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We don't have a thread for it and honestly shouldn't, so gently caress it. I got Elyon: Infinite Realm closed beta access. Should anyone be excited for it? The answer is an emphatic "ehh". It's staggeringly "ok". Think bland kmmo themepark. Adequate yet not engaging. I keep closing the client because I'd rather watch youtubers go on about meaningless crap. Certainly nothing that matches even closely to Lord British's masterpiece. Have you bought your ten thousand dollar computer castle yet? WHY NOT hurry up.
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I booted up sota last night so see what's up with this thing. It's really odd, I mean, it's poo poo for sure. I rescued a girl from a burning house, she then followed me and she was killing skeletons for some reason, then I clicked on a boat and the game just ditched the girl and now I am in a camp in the middle of nowhere. wtf
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peter gabriel posted:I booted up sota last night so see what's up with this thing. You actually handed off the girl if you spoke to that guy (edward?) by the boat. Follow the trail to the right and it'll lead ya to where the captain is that you need to speak to The game gets really weird/buggy like after you make it to the captain camp, any or all NPC's you speak to will follow you around for about 20 mins for no reason at all.. The game doesn't hold your hand, which it kind of nice, but it also falls hard on it's face in a lot of areas. Not too sure of they took it out, but iirc most or all vendors work on a schedule. Got a bag load of unused weapons you want to sell? Head to the town merchant. He's asleep? Then wait 4 real hours till he wakes. I don't know about anyone else but the NPC Dialouge System had to be the most annoying thing ever put in a game. also if anyone was wondering, you can max out ALL your skills and crafting. FreeWifi!! fucked around with this message at 02:12 on May 9, 2021 |
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May 9, 2021 02:09
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(no more wipes)
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Gynovore posted:Sounds about right. I'm guessing that about half of those people played a lot in college/twenties, and are now professionals. They only play a few hours a month, but $100 a year is no biggie when you make $70K. I agree. I was a hardcore AO player when I had no job and it was most of my social life. It was decent, had plenty of skill/build customization and skill based pvp. Tower battles worked with a few dozen players, but got bogged down by lag with bigger numbers. But most of the MMO systems were derivative as it tried to catch up with Star Wars Galaxies and WoW. Graphics were sub par too. Eventually my friends all left and I saw no motivation to stay.
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Everytime I see someone post about Anarchy Online a part of my brain wants to play a bureaucrat zooming around in a spaceship and using the matrix/grid to teleport. The pvp mechanics were a bit meh, but aside from that it was UO-level great.
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Dante posted:Everytime I see someone post about Anarchy Online a part of my brain wants to play a bureaucrat zooming around in a spaceship and using the matrix/grid to teleport. The pvp mechanics were a bit meh, but aside from that it was UO-level great. I started on release day and played 6 months. It had a really interesting setting and some cool ideas, but oh dear god the bugs. Sooooo many bugs. And imbalances, and bad decisions. I felt like I was playing a game designed by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation... the fundamental design flaws were almost completely hidden by the superficial design flaws.
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Gynovore posted:I started on release day and played 6 months. It had a really interesting setting and some cool ideas, but oh dear god the bugs. Sooooo many bugs. And imbalances, and bad decisions.
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I played Anarchy Online during the closed/open beta, and at launch too. Everyone begged Funcom to keep the game in development for another year, that it wasn't ready for release, not even close to ready. Funcom ended up making the game free to play for the first 6 months while they addressed all of the serious issues. The game was a 1/10 rating at launch, it was simply unplayable for so many different reasons. Like even if the server stability was perfectly fine (it wasnt fine, but still), every single facet of the game was broken in some way that made AO unplayable.
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May 15, 2021 17:20
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Node posted:Hail to the King, baby.
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I am a Stupid Newbie. According to "the rules," I should lurk before I post. Thus, I am lurking still. I have lurked my way to this Post. According to "the rules," before I reply, I should ask myself the following question: "Does my reply offer any significant advice or help contribute to the conversation in any fashion?" Getting the hang of this, I have yet again asked myself that question, and yet again I have settled on an answer in the affirmative. My significant advice to you, Alexandre DeLarge, remains: Shut up, Idiot.
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Gwailar posted:I am a Stupid Newbie. Alexander DeLarge hasn't posted in this thread since 2017, friend. Did they post something bad elsewhere? Please share, if it's funny.
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Gwailar posted:I am a Stupid Newbie. Some people should take their own advice.
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Gwailar posted:I am a Stupid Newbie. get bent dude
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For some reason he went into 4 other MMO threads so far and posted the same thing. Is it possible he is a time traveler?
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Alexander DeLarge hasn't posted in this thread since 2017, friend. Did they post something bad elsewhere? Please share, if it's funny. I've encountered him on Reddit several times and he is pretty much the same old same old. His optimism for lovely Kickstarters must be absolutely soul crushing.
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DapperDraculaDeer posted:I've encountered him on Reddit several times and he is pretty much the same old same old. His optimism for lovely Kickstarters must be absolutely soul crushing. It might possibly be a different guy. "Alex DeLarge" is the protagonist of A Clockwork Orange.
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I've still not opened my boxed copy or even the parcel it came in.
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yoloer420 posted:I've still not opened my boxed copy or even the parcel it came in. Just imagine what that box will be worth in 30 years. People won't believe you have a piece of MMO history.
