GU Comics has some exclusive Vanguard screenshots up. Bearing in mind that they “are to show gameplay moreso than pretty images and are lacking polish, finished anims, etc.” and that I'm a bitter and jaded MMOG player, the gameplay looks depressingly unoriginal.
Can we stop making fantasy-themed MMOGs now?
Generic Fantasy Quest #7
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Mattt wrote:
Saturday 30 July 01:51
Auz wrote:
i) WoW's success is arguable one reason why the genre is over.
ii) Many of those 3.5m are playing because the game is by Blizzard or it's the only game in their country (1.5m from China)
iii)
Ultima Online
Everquest
Asheron's Call
Lineage
The Realm Online
Dark Age of Camelot
Shadowbane
Runescape
Asheron's Call 2
Final Fantasy XI
Ragnarok Online
Everquest II
Lineage 2
Horizons
World of Warcraft
Guild Wars
Ryl: Path of the Emperor
D&D Online
Dark & Light
Lord of the Rings Online
Vanguard: Saga of Heroes
Irth Online
Age of Conan
Warhammer Online
Hero's Journey
Saturday 30 July 10:13
Mattt wrote:
Yeah but since EverQuest, fantasy themed MMos have always looked tasty. I mean, can you imagine have 400,000 subscribers? That's just crazy!!
But 3 million subscribers?
EQ (now WoW) clones are the way to go!
I dunno.. I wonder sometimes if the MMO industry will crash like the video game industry did in the 80s. Then again, MMO players are so mentally deranged that they don't seem to care about doing the same quests over and over, so maybe we'll just keep seeing fantasy themed MMOs for the next 50 years (that's about the time when WWIII will be, warp drive invented, Vulcans come, etc.).
Saturday 30 July 19:31
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WoW has 3 million subscribers. Fantasy-themed MMOs are just getting started. :/