Modern setting: great. Illuminati: wicked. Giant squid: umm...squishtastic. But can't they add at least ONE elf? Pleeeeeease?
OR if you HAVE to have "one"....let him be some evil tooth fairy from the nightmares of my youth or something. Killing an elf always feels so good. Yes, that is what years of WoW did to me. I used to like elves...now I hate them.
Fairies have been spotted, but so far only as local citizenry of the social hub of secret London
I think I'd let that one live. She looks fairly harmless....at least right this minute.....
It's nice to see a change of setting in an MMO, and I'm really intrigued to see what they go with and what spectacular looking environments we will see outside of the real world. The few screenshots I've seen so far have let me really engrossed. I saw one of what looked like Kelethin and had me really wondering.
I think my main concern with TSW is how they are going to handle guns in an MMO? I've not yet played an MMO with guns that I have found worked well. To be truthful I'm not really a shooter sort of person, though I loved HalfLife 2 and that is what I use as a level playing field to judge MMO weapon combat. I played SWG and thought the combat lacked something appealing, then both Fallen Earth and Earthrise left me really unimpressed.
I guess I just feel a little odd shooting a weapon and the target can be moving around or out in the open and he doesn't die first time a bullet hits him somewhere vital. It has to be that way with RPG style combat, but it is just hard for me to get my head around. I hope people understand where I am coming from.
I've seen some videos for TSW and that was the thing that made me flinch a little. The fights didn't make me go wow, but hmm.
I'd love to give TSW a go but it comes down to a toss up between MMOs for me. I'd love to play them all but I only ever really have time for one. GW2 is probably winning at the moment, of the upcoming MMOs, but TSW is right in there with a chance. I suppose the beauty of GW2 is it's free so I can sign up for TSW too, not that money is the problem for me.
Although I grew up a D&D fanboi -- I started with the "blue box" (yes, I am truly an old school geek) -- I think I've reached my critical mass with high fantasy / sword & sorcery game settings. I too loved CoH, am truly looking forward to "The Secret World," and hope others will break out of the fantasy mold soon.
I totally share the desire for a Western setting. My nerdiest dream is to see a "Deadlands" MMO someday, which twists the setting even further to create a Weird West playground. I know various organizations have toyed with the idea over the years, but nothing seems to have come to fruition yet. Maybe someone out there knows more? (Or knows just the right people to "persuade," wink wink.)
The possibilities for this setting are just great. So far, what they've shown has been very promising. Real world locations should help them immensely, it doesn't bother me at all. There are certainly enough amazing locations scattered about to fill their scenarios.
I'm real pleased to see them going for a character look that is divorced from your old style change-armor-for-stats paradigm. I am pretty sure that you are going to be able to add the boosts you would normally get via rewards/drops, but they will be something like spells or invocations or dweomers that can be added to what you have on, to maintain a consistent look for your character. I was spoiled by CoH for that, and am glad to see other games take a similiar approach.
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
Vampire Bloodlines is also a modern world setting and worked very very well - GTA IV worked very well. I see really no troubles ahead bcs of the setting. Its urgent that the world transports an believeable ambiente so lighting and sound is very important but in a modern world you can have every location in every style you want even a old western ghost town with some quick drawing gunners around...
"Torquemada... do not implore him for compassion. Torquemada... do not beg him for forgiveness. Torquemada... do not ask him for mercy. Let's face it, you can't Torquemada anything!"
For me, purely in regards to the setting, it has very little to do with geography at all. I live in London and I can tell you for a vast majority of the time you'd be hard pushed to tell if you were there or many other english cities (apart from the prices, that would be a give away, £1 for a can of coke, cheecky cnuts). But every now and then you turn down a street and it would become all too obvious, it would feel how you think London should be.
That imo is all they need to replicate, the ambiance is all that matters and even then they only really need the connotation of that ambiance. Then stick in a few cultural references with a TSW twist, an iconic landmark here and there and boom, London.
