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Putting The RPG Back Into MMORPG

Posted by Zonk on from the that'd-be-nice dept.

Garthilk writes "In the last two weeks since E3 I've read at least three gushing reviews about an upcoming game by Simutronics, called Hero's Journey. MMORPG.com gave it their E3 best of show award. CorpNews said it blew their pants off. IGN even had a good interview with the CEO of Simutronics. Warcry even goes so far as to say that it will turn gaming world upside down. The question still lingers though, can a company who has focused on text based roleplaying games cut it in the graphical world?" From the MMORPG.com article: "In a year full of big budget, big company titles, Hero's Journey offered graphics on par with all the major players and an extremely exciting look at their game play. E3 2005 marked a show where several high profile games were touting very similar features (state based combat), and in swept Hero's Journey with their innovative group combat, highly cinematic missions, interactive environments and hands down the best character creation ever put into an MMORPG."

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  1. A sure sign a character isn't in his proper role.. by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Leeeeeroyyyyyyyyyy Jhhhenkhinsszzzzzz!!!"

  2. Text based company in a graphical world by MrResistor · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would think they'd have an advantage. After all, a text based game can't get by on pretty graphics, it has to actually be a great game.

    IANAGame Programmer, but it seems like it would be a lot easier to slap some pretty front end on an existing good game than to create a good game to go with your pretty graphics.

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  3. Screenshots Here: by Trespass · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.play.net/hj/gallery/

  4. The problem is the "masses" of "massive" by snorklewacker · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can put all the thought and effort into writing intricate story, drama, and atmosphere into a world, make it as immersive as you can, fantastic or authentic, put life into your NPC's with detail, background, motivations, and aspirations, and create a world to enchant the player ...

    And he will have to share it with thousands of people who use the letter "u" as a pronoun.

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  5. Re:Old vaporware seeing new light? by nsxdavid · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yup, it is a totally new game. We started over. And we spent three years working on nothing but tools and design for the looming battle we intended to wage against medeocrity in MMORPGs. If nothing else, I hope we give the genre a much needed shove forward....

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