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Anomander Rake
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Yeah the Kerran looked pretty over the top "Disney". I understand about the facial art style facilitating the delivery of user expressions into the game, but it might be a little too "cartoony".
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No. Slow travel remember. Also half the players will be trying to grief the other half by luring ogres and orcs to the area.
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Kreugen
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They are one-time events with magic, hidden triggers that we're supposed to believe are all programmed into the game from the start and not something they patch in every now and then like WoW has done for years.
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I think you need to wait for further info on the meta-game. How will storybricks play out. How do the dungeons/raids play out.
Basicly Kruegen's point: you've shown the sandbox, need to see more of the game.
Anomander Rake
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I think one of the cool things that could possibly be done would be to have the dungeons move around the world during the time of the voxel 'healing". Would be a great way (or possibly really annoying) to ensure that people don't just beeline from point A to point B.
I liked the lady. Lion was a bit too american football.
Technically I have no idea how they are doing the destruction stuff. Fixed sized shapes cut into the collision tree in real time? Some kind of voxelly octree like people are using for indirect lighting nowadays? I dunno.
The best part is really the smarty pants AI. It's a mix of Raph's virtual ecology stuff from UO and the half-mad ravings of an ex soe designer I know that has been talking about that sort of thing for 10 years at least. I guess it is finally doable on mmo scale.
Technically I have no idea how they are doing the destruction stuff. Fixed sized shapes cut into the collision tree in real time? Some kind of voxelly octree like people are using for indirect lighting nowadays? I dunno.
The best part is really the smarty pants AI. It's a mix of Raph's virtual ecology stuff from UO and the half-mad ravings of an ex soe designer I know that has been talking about that sort of thing for 10 years at least. I guess it is finally doable on mmo scale.
Too much shit happening during combat you can't even see the characters. Seeing 1 guy smash 30 mobs makes me not want to touch CC in this game. Planned on playing a chanter too.
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Ok after a full view this looks pretty interesting. I'll give it a shot for sure. They have a long way to go though - a lot of talking about shit with about 5 minutes of scripted in game action. I want to see more of the combat because it sounds like they took GW2 and went from there, and I hated GW2.
A lot of good ideas that I don't think this team is capable of pulling off. I look forward to seeing Blizzard copy it, though.
A lot of good ideas that I don't think this team is capable of pulling off. I look forward to seeing Blizzard copy it, though.
Anomander Rake
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tad, one of the things I am most interested in finding out is how the storybricks tech is implemented into EQNext. Hopefully you can give us details on that!
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I hate the graphics but I could live with them if the game was good. I put up with WoW for a month after all. My beef with this game is that it's just another disposable summer blockbuster. That's what all gaming companies do now, I get it, I don't really blame SOE.
But they are fucking scumbags for talking it up and starting the presentation with how people have formed serious relationships in EQ and got married, had kids, all that stuff. They say all that and then they present "Guild Wars Craft 3", designed 100% with the intention of sucking in a few million kids and getting them to blow their pocket money on orzum swordz before they realize it's 'ghey' and look for the next game to hop to.
I was playing with voxels in the 90s with commanche and shit. I've heard the hype a million times before. This really does take it to the next level, the engine is amazing, the technology is amazing, is is going to provide a whole new angle and direction for the future of MMO's.
I just think it's one that will be lapped up by easily manipulated, simple minded tools. Anyone else will not fall for this shit.
Is there a word for getting deja vu of a previous deja vu of a previous deja vu? Because that's what I'm getting now. EQ2 was the big hope, then Vanguard, then Age of Conan, then Warhammer, then Rift, and GW2, blah blah blah. They are all full of shit. They don't care about me one bit, I am part of an audience of maybe 1 million people if we're lucky, maybe half of that. They only care about the audience of 14 something million people who played WoW. Even if you only manage to attract half of them to play your game, if that 7 million people play it for a month or two and each buy a kool badazzz mount and sword, then you double trippled or whatever multipled your money spent making the game. That's all SOE cares about now.
McMMO's are here to stay.
But I saw no sandbox. I saw Guild Wars 3.
i kinda like the idea of rally calls. there's a communal feeling. also there will be something new to do every x months or so.
hopefully though, this pve stuff will be a side to the eve-centric/pvp .
hopefully though, this pve stuff will be a side to the eve-centric/pvp .
This is the part I'm most sceptical about though. Rift's invasions were hyped in pretty much the same way, and turned out to be pretty tedious most of the time. Then GW2's dynamic stuff was hyped in the same way, and is really just the same. I guess the key is whether or not these AIs are truly autonomous and result in genuinely diverse scenarios, as opposed to being on-rails (like GW2) or inconsequential (like Rift). Also, if every single mob in the game works like the orc described (ie no static spawns), then that would certainly be good.