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On 2005-02-16, Hippie Ramone <kdeacon@scrye.com> wrote:

> Sorry, I still see all these quest as fundamentally the same. It's like
> comparing the depth of two Euclidian planes and saying A is deeper/better than
> B because Euclidian plane A is colored green.

How far did you play? Level 10? It doesn't get varied until about
level 25.

 

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shadows <shadows@whitefang.com> once tried to test me with:

> On 2005-02-16, Hippie Ramone <kdeacon@scrye.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I still see all these quest as fundamentally the same. It's
>> like comparing the depth of two Euclidian planes and saying A is
>> deeper/better than B because Euclidian plane A is colored green.
>
> How far did you play? Level 10? It doesn't get varied until about
> level 25.

Not true. The quests from 1-5 are more or less similar but even then you
had some real unusual ones, like the Orc one where you have to run around
and beat the workers that are sleeping on the job. That one had me rolling
on the floor.


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Hippie Ramone <kdeacon@scrye.com> writes:

> WoW's quests are really no more or less interesting than those
> available in EQ1, CoH, Horizon's, etc.

Do the other games listed have quests like "Fully explore Area_01" or
"Find NPC_01 and cast Spell_02 and Spell_03 on him"? That's just two
non-"standard" quests I've done.

Also, it's a MMORPG: Until someone makes a game that isn't about
whacking rats for teh levels, and make it a tad more interesting than
A Tale in the Desert, that's what the games are going to give you. So
it comes down to competitive advantage, and WoW's is an excellent
interface and beautiful graphics.

 

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shadows <shadows@whitefang.com> wrote:
: How far did you play? Level 10? It doesn't get varied until about
: level 25.

My highest is L20, but I can read Allas with the best of them.

K

 

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Tor Iver Wilhelmsen <tor.iver.wilhelmsen@broadpark.no> wrote:
: Hippie Ramone <kdeacon@scrye.com> writes:
: > WoW's quests are really no more or less interesting than those
: > available in EQ1, CoH, Horizon's, etc.

: Do the other games listed have quests like "Fully explore Area_01" or
: "Find NPC_01 and cast Spell_02 and Spell_03 on him"? That's just two
: non-"standard" quests I've done.

Notice I said "no more or less interesting". Fully explore and Find are
just small variations on Fedex type quests in my mind. The crafter quests
in WoW are on par with doing the Crafter quests in Horizons.

: Also, it's a MMORPG: Until someone makes a game that isn't about
: whacking rats for teh levels, and make it a tad more interesting than
: A Tale in the Desert, that's what the games are going to give you. So
: it comes down to competitive advantage, and WoW's is an excellent
: interface and beautiful graphics.

*shrug* I'm personally not finding WoW to be all that compelling. Sure,
it's fun in it's way, but so is CoH when I want mindlessness. I'm
personally waiting to see what Vanguard is going to be like.

Hmm, what I find really irritating about both CoH and WoW is that the game
mechancis of both put a play at a big disadvantage if you don't play in
3rd person view. I'm never in 3rd person in EQ1 and that small point I think
makes the sense of immersion far far greater.

K

 

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Hippie Ramone <kdeacon@scrye.com> writes:

> *shrug* I'm personally not finding WoW to be all that compelling. Sure,
> it's fun in it's way, but so is CoH when I want mindlessness. I'm
> personally waiting to see what Vanguard is going to be like.

Judging by dev comments it's going to be a reimplementation of old EQ1
- you will be able to sit and meditate and wait in queue for raids
while looking at beautiful instead of blocky graphics.