well im talking more along the line of cohesive aesthetic there is one thing to say you like or dislike the skins from the shop. its another when the skins overall doesn’t match the established aesthetic of the game.
transmog will help some but it doesn’t change the fact that end game aesthetics stagnated and shop skins dont mesh.
like semi realistic armor at lower levels great. some of the orichalcum stuff fantastic looking. then there is void bent. hitting more into wow style exaggerated crap ok. ancient stuff ok looks like it belongs, angry earth a little silly but its wood stuff. then there is the thanos infinity armor skin off the shop with a top hat steam punk look. like why.
the recent barbarian one is sort of ok though the excessive spikes could be considered a little silly.
on the infinity stone armor. it wouldnt be as bad if say some region had a bunch of steam punk weapon smiths that dressed in that fasion. then it would kind of make sense but as it is it doesnt.
not even the syndicate (the alchemist) looks like the skin and or the furniture stuff.
bringing magic into it. its like playing in the neon kamigawa set and suddenly having a card with art from new capenna . it just doesn’t make sense. (i mean multi verse and planeshifting but still)
If you’re familiar with my other posts and the things I harp about, this probably won’t come as a huge surprise to you, but…
All those crazy high-fantasy designs started coming in around the time New World made the switch to start targeting the MMO crowd. Not just the outfits though, the weapon abilities starting become more and more over the top like the rapier’s Fleche that has players flying through the air like M. Bison and the great axe’s Gravity Well tearing holes in the fabric of reality.
And the whole move to trinity game design or the dumbing down of action combat in general. It’s all connected.
edit: like i dont mind things being reasonably flashy but at least keep it in theme for the game.
also something id love to see when world bosses comes up.
considering this is a game about a mysterious land with extestetial dread with no way out. there should be skulking world bosses that track players, that can mess with and split up groups and individually takes out people but requires an entire company to deal with for some fat loot.
big spider like corrupted crawler that hides behind trees and stuff. in any area. low levels would see that crap and go OH SHIT and so would lv 60 max gear people too. (especially if the full area gets the corrupted portal fog of war treatment)
also for a semi tropical area where the hell are the bananas i just realized we dont have bananas.
but this all ties into the original vision isue and the theme of the game which ags cant fricking settle on.
Devs please this. Please go through and change mobs in older territories, existing dungeons, add animations, add lore to them, include them in quests, spend an entire month on lore and mobs. This would make such a large change in my humble opinion <3
So true! I really like the designs of many of the overworld dropped sets. The Ancients are one. Pretty much any tier, cloth or leather. But like everything else, getting any of that with the actual stats you want…RNG hell.
This is why I join so many other players and ask for a transmog system that will us take the look of a crap piece of gear with nice appearance and put that appearance on a good piece of gear with a crappy appearance.
I was amore alluding to the fact that Margit the Fell ripped new players new assholes left and right as a significantly challenging gatekeeper boss.
Imagine if people actually felt intimidated to fight something in New World. Like, the closest I get to the that feeling is joining a Tempest PUG and rolling up on Neishatun. It’s like “Ok, time to see if my teammates are actually trash or not.”
I’m not worried about the boss so much as I am worried about my teammates. I want to feel challenged by the boss, not the number of chromosomes my teammates have.
Mark Rosewater is a legend. Not many people stay in the game industry and remain true to their game as much as he has. What a legend. No matter how dedicated you are to the game, he is definitely one you can always learn from.
Specific to #10: One very important thing I learned as a developer (not games) was to get out of the way of the user as much as possible. Create an environment that is sensible and straightforward, and let them do whatever it is they need to do: in the case of a game, the user needs to PLAY.
Making the players jump through a lot of arbitrary hoops isn’t play. Nothing about grinding expertise or crafting RNG is fun.
On the other hand, housing is. Furnishing a home is a combination of leveling crafting and finding/buying recipes, and then the system mostly gets out of the way of the player and lets them explore what their house can look like. AGS did a good job with the basic structure of housing, in a way they didn’t with systems like armorsmithing.
I mostly agree with you on furnishing, but even there they stuck their hands in to limit players in a way that doesn’t allow agency. Only being able to put up certain numbers of certain types of items is a limit that just doesn’t make any sense.
I had my girlfriend help me decorate my Ebonscale Reach house because I thought it would be a fun activity for us (it was) even though she doesn’t play the game. I bought or made all of the things I wanted, then we went through the rest of my inventory and started getting really into it. But then we ran into the limit on the number of lighting elements that you can have in your house. WTF? And then there’s the limit on the total number of items in your house, as well. And only being able to put up 5 trophies at a time. Not sure if there are other limits on furnishing your home, but they just don’t make sense to me.
I can kind of understand the trophy thing being an azoth sink before they nerfed azoth travel costs, but now it’s just annoying. Should be able to put them all up, or even just have them in the local storage, and activate them from the character screen. Otherwise, it’s just another time sink where you’re not playing the game.
The limits are probably based on technical performance, but I agree they stink. Since there are cards to upgrade the number of items, I think the item limit has some extra play they could loosen up.
I don’t even really decorate and you run into lighting limits super fast.
I think that was the idea, but they didn’t consider that those items weren’t really end game items. They were great for like the first month of the game, if you leveled your crafting up to 200 super quick. I remember occasionally getting the WH or GA artifacts and drooling over being able to craft a guaranteed legendary STR weapon. But the minute I made it to Genesis and Lazarus dungeon level, the drops from there blew everything else out of the water. And making the items BoP just made them even less useful, because so few people could actually make them.
