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• • Once upon a time in a land far away ...

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    LOL i met my wife on Everquest and we have been through the succesion of  mmo's since , She  thinks pretty much the same although she liked her Minstrel in Lotro  a big factor was the story line / Lore  running through the game  ...../  Anticipates the coming of a quality mmo  < Locks Brad in the basement >

  • Posted: 8/15/08 3:42 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Once upon a time in a land far away ...

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    Originally posted by markyturnip
    

    Nothing against the content of your post, OP, but is punctuation really so difficult?

    
     

    Duly Noted i apologise for my  poor punctuation ,  i have edited  a little to make it  a bit more readable !!

    Did i mention another reason for my dismay at later mmo's was a growing unhelpful and sarcastic in game community population  ? 

     

  • Posted: 8/15/08 2:35 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Once upon a time in a land far away ...

  • This is not a troll topic more a sad remeniscince to mmorpg days of old ,  I cancelled my subs for AoC today mainly due to the problems with crashing out  and as i have a decent spec pc it became more apparent the game was being the issue which is a shame as i was at a point of enjoying playing and felt that feelgood factor in a lot of zones which ok not dx10 still look quite impressive .  

      I first started in 2000 with EQ which to my mind  and to this day no mmo has come close to. The  sheer adrenaline rush you experienced when running through Kithicor on your way to Rivendell   as it was just turning dark and thus changing from a lowbie zone into a kick a**e  undead level 50 zone was an example of the fantastic immersive touches that the game had  ( another funny one was watching Druids in Wolf form getting wasted by Gorenaires aoe in Dreadlands , always raised a smile 8-)   went through the usual progression after EQ , EQ2, WoW, Vanguard , Lotro then AoC  .

    I think i am now at a point of knocking mmorpg's on the head  as much as i would like to think the game developers design these games really putting effort and energy making them as exciting and immersive as possible it seems the market has become frenetic and just relies on hype to shift copies off shelves the bottom line being make loads from initIal sales and let the game limp along with minimum resources . 

     It really astonished me that Vanguard was a mess when Brad Mcquaid was involved , saying that  many years had passed since Everquest and maybe his vision was a bit blinkered by his past success ,i went back to play for the free month access but experienced a game which to my mind hasnt progressed a lot from its shaky launch , WoW was fun to a point  not graphically amazing but fun nontheless , Lotro once you got your class/rift gear and traits maxed out lacks at end game content  but is a polished game .

    Apologies for rambling but i am wondering what you old school gamers think about the present situation i would never actively set out to flame any game but cant help thinking if games developers arent jumping on the bandwagon and  rushing out half developed unworkable engines and  knowing there is a big hole in the market  taking advantage of it  ?

     

  • Posted: 8/15/08 1:28 PM
    Age of Conan