All Posts by markyturnip

Originally posted by Amaranthar

I agree. But I'm so tired of it that I don't even want to talk about it much anymore. I've waited for years, the future looks very dim. There are a few possibilities (Darkfall, Earthrise, Earth Eternal maybe, probably one or two more), but we'll have to wait and see. But the big money isn't going to give us anything different. I'm about tapped out on the whole thing.

 

Oh, I haven't bought a new game since City of Heroes. Beta'd LoTR, too much instancing and grind. Keep watching, keep waiting. But I'm not buying another one of the same lousy experience.

if you don't want to talk about it anymore, why are you on this forum talking about it?

add: as per last post, this came across wrong - what I mean is, if you are that tired, just give it a break for a while. These things are so much more fun after a breather. If you are tapped out, use it - change hobbies... this will be here when you come back, promise, and you'll enjoy it all the more.

Originally posted by Lobotomist

I lost my interest in MMO's ...

I had enough ....

 

so... go do something else then

add: don't mean to be an ass on this, but you are a regular poster here and it strikes me - just empty your head of this genre for a while, go learn to play the guitar or something, and when you come back you'll find all sorts of entertainment will be there to be had.

a watched kettle never boils.

Wow - why did no-one tell me about this game before? It's really fun, and the combat is very cleverly done.I know the multiplayer needs a little more balance, but it strikes me that here was a really innovative way of mixing up different game classes in fast paced battles; kicks, shield bashes, ice slicks on the floor - and a skill based system... so much goodness!

I would love it if someone created an MMO which had this kind of feel to it... has anyone tried?

Originally posted by Thillian

What a horrible horrible list. THe site lost all the credibility it could possibly have. The one who wrote it obviously is very very young if he doesn't even remember the launch of not so old video game Pool of Radiance Ruins of Myth Drannor that could wipe your operating system or a launch of Elder Scrolls II - Daggerfall that was just unplayable. And there are tons of other examples that would fit there more than steam 2, vanguard or even hellgate.  

no list is perfect for all people, but "horrible horrible.. the site lost all credibility" - c'mon. Overstatement does not strengthen a comment, it weakens it.

Originally posted by olddaddy

Go back to WOW noob. POTBS is a great game, and even with declining player base will survive long into the next century. Look at Vanguard, it is doing great after all the WOW babies left. We don't need cry babies in the red circle. This game is for real men, and just gets better with each cancelled subscription.

 

 

I tried it, got bored, but was considering coming back. This kind of comment leaves me so cold that I will definitely not be going back. I know absolutely well that it is not representative of the player base, but I fear it will become representative of the player base if things continue like this.

edit: oh, just realised it was satire. apologies. still, it does highlight something scary...

Originally posted by Shannia

Do you think they should scrap AoC and focus on The Secret World?

 

 

then again, I just lengthened it by one more post

/bogglesatself

Originally posted by WootNation

Just wondering, would there be an option to turn off / censor nudity?

hey - if you find nudity disturbing, ok, i have no argument - each to their own.

But i have serious questions about the mental health of people who think decapitations are ok, but breasts are immoral.  In fact, I find that very disturbing indeed - it is ok to sever a head and murder someone, but unacceptable  to see breasts, the source of sustenance and life? wowee... what up with people?

Originally posted by nemo38

People should not be sickened by animated blood. Its just as violent as watching wile e coyote getting smashed with an anvil. But if your worried about it you can play a ranger where you won't have to do the fighting up close.

hmm.. personally i would not enjoy watching a coyote getting smashed by an anvil, but I am strange that way

All said and done, none of this makes the blindest bit of difference to me regarding wthether I will buy this game.

I never rely on one review anyway - and find that in aggregate the broad picture emerging from multiple reviewers is not too bad.

I tend to find that games in the 90s in metacritic are genuinely better than games in the 70s... shenanigans notwithstanding. If a review site is stupid enough to score according to ad dollars received, it won't be long til it loses credibility and clicks.. and therefore more advertising dollars in the long run.

be interesting to see if

http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/28965?page=1

makes any difference to the popularity of the tempest of set

What I would love to see in an mmo is the kind of moves you see in God of War - especially the parts when it goes all cinematic, and he performs a series of amazing stunts.

I know it would be a huge challenge in a large persistent world, but until something like that happens, MMOs will always appear a little pale next to the single players.

I appreciate AoC's efforts to jazz up MMO combat and  am very much looking forward to playing this game... but I don't yet see the leap forward visually I was hoping for.

Maybe it's better in the experience; MMOs always look far more dull in videos than they are to actually play.

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Fresh out : http://www.gamespot.com/video/927504/6187806/age-of-conan-hyborian-adventures-official-trailer-13

omfg...

Fast, fun and furious!

