The Glade 4.0

They're just working as intended

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

I feel like there was a balancing issue.

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What a **** show. The KS now has many people withdrawing pledges. Don't think I've ever seen a KS with so many days in the negative.

Um.. What the hell? Why would you withdraw a pledge at the end of the campaign? That's the whole point of Kickstarter.

/facepalm

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"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I'm trying really hard not to engage in some serious, grade-A, Blue-Sky-purity-level schadenfreude.

Well, OK. I'll dabble in it, just a little.

/rolls around in piles of schadenfreude

Hey guys, Pantheon is still a thing. Brad & co showed a gameplay stream for the first time today: https://www.twitch.tv/visionaryrealms/v/53850665

I am scared to admit that it seems like it could become the EverQuest I've been waiting for.

Vanguard showed a lot of promise, too.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

I enjoyed Vanguard until I ran out of people to play with.

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Raell Kromwell

Yeah, Vanguard was a lot of fun.

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I liked Vanguard a lot; I wish I'd had a better computer to play it on at the time. My understanding was that it eventually got cleaned up and started trickling in new content and improvements but it was far too tainted to save by that time.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

That stream appears to be gone, but I found this on YouTube:


And yeah, it looks like EQ.
Looks a *LOT* like EQ, actually - right down to the inventory window, corpse looting interface, and wait for it ... medding o.O

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Go back to zero, take a pill, and get well ~ Lemmy Kilmister

Not to mention the A_mob_ofsomesort right off the bat, the text windows, and even the graphics in some respect.

Is it just me or do the graphics look an awful lot like EQ updated to Vanguard-era graphics? Or is that common in early versions of MMOs under development and the graphics and art improve as time passes?

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

That's a pretty common practice.

Now that EQ Next is shit-canned, this could be EQ, next.

If/when they make it to a release, it might be fun to check out. With what they've shown, I do have to wonder if the only market for this game is EQ nostalgic types?

I LOL'd at 'You get better at Illumination (36)'

So how many times does he plan to make the same game..?

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Grenade 3 Sports Drink. It's fire in the hole.. Your hole!

Evidently at least 3. I'd say "third try's the charm" but the first try was clearly the winner.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

The other thing to keep in mind is that, while it's certainly easy to poke fun at the notion of building the same game multiple times, and the early builds they've shown do show a lot of resemblance to EQ...

It's just that, early builds. When you're running on a lean staff and you want to get something up and operational, it doesn't surprise me that you fall back on implementing the bones of the system in a familiar way. By the time they've built it up and fleshed it out, it could look much more different.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

It could. But I'd also not expect a human to start out with a fish skeleton.

...I don't know if that actually conveys my thought.

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Grenade 3 Sports Drink. It's fire in the hole.. Your hole!

Could be, but after the way Vanguard went I'm leery.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."