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Just to get the record straight, Brad wasn't nerfing much of anything post-release in VG. There was plenty of nerfing, but it wasn't Brad holding the bat 99% of the time.

I didn't have an issue with chunking in the original game tbh. It was just a pause for a few seconds- no worse than zoning in EQ. Actually, a little less onerous even.

Yeah, like I said in a previous post, the pathing, spawn times, aggro radius, social aggro radius, etc, were all really really well done and fine-tuned with EQ. It made encounters challenging but fun because a skilled puller or CC player could simply do outlandish shit that 90% of the rest of...

EQ combat could definitely be fun. Not too much fun about hitting auto attack, but the nuances to pulling, CC, off tanking, controlling aggro, etc. made encounters interesting. Strats like fear-kiting, root and rot, dot stacking, charm kiting, etc At the end of the day, I really enjoyed...

Well I just bought that shit. $18 is 2 drinks and a tip downtown, so it's pretty fucking cheap. And yeah, I don't mind waiting for them to flesh it out if the wait is fun. Anyone who was there for early EQ remembers the hundreds of change/improvements that happened the first year or two. And...

My bad, I was thinking of single player fantasy games, actually. Those countries have some decent titles, but none of the titles I am thinking of are mmos. Hell, I can only think of a handful of successful mmos in the world when it comes down to it. Watched a gameplay vid from a recent...

Hey man, zhe Germans have a decent track record for fantasy mmos. So do some of the Nordic countries. I think.

Gameplay looks similar to a multiplayer Mount and Blade (minus the mounts). Looks fun. Edit: Meh, "free to play." The FAQ concerning their pay structure is dodgy as fuck. Just waiting to see the words "cash shop."

Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending ponderous development cycles and bloated budgets. If the genre wants to survive it needs to learn how to do more with less and much faster. CF seems to be a good example of that so far. I'm just saying that historically mmos take forever and cost a...

Picking CF as your MMO timetable example is picking the exception rather than the rule, for sure.

Three years isn't a huge amount of time for an MMO. When you consider how many starts, stops, and resets this ip has undergone their progress isn't bad. Granted, Unity is a big part of what has helped with the rapid progress once they started moving in the right direction, but I can't begrudge...

New characters and animations (and sounds-- they definitely need more combat sounds) will make a big difference assuming they do a significant overhaul, as they have indicated they will.

Oh I don't know. You could pull some armies in EQ pretty easily. But if you are saying EQ was just tuned a little better than VG as far as aggro radius/pathing/linking then I agree. There is a lot of shit they will need to fine tune to get that "EQ feel" correct because EQ did some of those...

So... I suppose the main point of the demo was to display basic mechanics, like aggro, grouping, pulling, combat, etc. I guess in this regard they seem to have a pretty decent spiritual successor to EQ. Who knows what it feels like to actually play the game, but on the surface they pretty much...

Same, should be interesting to see the changes from the last live stream. I feel like you can't tell a lot about how the game feels to play from watching someone else- I watched my room mate play EQ for a couple weeks back in 99 before he convinced me to load it up. Simply watching him play...

Enderal, a full conversion of Skyrim by SureAI, the same guys who did Nehrim (the full Oblivion conversion) is dropping very soon (next month I think) in Europe and will follow in US after. I've been waiting years for this one. Ironically, I never played Nehrim, but it got amazing reviews...

Only saw the first episode but liked it way more than I thought I would. They did a decent job (so far) of keeping true to the spirit of the original. I can't take most kids cartoons these days and I don't like most reboots so I'm surprised. Not sure why so much criticism. Maybe it's...

One hell of a cast of characters. I think I can name every one without effort. The show definitely burned an imprint on my brain.

From the brief descrip it sounds like a reskin of the EQ Shaman- which I imagine would make most people happy. Heals, stat buffs, chain and leather, spears and blunt weapons, slows... Pretty much an EQ shaman.

Thanks. Was working myself up to post pretty much the same thing but you saved me the trouble. Previous to this season the show was a reasonably decent rendition of the books. Now it's turned into a high production quality fan fic. They need new writers fast. Or they need to fire whatever...

