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I wish the best for this game, I really do. But I won't hype it, it might have been 11 1/2 years ago when I was 17, but Vanguard was an eye opener to never hype videogames ever. That entire launch was a catastrophe, especially the open beta prior to launch. I'll wait until it comes out before I even consider this game. Brad has to work to regain his reputation.
Why do people think WoW invented having multiple combat abilities? It's like people think EQ1 was the only WRPG that existed prior to WoW??? And I'm glad the races are different and unique. That's awesome that we didn't get the generic layout of "50 elf races that that look the same but aren't" shtick. | ||
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its been 10 years and he still looks like hes on the gas.
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2. Because EQ is my jam and WoW is my punching bag. They both made history in their own way. EQ proved the genre can be successful and WoW proved it can be taken to the next level. One was the start and the other the finish. The genre died with WoW. Quote:
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None of my friends or people I knew played Lineage or FF, I can't speak to that. I basically detest anything EQ related post Velious and I am not the biggest fan of it or Kunark. Rushed expansions without the thought put into them the original game had imo. Not sure what you think I would try to deny. Most people were ready for a new game, I was one of them. I was there opening day for DAoC and Shadowbane. But you had games like Star Wars Galaxies out as well. However, I don't hear comparisons about any recent or upcoming MMOs with those games. I do with WoW and recently EQ with Pantheon. Quote:
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I hate the graphics. I like the quirky and unique look of original EQ models.
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EQ's original launch was a complete blind push. They didn't know what they wanted the game to truly be, hence why pre-Planes had very little if any raid content and even then the gear compared to planar stuff was night and day. The content in the original game was skewed, you can't deny that the western half of Antonica had less thought put into it then the Eastern side of it with particular dungeons offering nothing while others like Guk offering everything. Kunark is my favorite expansion and really did improve the game a lot, I prefer it hands down compared to Velious. Velious was way too linear in terms of traversing the continent. Having to go through 3 dungeons just to go to every single overland zone? Retarded. Why wasn't there a zone connecting Great Divide to Western Wastes? And the reason you don't see many comparisons is because the MMO genre is dying. It's been dead. Nobody wants to take a gamble at it. There are more fertile grounds and genres that have sprung up that are more interesting especially to multiplayer RPGs. With the exception of ESO, very few other companies want to compete in an overly saturated and declining genre. Quote:
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Positive or negative, commenting on how a pre-alpha game looks in its current form is like critiquing how awkward someone looks at their adolescent stage. Acne and braces are what most people will notice first, but that's to be expected. Similarly, a lot of games that look the most promising and attractive early on, and rise in popularity prematurely, end up being dull and one-dimensional over time and never live up to their supposed potential (EQNext). That a significant majority of players here have long been skeptical of PRotF indicates, to me at least, that it won't end up being all the negatives that some are already predicting it will be.
The question is whether any game in development will have enough personality to hold players' attention beyond the initial oos and ahs that flashy graphics inspire, especially a game that plans on being subscriptions only. Based on interviews given by the dev team, adding layers to an already challenging personality is what they seem more concerned with at this time which is reassuring. But MMORPGs are like marriages, requiring a lot patience before turning into anything serious as well as long-term investments from devs and players in order for it have a chance at working. And it only takes one or two failed ones for people become jaded and swear them off altogether. Whereas most of the other game genres are the equivalent of one night stands, on again off again relationships, etc. And even when there are less memorable aspects to them, they're still seen as a success due to lower expectations and level of involvement. Log on, play a 20 minute session of hack and slash, then get back to real life. Back when they still existed outside of the occasional train station / university bowling alley, arcades were the epitome of that. Cheap, quick, and full of variety, making them the brothels in this analogy. That genre died in its old form but in the past five or so years there has been a resurgence of quality arcade-type games on Steam. I don't see why a similar resurgence can't happen for MMORPGs. Eventually people tire of the same thing and they demand the opposite. Happens with music, film, politics, and even food. What was once slave food, the nasty throwaway parts, is now considered high end cuisine. Audiences got bored with typical picture-perfect actors on screen and now there are lopsided boobs on Orange Is The New Black and curiously disproportionate faces on the big screen. Games can't the exception. And if it was just a matter of nostalgia, devs wouldn't be obsessively toiling away at those games, this one, or PRotF. | ||
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