Is anyone else a huge lore guy? I love my lore. I've read the entire WoW website lore and revised all the hero characters for it and had several discussions about them. Sadly, I've not experienced such a great story in any other mmo that WoW has and probably wont any time soon. Anyone recommend any good story based…
I'd written a fairly lengthy wall of text dissertation on CRPGs and their divergence from the gameplay experiences of their pen and paper / tabletop / live action cousins; but I hit backspace after shifting the focus from the textbox, causing my browser to go Back, erasing all of it. So here's an easier to read feature…
summary of the EVE tutorials: "Congratulations! You have received your first <insert item>. Here is how to equip this item to your ship. First you need to train in the <appropriate skill>. <appropriate skill> will finish training in 1 hour." and you are on page 3 of 6 of the tutorial for that particular item type.
snemmy: here is a nice article on the mmo class trinity as far as customization: An idea I tossed around for customization of armor is allowing players with a blacksmithing trade skill the ability to reforge weapons and armors to change the visual look. I still like being able to tell what level the player is by their gear…
Good core gameplay is first and foremost. Every MMO is going to have grinding, why, I have no idea. If I'm going to be repetitively doing something for thousands of hours it had better be fun. Far too many MMOs exist where the combat is shallow and it doesn't feel right, it's as Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation put it "a shin…
WoW didn't ruin the industry, the industry ruins itself by trying so hard not to be WoW that they forget to include what makes WoW good in the first place. Also as someone pointed out on Massively the other day WOW's audience aren't really gamers, a large portion play WoW and that's about it. Oh and I'll go ahead and point…
Yozora, while there is no English dedicated online servers any more for any of the monster hunter games, you could pick up a copy of Monster Hunter Freedom United for the PSP. If you have a PS3 and can use Ad Hoc Party you can find some people to help hunt with you. Its not quite the same but its a whole lot better than…
I forget who said it, it was on some forum somewhere. Probably either here or on the WoW forums themselves. But they basically summed up grind MMO's as: "You're given a shovel and a pile of shit and you start shoveling the shit. Eventually you get a bigger shovel and can shovel more shit. Finally, after years of shoveling…
Here you go guys: http://www.glitchless.com/dawn.html The perfect game, it's been under developement for over a decade by game designers with "big ideas". It'll be amazing, probably just taking a lot time to beta test, you know, with the permanent death and all. I'm hoping it'll be almost as good as Diakatana. Keep the…
first 2 people I've seen that actually take interest in grinding!! O.O [ame] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caMsN86ygNE[/ame] Seriously wont you consider moving just a bit here and there in the map you are playing, while grinding? This is the worst example I could find. This instance is called Ruina Station, and the…