Monsters and Memories (Project_N) - Old School Indie MMO

Kirun

Kirun

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Gravel said:
That might be one of the best examples of their bizarre fetish with recreating 90's MMO friction. It literally adds nothing to the game. It's a relic from an era where you didn't really have "graphics." But let's include it because games 25-30 years ago did?

I dunno man, why not...put a fucking clickable item on the ground? Is that a bridge too far in 2026?
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You have to understand that, to a lot of the luddites playing this, that literally is what makes a game "old school." Apparently, you can only capture the authentic old-school experience by preserving as many archaic, outdated design decisions as humanly possible, regardless of whether they actually add anything meaningful to the gameplay.

There's a difference between preserving the mechanics that made old-school MMOs compelling and blindly reproducing the limitations of the era in which they were created. There's a reason some of those old design conventions existed in the first place. Sometimes they served a legitimate gameplay purpose, but mostly they were simply the product of technological limitations, interface constraints, or design conventions that we've since learned to improve upon.

But apparently, merely suggesting that you could modernize an unnecessarily clunky interaction without fundamentally changing the old-school MMO experience is tantamount to sacrilege. God forbid you make interacting with the world more intuitive. That might make the game too accessible, and we can't have that.

There's a difference between preserving the spirit of old-school MMO design and fetishizing its limitations. You'd think that distinction wouldn't be particularly controversial, but apparently, for some people, authenticity is measured by how many decades-old inconveniences you can faithfully recreate.
 
Siliconemelons

Siliconemelons

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There is something to how MnM feels - the combat, WAY faster than EQ... but... everything else /feels/ EQ-- way way more than patheon and itsbrowntown even did

Now if everyone could just SEE DECENTLY ALL THE TIME
 
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Siliconemelons said:
How over camped is it lol

any wearrat down in UD like mogged 24/7



Bro ill take 1.5g to run around
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Not sure, got into the entrance group. And they said there was another group deeper in. Honestly not sure how deep that complex goes. Jumped in the well early on in one of the open playtests, and learned about them there. That jump in did not go well.

Good exp and excellent cash tho. Some kinda caster loot quest with a book and pages too.
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