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Let"s not start this argument again or we"ll have 20 pages of anecdotal stories about how awesome you felt after losing 2 levels breaking into hate and I can tell stories about how awesome I felt having more then 50% of my deaths in EverQuest being linkdeath related. We have 3 other EQ threads...

People complained about the weirdest shit during the VG beta as well. I remember a long thread about someone crying because mounts were just a buff with a graphic and that made them meaningless. And I sat there thinking, "Well...technically aren"t swords and armor just a buff with a graphic...

Haha. God, never in my life again shall I witness the glory of the VG beta boards. You know what I -really- hate about Beta"s though? Beta hippies. You know the types. "We should just be happy they"ve chosen us to test their game!" and "HELLO BETA PEEPS! *HUGS*" and "It"s such an honor to be...

All you did Tad was make a skill based system instead of class based. It didn"t really add anything. All you"re doing is taking grinding on mobs to level with getting new skills as a byproduct with grinding mobs to get skills with levels as a byproduct. As for your, "What does it add?"...

The original intentions of the public beta were unrealistic to begin with. On top of that, I don"t think many companies are prepared to deal with what data they get from it. At least in a meaningful timeframe to the playerbase which is why, well, yeah, you need your shit in place before you ever...

I had to cook my own breakfast this morning, so you"re obviously not doing the best you can. Not once, not -once- have I opened up my mail to find a care package from you with cookies in it. I"m deeply wounded. After all we"ve been through, with me passively aggressively antagonizing Millie...

Beta is fine, when it"s used as an actual beta. The problem is that far too many companies, especially MMO companies, have been using beta as an alpha phase and then the first 3 months of release are the actual beta.

I think it"s evolved pretty much as far as it"s going to in an action-rpg. It"s just a matter of how limited you go. Whether it"s EQ where you select 8 out of 30ish unique abilities or WoW where you have your default 40ish abilities but only use 8 anyways and then can get 2~5 more based on...

/BradMcQuaid It"s going really good, we"re really excited about the things we"ve got going on, we think you"ll love them as well. It"s pretty awesome. We"ve got a really great team pumping out some really amazing stuff here. /endBradMcQuaid That"ll about wrap up all you"ll hear from...

I know, right? I mean fuck, fully clearing Hearthglen 3 fucking years ago solo was a chore that only the mighty like myself could achieve but never in any of my wildest dreams would I imagine anyone would be able to beat Felstone Field. Wise men told tales of deep in the legends of myth and...

Ass kisser. I do enjoy when I read Penny Arcade and you"ll have people whining about games being released before they"re ready and the same people will also bitch when a game gets delayed because it isn"t ready for release yet. Anyways... Pro-tip, when you"re nearing the end of your...

Well, if you completely seperate love from sex and instead reread his arguments replacing sexual activity with something like playing co-op video games...then it just makes him a liar and her a crazy bitch for demanding that he only play co-op video games with her. And a certain someone a...

I think I like his logic. Gonna apply it to the rest of my life actually. 100% of people who annoy me are going to die anyways, so I might as well get a jumpstart on it. Why risk them living forever? Have you ever seen perfectly healthy people drop dead only a few days later? Think about that.

It sounds like you were more in love with the perks and benefits of job A then anything having to do with the actual scheduling. Don"t get me wrong, I"m not a big fan of draconian time schedules but your post came out a little slanted there. It"ll be mostly anecdotal either way anyways...

Just so long as he learned his lesson and this time when he kills off a character, they -stay- dead. Fuck you Wulfgar. Fuck you.

Yeah, but what good is being God on a board full of athiests. 8(

Because some people also enjoy grinding AA"s for 8 hours a day to get a 1% bump in dps. Why? Because fuck those people. That"s why. Alternative post: Because that would defeat the point? If you"re looking to remove targeted heals, which was the point of my post....you can"t achieve...

You mean like cure disease, cure poison and dispel magic? It"s gonna be whack-a-mole regardless. Your best bet is to just move away from healing altogether. The best heals are the ones you don"t have to manage/babysit. You want to know my favorite heal as a paladin? Judgement of Light. I...

Eh, as much as I advocate removing healing in the traditional sense (I believe it would make far more sense for support characters to be designed around preventing damage, not restoring players after it"s done)....it wouldn"t change much in terms of game mechanics. We"d be trading Brutallis...

Eh, the biggest problem we"re facing is that it"s not for a lack of ideas the discussion isn"t moving forward, it"s simply the lack of technology. And even that particular discussion route we"ve been down before and it ends with the extinction of the human race. I think it was even covered in a...

