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Lian Del Rey - Student  |
Anybody else looking forward to WAR? I'm pretty giddy for it myself.
I was not at all interested in Warhammer until a number months ago when a friend from Moon Guard and I were brooding over the suckiness of WoW (well, my friend was just worn out by it and I just hate the game!  ) and were looking for other MMOs to suit our fancy. When I took the time to actually peek about the Warhammer site I found myself going, "Huh... This is actually pretty cool."
Dark Age of Camelot, also developed by Mythic, was my first MMO and I had more fun playing that than I ever had playing WoW. For people who say that Warhammer's playing too much like WoW, well, WoW has similarities to DAoC, and I'm sure that DAoC has similarities to EQ. You have to consider the genre; if you say that the gameplay in a fantasy MMO is too much like the gameplay in another fantasy MMO, that's like complaining that the first-person-shooting in an FPS is too much like the first-person-shooting in another FPS. There will always be similarities within genres of games, there's no avoiding that. As far as the game itself goes, from what I've read I get a feeling that you are actually doing something, not just grind grind grind for no reason whatsoever. The Tome of Knowledge, which is both like an Xbox 360 Achievements System and lore reference, seems like something pretty nifty, as well as public quests and Realm vs Realm... and 24 classes! (12 per faction, 4 per race.) I particularly enjoy the fact that you can choose between both PvE and PvP to level up from level 1 onwards, so you can just basically progress in whichever manner tickles your fancy at any given time. ;D I'll be rolling Disciple of Khaine, witch hunter, dwarf engineer, elven blademaster, white lion, witch elf, Chaos magus, and possibly Black Guard! Gogogogo. And these screens make me hot. _______________ slorp This post was edited by Lian Del Rey on Jul 07 2008 06:43pm. |
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n00b - Student 
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Quote: I like this comment: "...is going to be perfect for basement-dwelling masochists who have nothing better to do with their time than wade through ten more levels of WOW sludge only to end up right back where they started when they were level 70" Its sort of like resilience and arena gear. Once you have it, the game is balanced again. Everyone having it is like everyone not having it. _______________ Gone but hopefully not forgotten... |
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JP - Academy Pimp 
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well i didnt write it =P _______________ Come on now, every Generation X boy wanted to be Luke Skywalker. Is it because he was a whiney farm boy from some backwater hack planet? No, it's because he was a FREAKING JEDI. He could block lasers with his lightsaber. He could levitate droids & rocks & crap with his mind. Come on, he choked two pig dudes with just a simple gesture. He cut off Darth Vader's hand and kicked him down a flight of stairs. He got his @$$ zapped by lightning from the geezer Emperor, stood up and said "s'at all you got b!tc#??" |
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Monteeeeeee - Nugget 
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didnt know u was in to chess mr j p _______________ If you add me to MSN, tell me who you are 
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JP - Academy Pimp
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10 Reason's why i stopped playing WoW _______________ Come on now, every Generation X boy wanted to be Luke Skywalker. Is it because he was a whiney farm boy from some backwater hack planet? No, it's because he was a FREAKING JEDI. He could block lasers with his lightsaber. He could levitate droids & rocks & crap with his mind. Come on, he choked two pig dudes with just a simple gesture. He cut off Darth Vader's hand and kicked him down a flight of stairs. He got his @$$ zapped by lightning from the geezer Emperor, stood up and said "s'at all you got b!tc#??" This comment was edited by JP on Oct 03 2008 09:07pm. |
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Monteeeeeee - Nugget
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i would try this game but im really pumped for the wow expansion, seems like alot of content being added and prot warrior is about to get real fun _______________ If you add me to MSN, tell me who you are
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JP - Academy Pimp
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A group of us rolled Order on Eerie downs, Myself, Cloakthunder, Talle, Eeth, Duoi and a couple of my hometown friends. Drop me a line if ya care 2 join us. _______________ Come on now, every Generation X boy wanted to be Luke Skywalker. Is it because he was a whiney farm boy from some backwater hack planet? No, it's because he was a FREAKING JEDI. He could block lasers with his lightsaber. He could levitate droids & rocks & crap with his mind. Come on, he choked two pig dudes with just a simple gesture. He cut off Darth Vader's hand and kicked him down a flight of stairs. He got his @$$ zapped by lightning from the geezer Emperor, stood up and said "s'at all you got b!tc#??" This comment was edited by JP on Oct 03 2008 12:34am. |
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Mic Den Octela - Student 
