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[Column] General: 5 MMOs That Would Be Perfect for Consoles
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Today’s MMO market isn’t what it used to be. A little less than a decade ago everyone was playing the same handful of games and there wasn’t much MMO-hopping going on. Free-to-play was all but nonexistent and unless you paid a subscription for a PC MMORPG, you weren’t playing much in the way of persistent online games. Nowadays, you can boot up an MMO on everything from your smartphone and PC to consoles and tablets. They’re everywhere.
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I also played Tera on pc with a controller was very smooth and would be playable on consoles.
SW;TOR could be done on consoles, as long as they were using a keyboard, and probably the mouse too, too many features for a gamepad to handle tbh, and thats something that is usually inherent to most MMO's, game pads are fine things, but they can't replace the mouse/keyboard combination for functionality.
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the secret world not on the list?
disappointing.
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According to 2014 SWTOR rumors, SWTOR would be rebooted, get action combat and launch on consloles. So far, we are getting a story/facion reboot and more action-y combat announced as well. I suppose console launch news are not too far away.
GW2 would be perfect for consoles, but Anet has repeated several times that console version is out of the question. They said the same about expansions and now we are waiting for HoT release date, so who knows.
And I agree, Wildstar, would also work well on consoles, probably the best, amongst other MMO's. But, they have so many issues to resolve, it's hard to believe that NCsoft would fund such expensive project related to a struggling game.
As bad as most MMO's are today...consoles can have them all. Not a fan of consoles (or rather "controller only computers"). Use to be a console gamer along side my PC. Any more, I can't see a reason to have a console when my PC does things so much better (control wise).
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Great call on Vindictus. Most of the Korean Action MMORPGs would probably translate well. Tera, RaiderZ, other games that are exactly like Tera and RaiderZ.
I have a hunch we will see Marvel Heroes before too long.
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If this came to PS4, I would be all over it. I think Wildstar, Tera, and really any mmo with action combat would be a great fit.
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Not familiar with this cross bar control. Could you, or anyone familiar with it, please explain it for me.
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As if it could exist, without being payed for.
F2P means you get what you paid for. Pay nothing, get nothing.
Even telemarketers wouldn't think that.
It costs money to play. Therefore P2W.
Tera will only work für Solo-Questing, Controller-Turn-Rate is too slow for difficult Bossfights and PvP.
Same goes for Wildstar, one wrong step and you are dead meat.
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You have 8 effective buttons on a gamepad, you can expand them though, by using the buttons on the back of the things, i think theres another 4, 2 on each side, you can use them as 'tabs' to bring up a 2nd 3rd and 4th set of 8 'button options' so technically you could have 5 sets of 8 buttons, its roughly how its handled in FFXIV;ARR, though i think there are only 2 effective hotbars of 8 buttons, its not a bad thing tbh, as 8 is far too few for any MMO really, and yeah, i am explaining this in a really rubbish way, probably be easier with some kind of diagram
The bottom images of the controller show the 4 buttons you usually have on the back of the gamepad, you can use them to bring up different hotbar options so that the top buttons (4 on right plus 4 on left from direction pad thing) can be used to select a button from the current hotbar option. Its a bit fiddly but once you get used to it, its supposed to be fairly quick.