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Meridian 59 : Evolution News - Progress Report
Posted by Dana Massey on Jun 16, 2005 | 5 comments in our forums
At E3 I had a chance to interview Brian Green of Near Death Studios about the progress of "Meridian 59: Resurrection". This classic MMORPG was relaunched in 2002 and continues to move forward today, with improvements like a new rendering engine added last year.
;) The game offers much of what a player would expect from an online RPG. It is a skill-based system, with large and meaningful PvP elements that focus on player skill as well as character skill. The game also features extensive guild and political systems that should intrigue the average player. With years of content and balancing under its belt already, you cannot find a more mature MMORPG – a blessing when it comes to game play, provided you can stand the aged graphics.
Despite their lack of resources, the team overhauled the game’s rendering engine for a significantly modernized appearance in August of last year. Brian showed me the difference in real time, and it was quite a change. Is Meridian 59 as pretty as other MMORPGs? Hardly, but it has the benefit of age, a mature community and all the content that comes with that age. One mistake Brian admitted is that they launched their refined graphical experience last year at precisely the same time as World of WarCraft hit shelves, obviously, a very hard time to garner any notice. |
You can read the full article here.
I played this game back in the 3DO days, and recently found it again. Having played for only a couple weeks now, the memories that it has brought back from the previous years of fun and fear playing this game. I'm glad you decided to do an article about this game. The company seems to be just getting by on it's current subscriber base. When I got on and got a second to talk to one of the NDS people, they told me that the first server was doing great, while the second server was pretty low on people right now. So I got on the second server <easier to build up when no one else is around> I have already found three people I had played with back in 1996.
While the subscription fee is rather high for such a dated game, the game play, and community makes up for it. And like the Help guy says, "How much did it cost to go see a movie?" Well I spent $5.00 a person. plus $3.50 for popcorn, and another $3.00 for a soda. And the movie sucked, and that was matinee prices. So $11.50 for 2 hours of stupiditiy. Or $10.95 for 30 days of fun? You tell me, is that bad?
If you haven't tried the game, give it a shot, what's $11 bucks? I know people that will go out and buy a game or two a month and thats at $50 bucks a pop, this game you don't have to buy, just subscribe too. And if you don't like it, you give me all the stuff you got while playing, then delete the game, no big deal. When filling out the referal part of the subscription, put in Twisted from 102!
This is absolute junk , WARNING , do not waste your time downloading this POS i did and i wish i had not wasted my time . this is not worth 1$ a month let alone 10$
Thank you, Lep!
Old vets will respect this, only the newbie kiddos will have hard time to comprehend the beauty in this. Ah the retro feeling...
Hehe, I love that part. Its good to hear the game is still doing well though. I also didn't know they redid the graphics abit on it and it does look a heck of alot better then it used too.