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Topic: Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen turns out to be a real game (real bad, geddit?) (Read 332698 times)
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Paelos
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Sir T
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You'll then be able to wear the cloaks in both games
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Hic sunt dracones.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
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Falconeer
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I've always thought of them as sworn enemies. This is kind of cute. In difficult times, the enemy of your enemies is your best friend.
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pants
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Venkman
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At first I was thinking more like this: But then I realized it was more like:
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HaemishM
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More like this:
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Sky
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A cloak! Wow! Actual ingame screenshot:
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Threash
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Trending levels are continuing to fall, as the amount of updates they're putting out continues to rise. I suppose McQuaid's going to break out the "Miracle Update" here this week? AND LO, THE MIRACLE UPDATE HAS ARRIVED! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1588672538/pantheon-rise-of-the-fallen/posts/734671Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen and Shroud of the Avatar Collaborate for Crowdfunding
Good morning, Pantheon fans! We have some great news to share today.
Brad has been talking with Richard 'Lord British' Garriott this week of Shroud of the Avatar and the two of them have been brainstorming ways to support both games. The result? Backers of both games can now claim a cross-game cloak in both Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen and Shroud of the Avatar. To qualify for the special Pantheon/SotA cross-game cloak you must be a Pantheon backer at the Fallen's Special tier or higher and the SotA First Responder (Kickstarter) or Adventurer (post-Kickstarter) pledge tier or higher. You'll then be able to wear the cloaks in both games. Sign me right the fuck up.
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Merusk
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I really, really, REALLY want to give Lum a hard time, because TOTALLY COINCIDENTALLY he 'liked' this mockery of game design on Facebook today.
But hey, he doesn't set corporate policy and I don't pay for his healthcare.
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Ginaz
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I really, really, REALLY want to give Lum a hard time, because TOTALLY COINCIDENTALLY he 'liked' this mockery of game design on Facebook today.
But hey, he doesn't set corporate policy and I don't pay for his healthcare.
Yeah, its not really fair to take anything out on the wage slave peons that work for people like this.
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Paelos
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It sucks that anyone would be in a dire enough financial situation that working for these assclowns was the best option.
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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schild
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That explains where the $10k donation came from.
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p0rkbelly
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I'm waiting for Schilling to come on board to complete the unholy-trifecta...
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sam, an eggplant
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Now trending towards $600k.
I can't figure out why LB and posse would associate themselves with McQuaid and co. Shroud funded already. McQuaid's game probably won't. What's the upside? A couple of bucks from cross-promotion? With a game that's overwhelmingly likely to never pass initial conception, much less 9 months of gestation? Weird.
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luckton
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We're past the halfway mark as well. I'm sure Miracle Update #2 and #3 will be forthcoming this week and next.
Does anybody have the metrics on the frequency in which a KS gets funded to full after trending like this?
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Hutch
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Net effect of the "miracle" update: The Trending number has slipped to just under $600k. The Projection cone has widened, with the upper end breaching the funding line. If they keep going, even at their current trickle, they'll get their KS money. I want to see what investor they've got waiting to swoop in and fund their actual game development. Because as we've already noted, they're not even going to build a "niche" game for $800k. The rerolled thread has been arguing recently over the notion that a simple graphical LFG tool would retard community building. I love this game and it doesn't even exist yet
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Simond
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The rerolled thread has been arguing recently over the notion that a simple graphical LFG tool would retard community building. I love this game and it doesn't even exist yet I think I agree with you -- porting out and calling it a night works for me.
Awesome thread... it twisted and turned a bit, but mostly stayed on track. Great feedback too, thanks.
The distinctions between LFG tools and just flagging yourself LFG in chat and shouting you're looking for a group? The latter, old school way is a little annoying to others. I'm not sure why some of you *really* don't want any UI element that lists people near you who are LFG.
I shall return to the team the next design meeting and argue against dungeon finders. I really want to see this game built now, just to watch the inevitable implosion a couple of months after launch.
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HaemishM
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People who are against LFG tools really need to be punched in the dick repeatedly.
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Chimpy
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People who are against LFG tools really need to be punched in the dick repeatedly.
People who are disciples of McQuaid relish the idea of being punched in the dick repeatedly, so that won't change their minds!
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Daeven
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People who are against LFG tools really need to be punched in the dick repeatedly.
The people who are against LFG groups tools would probably like that.
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Fordel
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Everybody wins!
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and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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sam, an eggplant
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Yes, this game self-selects for masochism.
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Numtini
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What annoys me about this idiocy is that I'm probably a pretty good customer for a "retro" MMO. I like to group. I like meeting actual human beings. I may not like the auto-teleport to the dungeon, don't talk, ragequit if someone in the group isn't overgeared or lacks an encyclopedic knowledge of the dungeon systems, but I sure want some kind of LFG. Something like what WoW had before the auto-group combined with a global channel.
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If you can read this, you're on a board populated by misogynist assholes.
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Draegan
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The only LFG tool discussion that is worth having is whether or not it auto-teleports you to the dungeon. The answer is it depends on the game. Auto grouping is the best way to go about things. I even would like to see more social tools added to it like feedback, personal ratings and having the tool prioritize you with people you rated highly yourself, grouped with recently along with people in friends/guilds. I like my dick not to be punched for the most part thank you.
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Sir T
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There are situations where you would want your dick to be punched?
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Hic sunt dracones.
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HaemishM
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Perhaps there is a crab with claws firmly attached to sad dick?
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sam, an eggplant
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What I would really like is some way to be super powerful and awesome like a level 50 EQ1 character at initial release with cloak of flames, twin ykeshas, etc, and lording that over the noobs. But I don't want to actually receive the pummeling to my dick and balls required to get there. Nor do I want to pay out a lot of money, to eBay or elsewhere. Ideally there would be a very popular MMO with oldschool difficulty like EQ, and I would have unlimited GM powers to endlessly fuck with thousands of people, consequence-free. Make THAT game.
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Draegan
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There are situations where you would want your dick to be punched? I duno, but if I wasn't married and Scarlet Johanson came up to me and said I'd blow you if you let me punch you in the dick, I'd probably say yes.
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Hutch
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If Scarlett Johansen was making this game, the KS would be a lot closer to funded by now.
Especially if she was offering to punch guys in the dick before making them find a group and camp a once-per-week spawn for a 1% drop.
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Plant yourself like a tree Haven't you noticed? We've been sharing our culture with you all morning. The sun will shine on us again, brother
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Tale
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What I would really like is some way to be super powerful and awesome like a level 50 EQ1 character at initial release with cloak of flames, twin ykeshas, etc, and lording that over the noobs. But I don't want to actually receive the pummeling to my dick and balls required to get there. Nor do I want to pay out a lot of money, to eBay or elsewhere. Ideally there would be a very popular MMO with oldschool difficulty like EQ, and I would have unlimited GM powers to endlessly fuck with thousands of people, consequence-free. Make THAT game.
That might actually work well as a Dungeon Keeper style game, where you lord over your sim MMO masses and fuck with them. Work your way up the MMO company ladder from night shift GM to creative lead. Spawn extra dragons in sim leet guilds' planar raids.
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« Last Edit: February 04, 2014, 02:01:26 PM by Tale »
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tazelbain
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griefing sim?
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Tale
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griefing sim?
Isn't that kind of what Dungeon Keeper was? Messing with pesky raiding parties of adventurers and ruining their day. But no, I meant Sim Brad. Without the offline stuff (shudder).
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sam, an eggplant
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Griefing NPCs just isn't the same. Comes back to the eternal question. We all know it's great fun to be the wolf. But not without sheep!
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