Attn: Cosmik-Positive feedback & suggestions
Cosmik-
After reading this thread I will say (at the risk of being flamed) that I am totally disappointed with a good many individual's response to the storyline thus far.
I am probably a bit older than the average player in AO at 34. If anyone out there is close, then they would be able to testify as to just how far gaming(and obviously computing) has come since the late 70's when my parents bought me the first Pong game.
It weighed about 10 pounds & had 2 round knobs on each side of a 12"x12" panel & an on/off switch. I won't describe the graphics because there WERE none to speak of.
So here we are in the midst of I believe the most beautifully crafted game produced to date, a story rivaling many theatrical releases, top notch animated sequences and to top it all, a thoroughly engrossing novel....and STILL....I'll repeat...STILL there is this semi-large facton of whining brats (whose complaints are mostly self-serving and seldom legitimate) who can't even agknowledge the wonderful job that FunCom has done to make this world called Rubi-Ka a richer, more fulfilling one than any game ever released.
Suggestions?....Cosmik---Tell personnel relevant to this discussion that they are doing a BRILLIANT job and they should be proud of what they have achieved to date. PLEASE don't let a whining minority influence a decision to stop production on the animated & novel series. The game is also improving with each patch..well...except the Yalmaha thing, but thats for another thread...another day....hehehee...
Re: Alternate Language Ideas
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Originally posted by Phikia
Lay off the French...If YOUR language was heading towards the same fate as Latin, you'd be upset too!..;-)
No, I'd move :P
Re: Attn: Cosmik-Positive feedback & suggestions
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Originally posted by Phikia
Cosmik-
I am probably a bit older than the average player in AO at 34. If anyone out there is close, then they would be able to testify as to just how far gaming(and obviously computing) has come since the late 70's when my parents bought me the first Pong game.
It weighed about 10 pounds & had 2 round knobs on each side of a 12"x12" panel & an on/off switch. I won't describe the graphics because there WERE none to speak of.
So here we are in the midst of I believe the most beautifully crafted game produced to date, a story rivaling many theatrical releases, top notch animated sequences and to top it all, a thoroughly engrossing novel....and STILL....I'll repeat...STILL there is this semi-large facton of whining brats (whose complaints are mostly self-serving and seldom legitimate) who can't even agknowledge the wonderful job that FunCom has done to make this world called Rubi-Ka a richer, more fulfilling one than any game ever released.
I am not 34 years old, and I wont say how old I am since I don't want to make people believe that being older is necessarily wiser. It's not a logical cause and effect thing. But I've been around alot longer before "Pong" and I just have to say that the storyline is absolutely horrid. The timing is absolutely off in regards to events, and the episodes are the only things that had me going for awhile.
But the latest event which has come by, I mean that was just really crap. "Can you do better?" Well no. I can't. But saying, "Can you do better?" is not the thing to say when your a professional software producing company with supposed talented developers. I mean really, I've seen flash animation with stick art that had better storyline than this.
If you were to take the script and ask a Professor of English who specializes in fiction to evaluate it, they would tell you off the bat, that the piece of work is simply not graduate or college level.
I know what I say might sound harsh, but you asked for what I thought and this is what I think. It's really hard to get into the game when days and days pass by in game, and nothing happens. It messes up the flow of the storyline and makes one wonder if radiman and ross have some sort of secret love affair going on.
Now last part of the quote goes something like, semi large majority of whining brats. First of all, the vast majority of people who are whining are not tainted with the experience of playing a dumb game like pong. Considering how you've been playing pong in the 70's (actually it came out long before the 70s where have you been? America?) anything else remotely interesting could top pong. Even watching the sun I imagine. So it leaves your input kinda in question.
Now what the game really needs ? It needs a better storyline. It needs to make players feel they are involved. Else its just hack and slash and I am starting to feel that is all there is.
"No there isnt!" you might say..
Well what do you do? Talk with friends in-game. Sell stuff. Buy stuff. Kill stuff. Walk around. Kill more. Pretend things are happening that really arent. That's not an "immersive storyline" that's hack and slash with someone saying talking about something. I know it's not possible to include 40000 people into the storyline. (is there really 40k like they say? I think theres alot less) I mean you cant include every level 1 newbie. It would just be sad.
But that's not my job to figure out what to do. That's funcom's job. And if they can't find a way to satisfy the urge they created in players when the very first time they advertised AO, then they are going to turn out to disappoint alot of ppl.