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• • Champions Online: New Hire at Cryptic

  • I don't think this a bad or good hire I just think it is kinda weird. Roper did some nice things at Blizzard and what he tried to do with HGL (well it was different lets leave it at that ) but now he's involved with a super hero MMO? I don't know why exactly this just seems weird to me.

    Guess we'll see.

  • Posted: 11/04/08 12:47 PM
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• • Age of Conan: Age of Conan Review

  • Originally posted by xtravert
    

    I played the first month plus one additional month and decided that there just wasn't enough game play. onths it may be worth coming back and re-evaluating.

    
     Yeah that is exactly what I did as well. 2 months was enough. The reviewer talks about how player's characters and classes look the same at various levels from one another and I think that is right. But also one of the problems I had with the game is that my guy never looked any different himself! I basically looked the same at 10 as I did at 40 and that just doesn't sit well with me. I don't think that is much fun. I'm not a loot whore but... I am a looks whore. Give me some diversity and I will be happy. I felt the game was sorely lacking in that regards.

     

    The culture armor looks really nice but.... unless I am missing something about its implementation won't everyone continue to look alike once they have it? I mean is it customizable? I remember seeing a dev video before the game came out of what looked liked hundreds of models in rows with all the various gear you could get and that spin guy was talking about all the combinations you could have to look unique. What the heck ever happened to that? Lol, and how sad it is that I have to refer to that guy as the “spin guy”. I typed that without even thinking, lol.

     

    That lack of character "uniqueness" and the grind I seemed to be entering as the quests dried up were the reasons I left.

     

    Will I give it a try in the future? Probably not. I did go back to AO once it was more "fixed" and I had a great time. So I think the author was right when he said they have a history of cleaning up their mess. But AoC is an entirely different beast. What all can you do in AoC? I mean how many systems are there to alter and enhance? Alot? Not when compared to AO. AO was broken out of the box but even on day one the base was there and it was alot more diverse than what is present in AoC. Besides graphics and a "different" combat system I don't see AoC offering up anything that current MMOs don’t already offer out of the box. Just my opinion of course.

  • Posted: 10/27/08 12:48 PM
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• • Stargate Worlds: Exclusive Combat Video

  • Originally posted by Tails1
    

    im sure the game is better than what we saw on the movie,

    
     

    I bet you are probably right but... you don't want potential players who semi-follow the game to have to make that leap on their own imo. You better throw something out there that folks tell their friends about. I agree with what others have said... so far FS has shown nothing to warrant that word of mouth, except maybe some negative word to mouth by people who take MMOs more seriously than others, like all of us who read sites like this....

    I think they are kinda shooting themselves in the foot. Less is more FS. If you are really early in beta you still have plenty of time to hype this thing.

  • Posted: 10/26/08 12:14 PM
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• • Stargate Worlds: Beta Site Screenshots

  • I am going to give it a shot regardless. But I don't know... from the screenshots I have seen it kinda reminds me of Tabula Rasa. Makes me wonder.... Does no one else think this?

  • Posted: 10/24/08 1:13 PM
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• • Star Wars: The Old Republic: KOTOR MMO Officially Official

  • Its not only reason I want and like to play MMOs but since it is BW it really may succeed in creating a dynamic story that players can affect. So, imo, many MMOs have claimed that feature but no one, again imo, has pulled it off. Usually it just takes the form on one or two "dev events" that add a little something to game be it a new area or loot. It seems like they are just progressing a story that is really already set in stone.

    
    Like I said it’s not the only thing that sells me on MMOs and since it is BW I will be paying particularly close attention to this title. If anyone can make a story work in a game I think it is BW so maybe they will be ones to pull it off .

    
    That’s just one factor of course with the main factor being how fun the gameplay is. Given their past games I bet this one will be fun.

  • Posted: 10/21/08 6:33 PM
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