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PA comic: Wednesday Sept. 28, 2011
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Ensorcelled Representation of Medieval Europe™
We are? It is?
I've only barely glanced at trial periods of just two non-WoW MMOs in the past 7 years: EVE Online for a few days and Rift for about an hour. Haven't checked in on LotRO at all, and the names in this comic aren't exactly Tolkien-ish.
@SabreMau It's a joke based on a genre not an individual game. The newspost may reveal a specific inspiration but it is in no way required for the joke to work. I can't really believe you need this explaining.
Aldo is referring to the situation being recognisable in LOTRO at the moment, not that the comic is set there.
But in this case, yeah, I was sorta hoping there was some further context to enhance the joke's flavour.
I guess I should have worded my previous post better, though. Sorry Sabre.
But really, I just did get a quest reward that was faded huntsman cloak while I'm sporting a cloak crafted by the finest Elven craftsmen in Lothlorien. :P
Yeah, I laughed because this is ever RPG/MMO/hack and slash type game, ever.
I know, it's hard to think anyone with that sort of disfiguration would rise above the rank of lieutenant.
That is something that hasn't really been explored in MMOs. Maybe part of the magical properties of these fantasy game realms is that every item is guaranteed to be one size fits all? Perhaps a wizard is enabling everything to be custom tailored to your frame.
Pre 3e D&D had this problem. Finding a suit of gnome-sized super magic plate was just not going to happen.
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On a related note, Oblivion kinda did a good job of this sort of thing, where some quest rewards had their stats based on what level you accomplished things at. Then again, that was also flawed and shit so I ended up getting a mod that made those items scale with your level all the time.
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I seem to remember EverQuest had a lot of race restrictions on things. So certain race/class combinations were unwise.
That would make the most sense... but item-based quest rewards have never really been a Thing in Diablo. I can't speak for D3 'cause I'm not in the beta, but I would be surprised to find that a game that's so heavily looting-based would turn to be quest based.
All the games.
I love the way DA2 subverted the fetch quest so that you just happened upon significant items while adventuring, then you went in to town to find the person they belonged to and get your reward. No dialog trees, no trying to figure out where you were supposed to go on the map just, "Hey is this yours?" "Yep, have some gold!"
I dunno. They've made WoW in the meantime. I wouldn't be surprised at all if there's random quests with rewards thrown in too.
The Golden Bird quest from Act III in Diablo II comes to mind.
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
@Eddy Freemium is the correct way to describe it. Sure you can play it for free, but after a while you'll be expected to invest at least some money. But if you wanna try it out you won't be faced by some 1 week trial and level limit bullshit, you can dick around for as long as you like and see quite a bit of the game without having to cough up any cash.
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this here
this is a solid strip