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He was but I think that was secondary to him being the leader of the Istar. He and Sauron both being followers of Aule was probably part of the reason Sauron was able to turn him. Tolkien does say that Sauron was able to guess the mind of Saruman, but Gandalf he did not understand at all.

I will geek out for a moment. People say that Tolkien created a conflict that was purely black and white with no real psychology behind the bad guys. But he does lay out the differences between Sauron and Morgoth in an essay in Morgoth's Ring that is quite interesting and could be relevant to...

Hahaha What a shocker it was partly Silius's fault. I usually don't like to single out a specific developer but I remember having a visceral hatred for him when he was the lead on VG towards the end. I think the lvl 55 cap increase was quite possibly the worst content update in any MMO I've...

Cam Newton still sucks.

Flipping back between nfl games but yeah. I like the angle they are using, easier to see the strike zone since it's more straight on.

The combat looks completely weightless. Fast movement, static animations, with no limits on how you can move your character. It ends up looking like people are spazzing out instead of battling.

It's definitely the two trees, which is surprising b/c I thought they didn't have the rights to anything in the first age? Maybe the series opens with a bookend to the first age, similar to the opening in Fellowship when you see Sauron defeated at the end of the 2nd age. It would be cool to see...

The systems in modern WoW are just terrible, full stop. You have like 6 different currencies with 6 different grinds and 3 different 'talent' systems that are all borrowed power. Here's the giant reductio ad absurdum of the whole covenant system: in order to keep them somewhat balanced you...

Jeff Butler, who was VP at Sigil, goes in to even more detail about Sigil, VG, and Brad. Starts around 1:42:00. Interesting stuff.

I want to play an MMO like Pantheon but there's part of me that wants to see it fail just to spite Nirgon.

Here's the interview. He starts talking about VG around 1:12:00. The rest of the interview is about early EQ and Ashes. He even worked on Shadowbane.

Was listening to an interview with Kevin McPherson who was a lead programmer on VG and now is working on Ashes of Creation. He said some interesting things. First, that the unreal 2.5 engine was really the only game in town for an off the shelf engine at the time & if they picked a different...

Hey Elidroth, while you're here I'd like ask that by the off chance you still have the Vanguard source code or tools maybe you could pass them on to the VG Emu devs?

lol... oh Furor. Getting drunk and loudly announcing you're going to marry some random girl from the SC2 esports scene that you just met. Then follows her to her car and 'grabs em by the pussy'. What was he thinking? Sounds like cringe college dorm shit.

For the last 7 years it feels like we've been given front row seats to the downfall of the biggest developer in gaming history. Blizzard is only a few fuck ups away from becoming the next Daybreak.

Stop shitting up this thread faggot.

Yeah Furor is definitely named in the suit, apparently would get drunk and try to hookup with female employees. Unprofessional for sure but doesn't sound that bad. Apparently they picked him to be made an example of according to Bellular.

He was talking with Doug Cronkhite (Elidroth) about how it can be difficult sometimes to get honest feedback from players when they know they are talking to a dev, then added "but not on the FoH boards" and they both laughed haha.

Been listening to more interviews, I'll try to pick out a few nuggets from time to time. Apparently most devs on EQ thought Dave Georgeson was a complete tool (big surprise). One time he asked the EQ1 dev team "what do you guys do for cutscenes?". And another time in a meeting called them all...

Ok.. so Asmongold doesn't mind boring ass cutscenes while streaming therefore I'm wrong? I'd rather watch paint dry than modern jrpg cutscenes.

I don't think having an established IP means very much. Look at the all the established mmo IP's besides WoW - most failed. Warhammer, Star Wars, Star Trek, Lotr, Conan..I could go on and on. Any game that's good will find its audience, just look at Valheim.

idk I just hate cutscenes I guess

I know this game is getting a lot of traction lately but idk how anyone can sit through this giant cutscene mmo that occasionally has gameplay. I trudged through to level 50 only to realize I needed to do a 100 step quest chain to get to the first xpac.

If anyone is interested you can watch, or listen while you work like I did, to the interviews by alovingrobot of former EQ & VG devs. You get some insight to what went on behind the scenes of both games. I know we like to shit on Brad but it got emotional a few times when they would talk about...

Would Daybreak even give a shit if the source code and tools got leaked? I doubt it.

Yeah there were tons of random dungeons that were still in a beta state. Still irks me that instead of completing them they did the dumb Halls of the Pantheon update which 90% was farming the awful SoD island. Once Silius was no longer the lead dev I think they did City of Brass as the last...

I played it for a few hours tonight. You can turn aggro off and explore all the areas for the most part. I checked out Stiirhad, Pankhor Zhi, Old Targanor, and a few others I never got to see. The Stiirhad dungeon is freaking huge, I had to port out of it after a while cuz I got lost.

Game was garbage. Clearly made with mobile in mind first and pc as an afterthought, that is never going to fly with pc gamers.

Not surprised they might do this ever since they hired Holly Longdale. No world buffs and harder raids sounds great but I think they have to make class/spec changes or people will stack warriors even w/o world buffs...

I tried the f2p version and it does make a huge difference using macros. I think I have 5 abilities mapped to one hotkey, makes it so much less frantic. What class is the most wanted though? Been leveling a berserker cuz ppl said its the top tank class atm.

I still have more faith in the emu devs than that fat fuck Silius.

Keep thumbing me down after the 12th time you've done Black Morass.

The cavern of time instances are so uninspired. Feels like they were put together in a weekend.

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Wow. McQuaid used to post walls of text like that on the old site during the vanguard beta.

I might have posted this before idc

The guy did direct 10 Cloverfield Lane and Black Mirror. I'm just surprised this got greenlit after how bad the last movie was.

If I were Aaron Rodgers I would get Julio Jones to come with me to Denver.