[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD-Dev digest, Vol 1 #285 - 32 msgs

[Jeff Freeman]

At 03:08 PM 1/22/01 -0800, Jake Song wrote:

> Could you tell me why do you think Lineage is a terrible MUD?

Doh!  I knew I was going to step on someone's toes with that line.

My experience with Lineage is somewhat limited, and though I'm not a
famous author, I still couldn't help but develop some conclusions
about it.

First of all, keep in mind that I don't think ANY of the graphical
MMOG's are really all that "feature rich" compared to text muds.  In a
sense, all MMORPG's are "terrible muds".  Difference is, they don't
have 2.5 million people playing them here.

But Lineage in particular strikes me as "UO, but without the good
parts".  That everyone looks exactly alike tops the list of
complaints.  Very little in the way of documentation (at least none
that I could read).  Frankly bizarre dynamics like
shouting-makes-you-hungry-until-you-reach-a-certain-level.  I'm not a
huge fan of classes to begin with, and Lineage offers a whopping
*three* classes to choose from.  Rolling and re-rolling attributes
until you get ones you like, etc.  It just seems like a *very*
stripped-down/crude game system, which is pretty much par for the
course - you get graphics, but lose some of the game system, and
that's true with the "Big Three" US MMOGs, too.

Except the graphics you're gaining in exchange for that sacrifice
don't strike me as being worth it - not with the game system being
stripped-down THIS much, and the graphics not even offering a
customizable appearance.

Maybe I didn't play long enough to discover the Great Game lurking
behind the scenes, though.  The only other person I know that has
played Lineage didn't play it long either: She spent a long time
looking for arrows, found them, then someone looted one of her kills
so she PK'd him, became a murderer and logged out.

> I was in Korea until Jun. 2000. A lot of ppl plays social oriented
> online games or video chat in game rooms.

That surprises me.  But whadda I know, anyway? :P

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