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Originally Posted by Laerazi Regarding the models, I doubt they're in their "final" stage, although they're far from bad anyways imo, and animations are supposedly going to be massively improved upon in B3/B4.
When the "vision" of the game changes, then I think it could be called a new game. As far as I know, Vanguard targets the same audience and have the vast majority of it's planned systems still intact, so I wouldn't think it's anywhere near being called a different/new game. |
Regardless of any "improvements" they may make to the character models / armor/ weapon textures, the baseline issue at hand here is: you cannot simply throw another races head on a humans body and call it good. Fucking you cannot, I dont give a rats ass what your reasoning is. And that is what Vanguard is doing. Third generation my ass.
Motherfucking EQ had distinct body types and while you could call them all humanoid in that they had a head, torso arms and legs, they all looked somewhat distinctive for the non humanoid races (iksar, orge, froglok etc).
In regards to calling it a new game, the core issue here is Brad had this vision of what he wanted, he made it, called many of to take a look at it and the vast, vast majority of us told him "this sucks, period". And it does. The last time Brads vision stopped jiving with what the game was, he left the company and formed Sigil so he could carry out his mad scientist experiments unimpeded.
Where is Brad going to run to now ? What does that mean for this game ? I am not saying that he is infallable, but shit man 6-8 months from release is not the time to be revamping the entire combat system to make it more fun.
Thats my opinion anyway and yeah I fucking know this is not your typical beta process and all that VAK bullshit.
