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NCSoft Launches New Game Sites

Posted by Zonk on from the everything-old-is-new-again dept.

The font of information that is E3 has dredged up two new sites for NCSoft's upcoming mmogs. City of Villains and Tabula Rasa both have new sites up with extensive new pieces of information. Tabula Rasa, in particular, seems to have undergone some massive changes. Where once TR featured screenshots of light spaces and beautiful creatures, the game that the site appears to show off is a gritty hell. It will be interesting to see what other changes have found their way into Garriot's newest project.

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  1. I want to believe by incest · · Score: 2, Interesting

    To this day, Ultima V is one of those games that I remember fondly, and would play again (if I could get the damn thing to run on modern hardware, that is)*. I have the cloth map filed away in my filing cabinet, and in theory, I still have the coin somewhere, I think (Ultima V came with a free coin; ostensibly because the player, the Avatar, was called to Brittania with it). Richard Garriot really had something with the Ultima series. It had some real class. You don't get cloth maps and crazy "magic" coins these days (Or cheesy, but thoughtful, pieces of obsidian--the transportation device of Ultima VI). Sigh. Now all the boxes are tiny and they just contain a game CD case, a manual, and a lot of promotional material.

    Is Garriot gonna do a non-MMO game again someday? Does anyone know if that's in the works? Not to knock the whole 'Net thang, but MMO games just don't suit my fancy.

    *Dear nerds: I'm too lazy to do this, not too stupid. And yes, I have a legal copy of the game.

  2. A commonality... by syrion · · Score: 2, Interesting
    It seems that all MMORPGs have a voluptuous woman who appears as the main character in all of their advertisements and posters. See: Everquest, Final Fantasy XI, PlanetSide, World of Warcraft, Lineage II, and now Tabula Rasa. Amazing.

    I wonder if she'll dance like Alizée, too?

    1. Re:A commonality... by Synbiosis · · Score: 2, Funny

      "It seems that all MMORPGs have a voluptuous woman who appears as the main character in all of their advertisements and posters." Heh, my philosophy for MMOG's: If I'm going to stare at an ass for hundreds of hours, it better be a hot ass.

    2. Re:A commonality... by snuf23 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Agreed! And people think playing female in an MMO is a sign of repressed homosexual tendancies. Come on it's an obvious sign of lecherous heterosexual deviance.

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  3. It's "Gritty", it's "Dark", it's "Fecking Clich by iainl · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Where once TR featured screenshots of light spaces and beautiful creatures, the game that the site appears to show off is a gritty hell."

    Oh Bloody Hell Not Again. What is it with every single producer of games, TV and film deciding that everything has to use the buzzwords Gritty, Dark, Sexy and Noir to pitch itself now. Ubisoft ruining Prince Of Persia is just one of many and varied examples. Even bloody Star Wars has to end on a downer just to keep the Fincher fanboys happy.

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    "I Know You Are But What Am I?"