Posts by Izuno

  • Multiplayer in Action-RPGs, what works?

    Yes I am hoping my client is working on a good one. It's going to be a good balance between RPG and Action. RPG not as deep as KOTOR or Elder Scrolls IV, and action not as exciting intense as a God of War (which is an action game and not an RPG). They need to make decisions about how much depth the SP game should have given they will have to sacrafice some for more MP depth.

    Since the only multiplayer RPG I've ever really been into sadly is WoW, I have some more specific questions about DSII in MP because I don't have time to play and the reviews get this specific:

    1) Are player characters persistent in MP? i.e., if my buddy and I go online and play, does our progress in the quests and story get saved if I go back into MP later? What about loot and characters?

    Wait that's all on DSII.

    I'd love to hear more about Dark Messiah and Titan Quest MP...what worked and what didn't from anyone who's played it. STALKER is not really in the consideration set since it's a shooter with some RPG elements. Still a kick ass game...

    Thanks for all the insight...keep it coming!

  • Multiplayer in Action-RPGs, what works?

    One of my clients is doing analysis of Multiplayer Action-RPGs. Basically, they are interested in knowing which games do it well and which ones don't, and what specifically about the MP in these games are the factors. They are considering both PC and Console games but probably not going back as far as Diablo. Further, they aren't really looking at Japanese MP-RPG games.

    Games they are looking include:

    Marvel Ultimate Alliance (console/PC)

    Xmen Legends (console/PC)

    Titan Quest (PC)

    Untold Legends (PS3)

    Baldur's Gate

    Yep, they are mostly looking at fantasy and comic book style settings.

    1. What other games would you put this list for Action-RPG games that have MP, either co-op, online, completitive or non-online same screen etc.?

    2. What works about the MP in these games? What doesn't work?

    Bust out your soap boxes and rant away!

  • Now playing

    Yes, one of my clients wants me to play their non-WOW MMO game. Sure, I love getting paid to consult on games where they even pay me to play the game... but sheesh! How much MMOness can I absorb at once? :roll:

    Meanwhile, I played some PotC:AWE on 360. What a piece of shit. Sorry Disney but you guys took a great concept (Pirates in videogames) and fucked it all up with horrid gameplay. You can do better!!! Do better!!! Why won't you do better!

    Finally started playing some Wii sports. Even my fiance's mom thinks the Wii is cool.

    Still playing WOW (lvl 46 druid on Mok'Nathal) cause all my clients expect me to know WOW inside and out. I love boring grinding cause it's funzors!

  • paris hilton is no more in prison...

    Paris Hilton gets her power from the fact that people en masse (in US anyway) can't seem to ignore her. If we all ignored her she'd just go away.

    So I choose to ignore her by not reading any of the links, changing the channel when she's on TV and passing over articles in the crappy LA Times when we read the paper at the breakfast table.

    It's like that Simpsons Halloween episode "Attack of the 50 foot eyesores". Lisa goes to the ad agency who created the ads that came to life as giant monsters and the ad exec says "If you just ignore the advertising it will go away."

    "Just don't look...just don't look..."

  • Ubidays 2007

    Quote from NykO18

    It's no more.

    Well the E3 as we knew it is no more. Now E3 is pretty much a press / retailer / bank analyst only show with very little hooplah. Instead of being at the L.A. Convention Center with 70,000 attendees with mutlimillion dollar booths and all kind of crazy distractions, it's now strung across several hotels in the Santa Monca area (just west of L.A. city limit on the beach) and will be much quieter, cheeper, boringer... Tho still expect a fair amount of media come July when it's held.

    I went to 6 or 7 straight E3's...I am going to miss it, yet last couple years was so nutty that I'm kind of glad to get a breather before the next crazy show takes it's place. Cause it was still cool and especially to meet up with mapcorians over the years.

    Kudos to Ubi for pimpin their stuff in their own show. I'm most interested in Assassin's Creed.

  • hl2 map scale

    Also I think the fact that Source engine brushwork cuts up each other when touching has been fairly well mitigated with displament maps should kind of make this problem moot but obviously depends on what you are trying to do. I think this may be better for the Engine forum so gonna move it.

  • Europe's top 50 game studios - list by Next

    Very impressive list of stuff coming out of Europe, for certain. I'm happy to see Traveller's Tales near the top after playing through LEGO SW II.

    And, is it just me, or does Harry Patter and the Order of the Pheonix seem like a more interesting game to people over 14 yrs old than past Harry Potter games? Somehow I'm actually excited about that and I'm not even a big Harry Potter fan. Strange.

  • Halo 2 for PC - PC Gamer review

    Quote from Fletch

    It would have sold better if MS didn't make it Vista only. I still can't understand the rationale behind that move.

    It was because people in suits (er...khakis and polos perhaps) think "killer app" and hope every gamer who's heard of Halo will rush out to buy Vista just to play Halo2 on PC. Obviously Vista has it's own problems but that's for another thread.

    Just to throw some numbers which you may or may not find useful:

    (US market estimate only, does not include worldwide estimate)

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    Since the first Halo, the PC genre has evolved in technology and gameplay considerably. Halo2 is not hugely different from the first Halo, so by today's standards Halo2 on PC is not going to be as much fun as it would have been had it been released back in 2001...er when original Halo :roll: you get my drift...

    That said, I got bored of Halo2 much faster than I did of Halo (i finshed Halo but not Halo2).

    I didn't enjoy the Xbox version of Halo2 as much as I enjoyed Halo on Xbox keeping them in context for their release periods. Let's pretend someone re-released 1993's original Doom on Vista...the score would probably depend more the reviewer's personal bias/memory of Doom and how much he/she wanted the world to play and appreciate the new release. I mean, Doom has no physics, friggin sprites, really no puzzles other than key/door finding, shitty pixelated graphics, midi soundtrack, repetively repetitive shooting of the same enemies over and over and over... but I bet if Doom were released with viable Mouse/KB controls and not pure KB only or some bastardized Mouse/KB combo, I gaurentee a lot of reviewers would declare "OMG it holds up after 14 years and is beyond awesomely awesome retro fun."

    Hmm...I'm in the mood for some original Doom on PC....mmmm....

  • TF2

    rocket jumping forever! something about the gameplay in TFC, CS and DoD pre-source just makes me smile with memories...such as the old rocket jumping and so many other awesome awesomonities.