Some days I can’t help but miss some of the little things in past games I’ve played. Truly, the little things are what you remember in the end, not the phat loot piece #305830 you received.
Long ago, in a galaxy far far..err wrong content. Back when DAoC (Dark Age of Camelot) was new, I hailed it as my final escape from Everquest (how wrong I was). The game itself wasn’t that bad, and it followed the general EQ way of things (which in the end was its Achille’s Heel, imo). PvP was very well done, however, I didn’t maintain interest in the overall game long enough to fully explore it.
The best part of DAoC were the zone-wide death messages. When anyone died in the same area you were in, you were greeted with “Soandso was slain by …..!”. I found it particularly amusing when the same boss killed the same group over and over and over again. Or when Noob_152 was killed by the same level 3 wolf and you wondered how they would ever survive and make it in the game (They’d just remake as a healer, since almost everything is forgiven when you’re the least-played, most-needed class). Whenever I noticed some douche I hated being repeatedly killed, I’d be compelled to just watch for more death spam. Often times my group would notice I stopped paying attention for prolonged periods of time. They would then decide to train me for making their lives difficult, and, my death spam was then broadcast much to the joy of others. Bastards.
Everquest had a similar feature, (it was later removed) zone-wide summon messages. Select higher level mobs had the ability to summon anyone on their hate list who was out of melee range. The shrooms in Sebilis (King especially) were some of the best bringers of hilarity. Once the spam ended, (You could easily get over 30 messages before a wipe) /yells of King camp now open! or /yell Good luck getting your corpses back without gear, douche bags! would follow. It was like Warcraft’s Barrens chat, but, instead of wanting to spoon your eyes out with a fork, you’d laugh your ass off.
Blizzard, you’ve followed the Everquest mold so closely in many regards. Why not take another step forward and add in the zone wide death messages? Think of all the fun times!
Aaah the Barrens chat. When you’ve been leveling long enough you sort of get used to people calling you and/or any member of your family an, i quote, “assfucking piece of shot lolz!!1”
PS. OMFG new layout! I like this one, very minimalistic.
I agree with you that it is the little things that your remember. For example, one of my most cherished moments in my MMO history was in Ultima Online when I would PK someone, then kill their horse, cut their horses corpse up into horse steaks, carve some kindling from a nearby tree, start a fire, cook their horse, then leave the cooked horse steaks on their body.
I would then hide nearby their body and listen for the eating sound after they came back ressed. As soon as I heard the eating sound, I knew they just ate their own horse and probably didn’t realize it. It was at that point I would jump out of hiding and proclaim to the person they had just eating their horse.
Ahhh good times, I can’t wait for Darkfall Online to come out!
WHAT ON EARTH?
Who be this Raster person?
Some asshole. Met him in EQ trying to KS the jboots spawn. Supposed to help out around here, but all he really does is bitch about link colors. (Raster)
Keystone, that is one of the most evil things I have ever heard. I love it.
@Keystone
I just can’t bring myself to believe that Darkfall is ever going to come out. I visit the site once a month to check for news and it’s the same thing every time:
“We’re almost ready for beta, we just want the game to be finished before we let people play it”
I mean, they’ve been saying that for like three years now.
8(
Oooh, likin’ this style even more. Very ‘clean’.
Zone-wide death messages: AAAAAGH! STOP! BLIZZ MIGHT LISTEN TO YOU!
*ahem* calm now.
I find Barrens chat quite useful. (As well as the now-defunct LFG chat, which I guess has kind of moved to trade.) Since I have one of the infinite ignore list mods, I use it to find all the morons spamming Chuck Norris jokes that have already been spammed 200 times before, or endless Krol Blade jokes, and put ’em on ignore so I’ll never have to deal with them. Very handy of them to identify themselves like that!
I agree, love the zone messages, for PvP and PvE.
Kill spam was 50% of the reason to RvR in DAoC. It also caused some assclowns to demonstrate that they were assclowns, but that’s inevitable at worst and actually downright useful.
Heh, I remember all to well the death spam.
I remember getting an RvR raid together (50 or 60 Albs) and watching them all get pummeled by around 20+ Hibs, and probably some Mids that were in there somewhere. The death spam would be fantastic as Albs would continue to go and get their asses handed to them on silver, Celtic decorated, platters. Shrooms FTW! Ah yes, those were the days. 😉
like Heather, I have several Unamed on my ignore list – best one was the new guild i joined with and i had the Guild and Raid Leaders on ignore from barrens days…needless to say i did stay with this guild and found that soloing as a 60 warrior can be interesting when every minutes someone asks me to join there guild or run them thru lowbie instance #4,982.
ahhh. The Death Announcements of DAoC, good times…..good times. thank you for making my day at work on Xmans Eve(i like my context better) a bit lighter and less dreary.
oh! and the Myconid King and i had a special relationship, I had the worst luck in Seb that I zone in, kill left frog at zone-in and hark! what is that i hear? “Tormentus, You will not evade me!” ** poof** WHAM! Yep i was dead no less than 8 times in one weekend of powergaming. ahh good times….as a added bonus my guild heard about this and would not let me into the group until after I had killed 3 frogs.