why people play MMORPG?

That’s a silly question, but I have my personal answer. You often see answers like “Because MMORPG are addictive, there’s social interaction, a sense of community, etc”.

My answer is: because there are no good CPRG around!!! 😎 really, I think this is the reason. I played many MMORPG, including EQ, EQ2, Guild Wars, WoW, Horizons, Daoc, and so on.

Every time, after some time, got pissed off. why? either was too repetitive and with lack of depth (Daoc, Horizons, Guild Wars) or was insalely addictive, but also very demanding (EQ-EQ2, WoW). By demanding I mean that once you reached higher levels with your characters you had to do raids to acquire new powerful items. And so on and so on.

A continue race to get the highest equipment – almost all MMORPG can be synthetized this way. With a CRPG, can be different.

First of all there’s the story! how many of you actually read the quests text of MMORPG? I bet nobody! while with a good CRPG you read it to find out what you have to do, to see what’s happening in the story. There’s more immersivity, because you don’t turn the angle and you see a characters named “PhatLewt666” or such 😀

Seriously if you compare any MMORPG with a good CRPG like Vampire Bloodlines, Fallout series, etc, there’s no doubt what is better. But unfortunately it seems that every publisher is going to make only MMORPG to suck all the money from people (the monthly fee).

Well I guess is clear – I have to make a CRPG! won’t be soon though 🙂

Italy – France

Yeah, the final of world cup is Italy – France! quite surprising result, if you were considering how those 2 teams started the tournament. Their first performances were anything but impressive… But still here they are, I guess this shows once more that to win a World Cup, beside obviously having at least some good players, you need to be on good fitness.

Greece victory in latest European Cup clearly showed that… which is quite sad, because it means more physical soccer and less tecnique, dribblings, etc which are the basis of the real fun of watching soccer!

heroes of czech republic!

Yeah well the title is a bit fun actually 😀

What it means? a interesting company from czech republic made a cool game that reminds me of Heroes of Might & Magic (of course, we’re talking about a shareware here, so no 3d realtime or ultra special FX!). Ok ok, bad title, but the game is cool!
You can find more info about this strategic rpg game on my site. Check the demo, is available on pc and mac!

Incoming adventure from Sakura

After playing Fahrenheit, I got very interested in adventure games. I talked with my friends at Sakura and I just discovered that they’re working at one! it will be a simple 2d adventure game with manga art. The artist they hired is great, even if is from USA so not a true japanese artist 😉

< just joking, I know many people from USA who draw manga quite well! >

I’m curious to play it, even if I’ll probably have to wait until this autumn…

final conclusions on Fahrenheit

Ok so I’ve finished the game (yes was quick, but what logevity do you really expect from an adventure game??).

My conclusion is: great beginning, but then slowly turns into a boring experience because of the action scenes. They forced the hand a bit too much. I don’t care to press the buttons in the correct sequences, expecially when I’m trying to listen to important characters talking! I can’t even take a look at the art, so why they used motion capture, beautiful 3d models if my concentration when playing is all on those coloured button to press in the correct sequence?

I don’t know if they were forced by someone (publisher) or if they realized that otherwise the game was very short. I don’t care if is short, but don’t ruin the gaming experience at least!!! I had to use a cheat because I wanted to see how the story ended without having to become mad with those USELESS action sequences.

Strange that such a good initial idea and plot was wasted in such a way by very bad gamedesign decisions. If I’ll ever make an adventure game one day, for sure there won’t be such obsessive arcade action sequences…

Now that the game ended, I feel a bit lost. What’s up with Carla Valenti? I want to play more stories with her. I find her character much more intriguing than any Lara Croft honestly…!