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Hyrrix
Fourty-two
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Posts: 282
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| MMORPGDot Editorial: The Future of Questing |
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A new friday editorial has been posted on <A href="http://www.mmorpgdot.com/">MMORPGDot</A> today. This time Dialogue <A href="http://www.mmorpgdot.com/index.php?hsaction=10053&ID=781">talks</A> about the future and problems of questing in MMORPG's. A little snippet for you:
<BLOCKQUOTE><I>The problem with questing in most games nowadays is that they amount to one of two things: Search and Destroy or Fedex missions. Either you go out and kill the mobs the NPC wants dead, and you get your reward or you take the black hooziwhatsis to Tinytown in exchange for some gold. Repeat until ready to play A Tale in the Desert. Questing should be *fun*, not the constant repetition of two themes over and over again. There are variations on these themes to be sure (Like, go kill the mob and then bring me back its head: A search and destroy Fedex mission.), but for the most part those two categories cover something like 90% of all quests in today's games.<BR>
<BR></I></BLOCKQUOTE>Read the entire article <A href="http://www.mmorpgdot.com/index.php?hsaction=10053&ID=781">here</A>. |
Fri Nov 07, 2003 12:59 pm |
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EverythingXen:
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But whether you get a quest out of a vending machine or from an NPC who remembers you helped them out you haven't changed the basic nature of the quest.
Whether you 'punch out five long swords' to turn in or bring someone's head back you are still FeDExing.
Go here, do this, get reward.
That is quests in each and every game ever made. Why is it so important that Dan remembers you brought him soup or that you're getting missions via terminal?
The paradigm has to shift more than assigning reprocussions to make MMOG quests even remotely fun. How it can is beyond me, though. Go here, do this, get reward is the heart of every single GAME ever made (CRPGS just make it more obvious). The biggest difference is that while you might do this 20 times in a CRPG you'll do it 3 zillion times in a MMOG so it stands out more. |
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Fri Nov 07, 2003 1:09 pm |
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Dialogue
Mountain King
Joined: 15 Sep 2003
Posts: 1
Location: Madison, WI |
I don't really see how you can change questing much more without breaking the genre. RPG quests, be they in CRPGs or MMORPGs, are fundamentally about doing favours for yourself or others. It's possible to have grand visions like, say, the trek to Mordor in a game...but it has to be broken down into managable parts. |
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Fri Nov 07, 2003 3:56 pm |
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craptor
Village Leader
Joined: 14 May 2003
Posts: 91
Location: austria |
u know what would be cool ?
IF the actions of a player effected the whole game world
for example a player comes and kill the wife of a man
then u meet this man and he says his wife has been killed and tells you to find her murder
then u go and search for this player 
after u found him u can only hope that he is at a lower level than you  |
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Fri Nov 07, 2003 11:16 pm |
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