Discussion: Matt "Positron" Miller on GameSpy

Exactly - not only is evil morally wrong, it's also not nice to look at

I find the red side more interesting to look at than the clean, boring, brightly colored and repetative blue zones. Different strokes for different folks I guess.

I think you're deluding yourself on the equal movement thing. For one thing, more people play blueside now. And there are quite a few of the redsiders who want to play villain toons on blue. Then there are the staunch bluesiders who just want to play villain ATs but don't want to touch redside. Those are the one's who will make a villain and simply move it to blue as soon as they can. They don't want to experience the redside content.

And that's what my point was. The devs never fixed the unappealing parts of redside. And I have no idea if they ever plan to. While it won't stop me from playing redside...I certainly see it stopping other people.

I like the red-side zones better as a whole than blue-side as well, although zones like Striga Isle and Croatoa are nice too.

This is definitely a gameplay mechanic that I hope they are addressing with GR. I enjoy playing villain-side, but I've always felt more like my characters were mercenaries than villains. Given the title "Going Rogue", I'm hoping they are looking at mechanics that will make us feel more like our characters are making their own decisions as opposed to merely being lackeys for NPCs.

Here's a new mechanic that I would like to see: A means to gain new missions by piecing together clues. For heroes, this would be investigating incidents, while for villains this would be finding out where component X for device Y was located in order to steal it or where person A was who had knowledge B in order to kidnap him or her.

This mechanic would make heroes and villains feel more like they were out actively doing good or evil rather than being tools wielded by NPCs.

Now imagine not only being able to gather clues/information/items from regular missions, but AE missions as well. This would allow mission authors to connect their arcs by having smaller arcs drop clues leading to a final arc. In addition, their missions would have the ability to drop random clues selected from the following pools: "Regular Missions", "AE Missions", or "All". In the case of AE missions, authors would be able to mark some clues "public", and all those clues would be added to the "AE Missions" and "All" pools for randomly giving out to others.

So now you could be playing some random missions, get enough clues to lead to an author's initial story that then gave you more specific clues designed to lead you to the final arc. And if the devs enabled some of their regular missions to drop AE mission clues, some of their missions could even lead to yours!

And in the spirit of Going Rogue, some of the clues might have options for what you do with them. If you know group Y is going to steal artifact X, you can decide to protect it, help them, or steal it for yourself before they get to it (although you might have to fight both them and the guards in that case).

I don't know if something like this is in the cards for Going Rogue, as I imagine they are already far along in what they have planned. But it is something I would like to see in some future expansion, paid or otherwise. It is true that ultimately everything boils down to taking out mobs in missions, but what you put around that can have a big impact on how tedious and repetitive doing those missions feel.