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• • Turbine shows big budget not needed, just the desire

  • Originally posted by Lydon
    

    Originally posted by Sheista
    

    Instead of staying the course, -they- sold out to 'big names' that people could recognize.  DDO and LotRO.
    

    I'd rather a company who knows what they're doing do it right than a company who doesn't and ruins said IP's chances of a successful and fun MMO.

     

    That's the problem though.  -I- don't trust them with those IPs.  LotR had potential to be an amazing game, and maybe it is to some.  But to me it's just another linear, strictly PvE game with nothing more.  That IP had potential to be an amazing hybrid of sorts, mixing sandbox features with traditional class-based systems and the like.  That's what Turbine got started with, was innovative features that just plain worked.  To me, the LotR IP was set up to be a sandbox.  Some games are meant to be linear, but this game in particular just screamed sandbox to me.

    The Turbine you know, isn't the Turbine I knew from the start.  They don't have any of the same people behind the games anymore, and they've abandoned the sort of thing that originally made them a good company.  So to you, this game is great.  To me, it is a polished version of 'the same'.

  • Posted: 11/22/08 6:25 AM
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• • Turbine shows big budget not needed, just the desire

  • Originally posted by solareus
    

    Originally posted by megafluxmega
    

    Originally posted by Sheista
    

    Am I the only person who thinks Turbine is a terrible company?  AC2 is not their only blunder.  While eventually it was an alright game, it was a mistake for them to make it in the first place, and they have admitted that.  They admitted competing with themselves for a player base was just bad marketing. 

    Amazingly, when Turbine bought the license to AC from Microsoft and owned it 100%, that's when the original game started to go downhill.  They made a couple good decisions right off the bat, and then thinks just went to hell.  They made a series of horrible decisions which ultimately led to the life support the game is currently on.  All they care about now is big IPs, where instead they should be focused on the former creativity that they had.  DDO had potential to be much much more than it is, and IMO is just plain crap. And LotR online, while not horrible, is also not near the potential it had.

    AC1 will always remain my favorite MMO of all time.  I have the best memories of any game I've played, in it.  But I loathe Turbine for running it into the ground with bad decision after bad decision.  It was their baby, and it proved that they were extremely innovative and creative.  But then they ditched innovation and creativity and replaced it with big name IPs.

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    MoM expansion is just crazy , the amount of work and polish the game world has now is better then anything on the market, a game with the look , a game with an actual game world , and mechanics that seems to grow.

    MoM, blows anything I've played in the past 5 years away, in the mmorpg genre. Once I got inside and started to see the craftman ship of the world designers, it is just mind knumbing. Turbine is a gamers game company.

    the game is not for everyone though, and people get out of it what they put, if your going to moan and grump around, you won't like it, this game is not for the emo.

     

    "vavle" = pure blizzard tard like sell out. Dave Newball said he would never make a game for the ps3, guess what L4D is coming out for Ps3. F valve, they ruined every great mod , mods that used to free, now lame suck tards pay 20 dollars for them which inturn makes the "we can make money off mods now , bitchen" mentallity stick. If you can trust Valve, you are just not informed about games, At All, or you just like "big sell out everyone is playing it" games.

     

     

     

    While I'm in no way supporting Valve like the poster after me, saying he just likes "big sell out everyone is playing it" games is like the pot calling the kettle black here.  Turbine is a company that's all about big IPs now.  They started with a ridiculous amount of creativity and innovation with their Asheron's Call original IP.  It was a hybrid linear/sandbox game, and the game itself was their own creation from top to bottom.  Storyline, creatures, quests.. everything was original and amazing.  LotRO is none of that.  It's not original.  It's a big name IP that they thought they could get rich on.  They had a chance to really do something.  They came from nowhere.. Microsoft gave them their start, by allowing them access to technology and resources they wouldn't have had otherwise.  Instead of staying the course, -they- sold out to 'big names' that people could recognize.  DDO and LotRO.

  • Posted: 11/22/08 6:15 AM
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• • Turbine shows big budget not needed, just the desire

  • Am I the only person who thinks Turbine is a terrible company?  AC2 is not their only blunder.  While eventually it was an alright game, it was a mistake for them to make it in the first place, and they have admitted that.  They admitted competing with themselves for a player base was just bad marketing. 

    Amazingly, when Turbine bought the license to AC from Microsoft and owned it 100%, that's when the original game started to go downhill.  They made a couple good decisions right off the bat, and then thinks just went to hell.  They made a series of horrible decisions which ultimately led to the life support the game is currently on.  All they care about now is big IPs, where instead they should be focused on the former creativity that they had.  DDO had potential to be much much more than it is, and IMO is just plain crap. And LotR online, while not horrible, is also not near the potential it had.

    AC1 will always remain my favorite MMO of all time.  I have the best memories of any game I've played, in it.  But I loathe Turbine for running it into the ground with bad decision after bad decision.  It was their baby, and it proved that they were extremely innovative and creative.  But then they ditched innovation and creativity and replaced it with big name IPs.

  • Posted: 11/22/08 5:17 AM
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• • The Sims 3

  • Honestly haven't played The Sims since the first one.  Never played any expansion packs or anything.. just the bare bones first game.  But, I did like it a lot and I wasted many hours of my life on it when I was younger.

    I took a look at Sims 2 and didn't care for it, but just from the video on the official site for Sims 3, I am actually pretty interested in it.  Looks like it would be pretty fun, at least for a while.

  • Posted: 11/21/08 8:57 AM
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• • How many warnings, bans have you been issued?

  • I'm a very outspoken poster here, and I have never received a warning/ban.  So, if you're getting them then you must be doing something very very wrong.  Attack the post, not the poster.  Stay on topic for the forum you're in.  Etc.. Some pretty common sense stuff in order to stay under the radar.

  • Posted: 11/20/08 8:42 AM
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