Bushnell-" Violence against humans is something we never would have tolerated in our games.. but violence against Dots that was openly supported. Every day we had a new way to torment that dot from being smacked around by other dots or being eat by a big yellow duck."
quote "- They want to be able to gain power consistently, constantly reaching short term goals - They want to be able to come home from work, tired, play for a few hours, and reach some goals - They want this entire experience to be easy "
and this is why the diablo series was so successful. Honestly they could make a game that would sell by expanding upon diablos ideas and adding more classes, dungeons areas and such. Pure hack and slash with goals that are easy to obtain. This would satisfy the needs of a nice chunk of casual gamers while having the uber items and stuff for the hardcore types.
I am not surprised that they didn't talk to Mythic in regards to Dark Age of Camelot. Lots of little treadmills in that one.
First off you have the 1-50 treadmill which isn't so bad until you get past level 35.. then it slows down alot (unless you are being Powerlevelled)
Then when you hit 50 you have to start treadmilling the Realm Points to make your guy stand a chance in RvR combat..
While you farm the points you also have to farm the cash to get the full suit of customized spellcrafted armor and weapons so you can make your guy more effective in RvR combat, then you can farm more money for a shiney new house.. oh and if you don't have a buffbot you will more than likely get your ass handed to you by those who do.
Farm exp and gold, then RPs and gold then more gold and more gold.
Being a crafter is a boring treadmill as well. Farm gold, diamond seals, crappy weapons with weird stats.. make lots of hinges, craft some more.. farm more get more seals.. yadda yadda.
If you want to enjoy the RvR aspect of the game you will have a hard time if you are a fairly casual player.. since that twinked out Inflitrator or whatever will drop you in a second.
The only right good ole Mericans have is the right to pay for the new Metallica.. and if they don't like it then let the fury of RIAA rain upon them!!!
oh sorry was channelling Hilary Rosen for a minute... ewww.. I feel dirty now.
reinvent the series go with a completely new interface and style with of course the classic features of the Tomb Raider series..
If it where up to me I would drop the cartoony Uber tit look of Lara Croft, keep her sexy but more real looking, take a pinch of Splinter Cell.. a hint of GTA(being free with what you can do) and steal a chunk from Metroid Prime. Add a good backstory, throw some actual history onto the tresures you are nicking and throw a bit of first person in there as well.
Dungeon Siege was pretty fricking boring.. looked great ran well, easy to play... wait no I didn't really have to play it.. the toons played the game itself. Other than a few special abilites it felt like the game was on auto pilot.
Way to linear as well, follow the path kill monsters get stronger follow path monsters get harder kill monsters..
Lets hope the 2nd incarnation will add some meat to this potato.
The post in your first link is from beta and there is a nice chunk of things listed which are fixed or never where a problem to begin with.
for example.. the bazaar. lists way more than just 100 items (its called hit the next page listing) you can search for items in your city.. other cities and other planets.
there is more but I don't feel like listing them all.
Man your post sounds like it came right off of the IGN boards.
"What is more out of character for the Star Wars Universe? 100 Jedi running around with different color lightsabres like attack of the clones, or 100 people running around mos eisley with rocket launchers and three rancors a piece yelling "N E ONE WANT 2 GO HUNTIN"?
"
Considering the game takes place after the first death star was destroyed having 100's of jedi's running around wouldn't be very star wars like either.
Creature handlers are flavor of the month.. they want the rancors because they look cool... but there is lots of other creatures that would smack down there rancor in a second.
Pretty much that entails the simple puzzles that have become a staple in the DQ series as well as searching in jars, cubboards and other areas for Tiny Medals and other items.
As a big fan of his art I am glad they are going 3-d. The monster and character art for the entire DQ series has always been great. Will the wonderful weapons that Toriyama created be rendered as well.. I would love to see something like the multi-edge sword in 3-d.
This guy was just a few clicks away from being completely automatic. More than once my little guy would run off by himself without my control and run through a chunk of dungeon just leading from one monster to another...
not sure if they ever fixed that.. since the excitement of not doing anything waned thin real quick.
