Lonnar
KILL-EM-QUICK
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.02.21 18:06:00 -
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udc wrote:Yes I truly hope CCP re-imagines these grave errors. Players should have to mine for weeks before being able to play an ambush and skirmish map, and should you lose your suits or whatever you should have to go mine again, or sell things for other people. Basically Dust should really be as time-consuming as EVE so that way there's less focus on the FPS aspect and more focus on the mining aspect. This is what console gamers want. I checked btw.
Uhhh what? Are you high buddy? This is a MMOFPS ... not a MMORPG with minor FPS elements. The entire point of this game is to be a FPS game, set in the New Eden universe. It's supposed to be the gateway to show EvE players a part of the game that has always existed but never fully realized, the surface of the planets they themselves are fighting for.
EvE players fight over territory in space, this territory naturally includes planets which the starship pilots can interact with and build stuff on the surface. But that's about it. With DUST, there's now a greater meaning to these planets and the installations built upon them. This is a war we're fighting here boys and girls, how the hell are we supposed to fight a war on the surface of planets? Well with guns of course! How are we supposed to use guns in a video game context? With a shooter game of course! And last question, what is the most common setting for a shooter game to be had in? First person of course!
Taking the game away from it's intended role is like trying to change peanut butter into jam. They both go well on toast but damnit man they're not the same.
I've seen some excellent threads on this forum about how they can implement idea like mining into the game without distracting it away from being a FPS.
Me personally, I'm not big on PvP games. I like to stick to PvE when I can. I actually couldn't care less if the PvE Rogue Drone mode gives me less money than shooting people in the face, I will grind my ISK that way simply because I prefer to do so. But by all that is holy in CCP, that PvE better involve me blasting the everloving crap out of those drones with the guns and equipment I bought or else I will be a very sad panda
NOTE: I know the PvE is going to be shooter based ... before you face-hugging trolls decide to go on a rant.
Doing other things in this game is fine, and since DUST has such a vast potential, I'm sure that one day we Dusters will have a plethora of tools available for us to use in order to earn ISK by our own preferred means. But at the end of the day where does that ISK go? To the dropsuits and equipment that you're going to use to put a bullet in someone's eye that's where! |