I just wish everyone playing MMOs now could have experienced the sillyness that was the EQ original quest giver system. The quest giver would have a highlighted word in the text that they would say when you greeted them. Then you would have to type a question in say about that subject. So:
Quest Giver: Hello Sir Ruggedwang, we're having problems with the kobolds.
Sir Ruggedwang: (types) What's wrong with the kobolds?
Quest Giver: (gives the rest of the quest)
That's how they wanted it to work. But what it turned into is people realizing that it was just query words + subject that triggered the quest so it just turned into a ton of people spamming "What kobolds, Who kobolds, Where kobolds, When kobolds". Pretty hilarious stuff when there were a ton of people around.
that was exactly the coversation system Garriot invented for Ultima 4 in 1985.
actually come to think of it the one in Ultima was a bit more complex than that as there would be hidden keywords for some people that you wouldn't know to type unless you followed clues given by other npcs.
I just wish everyone playing MMOs now could have experienced the sillyness that was the EQ original quest giver system. The quest giver would have a highlighted word in the text that they would say when you greeted them. Then you would have to type a question in say about that subject. So:
Quest Giver: Hello Sir Ruggedwang, we're having problems with the kobolds.
Sir Ruggedwang: (types) What's wrong with the kobolds?
Quest Giver: (gives the rest of the quest)
That's how they wanted it to work. But what it turned into is people realizing that it was just query words + subject that triggered the quest so it just turned into a ton of people spamming "What kobolds, Who kobolds, Where kobolds, When kobolds". Pretty hilarious stuff when there were a ton of people around.
Quests were also often largely puzzles with cryptic clues in the game lore. Class epic quests were crazy!
I just wish everyone playing MMOs now could have experienced the sillyness that was the EQ original quest giver system. The quest giver would have a highlighted word in the text that they would say when you greeted them. Then you would have to type a question in say about that subject. So:
Quest Giver: Hello Sir Ruggedwang, we're having problems with the kobolds.
Sir Ruggedwang: (types) What's wrong with the kobolds?
Quest Giver: (gives the rest of the quest)
That's how they wanted it to work. But what it turned into is people realizing that it was just query words + subject that triggered the quest so it just turned into a ton of people spamming "What kobolds, Who kobolds, Where kobolds, When kobolds". Pretty hilarious stuff when there were a ton of people around.
Man, I don't even remember there being a highlighted word like that for quests.
I just wish everyone playing MMOs now could have experienced the sillyness that was the EQ original quest giver system. The quest giver would have a highlighted word in the text that they would say when you greeted them. Then you would have to type a question in say about that subject. So:
Quest Giver: Hello Sir Ruggedwang, we're having problems with the kobolds.
Sir Ruggedwang: (types) What's wrong with the kobolds?
Quest Giver: (gives the rest of the quest)
That's how they wanted it to work. But what it turned into is people realizing that it was just query words + subject that triggered the quest so it just turned into a ton of people spamming "What kobolds, Who kobolds, Where kobolds, When kobolds". Pretty hilarious stuff when there were a ton of people around.
Man, I don't even remember there being a highlighted word like that for quests.
It was usually in brackets like. "Hey what's the deal with that [dwarf] over there?" but there were also some hidden responses. I remember some in Plane of Hate being pretty funny.
It has a cosmetic treadmill that rivals anything Wow's ever done in the form of legendary equipment
That's just not my kind of treadmill. Fractals are close to my kind of treadmill, and I have confidence at some point they'll have a treadmill like apparatus in place that appeals to me without getting in the way of anyone else
Every so often I feel nostalgic for Everquest and then I remember camping mob spawns or corpse running for hours on end and that clears things up pretty quickly.
Every so often I feel nostalgic for Everquest and then I remember camping mob spawns or corpse running for hours on end and that clears things up pretty quickly.
I remember a friend of mine saving up plat to buy a fungi tunic for alts.
It was amazing.
The most amazing.
Unkillable Iksar Monk running around murdering everything for like 30 levels.
What's funny is they already have a great game they could take multiplayer. If Skyrim was multiplayer I'd be so happy. I just want to get 3-4 people together, group up, and play shit. Diablo multiplayer type games are comparatively better than MMO things like wow.
I've had enough fill of dealing with 8 year olds in skimpy armor bitch about upgrades. When it's just me and my friends after we make some kills and have enough time to divvy up the loot, we do so. No more herding cats = happy bowen.
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Every so often I feel nostalgic for Everquest and then I remember camping mob spawns or corpse running for hours on end and that clears things up pretty quickly.
I remember a friend of mine saving up plat to buy a fungi tunic for alts.
It was amazing.
The most amazing.
Unkillable Iksar Monk running around murdering everything for like 30 levels.
I was actually a pretty good enchanter in vanilla EQ. Didn't do much end game stuff, but man, it was such a rush to stop trains or lock down multiple mobs at once.
been watchin' some youtubes of Atari games for ideas.
Now I'm sure chat is going to get all judgey and shit all over this guy as soon as they see him (because that's what you people do) but he actually does a very set of reviews here.
