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Lejendary Adventures: The Wild Card MMORPG of '04

Billius8Billius8 Member Posts: 574
in The Pub at MMORPG.COM

Sony has its veteran EQ programmers.

Blizzard has its veteran Diablo programmers.

MEO folks have their veteran programmers.

But the new Lejendary Adventure games has one thing all of them are missing:

E. Gary Gygax (the father of Roleplaying games)

Will 2004 be the year that MMORPG's are dominated by EQ2, World of Warcraft, or MEO?

Think again.  Lejendary Adventures has the big guy himself, Gygax.  So step aside, noob developers, because Gygax is on the spot with a fistful of 20-sided dice in each hand and ready to kick some butt and make MMORPG history.

This game is a sleeper, I tell you, but it will be a revolution in gaming.  Time will tell.

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  • HemKhanHemKhan Member Posts: 231
    I've been looking at the game for a while now and I can certainly say its looking like the game that will change the face of MMORPG's. As you said, its a sleeper though, not much new info released about it, but if it is released.....er I mean when it is released hopefully it will be the title every bored MMORPG fan has been waiting for..........hopefully. Good luck to the LA team and I hope that this along side a few other titles not created by crappy companies like SOE and EA will be what makes the genre great again.

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  • ChronicRickChronicRick Member Posts: 569




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  • HemKhanHemKhan Member Posts: 231
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  • AlientAlient Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 315

    I'm not sure Gary Gygax will impress me as much as Richard Garriott probably will. My only thought is that there's not a massive enough amount of people to play all these massive multiplayer games.

  • ElapsedElapsed Member UncommonPosts: 2,329
    What exactly do you find so revolutionary about this game? I looked over the "About" and nothing jumped out at me. Also the graphics remind me of AC2.

  • Billius8Billius8 Member Posts: 574


    Originally posted by -Jaguar-
    What exactly do you find so revolutionary about this game? I looked over the "About" and nothing jumped out at me. Also the graphics remind me of AC2.


    Revolutionary?  Can't you see it?  It's Gygax, the man with the 20-sided dice.  They guy who wrote the original Dungeons and Dragons game.  The guy who sat back in his TSR office and read (and answered) countless letters presenting gaming questions (as can a Wizard wear armor?  Do Dwarven women have beards?  Does a fireball fill 33 1/3 ten by ten spaces if set off in a dungeon? etc).

    This is the man to bring MMORPG's to their status of greatness.  I can think of no other resource as capable and visionary.

  • anthrorobanthrorob Member Posts: 50

    Gygax was ONE of the fathers of Role Playing but there is no need to idolize him. Once he left (forcebly removed) from TSR his D&D products were utter tripe. With d20 Gygax has risen again and his stuff seems OK. To think that his association alone will make the game is a bit naive. mmorpgs do NOT equal table top (thank heavens! As I prefer the later.)

    Don't get me wrong, I am not dis-ing the game...just suggesting it takes more than a big company (Sony) a big brand (Warcraft) or a Big personality to make a good mmorpg.

    I won't go into why he was removed from TSR.

    Anthrorob
    (A DM since 1981...yep over 23 years!)


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  • Billius8Billius8 Member Posts: 574


    Originally posted by anthrorob

    Gygax was ONE of the fathers of Role Playing but there is no need to idolize him. Once he left (forcebly removed) from TSR his D&D products were utter tripe. With d20 Gygax has risen again and his stuff seems OK. To think that his association alone will make the game is a bit naive. mmorpgs do NOT equal table top (thank heavens! As I prefer the later.)
    Don't get me wrong, I am not dis-ing the game...just suggesting it takes more than a big company (Sony) a big brand (Warcraft) or a Big personality to make a good mmorpg.
    I won't go into why he was removed from TSR.
    Anthrorob
    (A DM since 1981...yep over 23 years!)




    No, please tell me why.  I want to know.  Was he an idiot or something?

  • bsherlockbsherlock Member Posts: 491

    I havent read anything about this game yet (next stop any web site even mentioning the game).

    All i can say is that i hope that he can bring some of the pleasure that pen and paper D&D gave me. Dice rolls, huge rulebooks, giant bestiaries etc. i want it all. i want a game so immersive i spend 3 years creating a character!

    And this may well be the game to do this.

     

    (please note i know nothing of this game but the title so may be rambling nonsense image)

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  • MordridMordrid Member Posts: 237

    I have to agree with Anthrorob. Though Gygax is one of the fathers of roleplaying, he is not the man. He had several issues with TSR which caused his "removal" from the company. His name may bring users to the game, but his presence does not translate into a great game. There is no reason to build a shrine in the name of Gygax. His recent D20 material is ok at best. He lost his edge after about 88.

    Mordrid
    DM since 88 (16 yrs baby)

  • MrViceMrVice Member Posts: 197

    While I agree that a game can't be good just because it has a big name attached to it, nore will I argue that gary is god, however I would like to state the reason why Grayx was fired.  2nd edition.  TALK ABOUT YOUR POS CRAPPY AWEFUL NASTY SYSTEMS TO EVER HAVE TO CHOKE YOUR WAY THROUGH A CAMPANGIN THROUGH!!!!!  Oh and did I mention he got fired because he apposed the changes that TSR was making with the introduction of 2nd edition.  So while no, he might not be a god, he still knowns crap when he see's it, and that's good enough for me.

  • MordridMordrid Member Posts: 237

    Gygax got fired because of his very public attack of 2nd edition, not because he opposed 2nd edition. He tore apart TSR in several articles. He made himself look like a jerk and gave the company a black eye for a while. His firing was very justified.

    BTW, I like the 2nd edition. I thought it was a good system, though it had many issues, but most systems do.

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