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Yeah I don't remember why I stopped playing it.
Can you imagine? What a horrible way to start a day.
No, he arrives headless and skinless and drained and ready to become delicious!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/08/the-most-important-story-in-global-economics-nobody-is-paying-attention-to/
I'M RICH BITCH
Hence my interest in Wildstar, instanced housing aside.
I don't see why that's going to be so much of an issue given that you can do a fuckton of stuff with your house as it is and can open it to the public or just your friends or keep it private. Having good housing at all is a breath of fresh air after lackluster EQ2 housing and a real lack of good housing since UO.
My wvw outfit is dagger/pistol and the shortbow. Shortbow is just a great general use weapon. AoE, escape shadowstep, and a few other tricks. Dagger/pistol and my utilities give me 4 blinds, 3 ways to stealth, and a daze. Controlling the fight is my goal. Not as much damage as dagger dagger but I enjoy it more.
ahem
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
I like housing less for playing interior decorator and more for owning a piece of the world, and if your house is in an instance, and the inside is its own instance it feels very disconnected from the actual world.
Like, you want a virtual world, and for me this abstraction degrades the world. I want fewer gamey abstractions and more virtual world.
This is not Lost Vikings.
Actually I didn't play much outside of their RTS games due to not owning the system or the game.
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
Google Xyson.
I am not gonna give up on Neverwinter completely, I want to see what is done with the foundry, but I'm not a fan of the combat, so I'm gonna put it to the side for now.
innnnnnteresting
I have gotten bad/lazy about keeping up with new movies since Ebert ramped down his coverage last year
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
They're claiming that the injured people are wearing plastic wounds and squirted fake blood in order to distract people from CISPA
That game needs more time in the oven but has a lot of potential.
Sometimes I get the strangest vertigo when working at a computer. It happens really rarely, but it is disorienting for a few minutes.
It's Blackthorn. It honestly might be my second-favorite of their games after Starcraft 1. It was just a really cool, well-animated puzzle-platformer in the vein of Out of this World or Flashback.
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
And another day goes by where I wonder how to monetize punching people over the internet.
The problem with virtual world is it tends to be technologically infeasible.
That said, I don't see why we don't have people going for a more retro/ragnarok styled actual virtual world game. You would be able to get away with a lot of things you can't in modern MMOs where you have to also worry about graphical limitations, 3D, etc.
Yes; it's a system that was essentially lifted from TF2's hatconomy. The game and all it's heroes are free and the game has a big e-sports scene, and it's mainly funded by sales of mainly user generated content on the Steam Workshop that gets reviewed and placed in the game.
When I was into DAoC and WoW I could play 14 hour days and I was fine with that. Now? I can't do that between school work, job hunting and having a personal life. And MMOs that move in that direction, which Wild Star seems to especially since its combat looks less actiony than GW2. Which I think is the bottom limit now.
I keep watching but nothing about it is grabbing interest.
Cool. It also seems that there's an entry-fee/buy-in for tournaments, correct?
And while Dota 2 is interesting to me, their naming conventions for their heroes seems a little...character-less? They all strike me as descriptions and not names.
oh god the graphics
the UI is also pretty rough, and I'd bet the complexities of the game are probably not very well explained or presented
there are cool games out there that have interesting ideas but the dev teams are so small the result isn't very pretty
Que?! WoL was great!
get a kickstarter
Wildstar seems to be very much about "play the way you want to play" which would seem to preclude it forcing you to do raids, etc. With any luck there will be plenty of content for people who can't hold down a raid schedule anymore.
yup
you can get video streams and VODs using ad-supported Twitch.tv or whatever, but to watch it in-game - with the ability to pan elsewhere on the screen rather than wherever the streamer is looking, for instance - you gotta give Valve the $$$
linkkkk?
We do, it's just there isn't enough money in it typically to develop a large MMO game of any regard for that niche audience. EvE being the exception, barring some differences.
Stuff like Xyson and Darkfall: Unholy Wars exist to cater to niche audiences and they remain that way mainly because of the brutal cycle of not having enough money to grow rather then just maintain and fix bugs/offer more mainstream MMO levels of quality in terms of graphics and the like, because the game doesn't make enough money, because it's too niche...
We have much to learn from the old ways and from both themeparks and sandboxes when it comes to creating better virtual worlds and experiences that are a hybrid of both.
http://i.imgur.com/k8Wpxbq.jpg
WoL was an unmitigated success by most metrics.
The only thing really awful about it was the story and...well, Blizzard has never written a good story.
(If you think Blizzard wrote a good story, I'll have you remember that you were 13 at the time)
I'd be happy with a virtual world like EVE Online if the gameplay were better executed.
It's pretty fun
I modified the samurai space bear though since I'm really just dicking around on Easy to understand the game better and toy with the various hull designs. I tweaked the racial perks a bit, picking up the gluttony and timid disadvantages and renamed the race
The galaxy will come to fear the Pooh Bears
I do hope they survive and grow, but I played it in alpha a bit and can testify to it being VERY rough in a lot of ways and relying heavily on owning the world ala Minecraft and fighting between player tribes as being the main focal points of the fun.
Warning: incredibly NSFW in terms of graphic images of bodies, injuries, and the ravings of people with mental conditions
http://imgur.com/a/Nx8EU