One of my favorite thing to do in Skyrim was use the console to turn on no-clipping and just flying around the game map over mountains an rivers. Even on low settings on a 2008 MacBook with the shared 9400m it looked fucking gooooorgeous. I really wish I'd gotten to play that game on a powerhouse computer on ultra settings. I can only imagine.
cptruggedI think it has something to do with free will.Registered Userregular
How is Torchlight 2. I really enjoyed the first one. But there are just so many games to play for me right now I haven't even looked at videos of Torchlight 2.
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WoW is no longer the behemoth it once was. GW2 looks to be a vastly superior game.
That said, I'd be more enthusiastic about the idea of MMOrrowind if one of the defining features of Bethesda games wasn't "trivial to break balance"
A lot of dudes I knew played GW2 for launch and then went straight back to WoW for MoP.
They are fucking crazy. They may have also played WoW as their first MMO.
Those that came from EQ and DAoC... GW2 is by far the most superior game.
So little to manage that I can actually play the game instead of fucking "spreadsheet simulator 2012."
The lack of addons makes it even better, no one can tell me "hey we really need you to pick up the pace because you're using knockbacks instead of burning all your cooldowns to get that extra 10 dps."
Fuck those games. I'm sick of not having fun.
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I loved wow for my guild. I just can't go back to the game though cause its still WoW and I played WoW for a very long time.
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I wish gw2 was more fun for me
it was okay. Haven't gone back to it since a week or so after it came out.
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I loved wow for my guild. I just can't go back to the game though cause its still WoW and I played WoW for a very long time.
I'm in the same boat as you. Loved my guild but it slowly started to come apart and then I lost interest as time went on and just don't want to ever get back into it after sinking so much time in. Still, got to run with a good group of folks and kill The Lich King a bunch of times. Including a one shot run through. I was most happy about that one.
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I can't think of something more "generic current MMO" than this
that was exactly the coversation system Garriot invented for Ultima 4 in 1985.
actually come to think of it the one in Ultima was a bit more complex than that as there would be hidden keywords for some people that you wouldn't know to type unless you followed clues given by other npcs.
Quests were also often largely puzzles with cryptic clues in the game lore. Class epic quests were crazy!
I came home yesterday to around $900 in packages just sitting in the hallway in front of my apartment
Gee thanks UPS
Needs darkly coloured elves.
Man, I don't even remember there being a highlighted word like that for quests.
It just needs more endgame content and some kind of treadmill for me to run on, even if its artificial
It was usually in brackets like. "Hey what's the deal with that [dwarf] over there?" but there were also some hidden responses. I remember some in Plane of Hate being pretty funny.
That's just not my kind of treadmill. Fractals are close to my kind of treadmill, and I have confidence at some point they'll have a treadmill like apparatus in place that appeals to me without getting in the way of anyone else
1600s russia. Here's your concept art made 200+ years ago. Boom, there, done.
I was a leaf on the wind
GW2's high skill cap is nice, sometimes things feel a little disjointed but the basic framework of what they have is really something special
I remember a friend of mine saving up plat to buy a fungi tunic for alts.
It was amazing.
The most amazing.
Unkillable Iksar Monk running around murdering everything for like 30 levels.
Does it also make you feel like a dinosaur when I exterminate your asshole with an extinction-level-event deep dicking every night?
Wait.
Were they in the right apartment building at least? Our guy has trouble with reading comprehension
Uncanny Magazine!
The Mad Writers Union
I've had enough fill of dealing with 8 year olds in skimpy armor bitch about upgrades. When it's just me and my friends after we make some kills and have enough time to divvy up the loot, we do so. No more herding cats = happy bowen.
I was actually a pretty good enchanter in vanilla EQ. Didn't do much end game stuff, but man, it was such a rush to stop trains or lock down multiple mobs at once.
Now I'm sure chat is going to get all judgey and shit all over this guy as soon as they see him (because that's what you people do) but he actually does a very set of reviews here.
No one steals computer parts from me. Rattlesnakes don't even have hands, they wouldn't want them anyway.
I would be scared to death of opening boxes containing rattlesnakes though.
I don't regret eating a pile of hot wings and waffle fries
because fuck this shit
I imagine rattlesnakes would like hands if the hands themselves were just more rattlesnake heads they could use to both grasp and bite things
Some of them fucking hurt.
What's going on in this picture?
It looks like a very elaborate death-sled.
It’s not a very important country most of the time
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They are fucking crazy. They may have also played WoW as their first MMO.
Those that came from EQ and DAoC... GW2 is by far the most superior game.
So little to manage that I can actually play the game instead of fucking "spreadsheet simulator 2012."
The lack of addons makes it even better, no one can tell me "hey we really need you to pick up the pace because you're using knockbacks instead of burning all your cooldowns to get that extra 10 dps."
Fuck those games. I'm sick of not having fun.
it was okay. Haven't gone back to it since a week or so after it came out.
I'm in the same boat as you. Loved my guild but it slowly started to come apart and then I lost interest as time went on and just don't want to ever get back into it after sinking so much time in. Still, got to run with a good group of folks and kill The Lich King a bunch of times. Including a one shot run through. I was most happy about that one.