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I guess WAR makes for a good change of scenery. _______________ -Padawan of Virtue -Brother of Menaxia, *|irael, Krynn Adept, Majno, Ris Win Juljul, DaMi3N, Beowulf, Dash Starlight, Carrock and Yuken Zalak Bartender at Munes bar. Sir Mic of Nippledom! Proudly beating Wang, since '07. (Crackdown) |
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JP - Academy Pimp
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I went over my buddies house who has it and the classes are alot of fun, i'll be rolling a Bright wizard cause well...i like to make stuff go b00m!!!(TM Janus) _______________ Come on now, every Generation X boy wanted to be Luke Skywalker. Is it because he was a whiney farm boy from some backwater hack planet? No, it's because he was a FREAKING JEDI. He could block lasers with his lightsaber. He could levitate droids & rocks & crap with his mind. Come on, he choked two pig dudes with just a simple gesture. He cut off Darth Vader's hand and kicked him down a flight of stairs. He got his @$$ zapped by lightning from the geezer Emperor, stood up and said "s'at all you got b!tc#??" This comment was edited by JP on Sep 21 2008 10:43pm. |
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solitude - Jedi Council 
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Quote: the thing about wow that makes it stand out is , its been around for along time, communities have risen from it and thats what keeps people playing, if my friend jules didnt play and we didnt pvp together or raid i wouldnt play it. The game is crap without playing with friends.
warhammer will get popular to you personally if u play it with friends no doubt That's the same with all MMORPGs. Same as this place really, it's the community that makes it. I am sure that you would enjoy WAR if you found a good group of people to play with, but that same can be said for any game, _______________ Joined 16 October 2004 | Retired 10 April 2005 | Returned 05 June 2008 | Made Staff 27 June 2008 | Made Council 18 January 2009 Padawan To Odan-Wei Belouve | Adopted into the Belouve family | Twin to xAnAtOs | Owner of the 4th Quesi sexy badge Brother To Roan Belouve, Nomad, Majno, Silkmonkey, Kensei and Jarhok Belouve
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Alex Dkana - Staff 
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Quote: the thing about wow that makes it stand out is , its been around for along time, communities have risen from it and thats what keeps people playing, if my friend jules didnt play and we didnt pvp together or raid i wouldnt play it. The game is crap without playing with friends.
Thing is thats the case with most MMOG's. The main reason SWG still has the subscribers it does is due to its community, even back when I played that game many people I spoke to were primarily playing due to their friends and guilds etc. An MMOG community is both its best and worst feature really. _______________ To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield | Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken | Rhaiko D'kana - SWTOR EU Guild Co-Founder | Is it what the teacher, teaches? Or what the student learns? A Dkana |
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Monteeeeeee - Nugget
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the thing about wow that makes it stand out is , its been around for along time, communities have risen from it and thats what keeps people playing, if my friend jules didnt play and we didnt pvp together or raid i wouldnt play it. The game is crap without playing with friends.
warhammer will get popular to you personally if u play it with friends no doubt _______________ If you add me to MSN, tell me who you are
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solitude - Jedi Council 
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It feels to me like a WoW clone in the Warhammer universe.
If you like WoW, you might like this, but both arn't to my taste.  _______________ Joined 16 October 2004 | Retired 10 April 2005 | Returned 05 June 2008 | Made Staff 27 June 2008 | Made Council 18 January 2009 Padawan To Odan-Wei Belouve | Adopted into the Belouve family | Twin to xAnAtOs | Owner of the 4th Quesi sexy badge Brother To Roan Belouve, Nomad, Majno, Silkmonkey, Kensei and Jarhok Belouve
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Lian Del Rey - Student 
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The developmental decisions are Mythic's alone. I think the fact EA is so hands-off with the game might be why they were able to rename back to Mythic and dispose of the ugly EA Mythic.
I've played the open beta and have been playing the live game head start. There are so many things I can say about this game that I don't care to repeat because I've done so so many times, but all I'll say is that you guys who haven't been able to to play the game yet are going to love it.  _______________ slorp |
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Tallepyon - Student 
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I am not sure how much of an impact EA had on the game. The kotor mmo is being made by bioware which is also owned my EA. So one can hope that EA's interference in both is minimal. |
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solitude - Jedi Council
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Isn't this published by EA Games?
