Mortal Online - MMORPG

[Fallen Seraph]

There is a new MMORPG in the works, called Mortal Online. While not much information has been released yet, it appears to be more oriented towards RP and a living-organic world.

http://www.mortalonline.com/

The music in the teaser too, would be amazing for any D&D game.

 

[Bront]

Just what the world needs... another MMORPG...

Meh, graphics are sharp, but that's to be expected with anything coming out at this point. I'd rather know/see more first.

I'm a Guild Wars guy though, and the monthly price of that is just right for me... $0

 

[trancejeremy]

I'm not huge into MMORPGs, but do regularly play Sword of the New World (which is sort of like Guild Wars as if it were done by Tsui Hark - no coherent story line, crazy amounts of action, nice visuals) and sometimes Guild Wars (which I like the missions of, but find the combat slow and boring, like an episode of Quincey).

So I'm interested them in theory, especially now I have broadband (such as it is). But this seems bad to me for two reasons.

The PvP allowed everywhere. That's just bad. It only takes a few bad apples to ruin something, and there are a lot of bad apples online.

The real time/action based combat. I know this is the big thing nowadays, but part of a what makes a roleplaying game (to me), as opposed to an action game is that you don't have to be a great video gamer to play an RPG. Also lag can really be a problem in such things.

 

[andargor]

The PvP allowed everywhere. That's just bad. It only takes a few bad apples to ruin something, and there are a lot of bad apples online.

Eve Online got me used to "PVP Anywhere", it is not as free as it seems. Sure, you can kill people in the "safer" areas, but you pay for it as well by being blown up. There is an economical way of doing it, but the victim needs to be extraordinarily dim (for example, walking around with heaps of gold bling in the bad neighborhood). Be careful, and there's no problem.

From this page: http://www.mortalonline.com/feature/live-free-world

Steal from or slay whoever you want and loot their items, but prepare for the aftermath and watch out for the long arm of the law.

Seems like they are going for the same kind of system.

 

[Bront]

Yeah, but I know many people who don't enjoy that kind of thing, and it will be a turn off.

But hey, there are people who do like that kind of thing. usually people who instigate that kind of PvP