Style: Themepark??

joshisanonymous

I'm curious how Camelot Unchained got listed as a themepark MMO here. I mean, it's not sandbox in the sense of being some sort of full loot PvP game, but themepark also seems very wrong to me as I take that to be a game with a heavy questing and dungeon PvE focus so that it's theoretically possible to "complete" the game if more expansions aren't released quick enough. There's no completing a game like CU, though, since it's just a persistent RvR battle.

Scot

joshisanonymous said:

I'm curious how Camelot Unchained got listed as a themepark MMO here. I mean, it's not sandbox in the sense of being some sort of full loot PvP game, but themepark also seems very wrong to me as I take that to be a game with a heavy questing and dungeon PvE focus so that it's theoretically possible to "complete" the game if more expansions aren't released quick enough. There's no completing a game like CU, though, since it's just a persistent RvR battle.

Welcome to the forums!

What would you want them to call it, a Themebox? You see the issue with these hybrid MMOs? Also what do CU call themselves, this site may have just followed that? 

Nanfoodle

Themepark just really means it has rides that do set things, over freedom of play. I am more inclined to call it a Themebox as it really only has one ride. High conflict PvP happening no matter what your doing. 

Sovrath

I would say that full loot pvp does not a sandbox make. Tale in the desert is one of the ultimate sandbox games and it doesn't have pvp as far as player fighting.

It's essentially a RvR pvp mmorpg. If one can accept that sandbox means the freedom of play within the scope of the game then it could be considered a sandbox. Not everyone sees that as some insist that sandbox has to have, well, "full loot pvp" or "you must be able to build."

Which then gets back to what is a sandbox/what is a thempark mmorpg.

I guess, with that said, it's neither.

Wizardry

I look at it I don't think of any real branded title,i just think pvp game and nothing more.
So I would call it >>A GAME.

lahnmir

I would call CU a mess, is that a genre?

/Cheers,
Lahnmir

joshisanonymous

Scot said:

Welcome to the forums!

What would you want them to call it, a Themebox? You see the issue with these hybrid MMOs? Also what do CU call themselves, this site may have just followed that? 

"Themebox" does sound better, at least. As far as I know, though, CSE hasn't made any statements about it being a sandbox or themepark MMO.

Nanfoodle said:

Themepark just really means it has rides that do set things, over freedom of play. I am more inclined to call it a Themebox as it really only has one ride. High conflict PvP happening no matter what your doing. 

That's a good way to look at it, IMO. To me, the sort of rides you get is a factor, too. For instance, if there's little to no reason for me to go on a ride a second time or if the second time will yield an almost identical experience with only the rewards at the end being somewhat random, that's very themepark to me.

I guess we can look at persistent RvR as being a ride, but within that ride there's quite a bit of freedom in what you can do, and the experience (if designed well) will often be quite different.