Granted, it has been quite a few years since I played, but I loved using zerg to pwn carrier rush noobs like you.
Defilers + dark swarm + hydras + lurkers. I think dark swarm was one of the least understood abilities in the game. But once someone figured it out, it was quite powerful against the "air only" tactics.
Most of the bigger MMORPGS (before WoW), released new content/expansions every year, or even 6 months. It's been almost two years for WoW. That's on par for Blizzard. They take their time, but they do things right. It's their philosophy. And it seems to work. Even though it's a painful wait.
Thankfully, I didn't play for the first year. I'm only 6 months into the game.
They gotta have something to spend their millions of dollars on. They take in 50-90 million dollars a month. Their servers can't cost more than a million to run. Staff? Another million. You do the math.
I'm gonna second your comments here. I've played just about every single MMORPG out there. My all time favorite is DAoC. Nothing has come close to it's PvP. Three sides, with semi-permanent objectives. If there was one flaw, it would have to be the out of control damage. It can be fun to kill someone with two nukes. But it sucks to be on the receiving end.
I'm really looking to Warhammer. Mythic will be able to use their years of MMORPG and PvP/RvR experience to make a great game.
I'd rather watch Saved by the Bell than some of the DRECK that Adult Swim has showed recently. Tom Goes to the Mayor and 40 oz Mouse are two of the 100% crap shows that come to mind.
I watched Saved by the Bell when they originally aired years ago... and it's nostalgia to me. And from what I understand, it's only a two week run.
Dungeon Keeper has soooooooooooo much potential. It's a shame it was never expanded upon.
Evil Genius was nice, but I *hated* the world map. You had to constantly flip back to it every 15 seconds in case the super agents appeared. It felt tacked on to add difficulty when all it did was frustrate. Some kind of warning would have been welcome. But all you got was a number that flashed AFTER you had lost your men.
If I still programmed for fun (instead of for a living), I would make a DK type game.
EA is going to gobble up Mythic. Unverified, but Mythic is small, lost a lot of money on Imperator, and is vulnerable to buyout.
Mythic did not lose a lot of money on Imperator. They hadn't spent *that* much effort on it. And what they did create (technology wise) is being used for Warhammer.
I've played all the MMORPGs out there. Nothing comes close to Dark Age of Camelot. Well maybe WoW does. But WoW loses out on the end game.
The thought that EA will buy out Mythic makes me very sad. I can only imagine the following:
"We need to cancel Warhammer so we don't lose DAoC subscribers. It's better to slowly bleed subscriptions than it is to innovate and move forward."
The story of this sounds similar to the Amiga. (Sadly?)
Group of people get together to create the world's greatest gamng system. Company finds itself short of cash. Company releases "board" peripheral to make cash. (Amiga Corp produced the Joyboard. Infinium is producing the Lapboard.)
Of course, at this point, the Amiga went on to become the best computer ever made, only to be run to extinction by Commodore.
Bought it for my Amiga, along with the 512k expansion so I could play it. (Required 1 whole meg of ram!!!)
Stereo Sound, so you could tell which direction the monsters were coming from.
And killing monsters by luring them under a door and pressing the button. Whack whack whack whack die.
A couple of clones came out shortly after. Eye of the Beholder series (which was decent). And Black Crypt... an awesome (if short) Dungeon Master clone.
Years later, I found out Dungeon Master II was being released for the Sega Genesis CD-ROM with mouse. I bought the entire system specifically to play DM2. Unfortunately, DM2 was a piece of crap. Boy was I burned.
I'd add to the criticism of Poser. It has the most annoying interface ever developed. Half the screen is filled with a gradient. The actual work space is only allocated 25% of the screen. And if you do take the time to rearrange all the little toolbars, make sure you exit. Cause the program will likely crash, losing all your settings.
I had one of the first nForce 4 / AMD64 boards. For weeks I couldn't figure out why I kept getting disconnected from Dark Age of Camelot. DAoC is a rock stable program. Their servers are 100%. I have 7 other computers running DAoC through the same network connection that perform flawlessly.
