Comments for Marooners' Rock http://www.maroonersrock.com To geek out will be an awfully big adventure. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Comment on Book Review: Ico: Castle in the Mist by Trevor Pierce http://www.maroonersrock.com/2012/02/book-review-ico-castle-in-the-mist/comment-page-1/#comment-57221 Trevor Pierce Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:42:00 +0000 http://www.maroonersrock.com/?p=24132#comment-57221 They should make one for Shadow of the Colossus  They should make one for Shadow of the Colossus 

]]> Comment on Is Casual Gaming Killing the Industry? by Vicente Pelechano Servando http://www.maroonersrock.com/2011/01/is-casual-gaming-killing-the-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-57198 Vicente Pelechano Servando Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:02:00 +0000 http://www.maroonersrock.com/?p=14718#comment-57198 I do firmly believe it is. I am witnessing how casualization is basically killing every single hobby I used to hold dear, while it is good that more people playing means more games, it also means that those games's quality are going to be seriously harmed and that, in fact, are not going to be "different games" as such, but copies of exactly the same shit done by different companies. Don't get me wrong, the Infinite Engine games were all the same crap, until Icewind Dale II decided to ditch 2AD&D rules and use 3e's, but I still feel dragged to play Baldur's Gate and Morrowind over and over again, while I finished Dragon Age once and struggled to play it again...let alone Dragon Age 2 where they actually did innovate and dumped a bunch of crap. I am becoming more and more casual over the years, I grow up and high school was replaced by university and jobs and stuff, meaning I had less and less time to play, but from that to basically the crap I am receiving...I think Bethesda is the only company that had it right-ish by creating a difficulty bar the player can manipulate whenever heshe wants. Still it did happen when 3.5 jumped onto 4e in D&D, it did happen before to the anime where in the place you used to find Tomb of the Fireflies you started to find Naruto and basically thousand of mangas being exactly the same shitty story about a kid that rediscovers himself and will eventually happen to everything. People wants to be challenged, want to participate in epic quests, want to have their wits tested want to write their own story, in the other hand we are left to swallow what the next "Jennifer Hepler's" gay character's feelings are, because obviously that is more important than stuff like saving the fucking universe. If we are given choices about how to focus a problem and want to get a different choice taking us to a differen outcome, we are doomed, no choice in RPG's, hope you liked jRPG's a lot because that's what you are going to get for now on. I will finish babbling, but just pointing out. Casuals care about very different shit that we Hardcore do, difference is that Hardcore gamers don't pretend to be anything else while casuals do, in the end I hope that two kind of games appear, those for non gamers like Bioware are doing, and some tiny shady silver lining of games that are actually testing our mind abilities instead of our sanity with ridiculous NPC whining. /rant I do firmly believe it is. I am witnessing how casualization is basically killing every single hobby I used to hold dear, while it is good that more people playing means more games, it also means that those games’s quality are going to be seriously harmed and that, in fact, are not going to be “different games” as such, but copies of exactly the same shit done by different companies.

Don’t get me wrong, the Infinite Engine games were all the same crap, until Icewind Dale II decided to ditch 2AD&D rules and use 3e’s, but I still feel dragged to play Baldur’s Gate and Morrowind over and over again, while I finished Dragon Age once and struggled to play it again…let alone Dragon Age 2 where they actually did innovate and dumped a bunch of crap.

I am becoming more and more casual over the years, I grow up and high school was replaced by university and jobs and stuff, meaning I had less and less time to play, but from that to basically the crap I am receiving…I think Bethesda is the only company that had it right-ish by creating a difficulty bar the player can manipulate whenever heshe wants.

Still it did happen when 3.5 jumped onto 4e in D&D, it did happen before to the anime where in the place you used to find Tomb of the Fireflies you started to find Naruto and basically thousand of mangas being exactly the same shitty story about a kid that rediscovers himself and will eventually happen to everything.

People wants to be challenged, want to participate in epic quests, want to have their wits tested want to write their own story, in the other hand we are left to swallow what the next “Jennifer Hepler’s” gay character’s feelings are, because obviously that is more important than stuff like saving the fucking universe.

If we are given choices about how to focus a problem and want to get a different choice taking us to a differen outcome, we are doomed, no choice in RPG’s, hope you liked jRPG’s a lot because that’s what you are going to get for now on.

I will finish babbling, but just pointing out. Casuals care about very different shit that we Hardcore do, difference is that Hardcore gamers don’t pretend to be anything else while casuals do, in the end I hope that two kind of games appear, those for non gamers like Bioware are doing, and some tiny shady silver lining of games that are actually testing our mind abilities instead of our sanity with ridiculous NPC whining.

/rant

]]> Comment on Preview: Path of Exile (PC) by Die_Scream http://www.maroonersrock.com/2012/01/path-of-exile-preview-pc-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57188 Die_Scream Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:23:00 +0000 http://www.maroonersrock.com/?p=23939#comment-57188 How many people is the cap in town? How many people is the cap in town?

