At GDC recently, Joe Morrissey, Senior Designer at NCsoft and Lead Designer for Mission Architect talked to an audience about the challenges of implementing a user generated content system in a 5-year old MMO. Afterwards, Massively had a chance to sit him down and ask a few questions of their own.
IncGamers' Bill Vaughan takes another look at the latest news from the colourful MMO genre and reports on the biggest events from the past week.
This time there's news on a possible City of Heroes sequel, Runes of Magic, Aion, World of Warcraft, Dungeon Fighter Online, Battle of the Immortals, TERA, Dungeons and Dragons Online and TLBB.
I think TERA's going to be another Aion, it looks amazing, little bit more sexy too which always goes down well with MMO players.
The Warlock one is out, it's all about the new shard system. It'll be so much better but it almost makes it a new class.
IncGamers takes another look at the last week of news from the MMO genre, which this time includes stories on Star Trek Online, Aion, World of Warcraft, Forsaken World, City of Heroes and Black Prophecy.
Poor old Star Trek Online, it deserves a bit more time and a bit more slack from players.
World of WarCraft continues to make headlines, even though some say it's in "decline"...
Things really do just get worse and worse for Cryptic. I'm not even convinced it's usually their fault - bad timing, problems with publishers, and crap spiraling out of control.
NCsoft has released images from City of Heroes' upcoming Issue 17: Dark Mirror, showing the long-awaited improved graphics for the game known as 'Ultra Mode'.
There are also details of Issue 17: Dark Mirror, the next free expansion for the superhero MMO.
wow ive never seen something like that before, id like to see if my comp could handle it
LOL, City of Heroes did this BECAUSE Wow did it. They implemented the same real time shadow system, new lighting. The only difference here is the new water effects they show in coh wont be in wow until Cataclysm comes out. Heck, the mode is even called Ultra, which was borrowed from other PC games such as far cry that did similar things.
No reason to disagree. Wow put these effects (again except the water effect) with patch 3.1. What is the harm in saying this? Does it make the change to coh less good? It doesn't I was just correcting a statement that said wow needed to do this when it already has. That is all.
