Comments on: FF: Two Thousand http://bluevulpine.net/2010/01/29/ff-two-thousand/ home of Terra Fabula Sun, 29 Aug 2010 05:34:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Darius Greywind http://bluevulpine.net/2010/01/29/ff-two-thousand/comment-page-1/#comment-1300 Darius Greywind Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:53:58 +0000 http://bluevulpine.net/?p=677#comment-1300 <p>Yeah, seems about right. I know a guy that used to help admin a BFII server, and I've heard it all.</p> <p>The final legacy of AOhelL: Morons infest the internet for all time.</p> <p>The other thing is, there really isn't anything 'massively multiplayer' about them. MMOs just integrate the chat/group join functions into the game world instead of having a separate interface, at least most that I've seen. You can't really make permanent changes to the game world, and your group is essentially in it's own sub-level of the game reality when it's actually doing things.</p> <p>I'd rather just waste my free time on a MUCK if I wanna socialize. 3D graphics are a distraction, not a benefit for that activity.</p> Yeah, seems about right. I know a guy that used to help admin a BFII server, and I’ve heard it all.

The final legacy of AOhelL: Morons infest the internet for all time.

The other thing is, there really isn’t anything ‘massively multiplayer’ about them. MMOs just integrate the chat/group join functions into the game world instead of having a separate interface, at least most that I’ve seen. You can’t really make permanent changes to the game world, and your group is essentially in it’s own sub-level of the game reality when it’s actually doing things.

I’d rather just waste my free time on a MUCK if I wanna socialize. 3D graphics are a distraction, not a benefit for that activity.

]]> By: Derek http://bluevulpine.net/2010/01/29/ff-two-thousand/comment-page-1/#comment-1290 Derek Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:31:27 +0000 http://bluevulpine.net/?p=677#comment-1290 <p>Hmm, didn't let me inline the picture. This is the sadness of an MMO:</p> <p>http://i47.tinypic.com/11l4m7c.png</p> Hmm, didn’t let me inline the picture. This is the sadness of an MMO:

http://i47.tinypic.com/11l4m7c.png

]]> By: Derek http://bluevulpine.net/2010/01/29/ff-two-thousand/comment-page-1/#comment-1289 Derek Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:30:32 +0000 http://bluevulpine.net/?p=677#comment-1289 <p>Allow me to say that you are absolutely right in hating it. I can get really into the experience, but the glass wall shatters when I see things like this:</p> <p></p> <p>Text plugin is done, but I'm missing some critical tags in about half the archive.</p> Allow me to say that you are absolutely right in hating it. I can get really into the experience, but the glass wall shatters when I see things like this:

Text plugin is done, but I’m missing some critical tags in about half the archive.

]]> By: Darius Greywind http://bluevulpine.net/2010/01/29/ff-two-thousand/comment-page-1/#comment-1286 Darius Greywind Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:22:37 +0000 http://bluevulpine.net/?p=677#comment-1286 <p>I'm still waiting on ASCII of TF so I can reread it start to finish conveniently.</p> <p>They had to go with leaving Data 'alive'? Geez, Brent Spiner not only critically fumbled his one chance at a heroic death, he couldn't even make it stick? And here I thought I'd already lost all hope for Star Trek. Damn.</p> <p>Yeah, the hull integrity/shield facets are lifted from the Starfleet Command games, which lifted it from FASA's StarFleet Battles wargame. That's why it works.</p> <p>Fortunately, I don't care. It's an MMO, so I can freely hate it despite any other merits/drawbacks it might have. Video games are <em>supposed</em> to be anti-social, dangit!</p> I’m still waiting on ASCII of TF so I can reread it start to finish conveniently.

They had to go with leaving Data ‘alive’? Geez, Brent Spiner not only critically fumbled his one chance at a heroic death, he couldn’t even make it stick? And here I thought I’d already lost all hope for Star Trek. Damn.

Yeah, the hull integrity/shield facets are lifted from the Starfleet Command games, which lifted it from FASA’s StarFleet Battles wargame. That’s why it works.

Fortunately, I don’t care. It’s an MMO, so I can freely hate it despite any other merits/drawbacks it might have. Video games are supposed to be anti-social, dangit!

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