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yoloer420 posted:I've still not opened my boxed copy or even the parcel it came in. record a video of burning it unopened imo
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This game is free on Steam. If I just play the offline mode and pretend it's a really mediocre, at best, if I'm being kind, single-player RPG will I miss out on anything due to not playing it online? I'm not terribly interested in playing another MMO right now tbh. The little girl suddenly spawning as a second version of herself to follow me while the other character model stayed in the burning house was a nice touch that inspires confidence as to the quality of this game. FrostyPox fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Jun 30, 2021 |
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FrostyPox posted:This game is free on Steam. If I just play the offline mode and pretend it's a really mediocre, at best, if I'm being kind, single-player RPG will I miss out on anything due to not playing it online? I'm not terribly interested in playing another MMO right now tbh. It isn't even really close to mediocre, just straight bad. Probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference between online and offline. Just play a real game.
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Gildiss posted:It isn't even really close to mediocre, just straight bad. Yeah between this and now I finished the intro bit and uh... it's not good. Nevermind! RIP to all the people who crowdfunded this
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FrostyPox posted:This game is free on Steam. If I just play the offline mode and pretend it's a really mediocre, at best, if I'm being kind, single-player RPG will I miss out on anything due to not playing it online? I'm not terribly interested in playing another MMO right now tbh. In Online Mode you'll run into more abandoned houses than players. your not missing anything. On a funnier note, i got banned from the Steam discussion thread for SOTA. I called the game a steaming pile of poo poo.
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Online I bet you could at least get some whale to give you some high tier gear if you want to keep going. They really want to keep the illusion that they get new players all the time. In online, seeing the abominations that is player owned housing in this game might be worth a chuckle of you still have it installed. If not, 
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FreeWifi!! posted:In Online Mode you'll run into more abandoned houses than players. So it's set in Detroit?
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It's only like 10GB so I still have it installed. Maybe if I get bored of whatever games I happen to be playing right now I'll dick around in SotA for a laugh. I mean, I played through the entirety of Daikatana once, so why not this awful thing as well?
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FrostyPox posted:It's only like 10GB so I still have it installed. Maybe if I get bored of whatever games I happen to be playing right now I'll dick around in SotA for a laugh. I mean, I played through the entirety of Daikatana once, so why not this awful thing as well? Daikatana was better...
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If you thought having John Romero make you his bitch was bad just wait until you see what Lord British has planned.......
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I can't get over how extremely "90's generic low budget fantasy" the music in this game is. I can't get over how extremely "90's generic low budget fantasy" this whole game is. I wish Brad McQuaid was still alive so he could team up with Richard Garriot and Chris Roberts for the ultimate Boomer Video Game poo poo Show
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FrostyPox posted:I can't get over how extremely "90's generic low budget fantasy" the music in this game is. this is basically my dream team except i'd add John Carmack, he might have done exclusively FPS's but the man is a brain genius
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blatman posted:this is basically my dream team except i'd add John Carmack, he might have done exclusively FPS's but the man is a brain genius I think the main difference is that Carmack has actually produced some good poo poo in recent years The McQuaid-Roberts-Garriot triumvirate would come up with wild ideas for about 20 years and then produce some laughable poo poo like... well, SotA
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Just replace Carmack with Romero to stay on-theme.
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Hra Mormo posted:Just replace Carmack with Romero to stay on-theme. Sigil was really good.
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FrostyPox posted:I think the main difference is that Carmack has actually produced some good poo poo in recent years What was that third person actiony sci-fi mmo he did? That was kinda cool at least in the beta What’s the last thing carmack did? Rage? Rage kinda sucked
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I think you're thinking of Tabula Rasa and it was very mediocre. How much of that was Garriot and how much of it was NCSoft is debatable, I suppose, but I'm guessing it was at least 50-50. While Carmack hasn't done anything in a while I would argue his game engines have had a much larger impact on the gaming industry than anything Garriot has ever done (which is not meant to downplay how big a deal Ultima was/is, it's just that I'd argue the idtech engines are much bigger deals)
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Since q3a most of Carmacks games have felt more like tech demos for the engine rather than fully realized games. And that's fine since engines really are what Carmacks does. All the game aspects of the golden age of id stuff were the work of other people at the company.
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Carmack hasn't worked on a video game in a long time too, he left ID Software in 2013, and then got involved in some lengthy and very expensive lawsuits with Zenimax. So all of the recent ID Software stuff had nothing to do with him.
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I think it’s somewhat telling that Doom 2016 and Eternal are the best games id has put out since the big Romero / etc exodus right after Quake. Giving Carmack total control (or thereabouts) gave us some great graphics tech but some pretty mediocre games, all things considered.
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FrostyPox posted:I think you're thinking of Tabula Rasa and it was very mediocre. How much of that was Garriot and how much of it was NCSoft is debatable, I suppose, but I'm guessing it was at least 50-50. While Carmack hasn't done anything in a while I would argue his game engines have had a much larger impact on the gaming industry than anything Garriot has ever done (which is not meant to downplay how big a deal Ultima was/is, it's just that I'd argue the idtech engines are much bigger deals) I’m going to go out on a limb here and say the guy that functionally invented the crpg is about as important as the guy who invented the shooter. The Idtech engine seems like a big deal but pretty much is a drop in the bucket compared to source, unreal and unity.
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