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TruePoindexter, on June 26 2013 - 05:04 PM, said:
hoghead, on June 26 2013 - 04:57 PM, said:
OmniStone, on June 25 2013 - 09:50 AM, said:
I tried playing MechWarrior Online, it was too slow and boring for me. I think if I were older(say 40-50 or so), I wouldn't mind playing it if my twitch was gone by that age. It seems to serve it's player base quite well, it is an older crowd that plays it. I'm not a MechWarrior hater or anything, it just isn't my cup of tea.
I personally think twitch skills are case of you either have it or don't - until the extremes of age you're going to keep it if it's there.
Case in point, eye-tracking technology is probably going to replace the mouse relatively soon and neural kinetics are probably still about 20 years out but will likely replace the keyboard. But the two together will effectively make twitch games playable at close to synapse speed as opposed to at one's present state of eye-hand coordination.
Teljaxx, on June 26 2013 - 05:13 PM, said:
One of the biggest problems with MWO is what all Mechwarrior games have had problems with. It is impossible to directly translate a tabletop game that uses dice, turns, and random numbers into a first-person, skill based game. But then you run into the problem of how to balance the necessary changes. If you make it too similar to the TT rules, then it is unbalanced and barely works. but if you stray too far from the core rules and stats, then you risk alienating the core rule purists and long time fans.
As I said in my previous post, PGI has done an awful job of this. This is also part of why their trial mechs are so useless. They all use loadouts that are designed to be used in the TT game, and work fine there. But because of the changes that were done to make MWO work at all, they no longer fit within the system, and are far outclassed by mechs that can be made to fit the new system.
And it really sucks that the game has such lackluster graphics, because their concept artist is amazing. Their CG team has not done a very good job of translating his 2D designs into 3D, though. And, just like with MW3&4, they are not using the potential of the graphics engine to make interesting worlds to battle on. Instead, we get boring Earthlike snow, desert, city, and forest maps. When MW2, a game from 1995 has more interesting worlds than a Crytek game, there is something wrong.
As I said in my previous post, PGI has done an awful job of this. This is also part of why their trial mechs are so useless. They all use loadouts that are designed to be used in the TT game, and work fine there. But because of the changes that were done to make MWO work at all, they no longer fit within the system, and are far outclassed by mechs that can be made to fit the new system.
And it really sucks that the game has such lackluster graphics, because their concept artist is amazing. Their CG team has not done a very good job of translating his 2D designs into 3D, though. And, just like with MW3&4, they are not using the potential of the graphics engine to make interesting worlds to battle on. Instead, we get boring Earthlike snow, desert, city, and forest maps. When MW2, a game from 1995 has more interesting worlds than a Crytek game, there is something wrong.
