Realm Architecture and NPC flesh-out issue..

[- Pathfinder -]

Anime rocks. So hush

Corus. Mines is as far as I know unique; that said I havn't experienced any Mid dungeons other than the Cursed Tomb (Keltoi). Hib has Tepoks as well, called Spraggon Den there

 

[SFXman]

Originally posted by - Pathfinder -
Tincans aren't known for excessive intelligence though, so it might factor in

Hmm I'd say that on the intellect scale Hibernia is first, Albion second and Midgard last... "history-wise" or "culture-wise" (whatever you'd call it )
I hate the nickname tincan damnit, but glad I do not have a single character that wears plate. Tincans look much better than any other realms armors though

 

[Valdamar]

Midgard and Albion are great . . . . Hibernia . . . .

And who on earth would be scared of a Tomte?

Well, Jabrylla gave me nightmares for a while . . .

Jordheim is fantastic for tradeskill consignments - tried the same in Camelot and spent 90% of the time running round - blech.

Albion has some great classes unique to the realm (casters, friar), but personally I find it a bit dull that all 4 races are human - yeah I can see why it's like that, and why many like it, but it doesn't appeal to me - I play a human every day, so I like to roleplay something different. Terrain looks nice, especially Camelot, but it lacks Midgard's atmosphere imho - Mythic should have watched John Boorman's film "Excalibur" a hundred times before they started work on Albion

Tried Hibernia and was almost physically sick - too cutesy. Firbolgs and lurikeen... what were they thinking of... eeep. I love Celtic music but Hibernia's music just grated And it's all too green - I kept expecting to see golf carts. Doesn't seem very dangerous either - 90% of the mobs I saw con'ed neutral.

I like Midgard most of all (I'm a melee player at heart) - its atmospheric in graphics and sounds (the music that plays in towns seems based on the theme from the film "The Vikings") and the races complement each other, even if Midgard is light on classes. Perhaps they could give Midgard another race to make up for that - elves are more norse than celtic (just ask Tolkien...) so rename Hib elves "Sidhe," and give Midgard Alfar/Svartalfar as a playable race (high qui/pie, low str/con)

 

[old.chesnor]

Haha, I have never, ever listened to the music in this game, and I have played since almost the start of public beta. I think I shall listen, because hopefully it will be really cheesey

I think the fundamental differences between the realms is that Midgard alone seems in any way realistic. Camelot looks like a model and Tir Na Nog is pure fantasy. Also, I think Albion is sanitized, and looks like how an Americn may picture Olde England. I demand roads overflowing with festering sewerage and occasional outbreaks of bubonic plague wiping out 50% of the zerglings in those overpopulated starter towns (a random AE DoT with a radius of 1000 should do the trick )

 

[Marcus75]

I've only played in Midgard and Albion and while the detail of Albion is greater than that of Midgard I still think Midgard is the winner between the two.

Albion feels to small. Sure Camelot is big and beautiful but the countryside feels, strange, in lack of a better word. Lots of borders where the world just ends and you can continue, and this in the middle of a zone. The whole of Albion has it's zones mapped in a strange way too. Sort of stretched or something...

Midgard has a square feeling with the diffrent zones close to each other. The towns or villages are built as they should according to Viking architecture. There are natural hills and only on the biggest mountains are there borders on where you can and can't go.

As a player world I think Midgard is much better. Albion picks up some points on character animations (pre-patch 1.49 at least) and detail in cities and such but overall I wouldn't leave Midgard for Monty Phyton-land.

 

[Shike]

oh sorry, Akira is a nice movie... forgot that 1

rest i've seen is kinda crappy

 

[- Pathfinder -]

Originally posted by Shike
oh sorry, Akira is a nice movie... forgot that 1

rest i've seen is kinda crappy

Akira? Puh

Ninja Scroll

 

[old.Ayam Ganbatte]

Originally posted by - Pathfinder -


Akira? Puh

Ninja Scroll

Ninja Scroll?

Well, that and anything Hayao Miyazaki: Nausicaa, Porco Rosso, Laputa, Totoro, Pom Poko, Sen, Kiki's Delivery Service, etc.

Disney has the rights to distribution to them in the West and they ain't releasing 'em, though!

Check out Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade as well. I haven't seen my Metropolis DVD yet, but I hear that's fairly good.

 

[- Pathfinder -]

**** Disney, and all that

 

[klavrynd]

Akira is probably thé most overrated piece of anime crap with imho a rather dull storyline and dull characters.


<closes iexplore and watched another episode of noir>