All Posts by admiralnlson

When the sandbox part was removed, SWG lost the majority of its subscribers and never recovered.
If BioWare is too stupid to understand what it means, then too bad for them.

The Game Industry is filled with greedy but blind people. BioWare would not be the first one.

Moving on...

Yup, WoW is worse than AoC...

... and vice versa

What the hell are you talking about?

There are no PvE or PvP servers in Guild Wars oO. Basically, Guild Wars has only one world.
Are you sure you have played the game?

If you roll a PvE char, you will have access to PvE content and have to level up your character, learn skills and acquire equipment.

If you roll a PvP char, you are at max level, have all the skills/ equipment you have learned/obtained with any of your PvE chars available, can freely equip other skills and equipment by unlocking them with points you earn when you win PvP matches. With a PvP char you cannot access PvE content though.

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Originally posted by markoraos
If you think WAR is an EQ-type game then you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
Get informed or something.

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Originally posted by ados25
...I am never playing a MMORPG ever again. World of Warcraft is a good game...its just old to me now, I need something NEW, but something new that doesn't suck.
Vanguard let me down. Age of Conan let me down. EQ2 let me down. Vanguard let me down, again. Warhammer is like...the last hope for a new mmorpg that doesn't suck.

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Of course if you try every theme park there is, you'll get fed up rather quickly.

Warhammer Online is a theme park MMO btw.

I was about to post/say that WAR's crafting system provides nothing new really. Just a mix of old stuff.
But then I hit the end of the vid and Marc said "These are not new ideas. But take em and put them together in a really interesting way."

That was actually a nice surprise to hear such an honest statement. It's like he said:
"We're making a theme park MMO. Theme Parks have their downsides, we're not trying to hide it. But hey! We're trying to make it fun nonetheless !

That is actually the general vibe you get with WAR. Mythic admit that their game is just one step away from what the MMO genre is right now, but they try to make the game more interesting by making their slight variations and their few original features fun.

That's not actually as good as thinking 100% out of the box (making a sandbox game for example). But that could be way worse, they could try to hide it. *cough* Funcom *cough*

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Originally posted by Arndur
Again like I posted earlier its a buisness. Many people dont want to wait a year and a half or two to hit end game. Sadly too many want a dumbed down game.

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All theme park MMOs are dumbed-down. And they are the ones with levels.

Or do you think long leveling = hard game? lol

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With out the character advancement aspect I personally would feel there's nothing to really look forward to since I already have pretty much everything.

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Many people like you here seem to consider character advancement (read: journey to überness) is more important than what you actually do with your character....
... that überness is something that can be considered a goal in a RPG.

That makes me want to puke honestly.

I could very well enjoy a sandbox game (= where what I do in game matters) even if it had no character advancement whatsoever.

But anyway, character stats improving through levels are the worst possible form of character advancement. They were just made for the early pen&paper (like D&D) to ease character progression by not making you compute all your stats each time you needed to roll some dice.
Video games don't need that, since the computer (or server) can make all sorts of complicated stat calculations (with progression) very easily.

Even with pen&paper RPGs nowadays, people realize levels were a very bad idea to begin with. And there are far better stats systems out there.

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Originally posted by Saito^
There is no point in playing an game (especially mmo's) if theres no way to advance..

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Roleplaying Games should be about Roleplaying = playing a character in a different world than real life.
Not about "progression".
There are lots of pen&paper RPGS out there, with no or very limited character progression, and they are the most fun.

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Originally posted by Saito^
And leveling in an new mmo is usually fun because you get to see new areas and monsters do new quests

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I'm sorry to tell you, but you've been brainwashed by mainstream MMOs, RPGs and/or Pen&Paper RPGs, which follow the D&D principles which suck.

Guild Wars has the richest PvP combat. It's fun and involves player skill. But you need to be OK with 8v8 (or 12v12) PvP. It's like e-sports. You can also make a PvP character and experience PvP right away.

If you want warfare, you'll have to go sandbox, ie. with EvE Online, but understand that your character will always be gimped compared to veterans. Also, combat isn't really fast-paced and do not involve a lot of player skill (but warfare does : spying, scouting, ...). In Eve, PvP has meaning.

Your choice.

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Originally posted by extragonk
However, levelling does give a good stop off point or aim for the player, one more skill point in 2hand spec doesnt really do it for me...
leveling as a mechanism makes it easier for people to quickly relate to, to navigate the game world even and provide a solid 'i'm getting somewhere' feel.

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Levels are stupid as hell. They are a mechanism that was introduced in pen & paper RPGs to ease character progression. There is no reason at all they should exist in video games where every attribute and skill level increase can be computed on the spot.

Smarter devs make sandbox games, smarter devs understand levels are shit. It's as simple as that. I won't give links to sandbox games in development here, because I don't want to make it easy for the brainwashed people here to go on those games forums and ruin them, but yes there are games made by less stupid game designers out there.

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Originally posted by Poemaster
Why dont you guys think EA will ruin your game?

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WAR's graphics did not copy WoW's, Blizzard copied Games Workshop's art. YES!! We get it, stop repeating that!. But still WAR and WoW look quite identical.
WAR's combat system is very much like WoW's except you don't move as much and it's less responsive and varied...
WAR's PvP is WoW BGs, but a little more diversified.

That's it. That's all WAR is (at least until now...).