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Your Pick for Most Disappointing Upcoming Game
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2006 was not a banner year for fulfilling mmorpg fans' expectations--with that in mind, I can't help but wonder which, if not all, of the following upcoming titles will be the most disappointing on release.
Feel free to discuss why you think one will or won't be disappointing--"trying for too much," "not different enough," "too much grind," "dead concept," "too much pvp," "not enough pvp," etcetera.
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I'm going to go for Lord of the Rings Online. I used to be very interested in it, way back when it was MEO, but since hearing of the features and seeing their media I'm far from excited. I don't like the art direction at all. The character models for example look exactly like DDO, I see no definition to anything. The interface is essentially a cookie cutter job, compare them.
Classes aren't exciting either. The only thing they are doing well is keeping to the lore, that's all.
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I was torn between Lord of the Rings online and Darkfall for this one. While I was looking forward to both games for a time, Lord of the Rings just looks too bland and, like Anageth said, almost too similar too DDO. However, they have made strides in all this time and Darkfall has been lagging behind for years, hell I read about Darkfall long before joining WoW closed beta.
I will have to choose Darkfall since, even though they have released some updates, I don't feel that it will raise the watermark in free form MMOs like Eve or UO have done before it. Hell, in my opinion it is still vaporware, and has been that way for years.
LotR Online certainly seems not to be trying enough to be different. I think and hope the days are gone when we're all going to jump on a game just because it's new and shiny.
Also, a game made from a third-party IP is, to me, risky. Sure, you have the potential for an immediate fanbase, but you also have the associated headaches of maintaining that fanbase. As well, what do you do when that IP is no longer the hot young thing it once was and there are no more movies/books or whatever forthcoming? It can be difficult for an MMO to have to pick up the slack there when they're not prepared for it.
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So you never wonder about how something will be before you get your hands on it?
There's quite a bit of information on all of the titles above. Certainly enough to give you a good idea of what any of the games are striving toward. Most experienced gamers can see what a game's design goals are and make a guess as to how it might be when finished.
Will that guess be 100% accurate? No, of course not. But some of us like to extrapolate and predict rather than just take each day as it comes with no thought to the future or what it holds.
And so, just as a game can be highly anticipated and go on to disappoint many (such as, say, DDO for one), so too can a game be expected to disappoint, and go on to be a surprise hit.
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So you never wonder about how something will be before you get your hands on it?
There's quite a bit of information on all of the titles above. Certainly enough to give you a good idea of what any of the games are striving toward. Most experienced gamers can see what a game's design goals are and make a guess as to how it might be when finished.
Will that guess be 100% accurate? No, of course not. But some of us like to extrapolate and predict rather than just take each day as it comes with no thought to the future or what it holds.
And so, just as a game can be highly anticipated and go on to disappoint many (such as, say, DDO for one), so too can a game be expected to disappoint, and go on to be a surprise hit.
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This thread is dumb and pointless.
Something can't be disappointing before you actually play it unless you're one of those "sheepmen"?
No one wrote that they're disappointing now, but to discuss why they might be disappointing on release based on what we know now. In other words, is the handwriting already on the wall for some of these games even before their release?
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LoTR by far! It's like playing a cookie cutter WoW MMORPG, absolutely nothing is different and the same game machinics, I was so pissed. Turbine should have never had the liscense, instead give it to someone who can actually accomplish something. See ya in Vanguard.
LotRO by a long shot. such a let down. what should be a huge epic game, is more like being in a fishbowl.
I was going to vote darkfall, but I lost hype for that game back in 2003 when I was expecting it to come out. So, I guess its already let me down like 2 years ago.
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a robot foot stomping on a human face -- forever."
That would be because that is not an upcoming game but an expansion to an existing game...
Suprised AoC isn't getting a higher %.
These stats merely reflect that LOTRO is the most well-known game due to come out soon, followed closely by Vanguard. People won't vote for stuff they've never heard of.
Quite a lot has been published about LOTRO and Vanguard, so people can make a judgement on them. Near nothing has been published about Star Trek On-line (due maybe in 2008) and Stargate Worlds (we'll be lucky to see it in 2010, since the indications are they haven't started coding it yet). The others are smaller and less promoted MMOs, which I hope will all be good, but they probably won't all be good.
They all suck compared to Ragnarok Online 2. If I had to pick, its a toss between Darkfall and Lord of the Rings Online. I say Lord of the Rings though because it just has so much potential that it will have such a huge bomb factor, just like Dungeons and Dragons Online.
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The general consensus appears to be that Lord of the Rings is going to be a poor release. How can you be disappointed about something you already feel is going to be a poor release?
Darkfall has many members anxiously awaiting its arrival. With so many wanting it to be a good release, this will be the big disappointment.
I've been saying it for months but nobody's really been listening to me, lol. LOTRO is a huge disappointment unless you're a hardcore LOTR fan. It's gonna be a huge disappointment the way DDO was a huge disappointment for much of the community. From a general MMO players standpoint, the game just doesn't have anything to offer.
Turbine's pooched another game, their 3rd in a row. Maybe it's time people started seeing that AC1 was just a fluke, they got lucky in their timing. Maybe it's time Turbine gave up making games.
"Because it's easier to nitpick something than to be constructive." -roach5000
I'll have to answer with the two games I've actually been following the most closely, and have the greatest hopes for.
Vanguard - has me worried by associating with Sony, and now many dev comments suddenly seem not to be along the line of "we're building the type of game we'd like to play ourselves" to more recent comments like "we want to build a game that's accessible to everyone". When I hear things like that I shudder. I'm also not a big fan of class based mmrpg's, and I sense as well the PvP is really going to be lacking of any meaning or purpose in Vanguard.
Darkfall - "All items will be player crafted". That alone says to me that the PvE in Darkfall is the element in this game that will probably be meaningless to nearly nonexistent. And I'm the sort who enjoys doing both PvE and PvP. Great sounding skill based system, but perhaps overly ambitious for a small company. I believe this game, as many others have speculated too, may be the next Dark and Light.
Lord of the Rings Online
Darkfall Online
I don't expect any of the new MMO's to do extremely well in subscriber numbers. Those 3 though I just have a feeling will be the worse off.
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And though they are trying to stay true to the lore somewhat it was guaranteed to be less than spectacular from the get go. First, Bree town is nothing as described in the books. The journey from Shire to Bree is excessively short. Weathertop is far too big. Bree to Rivendell is far too short, hobbits wearing shoes and thats just the tip of the iceberg. Other issues: recycled player models from Dungeons and Dragons Online, Epic gears, forced grouping and only a small portion of the gameworld available to force you to buy expansions. The game will not be complete at launch and once you fly through the monotonous quests you will have to wait for the expansion to continue your story.
Now, I mentioned low budget. I say this because they are banking on the name recognition of the Lord of the Rings to lure people in while not offering anything close to an epic story. EA had put out a game where you played as a knock off of Boromir and you gathered allies that were in turn knock offs of the official fellowship characters. That game will probably score higher than LOTRO.
Had they stuck with Middle Earth online and provided the world of middle earth as a playground it could have been alot better and far more entertaining.
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STAR TREK ONLINE
I am a Trek fan, but I see the developers are listening to teenybopper gamers instead of true Star Trek fans.
The game will fail like so many other ST games, because they are doing the same mistakes others did before.
This is the lamest thread ever. Try being positive you might really improve your life.
My most anticipated game that I know is going to rock is Vanguard. I wish nothing but the best for all the other games on your anti-social poll.