All Posts by dcoleman07

I played both the preview weekends, open beta, and im currently playing right now.  All of that time combined i'v probably spent 50% pvp/rvr and 50% of my time doing public quests for infamy to get gear, doing quests for good exp, exploring, and trying to unlock tomes. 

I feel like that have balanced this perfectly.  basically what I do is just run pvp scenarios with my guild, and in between that I quest and do rvr.  I really like the public quest quest system in WAR and I have about as much fun in pve as I do in PVP.  theres no wrong way to go in this game, its just what you feel like and how you want to play.

Originally posted by Celestis1000

To the carebear OP.   THere are 928392832 mmorpgs on the market that are just like EQ, i dont' see what you have to complain about. If anything there is a severe shortage of hardcore PVP mmorpgs.

You should be in World of Warcraft right now raiding, that is what you people do best.

 

so what games do you play? I only ask because I'd like to be "hardcore" to

These delays are a result of the disaster that was Vanguard, made the industry jumpy about releases.  Best thing that could have happened (sucks for VG, that came has potential to be the best) because now devs are focusing on releasing complete, shined and polished games.  I'll take a delay over an unfinished product and a bitchy / decimated community anyday.

alright, only reason I went with the turkey analogy was because a friend of mine had just finished talking to me about hunting wild turkeys.

my point was, you had to put a tremendous amount of effort into your EQ character, and experience things like corpse retreivals that were so impossible you had to actually socialize and find a necromancer to summon it for you. You appreciate dieing in these games a lot less when the only penalty is a little exp loss and right clicking to get your stuff back.   Because of this, you felt more connected to your EQ character and less apt to let somthing happen to it and you were more connected with a great community because everyone had to help everybody out ( and were more than happy to do so ).

the more you put into it the more you get out of it, and EQ demanded a lot of time and effort

Originally posted by damian7

 

Originally posted by mbrandybuck

 

 

I also agree.

While the game graphics aren't meant to compare (cartooney), the actual game play is surprisingly more involved then POTBS.

You can actually board a friend's ship and man the guns. Playing Tortuga Holdem against npc's as well as players in the tavern is another feature I enjoy.

And... Get this... You can "explore" the world. What a novel concept that is for the design team at FLS.

Anyway... POC doesn't try to look like a mainstream game. It was designed for kids. But... there's no denying that it's just plain fun. POTBS is nothing but a grind in comparision.

 

 

i don't know about everyone else; but THAT is what i look for in games.  fun.  not a second job.  not some basement dwelling megalomaniac barking commands. not boring grind.  i'm looking for FUN.  which is the reason i'm playing a GAME in the first place.

well said sir

The WoW community is what happens when a game gets marketed to the masses and a lot of ignorant children get ahold of it and fill it with their own insecurities.

EQ and the older games were for gentlemen and women who just wanted to sit back and have a good time and know they were in good company

getting together with a bunch of your buddies and being the first to kill a high level named mob like Vox and Nagefen back in the day, just for the hell of it, not really about the loot, now that was some fun

I hope the answer is that one day (sooner than later preferably) an MMO will come out that will break the mold of what we see in todays more popular MMO's. these games that hold your hand until Max level and follow a very predictable trend, The game is released, people level as fast as they possibly can, following the quest lines put in place for them, move up the chain, and when they've reached the level cap they start raiding endlessly to get the best gear available, about that time the same company gets ready to release an expansion or a new game so the players can rinse and repeat that cycle.  If I want bust my ass grinding just to eventualy have the nicest stuff I'll stick with trying to do that in real life.  As for an MMO, I would like to get away from all that and experience somthing thats fun and exciting that I couldnt do in real life.  It seems like all people are worried about now is being the most bad ass in the game, not the fun level of the content

Yes, once EQ reached the point where it was a guild race to kill the latest and greatest God or Dragon out there ( though that was fun for awhile ), it became a shadow of its former self, and remains even further from that today

Like many others who will read this post, EQ was my first mmo, and the only mmo that I can honestly say took my breath away and captivated my attention fully.  I started playing Pre Kunark, and continued playing through the Legend of Ykeshka, spending countless hours exploring, crafting, feeling genuine excitement at going to do somthing like slaying a dragon or a god that I hadn't even seen before but only heard of.  When the population fell off drastically as new games were being introduced into the genre, I left EQ like many others to see what else was out there.  I tried a multitude of games, including AO, DAoC, CoH, SWG, WoW, ect and so forth... like many others I was also let down.  Sure some of these games seemed to have new and better features than EQ, and they did, and sure they kept my attention, maybe for a little while, but there was never that same feeling like the first time you took that shuttle from Butcherblock Mountains to Kunark.  And that got me thinking, what the hell is it about EQ that provided that feeling?

I pondered this question for awhile, and I have come to acknowledge a stark reality of why EQ was what it was.  That which makes EQ archaic and very difficult compared to this new "User Friendly" mmo genre is that which makes it great.  Its the Time Sinks and all the old pains in the ass about EQ ( such as say a very difficult corpse retreival) and the fact that NPCs dont have a damn target over there head , you have to actually interact with them to learn about a quest. 

I thought of an analogy to compare it to, lets say your really craving a turkey sandwich.  If you hunt and prepare the turkey yourself, your gonna appreciate the hell out of that sandwich, because you busted your ass for it and it means somthing to you.  ( Thats EQ )  

Or you could just go to the store and buy some pre packaged lunchmeat that doesnt taste as good (Everything Else out there to date)

thats my theory, if anyone has thoughts on it i'd love to hear it.

haters, if your bored, feel free.