SPMaximus wrote:mmo's need to stop attempting to copy WoW's and Eve's success at monthly subscription rates and move on to a f2p item store system, f2p brings a large influx of players, and the more players you get = the more shit they will buy, and the mmo makes money

sooo many mmo's are failing when they try the way of the monthly subscription, how many servers has warhammer lost since launch?

another problem would be that most mmo's released these days are being released too quickly and dont have nearly enough content to justify the monthly subscription

pirates of the burning sea launched with 12 north american and european servers, the first months into it they were packed with players and the game felt alive, now its down to 1 NA and 1 EU server, the EU server is quite dead and the NA isnt much better off, the free to play model they will adopt by the end of the year should bring a steady influx of players, you dont tend to be very bothered with flaws in game when you arent shoveling out 15/month to play it anymore

Eduard wrote:Why isn't anyone looking forward to Diablo 3?

My personal choices:

Mass Effect 3
Star Wars Force Unleashed 2
Fallout New Vegas (graphics look shitty, I'm not happy)
Whatever's next in line for the Elder Scrolls series

Eduard wrote:Diablo 3 excited me two years ago, now I'm pretty meh about it. Damn Blizzard always takes FOREVER to release something.

Fallout NV will probably be good, but I'll pick it up next year when the price comes down.

Who is Zhan Ye, president of GameVision. I never heard of him or his company. I'm a Chinese game designer, I feel sad about what he said . He didn't see the essence of the game market of China, but just saw the superficies。It's not the gamers' problems,but the society's.Ye didn't see the need of gamers between China and West. Social environment and cluture affect the gamers' habit in games.I think Monetization for China's market is completely different from West's. The monetization of west is "to make game more funny!", but in China, is to make game more "show off". Almost all the Chinese gamers are eager for four kinds of things,"prurience","show off","vent" and "money". If u come to China and live here(not Beijing, Shanghai or such kind of big city) for a long time, u will find out.

PS:my English is poor, I hope u can understand what I mean^^

Eduard wrote:Fallout NV will probably be good, but I'll pick it up next year when the price comes down.

tuco wrote:Interestingly enough the alleged load of crap, more or less, supports what you asserted SPMaximus However do feel free to comment the articles, there is lot to be learned from virtual (simulations) yet.

Gothic 4 (one of the first) review at ING 7,5 - http://pc.ign.com/articles/112/1127303p1.html

Eduard wrote:Diablo 3 excited me two years ago, now I'm pretty meh about it. Damn Blizzard always takes FOREVER to release something.

Severian wrote:I am not convinced by Fallout New Vegas either. It looks just like Fallout 3 with new content. Paying a full game price for it seems a bit much. Similarly Diablo 3 looks very like diablo 2 with updated graphics.

MattHunX wrote:

tuco wrote:Interestingly enough the alleged load of crap, more or less, supports what you asserted SPMaximus However do feel free to comment the articles, there is lot to be learned from virtual (simulations) yet.

Gothic 4 (one of the first) review at ING 7,5 - http://pc.ign.com/articles/112/1127303p1.html

I'm playing Arcania Gothic 4, at the moment. It's basically a slightly improved Risen. Enjoyable. HUGE island, game-world. Not much to do, though. The mechanics are akin to Risen. You dodge-roll, have combos, block, mine some iron, obsidian...etc. then later you'll probably be able to forge swords, you collect herbs, and vials, scrolls, spells, make potions, find teleport locations, trade, get recipes...etc. Like Risen.

Grimstad wrote:

Severian wrote:I am not convinced by Fallout New Vegas either. It looks just like Fallout 3 with new content. Paying a full game price for it seems a bit much. Similarly Diablo 3 looks very like diablo 2 with updated graphics.

I really don't expect anything better than FO3 graphics wise, though it is a little brighter, less gloomy than FO3. And for the amount of shooting that goes on, the Gamebryo engine absolutely SUCKS. It's 10 years out of date. But I'm really anxious to see what the Black Isle refugees do with it. I hiope it's at least on par with FO3 for content. I was really impressed with the level of detail. Every skeleton tells a story.

In my recent replay with all the DLC I noticed a nod to the Black Isle guys. I don't remember where but there is mention on a terminal somewhere of a company named Isla Negra.

tuco wrote:

MattHunX wrote:

tuco wrote:Interestingly enough the alleged load of crap, more or less, supports what you asserted SPMaximus However do feel free to comment the articles, there is lot to be learned from virtual (simulations) yet.

Gothic 4 (one of the first) review at ING 7,5 - http://pc.ign.com/articles/112/1127303p1.html

I'm playing Arcania Gothic 4, at the moment. It's basically a slightly improved Risen. Enjoyable. HUGE island, game-world. Not much to do, though. The mechanics are akin to Risen. You dodge-roll, have combos, block, mine some iron, obsidian...etc. then later you'll probably be able to forge swords, you collect herbs, and vials, scrolls, spells, make potions, find teleport locations, trade, get recipes...etc. Like Risen.

Tried the demo, got similar feeling. Are smithing and alchemy worth anything? By worth anything I mean useful or perhaps even essential. How about the story, dialogs, (moral) choices? How about difficulty, a walk in a park or a struggle for survival?