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I just skipped through the video but Holy crap, the scene with Gollum had a really strong "Old Greg" vibe going on there. And Smaug reminded me of triumph the insult comic dog.

Big long rambling rant about MMO's ... GO! MMO's need to stop looking to single player games to determine what mechanic, or character advancement model to steal next. A single player game will always provide the superior gaming experience for an individual. From detailed story lines, to...

Bulgaria... I actually have a friend who has lots of contacts in Bulgaria, never been there myself though. The hospitals I hear are more than a little scary.

Ug, had the most annoying experience just now. Get to the end of the pyramid on cruel difficulty and the framerate just shit the bed. 5-7 frames per second. I wasn't about to log and clear through the whole dungeon again so I went ahead and fought Vaal. And racked up 8 deaths in the process...

My duelist is a life leach and life regen build that uses blood magic. So I have been finishing all of the boss fight so far without travelling back to town. But yeah bosses and mini bosses can sometimes take a bit out of my flasks. I use warlord's mark and that increases flask recovery rate as...

The loot system is a hair better than Diablo II group loot =) I think they must have this idea that they want the loot experience to reflect the setting; a bunch of dirty outcasts scrounging around for whatever they can get their grubby mits on. Which is exactly what I have seen with the few...

So I am making my way through cruel on my Duelist. I hardly have any damage modifiers, it's all been setting up defenses at this point. I decided to go the Iron Reflexes Unwavering Stance route and stick with dual wield rapiers. Cleave + life gain on hit is pretty awesome for dealing with...

If you want to see what star wars is like without Lucas being in complete control, look at the first three movies.

My outfit's commander decided to get pretty drunk the other night. He had this amazing plan to take over Indar, and when that failed, he ordered everyone to Esamir to ghost cap an empty continent. In his words "we have no shance of taking Indar". We were running like 4 platoons, of really...

So I have been going back and forth between dual wield or sword and board with my duelist. Dual wield gives a nice bump to dps but there are moments when I take a big chunk of damage. Thisis my build so far. I wasn't going to go for Iron Reflexes and Unwavering stance at first, but now I...

So the build I decided to go with is a dual rapier duelist build. The selection of skills are as follows: Defense: +Health %, Life Regen, % Life Leach, and Life on Hit will be the primary method of dealing with damage. The goal is to get the health pool large enough through passives and gear...

The community in EQ came about largely through necessity. You needed to talk to other players in order to progress for the most part. Soloing was not completely viable in many spots without being a specific class or out gearing the area. The reason people spoke to one another is because that...

Because Vanilla WoW really let people know that by picking a paladin they were going to be expected to heal the main tank and be a blessing bot if they decided to raid. Sure there were exceptions but they were definitely not the rule. It took a long time and a few expansions for some classes to...

Lithose mentioned earning respec points. Sort of like earning AA points in eq. You earn respec points to adjust how your character developed. It takes time to get your character to exactly where you want them to be, but that's a good thing. I think applying that to a stat system would be just...

I partially agree with you and your developer friend. But only so far as this: You should never ask the player to make a decision, that can not be undone, that they have not received ample information about. So when you ask a 15 second old character to decide what Race, Class, Faction combo...

Anyways, as a final note, I don't expect any of my ideas to make it into EQNext. I expect it to be a micro-transaction hell of sorts to be quite honest. I am simply spewing my thoughts on this forum for the hell of it really. Helps me realize what I would try to create if I decided to pull a...

The best exp will always be a dug in fight. Just flipping bases doesn't come close to a slug fest. That being said the majority of my time in PS2 is spent hoping for a good fight and not actually getting them. I follow my outfit and obey orders, which usually involves heading to the next...

Item Power I have never really liked stats on gear. Having a sword infuse it's wielder with strength or agility seems like a lazy way of extending the level cap. I like items that have unique properties and special powers beyond what anyone would be able to achieve normally. (night vision on a...

I started playing this again recently after taking most of December and January off. I am noticing a lot fewer people playing, at least on Mattherson. How is everyone else's servers doing? Also I plunked Buzzcutpsycho in the head pretty good. Fucker didn't die though, just ducked into a...

My stance is that the segregation of pvp and pve is most of the problem right there. There is no game I can think of that has really merged the two. They have been concurrent but they have not really fed into each other at all. Eve somewhat accomplished this with the economy there heavily...

