How to Build Your Characters in The Secret World

Developers have to stop making games that anyone can play and start creating games that someone wants to play.

I get equally dissapointed every time I realise the next MMO is going to play like an MMO.

Hmmmm. Interesting to say in the least. I might give this a try.

@BabyChooChoo: I admit, I laughed when he said that, followed by the boss hitting one dude and everyone making sure they don't stand in the black fire.

We're in the year 2012, and have an entire genre of games where the boss mechanics can't get past "don't stand in the fire." And people call me cynical.

@blacklab said:

possibly the worst clothing choice ever

lol yeah...I was like "cool I get to wear whatever I want? Wait...it all looks like shit!"

@Rawson: Dear god, nothing about that video looks even remotely fun. And yeah, the sex at the beginning just seemed like something thrown in there 'just because.'

What really bothers me though happens around 30:45-30:50 when homeboy says "the dungeon team wanted to give the player the feeling they were fighting something beyond them...something that was out of their control" blahblahblah. IS. HE. SERIOUS?!?! It looks like every other fucking fight you see in an MMO! I'm sorry, but damn, it just looks boring...

Well, I guess it could be cool. A bit hard to decide on an MMO through a video.

Why are the animations this poor in such a big project?

Looks boring :(

Unless it's F2P i'm not interested.

Those animations look pretty poor. :/

I love the look of the monsters, but the animations look so stiff like they belong in Everquest.

The Hipster to "Talking with Hands" ratio is 2:1.

Hat guy, take off that hat. Why would you wear that indoors?! It looks uncomfortable.

That is all.

>:(

This game man, so much wasted potential. When I first saw that trailer with the demon thing in the mirror it looked like game of the forever material and then I found out it's an MMO and all of that faded away...

I like that this isn't another generic fantasy world and I like the Guild Wars 1 style skills where you are limited to a small set of abilities at any given time and have to think about how those abilities will complement one another but, I just don't know if this will be any good.

Looks really interesting and has some neat ideas but the subscription model is a big ol' gate no one wants to scale anymore. It will be GW2 for me.

Only if I get to enter a TV.

This looks alright from a aesthetic point of view, and the way you build skills sounds interesting, but from a straight game play point of view it doesn't look that fun, at least not from this trailer.
 
I like that your character can wear whatever the fuck they want though. More games should do that.

shotguns and machetes?? YEAH! The setting looks pretty cool too.

@l4wd0g said:

@bighat_logan said:

This is how the guy with the beard sounds.

lmao.

1) They both have beards

2) He has a pretty average Scandinavian accent

sorry to be that guy

@bighat_logan said:

This is how the guy with the beard sounds.

lmao.

@Dahitman said:

This just feels like a regular ass mmorpg with spin off classes, nothing new here. Even though you can choose your class and 500 skills, I'm sure these are just developement skills for your classes.

There are no new mechanics, same old MMORPG.

Seemed like the "classes" were just there to give people some type of structure. Nothing suggests you can't put together whatever random powers you want, other than min/maxing.

graphics are dated

This is the sort of structure I like. I know there are some ridiculously autistic mathematicians out there, who are all about min/maxing and getting the best loot, but I like to dick around and come up with my own characters and stories.... Like in those superhero MMOs

The Secret World of Repetitive Boring Animations amiright?

I'd rather build a character out of my own dooky.

@octa said:

@m16mojo2 said:

Funcom... I'm in. Look at Anarchy Online, launched in 99-2000? Still going strong, huge player base, great community, massive exploration. I'm optimistic about this game.

That's crazy talk. If this game succeeds it will be in spite of Funcom. AO's launch was terrible and Conan's, though not as bad(what could be?), was still pretty terrible.

Who said anything about launch? I knew AO's launch was horrible but, look at it now. Also, when I hear "500 powers" I'm not thinking about Conan. Conan had zero appeal to anyone, and is terrible to this day. Hence why I failed to even mention it" This game looks way more expansive and creative. I'm not quite sure what you mean by succeeding "in spite of Funcom"

Interesting, I GUESS

My favorite Dev Diary ever. They are SO excited to tell me about their game, that they took the time to add lens flares and such!

You know what dev diaries really need? More lens flare!

This just feels like a regular ass mmorpg with spin off classes, nothing new here. Even though you can choose your class and 500 skills, I'm sure these are just developement skills for your classes.

There are no new mechanics, same old MMORPG.

@m16mojo2 said:

Funcom... I'm in. Look at Anarchy Online, launched in 99-2000? Still going strong, huge player base, great community, massive exploration. I'm optimistic about this game.

That's crazy talk. If this game succeeds it will be in spite of Funcom. AO's launch was terrible and Conan's, though not as bad(what could be?), was still pretty terrible.

looks interesting and yet i dont care.

They should do a free-to-play model for their game.

modern day.....here is a guy with an axe

If it's not free to play, I am not interested.

Straight up, I have gotten used to the idea that MMOs are all free to play, and you pay for what you want, and until an MMO adopts this idea I'm just not into what they are selling.

If this game is released for $60 in a box, it will FAIL. Guaranteed.

possibly the worst clothing choice ever

After Age of Conan I am not looking forward to anything funcom puts out.

Don't write off this game just yet!

Why, check out the first ~30 minutes of the game!

I dunno about you guys, but I love being treated like a retard by having big giant quest objective text in the first few seconds. And don't even get me started on how much I enjoy hamfisted cunnilingus in my MMORPGs!

Who needs thematic or narrative consistency when you have lots of abilities. I mean, c'mon. There's 500 of them. I'm sure they won't be broken down into broad categories like Guns [Type X - Type N], Magic [Type X - Type N], Melee Weapons [Type X - Type N] and a bunch of +1% passives.

I mean what are the chances of that, right? R..right?

This game needs hit animations, that guy is swinging that hammer like he's gonna shatter the world and the mob is like oh look a fly!

@darkdragonmage99 said:

lol just one more mmo to fail to knock wow off it's throne

Not every MMO is attempting to overtake WoW. You don't have to be the biggest company in the world or make the most money to be a successful business.

@WinterSnowblind: I would have to agree with you, as I am waiting for both D3 and GW2.... My hands will be devoted elsewhere. TSW looks amazing, but with so many games coming out that are F2P I'd much rather play those titles.

It seems like this idea could go so much further with less overhead in a single player game. I'm thinking about why it would have gone MMO... and I do know some people who only play MMOs. Is this population of people who hop from one MMO to another a more reliable source of revenue than the population for single games, because not enough MMOs come out to compete for their fickle attentions?

No thanks, I don't want to play anymore MMOs after spending 35 days of my life on WoW. If you want to make a singleplayer game around the chick in the first trailer, I'd totally buy that.

I love the premise, but I haven't seen anything in the actual gameplay that catches my eye. Hope it turns out good, though.

lol  just one more mmo to fail to knock wow off it's throne

I stopped watching at purple shirt guy with silly toque. They're all hipstersss!!

At first I was interested in this... Now I'm not.

Funcom... I'm in. Look at Anarchy Online, launched in 99-2000? Still going strong, huge player base, great community, massive exploration. I'm optimistic about this game.