It had to be something with the computer. After dozens of tweaks, rebuilds, driver reinstalls... It came down to the onboard network hardware and/or drivers.
I ended up buying a cheap network card. The disconnects have almost stopped. But ocassionally DAoC will still crash or disconnect.
I wouldn't recommend nForce 4 to anyone at this point.
I'm the author of Iconian, Picticon, and several other Amiga icon utilities. Ahh I do miss those big, gaudy icons... I get teary eyed thinking about my Amigas.
When I moved over to Windows 95, my first project was going to be an icon editor. Then I realized that icons in Windows suck. Such tiny little things. Sigh.
But seriously, the best icon editor I've found on Windows is the one built into Visual C++ 6. It's straight forward and no-frills. Very easy to use. And it's included for free as part of my line of work.
I tried some of the shareware crap out there. $20 to 50$ for some of the buggiest, confusing P.O.S. programs out there. Micheangelo in particular was VERY confusing to me. But everyone recommends it.
Sure, it was fun for the first few weeks. But you realize there is nothing to look forward to after you reach the end.
Went back to Dark Ages of Camelot. As did most of the people that had left DAoC for WoW. They are trickling back.
There was also a local BBS for my Amiga that displayed animated shapes and sounds using a special terminal program. It had commands to draw lines, circles, etc, and move them around the screen. This was prior to 1990 (I was still in school at the time).
So, you're telling me that if I BUY a music CD, it'll install software on my PC that could potentially be spyware, trojan or other crap? And it might do this if I just stick it into my CD drive via autorun?
Wow. You just made me want to download it from the Internet even more...
If you are talking about strictly resource-collection, army building, conquering a map, all in real-time then it's Powermonger.
Powermonger wasn't as popular and is overlooked in most debates, but it beat Dune 2 to the market by several months.
As a side note, Powermonger was in pseudo-3D. You could spin the world to view your armies as they traveled over mountains.;) It took quite a few more years before RTS's moved into 3D.
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Granted, it has been quite a few years since I played, but I loved using zerg to pwn carrier rush noobs like you. Defilers + dark swarm + hydras + lurkers. I think dark swarm was one of the least understood abilities in the game. But once someone figured it out, it was quite powerful against the "air only" tactics.
Most of the bigger MMORPGS (before WoW), released new content/expansions every year, or even 6 months. It's been almost two years for WoW. That's on par for Blizzard. They take their time, but they do things right. It's their philosophy. And it seems to work. Even though it's a painful wait.
Thankfully, I didn't play for the first year. I'm only 6 months into the game.
They gotta have something to spend their millions of dollars on. They take in 50-90 million dollars a month. Their servers can't cost more than a million to run. Staff? Another million. You do the math.
I'm gonna second your comments here. I've played just about every single MMORPG out there. My all time favorite is DAoC. Nothing has come close to it's PvP. Three sides, with semi-permanent objectives. If there was one flaw, it would have to be the out of control damage. It can be fun to kill someone with two nukes. But it sucks to be on the receiving end.
I'm really looking to Warhammer. Mythic will be able to use their years of MMORPG and PvP/RvR experience to make a great game.
I'd rather watch Saved by the Bell than some of the DRECK that Adult Swim has showed recently. Tom Goes to the Mayor and 40 oz Mouse are two of the 100% crap shows that come to mind.
I watched Saved by the Bell when they originally aired years ago... and it's nostalgia to me. And from what I understand, it's only a two week run.
Dungeon Keeper has soooooooooooo much potential. It's a shame it was never expanded upon. Evil Genius was nice, but I *hated* the world map. You had to constantly flip back to it every 15 seconds in case the super agents appeared. It felt tacked on to add difficulty when all it did was frustrate. Some kind of warning would have been welcome. But all you got was a number that flashed AFTER you had lost your men. If I still programmed for fun (instead of for a living), I would make a DK type game.
I've played all the MMORPGs out there. Nothing comes close to Dark Age of Camelot. Well maybe WoW does. But WoW loses out on the end game.
The thought that EA will buy out Mythic makes me very sad. I can only imagine the following:
"We need to cancel Warhammer so we don't lose DAoC subscribers. It's better to slowly bleed subscriptions than it is to innovate and move forward."
