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Been waiting a very long time!
Lai'Ahna
Member Posts: 126
Many of us old Dragon Realms folks been waiting a very long time for this to happen. All I am hoping is that Hero's Journey will have all that we had in DR. If so I and many others who are and have been waiting for this to happen will be the most devout members. Thanks Simutronics!
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Sounds like your going to wet yourself, Chode!!
"To this day, the most engrossing online rpg I've played has been Dragonrealms."
I second that notion. If they are able to capture 10% of DragonRealms, it will still be a better MMORPG then anything out there.
Visit the Unofficial Hero's Journey FAQ http://www.kmtdesigns.com/hjfaq
A graphical DR would be like making a classic novel into a movie. Everything gets lost in translation, elements cut out, plots altered. Thats the trade off with graphics, you lose the immersion.
However, simutronics always seems to add their spice into games. My expectations for HJ are high, and I am sure that I will not be disapointed.
Visit the Unofficial Hero's Journey FAQ http://www.kmtdesigns.com/hjfaq
As far as game-mechanics go (leveling, combat, crafting, etc), you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who has played Dragon Realms who will not tell you that it is far better than any other existing MMORPG. I'm not real keen on text-based games, I'm also not a big fan of white text on black backgrounds, yet Dragon Realms still managed to suck me in as a regular player for about 5 years (I've actually had my account for 8 and still log on every once in a great while). People keep saying you can't compare graphical and text-based games, that the mechanics for one won't work for the other. I say that's a bunch of baloney, nobodys really made a good attempt at it yet.
I can't wait for HJ to come out 1) because it is going to be the best graphical MMORPG out at the time and 2) maybe they'll shift gears and start working on a graphical DR
DR sounds like crappoo, I just don't understand this, of course you can't compare Graphical MMORPG's with Text Based MMO's, why? because text based games suckysuckypoo.
Rupard, before you begin to bash on DragonRealms and/or any other text based game, try them. I've played many in my life, but by far, the greatest out there was DragonRealms. Which was followed closely by the other Simutronics products (Gemstone 3/4, Modus Operandi). While I wasn't a big fan of the Greek Mythology trial (Hercules and Xena I think was the name), it stood out very well for what they were trying to accomplish.
Once again, don't take your illiteracy too far. Once you get into a game like DragonRealms, you'll find that 3 years have passed and you're still spending every waking moment wonder if you should get your character's level, or just go out and rank any other skill you want.
Terlockin
The spell slinging, sword wielding, chain mail/plate armor wearing Moon Mage.
MUDs are the books of the gaming industry, while graphical MMOs are the movies. Some people like one or the other, some people like both. In my opinion, most books are better than movies that are based on them simply because you can include a lot more in text. That's almost beside the point, though. Really, it's all about the game engine for me, not the graphics engine. There are good MUDs and bad MUDs, just as there are good and bad graphical MMOs, and alot of that "good" and "bad" is entirely subjective. I'm subscribed to an MMO, but I spend more time playing a free MUD at the moment; that's mostly because there's more going on in that world than the MMO right now, and because it's very easy to log in for an hour and get something done in the MUD.
Text-based games might not be your cup of tea, you might prefer watching movies to reading books, but those are just personal preferences, not universal truths. Some people prefer oil paintings to watercolors or black and white photography to color; the quality of the art has little or nothing to do with the medium used to create it, though. A beautiful mountain is a beautiful mountain regardless of whether it's painted in oil or watercolor, photographed in black and white or color. If you discriminate against anything before taking a close look at it, that really says more about you than it does the item in question.
Agent_X7 AKA J Star
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Well, the HJ forums aren't getting a lot of traffic these days, and a discussion is a discussion. No one's completely beyond redemption, and it's entirely possible the guy just has flawed perceptions. If not, and he's just a troll, it didn't cost me anything to respond other than a few minutes of free time. I can't control how he acts, but I can control how I act; I could've ignored him, attacked him, or taken the time to explain my position to him. I chose to do the latter. Everything's a choice; even choosing not to choose is a choice. I simply chose to take positive action instead of inaction or negative action. If he responds with flames, that's on him, not me.
