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A game that has a mini map with objective markers and highlighted routes is essentially telling the player, "Hey look, I know you don't give a shit about finding your own way, so here you go." Now this can be good or bad depending on the game. If there is absolutely nothing to find or...

Well I will let you know what I am NOT doing, I am not fucking telling anybody. If I win the lottery, then that's for me and my accountant's and lawyers and brokers to know. I wouldn't get too extravagant but I would live comfortably. Buy my mom the house she's always wanted. Buy some nice...

It stinks!

Like it was stated earlier, early EQ had very basic combat mechanics, but the margins for error were smaller than today's games. And when you failed, which was sure to happen, it took much longer to pick up the pieces. That makes things more difficult as a whole. Every group was essentially...

REWARD MECHANICS FOR PVP The difficulty of creating interesting creature AI is the primary reason I think pvp should play a much more central role in the game experience. Competing players will create those very complex moments (for free) that otherwise take months to develop. The trick...

First, a response... My post did contain more than just the two words 'Open PvP'. I specifically addressed ganking and stated that there needed to be some limitations in order to incubate new players. And now for a some ranting... Anyways, PvE is what has been done to death at this...

There is a core factor to MMO's that a lot of people have been soured against due to bad design. That factor is this: Open PvP motivates community development better than any other element. You can have a community spawn out of things as minor as hard to find creatures, or people sharing...

My friends up in northern New Hampshire would drink this stuff on occasion. This was back in 2007 though... so right around the time Sutekh was trying like a bastard to grow some hair. Most flavored alcohol that has a spicy kick to it just ends up tasting like cough syrup to me though, so I am...

The development started out as a desire to create a fully realized sandbox, as most sandboxes end up making large concessions to appease, whoever. Most of the talent was volunteer based and this was just a side project or hobby for the team. I mean the project lead still has a day job setting up...

I remember seeing a video where some guy went into great detail about cancelling his Verizon contract on a technicality that just about anyone could claim. Something to do with a variable federal fee and how it violated the clause that required all increases in monthly fee's to be announced to...

If those battles they showed at the end don't degenerate into complete slide shows, I will be thoroughly impressed by that alone... Also, it appears that friendly fire is on, for artillery anyways. When those two cannons go off the second one takes out his own front line. I hope they don't...

So this is WoW meets Ratchet and Clank meets the SiMs? I am guessing a F2P model with a bunch of micro transactions for cosmetic stuff, especially with furniture and possibly vehicles? Still looks pretty interesting with some top notch art and animation going into it.

Lithose, the quote I was reffering to in my original response was this: And all I was pointing out is that from the point of view of the casual, average, fat part of the bell curve, player. This would in fact make the game harder to access. I wasn't saying anything about if it was a good idea or...

Clearing the Taurus demon was great for me. By the time it was over I had a boat load of souls saved up. Took 4 attempts and every time I managed to grab my bloodstain inside his room. So that was 4 runs through the level leading up to him plus the souls he dropped. Nothing like feasting on the...

Diablo II was a barter community and very heavy on RMT's, gold was only used for gambling. Because you could generate so much gold so quickly AND there was a pretty easy to hit gold cap per player, it became next to worthless. If there had been no gold cap people might have actually used it to...

Well you could definitely still have magic items, except they wont simply be another color and have more stats. The magic items in that system would have unique properties or abilities attached to them that might make them behave very differently than a normal item. Examples: Stuff like...

You can make all items transferable between players and not have a huge RMT crisis, if every item is easy to obtain and adds little to the character. This of course makes for some pretty bland itemization. I would like to see an item system something like this:

I joined up, name is Dersu. I followed the newbie guide; Didn't bother connecting to IRC just yet. Went and tried to defend Spain. All of the other fights either looked like lost causes or sure things. Does it really matter where I go fighting at this point ?

Not sure if it's been posted in this thread yet, but this website:http://www.planetside-universe.com/seems to have a bit of an expanded stats page. Click on the PS2 Stats tab and punch in a character name. Few extra stats there like number of vehicles killed and damage taken, damage done, and...

