All Posts by Rimmon

1. Warhammer Online
2. Earthrise

That is the only 2 games I see that even look remotely interesting to me that are coming out in the semi-near future.

most drama I've seen in/about a game is by far and away DAoC VN server boards, that was and still is to some extent just absolutely ridiculous.

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Originally posted by graill

 

Originally posted by markoraos

What "our" country are you talking about? What "our" troops?

Get a perspective man.

you obviously must be one of the third world countries "we" havent invaded yet.

 

(sorry, just a dripping, sarcastic joke for the unobvious)

 

OP, bad idea, your over there to do a job not play games, in your offtime, thats when your not in the motorpool, servicing or helping to service your vehicle or on patrol or on guard duty you train or sleep, if you have to much spare time then your obviously not doing all you could be doing such as training your subordinates or studying for your proficiency exams for your next rank/paygrade. when you come back to the states you can play games.

(damn, did i go there or what?!)

studies have shown that having no diversions while on extending tours of duty i.e. deployment to Iraq is a leading cause of PTSD, troops who regularly play games, lift weights, draw, write, w/e.... are more productive, less stressed, and have a lower risk of developing serious cases of PTSD, so while it maybe alright for SGT Highspeed  to never tend to anything but his soldiering duties the rest of us need diversions from the fact that we are in a shit hole that we have no desire being in, and possibly having to kill people who are only trying to kill us because it is a meal ticket for their family (I know that probably just opened up a whole nother can o' worms, and I know some belief in the whole death to American thing, but alot of the attacks are carried out by people just looking for a paycheck.  and having to possibly kill someone who is just trying to feed his three year old and doing so by attacking foreigners in his country might mess with the ol noodle a bit.)

Oh and If I was guessing graill you probably are around E-6?

PVP                                        : DAoC

I feel that it would be a great idea, maybe even change up the server a lil bit by offering faster xp and scaled down dungeons due to a smaller player base and less available playing time. 

I am about to do my first tour in the middle east, and believe me Vrika, playing WoW is going to do nothing to increase my desire to kill anyone at any time.  If anything it will decrease my desire to kill because it will be a stress relief and I will not be running around as full of nervous energy as I might otherwise be.   Why would you be against regular people with regular lifes having access to a game made more readily available. Supporting me is not support the war.  I am not some professional killer, I am a 23 year old recently married IT Tech who signed up with the National Guard almost 7 years ago to protect and serve my country not any where else, but my president said I was needed in Iraq and I will not break an oath (that and the brig doesnt sound like much fun).

with out a doubt UO2

I want my Tomb Kings...

I'm sure this subject has been broached many a time, but I am wanting to know how a MMO with combat where ranged attacks are going to be aimed is going to work.  Now don't get me wrong I love the idea but when aiming ranged attacks isn't each individuals connect going to play a huge roll in the ability to hit targets as well as to be hit?  I've played FPS's on a very competive level and latency plays a huge roll the ability to hit targets, and from what I can gather hitting a target with a spell or arrow will be alot like trying to hit a guy in quake or unreal w/ a rocket launcher, railgun, etc...  If you get two players of approx. equal skill and one is playing w/ a 20 ping and the other a 120 ping, i think you know who is going to come out on top an overwhelming majority of the time.  Does DF have a way to compensate for this?  Or are those that live across the country from the server they are playing on going to be at a huge disadvantage to those who live considerably closer? 

well i got the email, tried it again, still had the same boring expierce. continual deathmatch pvp just isn't for me, and obviously  not for the majority of folks either.  don't get me wrong I <3 my pvp but this game is... well everyone already knows what this game is.

Originally posted by airhead

Console percentage going up, PC going down. Been going on for a year or more and will continue even more in that direction.

Console: couch or recliner, wireless controller, 50+ inch big screen TV, surround sound, watch blue-ray movies with ps3, innovative input devices (Wii), etc.

PC: keep upgrading that rig, new card, more memory, will it play the game?

For MMOs though, PC still very solid platform. I think it's because most of the people playing are actually white collar workers, playing MMO x in a window at work... boss walks in, quick minimize, pop open that dev environment and compliment the boss's most recent ideas in the last meeting. Wait for boss to leave, then back to killing more boars. 

 

just waiting for my new comp here at work so i can start doing that... the PIII 1133 w/ 512mb of ram and on board video just doesn't do much other than what i'm doing right now.  man if my boss thinks im unproductive now just wait :)

f'ing amazing a video game turning in well over $100mil a month...

Originally posted by Jsteiner

I don't see the point in discriminating fact from opinion on this site. Very few arguments about MMO's are over facts.

...Plus the only people who can provide absolute truths in the universe are Mathematics professors.

even math is based on our ability to comprehend the abstracts that represent the concretes, if our comprehension is fundamently changed then what?

(c)

that was f'ing hilarious, and just made my day.  I always knew that I was a teir above the peabrained masses, but finding out that in fact I am a "Glorious Master Race" just made me feel so l33t inside.

god I can't wait to get to play this game, I had an absolute blast running 8mans on DAoC and I only expect better from this game, hope I don't get disappointed, as i'm sure we have all learned the dangers of getting our hopes up with this genre. (or anything really)

Not a huge name, but George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series would make an awesome MMO in my opinion.  Very few races, but tons of class possibilities, and more factions than you can shake a stick at. 

Originally posted by Kyleran

 

 

As for going to a Warhammer table top forum, not likely to happen, I play games which makes me a geek, but I'm never going down that road. (there are levels of geekdom, afterall, and I'm sort of a mini-geek I guess)

 

And what road is that?  I play the warhammer and several d20 games.   so am i supposed to look like this?