MMO Roundup: RIFT cinematic, TOR's death penalty, and more
by Alex Ziebart 
Feb 1st 2011 at 1:00PM
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Trion releases new RIFT CG cinematic If you've been on the fence about whether or not you should try upcoming MMO RIFT, perhaps this newly released CG cinematic trailer will convince you. At the very least, it will supply some delightful eye candy. |
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Damion Schubert philosophizes about TOR's death penalty Lead Combat Designer Damion Schubert recently discussed the philosophy behind SWTOR's death penalty on the game's official forums. "I would rather our challenges be gated by whether or not you have the skill, the gear, and the teamwork to succeed than whether or not you have the credits and/or time to wait out the forced downtime in between, you know, the fun part," Schubert explains. |
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Gamers documentary now available for streaming In the 60-minute film Gamers, filmmaker Ben Gonyo explores today's online gaming culture in an effort to make it more accessible and understandable to a wider audience. For two years, Gonyo immersed himself in World of Warcraft and the gaming subculture to find out what it's all about. |
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Fan hired to edit video for Star Wars: The Old Republic Fans often ask developers, "How do you get started in the business?" If you want to know the answer, then maybe you should ask Brandon Miletta. Last night, the Star Wars: The Old Republic podcast TOROcast announced that Miletta was leaving the long-running show to go work for the very company he has been talking about in the show for the last two years: BioWare. |
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Massively Speaking episode 132 Massively Speaking returns this week with Shawn and Rubi dishing out the usual news and views, but there's an added bonus. In the second half of the show, Champions Online Executive Producer Shannon "Poz" Posniewski joins Shawn and CO columnist Patrick Mackey for an interview about the recent F2P relaunch of the superhero game. |
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Week in Review: Freemium spandex Don't let WoW Insider do all of the talking when it comes to Massively's best content of the week. The Massively staff themselves have picked out what they think is the best content their site has to offer in their own weekly roundup. |
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Barak Feb 1st 2011 1:21PM
I haven't seen it yet bit the overwhelming response to that documentary has been negative. Sounds like the guy was just trying to be a jerk.
MattKrotzer Feb 1st 2011 1:23PM
I found myself actually wanting more than theoretical information about the death penalty in ToR. The developer essentially saying "We don't want to penalize them too heavily, or it won't be fun" is kind of obvious. Who wants to make their game not fun? (Well, besides the guys over at Champions Online.)
RogueJedi86 Feb 1st 2011 2:53PM
Y'all mention the "fan got hired for TOR" article from today, but not the Flashpoints thing from Friday? That was cool, showing fans how dungeons in TOR work, with a fancy trailer. Here's the link if anyone's curious. :)
http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/01/28/swtor-unveils-the-taral-v-flashpoint/
JC_Icefox Feb 1st 2011 4:37PM
For some reason, I keep reading it as 'Tirion blah blah with RIFT MMO'.
It's kinda like, 'good for him, getting a new hobby with no more Lich King to kill.'
OldPossum Feb 1st 2011 3:33PM
No Mac client for RIFT. Too bad. Guess I won't be trying it.
Baba Feb 1st 2011 6:32PM
"Gamers" not available for streaming in the UK...
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zweitblom Feb 2nd 2011 1:58AM
"If you've been on the fence about whether or not you should try upcoming MMO RIFT, perhaps this newly released CG cinematic trailer will convince you."
Why would a prerendered trailer convince me? It does not tell me anything about in-game mechanics, character advancement, social tools, professions, user interface, community interaction etc. You can do something like that trailer just about everything.
Draknareth Feb 2nd 2011 5:57AM
I totally agree there, it's like movie trailers that don't even give the slightest hint to what the story is about. Doesn't interest me.
Firefly Feb 2nd 2011 3:29AM
My buddy has been trying Rift out. He says its "A little like WoW. ...ok a LOT like WoW. Why am i playing this instead of WoW?"
nieboh Feb 2nd 2011 5:33AM
you mean that tagline from their ad "you're not in azeroth anymore" is actually a psa in case you forget and think you're playing WoW?
That tagline just makes me laugh though. It's supposed to mirror the Wizard of Oz with Dorothy not being in Kansas anymore...but her goal the whole movie was trying to get *back* to Kansas. Oz wasn't really that great of a place.