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Love it, but Top Down view ?...Claustrophobia as a feature !
delete5230
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I understand it's a remake of first generation Ultima Online... Fantastic !
Two things I would like to point out with first generation:
- It's a sub category of a style of play within mmorpg's
- Unfortunately, technology tends to be outdated.
Top Down gameplay could be charming, but in an mmorpg ?
I understand their motives to make a modern game that stands true to a classic. But using limitations of technology for it's time as a feature...I have to say, really !!!
Most all YouTubes are solo play.
That tends to be annoying enough. Add a party of five and you have full annoying. Where is your party if your spread out ?.. Are they under attack, will you have "other party member pointers" on the edge of your screen. Remember the CAMERA FOLLOWS YOU. Should you help a player out that's off the screen ?
Using Claustrophobia for exploring and intrigue with limited view (like fog of war) in video games leaves the player with the feeling of being jumped and causes the player to think fast.
This feature is often part of hack-and-slash gamming....Will it work in modern mmorpg's.
Maybe, what do you think ?
Later I found this:
- Look how thigh their staying together as a group. Are they improvising for the audience ?
- They seem annoyed by something without actually stating the obvious.
- At certain points their attacking monsters off the screen. Even if in view, other players may view the target off screen.
(Best watched 1/4 way in):
Two things I would like to point out with first generation:
- It's a sub category of a style of play within mmorpg's
- Unfortunately, technology tends to be outdated.
Top Down gameplay could be charming, but in an mmorpg ?
I understand their motives to make a modern game that stands true to a classic. But using limitations of technology for it's time as a feature...I have to say, really !!!
Most all YouTubes are solo play.
That tends to be annoying enough. Add a party of five and you have full annoying. Where is your party if your spread out ?.. Are they under attack, will you have "other party member pointers" on the edge of your screen. Remember the CAMERA FOLLOWS YOU. Should you help a player out that's off the screen ?
Using Claustrophobia for exploring and intrigue with limited view (like fog of war) in video games leaves the player with the feeling of being jumped and causes the player to think fast.
This feature is often part of hack-and-slash gamming....Will it work in modern mmorpg's.
Maybe, what do you think ?
Later I found this:
- Look how thigh their staying together as a group. Are they improvising for the audience ?
- They seem annoyed by something without actually stating the obvious.
- At certain points their attacking monsters off the screen. Even if in view, other players may view the target off screen.
(Best watched 1/4 way in):
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If you go to their web site, their screen shots "are not top down", but normal 3D view, that doesn't reflect the actual game play.
https://www.legendsofaria.com/screenshots/
Just making the point, they seem aware of ramifications of their top down feature by making screen shots different.
It doesn't seem to have that option to zoom out and angled in Legends of Aria. It seems like it's their feature.
Notice in the OP video, players seem to be annoyed without actually saying it.
I hope developers can take feed back well and change....Unless it's just me
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The camera view and horses in the dungeon....... make me wish I didn't invest in the game. The game is currently a shell of the UO game..... they still have a lot of development to do. .... thus EA
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It's not an official vid made by the devs though.
BUT CLAUSTROPHOBIA ?.... half the fighters are off the screen and don't even see what their fighting. The other half don't even see their group on the same screen !
Developers don't see this ?..... Maybe if they take a vacation from being closeminded and return they will realize they need to overhaul EVERYTHING.
As for the claustrophobia comments.. I don't get what the problem is really. The only issue I have is the lack of proper clipping so the view gets blocked by buildings and trees, but I am sure that is in the works to be fixed.
As for not being able to see your party members, well you can zoom out really far so that is more like something to get used to and stick together. But it would sure help with some QoL such as big arrows pointing in the direction of group members when they go out of view.
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