Re: MMORPGs that require first-person view?


"Kendrick Kerwin Chua" <kendrick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| In article <13ps3j749i1cge7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
| CoinSpin <coin^spam^spin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| >"Gerry Quinn" <gerryq@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| >news:MPG.2207f5d763fb9df598969d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| >| In article <479d10f9$0$8219$39cecf19@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
| >| kendrick@xxxxxxxxx says...
| >| > In article <slrnfpq202.6kv.google@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
| >| > Toby Newman <google@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| >| > >
| >| > >Games which acknowledge the 4th wall:
| >| > >Monkey Island 2
| >| > >Duck Amuck
| >| > >...?
| >| >
| >| > Spoilers...
| >| >
| >| > Panzer Dragoon Saga. You are the 'Divine Visitor' and in order to
finish
| >| > the game, you have to 'press the button.' It sounds dumb when I
describe
| >|
| >| In Dungeon Master you were officially playing the spirit of the
| >| assistant of the magician whose dark side was the main enemy in the
| >| game. You were supposed to be offering guidance to the four characters
| >| in the party.
| >
| >How funny, I was just thinking about DM with regards to this topic. In
DM,
| >even though you weren't technically one of the characters in the party,
you
| >were in a 1st person view as you crawled through the dungeons. It was
|
| I had forgotten about that. DM II Skullkeep had the same control mechanism
| and a similar story, didn't it? Not quite an acknowledgement of the fourth
| wall, but definitely a unique take on control and the 'omniscient' view in
| a game. Probably the most reasonable use of the mouse too.

I would imagine it had the same controls... I never actually played DM 2, I
played the original Dungeon Master and then the Eye of the Beholder sequel,
but then alas at some point I had to give up my Amiga and trudge into the
real world.

|
| >And, although it wasn't strictly an RPG, DMoMM was pretty damn immersive
and
| >fun as a 1st person game. I think it could make a cool MMORPG with some
| >more fleshed out elements.
|
| DMoMM... Dark Messiah of Might and Magic? There are too many acronyms for
| me to keep track of now. :)
|

heh, yah that's it... I forgot it took me about a week to figure out what
DMoMM was when everyone was talking about it here. I picked that one up in
a bargain bin on one of my business trips, and popped it in recently to try
it out. Finished it rather quickly, and was rather annoyed with the whole
STEAM implementation - it installed single and multiplayer on my system,
then when it went out to update via STEAM it reinstalled 2 new versions of
single and multi, had to wait for-freakin-EVER to actually play it. But
hey, now it's on my STEAM account and I can pop it into my notebook if I
ever feel like playing on the road.

But I digress... Dark Messiah did have some fun 1st person immersion, which
was probably one of its big saving graces.

CoinSpin


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