Chronicles of Elyria - new mmo

Neat ideas in that link. Like the author said, very ambitious plans for their sandbox.

Carl_sl said:

All sounds pretty cool, the only question is, are YOU ready to be disappointed by lack of execution?

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This is Rerolled. We're always ready to be disappointed. Paging Utnayan.

Yea, certainly some interesting concepts....doubt it will ever exist like that though.

Sounds good on paper. Need more information on their "engine" that they have made themselves and I wonder what their budget is and how long they have been in business.

Sounds refreshing. I see this as the new cycle. EQ hard ( at its time ) >>>wow eq2 easy games. Now headed back towards challenge. All great ideas on paper. I love the thought of no quest hubs, and thrill of dying meaning something going to make raiding real tough. Plus the attitude of purps not dropping off random wolf01. Cheers to the future.

I wanna be a female and have my job be to provide heirs for adventures who think they will die often. Basically you get me preggo and I'll spawn your next soul or life or whatever!

Either way this crap won't come out for like 5 years, right? I'll have forgot all about it by then.

Draegan_sl said:

Sounds good on paper. Need more information on their "engine" that they have made themselves and I wonder what their budget is and how long they have been in business.

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From over athttp://chroniclesofelyria.com/forum/...ne-vs-SoulbornThey try to explain that they are using CryEngine with their own libraries to run the dynamic story. Sounds mostly like wizardry until they have a client out demoing how it all works.

eXarc the Internet Panther_sl said:

This is Rerolled. We're always ready to be disappointed. Paging Utnayan.

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Read the game description in the OP and instead of the surge of excitement I would have once experienced, I thought to myself "Oh well this is never going to happen or be made."

More than a few games sound good early on. Will be interesting to see how they execute their plan. Certainly sounds interesting and different.

remember that game Horizons? when they announced it back in like 2002, it was like "27 playable races including DRAGONS, you can go to heaven or hell, Everquest is gonna get its SHIT PUSHED IT"

launched in 2007 as Istaria, one of the worst MMOs ever made, less content than EQ_ tutorial_ demo.exe

Don't worry, some day Dawn will be finished, and it will surely save everyone.

Complete with fetus catapults.

I'd actually forgotten that EQ tutorial existed. Shout out to Soandso.

Kind of, but you still can't home brew something.

Pantheon jokes aside, you can actually get some decent art in something like the Unity store. I would also think as the middleware get better/cheaper (network code, database, client/server setups etc) the more those assets become either free or really cheap. You can't do it right now, but in 5 years? Probably.

You'll probably start seeing home made MMOs start popping up at that point. Right now Unity is free to play with, and it's easy as fuck to build ok-ish maps. The really big hurdle for home brew games is not the art assets, it's making all the pieces talk to each other. As of now, it's not a hurdle for indie developers but it is for hobbyists.