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Ginaz
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You keep claiming the games are bad when they were very faithful copies and usually improvements over WoW.
That's a 100% ignorant statement. It's like saying a Honda Civic is a faithful and improved copy of a Ferrari because it has four wheels. Bullshit. WoW isn't that good when compared to something like Rift. The reason people played one for eight years and the other for two months has jack shit to do with their relative quality. Just thought I'd chime in and say this isn't the case, at least for a lot of people. Rift's combat and setting is nowhere near as good as WoW's even though on the surface they are similar. There's no, for lack of a better term, stickiness to either with Rift. Both the combat and lore/environments are very bland.
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Yeah, overall I wouldn't call RIFT an improvement on WoW's model, just a newer game. One which is ultimately blander and less noteworthy.
WoW remains the best MMO in existence, it's just that it's 1. played to death and 2. by now we honestly should have had an improvement in the model that goes beyond what WoW brings to the table, but we haven't.
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Lakov_Sanite
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No one wants to deviate from the wow model so most mmos have felt bland because they are more renovation than innovation. People say wow was all about polish but I think people forget how ballsy something like "soloing to max level" was at the time and how it's taken for granted now.
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Malakili
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Yeah, overall I wouldn't call RIFT an improvement on WoW's model, just a newer game. One which is ultimately blander and less noteworthy.
WoW remains the best MMO in existence, it's just that it's 1. played to death and 2. by now we honestly should have had an improvement in the model that goes beyond what WoW brings to the table, but we haven't.
This is basically the main problem. All of the "WoW-alikes" have made me just say "well, if I'm going to play this, I might as well resub to WoW where I have an old guild and a few characters so I won't have to start from a totally blank account." And then I either actually do go back to WoW for a month or two, or just unsub from the thing I'm playing and be done with it. Although recently, I haven't even made it out of beta in any of them. One of the nice things about all these betas lately is I can usually get my fill of the "new shiny" from any given title and be done with it before I even have to spend money on it.
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Simond
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WotLK-era WoW is the best MMO I've ever played. They've since ruined it, and no MMO has been as good as WoW was at that time.
This pretty much. Even the worst part of WotLK (Trial of the Crusader) was better than everything in Cata. It was the second expansion for this MMO, set in an arctic continent far to the north. Inhabited by viking-themed giants and icy dwarves, it also had a strong draconic presence including a temple and graveyards. There was a friendly animal-man race living by the shore, making a living from fishing. A strange mystical ore threaded throughout the entire land-mass, created from the actions of a powerful mythological creature. A hidden valley had a verdant forest full of life, and was guarded by an avatar of the nature-goddess. A buried prison held a powerful, monstrous being with god-like power who threatened to destroy the entire world if it were ever released. The player-base claim that it is the greatest expansion ever released for the game and some people say it's been downhill ever since, especially compared to the directly following expansion. tl'dr - you both sound like old EQ grognards reminiscing about Scars of Velious.
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« Last Edit: August 26, 2013, 06:01:54 AM by Simond »
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Rendakor
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I realize that, I was just responding to this post: We are making WoW the best compared to all other failed games, so technically according to some folks in this thread, WoW is the best mmorpg ever made.
and pointing out that, yes, during it's peak, WoW was the best MMORPG ever. Nothing I've played since (including WoW) has topped it.
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Surlyboi
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tl'dr - you both sound like old EQ grognards reminiscing about Scars of Velious. Boom.
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Pennilenko
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tl'dr - you both sound like old EQ grognards reminiscing about Scars of Velious. Boom. Headshot!!!
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Lakov_Sanite
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Has anyone under 30 even played EQ1?
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Rasix
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Well, they would have been teenagers while I was playing it in college. Seems possible, especially if they came an expansion or two late.
It's a bit weird that my peak times for both games was the ice expansion. I suppose I played each one so much that I just burnt myself out.
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Threash
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I know several people in their mid-late 20s who played EQ.
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Malakili
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Well, Wrath of the Lich King had several things going for it. Most people liked that expansion because it has accessible dungeons that anyone could do. Even using the LFG system you could find a group to do almost any heroic and actually complete it in a reasonable amount of time. With a guild group we could do almost any of them in under 20 minutes. Loot was available via badges and you could actually get them reasonably. It seems like that is why people remember Wrath of the Lich King as high point of WoW.
The lore stuff was irrelevant for the most part. I'm sure some people liked that the Warcraft 3 storyline was finally resolved - but how many WoW players actually played Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne? I'm sure quite a lot, but I also know a lot of people who never heard of Wacraft before WoW.
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Threash
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A new fun class counted for a ton also.
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Segoris
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Has anyone under 30 even played EQ1?
People here can talk shit about it, but Project1999 really did have a solid EQ feeling and there were plenty of people in their teens and lower 20's. Also, a friend of mine and his GF's kids play EQ right now on the test/free server. So yes. It was the second expansion for this MMO, set in an arctic continent far to the north. Inhabited by viking-themed giants and icy dwarves, it also had a strong draconic presence including a temple and graveyards. There was a friendly animal-man race living by the shore, making a living from fishing. A strange mystical ore threaded throughout the entire land-mass, created from the actions of a powerful mythological creature. A hidden valley had a verdant forest full of life, and was guarded by an avatar of the nature-goddess. A buried prison held a powerful, monstrous being with god-like power who threatened to destroy the entire world if it were ever released. The player-base claim that it is the greatest expansion ever released for the game and some people say it's been downhill ever since, especially compared to the directly following expansion. tl'dr - you both sound like old EQ grognards reminiscing about Scars of Velious. If only WotLK had SoV factions and a Coldain ring quest
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Sjofn
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The lore stuff was irrelevant for the most part.
