All Posts by Ceredwynn

Originally posted by wikie

not really an addiction.. maybe they just want to feel being one of the characters in the MMORPG community

Ultimately correct. there was a disccussion about this not so much on teens, but people in general though they did focus it on adults more. Anyways Wikie said (and this is funny cause i just came from a Topic that i was disagreeing with her) "It's all about the community" and thats absolutely correct, the social networking is crucial in gaming now. My friend has gotten a job as a realtor just from playing a game of warcraft. It's become so important that online gaming has a social aspect. that's why games like Diablo are are becoming extinct. Diablo is seriously the last of it's kind other than Dungeon Siege.

remember the uprising of Instant Chat and how important that became in modern society and pop culture. it is however important to have a huge emersive universe and storyline to get people interested and have a great gaming experience, but people especially teens would obviously get bored of that over time. to solve that problem developers have worked on the social networking of the community. online games would die off if there isnt a community for it right, so it evolved into teens spending 50% of there time maybe even less of their time playing. I remember in the Barren Chat for WorldOfWarcraft how important that there is some sort of conversations happening wither it was about Chuck Noris or otherwise lol I always see people freaking out if the Barren Chat is silent for 10-15mins. You know thats when you ask yourselve, what importance is it to the game is people are conversing or not and ultimately thats what people want.

Originally posted by Isolation

Oh god...

I remember this so called "game." I believe I do have an account on it somewhere, but I don't remember the name of it. It seems like more of a chat room than anything else, and I'm not too fond of chatrooms after several mortifying experiences with them...

Anyway, whatever works for you I guess.

You don't remember the game play cause there isn't any. As a future game developer (when I graduate from my program that is) calling Gaia Online a game is insulting  to every other actual games. Take it for what it is, a Community website with an Online Comic Book and Mini-Games (that have nothing or little importance to the Comic Book aspect of their "Storyline"). I can't even say Gaia-Online is a Broswer Based Game cause it's simply not. Basically if you took Myspace, Candy Stand, an Avatar system, and a slow progressing WebComic you get GaiaOnline.

Don't get me wrong Gaia is great for what it is, but it's not a game just because it has random mini-games. (Analogy) It's like me seeing something with wheels and calling it an Automobile. I've heard word about a fighting system which word work towards it's validation as a game, but more importantly if rumors are correct about it becoming a MMO and hopefully not a Browser Based MMO like RUNESPACE *spits* then I call it game.

Oh and Isolation I bet you "mortifying experiences" probably happened cause you wandered into some PYP threads or just the insane nature of the Chatterbox Sub-Forum.

Originally posted by Draenor

The street fighter vs mortal kombat ones are pretty good too

oh yeah they're pretty sick, I would say that the soundtrack for the SF vs MK videos by Proxicide are nice too. I wasn't feeling the music for DOA vs FF but the visuals for DOA vs FF was better. Oh and Proxicide won 7 Awards for his SF vs MK videos on Newgrounds.

hah that was actually pretty dope.

LoL Game? Play? It's a Community Website 1st then it has Mini Browser Based Games on the side like Word-Bump and Fishing. There's no real gameplay, but that aside I do have an account: DGK ALL DAY

MMOs are much like Community-Based Websites. They both were this rapidly growing and evolving thing UNTIL a huge MMO/ Community Site would come along (e.g WoW or Myspace/Facebook) and stifle that whole flow. Large companies have been lacking since WoW came out and many don't want to tackle that MMO-Giant, but on the flip side this gave way for an explosion of smaller establishments /indie developers to produce many MMO styled games. There have been successes with Communities, Story Plots, Creativity with these games. Like I remember when FlyFF was gaining popularity during Beta and it grew hugely although the game is practically nonidentical to the game/gamplay from when i played it and lost alot of neat creative aspects its still fairly difference from anything out there. aside from the closest comparison being ROSE Online.

Part of the problem is technology, demands, and overall fear. lol developers for huge companies are scared of eminent failure which will occur if they can't bring the total package and lets get realistic. The standards and demands for a mediocre MMO are backbreaking. For something better than WoW, For something "New" (and i use the word 'new' vaguely) and be ontop of the technology at hand. its kind of a nightmare for the average developer and the only ones that would want to tackle this issue would have to have that "Labour Of Love" and not to mention that these developers get little gratitude for their efforts. just doesnt seem worth it does it. lol hell if this is that huge of a problem. get into video game developing and make the future for us. besides thats what i intend to do anyways.

Originally posted by Shifty360

 

Originally posted by TheCougar

This is the stupidest post I've read in a while, and I read these forums regularly. There's no way this is an attempt at a legitimate discussion.

Could have been worse.

 

He could have said Hannah Montana Online.

LMFAO!

Originally posted by saint4God

 

• Money is useless if you have no one to spend it on.

 

lol i would argue that one. cause come one. money can bring you a good deal of happiness. in MMOs and Life.

