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Aizen's defeat was the biggest manga troll of all time =| Naruto is building up to a shitload of FRIENDSHIP! power + him just being awesome. I hope he doesn't die and Kakashi becomes next Hokage, just because I feel that would be right. But it really is feeling like Naruto vs. Saucegay is...

Pancreas' item thoughts echo mine to a degree. I really don't think you should be able to equip every piece of endgame gear and be godlike because of it. I want to see conscious decisions about what is the better piece to equip, not "Lawl it is all/all and 0.0 weight. Grats monks!" type...

Eh, I wouldn't call EQ1 a sandbox in most respects. It had defined classes (no maleability, no "you can do whatever you want aspect) as well as skills/spells that were specific to those classes. There was 100% a real progression of content and dungeons from first level onward, with major...

Modern questing is dumb; you'll never hear me say otherwise. I was referring specifically to the TOR implementation of voice acting for everything, not the implementation of questing. EQ had shitloads of quests, but they were mostly retarded with terrible rewards and rarely made sense along...

I don't want to, but the hardcore mmo hipsters love making things difficult in the name of "community" so I tend to post ideas that try and bridge the gap. WoW's tool updated so that you can set specific class preferences and not just "tank/dps/healer" would be my primary suggestion, but that...

Story quests? Sure, voice act away. All the other "quests" in the game? Give me a popup with text so I can choose to read or not. Holy shit saved them -millions- without really doing much of anything. The one thing that should be stolen from TOR should be companions and the linked...

I imagine EQ:N will use classes since they are fairly iconic to the EQ brand, as well as Skills. Levels I can see but if they wanted to go for a more sandbox feel, they could do away with it. Now.. what they could do, and I doubt they will, would be to make race the primary determinant in the...

It's not really what they say, it is the fact that, much like Dumar but with 100x the post count to say the same stuff, they want a very strict EQ clone. And they repeat it ad nauseum while at the same time trying to call EQ a sandbox and all sorts of other nonsense. And they literally have...

Trust me, it is much nicer to have qwerty and supertouch on ignore for the purpose of perusing this thread because they are both pretty retarded. Save yourself some sanity, even if it isn't the normal thing you think a mod should do with posters. Most the rest of the EQ1 guys (barring...

New chapter out (mangahere.com) and aside from all the FRIENDSHIP! stuff, it's pretty decent. Sasuke is apparently.... back at Konoha?

As graphics got better (and they did. EQ to WoW was a massive improvement in all respects except the specific flavor of each gameworld when it came to graphics) you could actually differentiate different pieces of equipment much better than before. Instead of all plate armor minus the velious...

You should start a kickstarter for a game where the primary point is that the developers don't listen to any feedback or take into account any market/trend/other games before/during/after the design process. Then use the kickstarter money to hire said devs and run the infrastructure and the...

The freedom aspect including quest driven confuses me. Wouldn't actual ingame freedom include both quest driven content and create your own? Or is having options somehow not part of freedom these days? You missed "No insert_number_here of hardcoded factions" such as Horde/Alliance Order/Chaos...

Yeah, because this isn't 100% obviously japanese kaiju (they use the word in the movie) style cinema and japanese giant robot show referential at all. Oh wait...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiju You kids didn't actually think it was literally anything -but- an american version of a 99%...

Gotta define "casual" before you make a game for them! Casual appears to be a catch-all term for people who don't agree with terrible mechanics, in many instances. "What, you don't want to spend 36 hours camping a spawn to get it? Pfft, fucking casual!" "What, you don't have time to spend 6...

WoW is a strictly better game if you appreciated the "game" part of EQ. If you appreciated the "social" angle of EQ, Facebook is a strictly better game. That's what I am getting at. WoW is EQ done in a better method with more emphasis on the game aspect. It maintains the social angle, but...

Or you know, Option C) a gamer who enjoys gaming and EQ had the best combination of game-stuff available for the time. When better games with better game stuff came out, you tend to move on. I know EQ was your first boyfriend and all ma'am, but c'mon. There was a lot of stupid shit that we...

I think you are assuming much by saying that people aren't looking for better games when they change titles. Like... I think your assumption is completely wrong and that is that. People left EQ to find a better game that fit their sometimes myopic view of what games "should be" to find greener...

Yeah no. EQ had shitloads of flaws that even experienced gamers (myself with 350+ days played when I quit in 02 for the first time. Yeah, Addict much?) saw for what they were even during the heyday of the game. Had options existed, people would have exited much faster. PlayOnline (FFXI's...

