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Better Shores intends to provide a cosier, less grindy experience than the category’s classics
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The co-creator of long-running free-to-play dream MMO RuneScape has actually exposed the job his brand-new studio has actually been dealing with for the last 10 years. Surprise! It’s a brand-new free-to-play dream MMO. Andrew Gower and designers Fen Research firmly insist that Brighter Shores will stabilize its sentimental feel with a fresh technique to the well-worn category that Gower himself assisted use in over 2 years earlier.
Andrew, along with siblings Paul and Ian, developed RuneScape back in 2001, in addition to co-founding British studio Jagex to keep it running. Gower would remain at Jagex up until 2010, dealing with the ultimate follower to the initial RuneScape he did much of the advancement for – because rechristened as RuneScape Classic – before avoiding to discovered brand-new studio Fen Research.
After more than a years mainly off the radar, Gower and Fen have actually revealed Brighter Shores, a free-to-play online multiplayer video game that at a glimpse quickly bears the trademarks of Gower’s previous deal with RuneScape.
It has a comparable top-down isometric point of view, similar to old-school nineties CRPGs, with a familiar mix of dream questing as twists on timeless dream classes – gamers can select to be a Cryoknight, Hammermage or Guardian in beginning area Hopeport’s town guard – and crafting through blacksmithing, fishing, alchemy and comparable occupations. There’s a signature British whimsy in the video game’s statement trailer too, with Fen stating the brand-new dream world of Adothria will similarly be occupied by “an abundance of eccentric characters”.
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While the studio freely leans into the ‘classic’ feel of Brighter Shores in their statement, however, they likewise guarantee that the MMO will look forward as much as back. Among the MMO “defects” Fen are seeking to reduce in their brand-new offering is the grinding related to classics of the category, stating that “ingenious video game style” (without defining precisely how that’ll operate in practice) will lower the slog.
The video game will be a display for Fen’s initial engine Fenforge, which does undoubtedly appear like an extremely refined RuneScape in its stylised character designs and grid-based environments, which have the ambiance of a tabletop Dungeons & & Dragons map drifting in a space.
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Better Shores will likewise obviously withstand matching its free-to-play offering with microtransactions, rather offering “many hours of material” without requiring to pay a cent, with the choice to purchase an “extensive premium pass” to open extra missions and locations launched as part of the video game’s continuous episodic story. The capability to trade products in between gamers – a huge part of RuneScape – will likewise be locked behind the paid pass,
