I know I just wrote my weekly love letter to RIFT yesterday, but I woke up this morning to video from the Gamescom conference that gives us our first look at Storm Legion’s brand new player and guild housing systems. I’ve already established myself as a fan of housing in MMOs, and I am delighted by what I see in this video.
This covers most of my wishlist for player housing:
- Free form furniture and decor placement.
- Furniture obtained from achievements, quests, crafting, events, and other activities.
- Obtain display trophies from bosses and high level activities.
- Build freeform items from planks and so on, apparently (ie. a treehouse in the video).
- Killed a new boss? Now you and your friends can take over his lair and redecorate it!
- Functional additions, like a bartender you can buy drinks from.
Trion already took my money, and I am pretty happy about that. (It’s me, I am the RIFT fanatic. :) ) Behold the video of the presentation!
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Anyone claiming that MMOs are a dying breed? I don’t recall a time when I was this spoilt for quality choice. Riders of Rohan is looking great, Mists of Pandaria gets harder to ignore every day and Guild Wars 2 looms. I wish I had time to play Secret World and to be honest I would not mind dipping my toes in Tera or even going back to SWOTOR for a couple of months. On top of it all we have Rift’s own expansion which is looking extremely promising.
This housing system looks very intriguing and makes great use of Trion’s ability of creating flexible tools. The game engine which they created keeps pleasantly surprising me time and time again. Its not hard to envision a future where Rift has player made dungeons! The only thing I miss is having an actual home in the game world. Then again it might be a good thing considering the number of phallic symbols some players will inevitably create.
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