Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

I think the video looks good, all things considered. The volunteer team is clearly working hard and making measurable progress. Joppa's music seems very good so far as well. Combat is obviously rough at this stage, as one would expect. I disagree that the graphics are worse than EQ luclin, but the character models and equipment need to be custom designed and animated for future crowdfunding. Some of the npc models are pretty cheesy and they should be custom designed too, but I'd prioritize pc and equipment over that.

So in summary, hopefully the team keeps up the good work. I'll continue to watch pantheon and hope it sees the light of day eventually.

The combat moves make me laugh.

Definitely the most solid video they've had, by far. The snow effect was neat. The stilted conversations were pretty terrible though, haha. They now have me thinking that maybe, just maybe....this one day may actually exist in some form.

Soygen is ready to double his contribution

Bloody cheapskate. Is it because there were no rerolled skeletons in the video?

The problem is that's what they came up with for a promotional video. UI ugly and blocking half the screen. Purchased assets with terrible animations. All sorts of signs underlying mechanics aren't in place, like the fucking mob walking right through a player as they're 'looting' the chest (agro mechanics? Pathing/clipping?). It was supposed to be a show-the-polish-only type of video, and apparently they're admitting those are the best, most polished, most theatrical shots they've got?

It comes down the continuing issue of making bad decisions, being out of touch, and just not seeming to get it. Despite all geeks having grand ideas about DnD and MMOs and there being an underlying respect for having geeky dreams.... Brad has become the geek other geeks think is lame and embarrassing. I mean, you talked about DnD for months in the cafeteria, and now Brad comes along and is like "look what I drawed!" and you realize in that moment you were just a bunch of dumb geeks sitting around pretending you had a shot at something cool. And now not even talking about stuff is fun anymore, because there's always that one guy that takes it way too seriously, starts actually doing something, and it proves to be so shitty it becomes little more than a reality check.

Brad is good at sitting around the cafeteria shooting the shit. And I'm pretty sure that 'I have an idea' helped EQ become what it was, but he's got no discernible sense or talent beyond that, and now doesn't have a team of people to do things for him. And this is what we get. Shit.

Not to mention, it's the same mistake he made with Vanguard. Brad should be refining and showing off mechanics and function and ideas and all the skeletal guts. But, instead, it's like a dose of history. While Blizzard took the approach to nail the mechanics and functions, and build a world around it, Brad took the approach with Vanguard to build a huge world and hope to build function and mechanics into it later (putting off having to prove his ideas would work or mattered or would help build a solid game). But, at least the years of pointless building of Vanguard art assets were original?

If you took away all the unity made stuff from that video, whats left thats original to pantheon?

The Vision

The Vision, yeah, forgot about that. so basically what we see here is their finished product, that is unless Unity decides to update their graphics ten years to present.

Well they have a roughed in game that is missing all the things I would find interesting. Combat animation, character movement, and character customization. The NPC's are barely mobile and what movement they do have is stiff and robotic. The world uses copy paste everywhere and there is very little about any part of it that you could call unique or creative.

To sum it up: Pantheon gives the word "generic" a bad rep.

Maester Chuk_sl said:

If you took away all the unity made stuff from that video, whats left thats original to pantheon?

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A hopeless idea.

Maester Chuk_sl said:

If you took away all the unity made stuff from that video, whats left thats original to pantheon?

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The giant chat panel.