EQNext?

[stormlord]

Originally Posted by Taryth [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

EQNext, for lack of divergent behavior on SOE's behalf, will be just as easy and cheesy as Rift . . .and their own EQ2.

They're not going to suddenly turn off the cheese valves. Every MMO they own has been reduced to WoW-like simplicity. If that's not the most obvious giveaway for future products, I don't know what is.

There's nothing wrong with accessibility and lack of punishment on the games part. What I don't like about WoW is the lack of freedom (like building homes, being able to do non-smart things, changing the world, etc) and the lack of detail (tons of skills and strategies to learn so you can be good). Games usually simplify it so somebody can sit down and play well straight away, but for me I usually jump up with joy if I fail miserably at first. This is NOT to say I wnat to be punished after falling down. If it had more of these kinds of things, and some of what I listed above, I'd be veyr interested. It doesn't have to have raids and/or corpse runs and/or hell levels and/or death experience loss. Those are not the things that make EQ great. What makes EQ great is its world, are the experiences we have, the friends we make, the memories we take with us, the dungeons we explore, the story that we uncover, the secrets that we find, the treasures that we wear, and so on. A game doesn't have to bite me for me to like it, but it DOES have to have some meat on its bones.

I also think I'm more a fan of less heroic models. A lot of the modern character models look like supermodel superheroes, or just a horrible attempt. Kind of turns me off a little bit. One of hte nice things about the old eq human models is that they're something I can almost relate to. I like that. Some of the models even make fun of themselves. That's even better. But they don't go too far. I do think the females need more clothes, though. I'm just generally saying here that a lot of mmorpgs love the muscled up superhero but I don't.