xhrit
@xhrit@lemmy.world
- Comment on Corporate greed is killing RuneScape. What do people play instead? 1 month ago:
Not yet, there are a few bugs i need to squash before I’m ready for the next round of testing.
- Comment on Corporate greed is killing RuneScape. What do people play instead? 1 month ago:
sorta ^^
- Comment on Corporate greed is killing RuneScape. What do people play instead? 1 month ago:
Corporate greed has killed all of my favorite mmos, and every new mmo that comes out is further down the spiral.
So I decided to make my own damn game, a mashup of my top 5 favorite defunct mmos. Base gameplay and progression from Tabula Rasa, Star Wars Galaxies crafting and building, Firefall thumping, the mechs from Exteel, and the map from Planetside 1.
It’s 100% a shameless asset flip, and jank af, but pretty fun at the moment.
- Comment on Why do Counterstrike and the other top 10 games on Steam NEVER change? 1 month ago:
And it was based on an arma mod from 2012.
- Comment on Horse archers ruin every game they are in. 1 month ago:
IDK. I skipped horse archers in my latest dark elves playthrough of total war warhammer 3, because they are so trash. No shields + large targets means they die really easy to missile fire, And since you can’t use a longbow on horseback they lack the range to engage other archer units without taking a few volleys first.
Basically they are only good for fighting factions like undead that that have no ranged units.
- Comment on What do you think about random encounters? 2 months ago:
Aye. Like all design paradigms, there are places where they can be useful or can be used to achieve a certain feel.
I actually hate “choose from a menu combat” but have thought of a few cases where it would make sense - one example would be a Legends of Galactic Heroes style space warfare game based on hyper-realistic combat between massive fleets of 20,000+ ships each, which according to lore, line up in nice neat firing lines and shoot at each other for 12+ hours until one side has won via attrition. There is no way to simulate that in real time and be fun, and the ranges at which combat happens in deep space means that there is basically literally no room for maneuvering once the battle has began…
- Comment on What do you think about random encounters? 2 months ago:
This is actually two different design paradigms you are talking about.
The first is the exploration map transitioning into a battle map during encounters. The second is randomly forcing players to fight encounters. Games like Zelda had a exploration map and a battlemap, but the encounters are visible on the exploration map and could be avoided if you want so they were never forced. And games like Shining in the Darkness had exploration and battle on the same map; there was no transitions and the perspective did not change, the game just randomly forced you to fight encounters while you walked around. Then you have something like Vermintide 2 which is a realtime first person action rpg/shooter with random encounters, as in random mobs are spawned in at random times on random places on the map to attack you, but the mobs spawn out of sight and it’s happening seamlessly in real time.
IMO battle transitions are an outdated mechanic designed around the technical limitations of 8 bit era systems, while random encounters are a great way to improve exploration and overall replay value of a game.
- Comment on What are your favorite racing games? 2 months ago:
Wipeout is my favorite racing series. Jet Moto was pretty cool too.
- Comment on Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to fail? I can't see how it will work 2 months ago:
every beth game has always had game breaking bugs on release
- Comment on Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to fail? I can't see how it will work 2 months ago:
Try Kenshi.
- Comment on Blue Protocol to be discontinued in Japan, will no longer release in the west. 2 months ago:
The game was a ripoff of phantasy star online 2 except with less slutty costumes, which is the main reason people play phantasy star online 2.
- Comment on What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from? 2 months ago:
have you tried kenshi?
- Comment on What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from? 2 months ago:
Tabula Rasa. It was a first/third person sci fi mmo shooter/rpg with craftable mechs, It lasted for a bit more then a year before it shut down, and no private servers have been created since.
Gundam : Universal Century Online. Picture eve but mostly on the ground and with combined arms mecha warfare. Start on foot, buy a jetpack, mine some ore, built a tank/jet/mech, fight in the war. It lasted about as long as tabula rasa before it shut down. It currently has no private server.
Firefall : first/third person sci fi mmo shooter/rpg with craftable mech suits. bla blah, shut down no private server.
tl/dr: I want a new mech mmo. Or even just to be able to play my old favorite mecha mmos.
- Comment on What are some game series you would like to see revived? And if possible, which entry should the new game follow from? 2 months ago:
The Morrowind expansion for Elder Scrolls Online could have been the greatest thing ever, if they had just straight remade TES3 in the ESO engine, following the failed Neverine that literally existed in lore during the era ES was set in. Instead they just released an expansion set in morrowind with a story that had nothing to do with tes3’s storyline.
