Qt3 Games Podcast: Guild Wars 2 vs whiny MMO players

Posted by on July 11, 2012 in Game Podcasts

Eric Flannum joins us to talk about the upcoming Guild Wars 2 and the classic RTS Sacrifice, each of which he designed. We also talk about Rocksteady’s inadvertently announced Silver Age comics game, the new Ouya console, Le Havre on the iPhone, Magic: the Gathering 2013 on the iPad, and the horrors of Spec Ops: The Line. Plus an update on Secret World and a vote on whether or not Aquaman is lame.

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  • http://twitter.com/CHGardiner Chris Gardiner

    The 28th of August *cannot* come fast enough.

  • http://twitter.com/CHGardiner Chris Gardiner

    On the important issue of Aquaman and lame superheroes: he’s like, king of all the sea. That’s a lot of real estate. Sure, kelp isn’t responsible for a lot of muggings in Gotham, but if there’s a tidal wave or an oil slick or something, Batman’s probably not going to be much help either.

    My young nephew once invented the superhero Man-man. Who, I presume, was an ordinary man, right, who was bitten by a radioactive…man, and thereafter gained all the powers of a…man.

  • tomchick

    Holy cats, Man-man is utterly brilliant.

  • http://twitter.com/CHGardiner Chris Gardiner

    More thoughts on Aquaman. Who knew there were so many to have? Water-breathing has never been a well-regarded superpower. The old Advanced Marvel Superheroes Roleplaying Game’s list of powers had the following as its entry for Waterbreathing. I quote:

    “Waterbreathing: This is a wimp power. Let’s face it. If Ulterior Motive Man appears and asks what you do, and you say ‘I breathe water’, you end up wearing a goldfish-bowl on your head.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-McMaster/607680289 Jason McMaster

    HAHAHAH

  • sid

    Is there any other game coming out in the ‘just buy the box and play forever’ MMO space other than Guild Wars 2? I can think of a few upcoming pay to play such as TSW, and countless free to play. As long as they keep the cash shop for cosmetic items only, and play to their PvP strengths, ArenaNet should clean up with this. The original Guild Wars demonstrated the viability of this model – why is no one else following it?

  • tomchick

    You could argue that Diablo laid the groundwork for this, and you can certainly see that more clearly in Diablo III’s always-online, sorta kinda maybe a little bit an MMO model. Some might say shooters with an ongoing RPG component like Modern Warfare do something similar.

    But, yeah, you’re right that Guild Wars pretty much stands alone in the bona fide MMO space for its approach.

  • http://twitter.com/luckyghostnyc Seth Berkowitz

    In Aquaman’s defense, movies have taught me that crime/drug lords often have homes by the ocean and I imagine they let their guard down a bit when swimming.