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Nope, nothing at all to suggest that i'm aware of that there will ever be a Asherons Call 3. Although Turbine is broken up into seperate teams for each of their 3 current MMORPGs, their biggest focus is Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online now.
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Yes LOTRO is pretty good maybe one day they'll make enough money to consider an AC3. I can dream I guess.
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Aug 20, 2009 17:06
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Bonar Law posted:I was on Darktide about a year ago for a few months after taking a break for 5~ years. Got a mage to level 140~...I just got tired of the current player base and 24/7/365 macroing. Seriously, the VN Board Warrior Darktide population (98% of the players) is so painfully sad to be on the same server with. They are worth harassing for kicks but it feels like they're the only people that play Darktide now and it's somewhat depressing. Darktide was successful because there were antis, pks, and all sorts of neutrals...being in a particular monarchy meant something and provided a player environment I haven't seen since. There are no more politics, no more town ownership, and everyone is an RPK. The people who still play it are only around for the PvP, that's all that matters to them, mindless repetitive killing and bragging about their 1v1 skill. So basically I'm saying all the trash on Darktide (99% of the players) has migrated from white worlds. Specifically Solclaim.
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Aug 20, 2009 23:19
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Can't this game die already? I just got over my "10 years since I played this" milestone and the last time I was here it was a laughable caricature of a game. 10 years of updates seems fun for a week but the laughable engine (wall running anyone?) and crap graphics mean no fun.
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Aug 21, 2009 02:26
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Rapacity posted:Can't this game die already? I just got over my "10 years since I played this" milestone and the last time I was here it was a laughable caricature of a game.
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Aug 21, 2009 08:26
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AC was a ton of fun when I played it, and I tried going back a few times, and it just wasn't the same. I played the free trial a couple years back and after playing for two days without seeing another person except in Marketplace I gave up. I loved the lore and the world of the game, though. It took me like 3 years to hit level 50, because I would get so bored of grinding that I'd explore for days. It was actually fun to do that, unlike other MMOs I've played, because you would actually come across things you didn't expect. Has any other game had monthly updates as big as AC did? It seemed like every month they were adding as much interesting new stuff as the way less frequent patches in WoW do. I remember in the old days it would actually take most of the month for people to find/finish everything in the patch, which was awesome. Quests that didn't hold your hand from start to finish is something I haven't seen in any other MMO. Hunting in the Lugian Citadel is one of my fondest video game memories, probably. The big room where the Lithos(?) lugians jumped off the ledge was awesome. It actually felt like you were working with other people to survive when you stood in that hallway before the room and got charged by monsters. It probably helped that I was 11 or 12, but it was pretty intense.
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Aug 21, 2009 08:42
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Turbine should just make the game free like D&D:O, they certainly pull in enough subscribers from LOTRO anyways. Most of the LOTRO servers are overcrowded, so Turbine I assume is doing well.
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Aug 22, 2009 17:37
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Oh hey, I had forgotten that I made this thread. In related news, I just tried to read the Asheron's Call VN boards and physically gagged.
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Aug 22, 2009 20:52
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OneTwentySix posted:I recently resubscribed, and out of curiosity wanted to see if there was an AC thread, and here it is.... I remember all of these things as well, and like you I've never been able to get the same feeling with any new MMOs as I did with AC. I think it may be because some of the things we are so nostalgic about are now shunned in the new games, and I am not very hopeful that anything new will ever be able to capture that combination of challenge and uncertainty again.
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Aug 23, 2009 16:05
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HargBlarg posted:I remember all of these things as well, and like you I've never been able to get the same feeling with any new MMOs as I did with AC. I think it may be because some of the things we are so nostalgic about are now shunned in the new games, and I am not very hopeful that anything new will ever be able to capture that combination of challenge and uncertainty again. There are new MMOs that try to do it, but they always end up really awful because of bugs and not attracting enough players.
