ok i will resurrect City of Heroes , because it was awesome.
Change : update graphics , CoH with UE4 ?
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I loved City of Heroes. It wasn't deep, it wasn't realistic, it didn't require great skill... but it was fun in a way that always made me smile. From the random 5th Columnist who ran up to The Tax Collector (a 40s style suited gunman), punched him in the mouth, and then ran away never to be seen again; to the sheer glee of flattening hordes of mooks with Cat's Cradle (the claws/regen scrapper); to the joy of superjump; to the hours of fun I had just designing costumes (costume contest winner: Enchanting, an homage to I Dream of Jeannie)...
I would still play the hell out of City of Heroes. And with better graphics... ~drools~
I play SWGEmu when I want to go back. What I would like is SWG the way it was right before it closed. I make it F2p/B2P and beef up the cash shop. The staff had a lot of good stuff going on and were listening to good suggestions, of course by then it was to late but I had fun right before the server was shut down.
"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
Tabula Rasa, but there was so many things wrong with it, that it would be impossible to choose one thing to change. The UI and graphics optimization would probably be the major ones though.
Uhm, I'd bring back WOTLK (does that count as a cancelled MMO?? Cuz it's surely dead!) and I'd turn the Tenacity buff back ON in the world PVP events!!! YEAH!!!!!
Then I'm levelling my flagged-for-life gnome affliction warlock on Area 52 (95% Horde)
Some of the most fun I ever had was playing a Alliance Boss Mob in Wintergrasp surrounded by Horde, all dying like flies!! When they killed Tenacity, I slowly and reluctantly abandoned him. Shadowbot and your Sadistic Succubus, RIP! /mourn
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Working full time on the Lost Raven MMO, a PVP sandbox for Space Pirates, Alien Hunters, Rock Jocks, and Fleet Commanders. The server is nearly feature-complete with client code to start soon.
Combine COH/COV with Champions online to make a pretty cool superhero game. Other changes would be needed of course to bring out its potential, but would be fun. Random content generation, for example.
I would bring back Vanguard, the thing I would change being the year that it was released. Today's technology could handle what that game had to offer (since the game was obviously not optimized on any OS). Most computers chugged just loading the game up let alone displaying graphics on screen.
A game with so much potential, mostly pipe dreams, but potential nonetheless.
Any Game / Remove Quest Hubs remove most tedious quests add tons of secret spots monsters locations treasures events to the World and a good Character progression even at end game then some risk vs reward loot = Done Perfect MMorpg vs all todays crap 100x better it should be so easy but it cant be done these days.
Seems like the engine is the thing people want to change most. I guess that makes sense since so many MMOs have crap engines.
I never saw the good Vanguard that so many are talking about because the performance was always horrific....If there was more than two people in one place the lag was so bad it was like a slide show.
CoH and Vanguard are good ones, still I'd go with Auto Assault - without even the "1 aspect change" token, since the game would still be cool without any (retro is in the fad anyways. But ok, maybe use the token for a graphic overhaul. Or rather for a different publisher, anyone would be better than impot-Ncsoft)
-It had fast-paced, directional action combat with positioning and movement, heavy rely on AoEs - action kiddiez of today would love it -Was very solo-friendly (as one of the polls in the launcher showed, majority of players played alone or duo at most), probably one of the reasons it got canned, back then it was a negative but today it's almost a must-have to offer solo gameplay -Great dual gameplay with being on foot in towns while inside the vehicle in the world, kinda like STO, just without any combat on foot. Huge array of customization, which could draw in the "pimp my ride" fans -It could benefit from the reviving attempt of Mad Max on the big screen (man, what a lame result of a movie ), and also from the truckloads of furiously fast movies, with offering the race options and tracks for the speed-crazed players -Destructable environment, that's always fun and rarely found in a themepark -For the firor-fans in Eso it could offer the 3faction pvp in the middle of the world
Ok, maybe using the ticket for the graphics, a decade is a LOT, retro fad or not... https://youtu.be/NLnCbxDMvpw
Seems like the engine is the thing people want to change most. I guess that makes sense since so many MMOs have crap engines.
When Vanguard came out, computers had 1-4 Gigs of memory and top video cards were things like the GeForce 8800 with about a half a gig of RAM.
