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Smedley: "EverQuest Next will be the world's largest sandbox-style MMO ever made"
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Like gnome punting. *grins wickedly* oh, the fun....
They are looking back to EQ1 and Vanguard for direction, I'm pretty sure raids will have phat l33t. I would hope master crafters would be able to take those raid items and remold/improve the items. I also bet they will have MASSIVE raids like EQ1 did. Whichis something I miss in MMOs.
player genre rated factions would be nice. I could imagine the timeline being set at the founding of Qeynos shortly after the Ogre Empire was defeated and cursed by the gods. Players could become lords and help to build sections of the great legendary cities of EQ. Rivalries could form guilds/lords could place guards within their lands that they would have to purchase. Players that killethe guards would receive faction hits as per old EQ1 if it got low enough they would be be flagged and could be attacked by members of the guild. Players actions would also effect the guilds they were in, but at a lower rate, and guild leaders would be given tools to track this a d even forgive players or call for wars.
All the while keeping the amazing PVE EQ is known for.
What Smed said about the game is so non-specific, forum goers can't help but try to fill in the blank space with their own wishes. I think forum goers abhor a vacuum more than nature does.
Anyway, we're years away from EQNext being something peole can play, so until then, I'll just keep playing Minecraft and hoping the Minecraft API comes out sometime in this decade.
I can not remember winning or losing a single debate on the internet.
LOL
Well, thing is, it's Smed's game.
He may, someday, effectively ask you to stay out of his.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
This!! Yes, plz!
My biggest hope is that Ogre/Trolls are fat again (Yes, I've seen the concept art of the Ogre released like 2 years ago, and it's based off of the Luclin Models) Heres to hoping they scapped some of that design element.
The wait till SOE Live 2013 is sure to be a long one.
Hype Killer!
You know, devs continue to throw around hype and buzzwords like they were candy yet people still gobble it up.
MOAR! MOOOOAAARRRRR!
Long live the Hype Monster!
"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever." - Noam Chomsky
To preserve hunting grounds, quest zones and general landscape, I would agree to build zones as limitations. The real truth however was the new "Abandon strucutures" rules that helped eliminate those ghost cities and player houseing. Those features in a 90 day cycle took down unplayed houseing rather dramaticly. But I guess you guys missed that at the end.
A game that uses the same engine as a game to be released in a few years from now has some security issues before it even releases. Therefore, the game that releases in a few years from now will be hacked and have the same security issues. Seems logical to me.
We haven't even seen a screen shot, the game doesn't even have a released logo, website, anything.. I wouldn't be worrying about h4xx0rz yet.
Speaking of, tweet bomb Smed about launching EQN forums or something?
Well PS2 isn't out yet which means they can tighten up the problem right? Also, if issues are coming up with the engine in PS2 those fixes and/or upgrades would then be given to EQN as well right? Not seeing the doom and gloom yet. Props to you and the few YouTube users that are letting SoE know about this
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True. Once a game is set to use an engine, no changes can be made. SOE can't increase security or update code. Especially with only a few years until EQ Next actually comes out.
I guess detection > prevention at that rate.
Anyway, guess PS2 will be a good experiment to watch in the meantime to see how the engine holds up.
What art direction do you hope to see in EQN?
SWG was a sandbox and it didn't have FFA PvP. PvP was toggled on or off. Also, DAoC had FFA PvP servers as well. PvP isn't a sandbox feature IMHO. Its just a MMO feature, which can be seen in both Themepark and Sandbox games.
Hang on we get to play the sandbox parts only if we sub? So the riff-raff are kept out? Sounds great.
Themeparks didn't exist until WoW came out. DAoC is not a themepark. It's not a sandbox either, it's just a MMORPG.
The term themepark is used to describe games that remind a person of its real world counterpart. WoW is the first themepark MMORPG, because it was the first MMORPG to take away the need for group leveling, and in its place put soloable quest hubs throughout every zone where people collect quests, do them, and then return to turn them in. WoW guided you from one zone to the next, so that you were never left guessing what you should do next and where.
DAoC was nothing like that. In fact, before WoW came out, the only quests to really be found were tied to your class faction. Those quests only came about every 5 levels and were called Epic Quests. The bulk of your leveling was done in a group, and that group leveled up either in the open world, open dungeons, or persistent battlegrounds.
Once again, DAoC was not a themepark, because there was no direction from the game on what to do, when to do it, nor were there quest hubs.
This was last year, i know they have changed the feature but i can't see them redoing the Art.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cp3j-7yz3I
The art style yes but who knows on the textures. The last picture was from last year and could be the same but the upper two were from '10 and the first picture, which was an in game shot was on the other engine and is poof. Can you imagine this face using SoEMote? Yum.
As far as art style goes I'm hoping for mystical places but that slowly blend together and doesnt seem like different themes boxed together. Character art would be standard fantasy but with a little flair... or a lot at times. Plate armor is great but plate armor studded with frosting ice shards is even better.
Perhaps the only way of seeing anything now that will give you some idea is PS2.
This screenshot is very nice even though it is PS2.
All of that particle fog. oh my...hang in there, rapidly aging GPU, hang in there :upload a candy heart for the GPU:
I hate particles, still. Sign of how old the Gamer is, I guess. Wonder if I should order a new one.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
You're not kidding and hopefully those effects are toggleable. There is a video of Smed introducing Forgelight and he runs down the list of what it can do, Nvidia Physx being one of them and claimed a wide range if machines can run it.
Rimmersman
I agree that PS2 is the best bet to see what EQN will look like setting wise. As great a game as PS2 seems to be I'd be lying if I didn't see pictures and videos and imagine a fantasy world there instead if soilders and tanks lol. The way you can see so far in the distance gets me giddy for a sprawling open world.
I may have to buy a Playstation to get EQN on console too, if it follows what many have guessed will happen with Planetside 2.
PC on Console?