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The Hydlaa Plaza / My 2c worth
« on: October 08, 2003, 05:47:38 pm »
Im new to the MMORPG scene, and i say that this is a project im more then happy to stick around for. Planescape is at a fragile stage atm and it is at the moment what we choose to make it.
I find in many games certain things the user want to do cannot be accomplished because these features where never written into the game. Its like walking down a corridor and seeing every door be a simple texture on the wall, and only a door at the end being interactable with. a MMORPG shouldn\'t be that way, if you are going to create an entire world, that hundreds if not thousands of players can enjoy, then create that world. And it is our input now, during it\'s development that will enable this game to take the form of something brilliant.
The reason i never played EQ or AO is simply because of th price tag. It\'s bad enough that i have to pay $50AUS for a game, but then have to fork out an aditional $350AUS every year to play the game. This is clearly not worth it. If you spend so much time in a game, there is something wrong with you, it shouldn\'t take you away from life, maybe ease the pain of it, but not take you away. All i want is a game i can play with my girlfriend online, this has proven to be fun... and so, for a couple of full time students, a free game is what we need.
I think its a great idea, that at the moment players now get an input as to what should be in the final release of PS. It\'s something that you dont see much or get at all with games now. A developer will simply release a game to a few and based on 100 responces fix what they see fit. This way, you have an opinion poll on a larger scale, and it can only prove to be usefull if managed properally. A game should be what the gamers want, not what the developers see fit to give us. Much like a government, except more practial, as this works.
As for quests, not 2min and definalty not something that is 1000 pages in walkthru, but something that takes a few days to complete at say 2-3hrs a day is alright. I agree with Harwen in his definition of a quest, they should be challanging and fustrating, and provide something more then a simple hack and slash, but then not so complicated as to force you to do actual research outside of game time to figure it out.
Well i\'ve said enough for this post...i\'ll ramble more later...
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I find in many games certain things the user want to do cannot be accomplished because these features where never written into the game. Its like walking down a corridor and seeing every door be a simple texture on the wall, and only a door at the end being interactable with. a MMORPG shouldn\'t be that way, if you are going to create an entire world, that hundreds if not thousands of players can enjoy, then create that world. And it is our input now, during it\'s development that will enable this game to take the form of something brilliant.
The reason i never played EQ or AO is simply because of th price tag. It\'s bad enough that i have to pay $50AUS for a game, but then have to fork out an aditional $350AUS every year to play the game. This is clearly not worth it. If you spend so much time in a game, there is something wrong with you, it shouldn\'t take you away from life, maybe ease the pain of it, but not take you away. All i want is a game i can play with my girlfriend online, this has proven to be fun... and so, for a couple of full time students, a free game is what we need.
I think its a great idea, that at the moment players now get an input as to what should be in the final release of PS. It\'s something that you dont see much or get at all with games now. A developer will simply release a game to a few and based on 100 responces fix what they see fit. This way, you have an opinion poll on a larger scale, and it can only prove to be usefull if managed properally. A game should be what the gamers want, not what the developers see fit to give us. Much like a government, except more practial, as this works.
As for quests, not 2min and definalty not something that is 1000 pages in walkthru, but something that takes a few days to complete at say 2-3hrs a day is alright. I agree with Harwen in his definition of a quest, they should be challanging and fustrating, and provide something more then a simple hack and slash, but then not so complicated as to force you to do actual research outside of game time to figure it out.
Well i\'ve said enough for this post...i\'ll ramble more later...
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