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Someone described it this way (I think on the official forums) and while I'd never thought of combat animations as a skill-reward relationship... it makes a greater-than-zero amount of sense.
Basically, he argued that the "reward" for playing a monk well is the beautiful animations. They really are quite good, and I do hope the older races/classes get similar quality animation remodels.
But yeah, overall I feel WoW does general MMO mechanics well, or at least in a smart, intuitive way -- though I haven't actually played other MMOs, so my opinion isn't a comparative one. WoW has also had the benefit of being a successful, popular game for 8 years now; it's moved beyond the basic issues of mechanics and is now struggling (imo) with more sophisticated issues like keeping the treadmill going, high-level PvE and PvP class balance (because hundreds of thousands of dollars of real-world money are up for grabs in league play), and the dual tensions of appealing to casuals/new players while providing challenges for the sperglord set at the high end of PvP and PvE.
Bethesda makes some pretty places to explore. Their problem is, beyond the gameplay problems, is that it is a place inhabited by cardboard cutouts animated with string by an unseen insane and incoherent puppeteer. Who is also lazy.
mash them together. An open world story and dialogue driven RPG. Bioware breathes life into the characters. Bethesda sprinkles their makepretty dust on the landscape.
best bits of the ideamakers for settings from both gets jumbled together. The boring gets excised with fire.
No, this would only be allowed if you were given more carrying capacity
How much time I wasted during the short time I got to play it shifting my inventory around and dropping shit I coulda sold for gold....
This is personal
fucking kill me
Just get out and run. It really sucks to get going and do it, but when you are done you'll be glad you did it.
I hate exercise, but I like that feeling of knowing I finished exercising, and I don't need to do it again for a while.
Half-heartedly arranging a GI Joe skirmish rather than a battle
Wearing a chicken mask with your clothes on
THINK BIG KAGERA
I'm behind on my work because "RMS can you look at this issue" is a daily thing.
status: open
assigned to: my balls
fuckkkkkk yooooooooooouuuuu
*fires giant matzo cannon at you*
i'm not sure i'm willing to boot into windows to try the game.
I'm behind on my work because I keep getting fucking busywork and user account form processing. I need to focus and get this shit done, but it sucks so bad and I just want to go work on the projects I'm running, but I can't because of this bullshit busywork I don't really care about.
For fuck's sake, hire an intern to do this boring data entry / account provisioning.
jog to chicago. i will squire you about town. at night we will play strip calculus and then go streaking.
also my stomach hates me right now
i trust ye not
Why can't it be like in professional wrestling where international tensions are settled through matches between broad caricatures?
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This would take $texas years and $alaska dollars to develop. The Tradeoff Triangle exists for a reason.
Fast, Good, Cheap.
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The forsworn? Ace. Briarhearts, baba-yaga ish witch things (I first encountered one at random. Or, I encountered the camp with all the goat heads and shit first. Thought "uhhhhh....". And then I heard that rasping breath.)
Giants? Awesome! Mostly because they're like, mostly just there and doing their own thing. Not just there and waiting for me to saunter over and kill them like all the bandits.
Randomly running into Cicero. That guy creeped the piss outta me so I was just like nope I ain't gonna help you for shit, I'm going to leave as fast as I can and then change direction like five times when I'm out of view because I'm getting a really bad vibe from you! (later I was at a mate where we played his save which involved him more and I was like okay yuuup I was right to be creeped out)
skyrim had uncool things.
Swinging swords at people was, on the surface improved, but then revealed to be just as dull as oblivion. clicky clicky clicky until their health bar drops. With fancy animations.
fighting difficult bosses did just get farcical. Because they'll just kill me dead super fast and there's nothing I can do about it, it always ended up with me running around trying to find some kind of exploit. It wasn't more difficult, it was just impossible at times. Which is bad.
You monster.
their games already takes ages and huge amounts of cash to develop!
As a Guardian Fighter my opening is Mark(If it's a bigger guy), charge, AoE taunt for damage.
Actually, this game already exists. Its called Acanum, and its one of the greatest games ever made.
"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing." -- Andrew Jackson
way to dispel negative stereotypes, hillbillies
God bless the Marxist Republic of Scandinavia.
no that's exactly what will happen
ok maybe not streaking cuz i live very neaer to a major police station.
lifting is great
From an RPG perspective the triangle is probably more like: big, deep, long.
If you want a slice of the MMO pie, you pretty much have to be different. And the subscription model is a very high risk operation, I wonder if anyone is going to try it on a new release. Maybe TSO.
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"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing." -- Andrew Jackson
Damn. Hopefully they are pressing charges.
Not that there's a jury in KY that would convict. Still, that's crazy...
Most of Arcanum is completely empty wasteland.
I'm fairly sure Skyrim is the most expensive RPG that is not an MMO or Final Fantasy ever produced. I heard numbers in the $80-$100M range?
In Skyrim you barely play a character though. Everyone throws quests at you, you either do them or you don't, and if you are lucky a single person cares about your choices (Apart from the people you directly kill). Sure you can pick how you look and how you fight.
It is my nature to do melee damage alongside a tank.
It is my true calling!
Also the GW fighter daily where you leap into the air and vanish for a second takes a long time, but knocking down everything on the screen with a huge BOOM is hi-larious.
There's an ability I haven't picked up yet that's a pommel bash to a single target to knock prone. I was trying to concentrate on peeling trash off our casters and clerics last night and I think that ability could be good to use liberally when mobs are going where they're not wanted.
Just an fyi, nott hat it matters, but I'd say a majority of MMOs are not like this at all anymore. That's more of the old school class of MMO.
haven't most recent MMOs been financial failures that haemorrhage players within six months of launch?