Global Agenda Interview
The Escapist interviews Todd Harris, Executive Producer for Global Agenda.
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The Escapist interviews Todd Harris, Executive Producer for Global Agenda.
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The Escapist Presents: Global Agenda Interview
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I've been looking forward to this game coming out. I was weary about buying to but I may just get it anyway for the single gameplay and then decide if I want to pay for conquest later. I was a huge tribes player, I love TF2 and MMOs. This has "buy me" written all over it. LoL
Yeah, I'm tapped out right now and there's a ton of good stuff coming out soon, so I think I'll wait on this one. But I will definitively keep an eye on it and if I have some extra cash maybe I'll get the non-subscription version.
Which makes me somewhat leery, actually. I wonder how the subscription service will hold up since it feels like the non-subscription version has a lot more draw to it. It might be ingenious because it would get the game into the hands of a large group of people who then decide it's good enough to move to the subscription model, but on the other hand it may mean the subscription service will always have a much, much smaller base of players (and is therefore less tempting to get into). I also fear the sub service may then be bogged down by newbie (I assume they offer) "free trial" folk, and I wonder what effect that could have on the persistent game state.
Which makes me somewhat leery, actually. I wonder how the subscription service will hold up since it feels like the non-subscription version has a lot more draw to it. It might be ingenious because it would get the game into the hands of a large group of people who then decide it's good enough to move to the subscription model, but on the other hand it may mean the subscription service will always have a much, much smaller base of players (and is therefore less tempting to get into). I also fear the sub service may then be bogged down by newbie (I assume they offer) "free trial" folk, and I wonder what effect that could have on the persistent game state.
This game will be awesome. I'm in the beta and would be playing right now if my internet wasn't shit. Even my GF who isn't all that good at shooters said she loved it.
Meh doesn't look that great to me, too many awesome looking games and this sorta falls into the crowd I guess. I'll wait to check this one out
Interesting sale tactic.
Probably not a game for me, as the action (as fun it may be) doesn't look good enough. It doesn't matter what you do, it matters how awesome it looks when you do it.
The first interview of Global Agenda I saw, Todd Harris appeared as a smug sonuvabitch, describing the holy grail of gaming. This time around, he appeared more humble.
Probably not a game for me, as the action (as fun it may be) doesn't look good enough. It doesn't matter what you do, it matters how awesome it looks when you do it.
The first interview of Global Agenda I saw, Todd Harris appeared as a smug sonuvabitch, describing the holy grail of gaming. This time around, he appeared more humble.
So if you level up a character in Freeplay then decide to move to AvA can you move it accross or do you have to start again from scratch?
I've always liked the whole territory concept. i even hoped WoW would make a separate server for that type of game play where say alliance took over Org it would stay their city until the horde took it back.
question though at what point do the developers step in and stop one groups conquest. for instance if one "agency" is made up of hardcore players who just dominate and end up controlling most if not all the territories the AvA has to offer at what point do admins or whomever step in to keep the game fair and still fun. no one is going to want to play on a drastically losing team, you know. or is there something like each faction has one fallback territory that by default cannot be over run? just a thought.
question though at what point do the developers step in and stop one groups conquest. for instance if one "agency" is made up of hardcore players who just dominate and end up controlling most if not all the territories the AvA has to offer at what point do admins or whomever step in to keep the game fair and still fun. no one is going to want to play on a drastically losing team, you know. or is there something like each faction has one fallback territory that by default cannot be over run? just a thought.
Having played planetside on and off for several years, I dont really think you can distinguish the multiplayer pay to play side of GA from the sounds of it from planetside, other than to say its new and shiny.
Planetside, you can join outfits to raid with friends, you level up to gain skill points which allow you to gain the proficiency to use different armor and weapon loadouts, and run varying different vehicle's and vehicle loadouts, culminating in the Battle Mech proficiency for getting all the relevant skills and completing the cavern achievements. Hell, as the vanu sovereignty your MAX and mech suits even get jump jets
Planetside, you can join outfits to raid with friends, you level up to gain skill points which allow you to gain the proficiency to use different armor and weapon loadouts, and run varying different vehicle's and vehicle loadouts, culminating in the Battle Mech proficiency for getting all the relevant skills and completing the cavern achievements. Hell, as the vanu sovereignty your MAX and mech suits even get jump jets
Hmm. If you just listen to the audio, it sounds like an innovative enjoyable game. If you watch the video, however, what you see is a laggy messy clusterfuck.
The game is massively fun, and the lag is all but negligible in reality. Ive enjoyed the beta so far and im sure the finished product will be even better.
That has more to do with the quality of the video than actual gameplay. I was in the beta and I can safely say that I did not see any lag at all.Silent but Violent said:
For those of you thinking of buying, I've been betaing for awhile and there are a few things I have to say:
- Balance is pretty screwy (combat medics ftw)
- Teamwork plays a big part of winning games
- No head hitboxes (as far as I can tell, they don't have much anti-hacking stuff on it and I saw a forum post that said one of the reasons they got rid of them was to discourage hacking)
- PvE is a grind (although higher level PvE can be quite hard), PvP is easy to jump into at any level and fairly fun
- The skill trees are straight forward and in most cases there is 2 builds per class (1 build per each class-specific tree, 1 tree is shared among all the classes)
- Robotic drone build is way underpowered
- Time to kill is pretty high
Overall, it's a pretty fun game. If you like TF2 and you like guilds I recommend this. However, be warned that there is a pretty low skill cap so after you reach that point it is mainly about communicating with your team and organizing strikes.
- Balance is pretty screwy (combat medics ftw)
- Teamwork plays a big part of winning games
- No head hitboxes (as far as I can tell, they don't have much anti-hacking stuff on it and I saw a forum post that said one of the reasons they got rid of them was to discourage hacking)
- PvE is a grind (although higher level PvE can be quite hard), PvP is easy to jump into at any level and fairly fun
- The skill trees are straight forward and in most cases there is 2 builds per class (1 build per each class-specific tree, 1 tree is shared among all the classes)
- Robotic drone build is way underpowered
- Time to kill is pretty high
Overall, it's a pretty fun game. If you like TF2 and you like guilds I recommend this. However, be warned that there is a pretty low skill cap so after you reach that point it is mainly about communicating with your team and organizing strikes.
This game looks pretty spiffy but I'm not an MMO fan. One day that may change but it won't be this game that does so.
That what patent offices said early last century and we know just how incorrect that is. There are plenty of unique ideas floating around and even more still yet to be discovered; you should never say that we've discovered everything that could be considered decent. Especially not in video games!Kiju said: