From gameplay to gamedev

I started to play UO in 1999. In that time we didnt had any macroses exept, maybe UOLOOP. And we raised skills mostly by our hands. Do you remember, guys, bone room in Deceit? Its how we actually gained our skills that time… A lot of fun and PKs  It was REAL UO.

I do not like unnatented sparryings. I do not like macroing which killed a lot of fun in UO. At Rel Por its better than @ other servers (no afk-resource-gathering), but there is REAL possibility to return REAL Ultima Online with this capcha system, applied to all skills. Macro = ban. Then this server would be REALLY different. OSI didn’t had capcha and couldn’t ban macrosers – it was very-very rare if somebody would report you. All people macroing at OSI. There, at Rel Por, we could stop that. Continue reading →

Overall, I like Ember Online very much. This game has the most friendly UI (among MUDs) which I saw. It make playing this MUD very big pleasure.

Also I love the world, locations, setting, lore, classes and races… It’s all very well done. 

But I see some parts of gameplay which could be improved IMHO. And the most crucial is Battle system of some classes. 

I like general battle concept very much – that there is certain time for a turn and you have some time between turns to understand whats going on. It’s made very nice. But… battle itself is too repetive and at certain point become boring. Continue reading →

Project Gorgon it’s very rare game in modern times – it’s become better and better the more you play. But its very important to make ‘bright’ and polished beginning of the game. I mean newbie island… Some suggestions:

1) newbie armour. It looks quite wierd right now cause of its greenish color.Its very important – to make new player to like his character. I could advice make something more traditional color – grey for example..

Actually its not only about newbie armour, but to all armours which I saw… Game has very nice oldschool graphics style (I like it very much actually), but armour colors making it not so fun. Its TOO bright. What could be better? Maybe try to inspire at other oldschool games, like UO: Continue reading →

I play online games (MMORPG/MOBA mostly) since 1999. Right now MMORPG/MOBA genre in deep crysis, not much new ideas, only WoW/LoL clones everywhere… So imagine my surprise when I found out that online games industry at ‘mobile’ platforms made huge breakthrough. I was very amazed by founding out about Clash Royale recently. This game united 3 genres – MOBA, CCG and tower-defence… So it’s actually a new genre by itself. I’ve transfered my impressions into video review with pluses and minuses of CR: Continue reading →

Which hack’n’slash is better – Devilian or Diablo 3? Comparison of combat systems would show you everything in my new video

So guys.. What do you think about this comparison? 

I got discussion with Xyth: Continue reading →

Every MMORPG player has his own MMORPG Cycle – how we start and end our adventures in every particular game. When we start to play a new online game, we think that it would be _special_ and we would be there forever. However everything good has to ends, sooner or later. I’ve tried to understand my feeling about it and also to compare Cycle of casual mainstream games (WoW as example) and sandbox ones (ex: UO):

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