As a tank in.. every MMO released since 1999, there's a weird combo of stigma and awe that is attached with players who take up the mantle. Lose aggro on a mob? You get blamed. Some asshole doesn't know how Mez (or similar mechanics) works? Tank generally gets the blame. Healer dies for...

A lot of that has to do with access to content. Not being perma locked down (in a reasonable timeframe sense) means items like BoC or SoD lose quite a bit of value. If you can try and fail an encounter but still learn from it and eventually knock it down, that is one thing. If you have to...

For the melee classes and especially warriors, bear mobs and Ogres had effectively no AC for at least a week or so after release. Myself and all the other Mortal Strikers out there basically skipped early/mid 40s levels by just running around the Ogre mountains in Burning Steppes obliterating...

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The standard game is pretty easy yeah. If you even accidentally get a rare weapon drop or something from a mob, you plow through the next couple of hours worth of content like a hot knife through butter. The challenge comes, as it does with most ff games, with the additional content. The...

No, I was on a server with Coolbreeze/Kurgen and other players. The first people to 60 were not questing. They were grinding mobs. Had other people been able to maintain online playtimes with which to group with, they would have been. The "race" to 60 involved grinding in a group when it was...

Just pointing out, that at no point was soloing in WoW better than grouping up and doing instances. An hour in WC was worth 2-3x as much xp as moving at top speed between quest triggers/goals by far. Unless you were being actively PL'd, it was always better to group up. Group up doing quests...

I will completely agree with you, Tolan. But at the same time, you have to look at the market as a whole. 200k (maybe) players for Eve. 500k+ (even I think this is bullshit) numbers for Swtor. The favorite for gaming ideas is basically WoW+. Do shit to the level of WoW, then add your...

I was just pointing out that, again, the timezone deal with spawns/ingame time of that nature really puts the ball in another court than player skill. I am 100% OK with the normal vendors being open during business hours and having the random "Frank the Whoremaster" being open when they aren't...

My guess would be that for "you" that combination of games and ideas would work. In order to make the game world feel something resembling real, the day/night schedule would have to be enlongated. What if, as a player, you are never physically home when the only good time to assassinate the...

So I am curious... what is the market's thoughts for what should be in a mmo? (Super/qwerty are ignored, so not looking at their nonsense!) My basic list would be: Fleshed out leveling game that makes 1-max "fun" while still carrying some gravity to decisions. Endgame that makes sense...

A lesson I should have learned back on the FoHboards. He really has no idea what he is talking about while simultaneously trying to supplant reason with volume. Dude shits up any thread he is in, much like popsickle. Tinfoil hat theory tells me he's a troll account with intentionally dumb...

No, no you don't. And everytime you post in any mmo thread, you highlight that. You are supertouch 2.0, except you take up entire pages with nonsense. People who actually played EQ don't have the ridiculous feelings you do about the game. Your ignorance of the game and its mechanics pretty...

I work for the University of California system and I must say my insurance is pretty goddamn good for $23.50 a month. Co-pay fees are really low on medical stuff (150 for surgery or prolonged stay type visits) and dental is hilariously cheap compared to being uninsured. like 1/6th the price...

Eh, when you consider FF5 was originally released in like 1990 or 91 (Japan, at any rate) and the US only got a legal copy in like 1998, it would have been pretty impressive for the time. But we got it almost a decade after the fact and 3d games were simply "the thing" at the time...

No, there is nothing to do better than "that." EQ was only difficult in the sense that the total MMO playerbase was substantially smaller and that information wasn't included in the UI. All quest information was available on forums. All strategies were available to people who communicated...

So since I know you apparently don't read other threads of a similar nature to grasp the finer points, I'll highlight some shit. EQ was not "harder" than any other game that has been developed since. Look at progression servers and the speed in which they plow through shit. The gaming public...

So the question would be programmed reaction time (with random modifiers) and core counters/tactics that are targeted at player-centric meta gaming. Ie, CCing/focusfiring healers and other CCers first then killing the damage then tanks. NPCs effectively need a taunt and need an assist that...

Fantastic movie, glad they departed from the books in the places they did. Radagast was entertaining, which was something his character was not in the original Hobbit writing. They effectively created a screen presence for the -mention- of a name. Jar Jar he was not, as he definitely blocked...

That's actually the primary problem with FF8. It doesn't play intuitively at all. It penalizes killing things and grinding (something all other FFs reward you for) as well as making the primary concept of advancement not equipment but how well you play a card game. You can do shit the hard...

That shit right there? Has lead to all three of the hangovers I have experienced in my life. Fuck cinnamon flavored alcohol~