EQN has the potential to do that with some of their rally calls...Building Halas comes to mind. I mean, technically it's a quest but it would keep you actively engaged in one thing while you probably fall into a bunch of other shit. Games just need to point you in a general direction not lead you around like a dog.
Don't confuse meaningful quest text for fluff. If I'm going to read the shit it needs to have a real purpose in the game. Most quest text is just filler with no real lore backing. But how would I know, I don't read it!? lol
We hope.. You see my back and forth with big Dave?! we have to wait for a demo to see how combat will play out.. no time frame.
I think that message has gone out.. It sucks people are losing jobs and projects are failing but we might just come out of this with some seriously awesome, niche games. It really does make sense to build with a small budget and expand as the game takes off. It's less of a gamble that way.
Hex and star citizen both have me excited. More crowd funded stuff like that will surely start popping up. Let the boring devs we have go out of work.
Yes I know, and I believed GW2 when they said something similar. I'll believe it when I see it. I'll remain skeptical until then.
No one has evolved to this yet. Which is why I'm not playing FFXIV or any other MMOs right now. They all are boring to me. I'm enjoying League of Legends right now.
Niche is the way to go, or so it seems these days, but most fail to see the possibility of having a game with different cores. What the genre needs is a game that has a versatile engine to offer a wide range of different rulesets instead of the boring three we always get. Give those who just want to see the content a solo server, those who want huge epic raids a server where encounters are tuned for 50+ ppl and everything in between. Also, the first game to give administrative tools to the players so they can manage their own server will get WoW'ish numbers IMO.
If Vanilla WoW (prior to patch 1.6) had just made a few of the instanced dungeons non-instanced (LBRS, and a couple of others) and been a little bit less of a loot pinata so that some of the lower level gear was worth running dungeons for it would have been a near perfect MMO experience.
no offense, but these rallying calls sound boring as fuck. why the hell do i want to spend my hours playing a MMO laying down brick and mortar? real life can be boring enough, i don't need to spend 4 or 5 hours straight in a MMO looking at blueprints and putting up drywall. i don't see these rallying calls being any different than the boring ass quests in WoW. you're still being forced to quest, it's just that instead of questing by yourself, they're now making everyone do it together.
It sounds to me like those dumb triggered quest events like in GW2. It's still gathering rat asses and gnome testicles.
Aren't you one of those people who are looking for EQ original where you just sit in a spot camping one mob? That's not boring?
