Comments on: Bethesda, ZeniMax Acquire MMO Engine

By: na

na — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:40:51 +0000

Why not play something else? are you racist? Elder Scrolls Online sounds awesome.

By: dragonrealms

dragonrealms — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:14:25 +0000

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By: Hump

Hump — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:08:44 +0000

From what I hear Simultronic’s engine licenses are insanely expensive. I’m not sure if theres even any released games currently using it.

By: Chris R

Chris R — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:38:23 +0000

I would love to see an MMO where player skill plays a large part in how well I survive in the world. But something that doesn’t boil down to “hold block key until an opening presents itself.” (I’m looking at your Dark Messiah of Might and Magic).

One should be able to dodge and/or counter an attack [in a similar fashion to Assassins Creed], leap / dive to the side to avoid an attack [see the last 30 seconds of the WoW intro movie with the Orc vs NE], use the environment [like in a stealth game, Crysis and Theif] to duck behind rocks, trees, to avoid detection or being hit, etc. Also, instead of just hitpoints, there should be a system to keep track of injuries to body parts, like in Deus Ex. If I swing my sword, or shoot an arrow, and it looks like it connects with the targets arm, well it should affect that arm in someway. Maybe they can’t swing their sword as effectively, or hold their shield as high for example.

And for GOD’S SAKE, do NOT rely on a lame ass “To Hit” dice system. All hits that look like they connect with an enemy should do damage, just have the amount of damage done vary from just a scratch, to ZOMGBBQ one hit. Lets be done with the To Hit system. That’s fine for a pen and paper dice game, but in a graphically rendered MMO, if it looks like my sword goes through the enemy, then have it do some damage instead of a “Miss” showing up above the targets head.

In the same vein, I feel that more games need to add the ability to one hit kill a monster (within limits). I am not talking about critical hits here, I’m talking about “uber” critical hits, where instead of 2x or 4x damage, you actually just flat out kill the target. Think of it like a backstab, but not just for theif or rogue types. A warrior with a two handed sword should be able to kill an enemy with one hit, a mage should be able to do the same with his spell of choice, and so should a ranged type character. This should not depend on some random chance to “trigger” [NOT like ".004% chance to one hit target regardless of HP"], rather it should depend on how the player first engaged the enemy. If the player was able to get close enough to the enemy without alerting the target [or what have you], then they should have a higher chance of killing the target in one hit / spell / arrow, etc.

Err… way too long of a post, lol.

One last thing: The skill system should be like whats discussed in the the World of EveCraft article by Jim.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=453

I can dream, can’t I?

By: John Walker

John Walker — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:09:50 +0000

Dave, I think we can all agree that it should have a capital T : )

Fixed.

By: Ghiest

Ghiest — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:24:25 +0000

I just can’t see myself playing another high fantasy MMO again, I’m to the point where I am s**t bored with them. Unless they can bring something excellent to the table then I wont be purchasing them. A decent SCI-FI based MMO is really needed at the moment, not some dumbed down wowified POS (like Tabula Rasa) some nice in depth mmo please.

By: Seth Tipps

Seth Tipps — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:40:48 +0000

In either case I look forward to Bethesda bringing to the MMO market that which we have all come to love and cherish in their games; well-paced, involving storytelling and remarkable voice acting.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:50:49 +0000

I really don’t want to see either – they’re not games that cater well to the multiplayer experience and there’s a definite tendency to skip making any more singleplayer games if the MMO turns out to be successful. If Bethesda *must* make an MMO (and I don’t think any such thing is true), I’d prefer it be something original and new that can be its own product line. Or a Magic & Mayhem MMO.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:26:48 +0000

I don’t really find the TES universe that exciting myself. I’d much rather see Fallout, even if I’d say it’s by far the less likely of the two possibilities.

By: etho

etho — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:22:36 +0000

Oh god, either one would make me just delriously happy. That said, I think I would be slightly happier with a Fallout MMO, just because I’m a sucker for anything post-apocalyptic, and the Fallout universe is one of the coolest things around.

Elder Scrolls Online would be cool also. There’s the risk of it becoming just another fantasy MMO, which of course it would be, but Elder Scrolls is one of the very few fantasy series that I think seems even remotely unique and different from every other Tolkien knock off out there, so I’d go for that.

My money is on Elder Scrolls for now, just because it seems unlikely that they would license the engine for a game they aren’t yet sure they have the rights to make.

By: Pidesco

Pidesco — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:03:52 +0000

“I would prefer an Elder Scrolls MMO.
TES IV: Oblivion is awesome, and I have often wondered what an MMO version of the similar theme would be like.”

About the same, except with way more actors around, who all insist in speaking in leet speak. The level of intelligence in the discussions should be about the same, though.