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Hrm, look like it sort of stabalized it's descent then. I was referencing this deal from Mmorpgchart.com " EverQuest (Accuracy Rating: B) Launched on March 16, 1999, EQ's figures pretty much speak for themselves. At one point their growth seemed nearly unstoppable, but the trend began to...

Man, talk about giving the game away. Klay with two 3 attempts in a row is just bad odds for them, and they were -exactly- down by three. That's the perfect time to cover the crap out of both Curry and Thompson so they don't do exactly what happened.

Eh, I think the 200k number was from 2005. They lost players pretty quickly after WoW's release in Nov. 2004. Also, EQ2 had also come out in 2004. They were definitely still making money, but I wouldn't guess they had millions extra to spend on art assets etc. But yeah, one guy doing the...

Yeah Luclin had some pretty shit zones. Whole expac including the models were terrible. Especially when they took the super stylized original models and tried to make them more "realistic" looking, resulting in some serious Pedo-gnome/asslings and the abominations that were the...

Yeah, the shit after Quarm was just... great. And definitely one of the lowest points during the first few Xpacs. Hence my "to an extent" addendum!

Nothing like all your armor looking like complete corroded shit no matter how high level you were! Then the koreans came and fixed stuff so it didn't look like complete shit. I like the art style in Wildstar, it's the mechanic design decisions that I wasn't a fan of.

Stray Dogs, Kabeneri, Endride and Cerberus look interesting.

I played off and on up through Depths. Up until that point, Velious and (to some extent) PoP were the best overall expansion lore stories. DoN at least had some cool stuff going for it with dragons everywhere. But Luclin, LDoN, LoY, GoD/OoW were pretty rough to terrible. Kunark and Vanilla...

Can confirm. I had a partially remembered dream last night where I was creating a nerve center in my city with nothing but research buildings powered by solar panels and conveyors strictly feeding them the "Science" bottles. Because I definitely need to do that in my current session, as I have...

Aside from the pandas, those were all present in previous iterations of Warcraft lore. The discordians came out of nowhere; the moon came (mostly) out of nowhere. The finding a new continent thing is a way to expand and it's ok, but even Chen Stormstout was hinted at previously in WC3 and the...

Yeah that was terrible. Still hoping that this is pretty awesome, since Preacher is one of my favorite runs. But those two tools shouldn't be reviewing anything professionally hah.

Helluva episode from last week for Rakugo. Can't wait for the upcoming one. Grimgar went out on a high note, as did Gate and Erased. Konosuba was entertaining throughout, if a little ecchi-themed. Pretty decent season overall, really.

Crazy ass addicting game. Took me a minute to realize that my steam power plant was showing up as powerless in that I had nothing using electricity near it vs. it not actually having power. Kept leading lines of pipes with heaters towards it hoping it would "power up." Really digging it...

Just wanted to say that's cool as shit. I'd see if you could donate it, like others have said, to a school/church/library. Even if it starts falling apart, that's just a badass project period and would be neat to see out in the wild.

I'd like to see something similar, though I think the scope of a project like that would be kind of difficult. Unless it was reeeally barebones type stuff, with one zone, one server, browser based etc, because getting people to test your ideas is hard without them logging in. It'd most likely...

There was probably a decent amount of programmer churn over the years, and if they didn't have some rock solid documentation going into it (as well as not having spaghetti code to start off with) it's pretty easy to see why they might have had issues as time went along. Not sure if that says...

Eh, I'm a lore whore so I pay really close attention. It feels much less like a "world" and more like a "game" when you just randomly incorporate "Oh we found another continent randomly!" or "invaders from another dimension, sort of!" or "And then we went to the moon!" Those types of pre-quest...

Largely depends on the nature of the girl. Some create a lot of lubrication, others not so much. And it isn't even really dependent on how aroused they are. Some chicks are just absolute fluid factories when they get a peck on the cheek, and others could be slamming themselves with a fake...

I think you might be in for a wait looking for AAA games for the VR crowd, at least for the immediate future. Adoption rate isn't going to be silly high ($600 usd entry level) and that isn't including having a medium high/high end PC by modern standards to make use of it. If there -are- AAA...