I can understand why they would have a level based cap for skills. It helps keep the player in line for the content at that level. Otherwise you would be running around one shotting everything at level one after changing class. This would undermine the leveling process which is there to teach...

Permanent point allotment works if it does not take THAT much effort to level another character. Otherwise you are actually penalizing players from trying new builds. No one will veer from the tried and true builds as they don't want to waste another character. If it's like diablo II and takes...

Hard class systems where all abilities in each class are unique or the class is governed by a unique mechanic will either offer a few distinct classes, or many classes that are shades of each other. Like you have said, to have many classes, and each be completely unique, it's kind of inevitable...

Ok, but you were talking in terms of difficulty before, now you are talking in terms of good or bad design. Those are two different animals.

Not at all. I was simply pointing out that memorizing fight mechanics is much much easier than the logistics of organizing large groups of people and getting them to the fight, especially if there is no clear path set before them. So Lithose's claim that shifting more complexity to the social...

But that would actually make WoW much more difficult for the average player. To a casual player, social and organizational challenges are far harder to overcome than simple button mashing. You can make the most intricate, and detailed encounter ever, with 41 flavors of death and enough actions...

Other: Lovecraftian / The Great Old Ones I figure that in such a universe, everyone will finally have something to cry about. As such, since everyone is equally disadvantaged, it might reduce the overall amount of griping. Tentacles bursting from my eyes and blood pouring from mouth aside...

Spoiler sites exist for all games, true. But the real point was to simply force a player to stop and look at a map, figure out where they are, pick out land marks, check their compass and then proceed. It turns navigation into a bit of a process rather than just looking at a big yellow arrow and...

Pretty much the entire end sequence for the Last of the Mohicans. The start of the sequence begins in silence with a poignant look at end of an era for the native peoples of North America. The stage gets set for the final conflict. Then all of the character resolutions just keep coming one right...

So I found my old post in response to the Virginia Tech shooting... "The reaction to any action is entirely based on it's proximity. The reason we are discussing our society and the motivations that individuals might have to undermine it only appears in a time of local crises. The real...

Lumie is hiding in a bunker waiting for it to begin. Well, that was two with one stone right there. And as far as the end of the world? That happens every 30 to 40 years or so. Every generation experiences the end of their world, it's just that it usually becomes their children's world at...

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It might be interesting if someone decided to try a design experiment. Design a game where one of the core design principles was to strip as many items out of the UI as possible and place them back into the game world. What would a game like this look like, sound like and handle like? What...

No. Everyone knows that the only person to ever successfully see everything at once and not be completely destroyed by it was Zaphod Beeblebrox, and only then because he had an enormously large ego. And I also believe there was some tampering as to prevent the full enormity of the situation from...

I used to sneak into movies when I was in 1st and 2nd grade. My friends and I would scrounge up enough money for a single ticket by finding lose change, turning in cans, getting this one soda machine to payout change for free ect. Then we would send one kid to buy the ticket for this one theater...

Where is Lumie to tell us that Osama was already dead at least 2 years before this went down. Lumie come back to us

Except your fast food analogy is wrong. WoW is serving up McDonald's offerings at bistro prices. There are fewer and fewer games sticking to the subscription model, WoW being one of the hold outs. There is no premium niche market right now, and probably wont be. A premium game would have to...

The stories found in Final Fantasy 6, 7 and Tactics were pretty dark. The previous final fantasies had innocents dying but the games didn't seem as hostile. Likewise, every subsequent final fantasy has felt more and more like a dance party caught in a fight to save the universe. I think if...

Really, this is pretty much it. The story of the Hobbit itself could really be covered in a single two and a half hour movie quite easily. The Story of the Hobbit with 10 minute CG extravaganza's and additional content and tie in's to LoTR and characters found only in the appendix being dragged...

I would have been happy to save blizzard some time and tell them that rep grinds are fried shit served up on some ass crackers. The fact that they need to compile data to figure that one out, really shows where they are in terms of the design process... out to fucking lunch. There was another...

GW2 did do a lot of those things, but they failed to give their end game any meaning. WvWvW is only there for bragging rights and nothing else really, it provides measly benefits for the server. The 1-80 game had some interesting exploration, but it didn't require any cooperation. People did...