I remember dungeon crawling as a bard with Tad10 on release. Vanguard 2 on today's tech would be great -- assuming coded decently, customizing songs was just neat and I don't think an MMO since has tried to do a bard or blood mage gameplay.
Game just couldnt recover from the bad press it started with. I never gave it a second thought for years because it was so universally derided. I started playing it not long before it was shut down. I'd rate it in that state above anything else available at the time or now. It hit a pretty sweet spot between WoW and EQ.
Wasn't even bad press; if I remember right it had one of those massive preorder statuses for a minute. It's that it literally shipped with no content for 40+ levels and lots of unfinished areas and gamebreaking bugs. Like it could not have been more obvious that it was pushed out the door incomplete without proper QA done.
This ain't VG post-mortem thread. We're making it present tense.
Through the emulator project itself, and the work of many bothans, we will have Vanguard in full emulation one day.
What? You just posted two weeks ago it’s dead forever without the database.
Going to be the grognard here, but shit like Github/et al weren't super popular in the early 2000s. That shit lived on a couple of discs/floppies and that's it. It's probably all gone at this point, or the people who actually have it want retard-money levels to release it.what is needed is a "classic pack subscription" where they bring back all their old shit (EQmac, original star wars, all that) as a bundle with monthly subscription.
Or keep hording this old shit like a 8track tape until no one gives a fuck anymore and won't even pay 2c for it
I never got to play this but I hope you get the DB. Super curious to check out blood magic.
Going to be the grognard here, but shit like Github/et al weren't super popular in the early 2000s. That shit lived on a couple of discs/floppies and that's it. It's probably all gone at this point, or the people who actually have it want retard-money levels to release it.
I'd love for a re-release of Vanguard, using modern hardware, just to see if it would have -ever- been not a complete shitshow. My mind tells me no, but my body is telling me yes. Either way, no way we know unless whomever has the DB files (and someone does) gives them up.
I mean not really. The offensive / defensive target system makes it entirely different. You're thematically correct but from a game play perspective it was much different and better. Why more games don't steal this concept is beyond me. If you're going to have tab-targeting this is the best system to date imo.EQ necros with their health and stat transfer spells? that was what it was like
I mean not really. The offensive / defensive target system makes it entirely different. You're thematically correct but from a game play perspective it was much different and better. Why more games don't steal this concept is beyond me. If you're going to have tab-targeting this is the best system to date imo.