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i think you guys are reading (and writing) far too fucking much into this. it's not really a hard concept: make a game that is challenging yet fun, and people will play it. you don't need to go all "john nash" on this thread and break down the basics of human interaction. the crux of the issue...

/sigh they kind of had me until they mentioned maps with a compass, lots of quests, and doesn't seem to be first person POV. "you're not competing against others for resources." ummm, why the fuck not? what's the point of pvp if you're not competing for anything? "questing in ESO is built...

when george lucas made "star wars" almost everyone in hollywood thought it was going to be a colossal flop. no movie had been made that was anything like it, no other movie had been so ambitious so obviously it was going to fail, right? i mean, why try anything new when you're 100% sure no one...

and yet that is exactly what EQ achieved over 10 years ago: making people care about the characters they created. i can tell you literally over a thousand different memories i have from playing EQ with my character, i can still name just about every item i had equipped, i can tell you the names...

i'm starting to think that del toro may be the next M. night shyamalan: make one truly classic movie, and then just shit out a bunch of garbage afterwards. pan's labyrinth is my all time favorite movie, but his track record following that movie has been pretty disappointing.

i said it before, and i know he's old now, but i don't see any reason why ian holm couldn't have played bilbo in "the hobbit." ian's just a better actor and well, he is bilbo after all.

second, only behind johnny depp.

exactly this. just have pvp servers and there is no problem. people that want a pure PVE experience get what they want, and those who like to PVP get what they want. yes, it probably won't be totally balanced, but then again, name me a game that is? i just feel that trying to make a game that is...

i played a wiz from day 1 as well. it was hard for wizards to get groups initially because our spell damage was weak compared to our med time (if you unleashed on 1 or 2 mobs, you spent the next 5+ minutes medding in a corner). a spell like ice comet took forever to cast, was resisted too many...

so it's impossible to make EQ with modern graphics? that's what you're telling us?

i beta tested VG from the beginning, and the fact of the matter is brad flat out lied about the game, about the company, and about the state that the game was in when it was released. hell, he didn't even have the balls to tell his employees that they were fired; they just had some suits meet...

over the course of the past 5 years, the only 2 movies that have won best picture that i have agreed with were "the artist" last year and "the king's speech" the year before. other than that, it's been pretty awful. "the hurt locker" winning best picture was terrible, especially over "a serious...

so you have fond memories of EQ and you miss old school pulling, open world dungeon crawls, old school enchanters, etc... but anyone who wants a newer version of EQ with those things implemented is an old EQ basement dweller? you really are a douche nozzle.

everyone nowadays gets off on trashing EQ, yet to this day there are a lot of things that EQ got right over a decade ago that no game since has even come close to doing. namely: classes, loot, dungeons, travel, class interdependence, social interaction and even quests (that's right, cause in EQ...

if you played a game that you didn't like for 4 years (or like rezz said 350 days played) just because there were no other options then you're either: A) a liar- and you actually loved playing the game and don't want to admit it. or B) absolutely the biggest god damn mother fucking retard...

exactly this. grim's rant, in a nutshell, is a perfect example of why they're called the ADD generation. they're like fucking goldfish. "wha? something can hold my attention for more than 30 minutes? no fucking way!"

up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start!

uh, hello. my entire point is that this was the point of the book. the book was not meant to be funny. everyone keeps saying "it's a kids book" over and over as if "the hobbit" is supposed to be on the same level as "goodnight moon." i put "the hobbit" as a kids book about at the same level as...

exactly. you don't have to have humans on screen to give them human qualities and have people empathize with them. take "WALL-E" for example. the movie essentially is about 2 robots in love, but since they are given human traits, it totally works and is a great film. the problem with "the...

i saw "silver linings playbook" and i live in philadelphia and i thought the movie was mediocre at best. "zero dark thirty" i thought was boring as fuck and overall pretty shitty. again, can't believe this is a nominated movie. the only movie i saw this year that i really thought was oscar...

this thread has gone from suck to blow...

you're jerking off to a movie that's essentially "avatar" meets the power rangers and you're calling me gay?

Invited to meet Peter Jackson, the Tolkien family preferred not to. Why? "They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25," Christopher says regretfully. "And it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film." This divorce has been systematically...

all i read was transformers, transformers, transformers. which equates to shit, shit and more shit.

seriously, i think some of you guys are fucked in the head. this looks dumb as shit, and i fucking love del toro. think del toro is going to go the way of james cameron: make fucking brilliant movies when you're young and still believe in things like plot, dialogue and character development...

saw it again tonight with a friend who hadn't seen it yet. honestly, my opinion of the movie has changed somewhat. i kinda agree with you, fyro. they really made the movie too kiddie and it would have been markedly better if done in a more serious and adult tone like the LOTR was. watching it a...

think they would maybe just offer one server that was monthly sub only with no station cash? cause otherwise, i honestly can't see myself playing EQN.

i water boarded your mom last night. she orgasmed...

ba-zing!

i've read the hobbit 6 times in my life. my point isn't that there wasn't singing and some humor in the book, my point is that the humor wasn't there in the book when they were in danger. the danger in the book felt real and prevalent, especially when they were trying to escape from the goblins...

after 5+ years i'd sacrifice a virgin just to see a few screenshots or get some solid info on the game.

i know this has been discussed to death as well, but i absolutely would rather pay a monthly sub and play the game i want and have full access to it than the pay to play model. even free to play with micro transactions is something i hate because eventually they will add more and more pay to win...

there was no humor in the hobbit at all, not at any point when they were in actual danger. there was singing, but that didn't make it humorous. the fact is, when i read the hobbit, i felt true fear for all the characters involved every time they got into a jam. the meeting with the trolls or the...

jesus christ. talk about having sand in your vagina...

i really think the only big negative to the movie was the light hearted comedy that was haphazardly thrown into the film for some unknown reason. i really don't see why it was put in there, as it definitely detracted from the movie at several points, the biggest being when they are captured by...

i never said that the actual means to get the rare items in EQ was some great implementation, only that the fact that they existed made people want to keep playing the game. it's no different than going to a casino. you keep playing repeatedly, hoping for the big payoff. if you look at it from a...

no where in my post did i say that the skill needed to obtain said items was inherently difficult; only that obtaining them was because it took time. they didn't spawn every two minutes for everyone in the game to get. they spawned very rarely, and even when they did spawn, there was no...

couldn't disagree more. i think PvP is what is ruining MMO's. open world pvp leads to nothing more than gankfests and annoys such a large population of a gaming community, that most wind up quitting because being ganged up on and killed every few minutes is the absolute antithesis of fun. one of...

wrong. the loot model is the reason WoW doesn't work. it is the complete opposite of EQ. in EQ, loot was extremely difficult to obtain. a lot of the items were extremely rare and took a very long time to accumulate. in WoW, most of the loot is handed to you on a silver platter just for logging...

i honestly don't understand what's wrong with that. what's wrong with core loot gameplay? the loot, and the extreme rarity of a lot of the loot, is what kept people playing EQ for all those years. it was the carrot which really drove the game. i think the mistake just about every game has made...