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Would you play league of legends classic?
What season should it be? I personally think season 3 gives long time players the most nostalgia

Post wave slave simulators ITT.

Was it good?

As I mentioned in my first post complaining about world of Warcraft I specified that wow was always and always was looked on as a casual MMO and after going back to old videos of wotlk and the burning crusade I feel like although my expectations weren’t extremely high compared to the rest of the wow fan base that left I understood why I left classic. But let’s talk about classic wow, in pieces to get this right beginning with

>post 1: the UI

As you can clearly see in the OP the UI is about as garbage as modern WOWs, I know plenty of MMOs have this like EVE or GW2 but my christ most of the shit on screen is batshit useless especially since the second half of WOTLK was filled to the brim with easy dungeons and raids that made half of the shit on screen pretty fucking useless to even point out.

You don’t need a nametag and constant reminders to know who arthas or the curator is their models take up most of the fucking screen anyway. You don’t need a massive fucking damage text system constantly telling you when you parried, crit and dodged an attack because the HP bars will tell you enough to know what the fuck is going on, you don’t need to be told what level your at and occurring quests your doing along with a massive fucking skill menu you have because you use them all the fucking time, you shouldn’t need a map that’s constantly on screen when your grinding in zones you’ve been in for hours. It’s actually even worse when all this clutter is on screen is it blocks my FOV and makes trying to understand wtf is going on in the game half the time a fucking pain in the ass. I’m gonna be biased and say out of any other mmo that RuneScape 2 AKA old school RuneScape had the best overall UI design due to its simplicity and level of control that prevented your screen from being infested with endless numbers on mechanics you already have used god knows how many fucking times.


>and on to part 2 in the next post difficulty

>good
It’s actually not bad. Yes despite how many fans of Bethesda have complained about its inadequacies it’s actually a legitimately good engine, but like with the frost bite engine it’s only good at a specific task. MMO games with minimal amounts of physics(see ESO), which makes sense. Creation was built off another MMO engine called Gamebryo made in 1997 which was used to develop games like rockstars bully, Atlantica online, civilization 4, and wizard101.

>the bad
Because creation is technically an MMO engine and one based off a particularly old one that stopped becoming used by industry titans after 2013 as you’d expect it comes with a lot of limitations. Physics wise it simply just not great when compared to engines like source, cryEngine, frostbite, and ID tech, all engines that can get away with their advanced physics particularly because those games are typically used for developing single player games. Because of this these internal flaws live on in single player games using creation most notably in the elder scrolls franchise and Bethesdas fallout games where collision miscalculations, random crashes, and stupid AI are a regular occurrence that stick out enough to affect gameplay. Despite this beyond minor rendering issues the major problems with creation isn’t too bad what needs to be fixed is literally just how the engine differs between a server based and offline game along with bethesdas software team adding in new features for better physics to get up to at the very least 2016 standards of physics for the engine.’

>the ugly
Dear Christ where do I even begin. Remember how earlier I specified that creation is based off a 90s era engine called gamebryo, yeah unsurprisingly it also has the compatibility of the 90s for most developers to work with, ingame models frequently only ever work for specific engines of 3ds max or maya, animations just randomly not loading, entire mesh data for objects in the game engine being deleted, old bugs from the 90s never being fixed, lack of features for Multithreading, or cross compatibility support the list goes on about how hard this engine is to work with. Apparently pretty recently there’s been a major delay within star field because of how difficult creation was to work with as most of the software team working on it never fixed the physics or server problems and instead opted for graphPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Here’s the shortest explanation, you know how I first person shooters the camera will rotate or stare in the direction of the mouse relative to said players position and overall rotation? This variable ensures that whenever the player moves a mouse there’s a bit of delay between the time the mouse was dragged and the time it takes for the weapon your using to be aimed in that direction, this alone means that snapping effect seen by hackers using aimbot is essentially removed and that any sign of said aim without delay can be automatically qualified as bannable as in no context can such aim be possible

Overworked GameStop employees walk out, tell gamers to shop elsewhere

Reccomend me an offline, single player, linear leveled action game

I hadn't looked for my ps3 since 10th grade (3 years ago) and wasn't until a few weeks ago that I found it deep in the garage with all the games with it. I'm pretty excited and I've been replaying metal gear rising :)

What's your favorite video game that was developed in Japan?