New World

RobXIII said:

But how much will be copy/pasted? I kid, but the week after this game came out, the last few end game zones were JARRING with how many times they pasted the same thing down (like fortresses, NPC setup, etc)

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This had such great potential, I don't know if its tech or time or ideological but looking at this map I can imagine a game where the narrative, skills, factions, world and economy comes together to make this a BRILLANT experience. Sadly we don't live in that timeline.

I thought this was an excellent MMO, only thing at the time it was missing an end game. We were running around every night opening chests. Its also hard to get back to a game like this after exiting so early. Especially when the people you played with are all gone.

That xpac stuff looks neat, and lifted from a completely different game from the one I remember from launch. I lost that account and would possibly play the xpac this weekend but having to level and do all the gathering shit again is completely uninteresting to me.

Springbok said:

That xpac stuff looks neat, and lifted from a completely different game from the one I remember from launch. I lost that account and would possibly play the xpac this weekend but having to level and do all the gathering shit again is completely uninteresting to me.

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From memory, they smoothed out the leveling greatly at some point when I checked back on this like a year ago. One of the pains was leveling from 50-60 at launch. The quests ran dry and either you had to grind the bulletin boards or grind mobs. There was a dry spot at around the mid 30s as well from memory. They also rebalanced the gathering shit too. But Im sure it still takes a shit load of time to level that stuff up. But honestly just pick one or two and jsut do them while leveling. I would not even try any of the crafting BS since that was a HUGE fucking grind and there is prob like 50% of the server maxxed out on the shit anyway.

game at launch had a somewhat interesting sort of lost world/mystery vibe storyline going to it, survivors in a strange new world.

But I guess that had too much of a colonizer vibe too it so they radically retconned the storyline and made it pretty gay and retarded, lost all interest after that

Cybsled said:

Eh the retcon was needed because it let them expand beyond 14th century Europe/China and make it a "timelost island". Want Roman Empire and Vikings? you got it!

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Yeah this is totally wrong, you can totally add all those things, in fact you can expand on them and increase the mystery, by keeping the original lore in tact.

We were all age of sail conquistadors and explorers in search of the new world and we get sucked into a vortex/whatever the fuck and end up on this cursed magic zombie island thing. We're all starting at now and building up this beach head.

As you explore more, new expansions come out, the island gets bigger, we're able to explore deeper into the jungle, find more ruins, and we find even weirder ancient ruins from explorers before us. ruins of Vikings who got shipwrecked here. Ruins of romans, egyptians, shit is this atlantis? you can expand it as much as you want every expansion because the island is this big magic mystery and we don't know shit about it other than its fucking cursed.

But they changed all that. We're all immortals, we've always lived here, one big happy family. The settlements have always been here, always occupied, we all live in harmony with one another. There was never any survival element or mystery to anything, we wash ashore when our boat wrecks and welcome to disneyland, watch your step. the Egyptian will take your coat and the Viking will validate your parking.

by retconning that all these other different groups were always there on the island, everyone is immortal so there was never any gaps the islands have always been inhabited then there was never any ruins or mystery, the entire world is known and mapped. everything is just built upon what came before. We're no longer lost explorers arriving at a mysterious Island we're the 50th group to go through the ride today at disneyworld.

The combat system is cool too. Refreshing after decades of tab target BS.