Recent content by mutantmagnet_foh

Could you extrapolate more on what this guide system was like?

If it lacks pvp it will fail.... ...So I"ve heard around here.

Atleast people in 4chan have technical skills to get their point across instead of waiting around on an admin to give them lame e-powers This thread should remain dormant until something more topical is worth discussing. Messageboard internet anonymity isn"t one of those relevent things...

It"s still frontloaded if you play the game as a non-combat character. Becoming a high skill trader or industrialist takes basically a couple of months thanks to how much character creation being designed to give so many skills upfront to make early combat training fun.

The devs for Mortal Online are using that exact system where your character can train skills both actively and through time. In addition certain skills you learn with one character become shared with any new characters you make, because why repeat cartography level 3 when you already mapped the...

Well I know you are being facetious and sarcastic here but I can"t help it by saying, I haven"t read any studies about the working habits that even insinuates that claim as being possible

To my understanding there is a strong cultural bias in statements like these. Players from western nations generally adopted themselves to EQ style games. Players from eastern nations seem to not mind as much the UO style of play since there seems to be a lot more games similar to UOs...

I think you need to get off the online play hype wagon for the next 5 years. NPD already revealed how underutilized online play is used by console gamers. Online gaming is the future but it hasn"t caught nearly as much as this post insinuates.

You are confusing or completely unaware of a few idealogies. The majorty of Pvpers from UO/Shadowbane type games aren"t interested in fair fights. Turning pvp into a sport isn"t as fun as turning as pvp into a war scenario. The new breed of pvpers in WoW who came in after world pvp was...

I already stated this twice in this thread and I"ll do it a third time with a different example because so many exist and not just in the videogame industry. People make the stupid claim that noone should fantasy because WoW trumped everything. How many WWII fps games came out in the passt...

One thing that boggles my mind when people talk about the success of WoW and how others must compete in this new world they justify themselves with reasons that have proven to be false in other video game genres. I"ve already made this case before and I"ll just keep regurgitating it because...

Your suggestion for a company to differentiate themself is pointless. WoW would"ve done well even with a Western theme because Blizzard introduced good game mechanics. Choosing a setting is a less relevant way of making yourself different than choosing game mechanics that make playing a new mmo...

Another example is the debacle that was Super Mario Sunshine and Metroid Prime 2. Gamers were hotly in anticipation of these sequels after their predecessors and once they knew these iterations were subpar the games sold less than what you would expect from something within these series. Need...

Took over two weeks but I finally finished reading the majority of this thread. A lot of good discussions have been engendered here and it will be interesting to see what direction 38 Studios will go. There are still a lot of topics that can be explored. One thing I didn"t see being touched...

Hey Curt I was reading a blog going over MS attempt to merge with Yahoo and it used an interesting baseball/football metaphor. I was curious if you felt the analogy was on the mark. The Metaphor Michael Lewis compares and contrasts the private sanctums of baseball and football players...