It's been many years since I visited the site and even longer since I logged on. Somehow I managed to remember my old password.
I joined close to 15 years ago. I was a staff member for at least two and covered E3 for MMORPG.com in 2005. I was plea…
Vanguard Saga of Heroes. It was a valiant effort to recapture the feel of the first wave of MPOGs, but was pushed out too early and never was the game it could have been.
Auto Assault was another, but I don't know if it had all that much potential.…
I'd buy it just for nostalgia. I'd love to have the original EQ with all the original zones and mobs up through Velious. I would get a kick out of exploring Sol A or Misty Thicket, heading to the Overthere or riding the boat from Freeport to Butch…
I tend to agree. I have never been sold on HJ, even after an eye-popping demo at E3 2005. A lot of people were seduced by a very nice set of landscapes and character models, but I have never felt that the game would be one to inspire allegiance. …
A sad day indeed. God bless Laura's family and those who knew her.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all c…
What I find interesting is that anyone would be surprised or upset that Wikipedia is full of lies, mistruths, or slanted commentary. Such treatment is not exclusive to AoC. Take a moment to peruse the Derek Smart article for a prime example of wha…
"It's just lke when Blizzard says "10 million online!" when at least half of them are chinese gold farmers. "
Absolutely right. It's nitpicking to suggest that not all the active accounts are individual players. 250,000 (or whatever number) acti…
5) The Matrix Online - Wholly unsatisfying game experience. This ain't the one.
4) Star Wars Galaxies - Textbook example of how to take a highly anticipated franchise and fail.
3) Auto Assault - A car wreck of a game that was a bad idea from th…
Runescape is number 2 from a population standpoint. This page lists Habbo Hotel as #2, but that's not a traditional MMO. The list is from June and likely hasn't changed much.
After playing DDO & this game, I ran screaming back to WoW. I really wanted it to succeed, but there's just so much wrong with it that is endemic, i.e. not fixable. If it makes it to summer 2007, I'll be surprised.
Blizzard proved that the MMO player base is expandable, but I still think there are only so many MMO players out there. The limiting factor is time. As much time as it takes to develop a character, level it, etc., most people don't have time to pl…
300 players in Nek last night on Combine. I don't think the other servers see 300 people in Nektulos in a month! I ran around for 15 minutes before I killed anything because everything was getting killed the second it popped. Lag was bad, but exp…
Unbelievable. It's amazing to me that people on the forums act that way. You'd think they'd want Turbine to hear the constructive criticism this guy offered so it would improve the game, but instead they just attack the messenger.
It's one thing …
I was not very excited about AA when it was released. I had played it before and it seemed to me to be just another driving game in a multiplayer persistent world. Of course, I was only playing a demo that showed the driving mechanics, but I just …
I had this dissussion the other day and even posted about it here. My argument was that MMO designers/publishers have decided that the "EverQuest Model" (for lack of a better term) works, and that adding new features or changing the dynamic radical…
Try Auto Assault. It's different from the typical MMO, but it's fast-paced and fun and offers all the standard MMO features (grouping, crafting, housing, pvp, etc.) Also, DAoC is a good, solid game run by a team (Mythic) that is very responsive to…
Anarchyart said it well. I also like the big game world and the smooth animation. For an online game, there is extremely fast movement and the game doesn't suffer from lag due to the engine.
Oh, and jumping is a blast, as is tearing up a Pike t…
Originally posted by FaYkE
One im not sure how this would even work in AA. Not sure how a car would "heal" another car. Anothing thing is i dont know how the targeting system works in this game, if you click someone and you have them targeted or if…