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We can hope. In reality, though, I'm pretty sure this just means there's going to be a lot of heated, moralistic discussion going on!

I'm pretty much a critical asshole and I'm really liking this show. Even the moments they start to slip into expected tropes are still done with enough quirk and humor they aren't too eyerolly. My fear is if they front loaded production costs and at some point we'll just get an endless cycle...

Oddly, this last episode with the governor felt more natural than the show typically is. There wasn't constant, superfluous dialog. There weren't constant ninja zombies jumping out of every shadow. Everyone didn't seem perfectly groomed. There wasn't a newly detailed Hyundai in every other...

Hey, now, I love pvp and I'm not defunct! I'm totally funct!

Nothing too exciting. Was a Russian Linguist attached to the 3rd ACR. Medically discharged before my initial contract was up. Now I'm just a disabled vet like Hershel from The Walking Dead. @Dahkoht: do they even make open world pvp anymore? I've given up. Though once my new system is...

I woke my girlfriend up laughing so hard at "Got any more bullshit up your ass to spew out of your mouth?" Thankfully she thought it was absurd enough to also laugh at it. Then sleepily asked why someone on the internet was calling me a blithering cunt before going back to bed. Goodtimes.

Like what? I don't mind actual discussion, if you've got something to discuss.

No way. Functional doors let you go into any building you can see, sit in a chair, play a mini-game with another player, then jump if you win and your in-game reputation is improved... you know, all the important things in game design start with doors that open!

A lot of the EQ nostalgia is due to the nature of the game, it's timing, etc, guilds/groups were forced to admit members we didn't really like or want to invite. Such members were asocial fuckwads and mistook others 'needing' them in the group/guild for 'wanting' them. While the rest of us had...

Bullshit! You paid to alpha-play the game and now can't even see the forums!? This game is done! OVER! It is doomed to fail if THIS is how they treat PAYING customers!

I think they were just sitting in open containers, maybe even barrel up, outside, unprotected from the elements and Georgia humidity... so if it rains and you get thirsty just drink from a rifle barrel! Because surely a prison wouldn't have an armory or weapons room they mentioned in prior...

I'd love for all those survival mechanics to be in! And doors! And doors to outhouses! And if you don't take your character for a shit every day your character gets slowed down and cranky. And then sometimes you have to sit out of fights, which cripples the 4-man group, because your...

Hrm, yes, this really is how it works in the military. You have a 4 person company and when one person dies you can't just go on because that person was so irreplaceable that the entire army crumbles! Modern MMO's need to work more like made up analogies or they'll just be WoW clones...

That used to be how they were pretty much ALL done. It's just many people didn't know because the alpha/beta testing wasn't a cash grab or free preview for anyone willing to register on their website. If you actually like to test games, imagine getting to do it in a community of others there...

You'd have a point if the only two options were pay to beta test or random person signing up in a blink of an eye. Anyone else remember the days when you actually had to write out responses to questions to apply for beta? There are plenty of people who used to spend time building contacts and...

I wasn't really paying attention. There are plenty of rifles (and mods?) that fire three round bursts when you hold the trigger, and you have to let up to fire another burst. At least that's how I remember the regular rifles being in basic. The M-60 though, you had to let up and manually...

Really? The log FALLS in half. And since we're investigating the physics of logs, wouldn't the logs have been pushed back and fallen before snapping? You know, on account of the loose gravel they simply placed the logs on without any sort of abutment? My guess is the crew had to fasten...

EQ let people make friends due in part to its very slow... umm everything. And at a time when most people were probably not going into the game with a full guild or group of friends like these days. It was the perfect combo for the time, and a reason I believe it was successful (a more...

I loved that aspect of EQ on a zone level, but I'm not sure how I feel about it on an expansion-wide level. Making entire guilds have to pick one route of progression isn't something everyone is happy with. I guess it goes back to making the rewards relatively more 'equal' so people don't feel...

I'm not afraid of either subscription of free to play/pay models. Some people get afraid of the terms, but obviously what matters is how it's implemented. Cash shop isn't a bad thing if it's done in a way that is subtle and respectful. I rather liked GW2's model and think SOE finally ironed...

No. That's the point. The two types of people in this thread are those who can't seem to process a world that isn't opposite extremes, and the rest of us who aren't so dense as to think anything is that simple. Example: trying to qualify something as 'like Everquest' is nearly impossible...

Confirmed shit player.

Even when calling you out, I've been calling you out on your inability to post anything more than ignorant shit like 'WoW clone' and 'WoW kiddies' as if being a generalizing, hyperbolic douche makes it seem like you have a clue and are half intelligent. Fuck, even your personal attacks are...

WoW clone!

Paying for an advantage is the foundation of free to play games. Doy.

But get sidetracked when they find another way to work farming into the show.

Exactly. Vanguard was disappointing, but there were still options. The timing right now makes Brad's new project ripe for so much hype and hope that whether it succeeds or fails, it will at least be spectacular.

Steal code. Fix code. Build time machine. Profit.

Zombie army? Maaan, that was the Million Zombie March headed toward DC to, like, express their, like... ummm, I don't know the media would ignore the point of the march outside of the fact that many, ahem, zombies in a group really make folks uncomfortable! I'm sure when it's convenient the...

I liked how in Vanguard there were more options for pulling and cc. So, while there was still downtime, more people were more often involved in some way. The conversation was often what you could do as a class/player to help a situation, not just sitting there playing gems or taking care of...

Son, you've gone full retard. You can't denounce Vanguard in one breath as a WoW clone, while unabashedly praising EQ design, and then turn around and try to again reject Vanguard but this time under the premise it didn't do much different from EQ. By your logic EQ was just a shitty WoW clone...

I'm excited to watch them turn the show around with a full 360! I'm just glad Hershel had so much experience intubating animals on the farm. Though, makes me wonder, if a guy has stopped breathing on his own in the middle of the fucking zombocalypse maybe it's time you just put him down...

So, Vanguard was a WoW clone and EQ was a tactical experience? Can't argue with it!

EXACTLY! Thank you! They're making an EQ style game! Not a WoW clone!!! So things like staring at your spellbook while meditating for the first 35 levels will definitely be in because it was a great idea! Because you're either an EQ player or you're not and there's no possible way to build...

Because alpha isn't technically beta and pretty sure the game will be released in alpha state. So all true. I love Smed. He never fails to give me laughs. I'd 'play' landmark if it didn't have characters, just world building. Even watching that chick run and dorf-roll makes me not want to...

That's the main issue? Giving classes tools to control their own mana instead of mana being a constant cock-block to not only yourself, but your group? I'm fine being done with the days where you would sit around POK for an hour begging for KEI. Or worse, you'd not let a caster in your group...

No shit. Saying something this basic sometimes seems like an intellectual revolution compared to some of the shit coming out of the mouths of gamers. People say dumb shit like how there's not a market for timesinks in games these days when a) WoW's timesink mechanics are as addictive as ever...

Well, shit, if it ran fine on your system then the game must have been fine for everyone! It also failed because there were some really ignorant and rabid fanboys denying any and every technical problem and saying stupid shit like 'it runs fine for me' and dismissing or attacking people...

Vanguard's caravan system anyone?

And we keep talking about Vanguard so much because this is Brad's chance to do it right! Vanguard design, with new tech, in a smaller, more focused, group-based world.... Vanguard not fucked up is the game we're all circle jerking over. FACT.