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I'd watch it. I eagerly anticipate the weekly skit, "Dumar complains that yet another game isn't Ultima Online."

I, for one, say fuck it. If people want to zerg shit, let them zerg it. Never understood why "Throw a ton of fucking people at it" isn't considered a valid strategy anymore. I've done the 12 man elite hit squad and the 200 person zerg swarm and I can honestly say both felt equally as...

Popular consensus was that once you killed 2~3 of the mobs if you still had most of your people standing the rest should surrender or it should have been more like the AQ multi-mob fights where as they went down the remainder got super saiyan powers. As it stood it made little sense to have a...

Then you end up with the situation we had in DDO where you just always tanked mobs in a doorway. They couldn't get around you so you just had one guy load the fuck up on defensive gear, put up his shield and just stand there.

My biggest fear is that they will have a few good ideas but the game will otherwise be such absolute shit that everybody else is afraid to expand on it for years. The concept of card battles for diplomacy in VanGuard had my nipples razor hard but they fucked it up so bad along with the rest of...

Tuco was just making a funny. NMM and BOSS is all you need.

Since it got rickshawed for being redundant I'll just put this here instead: Here's the infos I've put together so far in as condensed a format as I can. Trying to withold personal bias as much as I can as well. The world will be changeable and should independently grow on each server...

At some point they'll hamfist it in there anyways. Look at DCUO. They managed to take a perfectly decent combat game and fuck it up by adding in a trinity.

The reason has more to do with the current state of the market. I know most posters on this forum are Mr. Moneybags who can afford to hire private dancers to grind levels for them and whatnot but for the average Joe out there money is tight. People pushing for subs like to do that stupid "lol...

Yeah, would be my guess. It's been done before but usually as a gimmick.

I remember when they admitted kiting in EQ was a bug and one day they actually tried to fix it. The backlash on flameplay was hilarious because it broke pulling mobs as well. I think what makes it even more tragic is if we had played EQ the 'intended' way 99% of shit would have been...

Er, did you even read what I wrote? 8( Stop thinking WoW and start thinking how you can use the technology.

Phasing is probably going to see more emergence as they work the kinks out of it in any game that actually moves forward. Tie in to social site concepts and you'll be golden. The long and the short of it being that you're always in a personal phase. If you're in an area that is supposed to...

I think for an apt comparison everybody here should see what happened when Woody Harrelson tried to do a Reddit AMA. Trying to use a social website/forum to pimp your new product without some quid pro quo warrents some backlash. I'll let you push your product and even word of mouth the shit...

I just stopped in for my morning poop and noticed Woolygimp posted. Seeing as how I can always count on him to post something incorrect in support of whatever he's on about I figured it was an easy +1 post to start out my day.

Answer: Unable to answer without more supporting information. Do I have my biggest dream? Will I necessarily get it if I do give up one I love? Do I get to pick which love I give up or is it all of them, the one I love most, etc? As a generic answer if I had to give up someone for an ideal...

Much better.

Not counting WoW's mounted combat 'gimmick'... LOTRO has mounted combat. Conquerer has mounted combat. Tales of Fantasy has mounted combat. Forsaken World has mounted combat. There's like 5 or 6 others I can think of offhand as well.

It would fit with SoE's MO. Claim something is "original and will totally blow your mind!" that has been done before in other games. I mean that was the entire premise behind Magicka. Technically pretty close to AC for that matter too.

But what MMO hasn't promised innovation and great strides forward? Remember Rift? They were talking about their "DYNAMIC CONTENT DELIVERY MECHANISM!" that was going to change the way we thought of MMO's and all it turned out to be were random spawn ring events that you farmed for epix...

Traps are just an extension of a greater theme of using the environment against you. And not just saying, "Well this boss is in a circular room but that one is in a square room!" DDO was a master of this. Two of my favorite fucking dungeons of all goddamn time are from DDO. One has you...

To be fair, I don't really harp on people for that style of opinion anymore. Yeah there was plenty of shit at the end game that was hard and rough. Then again you're supposed to make an impact with a game early on. In WoW there's absolutely nothing you can 'challenge' yourself on until you've...

I try to be brief with posts if I can help it. Nobody wants to read anything more then a paragraph or three long. If I tried to explain everything then I'd just have to post a PDF design document with every post with cross reference charts and shit. To keep this one short, for mob XP to be...

For what it's worth original WoW was pretty close to an EQ clone. I know it hurts to hear it but original WoW was at it's core just EQ minus the downtime and with a fresh coat of paint on top. Realistic expectations are what they are. Keep in mind there's something like 200+ games that fit the...

I remember being floored with WoW early on how random mobs could drop shit you could use after 5+ years of non-named mobs in EQ being pointless but that novelty wore off fast.

To dig deeper with Tad (I hate, fucking hate when we agree on anything) there are a few caveats I would add. Killing mobs can add XP but that XP is only used to make you better at killing that type of mob. I dislike the concept of just generic XP being tied to generic advancement. Grats you...

Semantic arguments are always the best ones.

The ruleset can adapt on the fly. I'm talking more along the lines of something like "Fireball does 1040 damage to NPC, deals 25% of health to PC" etc... If nothing else it's one of those things where you can balance once and then just leave the fuck alone or allow for slight balance changes...

So aside from Diablo being a shit game blah blah blah, any advice on quality duos with a wizard? I've asked in the past but the game may have changed in the 6 patches since we've last been able to play. Wondering if I should stick with my monk, finish leveling up my demon hunter or switch to...

I highly doubt SoE will be the one to fix the PvP issue. Unless they have someone who had an epiphany while on the shitter one day and realized that trying to unify PvP and PvE rulesets and gear is a fruitless effort. Gear scaling basically ruins PvP. Until someone realizes this and just...

Unfortunately we were repatriating and not everything valuable could fit in carry on. 8( Thanks guys.

When returning to the United States last week we checked our luggage through customs in Chicago, watched them put it on the conveyor. We land at our final destination and 1 of our 9 pieces of luggage doesn't make it. We've filed a report, been pestering them every day. Getting told the issue...

Just started reading the series, on book 1 still. So far kinda boring. However I now know where like 1/3rd of the people I knew in EQ and WoW got their names.

Sony should just purchase the rights toDawnand finally finish/publish it. I've been waiting almost 11 years for my fetus-catapult.

Sewage just builds but because nobody goes outside, nobody gives a shit. You just occasionally bulldoze buildings to make room for more high density residential and it takes care of most things.

My favorite bug is if you destroy your entire city to start over you have to shut off all your services first, make sure you aren't supplying power/water/sewage to anyone else, etc... If you just start blowing shit up you can end up with a negative budget even with a completely blank screen...

Divinity 2 is worth 15~20 bucks. Pretty easy game but fun nonetheless.

That thread made me sterile. Thanks Ixian.

Goes to show just how inbred the industry is. Add Brad McQuaid and John Romero and you have almost the complete list of Video Games one hit wonders.

To be fair, almost if not all games these days fall under this stipulation. I honestly can't remember the last time I said, "Fuck this is hard" in a game aside from doing achievements or artificially challenging myself. It's not necessarily a bad thing mind you. I've already started trying to...