Originally posted by Silver001@May 6 2006, 09:22 PM
their method of reward must be heavily revamped for me to fall head-over-heels for HJ.
Whatever happened to the days where
playing a fun video/PC game actually was the reward?
I speak as an individual here and not as a representative of HJ, but have we become so used to mediocre games that we rate a game based off of how many trinkets they give you in game? Dont get me wrong... I love phat loot and uber drops
but shouldn't the game actually be fun to play? Even in the most boring of games, I've sometimes found fun things to do, granted usually its after I've been staring at the monitor, doing nothing, for long periods of time.
Sure you could get some neat stuff by finishing a quest but what if that was just a side effect? What if the real reward of the quest was actually DOING the quest? Of course for this to happen you'd need to put aside those stupid WoW or Lineage 2 "quests", that are usually nothing more than... go here... fetch that... kill that... talk to him... kill him. BOOOOORRRRRING. So what if at the end of a boring quest I get a rare uber leet ring of ultimate power? It was still borrriiing and now I have nothing more to look forward to than another boring quest so that I can get the matching rare uber leet earrings.
Give me PvP that actually means something (L2 castle sieges/clan hall raids), give me dynamic quests that are fun to do regardless of the loot I get, give me an awesome group of players to socialize with, give me, ME,
ME a way to change the server or to actually be an individual (not like 3000 other clones on the server). Give me something new and not played out, something that isn't in every single other game, sure sure keep some of the good things from other games, let my character be famous - not because of the number of Fame Points I have but because people know ME (or my character that is
). Let me be a hero or vilian.
A one-of-a-kind bloodied butchers cleaver, an worn battle helmet worn by the Great Lord Draglar in his triumphant victory of the evil, bloodthirsty Ridic, the infamous cloak worn by Lyonis the Ranger ... this is the type of gear I want and it would even be an added benefit if this gear did kick some major ass! Let me play the role and to be entertained. But whatever you do but dont bind me into the small box that so many other big 'worlds' cram me into, forcing me to rate my level of enjoyment based off of the trinkets you make me toil for.
I'm not saying any or all of this will be in HJ. Its just my dream.
By the way Silver, this post isn't aimed at you but rather at the mediocre gameplay that so many, including myself, have been programmed to believe is actually rewarding.
As far as the UI goes, I'd tend to agree. I'm not a coder but I believe that something such as how the UI will work is considered, if not set in stone, much much earlier than beta. But one thing that I do know, is that your computer only knows what it knows and controlling what it knows is something that the Onsite Staff has, is and will continue to do.
Okay... enough ranting... I've got some work to do.
BTW- Silver... keep up the posts... I love discussing gameplay!