The story of this sounds similar to the Amiga. (Sadly?)
Group of people get together to create the world's greatest gamng system. Company finds itself short of cash. Company releases "board" peripheral to make cash. (Amiga Corp produced the Joyboard. Infinium is producing the Lapboard.)
Of course, at this point, the Amiga went on to become the best computer ever made, only to be run to extinction by Commodore.
Bought it for my Amiga, along with the 512k expansion so I could play it. (Required 1 whole meg of ram!!!)
Stereo Sound, so you could tell which direction the monsters were coming from.
And killing monsters by luring them under a door and pressing the button. Whack whack whack whack die.
A couple of clones came out shortly after. Eye of the Beholder series (which was decent). And Black Crypt... an awesome (if short) Dungeon Master clone.
Years later, I found out Dungeon Master II was being released for the Sega Genesis CD-ROM with mouse. I bought the entire system specifically to play DM2. Unfortunately, DM2 was a piece of crap. Boy was I burned.
I'd add to the criticism of Poser. It has the most annoying interface ever developed. Half the screen is filled with a gradient. The actual work space is only allocated 25% of the screen. And if you do take the time to rearrange all the little toolbars, make sure you exit. Cause the program will likely crash, losing all your settings.
I had one of the first nForce 4 / AMD64 boards. For weeks I couldn't figure out why I kept getting disconnected from Dark Age of Camelot. DAoC is a rock stable program. Their servers are 100%. I have 7 other computers running DAoC through the same network connection that perform flawlessly. It had to be something with the computer. After dozens of tweaks, rebuilds, driver reinstalls... It came down to the onboard network hardware and/or drivers. I ended up buying a cheap network card. The disconnects have almost stopped. But ocassionally DAoC will still crash or disconnect. I wouldn't recommend nForce 4 to anyone at this point.
I'm the author of Iconian, Picticon, and several other Amiga icon utilities. Ahh I do miss those big, gaudy icons... I get teary eyed thinking about my Amigas.
When I moved over to Windows 95, my first project was going to be an icon editor. Then I realized that icons in Windows suck. Such tiny little things. Sigh.
But seriously, the best icon editor I've found on Windows is the one built into Visual C++ 6. It's straight forward and no-frills. Very easy to use. And it's included for free as part of my line of work.
I tried some of the shareware crap out there. $20 to 50$ for some of the buggiest, confusing P.O.S. programs out there. Micheangelo in particular was VERY confusing to me. But everyone recommends it.
Sure, it was fun for the first few weeks. But you realize there is nothing to look forward to after you reach the end. Went back to Dark Ages of Camelot. As did most of the people that had left DAoC for WoW. They are trickling back.
And I own an x800 XT PE. Ya, the PE version. Got it several months ago, after 2 months of backorder. Since when did vapor mean "hard to get"?
I'm almost positive I could download and install Q-Link updates in the late 80's. Q-Link went on to become AOL. November 5, 1985.
And almost every online game does this. Ultima Online anyone?
Or am I missing something?
There was also a local BBS for my Amiga that displayed animated shapes and sounds using a special terminal program. It had commands to draw lines, circles, etc, and move them around the screen. This was prior to 1990 (I was still in school at the time).
So, you're telling me that if I BUY a music CD, it'll install software on my PC that could potentially be spyware, trojan or other crap? And it might do this if I just stick it into my CD drive via autorun?
Wow. You just made me want to download it from the Internet even more...
...leather babe or hot fairy chick. decisions decisions.
If you are talking about strictly resource-collection, army building, conquering a map, all in real-time then it's Powermonger. Powermonger wasn't as popular and is overlooked in most debates, but it beat Dune 2 to the market by several months. As a side note, Powermonger was in pseudo-3D. You could spin the world to view your armies as they traveled over mountains. ;) It took quite a few more years before RTS's moved into 3D.
One of the more unique RTS games I've played in a long time. It's as if the developers couldn't decide between an RTS or an RPG.
Advoid Lords of Everquest. What a load of crap. Sony proved that companies are just regurgitating the same old formulas.