It's entirely possible that modern CPUs and GPUs combined with the additional memory of today's computers would provide the processing power and the caching space necessary to eliminate Vanguard's primary graphics problem - chunking when crossing zone tiles.
Agree, funnily enough I had an 8800 gtx sli at the time of release. Over the seven years I played it and changing my pc set up the game played near enough perfect. The person who thinks Vanguard should be bought back as a full blown pvp game is talking shit.
Vanguard did release with two pvp servers that were filled with cheaters and it started to effect the true core of the game which was PVE
dunno if I can add cause it's a moba but Infinite Crisis with less CC. only GH Map, more champ balance and Shazam reverted to the way he was originally.
I have to echo the Tabula Rasa request. I'd change out the publisher to at least give it a chance. NCSoft has a habit of closing down games just because it was to cloudy one day.
Since I know how that publisher is however there will never be a resurrection so I'd also have to echo Earth and Beyond. It made me long for my old BBS Tradewars 2002 game
Play what you Like. I like SWOTR, Have a referral to get you going! --> http://www.swtor.com/r/nBndbs <-- Several Unlocks and a few days game time to make the F2P considerably easier
Hands down Darkfall Online - the only change would be what they did in the end, eliminate the grind to max to about 1 month to max out. 100% best and only skill based pvp game ever.
I always felt that Tabula Rasa should have been a much better game than it was. Not sure what one thing they could have changed to make it work but I thought the lore and character advancement was pretty interesting.
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I loved City of Heroes. It wasn't deep, it wasn't realistic, it didn't require great skill... but it was fun in a way that always made me smile. From the random 5th Columnist who ran up to The Tax Collector (a 40s style suited gunman), punched him in the mouth, and then ran away never to be seen again; to the sheer glee of flattening hordes of mooks with Cat's Cradle (the claws/regen scrapper); to the joy of superjump; to the hours of fun I had just designing costumes (costume contest winner: Enchanting, an homage to I Dream of Jeannie)...
I would still play the hell out of City of Heroes. And with better graphics... ~drools~
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"We all do the best we can based on life experience, point of view, and our ability to believe in ourselves." - Naropa "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." SR Covey
edit: added a video for historical reasons!
Then I'm levelling my flagged-for-life gnome affliction warlock on Area 52 (95% Horde)
Some of the most fun I ever had was playing a Alliance Boss Mob in Wintergrasp surrounded by Horde, all dying like flies!! When they killed Tenacity, I slowly and reluctantly abandoned him. Shadowbot and your Sadistic Succubus, RIP! /mourn
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Working full time on the Lost Raven MMO, a PVP sandbox for Space Pirates, Alien Hunters, Rock Jocks, and Fleet Commanders. The server is nearly feature-complete with client code to start soon.
A game with so much potential, mostly pipe dreams, but potential nonetheless.
21 year MMO veteran
PvP Raid Leader
Lover of The Witcher & CD Projekt Red
-It had fast-paced, directional action combat with positioning and movement, heavy rely on AoEs - action kiddiez of today would love it
-Was very solo-friendly (as one of the polls in the launcher showed, majority of players played alone or duo at most), probably one of the reasons it got canned, back then it was a negative but today it's almost a must-have to offer solo gameplay
-Great dual gameplay with being on foot in towns while inside the vehicle in the world, kinda like STO, just without any combat on foot. Huge array of customization, which could draw in the "pimp my ride" fans
-It could benefit from the reviving attempt of Mad Max on the big screen (man, what a lame result of a movie
-Destructable environment, that's always fun and rarely found in a themepark
-For the firor-fans in Eso it could offer the 3faction pvp in the middle of the world
Ok, maybe using the ticket for the graphics, a decade is a LOT, retro fad or not... https://youtu.be/NLnCbxDMvpw
Vanguard did release with two pvp servers that were filled with cheaters and it started to effect the true core of the game which was PVE
TR and make it FTP w/light cash shop
dunno if I can add cause it's a moba but Infinite Crisis with less CC. only GH Map, more champ balance and Shazam reverted to the way he was originally.
Since I know how that publisher is however there will never be a resurrection so I'd also have to echo Earth and Beyond. It made me long for my old BBS Tradewars 2002 game
--> http://www.swtor.com/r/nBndbs <--
Several Unlocks and a few days game time to make the F2P considerably easier
100% best and only skill based pvp game ever.