I'm interested in seeing how awesome this could be, the MMOFPS genre is pretty lacking in titles...I only have this and Huxley to look forward to in this category. WWII online and Planetside are the only reasonably populated MMOFPS titles right now.
Counter-Strike is NOT the thinking man's game, it's just about running and being the first to pull the trigger. I would reccomend Day of Defeat: Source as it requires a bit more thought. F.E.A.R. is fun for the amazing graphical blitz you will see in firefights. Battlefield 2142 is more fun for me than BF2 was...not sure if you would like it though. If you want an FPS that requires more tactical approaches, you could try games like ArmA or Rainbow Six: Vegas. I would also reccomend Noctis even though there is no fighting involved...just a first-person viewpoint.
While I'm not a fan of Runescape, you make a good point. Why is it that in so many MMORPGs no one chats? Everyone just hides in guilds with their friends. One MMO where I see a lot of chatting is WWII online...even though WWII online can be really frustrating to play sometimes.
I would say Crysis or Bioshock. Bioshock might have more intensive lighting than Cryisis because of all the water refracting and creating moving patterns in rooms with full dome windows. Crysis on the other hand has very intensive physics...and from what I have seen, physics require much more intensive calculations than lighting. Kind of a tie between Supreme Commander, Crysis, and Bioshock...but we will have to wait and see.
I think the majority of MMOs really aren't worth it. I want to have fun when I play a game and most MMORPGs feel like a chore. If you want an MMO, you should wait for games like Huxley and Infinity: Quest for Earth. I think Star Trek: Online and Stargate Worlds also look like fun...but there really isn't much info to go on.
So is there some trend going around where you make an MMORPG out of a great RTS and people love it because of the brand name? First it was Warcraft, which was an awesome RTS...they make World of Warcraft out of it which in my opinion is the ultimate hellhole of MMOs. Now they take Starcraft and I'm willing to bet it'll pretty much be WoW with Starcraft textures on everything...why would they change the gameplay that has brought them so many paying suckers?
The "fright moments" in DOOM 3 and F.E.A.R. became very predictable. In DOOM 3, if a room is wide and fairly clear you are most likely in for a fight. If the room is a narrow corridor or a ventilation shaft, expect a sudden but non-threatening fright such as a dead body falling from above. In F.E.A.R. almost every Alma moment was in a long hallway. I don't think fear has to be threat...I would like to see a game that is made to scare without a single enemy to kill...now that would require some serious artistic direction.
Although Bioshock looks like it'll capture that whole "You're hopelessly trapped here" feeling. As for a scary game I have played, System shock 2 got me with the robotic midwife machines :P
The original Perfect Dark was great! I always loved the weird weapons...things like the N-Bomb and the Psychosis gun always made for the most epic deathmatches.
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