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AshburnerX

AshburnerX

CynicismKills said:
DC's not bad, but the character creation will sort of shove the DLC/xpacs in your face with how much cooler the non-free powersets are (Lantern Ring, Red Rage Ring, etc). It's still fun, though, just wasn't what I'm looking for in an MMO I guess.
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Champions Online has similar problems in that the free power sets aren't viable for soloing (except Guns), but the DLC powers are and making a custom power character is game breakingly good.

I've actually gone through all of DC Online with free characters... I rather enjoyed my One-handed/Fire mummy character and my Beam/Gadgets villain, but the game is SO short. If you aren't up for raiding the same dungeons all the time, it's not worth playing.

I've heard a lot of good things about Star Trek Online, which has a similar character creator (you can make your own alien races!) and tons of content. It's also getting an expansion to cover the Delta Quadrant, even getting back the actors for Neelix, The Doctor, Tuvak, and Harry Kim. All are going to be doing voice parts for them.
 
mikerc

mikerc

AshburnerX said:
I've heard a lot of good things about Star Trek Online, which has a similar character creator (you can make your own alien races!) and tons of content. It's also getting an expansion to cover the Delta Quadrant, even getting back the actors for Neelix, The Doctor, Tuvak, and Harry Kim. All are going to be doing voice parts for them.
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Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Stomping Lands, a game that was a kickstarter and released on early access on Steam, has been pulled off of steam for being broken and abandoned.

I don't know why, it looks awesome.
 
Jay

Jay

I saw the kickstarter back in the day and setup a reminder for it. When the reminder came around, I checked all the updates. There was gameplay. I was intrigued but not enough to pull the trigger and since the game met its goals all was well. I saw a let's play on this many months ago and watched it. 5 minutes into the video the reviewer and I said practically at the same time. This game is broken as FUCK.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

bhamv3 said:
I'd say ESO was a good idea. It was the execution that was lacking.

Also, if this negatively impacts Fallout 4 and TES 6, I shall be very upset.
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Fallout 4 is already in production. They've already done some of the voice acting for it and it's likely to be set in the Commonwealth, which is in Massachusetts.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

AshburnerX said:
Fallout 4 is already in production. They've already done some of the voice acting for it and it's likely to be set in the Commonwealth, which is in Massachusetts.
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AFAIK those are just rumors, and have never been confirmed.

I mean, I have no doubt Bethesda are going to make Fallout 4, it's too much of a cash cow not to. But so far there has been no real confirmation of it being in existence, or that the widely-rumored Commonwealth is going to be the setting.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

bhamv3 said:
AFAIK those are just rumors, and have never been confirmed.

I mean, I have no doubt Bethesda are going to make Fallout 4, it's too much of a cash cow not to. But so far there has been no real confirmation of it being in existence, or that the widely-rumored Commonwealth is going to be the setting.
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We're not going to get confirmation until they can show us something. I think it's just early in production.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

bhamv3 said:
I'd say ESO was a good idea. It was the execution that was lacking.
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I don't see how it was even a good idea. You have a solo adventure game, where everything is about you, and then make it massively multiplayer?

I could see co-op between a couple people online being a good idea, but not as an MMO.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Zenimax is not Bethesda (though Bethesda is owned by Zenimax). I think Bethesda will do fine. I mean, how long has Skyrim been out? And it -still- sells well.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Ravenpoe said:
Zenimax is not Bethesda (though Bethesda is owned by Zenimax). I think Bethesda will do fine. I mean, how long has Skyrim been out? And it -still- sells well.
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Yeah this seems to come up a lot in the ESO conversations I see. ZeniMax had a whole studio that had basically done nothing before working on ESO put the game together. Bethesda had nothing to do with it save for its IP being the (very loose) basis for the game. Skyrim still sells well, and Oblivion/Morrowind both have substantial modding communities. I'm sure Fallout 3 is much the same, though really I hear more about New Vegas than I do FO3, which I don't think was Bethesda's.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

CynicismKills said:
Yeah this seems to come up a lot in the ESO conversations I see. ZeniMax had a whole studio that had basically done nothing before working on ESO put the game together. Bethesda had nothing to do with it save for its IP being the (very loose) basis for the game. Skyrim still sells well, and Oblivion/Morrowind both have substantial modding communities. I'm sure Fallout 3 is much the same, though really I hear more about New Vegas than I do FO3, which I don't think was Bethesda's.
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Obsidian made New Vegas.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

On the bright side, this might mean we get Elder Scrolls VI much sooner than we otherwise would have if ESO lasted longer.

In other news, thank you to Capcom for releasing Mega Man X4 (and soon X5) on the PSN. Now if you could just released the two Legends games, I can fully adapt my wife's functioning PSP as my own.

I can't buy any of this right now; the spending money I have left at the moment is reserved for Theatrhythm and Super Smash Bros. But maybe in December or something.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Jay said:
Ah ESO, the game where I initially hoped was Skyrim with some MMO features to it but instead got an MMO with some Skyrim features in it.
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I knew it was going to fail when every single review had the same thing to say. "It makes me want to play Skyrim."
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Jay said:
Apparently the PC port of Dead Rising 3 is shiiiiit.

Capcom strikes again.
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Yeah, that's about what I figured. I'm not sure how you fuck up going from a Windows based system to ANOTHER Windows based system... it just kind of feels like every Japanese developer is terrible at doing PC ports.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

AshburnerX said:
Yeah, that's about what I figured. I'm not sure how you fuck up going from a Windows based system to ANOTHER Windows based system... it just kind of feels like every Japanese developer is terrible at doing PC ports.
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It's not that they're terrible, they just don't care. Most Japanese developers still don't see PC as a competitive market, and really only release it to that platform as an afterthought.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Ravenpoe said:
It's not that they're terrible, they just don't care. Most Japanese developers still don't see PC as a competitive market, and really only release it to that platform as an afterthought.
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To be fair, PC gaming is incredibly small in Japan. It's mostly relegated to bullet-hell shooters, porn games, and visual novels. It's just that Japan doesn't seem to understand that OUTSIDE of Japan, PC gaming is the biggest option. IT also doesn't help that mot Japanese developers aren't versed in PC development.

It really still stems from Japan's inability to see past it's own market, or rather it's culture's inability to look beyond it's shores.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

The latest Smash Bros "leak":



I call bullshit. I'd love it to happen, but I don't believe it.

On maybe good news, Japan is getting a New 3DS + Monster Hunter 4 bundle. Fingers crossed that it comes to the U.S.; both my wife and I want it.

 
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