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-Mithan-  Title: VNBoard Admin
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Date Posted:
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"directed gameplay" and the DK starter zone.... did Blizz miss the picture? |
Auenwing posted:
Mithan, thanks for responding. I understand your viewpoint and agree that "CHOICE" feels like the thing that's needed.
Having a dynamic quest line that affects you later by the choices made earlier would be wonderful from a story-telling/RPG character growth perspective. And somehow I can't see Blizzard adding that without issues. They seem to be focused on end-game. You never know though. If it's successful in other games, we could see it incorporated.
It wont happen now, but it may for the next expansion in 2012. Who knows.
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--Syrus--  Posts: 536
Registered: 2003-12-2 15:51:47
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It would require some serious thought put into it, especially when deciding if certain npc's live or die. Or if you could decide to save a town from an attack, or let it burn.
I think the phasing that they are using now is just testing out what it is truly capable of, I'm hoping and guessing that there will be more finesse in future application of it.
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:01am
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--Syrus-- posted:
It would be cool as you say if it was a little bit more like a choose your own adventure novel
I think the fact mmorpgs are devolving to "choose your own adventure", considering the wide range of rpg and crpg they actually have access to, is the most revealing thing at all.
And people actually think this is a good thing. Do they even LIKE rpgs?
What a waste of the genre.
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Skek Posts: 16
Registered: 2003-7-31 06:09:55
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Date Posted:
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I'm not a fan of the directed gameplay approach. To me it feels like I go into a tunnel at 80 and pop out the other end at 85. I'd much prefer some variety and choice of path to take.
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:01am
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"directed gameplay" and the DK starter zone.... did Blizz miss the picture? |
I do not like any kind of gated questing. I can understand having to do something for keys, etc. but they have all but done away with that.
I was stuck in Hyjal for awhile because of the jousting questline. I was not able to complete it because I suck at those kind of quests (old eyes and senior moments).
I decided to backtrack and do the Deer Me quest and it opened up the road south and boy was I happy because I thought it was either do the Wave One, Two.. etc. or log out and forget the game.
My biggest complaint is the npcs doing the quests for me  The most disappointing one was the Battle for Undercity.
It was such a fantastic storyline and quest but at the end I hadn't really DONE anything and it spoiled the immersion for me.
Now they have leaned towards fight areas with npc's helping on every turn and I feel that they should be paying me to help them. Don't get me wrong because they do a fantastic job of avatar/sequence/sync but in my opinion it is overdone.
Oh and yes, I think the gated quest system is very much overdone. |
Okra Posts: 16
Registered: 2002-8-21 10:36:21
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I was not able to complete....because I suck at those kind of quests (old eyes and senior moments).
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hear! hear! there's a few quests that switches into arcade mode.
blizzard has to understand that not everyone have normal hand/eye coordination.
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Malachi256  Posts: 158
Registered: 2002-11-12 17:33:28
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:01am
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"directed gameplay" and the DK starter zone.... did Blizz miss the picture? |
WoW has always been a theme-park game (emphasis on fun experience, as opposed to choice which is emphasized in sandbox games), and these new story questlines are just an improvement on that theme. It's what WoW does best, so why not improve on it.
Also, (as I heard mentioned by another poster) this is all a pre-emptive move against SW:ToR.
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The_Korrigan Title: Scrub Buster
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Registered: 2001-7-17 03:51:32
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:01am
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"directed gameplay" and the DK starter zone.... did Blizz miss the picture? |
One interesting and nice side effect of the phasing is that it's very inefficient to mine/herb in an area you haven't completed yet, completely screwing the gold farmers. I love that side effect. The more we screw those account thieves, the happier I am.
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Shenron_ Posts: 543
Registered: 2002-12-8 21:34:16
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i HATE it. i don't like being forced to do long boring quest chains just to enter or leave a zone. i want to be able to go and come as i please. its so stupid the way it is now.
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--Syrus-- Posts: 536
Registered: 2003-12-2 15:51:47
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1/1/00 12:01am
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"directed gameplay" and the DK starter zone.... did Blizz miss the picture? |
Shenron_ posted:
i HATE it. i don't like being forced to do long boring quest chains just to enter or leave a zone. i want to be able to go and come as i please. its so stupid the way it is now.
Well you don't HAVE to do the quests..
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