While I too would like to see their return, we do have a habit of just figuring out how much dps it adds and then going from there. The only classes that are even remotely interesting to model in this regard are tanks (though modern EH calculations kinda fucked that up) and healers...and with...

I"m not a big fan of badge/point systems in lieu of an actual solid looting system. You can make them make more sense from a roleplay standpoint such as identifying/repairing a magic item and whatnot. But if you"re going to go that far, why shit it up at all? I know that some people enjoy the...

It"s mostly about finding a happy medium. The game itself should be challenging and fun enough that the reward is more of a key to unlock the next tier of content. Shitty analogies are shitty, but pulling a lever isn"t very fun. The only way to make it fun is that you have a 1 in a million...

Terrible analogies are terrible. Because when I play Monopoly and I land on boardwalk and pay 400 dollars, we don"t shuffle the deck and then randomly hand out a property. When I land on chance I know I"m not going to draw a card that says "Hit your opponent in the face." And Tad...do you...

You know you"re right. But there isn"t enough risk involved. There should be a roughly 7.5% chance when you bend over to loot him, he deletes your character. That way you random to see who has to check the loot instead of everybody diving for it at once. Knowing that nothing bad can happen when...

As for shit to do between raids, there"s tons of idea"s. Housing is a -huge- fucking timesink. Designing/redesigning my base in CoH easily chews up hours a week. PvP is a no-brainer. Release new maps on a far more regular basis and WoW wouldn"t be in the dire straights it is. An in game...

Grave...use your head. First off, you"re terrible at Math. Second, design around the design. For simplicities sake, let"s take the last boss and give him 3 BiS items for each class. He drops 3 items. A raid of 25 people will not be done with the content for...dun dun da dun...25 weeks. And...

I agree, to a point. CoH is boring for other reasons. The itemization system isn"t terrible. Plus you don"t have to fucking right click on corpses. Glee! But yeah. I"ve posted at length about it before (my rant against random loot -> ), but all you really need to do is allow players to...

Pretty much every guild on the planet uses both now. It"s just a matter of how transparent the DKP part of it is.

NPC"s being smart enough to go after the softest targets only really works in games where you can protect said targets. To use the team fortress analogy, most people -do- go after the medic first but I can always stand behind the guy I"m healing or hide out of sight, stuff like that. In most...

Well...as I said, mostly instant casts excepting for the occasional channeled spell.

If you want it to be particular to that spells mechanic, sure why not. I actually suggested that as a deep holy paladin talent back when we got our shit pushed in because our cast time heals were pretty much worthless in PvP. But cast times are simply...well...not really fun anymore. The...

I"d go with entirely instant casts for 99% of combat abilities minus any that you want channeled. Personally I enjoy instant cast spells more. You"re already pretty much relegated to use only them in pvp as well. Much more conducive to the influx of movement orientated fights as well. When I"m...

Seconded. The instances, the few that there were, were -really- well put together. Barrow Downs has got to be one of my favorite dungeons in any game ever. It"s just a shame it was encased in an otherwise lackluster game. How some quests would take you to special instances of normal open world...

WoW"s pvp wouldn"t be terrible if A) They abandoned Arena"s And B) They created a new map every month or so. 10 years later I"d cut myself if the only CS maps still available were dust and office. I still -play- those maps, but the option to play orange, all the surf maps, the zombie...

tl;dr version: Any unbroken fight will be beaten in a single night and dubbed "ez" no matter how challenging you make it. Gimmicks that keep you on the move retain some of their value over the long haul, gimmicks that rely on you sitting on your ass for 10 minutes waiting for a boss pop while...

I actually played that game if that"s what he"s talking about and basically all you do is draw art assets for objects that are pretty much pre-defined. Collision detection and all that is pre-determined. You can"t draw a gun that shoots swords for example. It"s neat, don"t get me wrong. But...

Well...isn"t that how it is now? 20 attacks at my command yet all I seem to do is mash the shit out of Force Lightning because nothing else does nearly as much damage in KOTOR. Did anybody honestly use any attack other then flying swallow for the rest of Ninja Gaiden once they realized that an...

I kept praying during Hyjal runs that Blizzard would implement an option to allow us to trigger 4+ waves at a time. Waiting 30 minutes through mind numbingly boring trash for our epix after the 10th+ run was just....god I have nightmares. Anyways... Right Caliane, but anything you tell it...

So you actually enjoyed M"uru? 8/ I"m talking raid level by the by. Solo/group level dynamics are a completely different beast.