty pictures?), now they get a big dose of it from your non-stop plague of games.  Expect more people! Ask for more!

Blah.

- Mal 

To sum up: Skill based, where nobody knows your level and everybody has a use.

Release the source code and let the general population make it into something worthwhile.  We're pretty good at mod'ing, let us have a crack at it.  Maybe we could even add a better out-of-vehicle experience.  Who knows...

- Mal

Originally posted by Arcona

Originally posted by StrikeFear
You guys neglected to mention that this is the EU site.

It wasn't clear until AFTER I'd signed up for the newsletter... :(

I bet you where totally like Jim Carrey in Ace Ventura when he just found out Einhorn is Finkle.

Originally posted by RK-Mara

Originally posted by maledicta777
A week into my 30-day free trial and I've come to some conclusions:
-  It feels clunky.  Skipping and stuttering around (Yes, I have great hardware and an excellent connection)
-  It doesn't look like a next gen MMO. 
-  The interface is nice
-  Monster play is cool, however, I wish they had just gone the extra mile and made the evil side fully playable.
-  Very small learning curve, easy to get into the game and just play.
-  The updating system works well.
Unfortunately, the first two points kind of ruin it for me.  Still waiting for a good next gen, hobbit forming, MMO.
:(
- Mal

What looks like a next gen MMO then? LOTRO is really good looking.

Actually, Grossman is fine, he occassionally has a bad game (and I mean a REALLY bad game).  He did the same thing while in High School, usually against the worst teams in his school's division (cardinals anyone?).  I watched him a few times when he played for Bloomington South in Indiana, and he was a great quarterback then and is still a great quarterback.  Everyone forgets how well he has done before the Cardinals game, but ready to jump on him the instant he does poorly, even though his team still wins.  Can't stand the Bears, personally, but definitely a Grossman fan... have been since his sophomore year in High School.  But there is always room on the bandwagon for more chumps that lack an educated opinion or historical perspective of the player.

- Mal

Randomized items that do not impact the game severely... that's what I want.  I prefer relying on my own skill and the intelligence that went into designing my character rather than brute force eq builds. 

I almost agreed with this article entirely until the Power Gamer vs. Casual Gamer section.  I have a job, I work 50 hours a week, and I have classes on top of that.  I get to play a few hours a week and enjoy PvP, which means in most games that I have to be high level and have the best equipment to compete or to find a fight.  That takes time... a lot of time... before I can even begin to enjoy the game. 

So I log into a leveling service, have them power level my character, buy my gold, and done.  Then I head out to PvP, the only part of an MMO I enjoy. 

I'm a product of these companies bad planning.  I doubt I'm alone.