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That was always a risk coming into this thread. I am trying to extricate myself from this situation elegantly, but that ship has pretty much already sailed. I actually never read MMORPG.com, pretty much rerolled and RPS are the only gaming related places I lurk, so I don't know what their...

Not even a little, I've never been happier in my entire life than I am right now. Their time has passed. They've all had second chances and shown their time is over. It isn't only the gaming industry that suffers from this, in the movie industry for every Scorsese that can keep making gold...

This is actually quite true. The best projects are usually born from a mix of new and old people (there was a study of this involving Broadway plays). Too old and the project feels stodgy and unoriginal, too new and the project has too many problems and feels too amateurish. The most...

We are just going to have to disagree. People in general are incredibly bad at knowing what they really want or judging what will make them happy. Those running around Rerolled are much more astute and accurate about these things but even then we are all often very wrong. People often...

Firstly, I was just giving an example. Secondly, yes and I quite like it. I also tons of Global Agenda.

I am glad you see what I am saying. I actually do think there is room for DIKU MMORPGs, they just won't really look much like EQ or the many iterations of them we've seen before. Whatever it is will be quite new and different, and it won't come from somewhere we are expecting. Or, it might...

Loot was handled by the systems team.

Oh, you can spend your money as you want. It doesn't mean I can't criticize you for it, and offer my opinion that it would do more good elsewhere.

Whatever those reasons are, and I am sure they are very valid, they won't be duplicated by a new game. They can't be.

Actually, I am bad mouthing you guys. Of course, offering a difference of opinion = bad-mouthing apparently.

It is more like EQ has been remade dozens of times. It has more iterations of it than any other kind of MMORPG. The current biggest budget MMORPGs coming out soon, TESO and Wildstar, are both iterations of EQ. If, after all these tries, despite all the money and effort being thrown at them...

Not trolling. I just know what I am talking about and have opinions I don't mind sharing.

I love retro games, and retro designs. Hell I am working on one right now. That doesn't mean that every aspect of every retro game is good. And EQ is hardly a "retro" game. It has had more iterations than just about any other style of online game in the past 15 years.

Your google-fu is extremely weak. My identity is no secret.

I'm not saying that they "can't" put it together, I am just saying that the experience won't be like EQ. It would be like Rift, or Vanguard, or and of the dozens of EQ clones people put out in the last 15 years. Making a new one is pointless. If any old school MMO deserves a reboot it...

I don't (or haven't been rather) follow this thread very closely, but nearly all of the Tad's posts that I read were about the glory days when things were better just because. OT/DT and non-instanced dungeons are a tiny part of what he prattles on about.

Young people making games of all kinds, of which there are plenty. Instead ridiculous amounts of money go to people like Mark Jacobs, and Richard Garriot. They've had their 2nd and 3rd shots. It is just throwing good money after bad.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news (ok not really), but what you want will never exist again, sorry. Brad isn't making it with Pantheon, even though you keep telling yourself that, and neither will anyone else ever. What you want is to go back in time when MMORPGs were a new and exciting...

Please do.

Then you should probably make your own perfect MMO then, you'll be rich.

I'm sorry, but your ideas exist outside of reality. Implementation is ultimately bound by the physical constraints of the universe. Sometimes there is NO good technical solution within those given constraints. Resources are not infinite. Every action costs something, every decision...

Yes, that was the big one. The game hitches when chunking primarily (if I understood correctly) because the server has to pack up all of your character information and send it to the server handling the next chunk. This causes all sorts of wonkyness on the chunk lines with everything...

I mean no project, no matter how big, has infinite time and resources. Making a game is often about juggling resources to find a maximal point where you get the best game with what you have. This means coming up with creative solutions, for all parties involved, that solve difficult problems...

Well, I didn't say the engine was garbage. I said (if I remember correctly) that the game design was iron-clad, tech be damned. So many of the problems Vanguard had were trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. A big part of making a good game is modifying your design with creative...

I'm sorry Secrets, but you are way off on all counts.

Back then, there were no other Engines that would have even remotely fit the bill. Keep in mind the project was started in 2002 or 2003. It is shocking how much game development (especially online development) has changed in only a decade or so.

Without going into technical details this is not true. Even back then making your own front-end engine was a foolish waste of resources. For all of its problems, using Unreal easily shaved 2 years off the development cycle.

I haven't really posted in this thread because I am a bit torn. I lead an amazing life and I have Sigil to thank for most of that. It is extremely uncouth to be negative and talk bad about the place that gave you your start, biting the hand that feeds you and all that. So I am just going to...

Without SOE it would never have been released. The people complaining should be thankful to Sony for wasting as much money as they did for as long as they did.

Really? I watch him a decent amount and he was melting faces with Soraka top. In fact I think he started of 11-1 (could be wrong though).

I am going to pick on you a little because you brought up a pet peeve of mine, but it isn't personal. You don't take protein powder, you eat it. It isn't anything more than (processed) food. The whey powder you buy is just the whey protein leftover from making milk into cheese (which is...

I don't think the people here that know what they are talking about advocate almost any of that stuff. It is almost universally crap.

You can buy crystallized caffeine quite cheaply on Amazon. If your pre-workout drink had any active ingredient in it that would have been what it was, at a huge mark-up of course. Go with that instead if you need something. Really I just want you to stop giving shady, lying, pointless...

The RT has a desktop that works just like the desktop in normal Windows 8 including most settings and the File Explorer. Some Microsoft 1st party stuff can run on the desktop like Office and Internet Explorer, and in that case they work exactly like their desktop equivalents. However, you...

Congrats! 3 years means you are probably in it for the long haul and will have major long-term benefits. I'm in a similar boat as you although for me it has been more like 7 years. I will never be that big again *shudder*.

I'm with Elurin, any help you are experiencing is primarily caused by placebo rather than anything in the supplement itself (like pretty much all supplements). Plenty of sleep and good food is best, but if you really do need a pick me up right before training (happens to all of us) I recommend...

It does, for me it really helped hold the bar securely when the weights got heavy (my work sets got up to 165kg before I stopped). You are right though, it is pretty minor in the grand scheme of things.

There are ENDLESS internet arguments about High Bar vs Low Bar, and neither side is "right". Personally I found that the low bar is more comfortable for higher weights and that it helps you learn to engage your posterior chain better when squatting for new people.

I've seen worse, and you certainly aren't too fat to be doing squats The biggest problem, like Khane said, is that you aren't hinging your hips, going below parallel and using them to drive up through the squat. Since you are staying high the force of the transition from down to up is being...

The Surface Pro is an ultrabook, the Surface is a tablet. The Surface Pro is an excellent small form ultrabook that can also be used as a tablet. As to the tablet, I got my girlfriend a Surface 2 for Christmas and although she misses some of the apps she has on her phone, she hasn't turned...