Different type of MMORPG?

[AntB]

Too much combat in your MMORPG and not enough role playing?

Why not give Seed a look? Supposedly an innovative MMORPG that takes the Role Playing Game part seriously.

German site Working Title (http://www.working-title.de/) has an interview up with the CEO of Runestone Game Development (http://www.working-title.de/artikel.php?artikel_id=40&page=1) Lars Kroll Kristensen about their upcoming MMORPG "Seed".

Here's a snippet:

What would you say to a iffy player: Why should he or she play just ‘Seed’ instead of ‘World of WarCraft’, ‘EverQuest 2’ or other mainstream MMORPGs?

That depends on why he or she is iffy. (laughs) I would not recommend ‘Seed’ to a hardcore PVP fantasy combat game enthusiast, that does not want to role play, just as I wouldn’t recommend Seed to a FPS gamer. If you love combat and grinding (Which I by the way do once in a while) by all means play WoW or EverQuest. However, If you like role playing, sci fi and strong stories, give Seed a try. I do feel we do these things quite differently from most other MMOs. Who knows, Seed might suit your taste.

[Veloxi]

Interesting stuff, I hope it works out for them.

[JudasGoat]

Wow, I've never heard of this. It sounds pretty exciting though. If they get the UI and play control right, count me in.

[AntB]

Two Brooklynites in this thread already? Wheres the third EA Brooklynite?

[camberiu]

Two Brooklynites in this thread already? Wheres the third EA Brooklynite?


Sorry, I am in Queens :-)

Anyways, I am curious to see how this is goinf to turn out. The lack of real ROLE PLAYING on MMORPGs has always made that genre less attractive to me. I never liked to be exploring a dungeon while players on the group were talking about hardware issues, best "spawning spots" and last night's football game. Maybe this w\game will be different enough so that I might actually be able to achieve real "suspension of disbelief". while playing. We'll see.

[Roc Ingersol]

Sounds pretty interesting. If ATITD can keep it's audience happy and salivating, I'd say these guys have a solid shot at their goal.
I really dig on the concept art too. That styling and the clean, simplistic interface really works for me.

[Valkyrist]

What would you say to a iffy player: Why should he or she play just ‘Seed’ instead of ‘World of WarCraft’, ‘EverQuest 2’ or other mainstream MMORPGs?
Since when was EQ2 "mainstream"??? If by that, the interviewer ment "poorly made game that almost no one plays", then we're all jollies.

[AntB]

Since when was EQ2 "mainstream"??? If by that, the interviewer ment "poorly made game that almost no one plays", then we're all jollies.

No, he meant that as a generilization of todays MMORPGS, mostly Tolkienesque medieval fantasy games.

[alienchild]

Well, I love sci-fi and can't understand why anyone would wanna be a bow-shooting elf when they can be a plasmarifle-wielding grunt. However, playing Anarchy-Online - which is classified as an MMORPG I understand that I really didnt dig the RP aspect. Not that AO doesn't have RP, it has some extremely cool stuff and the deepest background story to any game that I have played so far. What Im getting at is that most people that play MMORPGs (afaik) dont care much for the RP elements. I blame jap "RPG"s.

edit: holy crap, that was incoherent blabbering if I ever saw it... I guess thats what you get when you have to alt-tab between EA and Excel every 30 seconds at work.

[Kefkataran]

Since when was EQ2 "mainstream"??? If by that, the interviewer ment "poorly made game that almost no one plays", then we're all jollies.

As far as MMORPGs go, it's still in the top 10 played. Probably in the top 5? Either way, I don't see why it wouldn't make sense to call it mainstream.

What Im getting at is that most people that play MMORPGs (afaik) dont care much for the RP elements. I blame jap "RPG"s.

Wouldn't it make more sense to blame people's tastes, since they're *choosing* not to participate in that way?

[Dr Quincy]

Deja vu (http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8820&highlight=seed), little ones?

[Seabass]

Anyways, I am curious to see how this is goinf to turn out. The lack of real ROLE PLAYING on MMORPGs has always made that genre less attractive to me. I never liked to be exploring a dungeon while players on the group were talking about hardware issues, best "spawning spots" and last night's football game. Maybe this w\game will be different enough so that I might actually be able to achieve real "suspension of disbelief". while playing. We'll see.


Unless roleplaying is strictly enforced I doubt that people won't be talking about those things. It seems to be from reading the article that they mean people will have different roles in the game such as inventor or mechanic not that they will be in character all the time.

Not to be to negative or anything the concept looks really interesting.

[ElectricMonk]

well the game looks neat but no mmo has attracted me yet so i don't think this one will either. i do love sci-fi over fantasy settings though (i was a brief subscriber to AO), btw here did all the wing commander/tie fighter type games go? last game like that was freelancer (which was EXCELLENT btw), did it not sell or something? Those were the types of games that got me into gaming and now all we have is ww2 fps games.

[EL CABONG]

Since when was EQ2 "mainstream"??? If by that, the interviewer ment "poorly made game that almost no one plays", then we're all jollies.
I Played EQ2 for a while its not all bad. The Graphics are pretty good. Lack of PVP is why I out of it. I thought their would be atleast one pvp sever.

I like that somebody is trying to do something different with MMORPG's but no combat may be pretty dull.

[51|RandoM]

Two Brooklynites in this thread already? Wheres the third EA Brooklynite?

East Village, oops. :p