psychochild.org - 10/12/2009
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Sometimes I wonder if MMOs have really lived up to their potential. From my first steps playing a text MUD and realizing that some of those other characters were controlled by people like me, these games captured my imagination. The fun diversion became a deep fascination with multiplayer ...
blog.weflyspitfires.com - 10/13/2009
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blog.weflyspitfires.com —
There’s been a bunch of rumours floating around
about a possible Everquest 3 game but personally I
don’t think SOE will release another high profile, fully fledged MMORPG in the same vein as EQ2. Instead, what I think - or rather what I hope - is that we’ll see a more ...
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The Void
Of Teeth and Claws —
Psychochild has an excellent article up this morning discussing the state of MMOs, and what is needed to reinvigorate the genre. So what does he identify as the number one problem facing many games right now? I'll let him tell you: ...
Why scaling may not be such a brilliant idea
The Pink Pigtail Inn —
... And I can’t help being tickled at the thought of the EverQuest event that Wolfshead describes, when 200 players defeated a supposedly unkillable dragon. I definitely would like to experience something like that – provided that they found a way to keep server stability up and lag at a reasonable level. It could give us back some of the adventure feeling we're missing, to quote another great post from Psychochild. ...
We're missing something in our MMOs
Massively —
... ' Green, why are we feeling like there's something missing? Why do we find ourselves less than satisfied in our cleaner, better-designed, and well-built virtual worlds? ...
Death Grip on the Reins
Tish Tosh Tesh —
... Brian “Psychochild” Green thinks modern MMO design lacks adventure. I concur. I can’t help but think that this is largely due to the developer impulse to control the game experience, rather than let the reins loose a bit and ...
Babies and Bathwater
Mobhunter.com —
... There has been a recent round of blog posts suggesting that current MMOs have lost something, that they ...
Mission: Inevitable
Fool's Age —
... Psychochild posted an interesting article about what’s missing in our games these days, and it got me to thinking. ...
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