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The Chronicles of Spellborn: Part Four: Races and Classes
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Today, we publish the fourth in our series of features on The Chronicles of Spellborn. This time around, Jon Wood looks at the facts around the races and classes that will be available in the game.
In the last few articles that I've written about The Chronicles of Spellborn, I've talked a lot about things like sound and art style. Both of these subjects are important, and any first-class game needs to be on the ball in terms of these departments, but still, in terms of excitement, nothing compares to talking gameplay.
In this article, you can expect to hear a little something about what you can expect in making and progressing your character. We're talking about races and classes this time around, and, as is the case with most things in The Chronicles of Spellborn, it isn't all what you'd necessarily expect from a fantast MMO.
Races
In many fantasy-based MMORPGs, players are faced with a broad selection of character races. At the very least, you usually get the basics: Human, Elf, Dwarf and some kind of Halfling-type race.
The Chronicles of Spellborn offers only two races. Both of these races were once servitors and slaves to the "Eight Demons" (the bad guys who ruled over the world before it broke into small shards). Now that they Eight Demons aren't such a direct threat, each race is coming to their own.
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Read the whole article here.
Cheers,
Jon Wood
Managing Editor
MMORPG.com
Comments
Can't wait. Bring it!! Definitely looking forward to something fresh and TCOS is looking like it.
There's not classic stealth though. The skinshifter's 'stealth' is purely done by taking over the shapes of creatures from the world, not by becoming invisible. I really wonder how this is going to work out.
-- Xix
"I know what you're thinking: 'Why, oh WHY, didn't I take the BLUE pill?'"
And for the class you choose later on, I will pass too, I did not like that in EQ2. Waiting until you are level 20 to see if you like you template is a waste of time for me.
Get a life you freaking Gamer.....no no, you don't understand, I'm a Gamer, I have many lives!!
I think having multiple races and a variety of classes ( around 8-10, like most MMORPGs) give the game its own "oomph"
Having played many mmorpgs, classes with more than just 3 boring starting archetype, then QUESTING to see if you like it not is just plain boring.
EQ was alright when they did this, so this concept is not new.
There is no uniqueness to this game, even the classes are soo related to eachother, they offer no "specialty" to use.
take FFXI for example, they did a good job with their job system, having you reach a certain level to unlock new classes, and you can change anytime!
This job and race system just plain out bores me to death.
A game like this is going to fail, just like vanguard. my 2 cents.
same, still waiting for AoC, WAR, and willing to give that new sci-fi game a try.
Races were never that big a deal to me. It's purely a cosmetic thing, and as long as I have other ways to make my character unique, I won't miss it at all. The thing I'm worried about is no healing class. Even if they come up with interesting group battle mechanics that don't involve the classic Tank Heal DPS set up, some of us LIKE being heal bots. I find a DPS role to be incredibly boring.
There is plenty of info on their website, and loads ov videos floating around about the game. You just have to be interested enough to actually take the time to read/find/view them. They are introducing the classes one by one. You havent seen all the classes yet, no one has, as explained on their website. Also the game design is much different then the norm, not just new races. The combat system in particular is something that will set it apart from most MMOs, it actually takes skill. Not to mention the costume/armor-class freedom. There is much to look forward to here.
Races were never that big a deal to me. It's purely a cosmetic thing, and as long as I have other ways to make my character unique, I won't miss it at all. The thing I'm worried about is no healing class. Even if they come up with interesting group battle mechanics that don't involve the classic Tank Heal DPS set up, some of us LIKE being heal bots. I find a DPS role to be incredibly boring.
I think races creates who you are, it creates a bond with your character. And even though vanguard wasn't finished, it is still a bad game. I think it's a game designed for those with good computers, and people who like "good visuals". I've played the game, for the first 2-3 days, it was boring, it was laggy, it was ugly, it was digusting to see such a wonderful that HAD potential go to waste. If they worked on it a bit more, maybe it wouldn't be as bad as it is already. Anyways, Vanguard is bad, doesn't matter what you, unfinished or not, it is a bad game. It has no more potential when it first launched. Why? All these better MMORPGs out and upcomming.
I also find healing class exciting, i do too find dps boring. When i heal, it's like whack a mole with their HP bars :P.
Having a no healing class just made my opinion of the game go 2 scores down out of 10. current score is 5/10 :P
This article is laughable. The information presented is not new, nor gamebreaking, and lacks alot of additional info to the more sceptic public here.
First of all, when you create an article about classes and races, why don't you go a tad bit more indepth? For example, copying the raw descriptions from their website can hardly be called making an article, it looks more like stealing for your school essays.
When you talk about only two classes, even emphasysing it by adding the strange keyword to it ( giving the impression you yourself wanted the article to end negatively ) you should perhaps also give them some screenshots, video's or any other information about the countless of forms your character can take.
I can tell you, that if the movies I've seen still count after the Beta, you can make characters looking like the big tubby baker from next door, or looking like the skinny, almost skeleton like underfed son.
Instead of the general click-and-select skins, you can use a colorpalet thats almost equal to photoshop. Your looks are equal to whatever you fancy, you can preselect gear to match your taste, the ultimate roleplayers dream.
About the "human combined with beast lololol"
First of all, apparently some people can't take original skinning and modeling. That's fine.
However, some of you pretend it to be stupid, weird, foolish etc etc. I personally am very happy with this kind of setup. Playing something else than an elf on steroids is very refreshing sometimes.
I get the feeling, but this is purely based on ingame screens, that there is a sort of Soulreaver feeling to the game ( Personally I loved Soulreaver 1 )Twisted buildings, worlds and even your own character looks twisted.
and an oversized pic, link(jpg)
The people that responded so far, seem to base their opinions purely on the above article. You do not ask questions, you don't question the lack of information, you downgrade a game by 2 points on this abomination of an article. That's rather sad to be hounest.
Be more informed, when you still don't like it, at least you have your reasons straight.
Don't mistake the lack of a 'pure' healer class as the lack of 'healers', they are there just that the artical is that vague it shows the wrong picture..
Plus bit of advice read the main site, play the beta, THEN see if you like the game, don't judge it via scraps of information
Bring on the WARRRRGGHH!
Don't mistake the lack of a 'pure' healer class as the lack of 'healers', they are there just that the artical is that vague it shows the wrong picture..
Plus bit of advice read the main site, play the beta, THEN see if you like the game, don't judge it via scraps of information
Healers are for wimps.Don't mistake the lack of a 'pure' healer class as the lack of 'healers', they are there just that the artical is that vague it shows the wrong picture..
Plus bit of advice read the main site, play the beta, THEN see if you like the game, don't judge it via scraps of information
Sorry, but the main site doesn't have THAT much info and most of it is heavily outdated anyway. Playing the beta? How exactly? He has to be damn lucky to get in at all.------------------------------------------------
Playing: Final Fantasy Online: ARR, Destiny
Most memorable games for me: UO, GW1, LoTRO
You dont have a crystal ball and you like Final Fantasy.
You fail at opinions.
And about not looking unique? If you actually LOOK into their character creation its a lot like City of Heroes/Villains. You can wear ANY armor piece or weapon, they don't have stats, stats are done differently. They also use sliders for color and sizes of parts. So instead of using a ton of presets (which there are, one of the interviews specifically talks about not want to feel limited with two races) but you can also use sliders to adjust it.
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Anyway the information is out there and there are plenty of gameplay videos as well.