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The games that no one recognized were: #1 Raid Over Moscow #3 Fort Apocalypse

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines is definitely better in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, FO3 is a good game, but to me it feels like a politically correct version of the previous Fallout games squeezed into the Oblivion engine.

I liked it. It's only about 3h long which is a bit on the short side given the price. On the other hand, a lot of effort has been put into the small details. As someone that was about the same age as the characters in the game back in '95 I probably got some extra value out of it as well. The...

If you combine what looks like TERA-style combat with destructible environments I think even 20 people fighting the same boss would be extremely chaotic. Do we know if they plan to use player collisions?

WoW is really dealing with two problems. The first is that while the game still has a lot of subs these players are spread out over way too many servers given their current level of activity. This will hopefully be less of a problem after the virtual merges. The second problem is that there's...

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Correct. Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday.

That is correct.

Yeah, spent many hours playing that one. Catchy music as well! Here are some more games: #1 #2 #3 #4 #5

#1 Looks like Aztec Challenge.

I don't think it would be a problem to most people, but much like some people refuse to fly today I'm sure there would be quite a few people would avoid using this thing. Personally, I would probably wait a couple of years until they had worked out any snags before I tried it.

Rallying Calls seems very much like a method to inject a developer-driven story into a sandbox game. What I'm getting at is that RCs might well be part of a more of less fixed timeline while the rest is sandboxy stuff that can develop differently on different servers.

My post was pure speculation. I'm sure servers will develop differently in some regards, but my guess is that the major lore events will happen on all servers (but exactly when they happen depends on player actions). There are two things that support this. One is that they pretty much said that...

I'm pretty sure they will want all servers to follow the same general timeline. It might take much longer to build Halas on server X than on server Y, but I'm pretty sure that things that are important enough to affect game lore will eventually happen automatically to avoid branches/stalling.

I'm not sure casuals are any more interested in lore. I think the main difference between casuals and hardcore players is that the hardcores tend to care a lot more about challenge and competition with other players. I mean, everyone wants to get all the loot, see all the stuff and hang out with...

While this is true I think raids were hard enough to be fun before they started to adding enrage timers to everything. I also wonder how many guilds that would bother with any serious raid stacking that would be around if raids were as easy as EQ/early WoW.

Yeah, enrage timers are seriously lame. In fact, most of the stuff that was added to make the raids more suitable competitive play made them less fun for everyone else.

One reason I added randomness is that it makes the AI a bit less exploitable. If it's too predictable you can more easily set up a situation where you can break it. Also, as you say, if the AI for example always interrupt every heal and focus down the players one by one it would be an extremely...

I have not read the actual article, but that sounds very much like the AI I wrote for a hobby project. Basically, evaluate a bunch of possible actions. Randomly choose which action that is performed with a heavy bias towards the ones with the best scores. It's also easy to add modifiers to make...

I think one of the original reasons for using threat based mechanics was that they are incredibly cheap in terms processing power required on the server (this was a huge benefit for early MMOs). And after they made that choice they designed the rest of the games around it. So if you just take a...

Unsure if this still works, but I was able to sign up without using a US proxy using this link (you need to log in with your station account before using it): https://account.station.sony.com/aut...tion?betaId=17

The one at the bottom looks like Darklands.

The problem is that one of the factors that made EQ work was the state of the market at release. The only real competition was UO. A lot of the more "hardcore" elements worked because there wasn't many other MMOs for players to switch to. Today many would just switch to some other MMO that...

If SoE had implemented encounters back in the golden age of EQ that were as hard as the heroic stuff in WoW is today they would have been considered broken and Furor would have given them 14 days to fix that shit. Don't get me wrong, I hate the current encounter design where most fights have...

It happened once it became easy to measure performance and content became difficult enough for it to matter. Back during first few years of EQ class/race/whatever balance generally wasn't such a big deal. Raids were more about getting enough warm bodies there before someone else did than to...

SWG came pretty close. The best weapons/armor were generally player crafted. Running a successful crafting business was usually something that would require several people or a significant amount of subcontracting. The thing that made the system so cool was that materials had randomized stats...

Not sure what to feel about collecting classes, but the rest sounds like it has a lot of potential. To be awesome or to fail in a spectacular fashion. Hard to say which at this point. As for raids... when I watched the videos the combat reminded me a lot of TERA. That combined with...

I finally got the time to play through SRR now and I definitely enjoyed it. I think the length of the main story arc was fine. Had it been a full price game I would probably have expected more side missions though. I played after the "shotgun nerf" but I still found shotguns the best weapon in...

Well, psychopath is just a term that describes a set of characteristics that society generally finds objectionable. If I had a big axe, chopped off your head and took your stuff that would be natural human behavior. However, it would be considered bad manners in our current society. We are...

I'm not going to argue if they are psychopaths or not, but it's certainly true that a large part of the financial sector these days serves no purpose other than to exploit the system. Not only do they provide no value -- they make a living stealing (legally) from the people that do. They are not...

You are probably going to be at the receiving end of some trojan/malware/exploit eventually regardless of what browser or AV software you run. Your best bet is to accept that and deal with it. 1) As mentioned before, always use 2 factor authentication for your email accounts. 2) If you are...

Possibly, although who hasn't felt like shooting a consultant at some point? Does this mean it could be legal to gun down consultants if you set the deadline at night and they don't deliver? Man, this could turn it around for IT!

Disregarding the question of legality, do you really want a guy that flips out and kills someone over $150 armed and lose in society?

You pretty much need at least some form of diminishing returns in a loot focused instanced MMO. Otherwise you'd end up with the hard core players being "done" with the game very fast or alternatively so low drop rates that normal players would consider the game pointless. One possible alternate...

I lost about 50 pounds over half a year by maintaining around 1500-1600 calories/day and ~45-60min/day low to medium intensity exercise (walking/cycling and some weights). So far (about 5 years later) I have had no problems with weight returning -- in fact I have lost a little extra weight...

Fable was a decent game. Massively over-hyped? Certainly. Bad? I don't think so. That said, there are certainly hundreds of games that I would rather see remade first.

I agree. The reason that old games like UO and EQ had great communities was not that they lacked dungeon/raid finders. The main reason was that they had plenty of downtime that where people had nothing to do but socialize. In WoW where you spend most of your time online spamming buttons it...

I think the problem is that WoW is a superset of EQ. Basically, most of what you could do in EQ you can do in WoW as well. And since everyone and their dog has played WoW bunch of years I'm not sure if it would be different enough. Personally I think something sandboxy like UO, but with some...

Sounds awesome. Backed.

I agree that most of the camps were civil. However, as it happens I was camping jboots in Najena the last weekend before patch that removed the drop. Now, that was some hardcore kill stealing. The whole room was packed with people nuking poor Drelzna into the ground that instant she spawned.