You can find role playing if you try. I've found it in City of Heroes, I've found it in Guildwars, I've found it in Neverwinter Nights, I could find it in Dungeons and Dragons Online... The difference is I have no desire in playing D&D online.

 

Hades probably played the original Doom in an attempt to try and get into FPS games, or something equally ludicrous.

Oh well, that is that I guess.  Man, I never want to play another online freaking game ever again.

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Play Diablo 2 online. We would have fun together. Well I would at least.

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Hades probably played the original Doom in an attempt to try and get into FPS games, or something equally ludicrous.

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No, I have played Doom 3, Half Life 2, and Unreal Tournement 2004.

No, I have played Doom 3, Half Life 2, and Unreal Tournement 2004.

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Play Black.

Isn't that the point of a role playing game?  To role play?  If not then why the hell do they put in RPG in front of the MMO if the point is not to role play.

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Competition and/or team play is the lure of those games. The 'RPG' part refers to the basic gameplay mechanics of the genre, nothing more.

 

That said, roleplaying in those games just seems puerile to me, like some sort of extended need to project your childhood fantasies in a grown up enviorment.

 

In my time with WoW i was in a so called 'Roleplaying' guild, and whilst i enjoyed the casual and mature nature of the people i played with i could never bring myself to do it.

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I think the ability to make personality choices through my character that influence the outcome of things in the world is the only requirement for a game to be an RPG.

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Oh well, that is that I guess.  Man, I never want to play another online freaking game ever again.

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I have read good reports of the European servers (n.b. NOT British), especially German. You might like try a different country ...

Or, better yet, FEAR.

 

I find it hard to believe you played Half Life 2 and didn't like it. Even people who hate FPS games tend to like Half Life 2.

Its okay, I guess but it is still pretty much just shooting things over and over again, a tad repetitive. I do like the grav gun.

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Its okay, I guess but it is still pretty much just shooting things over and over again.  I do like the grav gun.

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Well I'm not a huge FPS fan but I found Black very enjoyable.

There were numerous different game mechanics defined: single character FPS, tactical group assaults, and using aliens (giant ants), vehicular maze resolution, plus with shooting, zero point energy control of objects (online toilet sparring) ...

[Half-Life 2 is] okay, I guess but it is still pretty much just shooting things over and over again.  I do like the grav gun.

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That is like saying that all games with magic and elves are RPGs ... :D

There were numerous different game mechanics defined: single character FPS, tactical group assaults, and using aliens (giant ants), vehicular maze resolution, plus with shooting, zero point energy control of objects (online toilet sparring) ...

[Half-Life 2 is] okay, I guess but it is still pretty much just shooting things over and over again.  I do like the grav gun.

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That is like saying that all games with magic and elves are RPGs ... :D

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But they are. How many magic using elves are in FPS's?

There was Heretic but that wasn't an elf, was it?

I think one of the heretic/hexen games had some sort of elf.

Its been quite a while since I played those.

The Sidhe were sort of elves, yeah. I think Corvus, the pc in Heretic 3 was one.

Been a while since anyone has I would think.

I rate H3 and Hexen 2 up there with Rune and Severance on fantasy asskicking. :D

I rate H3 and Hexen 2 up there with Rune and Severance on fantasy asskicking. :D

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Severance was awsomely over the top.

And Rune wasn't? The whole turning into Loki's avatar-business and showing Hel who's the jarl. I mean, the "dip" before the end has got to be the most over the top twist in any game ever. :D

How about Dark Messiah?

Anyone remember Strife? That was a cool FPS style game.

 

edit: Oh Hades, did you join a RP server, or is that even an option? Not that there is real RP on those servers, but after the first month they tend to settle down as a mature group of gamers.

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I saw Neocron 2 for a fiver today ... but I bet that the online component probably died many years ago ...

"I think the ability to make personality choices through my character that influence the outcome of things in the world is the only requirement for a game to be an RPG."

 

Alas, that's exactly the greatest problem a developer faces when working on a MMORPG. It's virtually impossible to allow the player to have a lasting impact in a multiplayer setting based on an open, persistent world.

 

At present, most MMORPGs cannot allow any real interaction, and thus, they truly have no real gaming value if stripped of the multiplayer appeal.

 

Folks who join those games with the pretense they can simply ignore the multiplayer aspect are going to inesorably fall into disappointment.

Edited March 19, 200619 yr by Lyric Suite

"I think the ability to make personality choices through my character that influence the outcome of things in the world is the only requirement for a game to be an RPG."

 

Alas, that's exactly the greatest problem a developer faces when working on a MMORPG. It's virtually impossible to allow the player to have a lasting impact in a multiplayer setting based on an open, persistent world.

 

At present, most MMORPGs cannot allow any real interaction, and thus, they truly have no real gaming value if stripped of the multiplayer appeal.

 

Folks who join those games with the pretense they can simply ignore the multiplayer aspect are going to inesorably fall into disappointment.

No, I 'dn't thin's im`possible. From what I read, that seems to happen troutinely in EVE Online. Even if it ionvolves a lot of metagaming, a dynamic world that changes in accordance to players' actions is possible. So I guess it's juts a matter of time until devs leanr to make world sless staticm, and more dependant on players' actions.

Know what would be even more kickarse?

 

A drow ranger.

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No, no - you mean a dual scimitar wielding drow ranger! Not that would be kickass! "

 

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Also: Good review Hades. But I still think I'll give this one a miss. Just like every other MMORPG.

 

 

Hades: +5 TOMBS

Know what would be even more kickarse?

 

A drow ranger.

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No, no - you mean a dual scimitar wielding drow ranger! Not that would be kickass! "

 

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Also: Good review Hades. But I still think I'll give this one a miss. Just like every other MMORPG.

 

 

Hades: +5 TOMBS

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We hates drow rangers we does. Betrayers of the Dark Mother.

 

 

Hades is now out of some money after buy DDO, even though he wasrned that it would not suite him.