Buzzwords Abound!
I’ve been thinking about the game industry today, some of the various new games that I have tried lately and how I have felt they’ve let me down when I came to the conclusion, two conclusions actually, that;
* a) Nothing is ever enough for me
* b) I’m looking for something vast
You see, I’ve recently given the MMORPG genre a bit of a try, after being quite opposed to that kind of thing since their inception. I played a fair bit of Asheron’s Call 2 courtesy of a free 15day trial and found some features there that I really liked, and some that I found to be quite annoying.
What I’m looking for is a massive, open-ended, complex game that basically allows me to walk around for as long as I like, doing whatever I like.
Some MMOPRGs allow this to a certain extent, but everything always seems to come back to killing wandering monsters, and I hate that.
I dislike any game that has monsters that will respawn even if you’re sitting right on top of them, so that they literally appear in front of your eyes, but the gameplay model adopted by most MMORPGs has no real replayability. Oh, there is lots of repeated actions, and you can go to a different area and kill something different, but it’s all the same in the end.
But this isn’t meant to be a sad rant, this is a happy rant.. because come 2005, there might be a game that will give me what I want! ( maybe.. perhaps )
This press-release is what has me inspired, an Atari published, TurbineGames developed MMORPG based on the D&D world. Famous last words though they may be, I have to ask..
Can they fail?