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Despite Funcom's history, Im waiting for this game too. All willing to sign up for the Templar faction. Note the game backstory explicity mentions that these are NOT affiliated with the Knights Templar, who were apparently an overzealous, religious branch of the complete organisation that broke away. The Templar attitude and background seems to suggest they're the oldest of the 3 factions, and probably have the greatest collection of multi-cultural, multi-religious artifacts secretted away.
Im willing to give this game a shot as not only do Funcom occasionally think out of the box a little when it comes to MMOs (especially on release, AoC was rather different from WoW), AoC is much more polished than it was at release, the background looks as close as we're going to get anytime soon to a White Wolf Vampire mythos or Underworld style MMO and also, this game has been in development since they started work on AoC, which means they've spent a far longer time developing the background, basics and tweaking the engine; which being a modified version of the one used in AoC, should look pretty good.
I also seem to remember reading they werent intending to go class archetypes with this one but allow a more freeflow skill/levelling system.
Either way...guns, templars, illuminati and asian cultists using katanas...all thrown together with vampires, werewolves, demons and lovecraft? Yes please.
Hopefully it wont be a simple click 111112222233322255555 style game also, a little variation on how you play would be an appreciated difference, and if the game could swing between FPS style controls for weaponry and a more traditional approach for melee/abilities, that could also be interesting. Still we shall have to see how it fares. I just hope they've learnt from the mistakes they made with the launch of Age of Conan.
It does unfortunately look like the game may be instanced/zoned like AoC rather than an open world, which is a massive shame, but then we shall see.
PS.Arghhh I hate typing with a keyboard and the ps3 browser, I keep knocking shift-backspace and deleting everything!!!
Edit - Ah damp has mentioned the different levelling system in his OP, hadn't realised.
For anyone wondering, the factions as they stand are Templar, based in London (For the greater good, fight fire with fire), Dragon, based in Seoul (For the whole, and balance) and Illuminati, based in New York (For the self, almost capitalist). Apparently you will NOT be able to team up crossfaction at all.
Either way, there seems to be enough different/interesting with this one to make it worth keeping an eye on.
Im willing to give this game a shot as not only do Funcom occasionally think out of the box a little when it comes to MMOs (especially on release, AoC was rather different from WoW), AoC is much more polished than it was at release, the background looks as close as we're going to get anytime soon to a White Wolf Vampire mythos or Underworld style MMO and also, this game has been in development since they started work on AoC, which means they've spent a far longer time developing the background, basics and tweaking the engine; which being a modified version of the one used in AoC, should look pretty good.
I also seem to remember reading they werent intending to go class archetypes with this one but allow a more freeflow skill/levelling system.
Either way...guns, templars, illuminati and asian cultists using katanas...all thrown together with vampires, werewolves, demons and lovecraft? Yes please.
Hopefully it wont be a simple click 111112222233322255555 style game also, a little variation on how you play would be an appreciated difference, and if the game could swing between FPS style controls for weaponry and a more traditional approach for melee/abilities, that could also be interesting. Still we shall have to see how it fares. I just hope they've learnt from the mistakes they made with the launch of Age of Conan.
It does unfortunately look like the game may be instanced/zoned like AoC rather than an open world, which is a massive shame, but then we shall see.
PS.Arghhh I hate typing with a keyboard and the ps3 browser, I keep knocking shift-backspace and deleting everything!!!
Edit - Ah damp has mentioned the different levelling system in his OP, hadn't realised.
For anyone wondering, the factions as they stand are Templar, based in London (For the greater good, fight fire with fire), Dragon, based in Seoul (For the whole, and balance) and Illuminati, based in New York (For the self, almost capitalist). Apparently you will NOT be able to team up crossfaction at all.
Either way, there seems to be enough different/interesting with this one to make it worth keeping an eye on.
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and I like bioware. However even then I am still nervous on it because well Bioware are very good at RPG games however MMO's are a different kettle of fish.