Holy crap- I thought that was the second to last episode until I checked this thread. Terrible finale. They put a mostly filler episode in for the last episode of the season... I remember when season finales left you on the edge of your seat waiting for the next season to start. These days...

Right, which is the main reason I don't like the fake blood scenario. There are a million ways the waif could have killed her without gut-stabbing her. Arya banking on that particular way and then being lucky enough to be right is technically possible, but kind of meh. I'll also throw in how...

Either way, it's not a great scenario. If it's fake blood I agree it's weak and implausible because of the flaws I (and others) mentioned. If it's not fake blood, well she's a dumbass for wandering around openly after she failed JH...

I actually like the pigs blood theory. It's clever and it makes Arya seem less incompetent for being able to be found and stabbed so easily. It seems like a pretty legit ploy- especially in light of the connection with the actress who has pigs blood as a prop. That said, what I really DON'T...

Agree she is screwed without magic. I don't think she would seek out Jaquen, but he could always find her. Who knows? As Paranoia pointed out, Jaquen has pretty much told Arya that she was out of chances. Still, the Waif's actions could have mitigated things. Jaquen said that there would be...

This is what I was thinking. Waif was instructed to make Arya's death quick/painless and instead gives her a slow gut-stab death. JH decides the Waif needs to go and heals Arya (which clearly he could do).

Aaaaaaaand that's why I always wait a week or two...

Perestroika didn't really take hold until 87-88. Up until then, things were still pretty solid on the Cold War front. I'm pretty sure the current season is 83. So unless the series skips a couple years over the next two seasons (which is possible) we won't see the USSR truly fall apart in the...

Yeah, put me in for the "this sounds like a terrible idea" as far as a new crew/ship every season. TNG would have sucked if they had ditched JLP and crew after just one season. Part of the Star Trek allure is the sentiment that gets built for the characters over time.

Most complaints sound pretty fixable with a little tuning. This might be the first mmo I buy in recent memory. Still going to wait a week or two because I'm a natural skepticAlso it will give them time to fix the most egregious stuff.

Bottom line is that novelty shit like climate stuff won't mean anything if the basic game isn't fun (like lots of people are saying). On the other hand, they need innovative features too. They have to have examples for the question "what makes Pantheon different from other mmos?" So...

So after a ton of research/experimentation/trial and error, I found something that works for me. I've been doing it for almost a full year successfully now. Post is going to be long as fuck, but I figured I would share it (since that what the thread is about). A few things: 1. I don't...

I'm sure someone, somewhere has done up a pretty good history/timeline of Martin's world that goes into detail about this stuff. If anyone has a link, share it pls

Edit: Never mind. That's what I get for not checking the last page before posting.

Please, you were in the Better Call Saul thread. You know damn well what kind of crowd this is.

I've got another theory. I think Martin got distracted with other storylines and put the wights on the back burner. He started the books with the intent on making the White Walkers a big part of the series, but then found out he liked writing about other stuff more. Let's face it-- the...

Right. I've never heard anyone claim Tolkien had anything to do with design intricacies of mmos. But that's a totally different claim than crediting him as the the primary driving force for what our general understanding of what medieval-fantasy worlds are today.

Interesting. Had never heard of Kalevala before, thanks for the reference. It's really clear how much it influenced Tolkien's Silmarillion. That said, I'm talking specifically about the whole paradigm Tolkien created with Middle Earth-- not just his creation story. The whole idea of elves...

Looks like I'm going to have to reevaluate my entire life up to this point. Here I was thinking I was a pretty decent chanter, just to find out I owe a lot of clerics, druids, and shamans an apology.

No need to reinvent the wheel. WoW was influenced by EQ, EQ was influenced by Meridian 59, Meridian 59 was influenced by text-based MUDs (among other things), MUDS were influenced by pnp DnD, pnp DnD was influenced by the world that Tolkien created. Tolkien... well, I think you could argue he...