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I know it was a balance nightmare, but i loved in original AO how nothing had class restrictions. While an enforcer might be better than you with that big bad ass 2 hand sword, your doctor could wield it ifhe wanted to gimp himself in other areas and tons did. I love freeedoms like that. I...

I think what is being referred to is VG"s usage of the unreal engine (albeit an earier version) and how they could never get a open seamless world to work properly with it. I think he is implying that if it happens as such again you would need a world with clear zone lines. But I could be wrong.

WoW their own Lotro Modified AC2 engine. At least that is what I have seen said here.

yea using VG as an example as it was supposedly going to be built like that. On the setting under balanced, but not the lowest setting ( i forget the setting name), it looked worse than EQ1 in 1999. I don;t post this to slam VG as it is relevant to the question asked, but damn it boggled the...

Poor Boston forgot to insure curt"s contract? Being reported on ESPN that curt is likely out for the year and is contemplating retirement and Boston will have to eat his 8 million bucks as they failed to insure it. Any inside juice for us curt? Shoulder is in that bad of shape?

little HGH he be back by april.

These are the same thing. How can you have a healthy bottomline without satisfied customers? A non satisfied customer is not paying you very long, ask Sigil.

No, thats not why it has nothing to do with difficulty, it gets called McWow when people make theclaim it is the best because it has the most players. Where in almost every industry this is never true (except with wow right now, it is the best around currently)

you twink after you have already done it, it is only challenging to level once. Hence why i said same account meaning, been there , done that.

Yes but for the love of all, let us trade them on our own account. All this anti-twinking stuff is rediculous. Twinking is awesome fun.

Couldn"t agree more, and unlike most I actually like pickup groups. I play the game to meet people and have fun, not be billy badass. Even when i group in wow instances, it feels like we race from one spot to the next like I am playing follow the leader. Not sure how to slow that down since...

Well since you only mentioned negatives and no positives to a skill based system it seems you are leaning towards classes. But as I have said before I dont think that the systems make the game, skill based, class based, death penalty, no death penalty, corpse runs or not, etc... If done...

well what is it?

Which was basically a copy of EQ, mem 8 spells. Just a little stricter.

If you ewant every character to be able to do it all, I much preferred Final Fantasys system myself. Was so nice never having to repeat quests and rebuild skills all over again. Boggles the mind that noone has stolen that yet. Besides the fact you can than lock people into only 1 char and...

sort of, it still had itemization just not as profound as later games. I remember it had a 3 step prefix and suffix system or something like that. I remember being SOOO PISSED OFF when i lost my something sword of vanquishing because it was like 3x better than normal stuff and only dropped...

I played on Lake Inferior with 56k dialup I was usally dead before I even saw anyone come on my screen. Fuck that shit used to piss me off haha. But I still played 10 hours a day

no classes and everyone with same skills. so quake in a large world setting? And to follow your UO example UO fights never came down to skill it was who had the latest hacks and who had the best ping.

if so, it has to be limited in some way more than every other skill based game. Tank mages are lame.

Curt would know best but wouldnt the players union supply his lawyer? so it would be free? And even if the didn"t and it cost him millions he will lose out on far more than that in all the shit that goes along with the hall of fame and being a super star such as public speakings...

want to know the tell tale signs to me? If someone says something about someone that is untrue and cuases them harm it is against the law and called slander and/or defamation of character. So why hasn"t barry bonds files suit against the people who wrote the book against him? The same...

Definately agree. Solo steps for the most part and solo steps after the group part, even that are completable before finishing the groups parts. Can even go farther and have raid steps to for very epic quests. Being able to get credit for quests before you have them via flags ro whatever for...

Than what the fuck are you railing on me about? I never asked for higher computer requirements or better graphics... Making things higher end server side does not mean I need a better computer on client side.

so which titles have you shipped and worked on to know the industry so well, to be able to tell everyone what will and won"t be possible years in the future. High Tech requirements and high graphic requirements are two different things, you keep bringing everything to a grpahics level...

yes lets all worry about dev time and tech support. They asked for ideas not for business advice. This game is years out and you guys are stuck thinking about things in yesterdays technology.

you have shown no ability whatsoever to think outside of the box. Every single theory craft thread you shoot down every idea everyone has as not possible. I am 100% positive if I had laid out the Wii design stuff before it was announced you would have laughed at me and said impossible. I am...

biggest thing with cutscenes is make sure you cannot be attacked while watching them. This pissed me off to no end in FF that I was getting attacked while watching a cutscene. How am I supposed to enjoy it and give it my attention when all I can think is shit I am dying there goes an hours...

if they were delivery quests and fedex quests that had nothing to do with the actual storyline or substance of the game? probably not. If they were vital to the importance of the game - yes. well written and engaging - yes. Required to have the knowledge to finish the quest and you dont...

discussion is a 2 way street, you don"t see me mocking the other people here with ideas they are putting forward do you? Make a post of substance and we can discuss. Until than you are just a troll and treated as such.

*does his best 2bit impression* 9 million people disagree.

because there is far more to a storyline than quest text. Why do you always have to argue everything in such extremes? Yes some of the quest text is interesting, but 90% of the stuff is meaningless fluff that is not very well written currently. I mean really is there a single person besides...

I really liked the cut scenes in FFXI for advancing the storyline also. They were a very nice touch that I always paid alot of attention to as they were very well done.

if thats what you got out of the last page, you are dumber than I thought. But yea we all know you bow down to the altar of wow and they do everything exactly perfect, we know...

yes thank god a guy who has put out no ideas as of yet and has never made a game is in charge. I am sure Curt is not really in charge anyways. He is a money guy not a game developer. I mean really... so the 8 months a year baseball is goin on he would stop production. Another meaningless...

Everyone hates solo grind, it is lame. Grinding games are group based for that reason. Hence the reason grinding in wow mostly sucks. ok I will stop jacking this thread now = )

so what happens if you die following said NPC or have to log? you just lost your weapon and have no clue what to do from there? There are many variables I can see screwing a system like that up right down to someone jacking your quest mob if it is a PVP setting.

Multi stage quests are awesome and have a much more epic feeling to me. Fed-Ex quests are just fluff and are boring for the lazy and brain dead who can"t explore on their own. But there are many ways to stop the tedium or returning to the same npc over and over. 1. make the next step of the...

hasn"t it only been out like a month?

muds had instancing and loot linking? that is really stretching it thin...

All in all AO was a pretty poor game but they had some of the best systems ever and is probably the msot copied game ever but people don"t realize it. They created most every system in wide use today including instancing wow style (missions) and EQ2 style (temple of 3 winds). Plus tons of...