I think it is quite simple - most of these games put tons of padding to extend the “gameplay time”.Īlso you do not have all that much fun off of the base gameplay, you need to reach a higher level before the game starts being fun and that requires lots of grinding - or in other words you need to endure hours of boredom before you are allowed to start having fun. This would be Last Epochs “Hades” Dungeon VariantĮdit2: This would allow for skill levels to up to above level 24 temporarily and only inside the dungeon. (Monster drops will be accumulated at the end.)Įdit1: Let me give this a name - for all who know the game Hades: This allows me to take this (rare) Shield Rush level 25. (Like having a shield and 1W in my inventory) But…wait… these skills don’t fit to my Gear?!! Rebuke (Lvl 14), Lunge (Lvl 10), Shield Rush(Lvl 25). Yet again, you are presented with another choice of skills: So, you take Rive and slay you way through to the next layer / door / room. Then, before anything happens, you are presented with choice.įor example: -Warpath (LvL 18), Rive (LvL 16), Smite (Lvl 16)-Ĭompletely unrelated to whatever you skilled. Instead, you lose all “memory” about your skills because…reasons. You enter the dungeon, but you keep your gear. I doubt mega-bucks will be involved as mega-bucks mean mega-return-of-investment that riskier MMOs like this can't promise - nor should they.Playing this idea a little bit further, just because: There's a good chance it could go the crowdfunding route, like Camelot Unchained did. How ArtCraft is funding Crowfall, and what size of project we're talking about, isn't publicly known. There's also discussion around a Fealty Chart that's linked to land ownership and, in some way, to guilds. Looking further back, there's a screenshot of a character creation prototype showing a clean and uncluttered cartoony art style, and a glimpse at the class archetypes planned.
And these worlds are dynamic they're made to change based on player actions."Ĭoleman also shared a prototype UI shot for the game's coherent but complex-looking crafting system. "In fact, the the maps are different from one world to the next. In Crowfall, however, the idea is still to have the playerbase spread across servers but for the worlds to be unique. Each server-world is identical but the inhabitants aren't. In World of Warcraft and a lot of other MMOs, the playerbase is split across dozens of servers with X thousand capacity each. Todd Coleman also revealed a couple of key ideas for Crowfall, including a different take on how game servers work. But yesterday developer ArtCraft announced the ongoing collaborative involvement of Raph Koster, a legend of ye olde MMO design - a pivotal part of the Ultima Online team, and regular luminary in the scene ever since. Here details get thinner a proper Crowfall announcement - there's a timer - won't happen for another 32 days (25th Feb). Name sound familiar? He was one of the key creators of Shadowbane. "Marrying these two concepts is the holy grail of MMO development," commented Crowfall game director J. Star Wars Galaxies' crafting system is alluded to time and time again. Yet."Ĭrowfall has two big ideas: "dynamic territorial conquest and a player-driven economy". We've been looking for years, and we still haven't found it. "Something deeper than a virtual amusement park. "If you're here," the game's website states, "it's because you're looking for something." What are you, Morpheus from The Matrix? Crowdfunded MMO Camelot Unchained will try, and now Crowfall will try.
But Shadowbane tried - Shadowbane the ropey 2003 MMO built by Wolfpack Studios and published by Ubisoft (servers now closed). Think of the stories players create there.įew MMOs, however, are fundamentally built around the territorial conquest idea, because it's unpredictable, uncontrollable. World) and some games romance the idea, the shining example being the unpoliced player-inhabited outer-doughnut of space in Eve Online. Some games flirt with the idea (Dark Age of Camelot Realm vs. But what if you were fighting to protect your land, or to take someone else's? What if you were playing your own game of thrones? Often in MMOs you're given content, you don't make your own - you fight where you're told over what you're told. There's something interesting going down in massively-multiplayer land and it's a game called Crowfall.
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