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ese in spades but i think it needs to be said i m not a prude if things such as the outfit options had a wide variety of available selections and you could choose what you liked to wear whether sexy and revealing or more realistic armor then i d be fine with it after all everybody is different and has their own opinions on what to wear it s the lack of choice that annoys me the most posted by redbeard at 6 57 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels end of an mmo tera friday june 28 2019 perusing the landscape i ve been poking my nose into a few of the mmos that i ve tried and not really done much of anything with such as rift and tera and found that the environments are somewhat stable well kinda for example the last several times i logged into rift i was practically the only person around just about any sign of life would be better than what i found at the time after it was pointed out to me that it was likely that a particular server might be more active when i was logging in i made an effort to try various times and days of the week still i saw hardly any activity the past few weeks however i ve seen an uptick in the activity in rift on both factions to the point where i can be reasonably certain that if say i needed an assist on taking care of a tear there would be someone in the vicinity to help out i would definitely not call rift as having a healthy population but it s better than the dead it certainly seemed to be several months ago tera is in a better situation than rift but that s not exactly saying much unlike rift tera is still being actively developed by bluehole they recently released a new race class combo for instance but tera still has that shameless look that a lot of korean mmos have for better or worse that look tends to attract some people and repel others the look aside tera had finished server merges and gotten down to two servers one pve and one pvp from my end i think the server merges where absolutely the best thing to do for tera because there s a viable population in both what i can say is that there seem to be more people active in tera at any given time than rift but i m not sure if the population is at the level that is good for the long term health of the game let s put it this way if tera were owned by ncsoft i d be a bit nervous about ncsoft shuttering the game which brings me to archeage i ve been seeing youtube videos for a couple of years about how archeage is dead and when will they kill archeage but archeage is still here i do have to wonder how much longer however i have two toons in archeage one of the quirks of the game is that you get exactly two toons total across all servers unless you subscribe and with one parked in a mid level upper level capital and another in the intro low level zones i simply don t see the population there in rift at least you do see people creating new toons in the intro and low level zones but archeage feels dead perhaps the decision to allow only two toons total has something to do with that because if you want to experiment on different servers with race faction class combos before subscribing you have to be in a constant state of deleting toons and lets face it not everybody is so keen about constantly zapping toons because of that artificial limitation but the thing is archeage seemed a bit healthier in the intro and low level zones before the server merges than after even though the population is likely higher than rift at least rift is in maintenance mode while the devs for archeage are still trying to put new content together and there are other glaring problems that are more obvious to an english speaker than to a korean speaker because the english port is well a bit inconsistent you have npcs speaking to you when you walk around and at first i thought the reason why i couldn t understand them was because i was an elf and they were human it turns out that they were speaking in korean and the devs for archeage never bothered to provide english voice acting for these npcs i wouldn t necessarily mind but having to constantly check out the text box to make sure i m not missing anything does get really annoying after a while okay i doubt the english port is a deal breaker for most people but the overall lack of toons to work with in the free portion of the game is and i ll be honest outside of the lack of toons and the english port there s not that much that sets archeage apart from its other korean mmo competitors black desert online tera etc and when you ve got such a low population as archeage seems to have that s a problem anyway this wasn t by any means an in depth analysis of the state of those games these are just overall impressions of hopping back in after having been away for a while and just seeing what s around one mmo that i really ought to get back into playing is neverwinter because despite the overall generic nature of the forgotten realms i do look on that d d setting a bit like comfort food now if someone had created an mmo based on the d d world of krynn i d be up for that i still have my copies of the original dragonlance chronicles around and if you gave me a chance to hang around with tanis and company as rohan put it which is likely the best way to put the toon and clothing choices they took place a year or two ago right when i was testing the game out i m used to make sure you pay attention to everything because you might need it later mode you get when playing rpgs for as long as i have besides if you re an elf and you re in elven territory you ought to be able to understand everything said presumably in elven wandering into human territory is a different thing and i d not expect to understand the language but having a foreign language everywhere just breaks immersion for me all the p2w debacle aside you could argue that was a problem with rift while i found the story intriguing and the fact that rift deliberately kept the talent trees around if you re looking for a new game to play rift would have a hard time standing out from the crowd other fantasy mmos had better known properties warcraft lord of the rings d d conan elder scrolls which give it an initial leg up on rift and that becomes hard to overcome posted by redbeard at 9 17 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels archeage musings neverwinter rift tera wednesday september 19 2018 and even more contraction in mmo space for some reason i ve not been paying too much attention to some of the other mmos that i ve tried out but while rift prime seems to be doing fairly well at the moment tera has just completed a bunch of server merges the tera merges went live yesterday and in na at least the pc version of tera is down to one pve and one pvp server each prior to the merge if you logged in you could get a boost of 20 character slots to cover your stable of toons across the servers but naturally i was unaware of that so i lost three toons two of which were only l1 so it s not too bad so all of those tera is doing fine much better than insert mmo here comments i ve seen on other mmos make me wonder whether that was just wishful thinking or whether tera isn t even close to as popular as the mmo community thought it was from my perspective it seems that the mmo shakedown that began with marvel heroes shutdown is continuing and even gathering a bit of steam does that mean the mmo is becoming a genre of one wow with a couple of hangers on