An Early Look At Ragnar Tornquist's The Secret World 54
At the recent Penny Arcade Expo, Funcom revealed a ton of new information on The Secret World, an MMO being designed by Ragnar Tornquist that's aiming to buck several of the genre's common trends. Tornquist also spoke later about several of the game's features and some of the design philosophy that they're working with. The game does not have a traditional class or leveling system. Instead, players gather the powers they want to use and align themselves with various factions of their choosing. "We want you to feel part of a world where the conspiracies are so dense and the politics is so thick that, when you join the secret society as a novice at the very beginning, it's this vast organization, and you'll have no idea how it works initially." PvP will be largely segregated from PvE, and new players will be able to contribute in fights that involve more experienced players. Funcom released some concept art and in-game screenshots for The Secret World to go along with a new cinematic trailer.
We're making our MMO do blah... like EVE (Score:5, Interesting)
It's funny, but every time I see stuff like "the politics is so thick" or "there are no levels" and a dozen other things new MMOs say are amazing and novel I keep mentally adding "... like EVE Online".
I swear to god, sometimes I think EVE is becoming the Lisp of the MMO world. Lisp/EVE did it first, Lisp/EVE did that much better, every language/MMO will eventually embed a hacked up, tacked on, bad emulation of Lisp/EVE.
Re:God dammit! (Score:3, Interesting)
Did April really die when she was stabbed and fell into the water? Did Zoe really die when her mother, Helena, injected her with poison as she slept? Does that traitorous bitch Na'ane get what's coming to her? What happened to Crow?
I rather liked the ending of Dreamfall. That the game ended shortly after the girl's story was told underlined that despite everything that was going on, a little girl died... and it was her story that mattered.
Re:We're making our MMO do blah... like EVE (Score:4, Interesting)
The better indicator; 4 or 5 guys in our corp will go out in Tech 1 Frigates and Cruisers (all T1 fit) and have routinely taken down Battleships and Heavy Assault Cruisers. Our key to victory is a cohesive strategy and teamwork.
PvP in other MMO's is charge in - spam damage - respawn and repeat.
Re:console philosophy (Score:3, Interesting)
An MMOFPS for XBox and PC? Sweeet, time to show those XBox fanboys just what a keyboard and mouse can do.