2011-07-16, 03:38 PM
SwordStaker Wrote:While I agree with this almost 100% there is something I would like to point out I'm sure many who saw it remember. When Prose was on SP for a limited time he said 'Masteria isn't going the way I had initionally planed but that's common in MMORPG content.' I've noticed NEXONS seems to be meh w.e right now but, while there was a massive influx of bugs when Chaos first started NEXON still sort of jumped on the problem almost immediatly. I will argue that -maybe- they're just busy on the 5th part to worry about harmless bugs or even the dc hack that affected ardentmill andfrom what I read the hakshield error HAS stopped the script kiddies.(Tempo ofcourse but it is a start). As to the comment on the story sure, it hasn't been anywhere as good Prose left anyone could see that. Thats because Masteria is Prose's baby just like if Nintendo sold Mario and Pokemon it probably wouldn't be the same.While it defenatly isn't Prose's stories the HH2 story wasn't THAT bad and the fact it wasn't a permenant story I don't see why any effort should be put into it. I mean yeah you could if you wanted to make it enjoyable but it would only be there for a little while. As for the visitor event that wasn't bad. I mean the tory was pretty damn good, the maps in the future were VERY nice, and re cube pq was defenatly different. It always changed the path and it was Sorta like a maze.Don't get me wrong I hated th visitor event because well..mostly the Aliens. I mean if they put then in PRIVATE maps the whole thing would have been A LOT better, but I still didn't like it. Now the story was actually pretty good and really the whole thing showed what NEXONNA can do with exclusive content. Sure you can argue they worked with the Thailand team but my point still stands. This is defenatly a wait and see development and I do hope it IS worthwhile. Its hard to believe ANY company would just drop a project that has so much potential and so much, well everything. I think if they really did make a good Masteria expansion and actually changed the land, put the raven weapons and others into smithing, and actually make it what it should have been post-bb(still keeping it better then training areas but not to the point that it COMPLETLY destroys them) then I can see some players get really interested again knowing that an area that both new and old players have wanted for so long, I can see some players coming back with a slight shimmer of hope.
P.S I typed this on my phone so my apologies for any spelling and major grammatical errors.
Both the HH2 and Visitor stories weren't that great, IMO, especially the first one (though it's true that it was temp so yeah). But that's just my opinion. Maybe I got too spoiled with Prose's masterpieces. He said he really loved writing, and he did it pretty well, too.
The stories made by Nexon after his quitting were not even far as complex and well-thought as the ones he wrote. But I must admit the Visitor one wasn't BAD either. It was pretty.. banal, compared to the Masteria ones. But what I hated the most about the event weren't even the aliens themselves. It was how poorly designed some maps were. I mean, come on. Most (not all of them though, as some were very original) were just made of re-used pieces of other maps, and ALL of the BGMs were re-used as well (some also unfitting - see VPQ, which is just a walkthrough of half BGMs of Maple randomly thrown there). That's the part where I'd have liked to see more creativity from them, but it's not like they haven't done a good job with that in other things, for example in introducing some interesting new game systems as attacking from a mount, moving platforms (finally!), and dynamic background objects for all maps.
So yeah. They haven't done a bad job with it at all, but Prose's works will probably stay irreplaceable.