Comments on: 2009 Delayed Until 2010, Christmas Cancelled

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:13:40 +0000

@Railick

That’s another thing. In the cases where it’s used like that, casters go from useless, to absolutely godlike, whilst melee classes start at useful, and end up around “meh.”

+1 for Company of Heroes being good, BTW

By: D

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:28:57 +0000

-1 For Company of Heroes not being good.

HA!

By: Railick

Railick — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:06:47 +0000

It wouldn’t matter to you or to Blizzard but it would matter to me ;P It wouldn’t be the first game I’d purchased that I ended up not liking, not by a long shot.

By: Funky Badger

Funky Badger — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:58:09 +0000

+1 for Company of Heroes not being very good/interesting. Hope Starcraft 2 isn’t like that.

By: Nalano

Nalano — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:38:32 +0000

@Railick

It wouldn’t matter if you liked it or disliked it, you already bought it.

By: Tei

Tei — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:37:41 +0000

I hope SC2 is good. After all the talk, I am just another gamer and get incredible good hours from good games :-)

By: Railick

Railick — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:28:44 +0000

I’ll be honest, I’m not closed minded or anything and I’m going to buy SC 2 even if I don’t think I’ll like it. If it captures what was good about SC then I supose I’ll probably end up liking it one way or another.

By: Railick

Railick — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:21:15 +0000

@Psychopomp – I believe the who Mana system was created to allow Wizards and spell users to have extremly powerful spells and abilities but limit their usage to even them up with warriors.

By: Nalano

Nalano — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:05:09 +0000

@Psychopomp

‘Course not. I threw 2.5 years down the WoW rabbit hole, too. But this is the internet. What have we to discuss but the braying of the vocal minority?

By: Nalano

Nalano — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:02:43 +0000

@Vinraith

I’m not implying your opinion either way. I was just saying that change of any sort seems to hurts a lot of people’s sense of security (complacency?) in their manner of play.

Now that you mention it, tho, I’m hard to pinpoint exactly how an MMO could influence non-MMO RPGs, considering that the main “story” of an MMO is static.

By: Psychopomp

Psychopomp — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:01:18 +0000

@Nalano

We’re not all like that, the people that are, are just another very vocal minority.

On another, tenuously related note, I hate mana systems. With a passion. In anything. I also hate the vancian system. Melee classes don’t have melee juice, why should casters have to deal with a finite resource? It’s a bad idea, and I’ll never understand how it became so widespread.

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:54:50 +0000

@Nalano

I can only speak for myself, but my distaste for WoW is largely a product of the fact that, being so massively successful, it’s strongly influencing even non-MMO RPG games with it’s ideas. Since there are many aspects of WoW’s design I ardently dislike, I find this trend distressing.

That said, I was never on the “I hate Blizzard” train and, even in the wake of WoW, I’m still not. I’ve had too much fun with too many of their games to hold one industry changing train wreck (from my perspective) against them, and I look forward to both SC2 and Diablo 3 with high expectations.