SWG. Jump to Lightspeed was there best expansion. I fucking loved it. Making my big Tier4 ships into battle places, homes, meditation center for Tera Kasi, and i loved the combat.
*RANT* FUCKING SOE, WHY DID YOU FUCK UP THE GROUND GAMEPLAY, FUCKERS!
"While the term stormtrooper has been made popular from WWI (yes WWI not II) german units, the idea behind the the storm troopers goes back to the greek hoplites and other Historic Elite units. Storm troops where troops that stormed enemy positions and goes at least as far back to the Forlorn Hope units if not longer."
That's mostly correct depending on how you want to look at the word.
From Wiki since its been too long since I read on this:
The actual term Stormtrooper came from the german word: STURMMANN
Which literally translate to Storm Man.. but is usually translated as Stormtrooper
I'd agree that special tactics units started before this.. but the phrase as we know it today was based on german special units that came into operation around.. March of 1915.
A quote from a website would be: "The first official German stormtroop unit was authorized on 2 March 1915 when the Supreme Command of the field army ordered the VIII Corps to form a detachment for the testing of experimental weapons and the development of approximate tactics that could break the deadlock on the Western Front."
The specificly trained in how to storm trenches and they named the tactics after some german officer (think that's mentioned on the Wiki site as well as the tactics used).
Star Wars was based on so many things... and Jedi supposedly were more based on Samurai than anything Tolkien would have written about.
If you watch some of the asian movies they tend to have some pretty amazing powers. I've yet to see an elf or troll in any of those.
and...
The only issue I have with EvE is... *I* never have actually thought of being a ship.. and being able to learn/progress skills while logged out.. overly interesting.
However, that's just my opinion and the problem with a post like this one is... You get other peoples opinions which may not mesh with "the best" game for you (to the OP).
I mean it doesn't do much good to argue that game A is better than game B... because the OP may decide game C was the best.. and its all subjective to each person anyway.
Originally posted by Obraik Originally posted by gestalt11 Are there any games besides Neocron that actually have drugs in them and cause bad effects when the drugs where off (blurry vision/stumbling/death)?
In SWG, after Spice (Star Wars term for drugs) wears off you will suffer a debuff that removes some of your health and action.
Oh, and my vote goes to SWG :P
Ah that's something at least. This is what kinda gets me about most MMOs though. In Neocron drugs actually have a more "real" effects. The more drugs you take the more fuzzy the screen, if you take enough you can barely read chat text and you may stumble backwards/sidewards while running/walking.
Its real effects not just some debuff. It just seems that most of these MMOs might as well almost not have a graphics engine. But its even more profound than that. On a MUD I used to play drinking alcohol slurred your speech and losing a foot made you transfer rooms slower(ie move slower). Hell on that MUD you could take LSD and occasional you would have a nightmarish bad trip that made you catatonic for a while and left you completely drained.
These games, they are more hollow than even some text games.
Then I see Neocron and they have the things that made that text game more "real". Drugs with "real" effects, falling damage hurts your feet and makes you go slow, walls you can bounce stuff off (like a grenade). Neocron was released in 2002. Why aren't these newer games building on these things? Why are they worse and not better? Or other aspects that have been in graphic games for a decade.
Why is a 4 year old buggy-ass game made by some half-ass german company (Neocron) way cooler in this repsect than WoW, a game that is made by a company well known for quality (Blizzard)?
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SWG. Jump to Lightspeed was there best expansion. I fucking loved it. Making my big Tier4 ships into battle places, homes, meditation center for Tera Kasi, and i loved the combat.
*RANT* FUCKING SOE, WHY DID YOU FUCK UP THE GROUND GAMEPLAY, FUCKERS!
"While the term stormtrooper has been made popular from WWI (yes WWI not II) german units, the idea behind the the storm troopers goes back to the greek hoplites and other Historic Elite units. Storm troops where troops that stormed enemy positions and goes at least as far back to the Forlorn Hope units if not longer."
That's mostly correct depending on how you want to look at the word.
From Wiki since its been too long since I read on this:
The actual term Stormtrooper came from the german word: STURMMANN
Which literally translate to Storm Man.. but is usually translated as Stormtrooper
I'd agree that special tactics units started before this.. but the phrase as we know it today was based on german special units that came into operation around.. March of 1915.
A quote from a website would be: "The first official German stormtroop unit was authorized on 2 March 1915 when the Supreme Command of the field army ordered the VIII Corps to form a detachment for the testing of experimental weapons and the development of approximate tactics that could break the deadlock on the Western Front."
The specificly trained in how to storm trenches and they named the tactics after some german officer (think that's mentioned on the Wiki site as well as the tactics used).
Star Wars was based on so many things... and Jedi supposedly were more based on Samurai than anything Tolkien would have written about.
If you watch some of the asian movies they tend to have some pretty amazing powers. I've yet to see an elf or troll in any of those.
and...
The only issue I have with EvE is... *I* never have actually thought of being a ship.. and being able to learn/progress skills while logged out.. overly interesting.
However, that's just my opinion and the problem with a post like this one is... You get other peoples opinions which may not mesh with "the best" game for you (to the OP).
I mean it doesn't do much good to argue that game A is better than game B... because the OP may decide game C was the best.. and its all subjective to each person anyway.
In SWG, after Spice (Star Wars term for drugs) wears off you will suffer a debuff that removes some of your health and action.
Oh, and my vote goes to SWG :P
In SWG, after Spice (Star Wars term for drugs) wears off you will suffer a debuff that removes some of your health and action.
Oh, and my vote goes to SWG :P
Ah that's something at least. This is what kinda gets me about most MMOs though. In Neocron drugs actually have a more "real" effects. The more drugs you take the more fuzzy the screen, if you take enough you can barely read chat text and you may stumble backwards/sidewards while running/walking.
Its real effects not just some debuff. It just seems that most of these MMOs might as well almost not have a graphics engine. But its even more profound than that. On a MUD I used to play drinking alcohol slurred your speech and losing a foot made you transfer rooms slower(ie move slower). Hell on that MUD you could take LSD and occasional you would have a nightmarish bad trip that made you catatonic for a while and left you completely drained.
These games, they are more hollow than even some text games.
Then I see Neocron and they have the things that made that text game more "real". Drugs with "real" effects, falling damage hurts your feet and makes you go slow, walls you can bounce stuff off (like a grenade). Neocron was released in 2002. Why aren't these newer games building on these things? Why are they worse and not better? Or other aspects that have been in graphic games for a decade.
Why is a 4 year old buggy-ass game made by some half-ass german company (Neocron) way cooler in this repsect than WoW, a game that is made by a company well known for quality (Blizzard)?