True Fantasy Live Online

[Mode7]

Mode7, try this for size:
01. If youre in a team, only your teammates voices can be heard.
02. If youre not, you hear voices from people within your proximity. You know, like real life.

Option 1 would be all sorts of aggravating, I'd imagine -- hell, it's bad enough in UC. The second would be nice, but only if the voice was fed through the player's TV/stereo/whatever, and not the communicator ear-piece. I can't imagine them having enough sense to implement both.

Then again, you see something like this and have to wonder if a keyboard might not be such a far-fetched idea.

[Yoshi]

Originally posted by Cloud
Too many MMORPGs coming out soon. This one just doesn't look as good as the others...

Three words: Star Wars Galaxies.

[Andy]

I hope it would show who's talking, like a little speach bubble with a talk icon or something coming from whoever is talking, similar to how Counter-Strike shows the name next to the icon on the side. I do think that MMORPGs will lose a bit of personality/imagination with voice chat, but they'll gain a lot more functionality.

[Hybrid]

I don't think voice chat would work well in a fantasy setting for me. It would totally take me out of the game.

[Diff-chan]

Originally posted by Hybrid
I don't think voice chat would work well in a fantasy setting for me. It would totally take me out of the game.

Nah, Microsoft could just add some more voice masks:

Medieval Wench
Chivalrous Knight
Boisterous Evildoer
Elderly Wizard
Sniveling Thief
Merry Barkeep

Use your imagination!

[Shine]

I'm surprised no one here has mentioned that it was likely made to lok like a FF on purpose.
Looks ok but I am starting to get sick of cell shading.

[Omni]

Originally posted by Yoshi
Three words: Star Wars Galaxies.

Yep, I was thinking the same thing.

[StriderKyo]

I'd find it kind of creepy to be hanging out online with a bunch of 30 yr. olds pretending to be 5 yr. olds (by the looks of those characters). And hearing "fuck you, you motherfucking cocksucker!!" in my ear with that robot voice would totally kill the whole immersion thing.

[StriderKyo]

Thing is, I can deal with it in Unreal or Mechassault or something. But that atmosphere combined with those TFL images just doesn't jive.

[Melf]

I hope this makes it over here. I'm getting cable BBA this month (DSL is $80 a month here) and am itching for some Xbox Live.