Out of Pod Experience

Interesting concepts but, honestly, I think it comes a bit late. People are so used to spoon-fed tasks and ez-mode gameplay that a lot of the grinding to do.. anything.. in ToA will likely not get a lot of high praise. That said, if it had come out before the current definition of "MMO", it might be another story.

I'm curious as to the longevity of this one if it manages to take off for any meaningful amount of time.

YAY ANOTHER

sorry lemme try that again

yay another mmo with super saturated colors........

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I like Guild Wars 2, it's quite a pretty game. But high fantasy is not my genre, compared to space opera or even hardcore SF.

(Once I had that weird idea, about how would it be a game based on Stanislaw Lem's works...)

(...no, it wasn't like EVE )

This actually seems really interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Fun details such as "no character names, others see you as who they have named you" combined with a player-driven, relatively hardcore world.

My initial reaction is that this sounds like Terraria or Minecraft, just more hardcore and more player-driven. Will definitely be keeping my eye on this.

So... Brujo's not a backer.

I do agree that it would be nice to see something other than Fantasy. Even something like a more polished Shadowrun (yes I know they are working on and MMO but it isn't quite what i'm looking for) would be cool.

Houm, that game wouid rock! I totally liked playing the "Silicoid" at MOO 2. (The very idea of a silicoid spy cracked me up...)

Likely combat would be slow paced as hell, but then everything could be permanently accelerated to keep up with the slower pace of non-carbon life...

Also, the issue with High Fantasy MMOs is not the genre itself... the issue is JRR Tolkien! Western fantasy alone is an enormous field. What about playing as fairies, ghosts or leprechauns? What about being a gryphon, a unicorn or a faunus () or something else not even remotely humanoid?

What about going bananas and make a game on Fantasy alone? Well, now I recall, there is a game about Horror/Fantasy, namely The Secret World, and it's not specially successful... but may not be because of the genre.

some interesting ideas there, it will be interesting to see how it develops.

Mostly my problem comes from the layout of how to "advance" in modern MMO´s.

Only MMO so far that I know and play that has a utterly crap but very open ended layout of "advancement" is EVE. Hence why I pay over 120$ a year just to have forum access these days.

I even laugh sometimes at EVE´s devs envisioning the game like this or like that when it is so much more and could be SO MUCH more, mostly because of the way the game is designed.

All other MMO´s stil adhere to Solo/Group content categorized in Content that is further subdivided in artificial layers of hardship.

ALL MMO´s require group oriented and focused parties to reach "endgame" content, and lately I have been seeing EVE drift a bit towards the "Endgame" mindset, which I find troublesome to envision in a game like this.

There´s no REAL MMO out there that dares to be different, even Highly praised MMO´s that were branding themselves as "out of the box" "innovative" and "avant-garde" ended up being polished and re-polished constructs of basic Grinding Hit point and level systems.

No MMO out there (besides certain ones that I wont mention that delve into the darker aspects of social interaction) have managed to break FREE of the HP/LEVEL/GEAR/XP based paradigm that has simply stuck like a bad memory long past its expiration date.

All other MMO´s that tried to diverge from this ended up with a weird pastiche of "hybridness" that ended up being worst than the original monsters from which they spawned and sometimes retaining enough of the original core concepts to stay afloat and thrive, by adhering to Basic rules.

City of Heroes, Tabula Rasa, Matrix Online, RIFT, GW2, WAR, Vanguard, EQ2 and many more pretended to be "new" and "refreshing" and ended up being quite the flops except for a few ... Rift and GW2 to be precise, which have enough classic ground rules to be "Familiar" enough to enjoy and even waste your $$$ on them.

I still remember EQ2 on launch day and their vaunted "hardcore" and/or "innovative" features, like shared Death XP Penalty for example.

I still remember some of those games launches and know people out there designing these "big awesome innovative" MMO´s have really no clue of what they have in their hands since ALL of them END UP being tailored to the tastes of the investors or managers. The creative team is mostly torn apart in the process, gobbled up by mergers or totally at odds with the Lead Designers, birthing monstrosities that should have never seen the light of the day.

Even WOW, that I equate to the Stirrup/Cavalry myth of greatness during 500 to 1300AD in Medieval Europe is a byproduct of these same ideas, and thus the Golden Calf everyone wants to worship and imitate.

There are historical researches that equate Cavalry as not being that great during Medieval Feudalism, but simply the better choice over the lack of really good organized infantry forces. So instead of a Great Age of Calvary we had an Awful Age of Infantry, where Cavalry simply went overboard for lack of a much better choice. (Stephen Morillo)

This is what is happening now to us, the WOW Paradigm is our Cavalry. We are in the Dark Ages of MMO´s. We need Centralized thinkers/authorities willing to stop this madness and usher us in a new age of MMO Gaming FREE of the mindsets of profitability in the millions and mass appeal.

Profit is good, but when profit is the only goal a game is based upon it goes into the dark alley of rejected niche mmo´s.

This MMO is just another step in the wrong direction, like most soon to come, all we can do is wait until someone with the money or support actually decides to break away from this state of despair we currently are in.

What I enjoy is seeing the revival of the Indy developer, and the bonanza of 9.99$ games that want to go back to the roots of PC Gaming and away from the utter lameness of AAA Brands.

So I will wait here, alone in this dank room, with a single virtual candle lit to wait while the darkness goes away.

Cry against me and Befoul my name Infidels!

I don´t care!

I have bemoaned against all modern mmo´s for a long time here in the forums and TIME itself has proven me right over and over again,(yes, it feels damn gooooood!!!) not because I have magical powers, but because I see with sheer LOGIC (a power we all have but few seem to want to use) how the whole structure is built out of SAND (and not the one made to fill sandboxes)

I hate this totally fragmented gaming society we live in, but from it is where the future Empire Builders of Harmony will come, creating a empire that will last a thousand years !!!

... And yes ... yep ... hmm

you are a voice crying in the wilderness. the only hope is developers that have a vision (like CCP and some of the Indie devs ) and possibly things like Kickstarter (though it seems like a bit of a scam atm )

Unlimited PVP sounds good in theory. The problem is that big out-of-game groups (gamers from certain forums, etc.) will probably blob in on the first day and stomp all of the solo players. That's sort of what happened when an MMO called Xsyon started.