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What game are you looking foward to the most this winter?
metro.:
Exteel was fantastic, don't hate.
Aion is successful, saying it's WoW with different graphics while might be true it did have feature that Blizzard's template doesn't, which makes a big different. I know many-a-people that would chose Aion over WoW, regardless of previous ties. Tabula Rasa wasn't a BAD game per-say, Garriot just thought that bringing Shooters and RPGers together would double their fan base, not 1/16th it.
deadskin:
--- Quote from: metro. on October 27, 2011, 05:16:00 AM ---Exteel was fantastic, don't hate.
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No hate bro. I love Exteel.
I invested a lot of time (played for 2 years, ranked Lieutenant Colonel) and money (over $40 worth of NCCoins) into it. I founded a top 10 guild and helped several guildmates improve their games.
Also met some people there with whom I still play games with to this day.
But you have to admit it in the end that it was a niche game for a really small market.
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: deadskin on October 27, 2011, 04:54:09 AM ---They've made several. But only a couple were successful enough to warrant recognition (Lineage, City of Heroes/CoV, GW)
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NCSoft are publishers as well as game developers. They made Lineage and Aion. City of Heroes series were made by Cryptic studios and Guild Wars series were made by ArenaNet.
Likewise when I look at TOR, I look at what games Bioware made before, not what games EA and Lucasarts published.
TMRNetShark:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on October 27, 2011, 12:31:30 PM ---
--- Quote from: deadskin on October 27, 2011, 04:54:09 AM ---They've made several. But only a couple were successful enough to warrant recognition (Lineage, City of Heroes/CoV, GW)
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NCSoft are publishers as well as game developers. They made Lineage and Aion. City of Heroes series were made by Cryptic studios and Guild Wars series were made by ArenaNet.
Likewise when I look at TOR, I look at what games Bioware made before, not what games EA and Lucasarts published.
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You at least can't say that Bioware has failed at the MMO market before. Agreed, they had one legitimately bad game (Dragon Age II) but even then, I didn't think the whole team and talent from their KOTOR/DA:O games were working on DAII.
So in reality, GW2 looks like the better game because it's coming from a developer/publisher that knows MMOs and has stayed pretty healthy over the many years compared to the MMO giant. At the same time, I really think Bioware can really bring back the RPG in MMORPG. Time will only tell (and my hard earned money >.<).
AceHigh:
I think there is market for both, a friend of mine had a discussion about TOR, everything I mentioned as a bad thing, was sounding great for him. He was thrilled over static combat and everything following WoW formula. He even bought a new second screen so that he could do other things like surfing the web or watching movies while playing the game.
I guess the market wants those "chilled" MMO games, so I will not bother saying what is good and what is bad in my opinions in TOR, I will just stay away from it. For me the "RPG" part that I really like in single player games: the ability to change the world due to your actions, is now attempted in GW2 and Firefall. Those two are in my highest wish list.
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