90% of players are PvE because most PvP that gets implemented is shitty. Developers should in fact be focusing MORE on making good pvp mechanics. Like it was said, a decent PvP system provides way more content than any PvE expansion could hope to accomplish.

See that's what I don't get. How these games get produced WITH major balance issues shipped at release. WTF are they doing that's so important that the core mechanics of the game are untested and not quite cooked. It's like the online delivery method has allowed all of these companies to simply...

P should come before E Another method to implement pvp and pve with the same rule sets is to simply balance pvp FIRST; then adjust monster hp, armor stats and behavior to player power. Over simplified example: Instead of a player doing 1000 damage with a fire ball spell to some creature...

It's not a matter of just turning a feature off. Taking a game that was designed around the use of mini map and then simply removing it will result in a very shitty experience. There will be next to no contextual clues as to what is what, as it all relies on the mini map. However, a game...

I think the article was a good look at why there is so little innovation coming from the large publishers. The article was actually in regards to the social games industry and not gaming as a whole. It's a matter of understanding. The individuals who are a part of the decision making process...

I guess not a lot of people play on Elite anymore? Used to be a fair number of games when it first launched. Had some people act all surprised when they joined my game and kept dying. I am playing an EmbergineerT so that's halfway to cheating right there. Although those early levels were a real...

No. I am making a distinction between why people were migrating away from EQ and why people are game hoping today. Grim1 was saying that in the current market people just hop from game to game with only small groups of players staying put for any length of time. He said that this is the market...

Eq's mini monopoly of the genre early on really doesn't have anything to do with the hopping around we see today. People are not leaving for superior games or better anything at this point. People are leaving because they are sick of the same old same old. They go to try something new, and most...

I think the issue between FTP and sub models is simply that a FTP model is constantly reminding the player why they are playing the game, to make some company money. A sub model, you can put the money you paid out of your mind and just play the game for the most part. FTP is constantly tearing...

What I am saying is this: When a Point of Interest/ Waypoint style navigation system is employed, it creates a barrier between players and the exploration of the game world. A player has to consciously decide to ignore that hovering icon, beam of light, arrow, highlighted path or other giant...

A game that has a mini map with objective markers and highlighted routes is essentially telling the player, "Hey look, I know you don't give a shit about finding your own way, so here you go." Now this can be good or bad depending on the game. If there is absolutely nothing to find or...

Well I will let you know what I am NOT doing, I am not fucking telling anybody. If I win the lottery, then that's for me and my accountant's and lawyers and brokers to know. I wouldn't get too extravagant but I would live comfortably. Buy my mom the house she's always wanted. Buy some nice...

It stinks!

Like it was stated earlier, early EQ had very basic combat mechanics, but the margins for error were smaller than today's games. And when you failed, which was sure to happen, it took much longer to pick up the pieces. That makes things more difficult as a whole. Every group was essentially...

REWARD MECHANICS FOR PVP The difficulty of creating interesting creature AI is the primary reason I think pvp should play a much more central role in the game experience. Competing players will create those very complex moments (for free) that otherwise take months to develop. The trick...

First, a response... My post did contain more than just the two words 'Open PvP'. I specifically addressed ganking and stated that there needed to be some limitations in order to incubate new players. And now for a some ranting... Anyways, PvE is what has been done to death at this...

There is a core factor to MMO's that a lot of people have been soured against due to bad design. That factor is this: Open PvP motivates community development better than any other element. You can have a community spawn out of things as minor as hard to find creatures, or people sharing...

My friends up in northern New Hampshire would drink this stuff on occasion. This was back in 2007 though... so right around the time Sutekh was trying like a bastard to grow some hair. Most flavored alcohol that has a spicy kick to it just ends up tasting like cough syrup to me though, so I am...

The development started out as a desire to create a fully realized sandbox, as most sandboxes end up making large concessions to appease, whoever. Most of the talent was volunteer based and this was just a side project or hobby for the team. I mean the project lead still has a day job setting up...

I remember seeing a video where some guy went into great detail about cancelling his Verizon contract on a technicality that just about anyone could claim. Something to do with a variable federal fee and how it violated the clause that required all increases in monthly fee's to be announced to...