Bored Druid Thread: The Next GenerationFollow

Watch the videos on their site and see if the style of humor works for you. Because I imagine that would be a far bigger factor than the setting in determining whether or not you enjoy the game.

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I think I'd start on page 3 and go backward. At least through the initial announcements for the factions/races. Then maybe skip to newer videos about the gameplay.

But the original faction/race announcements are earlier releases, and they're probably a good foundation.

Edited, Dec 4th 2013 2:35pm by idiggory

Yeah, when fantasy MMOs want to be taken seriously, they really need the writing to be spot-on or they start getting funny for all the wrong reasons.

I'd prefer one that just takes the homicidal squirrel angle a little too far.

It's also a problem I've been having with a lot of grimdark tropes in books (and, more recently, some quest lines in FFXIV).

Rape, for instance, is particularly problematic. Female lead? Probably gonna get raped. Gay or effeminate guy? Probably gonna get raped. "Evil" character perspective? Very well might rape someone.

Drives me insane. And there are very, very few instances where I've seen it done well. FAR too few for the trope to have any justification for existing.

Add in a bunch of overused tropes that make no attempt to really humanize the content, and it's just bad.

That's actually why I'm really enjoying Patrick Rothfuss. His work seems to be a serious attempt to explore fantasy elements from the perspective of actual human experience.

It's not like "Peasants hate magic, because it's magic and they don't understand, and the Brigands rape villages, and the Mages hate knights because they're simple." etc.

Amos Diggory is a doucher and I resent that.

Cedric was totally hot though.

Just imagine that my avatar is Mrs. Diggory. It'll make the final scenes less depressing. And explain a lot of Amos' anger.

old computer combined with new graphics requirements and the insane amount of ground effects is what killed wow for me as it made impossible to raid.

if your rig is beginning of bc old, you may end up having the same problems.

I discovered recently that Filch is punting in the 5th book.

Still not sure what to do with that information.

Most likely, yeah. So i5 3570 and an Asus R9 280X soon. That should set me up properly for EQNext or whatever I end up playing.

Also, it's a PC originally built on a budget right before the release of the second raid tier in BC.

Edited, Dec 5th 2013 1:53pm by Aethien

Looks like I cool game, I wish you could play it.

Oh it does, it also usually makes me disappointed I can't really play it anymore. The game has changed so much since then that WoW just doesn't feel like WoW anymore. Heck, SWTOR feels more like WoW than WoW does. That's what I think when I go back to the game at least. You get to follow the same story, but you don't get to play the same game anymore. The places you knew are gone, everything you learned is obsolete, most everyone you knew is gone, etc.

It feels like the days when everyone played the same MMO have come and gone, much like the days when everyone watched the same couple of T.V. stations. At this point I'll be surprised if there ever is another big MMO that captures that much of the market.

I like WoW for some things, like the Warcraft setting and the open world - not to mention the badass outfits for my Warlock. I like other MMORPGs for other things. SWTOR still holds a place in my heart, despite its flaws, because it provides a much needed break from beating up dragons with swords. And I really, really like how the Pyrotech Mercenary plays... lots of missiles, railguns, blaster shots and flamethrowers. It's basically a Survival Hunter in disguise, but you have so much stuff you can do, without losing effectiveness, that it never gets boring.

Not even sure I want a game that challenges the "WoW model", because honestly... why change something that has been working for almost ten years now? And the "WoW model" didn't even start with WoW. Star Wars: Galaxies had action bars, spell/ability books, guilds, quest hubs, flight paths, and giant open worlds. And I've heard that other games that came before SWG and WoW had similar things in them.

What made WoW the massive game it is, is a combination of availability, marketing, massive content early on and fast end-game expansion. All these new MMO games that try to reinvent the wheel... I'm not buying it. I don't need a drastically different game to enjoy it, I just need a game that pulls me in with the right content and mechanics. I think I'd like Rift if it wasn't so bland to look at. I'd definitely play more SWTOR if it wasn't the most linear, instanced piece of single player turned multiplayer out there. And the engine is terrible. I tried FFXI--whatever it's at, but I definitely did not like how they handled the first 10 levels in that game. I was level 5 before I even got to whack **** with my axe, and then I realized it had a 2.5-second GCD. Just no. Guild Wars 2 had potential, but ArenaNet just dropped everything on the floor when they let go 90% of their development team after release. And I don't like how squishy I feel in that game... it's an MMO with emphasis on "Must play with others, or die horribly late game".

Reminds me of Timeless Isle in WoW. That island can go kiss my ***. Oh, look, a frog with 2 million health. Let me just send my Voidlord and OH MY GOD, WHY I AM DYING?! Oh, the elites have wipe mechanics... how fun!

Anyway, I'm now item level 502 on my Warlock, and my DPS is picking up. Did 100k in a 5-man heroic earlier today. Was pretty proud, though I haven't been able to replicate it (only reached 98k afterwards). It's funny, because when my item level was 499, I couldn't break 80k DPS. Something is severely messed up with the itemization in the game. Also, I was ganked a couple of times on Timeless Isle by a Warlock with 1 million health (self-buffed only). ElvUI rounds up, but still...

WoW made some big jumps compared to the MMO's before it, especially in the area of accessability. I'm hoping someone will make the next step up the ladder although I can't say I've got a clue what that step should be.

Wildstar looks cool but maybe too comical to make it big, Everquest looks great if they can deliver on their promises and have more than just player created content and Elder Scrolls online looks destined to be a flop to me with character building like an old school RPG mixed with Diablo 2, I wish the guys who have to try and balance that a lot of luck.

Other than that, there's FFXIV doing it's thing, WoW still around and a bunch of "WoW killers" that have been about as deadly as a butterknife.

Is there actually anything to do at endgame now? Last I checked up on it there was a disastrous lack of entertaining end game content.


Edit: listening to Harry Nilsson makes me happy.

Edited, Dec 6th 2013 2:39am by Aethien