You would have had to play The Secret World… actually, no.
You would have had to have played The Secret World, beaten the main game, learned how to beat the Gatekeeper keeping you from the Nightmare dungeons, learned how to beat the Nightmare dungeons, trained up for the New York Raid (which is what that video is showing), then beaten the New York Raid* before you could truly understand precisely how barking mad insanely impossible the gameplay in that video is. I… that represents the obsessive effort, meticulous planning, perfect situational awareness, and instinctive teamwork of three of the best players of this particular MMO. I’m a slightly better player of the game just for watching it.
Wow. Just… wow.
Moe Lane
PS: Sometimes these posts are just for me.
*It’s a ten-man raid where the entire party routinely wipes multiple times until they get their rhythm going. Nobody ever shrugs it off. Well, apparently almost nobody.
I keep telling myself that with my love of Urban Fantasy, this would be the *one* MMO I could love. And for all the critique of the gameplay I saw in the reviews, that actually impresses me as fairly intuitive. But then, if I started playing, I’d never, ever, get any writing done.
Moral conundrum. 😛
takes me back to my days playing LotRO and doing solo or under-manned challenges there. 6-manning the Balrog (the final boss in a 12-man raid) back at level 50 is still one of my fondest memories of that game. played that game for 6 years and miss it, but I hate the changes they made to the skill and trait systems back at the end of last year so much that I basically haven’t played at all since January 🙁
It looks like a game in which you can shoot your own team members over and over again without any consequences.