Prognosticated 2007 Massively Muliplayer Awards
Dec 12, 2006 15:09:41
Submitted by Brent on Dec 12, 2006 15:09:41 CST (comments: 9)
Dec 12, 2006 15:09:41
| In the past week we took a look at much of what transpired in the MMORPG world this past year. Clearly 2006 was a slow year for our favorite style of game. Will 2007 offer us more? VirginWorlds is optimistic and in celebration of that optimism let us all take a look at the future game releases and prognosticate their future award winning status. Most Promising MMOG title: Most Promising totally-Indy MMOG title: Best MMOG Graphics of 2007: Longest MMOG beta of all time: Longest MMOG name of 2007: Most embarrassing Korean-port of 2007: 2007 Vaporware Award: 2007 Massively Misguided Leadership Award And there it is. The somewhat serious, somewhat joking list of future MMOG awards. You can find the links to all of these titles on the future gamelist below. Have any categories to add? Want to pick your winners? Think I'm a cruel and obtuse curmudgeon? Have at it in the comments section. |
Submitted by Brent on Dec 12, 2006 15:09:41 CST (comments: 9)
Comments:
'So Vanguard won't run on my 3dfx card ?' by Dathmar
Submitted on 2006-12-12 17:49:11 CST
Is Vanguard really going to be a graphics card killer ?
I was really hoping that Sigil would see (for me anyway) EQ2s biggest problem (which still remains to date 2 years after launch and PCs are loads faster now) in that unless you have a monster machine you have to run the game in a very low graphics setting (well my x800 xl 256MB just don't cut it)
I thought that the Unreal Engine used would mean that Vanguard would run a little better than SOE's in-house engine given that they should have the all the tuning data from Epic Games
'...' by Heartless
Submitted on 2006-12-12 20:09:25 CST
Ha...
Dathmar have you even looked into Vanguard? It will be as system intensive (if not worse) than EQ2.
'Vanguard' by Brent
Submitted on 2006-12-12 22:37:23 CST
I hate to report it, but it is really brutal on the video card. Hopefully last minute optimization will improve it a bit.
'Vanguard' by PeZzy
Submitted on 2006-12-13 02:19:34 CST
I don't think Vanguard's biggest problem is the high system requirements...the problem is they are going to need a dozen sparsely populated server clusters at launch in order to keep the lag problems at an acceptable level. They are using a modified Unreal 2 engine which is meant for small world games. Does SOE really need another EQ-ish game? Will the bad publicity during the beta harm it? Will Brad's defence of the game and criticism of others on public forums bolster the game's profile? It's a good game but shouldn't we be moving forward instead of visiting the past?
'./me baltently ignores Vanguard' by unbeliever
Submitted on 2006-12-13 02:50:58 CST
Tabula Rasa for most promising of '07 & Pirates of the Burning Seas for Best Graphics would be my vote.
'oh poo' by Dathmar
Submitted on 2006-12-13 06:27:05 CST
not sure how to break it to my wife..."sorry the kids don't get presents this Xmas as I need a new PC"
'Thinking about this makes me a little mad....' by Dathmar
Submitted on 2006-12-13 07:30:44 CST
Sorry - should have given a more intelligent response.
Heartless - Yes I have seen the game in screenshot and video form....but honestly I don't think it has anything special or ground breaking in it...and the world didn't seem vastly populated with flora and fauna or buildings....seemed quite bare to me.
If this game does need some Uber graphics card to run at Medium to High settings I honestly think Sigil have made a big mistake.
I know many people don't expect it to be the WOW killer etc....but I would have thought that making the game have very high system requirements just reduces the amount of potential subscriptions.
...to me I think its a little bit of the “Manager's PC” syndrome – I used to do tuning working for my company in the good old days of Client/Server tech ( which is what MMOs are still using) and if any customer said that their application was running slowly I would always go into the mangers office first and use his / her PC.
99% of the time the manager had the best PC in the office – and used it 90% less then anyone else.
I think perhaps Brad and Jeff should have bought a mid-range PC each and said to their developers – make a good looking game for this machine and make is run well....rather than go shopping at Alienware for their PCs
;)
I have played WOW a lot and play SoR and both have low ish system requirements and both in my mind have some of the best ( not technically perhaps) graphics in any MMO
Also Guild Wars, now that looks amazing...I don't like the art as much as WOW / SoR – but all 3 games will even run on my laptop with a 32MB gfx card....! ( I obviously don't expect any newer games to do this – but its just an example)
To me art and creativity make up for a lot in a game...not flashy new graphic lighting effects...
- as they say its not the size its what you do with it that counts ( Of course no one says this to me ;) )
Sorry to have a rant about this – but this is one of the things that really annoys me about some games – for example EQ2 – I really like the game but why on earth should attacking 3 mobs at the same time (with Med to Low Graphics Setting) on a Mid-Range PC bring the game to about 5-10 FPS and there is no way that I am going to spend £350 / $600 on the top of the range card...
Okay – back in my shell now..
'I don't get it..' by darrenl
Submitted on 2006-12-13 07:44:16 CST
I really still don't understand what the major gameplay diffrences are between EQ2 and Vanguard....is there any difference. I look at the videos and the screenshots and I think, "Hey, thats EQ2". The griffons look the same, the dark elves look the same..etc, etc. OK, there is a diplomacy system and the classes are a bit different...anything else?
I'm tempted to get the pre-order to start in the beta. If its turns out to be like EQ2 but only at 5-10 fps, then whats my motivation for getting Vanguard?
'Vanguard...again' by PeZzy
Submitted on 2006-12-13 10:11:28 CST
BTW...make sure you turn off the 3D clouds unless you like staring at the sky. You'll find it helps the slow-down problem alot.
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