Massively Speaking Episode 74: Back from GameX
by Shawn Schuster 
Oct 28th 2009 at 12:00PM
Filed under: Podcasts, Culture, Opinion, Massively Speaking
Massively Speaking Episode 74 is back this week with Shawn and Sera discussing the latest news, including Sera's trip to GameX in Philadelphia. Topics include Star Trek Online's closed beta, our LotRO: Siege of Mirkwood dev tour, Global Agenda, Lee Hammock's epic beard and more!Have a comment for the podcasters? Shoot us an email to podcast AT massively DOT com. Maybe we'll read your letter on the air!
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Show Notes For Massively Speaking Episode 74
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- "Vanguard Forward", by Michael Gordon Shapiro. Used with permission.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
maika said on 3:00PM 10-28-2009
There's literally fecal matter in the PvE portion of Aion? huh...
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CindyL said on 10:31PM 10-29-2009
Apparently to some people lol.
I happen to love the PvE part of Aion and not give two rat's butt about the PvP so I guess it depends on your view point. The crafting is wonderful, if a little automatic, I prefer more interactive crafting like Vanguard and Eq2 but I can live with Aion's AfK and random proc crafting though. The items sure are pretty! ^_^
I think what's going to hurt Aion if anything right now is FF14, they are going to take away the 'anime' loving PvE people away. Because let's face it people who really love this probably really love it because they already like Asian themed games, otherwise you'll gloss it over and play something else. In general of course not everyone in the west is like this...
Goonja said on 11:47PM 10-28-2009
Shawn can you please describe what is "fun" in an MMO?
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Shawn Schuster said on 7:48AM 10-29-2009
That's impossible. It's different for everyone.
Venekor said on 8:43AM 10-29-2009
My problem with Low budget MMOs is they always forget about art style, character models, UI and animations. Which for me are the most important part because if I don't like the look of my character or how he animates, I wont care about my character. If the combat doesn't animate well then I wont find it fun. If the world doesn't interest me with good lore or it doesn't look good then I wont want to epxlore it. If the UI is bad then I'll have a hard time using it and it wont be fun.
I'd rather a game start out small but really polished and then expand because games like Fallen Earth just look and play horrible for the reasons I stated and it puts me off playing.
However I also have to add the game has to be seamless for an MMO cause if it doesn't feel like a world then it breaks the immersion and I hate loading screens.
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