Inauro
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NCSoft has published a press release announcing the launch of Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa.
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Tabula Rasa - Launch Announcement
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zakhal
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Why would you feel remorse for a guy that has his own castle...duh perhaps he'll just retire to the good life after this game.
I tried to find more comments about this game today but got only few who said they find the game mediocre at best. The lack of enthusiasm for this game is just amazing.
I tried to find more comments about this game today but got only few who said they find the game mediocre at best. The lack of enthusiasm for this game is just amazing.
Squeek
connoisseur of tidbits
Multiplayer space shooters like Freelancer can be lots of fun, and so are space trader games. But I heard terrible things about Eve Online, the previous space-based MMO.
zakhal
SasqWatch
What does tabular rasa have to do with space shooters? 
TR isnt really a shooter even (it looks like that but its not). Shooting is based on dice rolls not twitch movement.
Eve online is the worst excuse for a space sim I have ever seen - if you can even call it at that. Its more like space RTS with one hand mousecontrol than anything simulatorish. And there is absolutely no shooting in it.
I find the old xwing series 10x more fun than eve ever was.
TR isnt really a shooter even (it looks like that but its not). Shooting is based on dice rolls not twitch movement.Eve online is the worst excuse for a space sim I have ever seen - if you can even call it at that. Its more like space RTS with one hand mousecontrol than anything simulatorish. And there is absolutely no shooting in it.
I find the old xwing series 10x more fun than eve ever was.
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Dhruin
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I haven't see anything about it that looks remotely interesting. Looks like an MMO shooter to me.
Squeek
connoisseur of tidbits
I've found that a lot of that community is into role-play. About half the Freelancer multiplayer hosts were "role-play servers." I imagine they'll check it out, and so will the X2 - X3 players.What does tabular rasa have to do with space shooters?
It's a contradiction, but the lack of player-skill combat could be a real turn off for a lot of the space game crowd.
I don't feel remorse for Richard. I feel remorse because under CRPG in the dictionary it says Ultima. Like you said, I wish there was a reason to be enthusiastic about Tabula Rasa.
I just wish he still had the ability to revolutionize.
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I've seen the big black box today here in Germany.
Lucky Day
Daywatch
I think constantly trying to revolutionize got him into trouble.
U6, U7, and the Underworlds couldn't run on most machines at the time (although the UU's weren't actually Origen). U9 as well. U9, if you remember, built a 3d environment where the player could walk up and down areas without transitions.
I think only U1, U3, U4 and UO were the only huge leaps that went without a hitch.
Other games like Moebius and Omega were terrific and the latter a huge leap forward in concept. And of course they were at the forefront of Space Sims with the Wing Commander series.
I don't think the Lineages have done well with his new company but I don't think they would don't think they would have done well if published by anybody in NA. Not without a sweeping overhaul in game play. This I say with some ignorance of the Lineage II but the first one I understand is all about massive co-op play and is more suited to a Asian culture than Western, especially when played in large internet cafe's.
More than anything, I think the company needs to get something that both works and sells well this time rather than doing something bigger and better than what's ever been done before.
U6, U7, and the Underworlds couldn't run on most machines at the time (although the UU's weren't actually Origen). U9 as well. U9, if you remember, built a 3d environment where the player could walk up and down areas without transitions.
I think only U1, U3, U4 and UO were the only huge leaps that went without a hitch.
Other games like Moebius and Omega were terrific and the latter a huge leap forward in concept. And of course they were at the forefront of Space Sims with the Wing Commander series.
I don't think the Lineages have done well with his new company but I don't think they would don't think they would have done well if published by anybody in NA. Not without a sweeping overhaul in game play. This I say with some ignorance of the Lineage II but the first one I understand is all about massive co-op play and is more suited to a Asian culture than Western, especially when played in large internet cafe's.
More than anything, I think the company needs to get something that both works and sells well this time rather than doing something bigger and better than what's ever been done before.
KazikluBey
Sentinel
I played in the beta for a bit (only got to level 6 or so). It played just like WoW but instead of atmospheric, it just felt bland.
The words fun, fast paced combat are to me, an oxymoron. Plus, I don't buy/play MMO games where there is a monthly fee. Sorry LB, just not interested!! <Yawn>
skavenhorde
Little BRO Rat
Couldn't agree more. I'm still waiting for LB to make a single player game again. I don't care if it's mice in space and you play a plucky mouse in search of the codex of ultima cheese. Just make anything that is a single player game, please. I thought that is what made LB famous in the first place, but he got it into his head that MMOs is where his vision of a great RPG will ultimatly (pun intended) become reality.
Don't underestimate the Power of the Dark ... err... Dosbox ...