D&D based MMORPG

[Grifter86]

MMORPGs? BAH!

If I wanted to a play a game for sheer roleplaying value or a RPG that supported some kind of amateur theatrics, I would stick with tabletop gaming.

I use computer games for mindless hack and slash, or strategic hack and slash. The only thing massive multiplayer I'm looking forward to is Planetside, the first MMOFPS, and City of Heroes, a superhero MMORPG.

If I was interested in a fantasy MMORPG, I would probably wait for Shadowbane.

 

[Sigmund]

Re: MMORPGs? BAH!

If I wanted to a play a game for sheer roleplaying value or a RPG that supported some kind of amateur theatrics, I would stick with tabletop gaming.

I use computer games for mindless hack and slash, or strategic hack and slash. The only thing massive multiplayer I'm looking forward to is Planetside, the first MMOFPS, and City of Heroes, a superhero MMORPG.

If I was interested in a fantasy MMORPG, I would probably wait for Shadowbane.

City of Heroes looks frickin' GREAT!

For those who haven't seen it:

http://www.cityofheroes.com

 

[Shado]

Too many bad EQ exp for most of you...

Seems a lot of you have had the virus that is EQ bite you in the collective @$$. That's too bad. I looked past my EQ experiences and gave Dark Age of Camelot a chance. Great game!

O.K., before the back lash that I'm sure to get, yes, there is a bit of munchin-gaming involved in that you're constantly striving for the min-max of your character. But it's Min-Maxing on a 3e level. Within reason. You're supposed to, in order to survive. I also do play a lot with people I know irl. Often though, we encounter more than a few people from game to game who are pleasant to group up with. Those that aren't quickly find themselves on the end of my ignore list.

I think a D&D based MMORPG would be fairly enjoyable so long as they learn the leasons of EQ, and some of the others out there, and build in the moron stoppers. Very few OOC broadcast are heard in Camelot, and if there are any, they're normally the player vendors in the main cities. Most interection is in group chat mode, and it becomes up to the group on whether they rp or not. As for short hand... accept it. Unless you're using some sort of chat software with everyone in the group, it's needed for speed at times... the online world isn't going to wait for you to type up a soliloquy.