----- The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
Will the secert world be as good as conan when it releases? If it is i doubt i will try it for a few months, last i heard conan was still broke.
i hope funcom dont get too exited and try to release it this year, not even 2012..... i rather wait longer than that and get the good stuff..... if it releases early and is just as bad as AoC at launch.... im not paying em for any game
If anybody listened to the early info and interviews, they said that they would make sure not to do the same mistake as with age of conan.
They are obviously doing a fantastic job with the storyline, a great one with scenery, but what really worries me is the fact that having so many skills to choose from is going to be hard to balance.
The sylvari ordered Rice n chicken in a bar. The waiter asked him: "exploded or intact?" He angrily answered: "Intact of course! Do you take me for a fool?"
Well to be honest, I do not see any good chances for Games set in a "real setting" basicly a copy of our World now. These Games tend to get dull very fast.
And I guess TSW will be somewhat of a Grindfest - not really something you want discover and hope for treasury in every single Corner.
In their latest Adv-Video they show us what you get in the Game: Important places of our Real World filled with Monsters created my clever Minds who mixed Stuff together to get such Monsters. Engines and Metalparts from a Junkyard to give somewhat "mechanical Golem"-sort of Monsters, muscular Soldiers who look like being on Steroids and all sorts of Horrors our mind can simply put up.
I am sorry but I can not see how that should fascinate me.
The only thing why I might give it a try is: The skill System which evolves by you doing one particular Thing (running to increase a run skill). Tho I can see that easily exploitable, I always looked forward to such a skill-system, different like all the others.
But will this make me want to sub after the free 30 Days? I can not tell. Too many dissappointing MMOs in the last Years.
The Modern Setting doesn't worry me at all. I play games to have fun, not to walk the streets of various cities, searching for mistakes in the game. As long as they don't place the Statue of Liberty in Paris or some other fundamental flaw. The concept art of the characters seem to offer tons of customizability, so people could be recognized from a distance by their looks only, and that is a great thing. The PvP aspect seems to be contained to concentual, which I prefer to the FFA gripefest that often happens.
In regard to this, all I gotta say is read Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, and you can see how something like this could happen. He blends the supernatural world together with the modern easily and makes it believable, which, is one of the reasons he's me favorite author atm.
If this game goes along with the same basic idea, I think it will work
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I think I'd let that one live. She looks fairly harmless....at least right this minute.....
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It's nice to see a change of setting in an MMO, and I'm really intrigued to see what they go with and what spectacular looking environments we will see outside of the real world. The few screenshots I've seen so far have let me really engrossed. I saw one of what looked like Kelethin and had me really wondering.
I think my main concern with TSW is how they are going to handle guns in an MMO? I've not yet played an MMO with guns that I have found worked well. To be truthful I'm not really a shooter sort of person, though I loved HalfLife 2 and that is what I use as a level playing field to judge MMO weapon combat. I played SWG and thought the combat lacked something appealing, then both Fallen Earth and Earthrise left me really unimpressed.
I guess I just feel a little odd shooting a weapon and the target can be moving around or out in the open and he doesn't die first time a bullet hits him somewhere vital. It has to be that way with RPG style combat, but it is just hard for me to get my head around. I hope people understand where I am coming from.
I've seen some videos for TSW and that was the thing that made me flinch a little. The fights didn't make me go wow, but hmm.
I'd love to give TSW a go but it comes down to a toss up between MMOs for me. I'd love to play them all but I only ever really have time for one. GW2 is probably winning at the moment, of the upcoming MMOs, but TSW is right in there with a chance. I suppose the beauty of GW2 is it's free so I can sign up for TSW too, not that money is the problem for me.
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lolz.....this^^^^^^^
me want....i use be an @ss when i was in puberty
lolz 
I am looking forward to this one...
I did enjoy AOC once all the main bugs where ironed out.. and i also enjoyed AO..
Although I grew up a D&D fanboi -- I started with the "blue box" (yes, I am truly an old school geek) -- I think I've reached my critical mass with high fantasy / sword & sorcery game settings. I too loved CoH, am truly looking forward to "The Secret World," and hope others will break out of the fantasy mold soon.