Let me rephrase: Post Velious Lore/storyline is crap. Almost anything that is not-crap would be better, in my opinion. I'm sure the story-guys who were in charge of creating lore for the crap past Velious worked really hard and spent a lot of time making their crap, but it doesn't make it...

EQ:N fired shots across the bow (namely, Kerrans and no Innoruuk) early in the media process, and it just soured a lot of people's perceptions. Then they had dark elves with horns (TERA already has Castantic hedonists, copycats =/) and the ogres were Mongolian looking and after that it was...

Yeah, a -lot- of the retarded stuff could be trimmed. Namely anything involving the moon or the Discordians. The time warp stuff with Zebuxoruk wasn't horrific, but it wasn't great either. Especially with Druzzil Ro (represent!) showing up to just make it all a wash. Problem is, the "bad"...

Just going to toss this out there, but if their innovative design decisions and encompassing story aspects aren't enough for a company I haven't heard two shits about to keep afloat, how are they planning to move forward besides as a hobby? And a hobby that has literally cost people hundreds of...

I think there's a lot that can be done with the EQ IP. I just don't think destructible environments nor some unproven (and eventually failed) dynamic AI quest base were the right direction. Even if this gets picked up by a company that might do it up right, we're looking at 3+ years before we...

Especially at 1080p resolution. It looks nice but not -that- nice.

Shocked. Completely shocked. Also lulz at Lethality blowing up all over the comments on the massivelyop linked post as well. There wasn't a game yet, just a lot of ideas and some assets. Even Copernicus was further along than that.

Yeah no helmets forever. Then their first pass was pretty abysmal, if I remember right.

I'm sort of in the basket that says this isn't really "AI" so much as it is an excellent interpreter that views aggregate data before creating a response in regards to that aggregate data. Probably a bit nitpicky, but the AI isn't going "I'm being racist by saying racist shit! Lol I troll...

Nino, I believe, was the musician who did a lot of Vanguard's music. Healhammer or something similar; I feel like I remember him being a cleric in EQ. Anyway, yeah, Vanguard had pretty stellar music. Healers in general (not sure if Shaman was a healer or not, I just remember...

PC or Bust. My beast embarrasses my PS4 spec wise, so I will just have to wait patiently for the good stuff. Still sad that I had to do Bloodborne console style; Sony got a PS4 purchase out of me before FF15 release~

That's basically the whole enchilada. People buy Nintendo consoles to play Nintendo games. They certainly aren't objectively going (as an audience) "man I can't wait for X developer to release their Wii U exclusive!" as a reason to purchase the system. It's almost 100% for the...

Hah, having to set up the planned disband was hilarious for groups, because you -knew- there were going to be problems. I had totally forgotten that until you guys brought it up. Goddamn this game was a mess at release. A lot of good ideas marred by absolutely turd-tastic execution.

Man, tell me this is the story of Dark Souls' prequel:

Steven Seagal movies. Like, any of them. I can legitimately enjoy Van Damme's crappier films, but Seagal (outside of the Under Siege movies) just makes hilariously bad movies that make me happy are being made. Glimmerman is legendary, and any movie where he's partnered with some random rapper...

Nintendo is hellbent on creating stupid gimmicks for their systems. The 3ds comes to mind immediately, because literally every person I know who owns one turned the slider for 3d down to none and has left it there since purchasing the system. The only games I played on the Wii were the ones...

Consoles/Controllers where your hands are going to obscure part of the screen simply by playing it are really, really stupid ideas. Like, among the worst ever.

BL1: Pretty sure the big tentacle rape monster -was- what was inside the vault. Some nascent stage old god type creature that was sealed away that somehow had developed into a "treasure" in the mythos of the planet, since it was in a big ass place called "The Vault." You don't even kill it...

There's a lot of games with bad endings, especially where they aren't obviously part of some continuing story. The first Soul Reaver game literally had "to be continued" in the final scenes, and it wasn't until a few years later that it did. I do think that we are slightly harsher on...

Hunt's seen a decent amount of people he's KO'd. He probably can read the signs pretty easily at this point.

Yeah, Vanguard being buggy is like saying the ocean is a little moist. I played very lightly during beta (it was a bear that my machine could only barely handle. Built a new PC just to see what the former EQ-fuss was about for release) and there was just a lot of broken stuff. From abilities...