Mythica, Uru both canceled

Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 4:55 pm

Perhaps this is the beginning of the end for MMORPGs? Everyone knows that there can only be a few big players in this market. Perhaps the time is coming when this will become true.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 5:50 pm

good! mythica is made by turdbine anyways! market is probably saturated by now anyways... kinda like the wave of 3rd person games and fps shooters after doom and mario... nvm that's still going on.

VLSmooth · Post by **VLSmooth** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 5:55 pm

I demand a present day River City Ransom or Gladiator!

Very few multiplayer co-op games in recent memory (FFXI is one of them

)

Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:08 pm

http://snowstorm.sourceforge.net

There. Encourage them to develop Openglad-E with internet multiplayer.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:39 pm

VLSmooth wrote:Very few multiplayer co-op games in recent memory (FFXI is one of them )

Uh, PP is very co-op if you want to get a bigger ship moving. You need bigger ships to fight in wars more effectively.

Post by **Jonathan** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 10:57 pm

I beg to differ. MMORPGs aren't co-op.

quantus · Post by **quantus** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 11:28 pm

Dwindlehop wrote:I beg to differ. MMORPGs aren't co-op.

They're partially co-op and partially pvp and partially solo. Or at least a well balanced one should provide all of those aspects with as little or as much as anyone wants.

Post by **Jonathan** » Sun Feb 15, 2004 1:32 am

Playing BG or DII or Serious Sam is a fundamentally different interaction than a MMORPG.

Co-op, you meet at a specific time and place with specific people. Perhaps the missions in FFXI could meet the standard of coop. But that's still hundreds of hours of essentially pub play to get to that point.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Sun Feb 15, 2004 1:58 am

Yeah I agree. MMORPGs are mostly about you making your own character powerful. You do so through groups, certainly, but your reason for being with other people is to facilitate your own character's development. It's very rare to have a regular group of people who level up together all the time.

Missions/Raids are about the only times you have coop play in MMORPGs. Otherwise, they're basically treadmills cum chat programs.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Sun Feb 15, 2004 1:59 am

The best coop experience for me was playing System Shock 2 with Jason and George.

Don't think anything else has come close, despite the many, many bugs that game had, especially with multiplayer.