<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>I am looking for a new game to play for computer, but have had no luck. I am tempted to play another MMORPG, maybe pick up DAoC again, or starwars galaxies, or maybe wait for WoW. Any ideas or thoughts?</div>
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I am looking for a new game to play for computer, but have had no luck. I am tempted to play another MMORPG, maybe pick up DAoC again, or starwars galaxies, or maybe wait for WoW. Any ideas or thoughts?
- Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>I despise RTSs, but I'm looking forward to Rome: Total War. That, next to Half Life, was the most impressive game at E3 for me. You can also pick up Medevil: Total War and the expansion for it together for dirt cheap ($20 Cdn at EB)</div>
I was there on that fateful day, were you?
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>If you go MMO so far I've been having a lot of fun with FFXI and CoH. FFXI's only problem is finding a group can take forever sometimes but it very fun nontheless. CoH just oozes style for the most part....a much more active battle system and great quest system makes for tons of fun....</div>
Dashing and daring, Courageous and caring, Faithful and friendly, With stories to share. All through the forest, They sing out in chorus, Marching along, As their song fills the air.
Gummi Bears!! Bouncing here and there and everywhere. High adventure that's beyond compare. They are the Gummi Bears.
Magic and mystery, Are part of their history, Along with the secret, Of gummiberry juice. Their legend is growing, They take pride in knowing, They'll fight for what's right, In whatever they do.
Gummi Bears!! Bouncing here and there and everywhere. High adventure that's beyond compare. They are the Gummi Bears. They are the Gummi Bears!!
Gummi Bears!! Bouncing here and there and everywhere. High adventure that's beyond compare. They are the Gummi Bears.
Magic and mystery, Are part of their history, Along with the secret, Of gummiberry juice. Their legend is growing, They take pride in knowing, They'll fight for what's right, In whatever they do.
Gummi Bears!! Bouncing here and there and everywhere. High adventure that's beyond compare. They are the Gummi Bears. They are the Gummi Bears!!
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Blizzard games are as fanboy as anything else. In its current stage, anyone playing 'casually' (say, 4-5 hours a day, which is the average for MMORPGs) will get to level 60 in about 2 months easily. Some beta testers did 50-55 in 9 hours, so that puts 1-60 at 120 hours, and let's say you're only half as good as a seasoned EQ treadmill runner, so that's 240 hours/4 = 60 days = 2 months @ 4 hours a day. At that point you can either do the same thing all over again on another character, or do the raiding game that no one has a clue what it's going to be about and hope it is actually going to be good. Historically, no MMORPG has ever got the raiding game right on release, which is why they take a stupidly long time to level on purpose so you can make tweaks to the proposed endgame as you watch what players can and cannot do. Actually, a lot of the blind optimism on the endgame is because Blizzard has ex-EQ players on the staff working on the endgame. Of course, this largely ignores the fact that no game I know of that tries to go to players to design encounters of any kind has ever succeeded, because if you get someone who truly cares about the game, you'll get an encounter that is way too hard. If Furor and Tigole are going to do what they claim to have hated in EQ all the encounters will just be stupidily difficult that the avreage player will just get slapped by them without any possibility of winning. Actually, that'd a pretty gutsy move, and the right move, but I really doubt Blizard can withstand the inevitable whine that the game is too hard.
But, if you make the encounters easy, then people will beat them too fast, and since there is no time to slow people's progress via leveling, that means you'll run out of content and run out of things to do. I suppose you could always gank people in PvP, but how long can you do that? Then you'd have to wait for expansions for new things to do, and we know how fast Blizzard gets those out.
While it's okay to play say Diablo 2 to level 70 or whereever you think is 'done' and start over, when you're paying on a monthly level people want the ability to progress, or at least the illusion to be able to. I really don't see a lot of people getting to level 60 and then keep paying a monthly fee just to do that all over again, so WoW's playability will depend on how its endgame go, and history doesn't look favorably on Blizzard's side.</div>
But, if you make the encounters easy, then people will beat them too fast, and since there is no time to slow people's progress via leveling, that means you'll run out of content and run out of things to do. I suppose you could always gank people in PvP, but how long can you do that? Then you'd have to wait for expansions for new things to do, and we know how fast Blizzard gets those out.
While it's okay to play say Diablo 2 to level 70 or whereever you think is 'done' and start over, when you're paying on a monthly level people want the ability to progress, or at least the illusion to be able to. I really don't see a lot of people getting to level 60 and then keep paying a monthly fee just to do that all over again, so WoW's playability will depend on how its endgame go, and history doesn't look favorably on Blizzard's side.</div>
<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Well the plot seems simple enough right now. I like the Undead back story, with the forsaken and such. Also in the game you get to assassinate Thrall, and Corine, and other leaders, it's pretty cool from what I've heard.</div>
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>You can call it relatively casual, but compared to the big picture, no way. For comapision, four to five hours is about how much Michael Phelps trains every day. If you're putting in similar hours to any Olympic athlete, it ain't casual.</div>
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Then why not screw the new MMO (*cough* new fad *cough*), and go back to an older MMO that has already had the time to create the endgame.</div>
Rosalina: But you didn't.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>I've known guys at past jobs who somehow managed to put in minimum 5-6 hours per WEEKDAY into EQ and UO (is UO still around?). And I repeat minimum. Don't know how they did it...</div>
