Gaming Expectations 10 Years ago

SEANMCAD · July 2017

Here are some of the features that 10 years ago where considered fairly aggressive and innovative and many said would be hard to do and yet today they are very common place.

1. Day Night Cycle
2. Weather
3. Roaming mobs (as in they can roam the world and do not have a set spawn point)
4. Building structures
5. Terraforming
6. Fully Destructible enviroment
7. Planetary Landings
8. Space Ship you can walk around in while flying

Those are the ones I can think of at the moment anyway.

Game innovation and technology is moving at lightspeed or because I am older time is moving faster

Konfess · July 2017

@SEANMCAD, what games have 3. Roaming Mobs. I don't pay attention that closely so I often miss stuff like this. I think I heard of a MMO in that Mob distribution is controlled by predation by players and other mobs, but I can't remember the title or if it is in production or just discussion.

Something I think should be added to the list is "AI Director" as seen in the Left 4 Dead series. "This is to monitor and alter the game play experience in response to the players' actions."

SEANMCAD · July 2017

Konfess said:

@SEANMCAD, what games have 3. Roaming Mobs. I don't pay attention that closely so I often miss stuff like this. I think I heard of a MMO in that Mob distribution is controlled by predation by players and other mobs, but I can't remember the title or if it is in production or just discussion.

Something I think should be added to the list is "AI Director" as seen in the Left 4 Dead series. "This is to monitor and alter the game play experience in response to the players' actions."

this is a general gaming observation, not MMO specifically.

Answer for games I am aware of:
7 Days to Die
SubNautica
The Forest
Wurm (MMO Here)
Empyrion Galactic survival
Kenshi
Rising World
Medieval Engineers
Out of Reach
Ark
Osiris: New Dawn
Stranded Deep

and to be clear, yes...from a development stand point a roaming elephant and a roaming Orc is the same technical problem

EDIT: (forgot a few)
Life is Feudal (which is also an upcoming MMO)
Kingdoms

Octagon7711 · July 2017

All I remember about gaming 10 years ago was a lot of grinding. Can't recall roaming mobs from ten years ago but Aion had/has roaming high level mobs in lower areas that you had to watch out for while grinding or you got killed, quick, fast, and in a hurry. There are a lot of other games that had them but I really remember them from that game. Players could work together to take them out but they were on short respawn timers.

SEANMCAD · July 2017

Octagon7711 said:

All I remember about gaming 10 years ago was a lot of grinding. Can't recall roaming mobs from ten years ago but Aion had/has roaming high level mobs in lower areas that you had to watch out for while grinding or you got killed, quick, fast, and in a hurry. There are a lot of other games that had them but I really remember them from that game. Players could work together to take them out but they were on short respawn timers.

I recall Darkfall mentioning that they were working on roaming mobs and the internets went crazy with excitement and saying its a really hard task.

These days pretty much every game I play personally has roamers now

Octagon7711 · July 2017

I know a lot of games like ESO have roamers that basically walk back and forth for short distances. I was thinking of roamers that took long paths that were easy to forget they were there because it took them maybe three to five mins to complete a path.

SEANMCAD · July 2017

Octagon7711 said:

I know a lot of games like ESO have roamers that basically walk back and forth for short distances. I was thinking of roamers that took long paths that were easy to forget they were there because it took them maybe three to five mins to complete a path.

these games have full world roaming as you would expect 7 Days to Die, SubNautica, The Forest, Wurm (MMO Here), Empyrion Galactic survival, Kenshi ,Rising World, Medieval Engineers, Out of Reach, Ark, Osiris: New Dawn, Stranded Deep, Life is Feudal (which is also an upcoming MMO), Kingdoms

sunandshadow · July 2017

I don't think I've ever encountered an MMO with a fully destructible environment, unless you're including things like minecraft?

SEANMCAD · July 2017

sunandshadow said:

I don't think I've ever encountered an MMO with a fully destructible environment, unless you're including things like minecraft?

to be clear again this post is in General because I wanted it to be about games in general not specifically MMOs and my OP doesnt have MMO in the title.

MMOs are so far behind in my view its not really worth even talking about anymore

sunandshadow · July 2017

SEANMCAD said:

sunandshadow said:

I don't think I've ever encountered an MMO with a fully destructible environment, unless you're including things like minecraft?

to be clear again this post is in General because I wanted it to be about games in general not specifically MMOs and my OP doesnt have MMO in the title.

MMOs are so far behind in my view its not really worth even talking about anymore

Ah, sorry, that's reasonable.

rakisseia · July 2017

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