tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post461989302128048364..comments2024-03-27T10:35:46.596+01:00Comments on Ravalation: LOTRO: Day, night and lousy weatherRavanelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03447777640056476366noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-42982794018076013982014-03-31T01:23:14.264+02:002014-03-31T01:23:14.264+02:00Ah beautiful - no game does it as well as LOTRO :)...Ah beautiful - no game does it as well as LOTRO :) awesome screenshots.Sylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04473554645340972749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-84734950084878214202014-03-29T10:55:41.875+01:002014-03-29T10:55:41.875+01:00The original EverQuest does indeed have weather, a...The original EverQuest does indeed have weather, although it's obviously not as advanced graphically as all the latest whizbangs. It snows in some of the more northerly zones (Everfrost Peaks, as Eldaeriel mentions). I was always amused by the precipitation there because, in the EQ way, things were usually accompanied by a terse little chat message: "It begins to rain." Could be very ominous at times, especially when you consider...<br /><br />They also made a very big deal about the day/night cycle, at least in the earlier years of the game. Some races were totally night-blind (humans and similar) while others (dark elves) had perfect vision in the dark, so that sometimes played a factor in where you could go at what times, and you needed to think about carrying a light source. I have a vague memory of accidentally finding myself in Nektulos Forest (which is a starting area for the pure evil dark elves) as a Paladin, and not being able to see anything. I heard/saw some dark elves talking in chat and decided the best thing to do was log out for a while until day time arrived and I could find my way out, hahahah.<br /><br />Also, night time is when all the scaries come out - the ruins in the East Commonlands (RIP; they merged that zone and now it's just "Commonlands") were quiet during the day, but ghouls and skeletons and zombies spawned there after sundown, and even high levels were afraid of Kithicor Forest at night (back when 50 was high level, at least). Lotro has this feature, too, in at least one place that I can think of.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08619001003584710896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-17455275140503544812014-03-27T17:13:16.832+01:002014-03-27T17:13:16.832+01:00Great shots! (I'm a sucker for good screenshot...Great shots! (I'm a sucker for good screenshots). Believe it or not, even STO has a day/night cycle... but sadly, I can only think of one location where it's active, and that's on the social area on Bajor, and they don't have weather. However, it's space, so day and night are more variable, though I wish it was in more social areas, too.Ochohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11156181787884658756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-12349205292154661532014-03-27T12:33:38.513+01:002014-03-27T12:33:38.513+01:00I love your idea about interaction with weather ef...I love your idea about interaction with weather effects. How cool would wading through the mud be? Now I come to think of it, there's awfully little mud in the games I play. I do suspect it will cause a lot of complaining players (but when do they not?). If you end up in a snow storm in Wildermore or Forochel in LotRO, it does make moving about a bit more tricky (especially if you put the UI off), but that's the only occasion I can think of. However, I happened to walk slowly through deep snow yesterday in Assassin's Creed - but that's a single-player game with instanced weather, feels different somehow. Yay for more realism and immersion in online games!Ravanelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03447777640056476366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-34503733886589051442014-03-27T12:12:21.108+01:002014-03-27T12:12:21.108+01:00Wow, so many responses! Thanks for updating me wit...Wow, so many responses! Thanks for updating me with all this info. Seems I was in dire need for one!Ravanelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03447777640056476366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-5099619762900839552014-03-26T21:42:33.139+01:002014-03-26T21:42:33.139+01:00WoW has weather too... in fact, I thought most fan...WoW has weather too... in fact, I thought most fantasy MMOs had a day/night cycle and weather, but I haven't actually played that many so I don't know for sure.<br /><br />I, too, miss having these things in SWTOR sometimes. It always makes me smile when I go to Dromund Kaas and it rains - of course it's <i>always</i> rainy there, but it does feel a bit different from the weather everywhere else.<br /><br />Then again, it's a game where you travel to different planets - it would be weird if they all followed the same day/night cycle, and I can imagine that adding different ones for each planet would be quite a lot of work - and all that for areas that players don't necessarily spend that much time in.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-7560842954113587022014-03-26T17:43:20.977+01:002014-03-26T17:43:20.977+01:00Hm.. just started raining in an area I'm in in...Hm.. just started raining in an area I'm in in Rift.. so maybe there's a bit of weather there. Yay for rain.. for once.. :PLothiriethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12320905047246144507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-8225838066974553302014-03-26T17:18:10.994+01:002014-03-26T17:18:10.994+01:00GW2 has day/night cycles as does Rift, but neither...GW2 has day/night cycles as does Rift, but neither has weather cycles. I have to say that is one thing I miss. In fact.. I don't think it rains in GW2 at all now that I think of it! Lothiriethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12320905047246144507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-69807145337566926862014-03-26T16:57:57.755+01:002014-03-26T16:57:57.755+01:00Hm. From the top of my head Everquest 2 is the onl...Hm. From the top of my head Everquest 2 is the only MMO I can remember having a weather system. And their rain wasn't all that good either since it often made my characters hair get a weird color shade. I might also not like it much because it had the tendency of raining in-game when it was raining in real life too. Conspiracy, I say!<br /><br />The games that marked my memory the most however in terms of night/day cycle and weather were single player games though. Morrowind was the first where that marked me with the way the day/night cycle made it the world feel very immersive. Then there were the sandstorms and the nice touch of characters (including ours!) raising their hands to protect their eyes from the sand.<br /><br />Skyrim was another, although it might have been my heavily modded one. Nowdays I have trouble distinguishing it my memories of it unmodded from modded. Anyway, the snow storms are always amusing in there, making the cold regions feel all that more immersive. Rains were also pretty amusing except for those thunders added by a mod. Some of them came really close to striking to my character more than a few times! I think it might have killed some wild animals too in a couple occasions. I just wonder what would happen if it hit a dragon... Hmm...<br /><br />And yes, I just realized this comment could become a blog post in itself. /sigh I will just make a note about it and seek some screenshots whenever possible.Rakunohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00253609981961681014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5922857679980740630.post-85446079675955797032014-03-26T14:03:23.832+01:002014-03-26T14:03:23.832+01:00hiya :) gorgeous screenshots! I love the weather ...hiya :) gorgeous screenshots! I love the weather in lotro! It's funny because pretty much the main MMOs I've played have had day/night cycles and at least some form of a basic weather system (eq2 & vanguard and of course, lotro). My strongest memory is in Qeynos / Antonica (eq2) as it alternates between sunny/cloud/rainy days (used to rain in your house too at one point - think they fixed that :P), Everfrost used to have snowstorms too. Vanguard, has sort of rolling weather fronts across the continents. Star Wars Galaxies also had variable weather (at least rain, didn't play but friends did) and I wouldn't be surprised if the original Everquest had some forerunner of a weather system.<br /><br />Elder Scrolls Online also has day/night cycles and varying weather cycles, which i'm really looking forward to.<br /><br />I wish they would occasionally have very dramatic weather effects - proper pea soupers (fog) in mob filled landscapes would make travelling pretty scary, as would blizzards. Or weather effects that slow your horse (mud from the rain) or affect you in other ways - that would be cool :)<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com