All Posts by Samuraisword

Does seeing a bunch of chickens add to immersion? This is the best mechanic they could come up with for preventing low level ganking? Paul Barnett, the creative genius strikes again.

Any old schoolers like me or new players tired of the linear quest driven games being released that want a combat experience oriented MMOG with a complex crafting system?

I hate linear quest driven games, give me more grinding. Combat experience is where it's at. Combat experience games lead to more grouping, longer grouping, more socialization. That's what MMOGs are supposed to be about.

Originally posted by tapeworm00

I fail to find the negative aspect to Warhammer being a game, beyond the obvious stupid fact that IT IS A GAME. Reality check: this isn't your ant colony science project, mate. No current MMO is, and don't pull that EVE or Vanguard crap on me, because it's not the same anyway.

I play single box games, I immerse myself in MMOG worlds.

There is supposed to be a difference between the two genres.

Best thing for Ryzom is a fresh start. They need to run an advertisement blitz of  a new launch and attract a lot of old school players who are disgruntled with all the new release crap that's out there.

Everytime I see Paul Barnett speak, I want to punch him in the face, he is so obnoxious. Calling Paul Barnett a creative director is like saying spaghetti is a delicacy. Paul Barnett doesn't have a creative bone in his body. Warhammer is WoW with a little window dressing.

I don't think you understand what instancing is, it's never optional.

If I am in a geographic area of the game world known as, let's call it "Forest of doom", then I want the ability and option to  see, meet , interact with, every other player who happens to be in that same part of the game world at that moment. If the other players have the option to choose to play in their private version of that area, then I no longer have a choice not to choose to play in an instanced game world.

Instancing defeats the point of playing a MMOG.

I believe EVE is still non instanced, it was when I played it. When you fly thru a gate you load a zone aka a star system, but everyone shares the same geographic area. There are not multiple copies of the same geographic area for separate groups of players.

Anytime a specific geographic area exists more than once it is an instance. Old school MMOGs like classic EQ and Horizons didn't employ instancing and I want to play a real MMOG like that again.

Originally posted by Downsy

Seriously dude, Did you think walking through the stargate was going to be seemless?

Or if they just trick you and make the loading screen look like the vortex, would that work?

originally posted by Splatzor

I have a question, what do you think will happen when you walk through the -Stargate- ?

That is pretty much my only question seeing as it will be a giant instance making machine.

Learn the difference between instancing and loading a zone before commenting next time.
 

I don't have a problem with loading zones, single copies of a geographic area shared by all players.

My rant is about instancing, I even defined it with examples. Geesh.

nevermind I was wrong

I sure hope so, this trend of instancing doesn't help build communities and enable random encounters with other players.

Also the trend of quest experience based games does not foster the type of cooperation that combat experience games created.

Originally posted by nezzajanda

Knowbody understands that the game JUST CAME OUT.  They still have to fix everything and add more content.

 Aren't you supposed to do this before releasing the game?
 

So griefers will now be able to loot those they grief?

Another game with instancing, how sad.

LoTRO was successful? I beta tested it and thought it sucked. Too much handholding, being led around the place with a quest experience system where you followed an obvious path marked by questgivers with icons above their heads and  a minimap with an arrow pointing the way. I felt so stupid playing LoTRO.

Where is the challenge? Where is the exploration? Where is the decisionmaking process?

Follow the yellow brick road......if only gamers were treated as if they had brains

I have never seen a company announce such massive changes to a game so soon after release. Funcom developers must be shaking in their boots with fear of most subscribers bailing.

Where there is smoke, there is fire.

Since when does raiding have depth?

So I am thinking let me check out Aion, heard it might be good. So I read the offical ultimate Faq thread in this forum, and there it is in black and white.

RAIDING AND INSTANCED DUNGEONS.

Enough of this crap already, raiding sucks and real gamers want a seamless non instanced game world.

Me, myself, and I. Soloing rules!