I totally share the desire for a Western setting. My nerdiest dream is to see a "Deadlands" MMO someday, which twists the setting even further to create a Weird West playground. I know various organizations have toyed with the idea over the years, but nothing seems to have come to fruition yet. Maybe someone out there knows more? (Or knows just the right people to "persuade," wink wink.)
Regards.
Western MMO would be amazing.
The possibilities for this setting are just great. So far, what they've shown has been very promising. Real world locations should help them immensely, it doesn't bother me at all. There are certainly enough amazing locations scattered about to fill their scenarios.
I'm real pleased to see them going for a character look that is divorced from your old style change-armor-for-stats paradigm. I am pretty sure that you are going to be able to add the boosts you would normally get via rewards/drops, but they will be something like spells or invocations or dweomers that can be added to what you have on, to maintain a consistent look for your character. I was spoiled by CoH for that, and am glad to see other games take a similiar approach.
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
I see really no troubles ahead bcs of the setting.
Its urgent that the world transports an believeable ambiente so lighting and sound is very important but in a modern world you can have every location in every style you want even a old western ghost town with some quick drawing gunners around...
"Torquemada... do not implore him for compassion. Torquemada... do not beg him for forgiveness. Torquemada... do not ask him for mercy. Let's face it, you can't Torquemada anything!"
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For me, purely in regards to the setting, it has very little to do with geography at all. I live in London and I can tell you for a vast majority of the time you'd be hard pushed to tell if you were there or many other english cities (apart from the prices, that would be a give away, £1 for a can of coke, cheecky cnuts). But every now and then you turn down a street and it would become all too obvious, it would feel how you think London should be.
That imo is all they need to replicate, the ambiance is all that matters and even then they only really need the connotation of that ambiance. Then stick in a few cultural references with a TSW twist, an iconic landmark here and there and boom, London.
-----
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
Will the secert world be as good as conan when it releases? If it is i doubt i will try it for a few months, last i heard conan was still broke.
i hope funcom dont get too exited and try to release it this year, not even 2012..... i rather wait longer than that and get the good stuff..... if it releases early and is just as bad as AoC at launch.... im not paying em for any game
i have the same concern
If anybody listened to the early info and interviews, they said that they would make sure not to do the same mistake as with age of conan.
They are obviously doing a fantastic job with the storyline, a great one with scenery, but what really worries me is the fact that having so many skills to choose from is going to be hard to balance.
The sylvari ordered Rice n chicken in a bar. The waiter asked him: "exploded or intact?" He angrily answered: "Intact of course! Do you take me for a fool?"
Those were his last words.
Well to be honest, I do not see any good chances for Games set in a "real setting" basicly a copy of our World now. These Games tend to get dull very fast.
And I guess TSW will be somewhat of a Grindfest - not really something you want discover and hope for treasury in every single Corner.
In their latest Adv-Video they show us what you get in the Game: Important places of our Real World filled with Monsters created my clever Minds who mixed Stuff together to get such Monsters. Engines and Metalparts from a Junkyard to give somewhat "mechanical Golem"-sort of Monsters, muscular Soldiers who look like being on Steroids and all sorts of Horrors our mind can simply put up.
I am sorry but I can not see how that should fascinate me.
The only thing why I might give it a try is: The skill System which evolves by you doing one particular Thing (running to increase a run skill). Tho I can see that easily exploitable, I always looked forward to such a skill-system, different like all the others.
But will this make me want to sub after the free 30 Days? I can not tell. Too many dissappointing MMOs in the last Years.
The Modern Setting doesn't worry me at all. I play games to have fun, not to walk the streets of various cities, searching for mistakes in the game. As long as they don't place the Statue of Liberty in Paris or some other fundamental flaw. The concept art of the characters seem to offer tons of customizability, so people could be recognized from a distance by their looks only, and that is a great thing. The PvP aspect seems to be contained to concentual, which I prefer to the FFA gripefest that often happens.
I think there is a statue of liberty in Paris. On a small scale though.
In regard to this, all I gotta say is read Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, and you can see how something like this could happen. He blends the supernatural world together with the modern easily and makes it believable, which, is one of the reasons he's me favorite author atm.
If this game goes along with the same basic idea, I think it will work