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• • The Tenth Commandment and MMOs

  • Originally posted by ArcAngel3
    

    ... yeah coveting really sucks.

    
     

    I hear you, I understand, and yet without it, the world economy would crash and burn.

  • Posted: 7/15/08 9:40 PM
    Star Wars Galaxies
• • Champions fell DEEP in my esteem today.

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    Was it this interview where he said that it would be very fast combat, or was it Jack’s interview a day or so before? Regardless, my thoughts were somewhat along your lines as well.

     

    However, I’m not throwing in the towel on this by any means. It’s simply too early for that. I semi-followed AoC and gave it the benefit of the doubt all the way up until open beta. Tried it, discovered the combat, and ran for the hills never to look back. I will definitely try this one as well, whether it be beta or retail.

     

    Originally posted by Elikal
    

    ...the fast paced, action RPG combat takes away A LOT of strategical depth and character development depth. ...

    
     

    This is exactly what I felt as well. In order to execute a power or move, it was simply too many keystrokes for that to happen. I don’t want to have to hit the keys “3-1-2-e-q” in order to do a shield bash. I want to concentrate more on the strategy of which powers I need to use in order to survive instead of which key sequence I need to execute in order to simply active a power.

    I know my reflexes are slowing down as I get older and all, and if wanting simplified combat makes me stupid, so be it. I just know what’s fun to me. The “dumbed” down combat of say WoW or CoH does let you focus more on choosing your powers to survive instead of trying to remember key sequences to simply activate just one power.

     

    Anyway, there is no reason to believe this will be the key sequence mania that AoC is. If it’s semi-fast paced with simple power activation, I’ll still be happy.
  • Posted: 7/14/08 9:59 PM
    Champions Online
• • Warhammer Online : Age of Reckoning: Mark Jacobs Interview Part Two

  • Originally posted by Puuk
    

    Good article all around. I'm glad they are more concerned with polish and making the game "fabulously" fun, rather than try to shoehorn in as much as possible and then fix it post launch. Good for Mythic. I'm even more glad I sprung for the CE.

    
     

    These were my thoughts exactly after reading the article.  I like the honesty.  Great job Mythic. 

    The MMO community always seems to explode when developers aren't truthful and forthcoming with their information (I won't mention any names, but we all know who they are).  Mythic seems to be the total opposite and tells us everything, and people still explode.  Is it such a mystery why others other developers are so close-mouthed?  They are damned if they do and damned if they don't when up against the whining.

    Again, good job Mythic.  You are on the right course.  This is one I'll be trying at release.

  • Posted: 7/11/08 6:12 PM
    General Discussion
• • Fallen Earth: Feature Complete

  • Here's to hoping that this one will give me that "Gamma World" fix that I've been craving.

  • Posted: 7/08/08 3:08 PM
    General Discussion
• • Champions Online: Dev Blog: Something different at Cryptic

  • So we shut down the Champions team for two weeks. And everyone played the game. Each person was required to play for at least an hour each day, and a goal for the whole team was set for at-home play hours. As a reward, if the team played for 600 total hours for the month of June, the company directors would hold a BBQ for them. As people played, we expected them to use an in-game tool to log bugs, comments, suggestions and criticisms.

    
     

    Wait wait wait...you had your team, stop working, play a game for 2 weeks, then held a BBQ for them?
    You slave drivers!

    PS - Are you hiring??

    Keep up the good work.  We're all out here hoping for a winner.

  • Posted: 7/07/08 2:04 PM
    General Discussion