[rabb1t]

Gamespot - The Secret World Q&A - The Dragon Faction Details

Dev interview and video. (The video is sadly just hand-drawn artwork.)

[rabb1t]

Finally, in-game footage of The Secret World - http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gd...e-secret/63665

[Fozzik]

Ah, that's better. Here's a secret world thread.

I'm definitely following this one... it could be really cool. There's something about the setting and the backstory that's very appealing to me. We'll see if they pull it off where the rubber meets the road.

[mmorpeegee]

Hmm... It looks kind of interesting to me.

It looks very much like a fast paced action game, and I usually much prefer slow combat like EQ, where battles last quite a long time. So this looks like the kind of game I wouldn't play by myself. However if the combat is ok, and if you play the game with friends and you all get involved and fight on the edge of your seat, and there is some longevity to the game too, then this could be a big deal for me and my friends.

We are desperate to play games together, but there is nothing we all like. We tried WoW but I got bored after a month. We tried Vanguard but they got bored after 2 weeks. We tried Left 4 Dead and we all got bored after a week. Maybe this game will be something we can play. I hope so!

[AsheMan]

The video looks good to me but I've had too much experience with Funcom to go on looks alone. We'll have to see how it really plays out after its released.

[rabb1t]

There's a dev video too where they sort of contradict themselves in design. The dev says "there are no levels", but continues that with "you use experience you get to open up skills." So... you gain experience and it sounds like everything is skill treed after that. Thus, however many skills you open and how deep you go roughly translates to level. Maybe he doesn't get that conecpt. It does make for some interesting possibilities, but it worries me that unless the trees go deep we may see an awful lot of hybriding. (Unless they restrict trees by faction, which just means we'd see a lot of within faction hybriding that don't look like the other faction hybrids.)

But then too it makes me happy as this potentially means it could be one of the few games where I can truly make my Warrior/Rogue hybrid. But then I was expecting to go Templar, so I don't know how important a role stealth will play in such a game.

[rabb1t]

Gametrailers - First 30 Minutes Featurette HD

About time something new came out about the game.

[Fozzik]

That doesn't give me a very warm fuzzy feeling about this game... a lot of that video was concept art. Seems like the game is a long way from being done.

The graphics look a bit dated and rough, which is also a bad sign if they are still a year or more from release.

I'm concerned this game might end up being vaporware.

[rabb1t]

It's Funcom, I've been concerned since announcement. (MMOGs 1 Win and 1 Mostly fail isn't the greatest track record. I'm still holding judgement though, but yeah, not really a lot of new footage.

[tdewey10]

It's in closed beta now. Hoping for a beta key - don't see how it will release April 2012 if it isn't in open beta yet....