no but i also believe that the mmo genre is retreating to a much smaller footprint in much the same way that a fad comes and goes mobas are the new hotness and in about 5 6 years they ll fade from view as well to be replaced by something else i don t think tera is on life support but it definitely isn t doing as well as it could be posted by redbeard at 12 28 pm 11 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels news tera wednesday may 30 2018 the clothes make the man several years ago mini red 2 was given a book on how to draw superheroes by stan lee as a christmas present by one of his sisters as far as art books go it s not that detailed about the mechanics of drawing but it provides a short background into where superhero stories came from and the basics about creating a superhero and the surrounding cast kudos to stan and the ghost writers for putting this promo shot of errol flynn and olivia de havilland from the adventures of robin hood in the book from pinterest i don t have much in the way of artistic talent but i still found the design and technique fascinating to read what also caught my attention was that in his own grumpy old man way stan was trying to make comics more inclusive part of the design for superheroes is that they look like more idealized versions of ourselves not us personally but people in general they look fitter more muscular more attractive more everything compared to most people not named david beckham while stan pays lip service to all sorts of body types for superheroes giving a nod to the obscure great lakes avenger big bertha he does focus on the fit and muscular for his examples of superheroes allies and villains big bertha deadpool and squirrel girl really from backissuebin wordpress com while perusing the book i kept thinking of how players are portrayed in mmos and how much they fit the specific ideal for superheroes now where have i seen this before from the nerdist oh yes from here from mmo champion or here considering the extremes of the male human in wow and tera as a muscular bodybuilder and the numerous examples of female elves humans etc it seems that the superhero standard is the mmo standard for body image when you come across the chunky male body image in swtor the hobbit images in lotro the female dwarf in wow it comes across as a breath of fresh air in the cookie cutter environment but what i find interesting is that even the non muscular male standard found in mmos such as the male blood elf in wow and the male elf in tera also reference another comic standard the japanese manga standard instead i believe the term i m looking for is bishonen from anime news network and for comparison my old wow main quintalan without all the pally armor so in a way the comic standard has become the mmo standard what does this mean to mmo designs not too much because game artists designers were obviously influenced by the comics they read both as kids and adults and really the oversexed outfits found in mmo designs are found in comics pro wrestling rpg books and anime to just name a few and video game design has a long history of oversexed characters so there s that tide that you swim against as well long before there was lara croft there was leisure suit larry in the land of the lounge lizards and yes for the record i did play the first leisure suit larry while i was in college from the wikia but on the flip side denying characters any sort of sex appeal in the name of fairness or reality also seems like a waste of time because people are sexual beings and divorcing ourselves from this reality is making a mistake where would bioware be without romance in their rpgs well they do have plenty of good story in their games but story is only one of their pillars the other two are gameplay and romance from powerupgaming co uk i think the best way of approaching character design and creation is to acknowledge and work on several things people will want to play characters with all types of physical options and enable those options this is not a difficult thing to create as we see various body styles in swtor and other mmos just because you prefer to look at one style doesn t mean that others will too people will congregate in an mmo for funny business it s a collection of people for pete s sake and that means that a goldshire is going to inevitably appear yep that s the goldshire inn from imgur people will go clubbing or will go off to fool around and want their characters to dress the part at the same time don t go out of your way to provide only clothing gear options for the goldshire set but allow for more practical clothing gear design in this respect neverwinter has great practical gear designs that actually look like you d take into a dungeon even with wow you can use underclothing to make some of the more eyebrow raising designs look somewhat more practical and swtor does a lot of good work in this regard creating some practical and stylish designs while allowing the don t i look hot set to wear cosmetic clothing more suited to jabba s throne room have the npcs actually look the part wearing clothing you d expect them to wear rather than some hot and sexy little number that you d expect in a brothel unless you re in a brothel of course this is where gw2 still bugs me the most because most villagers wouldn t be wearing their best outfits while working in a bakery or bringing in farm goods to market having your villagers change clothing depending on the situation whether for a dance or working out in the fields makes far more sense than anything else if origin systems with their ultima v game could figure out how to handle npcs working vs not working back in the 80s surely mmos can figure this out an ultima v my old friend from lparchive finally clothes outfits are also a measure of social status if your toon is wearing crappy looking gear or clothes npcs should react to that sure that means having npcs who are quite shallow but clothing does engender reactions even among supposedly advanced and mature people today what i found most interesting about the book stan lee s how to draw superheroes is that it s published not by marvel but by dynamite another comic book publisher stan and the ghost writers actually did a good job of spreading around lots of different examples of superhero design covering dc marvel dynamite naturally and even zenescope or the rock or serena williams or any one of a number of incredibly attractive and physically fit people it s a pretty rare mmo or any video game at all these days where you find a woman not sporting a pretty decently sized chest even swtor which gives female body shapes ranging from muscular and large to curvy to short to a medium normal type has the c cup minimum chest size for female toons and while a c cup is being polite about it there are plenty of mmos where chest size goes up from there such as age of conan tera black desert online and others aion is one of the few mmos out there that acknowledge that women with smaller chest sizes actually exist do i really need to post examples there s plenty of them out there from sue storm s cut out fantastic four uniform to power girl s boob window to just about the entire zenescope lineup as an aside i really have mixed emotions about zenescope they ve gone full into the 90s era comics oversexed female design but at the same time their stories are well written with strong female as w...
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