Posts tagged with 'richard'

  • You wanted to play as Aliens? Richard Garriot gives you the Chance

    POSTED BY NEMO, JANUARY 29 2008 05:57 PM | PERMALINK




    One of things I liked about Tabula Rasa was that you can only play as humans. The rich story really pumped me up, and explained how you are one of the few humans chosen to escape Earth after massive alien devastation and then are responsible for getting get some payback. The forum kiddies didn’t see this the same way I did and they complained and complained about adding some aliens species to be able to choose from and the folks behind TR finally gave in. Well they say in the Wired interview that...

  • "WOW it’s basically a remake of EverQuest." -Lord British

    POSTED BY NEMO, NOVEMBER 02 2007 03:45 PM | PERMALINK

    In an interview with the NY Times Richard Garriott, the Godfather of MMOs, puts forth some wise words about the MMO genre. The Lord turned General mentions one of the faults of one the most popular MMO in the article, he says,

    "As many kudos as I would like to give World of Warcraft, it’s basically a remake of EverQuest, just incredibly polished and refined.There are harbingers of failure in that model. Everyone in these games is obsessed with the concept of how much damage-per-second they are...