New Funcom MMO a threat to DDO?

[Swedishchef]

If failcom use the same crappy combat system they use in AoC i will not even consider to try this game, and failcom has a very bad rep from AoC so unless it comes with a free trail i will not try it untill it has one.

Just my 2 cp

[Eladiun]

AO so riddled with bugs as to be near unplayable (on release, and remained so for far too long afterwards).

So very true... I sort of forgot about that. There was that great one were you would kill MoBs and they would all of a sudden raise themselves from the dead but as some sort of ghost in the machine. They were unkillable and would proceed to wipe you out. Well, at least the game concept and class designs were cool.

[Borror0]

AO so riddled with bugs as to be near unplayable (on release, and remained so for far too long afterwards).

C'mon, they only had a bug that wrecked your OS. It's not THAT bad. *cough*

[Eladiun]

C'mon, they only had a bug that wrecked your OS. It's not THAT bad. *cough*

They did have quite the QA department...

[Mockduck]

I've read interviews with Ragnar where he claims the underlying systems for TSW are not related to AoC at all, it's a completely different system from the ground up. Actually, and I only know this cuz I'm a Dreamfall-TLJ nerd, TSW completely scrapped its code about a year and a half into development and started over. Ragnar claims it's because he didn't like the code used in Funcom's other MMOs and wanted to change it up.

My only issue with TSW, other than the fact that it's all hype with no actual gameplay footage at this point, is that all this development time has kept Ragnar Tornquist away from FINALLY wrapping up the story of Dreamfall. Anyone who played it knows it ended on a monster-sized cliffhanger....I have a suspicion that we'll never see a conclusion.

[Mockduck]

Link to GameTrailers "game play footage" video: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gd...e-secret/63665

Mostly it's what we've already seen, although it does show a bit of actual in-game footage. I imagine the UI has been turned off (like hitting Alt-Z in DDO), but not bad!

[QuantumFX]

You might get some MMO players that are moving onto “The next big thing”. But they’ll move onto “The next, next big thing” after they play it for a while.

I’ll move on when the DDO servers shut down. More than likely my next video game will be whatever version of Photoshop is available.

[Gum]

For those of you who don't Know, The Secret World is the new MMO being developed by Funcom, the same producer of Age of Conan.

A preview was released by Massively today describing in detail the premises of the game:

http://www.massively.com/2010/03/23/...-secret-world/


What mostly drew my attention was this:

Story driven, instance based MMO, with totally free character customization, with action-adventure gameplay and combat, achievement system, guild ranking based on PvE, PvP and Crafting, voiced cinematic videos telling the story of each mission, synergistic combat abilities both for offense as well as defense, lots of puzzles, cosmetic free equipment, party-focused dungeons with 35-45mins duration, etc...

Somehow, i feel like DDO's reign on the "best combat" might be challenged soon.

I particularly like the idea of using cut scenes to tell the story.

Sometimes competition can be a good thing..keeps you on your toes so to speak.

[Delt]

I've read interviews with Ragnar where he claims the underlying systems for TSW are not related to AoC at all, it's a completely different system from the ground up. Actually, and I only know this cuz I'm a Dreamfall-TLJ nerd, TSW completely scrapped its code about a year and a half into development and started over. Ragnar claims it's because he didn't like the code used in Funcom's other MMOs and wanted to change it up.

My only issue with TSW, other than the fact that it's all hype with no actual gameplay footage at this point, is that all this development time has kept Ragnar Tornquist away from FINALLY wrapping up the story of Dreamfall. Anyone who played it knows it ended on a monster-sized cliffhanger....I have a suspicion that we'll never see a conclusion.

Dreamfall/TLJ was pretty **** good...that said, there is a pretty big difference between those and an MMO. Funcom in general doesn't exactly have a great track record in terms of polish and gameplay, so I am not confident the resources behind this game will live up to the vision.

[Twerpp]

Turbine is the biggest threat to DDO

[Vikkus]

It could be a good game if the add content. AoC has great graphics and great combat and no quests. lol

They made a really pretty game with nothing to do in it after two weeks of playing.

[KKDragonLord]

Link to GameTrailers "game play footage" video: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gd...e-secret/63665

Mostly it's what we've already seen, although it does show a bit of actual in-game footage. I imagine the UI has been turned off (like hitting Alt-Z in DDO), but not bad!

lol, anyone felt like the "burning hands" animation looked a bit dorky?

kinda like "Look 'Ma, i can throw flames from my hands!"

[Mockduck]

I don't get the whole "will X kill Y MMO" thing. The market's plenty big to support multiple successful games. I'll be playing TSW a bit unless it totally sucks, doesn't mean I won't also be playing DDO.

[Uska]

I dont see it being any better then conan and likely worse since it really doesnt have the fanbase draw conan does.

[Uska]

I've played both Funcom MMO's. I started MMO's with Anarchy Online played for like 2 years. Great game for it's time but dated...
AoC sucked. Not really fun at all...

Funcom's customer relations are about on par with SOE's.

The biggest MMO threat on the horizon is KotR. Bioware produces art. I will definitely be trying it out.

yeah it looks pretty but from the looks of it the combat system isnt going to cut it as it appears to more along the lines of most games already out.

[Uska]

I don't think it will be - though Ataris D&D MMO that still is upcoming will be. Can't wait to try that one.

it will proably have the same crappy combat system of every game but ddo

[akla_thornfist]

someday a game will come out that has better combat than ddo, but funcom wont be the delevoper to do it.

[Kalari]

Im with the others though my playing has been lax due to other issues seriously everytime a new mmo comes out its the same and you know what? Until someone matches the combat of this game or all out beats it I doubt anything will pull me away for more then a hot minute.

I may gripe about ddo at times but im still here almost 3 years in

I have yet to play a game where I didnt get annoyed by the combat and or quest mechanics...no I wont gather 20 boar pelts or rabbits toes to get a freaking quest advance thank you very much.

I like moving around when I cast, melee, fire arrows something I have not found in many other games without breaking attack chains ugh hate those.

I like being able to get away from an enemy and even if it gives penalties using terrain to my advantage (without exploit)

To this date ive tried many pretty games gotten keys from friends who said "its the next best thing..." all it did was take up space on my pc space I finally got back in my purge 2 months ago. Right now DDO is the only mmo installed on my pc and until someone really blows me away will be the only one. Tired of pretty packages with ugly or boring insides.