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Game Update 62: Age of Discovery

Game Update 61: The War of Zek

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I believe the titles are awarded by number of repeatable quests completed.

 

 

We are taking a look at the PvP template now. I'll let you know what we find.

 

We are working on some cool stuff. I think “most” will be pleasantly surprised with the 6 year veteran rewards. I think they will be pretty darn cool.

We also always try to toss the potions and what not in for those “alt-aholics”.

 

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The banner was not working properly, and was bugged out 90% of the time due to geo location. So I moved it to an easier access point. Many had thought that we simply skipped it.

 

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For those of us in the United States, Daylight Savings Time ends Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 2:00 a.m. Please don’t forget to set your clocks back by one hour Saturday night before you go to bed!!

 

Not to be outdone by this year’s Festival of Unity, the less good’ly inclined guilds of the Antonia Bayle server have set aside their schemes and machinations to organize the single largest accumulation of dark intent that Norrath has ever seen! Behold… The Festival of Discord!

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Halloween is a night for trick-or-treating, costume parties, visiting haunted attractions, carving jack-o’-lanterns, reading scary stories, and watching horror movies. What are you doing this year? Do you have miniature ghosts and goblins dressing up for some fun, or perhaps just the big ones? Check out SOE’s Halloween costumes and decorating, and vote for the best decorated area! Read more!

 

Like everyone else on the Internet, I’ve been busy playing Torchlight. I’ll probably write up my thoughts about the game soon (to summarise, tis gud) but playing it single player has really made me wonder what it will be like as a MMORPG and, more importantly, if it would actually work.

In case you’re not familiar with Torchlight, here’s a quick rundown of what it is. It’s Diablo. OK, now that we’ve got that out of the way, we can talk about the MMO element of it. Runic Games has stated that it they will launch a MMO version of it in the future (they are very unspecific about it all) and although I have my suspicions that they’re not actually talking about a traditional EQ/WoW MMO but more of a Battle.net style “MMO” (not my clever quote marks), let’s just pretend they are.

I imagine that a MMO version of Torchlight would essentially be similar any standard fantasy MMO. Bunch of different races, starting areas, quests, dungeons, raids and all that jazz. The big difference of course would be the style of gameplay though. Instead of playing a 3rd person avatar and clicking auto-attack then pressing a few keys as you stand and face your opponent, combat would be a mouse click frenzy and a lot more hectic. I personally could imagine that being a lot of fun but I’m sure many die-hard MMORPGers would disagree.

Combat in most MMOs isn’t exactly thrilling stuff so the Torchlight/Diablo/Titan Quest mouse-mashing style might be a nice break. It would certainly be a lot more fast paced and twitch based. However, the downside is that clicking your mouse like a mad man might get quite repetitive after a while plus instead of sneaking in pee breaks during ninja AFKs, you’ll be busy developing RSI in your index finger.

Aside from combat and an isometric graphics style, I’m not sure what else would be different between the Torchlight MMORPG and any other out there. So to answer my own question, yes, I do think the Torchlight MMO will work. I’ll just start exercising my clicking finger now though.

Original post from: We Fly Spitfires – MMORPG Blog

Will The Torchlight MMO Work?

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