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All Posts by Narrator - 6 found
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2/02/08 1:26 PM
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No, there's no dancing, beyond a 3-second emote. And -- no offense to you -- but thank God there's no dancing. |
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2/02/08 1:08 PM
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Yeah, there's always the obligatory "wait six months" caveat, but my largest concern (and one of yours), melee combat, is not getting enough attention from Flying Labs. Or they're keeping hush about it, since it's the most denigrated aspect of POTBS. The newest updates are looking to tweak more of the ship-on-ship combat -- but that element of the game is already freaking excellent, everyone agrees. Yes, there's always room for improvement, yadda yadda, but Flying Labs really (reallyreallyreally) needs to give hand-to-hand combat a real talkin' to. The serious sitdown, life-changing type of discussion. Because hand-to-hand combat is not a small or ignorable portion of the game. It's not something you can just skip if you don't want to do it. It's integral to the entire experience. |
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1/28/08 11:00 PM
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I bet sailors in the early 18th century hated getting ganked too; like the pirates were "bullies" n' stuff. But hey! It's kinda like role-playing in that sense! You get to experience how pissy it was to lose a ship to a boat full of brigands in the Caribbean circa 1720! Sign a dude up! |
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1/18/08 12:08 PM
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Granted, any MMO can get lonely if you go at it solo the whole time. But I'm a story whore, and this game -- no hyperbole involved -- has the sharpest, wittiest writing I've seen in an MMO to date, even for the soloists. I guess when writers aren't handcuffed by writing missions like "Kill ten boars so I can make you a leather belt," then writers can actually delve into more humanistic stories. In the first town alone, you send a young man (who's too ashamed to actually meet you) back on the path of righteousness; you serve as a liaison between a magistrate and a bartender, crossing social barriers in order to put a local crime lord in his place; over the span of several mission, you gain a deep-seated arch-nemesis in the form of Los Ladrones (if you're Spanish), the Bloody Arms (if you're French), etc.. There's a lot more great stories even in the first 10 levels. I can't wait to see what else is in store.
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8/03/06 6:48 PM
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Blizzard is already credited with taking the MMO genre to a picnic -- by picking and choosing the elements they saw working from previous titles, and discarding the rest. Blizzard is also credited with crafting the most streamlined, easy-to-use interface established in any MMO. |
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7/18/06 2:34 AM
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Computer graphics can do such wonderful things ... until it comes to the human body. I'm vaguely put-off by the pseudo EQII plasticky skin look, but there's too much other good stuff goin' on to ignore. Like the architecture, especially. I'm glad they decided to Go Big in their design concepts. |
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