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MMO Launch Spotlight: A Massive Week for MMO Launches - From Fantasy Adventures to Shooters | MMORPG
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MMO Launch Spotlight: A Massive Week for MMO Launches - From Fantasy Adventures to Shooters | MMORPG.com
It may be our biggest week for MMO launches so far! Let's check them out!
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Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
Thats AFK Journey
AFK Journey
I mean, runescape and albion are both on mobile now. There have been other mobile ports of games, if I'm honest I think it's just going to get worse.
I remember when people used to complain when something was built for consoles. Now a lot of games are building games with mobile in mind. In another 10 years it'll be something like "more awful AR games, I'm sick of MMO's being built for a pair of glasses"
Palia has some solid ground started from it's beta phases I played and I like the cozy vibes of the community but there's always some random Joe Shmoe trying to run everyone else's good time on there that's more used to competing for everything ever instead of collaborative play style. A rare treat of a game, 10/10 I do recommend.
Hmm, Mobile Trash Spotlight would even more appropriate.
Seriously, people should be ashamed of playing such crap..but no standards anymore it seems.
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Sometimes PC versions of mobile games get new interfaces to make them more suited to the computer platform, so that could make them better in some cases on the big screen.
I think comparing Runescape and Albion to other mobile MMO's is a bit disingenuous. There's a world of difference between those games and the standard "mobile trash MMOs" that we've been getting for years now.
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We have traded quality for convenience...I know wayyyyyy too many people that if they cant play it on their phone, they are not interested.....so this is the audience that games are being made for now.
I mean those games are on mobile. They are a different kind of game.
But take Once Human for example. It's a game that kind of just showed up out of the blue but it's really good (I played the beta). But it's also slated for mobile, though it's PC first.
So yeah there are a lot of crap mobile MMOs, but there's good ones too. Games like once human will eventually show up on mobile, but as a PC MMO it's a ton of fun.
I just feel like you can't be so quick to judge just because a game is slated for mobile.
Okay, yes, AFK journey might be a different animal here. It's a mobile light mmo, for mobile players, that feels like they ported to PC. But it's also pretty good if you like strategy idle games...except like someone else said theres lots of power gating which they try and force you to pay to get through.
Anyways, there's just a lot of games out there.
Somewhat, but they are examples of how mobile is shifting toward being a better platform than it was. The overall state of MMOs on mobile remains quite bad.
There are native mobile exceptions.
Trese Brothers is a company that started on mobile.They had f2p versions of their games and expanded versions that were b2p for those inclined. Their success led to them now having shifted to PC development. They mostly do tactical turn-based so they aren't the most graphically impressive games but for the genre they are alright.
So, mobile isn't all bad though still mostly so.
Not sure what your point is here.
Just as predicted the industry has been going completely downhill.
Sounds like you are just saying to embrace the suck we have because they are making even more dumbed down versions in the future?
Just because the industry is making more and more of these games doesnt make them any better. Its not like a balance scale, where you can put 10 really bad mobile games and somehow that is equal to 1 good PC game.
No matter how many of these garbage games they make, it will never equal a good game. Its not something that can be solved with quantity. Only the quality matters to me.
I was shocked to discover how complex Undecember was. It really opened my eyes on what mobile games are capable of. I no longer dismiss a game simply because it is available on mobile. I actually have a look at the game and the mechanics and complexity before coming to any decision on its merit.
Can we maybe just separate all the websites into "mobile" and "real video games" and be done with it?
I admit there's a certain amount of intersection in the Venn diagram, but those people can (and should) visit two different websites for their varied interests, much like they'd go to separate sites to read about cooking and bowling.
Yeah, sad part is a lot of people play mobile games. Everyone I know plays Monopoly Go, I resisted for as long as I could but eventually joined them. Also dip into Shop Titans and Pixel Starships, lmao. I would only feel ashamed of playing them if I actually spent money in them. For the most part they are literal time wasters.
I tried it out for a lark but got totally drawn into the ARPG that drew me in like POE. I loved the skill mechanic and skill trees and really decked out my summoner. I was 2 levels shy of the end game dungeon difficulty rank at that time when I quit.
I mean RNG was something that I struggled with even in Everquest when I was unable to get a winning roll for a Shiny Metallic Robe. Each time some new player in the group would get it while I sat there day in and day out for 3 months. I finally gave up. I was not a needed class like an enchanter or cleric who could get groups far easier than me so I just sat in that room which I can still see in my nightmares. Not a stranger to RNG and I think I demonstrated a great deal of patience but at some point you just lose hope. That is what RNG does to me , make me lose hope.
I think if a game has fun mechanics and great bones the thing that for me turns the tide is the P2W, RNG, Gacha or any other random mechanic they put in to slow you down and prevent you from having fun. It's the thing I look at now not whether it is mobile. Face it even games built for the PC is riddled with this rubbish. So crying about mobile is a futile endeavour. Their gimmicks have made their way to the PC games. There's no purity just bad games.
We cannot pretend that division because some mobile games are traditional video games brought to the mobile platform. Many console Final Fantasy games have been adapted for mobile, for example. It's not the endless wasteland of worthless rubbish some continue to make it out to be, not anymore. It has been shifting in nature to a mixed environment where there is a bit of genuine gold among that fool's.