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General: Guild Sores: How'd That Get in There?
MikeB
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In MMORPG.com's very own webcomic Guild Sores, this week David North takes a look at the silly loot we find in MMO creatures.
Check out David North's Guild Sores: How'd That Get in There?
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lol
I never attack innocent creatures in games. I have been often unjustly accused of falsely uttering "its coming right for us!" though.
"Never met a pack of humans that were any different. Look at the idiots that get elected every couple of years. You really consider those guys more mature than us? The only difference between us and them is, when they gank some noobs and take their stuff, the noobs actually die." - Madimorga
You always need to be wary of the cute ones.
Hahaha!! I wish I could count how many deer I killed in Ultima to get leather armor....
That's what she said. (Oh come on. You know you were thinking it.
)
I lol when I kill a pig and get gold.
FEEL THE FULL
FREE-TO-FLAME
FANTASY.
I kill every damn killable thing in games. I love to hear their death scream!
ROFL that is so funny. Yea i kill everything in game you never know what kind of goodies your going to find on the corps. I sometimes have to ask where did that spider have that loot hidden at, then somebody will say I don't even want to know.
Screaming Deer in Rift = lolololol
totally worth the debuff
Quality! Lol, reminds me of that cartoon of a white rabbit grazing some grass, innocently and Splat! a black mace falls on it..
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014633/Classic-Game-Postmortem
Heheh... people talk about "immersion" in games all the time (me included), and this is exactly one of the things that has always killed immersion for me.
"...ok... umm... where exactly did the shadow wolf have this spell scroll stashed?..."
I'm happy that some MMO's have made a point of only attaching sensible loot to appropriate creatures - the ones that come to mind immedately are LotRO and TCoS.
While I always thought it was weird to kill animals and find no body parts on them, I thought it was weirder when I killed a tiger and found a rifle! A nearly dead hunter's last act was to jam his rifle up a tiger? No wonder the tiger let me kill it!
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I am still a fan of Asheron Call's old loot system from when it launched (and a few years after). It was a random loot generator that literally could drop what people consider Boss level raid loot on an overworld "trash" mob.
That said I was much like Dave there: I suffered not the lowliest Drudge to live.
"Many nights, my friend... Many nights I've put a blade to your throat while you were sleeping. Glad I never killed you, Steve. You're alright..."
Chavez y Chavez
In mmos there is one general rule when you pve and that is kill anything that moves.
Perhaps you need some help ><
Back to the topic, yah that is a very good point. I know recently games have been going down the path of beast creatures giving bodie parts and humanoid ones giving loot. Still though from time to time you do find money on that dragon you killed... then you ask... where were his pockets?
Hated this in FFXI, for one of the samurai swords you had to kill a sheep. What the hell does a sheep have to do with samurai, why does it have a samurai sword, where the hell did it stash it? UO wasn't as bad as many others, was more realistic in many aspects. Kill an animal then skin it and get hides and meat, sheer sheep with scissors to get wool etc. but even it had some quirky loot drops from some seeming impossible sources lol.
LoL...At least in RIft, when you kill a "harmless" creature, the loot you possibly can get is a "tear". There is even an acheivement for collecting all the critter tears. :-P
Aww you beat me to it
Hee hee, this has always made me lol.
Even loot tied to mob types can be pretty weird. Say you just killed a giant you open up the corpse and find a giant toe in its inventory. The whole process of what a person would have to do to get a giant toe would be long, bloody, and by our standards, pretty barbaric. Or perhaps the giant is carrying a bag around full of giant toes?
Whatever metaphysical questions we might have on how the giant toe got there, it's just waiting for me to pick it up and go sell it to a vendor. What value does a giant toe really have, why do they want it?
And if I happen to be a small character, say a DAoC lurikeen or some sort of halfling, how exactly do I go about carrying stacks of giant toes anyway? I am probably as big as the toe itself...
Playing MUDs and MMOs since 1994.
I love it when something innocent looking drops a staff or polearm
hahaha
Really MMORPG.com?
The lack of MMO news produces this, a unfunny comic with no originality.
Well I suppose it's better than RTS news being forced down our throats.
That was good!
The "Holy crap, now he's digging through it's corpse!" reminded me of my wife's coments on my gamming. My wife is always saying I am a graverobber, when I loot my kills. lol
Dragons will probably be the exception until someone decides to make mountains of gold lootable, as dragons are generally known for being notorious hoarders. After a while you get used to looting gear from beast type monsters. What really bothers me though isn't what you get, it's what you don't get. Every now and then you'll get quests to loot body parts off of certain creatures, and you end up having to kill dozens of them just to get six hooves or whatever it was that you needed for the quest.
LOL
Reminds me of Monty Python and the Holy Grail with the Killer Rabbit.
I have to wonder what kind of loot it'd drop.
Raisins