As I stated before I am not a big fan of PnC myself, but how is movement half the fun? Half of the fun is the experience, ie. building your character, content, story line, immersion etc. The other half of the fun is getting online, getting a group of people, be it friends, guildies, pickup teams, and then going out and playing the game. Movement is a means to an end, simple as that. If you are going to completely discount a Role Playing game based exclusively on movement, you have kinda missed the point of the game. Wish to me is a game that is trying to bring something new to a field full of EQ clones. Taking steps to try and minimize level grinding. Player actions impacting the game. Player controlled towns. Live content for all players. These aspects of the game look pretty exciting to me. How I get to where I want to go is just a side note, not the heart of a game.
I am not going to add much to this conversation, but I would urge you not to knock it until you try it. There are a lot of other aspects of WISH than just the PnC movement, and if that is the only thing you have to get over, I don't feel it will be that difficult.
Many of you have visions of Shadowbane or other kinds of PnC movement in mind when you're criticizing WISH's PnC, but I can assure you that it's nothing like it. It may be a bit daunting at first to get used to, but you shouldn't have too many visual perception problems like you did in Shadowbane. Even I felt that was a nightmare.
For those of you who are discounting PnC in favor of WASD and stating that lag isn't that big of deal--please keep in mind that WISH is one server. ONE. There will be only One. One with TENS of thousands of people on it, including objects, buildings, moving NPC's, etc. While you may see this as a move backword, I urge you to look at this as the beginning of a technological breakthrough. Nothing like this has ever been done before, and for now the developers of WISH feel that with their current technology, PnC was the way to best implement the kind of game they wanted to have.
I said this wasn't going to be long, didn't I? ;-) Well, that's all I wanted to say on the subject. I just hope some of those of you naysayers out there are reading. Give it a try. I've been a WASD'er all my life, and even I have gotten used to this kind of movement in WISH.
make no mistake about it - you STILL control your character in Wish ! You just don't have to spend so much time and effort to do so !!! LOL
PnC was new to me when I started Wish but it didn't take long to get the hang of it. the pathfinding in Wish is truly outstanding - from the observation deck on top of the lighthouse at Jannerwik, I clicked on the ground outside the door into the lighthouse and in less than 15 secs I was THERE !!! no way you could get through all the doorways, ladders, stairways and get outside in less than a minute using 'normal' movement control !!! movement is fast and smooth and you can take care of other things instead of constantly pressing movement control keys !!!
Wish has much more going for it than any other game out there - currently, or upcoming ! ! ! THAT'S where I'll be !!!
Hmm many games have fps and some games have point and click... but define pont and click... Diablo like point and click or SWG click attack *ZzZz*....
I think its up to the game what is best suited to that games playstyle... 4 ex. Neocron and planetside perfect with fps... Outpost... OMG they use point click *zzz* WAY boring... WoW use point and click but its more suitable for that game....
Everyone here who says WISH will suck just because of PnC... that seems pretty lame to me. Ultima Online had a PnC movement system... it wasn't even a perfect one (as WISH's seems to be) but it always left that other hand free to type, drink tea or smoke a bifta.
Anyways... enough of that.
All of you doubters should visit the website http://wish.stratics.com check out some of the videos which show the PnC system in action.
Go to the official website www.mutablerealms.com and sign up for BETA 2.0 which starts January 1st!!!
[we need a worldwide genocide/ a planetary suicide/ and when the whole damned world is dead/ there''s your f***ing peace]
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I am not going to add much to this conversation, but I would urge you not to knock it until you try it. There are a lot of other aspects of WISH than just the PnC movement, and if that is the only thing you have to get over, I don't feel it will be that difficult.
Many of you have visions of Shadowbane or other kinds of PnC movement in mind when you're criticizing WISH's PnC, but I can assure you that it's nothing like it. It may be a bit daunting at first to get used to, but you shouldn't have too many visual perception problems like you did in Shadowbane. Even I felt that was a nightmare.
For those of you who are discounting PnC in favor of WASD and stating that lag isn't that big of deal--please keep in mind that WISH is one server. ONE. There will be only One. One with TENS of thousands of people on it, including objects, buildings, moving NPC's, etc. While you may see this as a move backword, I urge you to look at this as the beginning of a technological breakthrough. Nothing like this has ever been done before, and for now the developers of WISH feel that with their current technology, PnC was the way to best implement the kind of game they wanted to have.
I said this wasn't going to be long, didn't I? ;-) Well, that's all I wanted to say on the subject. I just hope some of those of you naysayers out there are reading. Give it a try. I've been a WASD'er all my life, and even I have gotten used to this kind of movement in WISH.
-- Jenni --
Wish Warcry
make no mistake about it - you STILL control your character in Wish ! You just don't have to spend so much time and effort to do so !!! LOL
PnC was new to me when I started Wish but it didn't take long to get the hang of it. the pathfinding in Wish is truly outstanding - from the observation deck on top of the lighthouse at Jannerwik, I clicked on the ground outside the door into the lighthouse and in less than 15 secs I was THERE !!! no way you could get through all the doorways, ladders, stairways and get outside in less than a minute using 'normal' movement control !!! movement is fast and smooth and you can take care of other things instead of constantly pressing movement control keys !!!
Wish has much more going for it than any other game out there - currently, or upcoming ! ! ! THAT'S where I'll be !!!
Gbear, Gatekeeper of Harbourview
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Hmm many games have fps and some games have point and click... but define pont and click... Diablo like point and click or SWG click attack *ZzZz*....
I think its up to the game what is best suited to that games playstyle...
perfect with fps... Outpost... OMG they use point click *zzz* WAY boring...
4 ex. Neocron and planetside
WoW use point and click but its more suitable for that game....
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Everyone here who says WISH will suck just because of PnC... that seems pretty lame to me. Ultima Online had a PnC movement system... it wasn't even a perfect one (as WISH's seems to be) but it always left that other hand free to type, drink tea or smoke a bifta.
Anyways... enough of that.
All of you doubters should visit the website http://wish.stratics.com check out some of the videos which show the PnC system in action.
Go to the official website www.mutablerealms.com and sign up for BETA 2.0 which starts January 1st!!!
[we need a worldwide genocide/ a planetary suicide/ and when the whole damned world is dead/ there''s your f***ing peace]