The only thing I hate more than the person who named there guy BONG WALTER is those morons who take really obvious fantasy character names and respell them a bit to get past the filters.
You would be amazed how many different ways you can spell Legolas...
Oh well... back to playing my Troll Shaman..... DEEZ NUTS
The directional pad had always sucked.. but when the buttons stopped working or not triggering right then I just tossed it.
The feel of the controller felt great but for me it didn't last.. bad luck maybe.. (I never caught the gf smashing the pad against the ground when she would get killed in SMB3 but... you never know)
anyways I'll probably pick up a gravis game pad or maybe just get an adapter and use a dual shock.
First controller I had for my PC was a sidewinder game pad... the buttons and directional pad stopped working with far less wear and tear than my old snes controllers ever got.
Then for some reason I bought another sidewinder pad years later... same thing happend.
Hmm lets see first off the show was not orginally targetted for children.. more of a young adult age group.. as well the show/manga is from Japan which has alot different standards than North American television. AS well if this show has any influence on children the parent should be the one to talk about the differences between reality and fiction.
1. Make game 2. Beta test for awhile 3. Release before the game is ready 4. Patch
You have to release before the "next generation" of game comes out.. even tho that next gen game will be releasing early to beat the next next gen game.
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Bushnell-" Violence against humans is something we never would have tolerated in our games.. but violence against Dots that was openly supported.
Every day we had a new way to torment that dot from being smacked around by other dots or being eat by a big yellow duck."
I am surprised I hadn't seen these titles show up on Something Awful's game reviews
http://www.somethingawful.com/games/
I think a few of this would hit the -40s
quote
"- They want to be able to gain power consistently, constantly reaching short term goals
- They want to be able to come home from work, tired, play for a few hours, and reach some goals
- They want this entire experience to be easy
"
and this is why the diablo series was so successful. Honestly they could make a game that would sell by expanding upon diablos ideas and adding more classes, dungeons areas and such. Pure hack and slash with goals that are easy to obtain. This would satisfy the needs of a nice chunk of casual gamers while having the uber items and stuff for the hardcore types.
I am not surprised that they didn't talk to Mythic in regards to Dark Age of Camelot. Lots of little treadmills in that one.
First off you have the 1-50 treadmill which isn't so bad until you get past level 35.. then it slows down alot (unless you are being Powerlevelled)
Then when you hit 50 you have to start treadmilling the Realm Points to make your guy stand a chance in RvR combat..
While you farm the points you also have to farm the cash to get the full suit of customized spellcrafted armor and weapons so you can make your guy more effective in RvR combat, then you can farm more money for a shiney new house.. oh and if you don't have a buffbot you will more than likely get your ass handed to you by those who do.
Farm exp and gold, then RPs and gold then more gold and more gold.
Being a crafter is a boring treadmill as well. Farm gold, diamond seals, crappy weapons with weird stats.. make lots of hinges, craft some more.. farm more get more seals.. yadda yadda.
If you want to enjoy the RvR aspect of the game you will have a hard time if you are a fairly casual player.. since that twinked out Inflitrator or whatever will drop you in a second.
The only right good ole Mericans have is the right to pay for the new Metallica.. and if they don't like it then let the fury of RIAA rain upon them!!!
oh sorry was channelling Hilary Rosen for a minute... ewww.. I feel dirty now.
90degree + full power + deaths head = friends who are going to slug you in the arm for killing everyone.
reinvent the series go with a completely new interface and style with of course the classic features of the Tomb Raider series..
If it where up to me I would drop the cartoony Uber tit look of Lara Croft, keep her sexy but more real looking, take a pinch of Splinter Cell.. a hint of GTA(being free with what you can do) and steal a chunk from Metroid Prime. Add a good backstory, throw some actual history onto the tresures you are nicking and throw a bit of first person in there as well.
but thats just my 2 cents.
When you think about it you'd be hard pressed to find that many.. somewhere someone is still playing and enjoying some of those old classics.
I guess I just am not up on these wacky new inventions.. next thing you know they will have ways to burn the documents instead.
but honestly I really never bothered to look since have no need of a shredder anyways.