He did say: "I do want to thank Simutronics for making a great looking game, In my opinion, NOT that anyone cares, I think this is one of the most if not the most attractive mmorpg coming out. I just don't understand the whole text game thing." That last sentence suggested that he knew he was lacking information, so it seemed worthwhile to provide him with a different way of looking at it.
Well the game looks really very good!!
And next to that: all the character options, buying houses, the concept of clans and guilds and huge alliances, real crafting of exceptional weapons, ability to actually draw your wall of fire, picking your own perfect equipment, it all sounds very, very good to me!!
Cast your vote: The importance of character customisation
What I'd like to see is not a remake of DragonRealms (though I only played it for a few minutes, one time) or Gemstone 3/4 (which I DID play quite a bit). I'd like to see a NEW game that BUILDS on what they've learned from DR and GS. Simutronics has always been at the top of the game for whatever game they're playing. They are making a BIG leap up from text based games to a full MMORPG. Lets all hope they nail this game! MMO's need it!
HJ-Diviana
Hero's Journey GM
Hero's Journey Official Site
Hero's Hall
I have been playing DR for over 5 years now and have tried out out other MUDs and graphical games and the roleplaying environment DR provides including the variety of a character's life within the game is by far the best I have experienced. Text is different from graphical, yes, but one of the nice features is the colorful descriptions within each room, this allows the mind to create a visual that does not limit you like an actual picture on a screen. Don't get me wrong, graphical games are just as incredible but different in category, all I am stating is DR is an great tool for you mind's creativity.
Well I'm on day three of my DR subscription now.
I've logged onto EQ2 and WoW a couple of times in those three days but have soon found myself making excuses, and going back to log into DR.
I can well imagine this type of game will not be for everyone. You sort of need to have a very laid back and casual approach to your gaming time, while liking to have a very, very thorough gaming experience.
And the text side of it, it doesn't really take long until you stop seeing text and start visualising what's going on. That is of course if you have that sort of imagination. One of my good friends tried MUDs several times but could not get into it as she can't really visualise too well.
It's kind of like reading an ever changing evolving book; you know the reaaally good books that you can't put down, and you find yourself completely submerged in the novel, smell it, sense it, see it etc. It's very much the same thing as that so far for me, just 100x more intensive.
In a way, the enjoyment is really hard to explain. I've never enjoyed braiding grass for two hours before, but sitting with some elders, getting lessons on how to use longbows for an hour, while braiding grass, and then going out and hunting with a bow, and all the intricacies that go with doing that.. it's just so damn fun!
I've never played MUDs before, or PnP, or any of that sort of stuff, and am kind of feeling I've really missed out.
I will say that I am sure DR is definitely not for everyone, but if you love books, have a good imagination, love the indepth process of doing things (ie hide, position yourself, stalk your prey, load and arrow into your bow, advance, take aim from your hiding place, wait on your prey, attack!) etc, whilst having it working purely off your imagination and not how Company X tells you it looks, I really urge you to have a look at DR.
I, personally, am loving it!
Needless to say, if even a quarter of the intricacy of doing things in DR is put into HJ, it's going to completely and utter rock the MMO world!
"(The) Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude." - George W Bush.
Oh. My. God.
If DR is anything like the great PnP experiences I've had playing Dungeons and Dragons, then I envy you! I am not much of a reader, but I do enjoy a good novel by R.A Salvatore! I haven't tried MUDs and text-based RPGs, I think it is too late for me now, I am too spoiled by the outstanding visuals in todays mmorpgs.
That doesn't mean I am left without imagination. There will never be a mmorpg that lets us do all that we would like with our characters in the gameworld, and that is where imagination steps in. Through emotes and supplemental writing on various roleplay forums, I can enjoy both the visually stunning world of Norrath, and at the same time develop my character in depth, even if you don't see it actually on screen . . .
Todays mmorpgs are getting alittle better at allowing us to express our characters and such, with moods and more animations. They'll never offer the total freedom of text based RPGs, though.
Oh yes... slowly but surely you'll learn to read it without reading it.
I compare it to the movie the matrix how some people could read all the gibberish on the screen. One guy even could 'see' the pretty chick by looking at the letters, numbers and symbols flying on the screen.