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The original VG combat was actually quite different than the launch version. It was far more reactive with less ability usage. They changed it in beta3 I think? They made combos proc on crits and there were far fewer reactive abilities. It was an interesting idea they never got to fully flesh...

They cut the clear times in half, probably more. People would just stack warriors b/c they scale the most with them. There is also no way i'm playing again unless they do something about the cost of consumables. The barrier for clearing Naxx was not the mechanics, it was scrounging up enough...

He's on twitter https://twitter.com/JButlerDev but idk if he answers dm's or not.

Jordan Love looked terrible, what a waste of a 1st round pick especially when you have Rodgers.

I'm wondering if maybe Ion is no longer the lead dev? That blue post basically says 'Ion was wrong about everything'.

And it only took a lawsuit, massive player dip, and top players leaving to get there.

Some of the animations are alright but the rogue ones look retarded.

Shill bidding has finally reached video games, we've made it.

Jags O-line sucks balls.

This is just rape. I feel a lot more confident now if Josh Allen has to miss a few games this season.

Please don't get the vaccine and let natural selection take its course.

Jeff Butler talks about Brad's MMO design philosophy - "Don't ask for a map... bitch learn the dungeon". Made me laugh.

Dumbfuck

LOL we actually have 5G conspiracy retards on this board? Can't say i'm shocked.

He was but I think that was secondary to him being the leader of the Istar. He and Sauron both being followers of Aule was probably part of the reason Sauron was able to turn him. Tolkien does say that Sauron was able to guess the mind of Saruman, but Gandalf he did not understand at all.

I will geek out for a moment. People say that Tolkien created a conflict that was purely black and white with no real psychology behind the bad guys. But he does lay out the differences between Sauron and Morgoth in an essay in Morgoth's Ring that is quite interesting and could be relevant to...

Hahaha What a shocker it was partly Silius's fault. I usually don't like to single out a specific developer but I remember having a visceral hatred for him when he was the lead on VG towards the end. I think the lvl 55 cap increase was quite possibly the worst content update in any MMO I've...

Cam Newton still sucks.

Flipping back between nfl games but yeah. I like the angle they are using, easier to see the strike zone since it's more straight on.

The combat looks completely weightless. Fast movement, static animations, with no limits on how you can move your character. It ends up looking like people are spazzing out instead of battling.

It's definitely the two trees, which is surprising b/c I thought they didn't have the rights to anything in the first age? Maybe the series opens with a bookend to the first age, similar to the opening in Fellowship when you see Sauron defeated at the end of the 2nd age. It would be cool to see...

The systems in modern WoW are just terrible, full stop. You have like 6 different currencies with 6 different grinds and 3 different 'talent' systems that are all borrowed power. Here's the giant reductio ad absurdum of the whole covenant system: in order to keep them somewhat balanced you...

Jeff Butler, who was VP at Sigil, goes in to even more detail about Sigil, VG, and Brad. Starts around 1:42:00. Interesting stuff.

I want to play an MMO like Pantheon but there's part of me that wants to see it fail just to spite Nirgon.

Here's the interview. He starts talking about VG around 1:12:00. The rest of the interview is about early EQ and Ashes. He even worked on Shadowbane.

Was listening to an interview with Kevin McPherson who was a lead programmer on VG and now is working on Ashes of Creation. He said some interesting things. First, that the unreal 2.5 engine was really the only game in town for an off the shelf engine at the time & if they picked a different...

Hey Elidroth, while you're here I'd like ask that by the off chance you still have the Vanguard source code or tools maybe you could pass them on to the VG Emu devs?

lol... oh Furor. Getting drunk and loudly announcing you're going to marry some random girl from the SC2 esports scene that you just met. Then follows her to her car and 'grabs em by the pussy'. What was he thinking? Sounds like cringe college dorm shit.

For the last 7 years it feels like we've been given front row seats to the downfall of the biggest developer in gaming history. Blizzard is only a few fuck ups away from becoming the next Daybreak.

Stop shitting up this thread faggot.

Yeah Furor is definitely named in the suit, apparently would get drunk and try to hookup with female employees. Unprofessional for sure but doesn't sound that bad. Apparently they picked him to be made an example of according to Bellular.

He was talking with Doug Cronkhite (Elidroth) about how it can be difficult sometimes to get honest feedback from players when they know they are talking to a dev, then added "but not on the FoH boards" and they both laughed haha.

Been listening to more interviews, I'll try to pick out a few nuggets from time to time. Apparently most devs on EQ thought Dave Georgeson was a complete tool (big surprise). One time he asked the EQ1 dev team "what do you guys do for cutscenes?". And another time in a meeting called them all...

Ok.. so Asmongold doesn't mind boring ass cutscenes while streaming therefore I'm wrong? I'd rather watch paint dry than modern jrpg cutscenes.

I don't think having an established IP means very much. Look at the all the established mmo IP's besides WoW - most failed. Warhammer, Star Wars, Star Trek, Lotr, Conan..I could go on and on. Any game that's good will find its audience, just look at Valheim.

idk I just hate cutscenes I guess

I know this game is getting a lot of traction lately but idk how anyone can sit through this giant cutscene mmo that occasionally has gameplay. I trudged through to level 50 only to realize I needed to do a 100 step quest chain to get to the first xpac.