SoR vs WoW

[soulsnatcher]

It's so simple my father could use it...... and this is the same father who tried to make a phone call with the TV remote as it had numbers on it.

[jamela]

It's so simple my father could use it...... and this is the same father who tried to make a phone call with the TV remote as it had numbers on it.

LOL I bet his phone bill is astronomical

[mikehh9]

If there are NO quests than how does say a person working on hunting know where the stronger beasts are? Or is there any type of towns/city's?

Those two things seem to throw me off. I like the way this game is set up but I am worried that it will become boring in a month. I thought it was VERY story driven? How do they accomplish that with no quests?


just curious!

[acridiel]

Explore
*sings*A hunting we will go.

Acridiel

[katriell]

I thought it was VERY story driven? How do they accomplish that with no quests?

The story is advanced via live events. You can't have a real story when John Smith the Great dies in some grand adventure and utters his profound last words...several times per week as various people take the quest, while nothing ever changes or results. On the other hand, wouldn't it be great if you could participate in a race's election and help decide who the next leader will be? Or fight on the front lines of an army of players defending a city from an onslaught of giant, genocidal insects? Or slowly come to understand what's going on and ponder what it all means and what might be happening next, as you piece together words said by pivotal characters in events and rumours heard in the bar?

If there are NO quests than how does say a person working on hunting know where the stronger beasts are?

Like Acridiel said...explore.

[akede]

I didn't realize this until today, but it's possible that the outpost ownership and battles is not a permanent component of the game. It's part of the storyline and as such there can be an end to it. Perhaps one faction wins and then the next chapter in the Saga begins.

Pretty cool to consider as up untill now I thought outposts were just a part of the game.

[grimjim]

If there are NO quests than how does say a person working on hunting know where the stronger beasts are? Or is there any type of towns/city's?

Standard computer game quests don't allow you to participate in making a story, they run you on rails and everyone does the same thing, rendering quests largely meaningless in a social context (such as an MMO or a large scale LARP).

With live events, which is how the story is advanced here, you can make an impact and a name and have a more meaningful personal story, at the expense of less immersive day-to-day questing.

[mikehh9]

That all sounds great! So the live vents are truly easy to get into?? This all seems to good to be true! lol

Any other game the live events are crap. I can't name one that I have seen that I can even remember what it was about or for?

Also there is or is not cities and areas where 1,000's gather?

like the great IronForge is WoW?

[grimjim]

Jim, have you looked at the Demo Milko gave GiGa TV?
It´s almost mindboglingly simple, it seems
you can find it on my site

I don't have a techie brain when it comes to anything resembling programming. The limit of my ability is non interactive flashscript. I expect easy things will be easy to do, but I tend to be a little too ambitious

We'll see though, soon I hope!

[huntn]

Just one Word to this:

RyzomRing!!!

Yeeeeehaaaw!!

Acridiel

Are the tools going to be online or be an executable? I assume the latter.
Thanks!