]]> Comment on Preview: Path of Exile (PC) by Die_Scream http://www.maroonersrock.com/2012/01/path-of-exile-preview-pc-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57187 Die_Scream Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:22:00 +0000 http://www.maroonersrock.com/?p=23939#comment-57187 When can we expect the cash shop to be operational? When can we expect the cash shop to be operational?

]]> Comment on Preview: Path of Exile (PC) by Die_Scream http://www.maroonersrock.com/2012/01/path-of-exile-preview-pc-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57186 Die_Scream Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:48:00 +0000 http://www.maroonersrock.com/?p=23939#comment-57186 Chris: Do you plan to release more classes eventually in a new expansion? Any thought to a Monk class? FORUM NAME Die_Scream. Chris: Do you plan to release more classes eventually in a new expansion? Any thought to a Monk class? FORUM NAME Die_Scream.

]]> Comment on Preview: Path of Exile (PC) by Hunyadijanos06 http://www.maroonersrock.com/2012/01/path-of-exile-preview-pc-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57184 Hunyadijanos06 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:09:00 +0000 http://www.maroonersrock.com/?p=23939#comment-57184 My question is in regards to future expansions.  Do you plan to add a fourth stat like constitution of fortitude to increase the number of possible class combinations from 6 to 10.  The three current stats all seem to have a mechanic to tank and also DPS (hopefully fairly equally between the different archetypes.  For a fourth stat the added tank mechanic could obviously be increased health or health regen and the DPS mechanic could possibly be something focused on damage over time mechanics. It seems to me that games die out if they do not receive constant updates.  Constant updates cost money so I hope your financial model works.  I would hope people would buy visual upgrades just to help support the game they are playing.  But anyway, I am interested in your future expansion plans. My info for the game is hunyadijanos at hunyadijanos06@hotmail.comm.  The game looks amazing whether I have to wait until open beta or I get a closed beta key I am very excited to play in the future. My question is in regards to future expansions.  Do you plan to add a fourth stat like constitution of fortitude to increase the number of possible class combinations from 6 to 10.  The three current stats all seem to have a mechanic to tank and also DPS (hopefully fairly equally between the different archetypes.  For a fourth stat the added tank mechanic could obviously be increased health or health regen and the DPS mechanic could possibly be something focused on damage over time mechanics. It seems to me that games die out if they do not receive constant updates.  Constant updates cost money so I hope your financial model works.  I would hope people would buy visual upgrades just to help support the game they are playing.  But anyway, I am interested in your future expansion plans.
My info for the game is hunyadijanos at hunyadijanos06@hotmail.comm.  The game looks amazing whether I have to wait until open beta or I get a closed beta key I am very excited to play in the future.

]]> Comment on Preview: Path of Exile (PC) by Adam Zupancic http://www.maroonersrock.com/2012/01/path-of-exile-preview-pc-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57183 Adam Zupancic Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:00:00 +0000 http://www.maroonersrock.com/?p=23939#comment-57183 My question is: How do you feel the atmosphere or your game compares to the atmosphere of your competitors i.e, Diablo 3 for example? Path of Exile account name - Thermalwolf EMail - adamkz92@gmail:twitter .com  Hope I win a key as well :D My question is: How do you feel the atmosphere or your game compares to the atmosphere of your competitors i.e, Diablo 3 for example?
Path of Exile account name – Thermalwolf
EMail – adamkz92@gmail:twitter .com 

Hope I win a key as well :D

]]> Comment on Preview: Path of Exile (PC) by Haloja_123 http://www.maroonersrock.com/2012/01/path-of-exile-preview-pc-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57182 Haloja_123 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:37:00 +0000 http://www.maroonersrock.com/?p=23939#comment-57182 PoE will have a pet or a guy controlled by AI (remember when you ''rent a npc'' that help you along all the game) just like diablo 2? PoE will have a pet or a guy controlled by AI (remember when you ”rent a npc” that help you along all the game) just like diablo 2?

]]> Comment on Preview: Path of Exile (PC) by Grimsvard http://www.maroonersrock.com/2012/01/path-of-exile-preview-pc-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57181 Grimsvard Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:38:00 +0000 http://www.maroonersrock.com/?p=23939#comment-57181 Id like to know about the development team.  What there background is?  What there future endeavors might be?  Possibly what games have they been apart of in the past? Id like to know about the development team.  What there background is?  What there future endeavors might be?  Possibly what games have they been apart of in the past?

]]> Comment on Preview: Path of Exile (PC) by Elvis Ketners http://www.maroonersrock.com/2012/01/path-of-exile-preview-pc-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57180 Elvis Ketners Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:33:00 +0000 http://www.maroonersrock.com/?p=23939#comment-57180 Are there going to be buyable items for the character? If no , than why? Are there going to be buyable items for the character? If no , than why?

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