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Aug 23, 2009 16:24
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Maybe I'm just having better luck? Or just enjoy playing by myself? I'm not really sure. I've started a free trial account, and I'm rather enjoying my UA character again, trying to get my old account resub'd so I can play my level 90+ and such. It's pretty easy to start out if you go to the right people. I play on Verdantine, and it's always been pretty decent.
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Oct 21, 2009 13:08
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For anyone who has been considering playing this game again the 10th anniversary patch will be coming out later today. New features will include gearcrafting, two handed melee weapons, and a quest journal. Release notes are here: http://ac.turbine.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=514-october-2009-release-notes&catid=75-2009&Itemid=68 Hopefully this patch will breath some life into the game. There were 325 people on Darktide tonight which is the most I have seen in the past few months.
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Oct 27, 2009 06:35
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Haha, it was already hilarious watching someone wield an enormous Lugian weapon with one hand and a tower shield with the other
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Oct 27, 2009 10:31
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A quest journal in AC. gently caress me that's terrible.
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Oct 27, 2009 16:37
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Blacknose posted:A quest journal in AC. gently caress me that's terrible. Yeah but it's literally a ingame book that doesn't have burden, you have to write everything in there yourself. It just gives you some tabs to work with.
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Oct 27, 2009 16:54
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VTNewb posted:Yeah but it's literally a ingame book that doesn't have burden, you have to write everything in there yourself. It just gives you some tabs to work with. I played the game for around 2 years + and don't even remember doing quests.
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Oct 27, 2009 18:23
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Throwdown posted:I played the game for around 2 years + and don't even remember doing quests. I worked on the game for 3+ years and I barely remember there being quests!
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Oct 27, 2009 19:03
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Throwdown posted:I played the game for around 2 years + and don't even remember doing quests. Well I guess I'm a weirdo then, I loved the quests.
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Oct 27, 2009 19:08
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I liked how there was random story poo poo just laying around, like the books and crap. Man, AC blew my mind so hard, it was like this REAL VIRTUAL WORLD that TRANSPORTED ME to a MAGICAL FANTASY LAND. The sense of exploration was nuts.
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Oct 27, 2009 20:19
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I liked how you could run in one direction for a long time. Being used to square zones in EQ this was just baffling.
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Oct 27, 2009 20:25
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What if AC had been the more popular MMO back when it was released in EQ days? I honestly think the entire genre of MMO would be vastly different today. There would be more emphasis on speed and versatility in players rather than specific roles and magic types per class. I loved the openness of AC.
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Oct 28, 2009 07:40
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Well the fact that it didn't catch on indicates that those of us who prefer a big, relatively seamless world to the theme park blandness of most recent MMOs are an insignificant minority.
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Oct 28, 2009 07:53
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Throwdown posted:I played the game for around 2 years + and don't even remember doing quests. You don't remember turning in green triangles for bandages? Noob.  \/\/\/ Probably the Olthoi pincer thing. Decrepus fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Oct 28, 2009 |
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Oct 28, 2009 08:33
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I remember sporting pre-patch GSK Actually, I take that back. When the first expansion came out there was that one quest that got you massive amounts of XP, I can't remember what it was though. Ugh, time to hit thejackcat.com!
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Oct 28, 2009 09:31
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I feel like a big part of AC's smaller subscriber numbers was its setting. UO was an established franchise. EQ was the recognizable D&D world with orcs and dwarves and elves. AC's only playable race was humans, and it had banderlings, tumeroks, and lugians. I always liked AC's setting because it felt significantly more grounded than EQ. You were humans exploring an alien world, and that's an easy concept to immerse myself in. If AC had won the 3 way battle with UO and EQ it would have been originality winning out over what is safe and traditional. Game design overall has moved towards tighter, more streamlined gameplay over the past 10 years, so I can't even imagine what the successors to AC would have been like. Hell, Turbine themselves didn't even copy AC for AC 2.
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Oct 28, 2009 12:19
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Throwdown posted:I remember sporting pre-patch GSK Olthoi Queen? We used to make that run a lot and yielded great xp at the time. Of course later it was Tuskers. The Bobo run could really make good xp as well.
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Oct 28, 2009 17:16
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I just got an email from Turbine letting me know the 10 year anniversary's coming up. Seriously? Ten years? If I had a connection that would let me play and not awful wi-fi, I'd hop on in no time at all. Dammit.
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Nov 5, 2009 01:37
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mune posted:I just got an email from Turbine letting me know the 10 year anniversary's coming up. Seriously? Ten years? Wait... you can't play because of your wi-fi. poo poo dude I played this on a 28.8 modem back in the day...
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Nov 5, 2009 01:52
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TheFace posted:Wait... you can't play because of your wi-fi. poo poo dude I played this on a 28.8 modem back in the day... Yeah, I don't know. It just doesn't work when playing online games. It works, but it's so slow and laggy that it doesn't really matter. My latency is routinely over 1000ms. I really, really wish it did work, because then I'd be on this game like white on rice.
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Nov 5, 2009 06:42
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Got the email about the 10th anniversary. I'm considering taking out my old character just to tour the towns and quit in the free 2 weeks. I was on Morningthaw. My olde Hoary Mattlekar robe and other cool poo poo over the years belongs to whoever bought up my house though. 
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Nov 5, 2009 08:38
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The towns are all sadly empty  You can get Hoary robes pretty easy now but the original ones sell for a lot more. Makes me glad I stole 5 or so of the things back in the day when they used to go for $500 on ebay (although, stupidly, I didn't ebay them).
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Nov 5, 2009 12:31
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Blacknose posted:The towns are all sadly empty Original ones? What do they look like now? I had a white and gold one on each of my characters.
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Nov 5, 2009 20:14
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They look the same on you char but have a slightly different icon.
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Nov 5, 2009 20:21
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I want to try this again for shits and giggles, but I can't get past the two loading bars. Acclient.exe has encountered a problem. Any current players have a clue?
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Nov 6, 2009 03:20
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To my knowledge there was a lot of errors with some anti virus apps, could also be an issue with ports etc. Check this out, might help: http://ac.turbine.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=460
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Nov 6, 2009 03:45
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Removed AVG and run straight through a modem. Its not that I can't patch, the bars fill, but after that it just gives me a no info .exe crash
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Nov 6, 2009 04:46
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Heran Bago posted:Got the email about the 10th anniversary. I'm considering taking out my old character just to tour the towns and quit in the free 2 weeks. I was on Morningthaw. Morningthaw represent. My Guild under Crunchyfrog was a pretty good group I just sorta fell into and stuck with for my entire career. It was a very tight knit group. I had possibly the most generous patron on earth. He'd always randomly call me to the mansion so he could drop new goodies on me. The greatest day ever was when he handed me my scintillating gem after I'd been scrounging for weeks trying to get one. He asked to take a look at my set once the gems were traded and wrote me a nice little inscription on them. We once held the entire focusing stone dungeon clear for a weekend so the entire server could get chars of almost any level get it when it was the goto casting item
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Nov 6, 2009 05:08
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Blacknose posted:The towns are all sadly empty Oh wow, I forgot about how they didn't retroactively change items, so you could have some pre-nerf poo poo. Man that was weird. Even at the time that seemed crazy.
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Nov 6, 2009 16:53
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Daaaayum... AC was the last MMO I ever really played extensively and enjoyed.. my final character was a level 90 creature mage on Darktide when I quit back in... 2003 or so. Best part was the player-shaped politics and clans actually having to actively defend their territories. I was always in really tiny <10 man splinter clans that'd hold maybe 1 lifestone and a peddler at any given time and drop in on PK vs. Anti battles just killing whoever. They'll never make a game like AC again
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I resubbed for the free trial, new account obviously, and am having fun all by myself... But wanting more. A goon monarchy would be neat, are any of the DTers here active? I was always a carebear, but I'd be interested in going PK with goons.
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