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Interview for Mytheon
Kheldon tips an interview with Petroglyph's Chuck Kroegel about an upcoming MMO called Mytheon, which will be free to play, but also involve micro-transactions. It's an action strategy game with RTS and RPG elements. He says, "The game starts in the Greco-Roman era, as well as Egypt, and as time goes on we'll expand throughout the whole world. Something everyone has in common is they all have their mythologies, these beasts and these stories that have come to us through legends and folklore. All the nations of the world, they all have their own. So in our game Mytheon, we can eventually fill the Earth in terms of being able to explore mythologies of all nations. It's an action/strategy game, with elements of RPG, and elements of RTS that people have to come to appreciate and enjoy."
Update — 4/30 at 17:30 by SS: The summary originally linked to an article stating that Petroglyph was working with Trion World Network on Mytheon. This is not the case; they are working together on a different game, which is the MMORTS previously referenced in the title.
Update — 4/30 at 17:30 by SS: The summary originally linked to an article stating that Petroglyph was working with Trion World Network on Mytheon. This is not the case; they are working together on a different game, which is the MMORTS previously referenced in the title.
...means 'sex' or 'strategy'?
I think this has some promise, but it would need to have an immense number of scenarios to play through. When I was playing StarCraft (and I assure you, I played like a crack addict) the main thing that kept me playing was the wide variety and type of scenarios. Who remembers the generic 9x9 defense maps of every flavor (lurker, sunken defense, etc.)? The RPG maps, where you could have characters that leveled and learned skills? The really awful paint version where you drew on the minimap with pylons to make art? Sure, the main attraction was the standard 3v3 BGH, but it was fun to mess around with the other stuff.
as far as i know, a lot of attempts have been made at something like this, and they all failed. I do hope this one succeeds tough; it'd be good to use tactics on such a large scale :).
The worlds FIRST MMORTS of high end gameplay is "galaxy online" They claim this title without even doing the research into other games, are they stupid? or just trying to make ass's out of themselves? (however Galaxy online is more of a MMOJRTS, u'll see what i mean when u go look it up)
Apparently the guys at Petroglyph haven't been checking out the competition. There's a nice list at www.mmorts.com including such cool titles as Beyond Protocol, Dreamlords, and Battleforge.
This sounds like an awesome game, but visuals make a huge difference in games. I don't care if it's shiny. If it looks like age of mythology, I'll be more than happy. The problem is that I know this will be 3D, so I don't want it to look like WC3. Sometimes, the drawn-out stuff just looks much better. I know that the meteor spell in AoM is MUCH better than the one in Black and White 2. And I'm quite sure more work went into the latter. The other aspect that I want is 3 races. Just 2 races isn't enough, as it's fun to have to prepare against/with many different races. And to respond a little more to the parents scenario topic, it's an mmorts, I doubt there will be any lack of scenarios, since there will most likely be few large elaborate maps. That, and you may have the entirely new aspect of diplomacy and having to account for the off time in the game, depending on what the creators decide what happens to your forces when you log out.
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This game sounds a lot like a MMO version of Age of Mythology, which was a very good RTS game. This looks very interesting.
"Something everyone has in common is they all have their mythologies, these beasts and these stories that have come to us through legends and folklore. All the nations of the world, they all have their own."
I can't wait to see what they do with the US. Will there be the mythical Snipe? Will we get to have Ben Franklin hurling lightning bolts at adversaries. What a truly deep mythology we have here.
Hi, The news article got it wrong. Trion and Petroglyph are NOT working together on Mytheon. They are working together on a different MMORTS. True Games and Petroglyph are working on Mytheon. I did not mention Trion in my news tip submission.
"and also involve micro-transactions"
That's pretty much all I needed to know. Better luck next time.
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So they're developing an MMORTS, an MMORPG, and an MMO all at the same time? That sounds like way too big of a bite to take.
It was definitely one of the most addictive games I have ever played. You really needed to work with your teammates to win a territory by bringing the right type of units in the field and supporting each others. The unit customization was also really good, you could go as far as removing all weapons from a tank to place even more armor so you could POC under heavy fire. All the supports type were awesome too: radar jammer, cloaks, infiltrator (you take the color of your enemy), scans, mines, etc.
That really brings back memories =)
You fixed the error about Trion working with us, which is good. Trion is working with us on an MMORTS, and that has been announced officially. You failed to fix the fact that Mytheon is an MMORPG, not an MMORTS...
Is an updated version of Shattered Galaxies. That game was really great fun. Hmm, maybe I should see if anyone is still playing that old thing.
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