Ginger Posted March 28, 2008 The two games I've enjoyed the most in the past year (exluding portal) are TF2 and WoW, I want them combined. Imagine how awesome it would be to get TF2esque 5 man team together and go and run a FPS PvE instance, various different classes working together to get the job done, then throw in some arena style death matches and the real world pvp of Planetside as well as the standard PvE grind/progression. Basically the gameplay styles of WoW but with interaction being twitch based FPS. Tabula kind of does this but isn't proper twitch (and not all that good), I know Huxley is on the way but much of the enthusiasm people originally had for it seems to have dwindled (the impression I get is that it doesn't deliver all that it promises.) To me this seems like a really obvious genre for a publisher to attack, it'd take a lot of investment and some very clever designers (I like the idea of hiding being your tank to avoid damage rather than this agro business) but I think if u get it 75% right u could make a fortune. I wonder if one reason it hasn't come yet is that the technology isn't really there yet, the amount of data that needs to be sent back and forth is huge, but planetside was about 4years ago (I think) and that managed to do okishey, surely with the increase in speed of broadband this is now a feasible genre. Hopefully one has secretly been in development for a few year and will be in a year or two. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DanJW Posted March 28, 2008 Yeah the main problem has been bandwidth; any lag at all kills a twitch based game and it's very hard to regulate lag at MMO level. Hence why most online FPS maps max out at 64. Having said that, I think there's been some stuff on the horizon now that Broadband 2 is rolling out. Champions claims to be twitch based, but some people are saying that it's being built on the City of Heroes engine, which is fake twitch. Hellgate London did a kind of hybrid twitch/rolling turn gameplay, but I'm not sure how well that is doing. But yes, I too dream of a game with everything you described. Maybe World of Lego will be our saviour... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coldkill Posted March 30, 2008 Gief Planetside 2 plx! What he said. I thought PlanetSide was an awesome game, partly because it was my very first MMO, but mostly because it was just awesome. The huge battles over key bridges and roads, the small skirmishes in the corridors of huge bases. Was all very fun indeed. My only grief with it was it's depth. The only thing you really did was kill other people and the story changed so much it was hard to tell what started the fighting in the first place. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nick Posted March 30, 2008 There was just some awesome moments in that game. Parking you ATV just behind a hill and sniping with a boot full of ammo and health packs. Getting a mate and driving 'round in a heavy tank destroying everything. Getting the same mate and flying a Lib bomber about. Amazing dogfights between mossies and reavers. Seeing how much damage you could do picking people off in a stealth suite. Unloading the thumper plasma grenades down into the spawns of a tower. Storming down a corridor in a MAX. Getting a Gal and dropping in on a critical base, taking down the gen and seeing how long you could hold it, screwing over the base that the rest of your faction is trying to take. That game was incredible Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