Yuuuuuup. Although to be fair, WotLK was the last expansion where the lore wasn't 99% stupid, merely 80% or so.
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HaemishM
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Coldain ring quest Shut your filthy whore mouth.
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Simond
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If only WotLK had SoV factions and a Coldain ring quest I forgot the tank-n-spank gear check raid boss linked to the words "avatar of war" in the list, too.
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Lucas
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Interesting wednesday update: "Shiphand" missions! http://www.wildstar-online.com/uk/news/wildstar_wednesday_all_hands_on_deck_for_shiphand_missions.phpSnippet: Shiphands are ideal for doing something a little more involved than a normal quest with a few friends. They’re not as challenging as dungeons or adventures; they’re just a fun vacation from Nexus for about 15-45 minutes of your time.
And those experiences vary wildly. You could end up on an asteroid, exploring the mystery behind the mining operation’s sudden silence. Another ship might take you to a space station where the whole crew has started hallucinating due to a laboratory accident – and it looks like they’re fresh out of gas masks. You may even find yourself an unwilling contestant on the Darkspur Cartel’s infamous bloodsport reality show, The Gauntlet!
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zumu
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Has anyone under 30 even played EQ1?
I'm 27 and played EQ from Dec. 1999 through Luclin. EDIT: Removed inflammatory bullshit.
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« Last Edit: September 26, 2013, 01:53:25 AM by zumu »
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Ingmar
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Has anyone under 30 even played EQ1?
I'm 27 and played EQ from Dec. 1999 through Luclin. Kunark era was better than Velious era, imho. Velious set the standard to release new content instead of fixing old broken content. Luclin was fun if completely jumping the shark. I went on to play DAoC through up to trials. Could never get into WoW. Too much carebare dogshit to put up with before things get challenging/interesting. WoW is just EQ with DAoC combat and War3 graphics. But yea... now that we're done with the WoW vs Everything Else debate, can we talk about Wildstar? We *were* done with the debate, until you decided to reply to a month-old post with a bunch of bullshit that seems deliberately chosen to wake the fight right back up.
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zumu
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The post right before mine was posted literally as I hit preview. But fair enough, I'll edit out the inflammatory remarks.
Anyway, these "shiphand" missions seem like an interesting way to break up the normal routine of grinding. But it will be interesting to see how they implement them. I'm imagining glorified instanced daily missions.
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Typhon
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Leveling with friends? No problem! Shiphand missions are scalable from one to five players. Go it alone or bring in your posse; you can play it either way! And if you have a friend who hasn’t done it yet who wants a little company, you’re in luck – shiphands are repeatable. Some have random elements to spice up the experience of going back through, too. Damn you Wildstar! Why won't you let me just ignore you?!
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Ghambit
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Their marketing is beginning to sound like a 2am infomercial. "Want uber gems in your chestpiece?! No problem! Want ginormous tatas?! Got that covered! Not one, not two, but THREE tatas can be rendered!" Kinda tired of it actually; time to just produce and shutup.
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Lucas
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Draegan
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That shiphand thing is a clever way to be able to create new quests that you can rotate in and out of the world with interesting mechanics. You can create a small instanced area with different art and environments, different gravity coefficients etc and give people a fun scenario to play through. It should be a way to give you a change of pace slogging through a zone doing a typical quest treadmill.
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Mrbloodworth
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What is a "shiphand" mission? A Skirmish?
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Sjofn
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I hope it's a rip off of the LotRO skirmishes, those need to be ripped off.
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Venkman
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What is a "shiphand" mission? A Skirmish?
Themed periodic but not persistent side quests it sounds like, like the rotating seasonal themed quests GW2 has, though maybe not as calendar-based.
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Lucas
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« Last Edit: October 02, 2013, 10:00:21 AM by Lucas »
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Paelos
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Weighted questing objectives is actually a good idea. The rest of just the QoL stuff they are figuring out as players bitch.
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Pennilenko
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I find it interesting that they are making adjustments based on complaints instead of just burying their head in the sand or getting butt hurt.
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Evildrider
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I find it interesting that they are making adjustments based on complaints instead of just burying their head in the sand or getting butt hurt.
It's been like that for as long as I've been following the game. The addition of housing came about because of the outcry from the fans/forums.
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Venkman
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It's almost like they're actually reacting to the feedback rather than trying to just redo what they've always done knowing this time it will be different.
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Riggswolfe
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I know I'll get crucified for this but I am seriously on the fence about this game. It has lots of stuff I like: Sci-fi? Check. Housing? Check.
But...it also has stuff that turns me off.
Cartoony WoW graphics? Check. Emphasis on end-game raids and such? Check (from what I've seen.)
The rest is in the sounds cool but might suck category for me, character paths, for example.
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Paelos
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It's on the wait and see category for the attachment to large scale raids. If they are actively engaging with the community we'll see how that stands up to time, but I'm not really interested in playing another game where after release 80% of the assets go into content for 10% of the players.
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