Gw2 is not even a 3rd world country MMO let alone an AAA MMO don't get me started.
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Tad, can you ask them a kind of vague question? What is the POINT of PvE. Is to actually defeat the mobs? Or is it a byproduct of exploration and resource control. So like, do we set out to kill Nagafen because he has epic loots? Or are we clearing a dungeon as fast as possible because some of these mobs drop pieces of weapons that we need for crafting (So we can go kill the opposing guild attempting to defile our lands).
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Until it actually makes it into an actual playable state, it's only armchair game design. Of course it sounds epic... it's just words bro.
i disagree that there's no market for a true eq successor. games like black desert online have developed quite the following. dark souls isn't an mmo but it's extremely successful to the point that you have hundreds, maybe thousands of youtube videos dedicated to various challenges.
i'm not suggesting that a developer needs to use every design from everquest, but they don't need to completely neuter an mmo either.
i'm not suggesting that a developer needs to use every design from everquest, but they don't need to completely neuter an mmo either.
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Sorry, that was the MINIMUM CONNECTION amongst average gamers I accidentally dropped a word - DSL I'm guessing - something far in excess of the "barely past dialup" any game to date has used. I've got a FiOS connection that's roughly half of what Google fiber is quoting theirs will be once they get here so I'm quite aware of how good of what's available.
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It looks like a good game so far. Hard to tell until we actually get our hands on it though. But it will definitely be different than the standard crap that has been coming out for the last few years. Hopefully they pull it off.
As for it being Everquest, that's up to the player to decide. I didn't think EQ2 was worthy of the EQ tag when it launched, but I learned to accept it over the years. EQN has very little to do with EQ, it doesn't even look like it. But if it's fun I'll accept it too.
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Didnt watch all their presentations but the '' OUR WORLD IS DESTRUCTIBLE HOLY SHIT'' came back waaaay too often when they wanted to describe how unique and ''next generation'' their mmorpg is. Its like, ok yea, what else. Am not playing EQ to feel like being in battlefield 3.
Bingo. But the "minecraft iz orzum" crowd and the "I plaid gw2 for 3 wekz now i wont somtink elze!" crowd is far bigger.
See what? Because unless each one of those mobs kills players in seconds and makes former WoW players rage quit left and right, then it's dumb.
Me too. But it costs money to make new lore and stuff, better to just rape an existing one.
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He's quoted the combat speed and over the top world destructionas being "demo-ified" where they're not really as fast and over the top for what they're targeting in the end product. I'm hoping for something paced close to EQ1 as well (just a smidge faster - only a smidge though) - that was a large concern of mine, but it's clearly something from what tad10 has communicated to us from the discussions, that is not representative of the final product in current form.
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That sounds to me like they're going to make sure that the destructible world gimmick doesn't have any meaningful effect. But at the very least it's a bullet point on a list of "ground breaking" new features, right? And who makes lists full of empty promises better than SOE? Working as intended.
This. Who knows how it will turn out. The class system makes me less enthusiastic for sure. Like I said in page 200 range I just hope they put CONTENT into the game instead of such an extreme focus on stuff like soe emote and the blocks being able to be destroyed. The gw2 class system is a straight cop out to not have to balance anything you just let the players pick the most op shit and then nerf that mother fucker. now the games balanced.