New, and curious.

[Maduin]

Heya, yeah, just signed up on the board.. I was wondering if any of you folks were planning to play or have ALREADY played Neocron. It's a new MMORPG that came out in America today (Nov 12).

So, I say MMORPG. What does that mean? Well, it could be anything. RPG describes such a broad ensemble of video game types, that it's not a very good description. It's better to use RPG as some sort of adjective, instead of a noun. "Yeah, that's a RPG turn-baser." Or, "Nice little RPG fighter there. Ohyeah." Know that game Mortal Kombat game where you're Subzero, and you go around and beat up people to do whatever it was? That was an RPG. You took the role of a person, and fulfilled his goal. Right.

OK, I'm off topic. The point is, Neocron is a new game that just came out in America (it's been out in Germany), and it's (as I know it) the first First Person Shooter MMORPG. It's got that future/goth theme going on, although I don't really notice the gothness in it.. But it's there, sure. If you liked Everquest and such, maybe you'd like this. There's some psychics and such as well, guns you make yourself, grafting mechanical parts onto your body, hookers.. Er, anyways, yeah.

For more info, check out the Neocron site.

Oh! And Penny Arcade is having a day of free play. Not that you have to pay for it the first 6 months. Later, you'll only have the first four months off. Point is, if you wanna play with them (that is, Gabe and Tycho), go check out the site by and click the banner at the top to look at the stuff about their four year anniversary.

That's all.

-Maduin Branford

[PaulC]

Of course, everyone knows RPGs have a deeper meaning then just playing a role of anything, otherwise we wouldn't have the genre known as RPGs, now would we?

Anyway.. I'm not interested in paying to play any MMORPGs, unless I heard wrong and Neocron is free - which I doubt. I do have the nice little free Neocron Offline Demo which is pretty big and plays like Dues Ex, in my opinion. It's very nice. It'd be a nice offline RPG.

[Chickensoupcheese]

I have never seen the point of paying out more money for a game that you've already lashed out about £30 on (or whatevever), I prefer a "one-off payment", as it were. I'm speaking from a consumer's point of view, btw, I know that there's all the server costs and stuff to take account for.

However, I have played the Neocron Offline Demo, and although it crashed occasionally, it was still undeniably snazzorific. I doubt I'd play it online, but all the mechanics and stuff worked, like MP already said, a lot like Deus Ex. It'd work as both a single-player RPG, and providing everything was put into play, an excellent MMORPG. Not that I'd be playing it online, though.

Hopefully future games will use its engine?

[The~Inquisitor]

I had the beauty of playing MMORPG's for free. My brother paid for them and let me use it with my own characters

[Jakey]

I cannot say i'm fond of Neocron, and you wouldn't either if you downloaded 1 gigabyte of something [n00b]ON A TEH 56KKL DAILUP MOADEM!!!11~~@#!@#~@$[/n00b], only to have it not patch up correctly. 'Twas a painful burn.

And welcome to 'Teh Town', Maduin, may you find your stay enjoyable, mmkay?