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Lore Hound MMOcast 18: Books are Real Life Minigames

27 August 2010 | 1 Comment » | LHStaff

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Now Playing:

News:

  • E3 2010: The Contest is still looking for winners. An executive decision will be made if three people don’t find the glasses, so submit your entry no matter what!
  • Cataclysm CE announced. Curse of the Worgen comic incoming.
  • New blogger Ronix jumps into the mix with an interesting look at the F2P market and where it’s headed and how Blizzard got its never-fail reputation.
  • Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures dated, special box edition coming.
  • EverQuest Next & EQII: Destiny announced at Fan Faire.
  • APB changing weapons further, mission structure also being tweaked. Realtime Worlds sinking.
  • Jagex finally reveals something about Stellar Dawn, a trailer.
  • Ultima Online, the game that will never die, to receive future live events.
  • SWG players receive anniversary gift. It’s a treehouse? WTF?
  • Runes of Magic: The Elder Kingdoms announced, to add in game marriages, raise level cap.
  • Neverwinter Nights MMOG rumors resurface.
  • New Guild Wars 2 video showcases developers, gameplay. Watch it, it delivers on some of the promises.
  • Rumor: Star Wars: The Old Republic‘s space combat to be on-rails. Space combat trailer is now in the wild.
  • GamesCom 2010: BioWare announces 10 advanced classes. Guild Wars 2 demo video here, necro class confirmed

Discussion:

It’s a busy week with news, announcements trailers and teasers, yet no game releases since APB, which isn’t doing so hot. With WoW in a downswing and nothing on the immediate horizon, do you think this window is a missed opportunity by developers/publishers?

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Move Over Eve Online, Meet Infinity

17 January 2008 | No Comments » | LHStaff

I came across Infinity: The Quest for Earth a few months ago when they released a trailer of a spaceship flying seamlessly from one planet to another with no loading times. Let me say that again, from the surface of one planet into and across space, into the atmosphere of another planet and onto the surface with NO loading time. Today they released a new video of the games combat system. One of the main things I didn’t like about Eve Online and one of the reasons I couldn’t really get into it was because you don’t actually get to fly, it’s basically point, click, wait, even the combat. Infinity allows for real-time combat where you actually get to pilot your ship. How well you can maneuver will no longer be based on stat point, but instead on your skills. By my count that gives Infinity a huge advantage over Eve.

Aside from the real-time combat system and seamless flying, Infinity also promises to have an enormous galaxy to explore. Keyword is galaxy, you can land on a planet, fix your ship and get supplies, but you can’t walk around it. It’s basically like Eve where you’ll spend most of your time in your ship.

“Expect a galaxy with up to hundreds of billions of worlds. You will not be able to visit them all in your whole lifetime, even if you were to spend only one second per world”

Wow, that makes Eve look like my backyard. So how does one travel to all these billions of planets? There will be jumpgates throughout the game, however every ship can equip a hyper-propulsion system so you don’t need to travel all the way to a gate. But just because you have a jumpgame doesn’t mean you’ll get to where you going instantly.

“You can choose your destination on the galaxy map and jump there (providing you have the resources). Jumping will not be instantaneous. It will be very fast to jump to a local system, but jumping to the other side of the galaxy will take from minutes to hours (in real time). “

HOURS! I’m sure they’ll change there minds once gamers get a hold of the game and curse them out. Seriously, who’s going to sit there for hrs, just make the resource cost very very high, problem solved. The game promises to be very open ended, which means PvP. HORAY!

Infinity is still in very early development and is expected to take another two years before the game is finished. So far from what I’ve seen it looks like it might be worth the wait.

More Infinity Videos here