When/If Steam Greenlight: Would you be willing to start fresh?

[J45]

Yes, the atmosphere! login for the first time, walk towards the first door you see, click ok on the panel, end up in the main city with booming voices "NCPD has an eye on you!", etc.

it was the best ever, we didnt need our hands held back then, gamers knew how to game, you get into a game and do what you want, not "what do i do? where is the mission guy? once ive done this guys missions are there more i can do? is this MMO about nothing but missions and leveling?" (you get the idea of what new comer MMO users are like).

REMOVE NEWBIE MC5!!!

Being able to go outside of Neocron after a few days in the sewers and just explore and kill anything you wanted (within reason) was such a great concept. The missions from the citycomm felt optional rather than mandatory so no pressure to keep doing them (also having to go to a citycomm everytime makes them very ineffective for xp). It helped so much with the atmosphere and immersion into the game without those "I must do this" pressures.

Even the LE chip for me was a concept that was brilliant, rather than having to choose a PvE or PvP server I could simply take the LE chip out and go do some PvP. Though maybe reconfigure how you can put it back in.

The game did so much right in terms of immersion that other games are scared of trying. I was playing grav the other day and whilst it was decent it gave a step by step tutorial of what to do next. It just felt like I was following a set of instructions of how to play a game. I understand that nostalgia has a part to play in this but there is hard facts to support Neocron letting the player make up his own mind of what to do rather than being spoon fed via tutorials and quests.

It may be a niche market that still wants this but I'm confident theres's still a fair amount of players who prefer this style and enough to make Neocron a success. Now whether its Neocron who takes that market remains to be seen.

[yavimaya]

i totally agree with everything J45 said.

I think most "real" (long term) gamers dont like to be dictated to, nor be made to feel like a baby.
i come from a generation of gamers who never once read a manual that come with the game, but simply played it.
i think there are a lot of "kids" who are used to games like WOW and the like which are all mission based and pretty much all just very basic, then games like WOW have pulled a lot more women into the world of games, i have noticed that a lot of them also like to have their hands held, especially those who didnt game before they started playing WOW with their boyfriend, etc.