The day certainly looks interesting, but having hardware requirements like that could prove to be a problem. The essence of a MMO is how many people it can appeal to and drag in. If it costs too much to get into a game, who is going to play it? Most hardware junkies stick to FPS's. MMO's are not quite what is looked for.awesome CryENGINE2/UE3 MMO-fps
[QUOTE=''Plague27'']The day certainly looks interesting, but having hardware requirements like that could prove to be a problem. The essence of a MMO is how many people it can appeal to and drag in. If it costs too much to get into a game, who is going to play it? Most hardware junkies stick to FPS's. MMO's are not quite what is looked for.[/QUOTE]Maybe by that time most people will already have PCs to run a game like that :)
MMOs are a genre truly suffering from lack ofinnovation.I love WoW, dont get me wrong...but it just isnt revolutionary. Neither are LOTRO, Tabula Rasa, or Guild Wars (technically not an MMO, but I group it here anyway).I have no problem with the visuals of MMOs right now, they look fine. Their engines might be dated but the art direction more than makes up for it.If MMOs are going to sell well and, more importantly, retain subscribers, they need gameplay innovation, not visual innovation.
PersonallyI think a first person shooter in a MMO world would suck. Why? Take a perfectly good online FPS then add annoying balances, long travel times, lag for too many people being there at once, and gear collecting. I mean look at the classes! A short rage class that use shotguns, a mid range class that uses rifles, and a lone range class for snipers? That's all they could come up with?!
[QUOTE=''Nerkcon'']PersonallyI think a first person shooter in a MMO world would suck. Why? Take a perfectly good online FPS then add annoying balances, long travel times, lag for too many people being there at once, and gear collecting. I mean look at the classes! A short rage class that use shotguns, a mid range class that uses rifles, and a lone range class for snipers? That's all they could come up with?![/QUOTE]Oh, Idunno about that. I think Tabula Rasa had the right idea for coming up with their classes. You got snipers, who hide and do distance stuff. Soldiers, you can use essentially all weapons (pistols, rifles, machine guns, shotties, grenades). Explosive experts, spies, engineers, medics....the list goes on. There is more than enough variety to make things both interesting and balanced.I think MMO FPS and it sounds great...imagine the Battlefield form, only with a skill system, and persistant-world maps that span for miles and miles and across continents. Then you could have ''mounts'', ranging from jets to tanks to jeeps!If they could make an MMOFPSRPG hybrid set in a conventional period, perhaps alternate reality, I think that would be awesome.
Supposedly in huxley, its only about 200 or so people in an area at any given time. Doesn't sound that massive at all. Joint operations had 150 players and it wasn't even an ''MMO''
[QUOTE=''FragMonkey09'']Supposedly in huxley, its only about 200 or so people in an area at any given time. Doesn't sound that massive at all. Joint operations had 150 players and it wasn't even an ''MMO''[/QUOTE]Ahhhhh Joint Operations. Such a great game, I still play it from time to time. Too bad there are only a few 60+ person servers out there.Anyway, that sucks about Huxley. To me an MMOFPS should be just crazy; I want to log in, then drive my Jeep or fly from a base to a combat zone where teams made up of 1000's of people are battling. I suppose the resources needed to plot bullet trajectories, hit boxes, etc might limit it to 200-person skirmishes, but still...
[QUOTE=''mrbojangles25'']If MMOs are going to sell well and, more importantly, retain subscribers, they need gameplay innovation, not visual innovation.[/QUOTE]Age of Conan? :)
[QUOTE=''RK-Mara''][QUOTE=''mrbojangles25''] If MMOs are going to sell well and, more importantly, retain subscribers, they need gameplay innovation, not visual innovation.[/QUOTE]Age of Conan? :)[/QUOTE]exactly, im not touching another MMO until this (well, maybe Tabula Rasa)
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