What? That people are still trying to get stupid, not-fun tedium removed from otherwise highly-entertaining and well-executed games? /shockedface

[edit] Oh, rofl...you meant this, I presume:



rofl...yeah, good point.

 

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I see where you are going with this. And no, nothing seems to change.

 

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Yep, nothing changes.
Always the same people trying to dumb down excellent games to their low level.

And yeah, AC1 was/is a game where you don't have big arrows on a map to show you where to go. Most spoon fed WoW "WotLK epic" kiddies would be totally lost in such a game, that requires knowledge, exploration and research along with button mashing. Proof is made in these threads once again (both the AC forum thread and this thread here).

For the readers who don't know what the AC thread talks about, it's a mob that is part of quest giving you one additional skill point (which would kind of equate to one additional talent point in WoW, ABOVE the maximum allowed). It's normal that he's not easy to find. It's also a thing you only do once for a character.

Oh, and a last thing... AC1 was also about a community, unlike WoW where communities are limited to guilds. People actively posted on forums, notably the VN boards, to help each other. Things like the coordinates of that mob were frequently posted on forums by players who spotted him. That's also another difference between AC1 and the dumbed down games we have nowadays.

 

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Wow, you even missed the point when re-reading it? That's not easy to do!

It's not "dumbed down". It is TEDIOUS. I don't even know why I am trying to explain, I imagine you would have the same blank stare as as I would expect from my dog if I tried to explain it to her. Time to cut my losses, I think.

 

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I could honestly see Korrigan as the LAST WOW player, standing at the mailbox, anxiously waiting for someone to come stroke his e-peen....and still screaming at the top of his lungs, "Don't dumb down the game!!!"

/crickets

 

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LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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^^^ All true.

 

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lol I just seen this thread and had to giggle. I played AC from release til 05 then came back last August after a 5 year break. It has changed. Numbers are smaller but theres still that community feeling. I see a few of the old timers popping in to check it out again too. Anyone use to play on Leafcull?

AC community revolved around xp passup mostly. You could pledge to someone and they would get some xp also as you leveled. This would encourage them to help you with items or knowledge. Knowledge was important as the quests only gave vague hints as to where you should go and the land mass was quite huge.

AC talents were also very free form you put points into individual skills like sword, run, jump, endurance, etc so you could build a very customized character and really mess it up if you weren't careful.

Good game but botting was allowed and even encouraged due to the passup xp.

There was a freeform PvP server called DarkTide where you could attack anybody at any time which was kind of fun in a sadistic kind of way.

This right here was the biggest key, along with it not being so hand holding was what really sealed the deal on this game for me. No cookie cutter specs and everyone with the same gear. Not to mention how you didn't have gear that was bound to you.

Even though it was at the end of my playing, I loved doing the big tuskar raids, and just doing the old, epic questlines, frore for example. I'll never forget aerlinthe (spelling?) or killing the olthoi queen and getting my name broadcast and people whispering grats.

 

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