Flame away. Not like you need my permission to anyways.
Read the article before posting? What is this FARK?
I wonder how long it will be before we see the first shredders that slice the documents into squares instead of long strips.
/Tinfoil
I know I will buy one.. they are out to get me...
Dungeon Siege was pretty fricking boring.. looked great ran well, easy to play... wait no I didn't really have to play it.. the toons played the game itself. Other than a few special abilites it felt like the game was on auto pilot.
Way to linear as well, follow the path kill monsters get stronger follow path monsters get harder kill monsters..
Lets hope the 2nd incarnation will add some meat to this potato.
The post in your first link is from beta and there is a nice chunk of things listed which are fixed or never where a problem to begin with.
for example.. the bazaar. lists way more than just 100 items (its called hit the next page listing) you can search for items in your city.. other cities and other planets.
there is more but I don't feel like listing them all.
Man your post sounds like it came right off of the IGN boards.
"What is more out of character for the Star Wars Universe? 100 Jedi running around with different color lightsabres like attack of the clones, or 100 people running around mos eisley with rocket launchers and three rancors a piece yelling "N E ONE WANT 2 GO HUNTIN"?
"
Considering the game takes place after the first death star was destroyed having 100's of jedi's running around wouldn't be very star wars like either.
Creature handlers are flavor of the month.. they want the rancors because they look cool... but there is lots of other creatures that would smack down there rancor in a second.
Pretty much that entails the simple puzzles that have become a staple in the DQ series as well as searching in jars, cubboards and other areas for Tiny Medals and other items.
As a big fan of his art I am glad they are going 3-d. The monster and character art for the entire DQ series has always been great. Will the wonderful weapons that Toriyama created be rendered as well.. I would love to see something like the multi-edge sword in 3-d.
Is there no end to there treachery....
:Ghost and Star Wars Knights of the Old republic...
First it was Halo.. which should have been the sweetest Multiplayer FPS for the PC.... nope.. Xbox gets it
Now its Blizzards Starcraft
I am just waiting to hear Halflife 2 and Doom 3 being Xbox titles first as well.....
This guy was just a few clicks away from being completely automatic. More than once my little guy would run off by himself without my control and run through a chunk of dungeon just leading from one monster to another...
not sure if they ever fixed that.. since the excitement of not doing anything waned thin real quick.
The only thing I hate more than the person who named there guy BONG WALTER is those morons who take really obvious fantasy character names and respell them a bit to get past the filters.
You would be amazed how many different ways you can spell Legolas...
Oh well... back to playing my Troll Shaman.....
DEEZ NUTS
yea thats the one.
The directional pad had always sucked.. but when the buttons stopped working or not triggering right then I just tossed it.
The feel of the controller felt great but for me it didn't last.. bad luck maybe.. (I never caught the gf smashing the pad against the ground when she would get killed in SMB3 but... you never know)
anyways I'll probably pick up a gravis game pad or maybe just get an adapter and use a dual shock.
I think it was my GF who broke the other one ...
she was playing all the Super Mario Bros (from the orignal all the way to Yoshis Island) and she would get a little crazy on the buttons...
First controller I had for my PC was a sidewinder game pad... the buttons and directional pad stopped working with far less wear and tear than my old snes controllers ever got.
Then for some reason I bought another sidewinder pad years later... same thing happend.
good riddance to crappy controllers.
Hmm lets see first off the show was not orginally targetted for children.. more of a young adult age group.. as well the show/manga is from Japan which has alot different standards than North American television. AS well if this show has any influence on children the parent should be the one to talk about the differences between reality and fiction.
1. Make game
2. Beta test for awhile
3. Release before the game is ready
4. Patch
You have to release before the "next generation" of game comes out.. even tho that next gen game will be releasing early to beat the next next gen game.
Hmmm lets see you have a Male player..
who plays a Female Character..
MP+FC= FAG
at least that is the mentality of alot of players I have met in Everquest,Dark Age, Shadowbane.
Of course there is alot of exceptions to this..