NCSoft Launches New Game Sites 29
The font of information that is E3 has dredged up two new sites for NCSoft's upcoming mmogs. City of Villains and Tabula Rasa both have new sites up with extensive new pieces of information. Tabula Rasa, in particular, seems to have undergone some massive changes. Where once TR featured screenshots of light spaces and beautiful creatures, the game that the site appears to show off is a gritty hell. It will be interesting to see what other changes have found their way into Garriot's newest project.
I'm all about action MMOGS (Score:2, Interesting)
The only fun thing about Planetside was I was playing it at th
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I want to believe (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:I want to believe (Score:2)
The absolutely amazing hard-cover art book was alone well worth the price difference.
Re:I want to believe (Score:1)
Re: Ultima V: The DOS version works wonderfully in DOSBox [sf.net]. You just need to set "cycles" to low enough number since U5 doesn't have a frame limiter so you may want an artificially slow emulation speed - but the fact that you're in a slow emulator environment already might help.
And the project to watch for in the future is Neat Ultima V [sourceforge.net], which is what xu4 is for Ultima IV and exult is for Ultima VII - though unlike those projects nu5 doesn't even have any kind of release.
Tabula Rosa (Score:2)
An RPG with minimal stats, leaving the post-EQ MMORPG fan out in the cold. "What?! You mean I have to roleplay a character?!"
Appeals to everyone/no one? (Score:2)
From what I've seen of the video footage - it looks fantastic. City of Heroes by NCSoft can get a little timely to progress, as do most MMORPGs, so I hope that they make leveling a little more speedy.
I give credit to NCSoft for trying to come up with a new genre, or at least variant , of the mostly similar games out
Re:Tabula Rosa (Score:1)
Re:Tabula Rosa (Score:2)
"Tabula Rosa" would mean "pink slate." I'm not sure what kind of game that would imply.
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Re:Leveling Treadmill (Score:1)
You know what? After 100 single player and about 5 MMOGs games of nothing but leveling throughout my life it's safe to say...
I'm bloody kind of sick and tired of bloody leveling!
I think EQ burnt me out. Sure Marrowind Elder Scrolls for the Xbox was kind of fun to level... And Shadowbane was just easy so it wasn't a chore.
But out of all the MMOG games I would have to say Ultima Online had the best damned system for character dev
..don't forget Auto Assault. (Score:1, Informative)
And since I couldn't find it on those game's official sites, here are the ship dates from EBGames (which I'm sure aren't accurate, but hey):
* City Of Villains - 08/15/2005 [ebgames.com]
* Auto Assault - 09/01/2005 [ebgames.com]
* TR - 02/15/2006 [ebgames.com]
This could get expensive.
(Although for the moment I'm still quite enjoying Guild Wars [guildwars.com])
Re:..don't forget Auto Assault. (Score:2)
Not for me. Not cross-platform == not interested.
There are not many Mac gamers, but there are a few. I can play World of Warcraft on a PC side-by-side on the same server with my Mac-playing friends, and can use my iBook to play it when I'm away from home, therefore WoW wins until something better comes along which works on both PC's and Macs.
Too bad. There's a lot that I like about City of Heroes, but I'm only going to pay the monthly fee on one game at a time.
NCSoft does no
A commonality... (Score:2, Interesting)
I wonder if she'll dance like Alizée, too?
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Re:A commonality... (Score:1)
Except for those who go out of their way to point out that they are "just doing it to look at the girl's butts" by posting stuff like that.
They are probably closet gays in most cases.
Just sayin' is all.
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-9mm-
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(I know noone plays SB, but hey)
It's "Gritty", it's "Dark", it's "Fecking Clich (Score:2, Funny)
Oh Bloody Hell Not Again. What is it with every single producer of games, TV and film deciding that everything has to use the buzzwords Gritty, Dark, Sexy and Noir to pitch itself now. Ubisoft ruining Prince Of Persia is just one of many and varied examples. Even bloody Star Wars has to end on a downer just to keep the Fincher fanboys happy.
Re:It's "Gritty", it's "Dark", it's "Fecking Clich (Score:2)
Re:It's "Gritty", it's "Dark", it's "Fecking Clich (Score:2)
I defintately agree with you on the in terms of games. Despite good reviews, I just didn't want to touch the latest Prince of Persia because of the stupid visual style. What the hell is wrong with the Arabian nights look? Maybe selling an Arabian themed game is difficult in these times of turmoil in the middle east?
I won