I have ore-ordered this game and have great hopes, but that video has a a certain kind of MMO robotic old gen feel to it to my eyes. The characters look a little wooden... some of the animations are nice but most are not very fluid. Ah well, not that I mind that much... but I simply don't see why the omfg fast and furious is warranted.

So, the support is basically a statement that any dev that genuinely follows these principles of open gameplay will have a ready and willing player base - rather than any actual belief in this particular game?

OK, I can see that...

I saw a post in recent topics, but had no idea there was a voyage century forum - where is it? It does not appear under released games, or games in development on the left hand side of my screen.

Makes me wonder what else I am missing.

Originally posted by page

 You may have a good point Safwd, However I know that mmorpg will delete post that get out of hand and will probably do the same for NDA breakers, after all i'm sure all the game companies pay the bill for this site, its all part of MARKETING.

I guess my quest has ended, they have all angles covered, were not gonna get anything good or bad.

I just can't get into 20 web sites of  exclusive features until I even know if able is REALLY able to pull it off, in both content and release dates.

Why do you use capital letters for the word marketing?

For the most part, forum dwellers here seem to be a relatively skeptical "show me and then I'll believe you" kind of crowd. I applaud this as its based on a realistic approach to the world.

So please help me on this Darkfall game.

Don't get me wrong - I love the ideas too. I think the description of what could be is wonderful.

But there is almost no evidence! Really, the screenshots are ugly, there is a dearth of information, updates can be months apart - I simply don't understand how this game has such a following?

How on earth can people be so excited about something that there is so little to show for? Is this a cult of some sort? Are there free drugs associated with enthusiastic forum posts? Are there babes involved? What is it ?Coz it makes no sense to me. I simply don't get it - please explain.

Intriguing - I never knew of this relationship. A bit of Cthulu would of course be very welcome in any MMO... and interesting to see it in a high fantasy scenario.

So, all said and done, is the answer to this no? There won't be any flying, floating, superleaping, fast running  etc?

I found a reference to a flying mount. Conan's reaction would imply they are pretty rare, but Pelias implies there are a number which are accessible to those who have the right words etc

From the Scarlet Citadel:

"True!" Conan paced the chamber like a caged lion. "With the fastest horse I could not reach Shamar before midday. Even there I could do no good except to die with the people, when the town falls--as fall it will in a few days at most. From Shamar to Tamar is five days' ride, even if you kill your horses on the road. Before I could reach my capital and raise an army, Strabonus would be hammering at the gates; because raising an army is going to be hell--all my damnable nobles will have scattered to their own cursed fiefs at the word of my death. And since the people have driven out Trocero of Poitain, there's none to keep Arpello's greedy hands off the crown--and the crown-treasure. He'll hand the country over to Strabonus, in return for a mock- throne--and as soon as Strabonus' back is turned, he'll stir up revolt. But the nobles won't support him, and it will only give Strabonus excuse for annexing the kingdom openly. Oh Crom, Ymir, and Set! If I but had wings to fly like lightning to Tamar!"

Pelias, who sat tapping the jade table-top with his finger-nails, halted suddenly, and rose as with a definite purpose, beckoning Conan to follow. The king complied, sunk in moody thoughts, and Pelias led the way out of the chamber and up a flight of marble, gold-worked stairs that let out on the pinnacle of the citadel, the roof of the tallest tower. It was night, and a strong wind was blowing through the star-filled skies, stirring Conan's black mane. Far below them twinkled the lights of Khorshemish, seemingly farther away than the stars above them. Pelias seemed withdrawn and aloof here, one in cold unhuman greatness with the company of the stars.

"There are creatures," said Pelias, "not alone of earth and sea, but of air and the far reaches of the skies as well, dwelling apart, unguessed of men. Yet to him who holds the Master-words and Signs and the Knowledge underlying all, they are not malignant nor inaccessible. Watch, and fear not."

He lifted his hands to the skies and sounded a long weird call that seemed to shudder endlessly out into space, dwindling and fading, yet never dying out, only receding farther and farther into some unreckoned cosmos. In the silence that followed, Conan heard a sudden beat of wings in the stars, and recoiled as a huge bat-like creature alighted beside him. He saw its great calm eyes regarding him in the starlight; he saw the forty-foot spread of its giant wings. And he saw it was neither bat nor bird.

"Mount and ride," said Pelias. "By dawn it will bring you to Tamar."

"By Crom!" muttered Conan. "Is this all a nightmare from which I shall presently awaken in my palace at Tamar? What of you? I would not leave you alone among your enemies."

"Be at ease regarding me," answered Pelias. "At dawn the people of Khorshemish will know they have a new master. Doubt not what the gods have sent you. I will meet you in the plain by Shamar."

Doubtfully Conan clambered upon the ridged back, gripping the arched neck, still convinced that he was in the grasp of a fantastic nightmare. With a great rush and thunder of titan wings, the creature took the air, and the king grew dizzy as he saw the lights of the city dwindle far below him.