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MMO PC News by Oli Welsh

10 March, 2009

Funcom has announced that it will be revealing the first concrete details on its next MMO, The Secret World, at GDC this month.

Director Ragnar Tornquist - creator of respected adventure games The Longest Journey and Dreamfall - will be meeting the press in San Francisco to "share his vision" of the game. Little is known about it at present, other than its setting, which is said to combine present-day locations with dark fantasy and ancient conspiracies.

Tornqusit recently revealed on his blog that the game's design was undergoing "big changes", and that it would not be "a WOW clone". (Our report on this led to Tornquist calling Eurogamer "the Eye of Sauron", but we won't hold it against him.)

All eyes will be on The Secret World after Funcom's Age of Conan stumbled at launch last year. We'll be at GDC, so check back in a couple of weeks for the first info.

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Branoic
10/03/09 @ 14:27
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If their last effort is anything to go by, they should probably put the lid back down for at least another two years...
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10/03/09 @ 14:30
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"which is said to combine present-day locations with dark fantasy and ancient conspiracies."

That's me out! I want flowers and fluffy purple bunnies in this credit crunch time
Domovoi
10/03/09 @ 14:36
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It's not a WoW-clone, because the NPC's want you to kill 20 shoggoths instead of 30 wolves.

Yeah, yeah, cynical. But with every new MMO claiming "not to be a WoW clone" and then offering the exact same gameplay as WoW, it's hard to get excited about statements like those anymore.

Here's hoping somebody is finally going to drop those DikuMUD/Everquest mechanics WoW and every other MMORPG is based on, though.
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JahB
10/03/09 @ 14:37
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"which is said to combine present-day locations with dark fantasy and ancient conspiracies."

yeah because that worked so well for hellgate london...

oh wait
mkreku
10/03/09 @ 14:51
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But I need to know the ending of the Longest Journey trilogy!!1!

DAMN YOU, RAGNAR!
Crofto
10/03/09 @ 15:00
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Yeah, yeah, cynical. But with every new MMO claiming "not to be a WoW clone" and then offering the exact same gameplay as WoW, it's hard to get excited about statements like those anymore. "

Very true.

I'd prefer if they would make another Dreamfall, but chances of that are slim.
Farfarer
10/03/09 @ 15:03
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Sod the MMOs, just give us Dreamfall Chapters :(
Slabbathepave
10/03/09 @ 15:07
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Where is iokthemonkey? Come on man dont let me down.....
ChthonicEcho
10/03/09 @ 15:14
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Aye, Dreamfall, if you please. Couldn't care less about this MMO. Ragnar promised to bring the story to us through whatever medium, whatever it takes; the man even said to share his story in its rough form on the Internet, if he has to. Three years has passed, and not a single word.
iokthemonkey
10/03/09 @ 15:20
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Where is iokthemonkey? Come on man dont let me down.....

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Well, seeing as I've been summoned...

I look forward to seeing this. I'm interested in seeing what my AoC subscriptions funded, as they certainly didn't pay for any work on THAT game!

BADUM-CHA.

Thanks, I'm here all week.

Unfortunately.
Evolution
10/03/09 @ 15:26
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Yes Funcom hurry up with this so you can get to working on Dreamfall Chapters!
Eraysor
10/03/09 @ 16:28
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I know it's going to fail, but I have so much hope for this game. Lovecraft for the win!

EDIT: Was anyone else around here when they had that rather epic alternate reality game featured on EG to advertise this game? It had a puzzle and a picture of London destroyed by some cataclysmic event.
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ZuluHero
10/03/09 @ 16:38
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Yeah, yeah, cynical. But with every new MMO claiming "not to be a WoW clone" and then offering the exact same gameplay as WoW, it's hard to get excited about statements like those anymore.

Well believe it or not WoW didn't reinvent the wheel - mmo gameplay has been formulaic for sometime now... :)
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Spekingur
10/03/09 @ 17:43
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I don't know what some of you are complaining about. I'm starving for a new MMO.

Also, Hellgate London is cool. The hype that surrounded it was very misplaced because it promised "London in hell" with places that you'd know. Which wasn't true, of course. The game was fun nonetheless.
CountFapula
10/03/09 @ 18:19
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This needs some sort of single player content...as a huge lovecraft fan, I need a new lovecraft esque game.

I'm hoping it has a single player story like AOC seemed to have.
Domovoi
10/03/09 @ 22:20
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Well believe it or not WoW didn't reinvent the wheel - mmo gameplay has been formulaic for sometime now... :)

Yeah... I think I mentioned DikuMUD and Everquest in the part you chose not to quote. :)

I don't know what some of you are complaining about. I'm starving for a new MMO.

Me too. Too bad we're only getting WoW with different skins and quest texts.
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space ace
11/03/09 @ 08:01
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yes, dreamfall plz
SleepyMagpie
11/03/09 @ 08:22
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Everybody loves the Lovecraft it seems, and I'd really like to see how this would turn out, but I just don't understand how they'll be able to fund further development..? Here's hoping.

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