[MUD-Dev2] [OFF-TOPIC] A rant against Vanguard reviews and rants

[Jeffrey Kesselman]

On 2/21/07, Sean Howard <squidi at squidi.net> wrote:
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> "Mike Rozak" <Mike at mxac.com.au> wrote:
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> > The fundamental flaws in vanguard are:
> >
> > 1) Been there, done that. I've played many-many DikuMMORPGs and CRPGs
> > where you run around killing monsters and making armor.
>
> I think at this point, that's what mass market MMORPGs are. It's a genre,
> and you can't hold a genre you don't like against a game.

You can certainly hold it against a game if it doesn't go beyond the
basics of the genre and explore interesting new ground.

Anyway, I can.