I am not exactly hopeful given their track record. (Despite Mythic creating DaoC which rocked, the list of EA's fails is rather long ...) Earth & Beyond - shut down Hellgate - godawful Motor City Online - shutdown BattleTech 2125 - canceled UO 2 - canceled _______________ Joined 16 October 2004 | Retired 10 April 2005 | Returned 05 June 2008 | Made Staff 27 June 2008 | Made Council 18 January 2009 Padawan To Odan-Wei Belouve | Adopted into the Belouve family | Twin to xAnAtOs | Owner of the 4th Quesi sexy badge Brother To Roan Belouve, Nomad, Majno, Silkmonkey, Kensei and Jarhok Belouve
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Lian Del Rey - Student 
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I bought my Standard Edition Preorder Box yesterday, so I'm waiting about for the open beta.
/flail _______________ slorp |
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Lian Del Rey - Student
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Quote: I would rather the content in the game be polished and balanced. If cutting out content is what it takes, I am not heartbroken about it at all. A smooth release is very important to sway gamers away from big games like WoW. AoC failed at that with a released version full of major bugs and horrendous class balance problems. Class balance is probably one of the biggest major problems the devs have had to face in making a game with so many classes like WAR, and if cutting them will allow for the game to be balanced, I am content.
My sentiments exactly. _______________ slorp |
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Tallepyon - Student
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I would rather the content in the game be polished and balanced. If cutting out content is what it takes, I am not heartbroken about it at all. A smooth release is very important to sway gamers away from big games like WoW. AoC failed at that with a released version full of major bugs and horrendous class balance problems. Class balance is probably one of the biggest major problems the devs have had to face in making a game with so many classes like WAR, and if cutting them will allow for the game to be balanced, I am content. |
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SaZ - Student 
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Quote: and that it's the first MMO to ever, ever, ever cut content from release.
they must be kidding...a lot of very succesful and popular mmos had that... like WoW. _______________ playing jk3 since 30th of january (2005), member since 1st of february. [Unofficial Master to Vision and Z�diac ] If you can make a fool of yourself infront of 300 people you can do anything - Jaiko D'kana |
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Lian Del Rey - Student
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Well, the release-withdrawal of 4 capital cities and 4 classes has made some people utter doomsday phrases, some complain about their sudden inability to play Warhammer, and some happy that they were finally able to find the excuse they were looking for to say that WAR will fare as well as AoC in release, that it's a failure of an MMO, that becoming part of EA doomed WAR from the start, and that it's the first MMO to ever, ever, ever cut content from release. Which is entirely untrue.
Everyone else sees it as both a smart move and a necessity to push for a Fall release. It'll all be patched in later (if they can't make the classes that were cut [Black Guard, Choppa, Hammerer, Knight of the Blazing Sun] more fun, then they'll introduce new classes entirely) so there's nothing to worry about! Most people are making this far more big of a deal than it actually is. _______________ slorp This comment was edited by Lian Del Rey on Jul 14 2008 06:31pm. |
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Lian Del Rey - Student
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Oh. Haw. >_> _______________ slorp |
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SaZ - Student 
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'assassin' type of classes. not sure what it would be in WAR tho :]
Witch elf! you mean its assassin class or its good AGAINST assassin classes? because i meant the later thing :p _______________ playing jk3 since 30th of january (2005), member since 1st of february. [Unofficial Master to Vision and Z�diac ] If you can make a fool of yourself infront of 300 people you can do anything - Jaiko D'kana This comment was edited by SaZ on Jul 07 2008 08:00pm. |
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Lian Del Rey - Student
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Quote: 'assassin' type of classes. not sure what it would be in WAR tho :]
Witch elf! _______________ slorp |
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SaZ - Student
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since Daoc brought so much to the genre i think there is hope for WAR too.
however while i like warhammer lore, some things just make me sick... like 'ork' design for example... looks simply idiotic. which kinda sux coz that would mean i wont be able to slaughter them as 'evil races'. as for class id play... it would probably something that is very versatile... and ofcourse you wouldnt have to fear any 'assassin' type of classes. not sure what it would be in WAR tho :] _______________ playing jk3 since 30th of january (2005), member since 1st of february. [Unofficial Master to Vision and Z�diac ] If you can make a fool of yourself infront of 300 people you can do anything - Jaiko D'kana This comment was edited by SaZ on Jul 07 2008 07:03pm. |
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Tallepyon - Student 
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I will definitely be getting the game the day it comes out. I am leaning towards playing as a witch hunter. |
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