Any sensible person knows that there isn't a Clone of any MMO really. However I would accuse Guild Wars of being such. Just based on the fact that some of the people that worked for Blizzard and on WoW went on to Develop Guild Wars. Besides really Guild Wars is the only MMO that is closest to being like WoW whereas everything else isn't. People need to get off the whole simular deal thing just cause games share simular MMO gaming properties that exist within the genre. I personally never seen or heard of people yelling WoW Clones before, so i think this is a dead topic.

Originally posted by cupertino

No i dont like EXP from PvP, wow is a PvE game foremost.. add exp for PvP and you'll have teams of gankers running around the world, ofc if you roll on a PvP realm then expect the gank.. but adding exp will realy take it a stop too far.. thus why WAR PvP is only in PvP zones and not PvE zones.

I do think there should be world PvP quests, such as "bring me 10 nelf ears" etc, little things like that to spark up the good'old world pvp that battlegrounds destroyed.

i wonder how the effects of this are going to be...

like how there are adults that boy cigarettes or alcohol of minors, will there be a simular action take place? lol or will minors find some way of accessing it? lol

and i wonder what the charges will be for breaking these new laws lol
this is all so interesting to me, but you kno that some outside governments will observe this too

Canada

[currently tied for 3rd place in medal standings @ the olympics  ]

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Originally posted by Cleffy

You don't have to buy most Korean games. Only exceptions are NCsoft games and RF Online. Still I agree there has been alot of crap; but I think the Korean's already learned this and are starting to produce some really nice games. I won't mention them cause I mention them too much and people might think I am advertising them over and over.

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The Poll I FORGOT TO ADD ;p

There are quite a bit of races that take important roles in the LOTR movies, but what races make perfect candidates for a game?

The Eagle race like the Windlord Gwaihir character doesn't seem to be a great pic mainly for the fact that armor, items and weapons will cause an issue, plus the flight will create unbalance.

Oddly Wizards are considered a different race to that of man, so how that will be dealt with will be interesting.

Then there's Orcs which wither away in the sun, but maybe that will change in the game for obvious reasons.

The Uruk-Hai seem like ideal choices since they are like Orcs, but without the whole withering away in the sun catch and they are taller and stronger since they are half-breed with humans.

Trolls in LOTR are those huge club baring creatures that a chained and used for combat as well as labour. Another potential pick for the game maybe.

The Human race are an obvious choice and needs no explaining.

Hobbits (Halflings) are very important to the story of LOTR as you may already know and as such they will no doubt be included in the game as such. They will probably be seen as the eqeuvalent of the Gnomes in WoW.

The old and wise Ents may be included in the game, but there is the fact that they move fairly slowly and that may cause problems plus they don't wear armor, so simular problems here much like the Eagle race.

The Immortal Elves will diffinately be implemented into the game not only for their importance but almost every single mmorpg includes this race along side with the humans.

The greedy crafting short mountain habitants known as Dwarves are also important to LOTR so they will be implement this race ofcourse.

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Originally posted by elf_warlock

RF online graphic is good but the game have not really interesting at all. it might be fun when you in the beginning of the game. when you get to higher level you will know the game was extremly boring. mining, farming.....even quests was sh!t.
well it doesn't matter playing on beta cause its free. its not worth to pay to play thought

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1. FlyFF - Good
2. R.O.S.E. Online - Awsome
3. Ragnarok - Good
4. Knight Online - Evil
5. Maple Story - Good
6. Kal Online - Bad
7. WoW - COME TO THE DARKSIDE!

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Originally posted by arvainis
This war is ridiculous.  There are plenty of other oppressed countries out there controlled by dictators that slaughter their own people every day.  Ohhh wait they do not have oil.  You can say all you want it's not about oil but come on.  I think George Bush's next plan will be to build a time machine so the Europeans we can go back in time and make sure the Crusaders hold Jerusalem.  Hey it's as plausible as him doing anything about immigration.

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Well lets take a look on the “WAR ON TERROR” check list…
Taliban (Afganistan) --- CHECK
Sadam Hussien (Iraq) --- CHECK
Omar al-Bashir (Sudan), Kim Jong Il (North Korea), Than Shwe (Burma), Hu Jintao (China), Prince Abdullah (Saudi Arabia), Muammar al-Qaddafi (Libya), Pervez Musharraf (Pakistan), Saparmurat Niyazov (Turkmenistan), Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe), Teodoro Obiang Nguema (Equatorial Guinea), Charles Taylor (Liberia), Fidel Castro (Cuba), Alexander Lukashenko (Belarus), Osama Bin Laden (Terrorist Leader), King Mswati III (Swaziland), Seyed Ali Khamanei (Iran), Khamtai Sephardim (Laos), Tran Duc Luong (Vietnam), Isaias Afwerki (Eritrea), Joseph Kabila (Congo), Islam Karimov (Uzbekistan), Bashar al-Assad (Syria)

of course bush is targeting the middle east more than the others because hell that’s where the oils, but it’s not about that alone Bush really doesn’t know what he’s doing…

Currently Playing...

Knight Online
FlyFF

eccentric you say, but crazy i will say lol