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Perry's Secret MMOG - A Beast Riding Game
The strange tale of the Massive game built by committee gets a little less odd, as a Q&A session with Jamil Moledina at GDC Austin unveiled some details about the MMOG former Shiny director David Perry has been working on. The 'Top Secret' Acclaim MMOG has been said for months now to be a 'racing' title, and Perry unveiled this week that it will not involve vehicles of any kind. Instead, the game will involve racing beasts of many kinds. The beasts can be bred and traded, used to engage in Player vs. Player battles, and will help the player explore the game world. For the first time since the project was announced, the idea of players using tools provided by IGN to make the game doesn't sounds quite so out there.
If they get this right it could be extremely interesting, but I get the feeling they will screw it up by making more and more high range beasts so what you took 12 weeks to earn before will become totally worthless in the next patch when they release and upgraded version which requires 3 12 week beasts to make.
Good idea, doubt it will go well though.
I like muppets.
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