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osc8r 1/26/07 1:46:43 AM
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Level Grind -> Item Grind -> Raid Grind -> PVP Grind != Fun to me. It was playable for a couple of months. But is stupidly repetitive and easy. It is pretty much a MMORPG on training wheels. Unfortunately it is a sign of things to come in the future. |
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Floppy 1/26/07 1:48:55 AM
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I still disagree with the lore. I played all the warcraft games (yes, im a bit of a fanboy) and from the books i read in WoW that i remember, it all tied back in with the original 2 games and the lore they had. Im not sure if you ever played the first 2, but in their instruction books they had quite a bit of lore and background information. I personally didnt think it was that bad but that was back in the 90's. are you saying that warcraft doesnt have any lore, or that WoW just doesn't do as good of a job informing the player about the world? |
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fasa 1/26/07 1:49:28 AM
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Originally posted by Celestian It's certainly much better, pve-wise, than loads of games out there. |
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Xasapis 1/26/07 1:57:00 AM
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Originally posted by KyleranIt boggles me to think that a game has such a severe impact on somebody that he entertains such strong emotions as hate. Maybe it's the only gaming gender that has such an impact on players (perhaps due to the time commitment). WoW has a strong impact on the gaming industry, perhaps the strongest any MMO could claim. Whether it is a "good" game, is for the most part irrelevant, since it's too subjective to whatever everyone is looking in a game. To say though that the gender will suffer because of WoW is naive, in my opinion. Lets face it, the next game people will want to play will need to have everything good their current has + more, sometimes alot more than what their current game offers. Look at the people in this forums. They dislike WoW because it does not have the x feature their old game had. Whatever comes after WoW will need to build upon it's legacy and expand. I doubt even Blizzard could make another WoW clone and sell the same way they did with WoW (why would somebody buy a Starcraft MMO for example if it plays the same as WoW?). To dismiss the features WoW offered would not be a wise course for future developers. They need to build upon them, expand, include new ideas and polish them. Build upon the strengths of the gender, remove the weaknesses, add inovations, that's how things will progress. Starting from scratch is ... risky. People don't seem to want revolutionary gameplay, so many games with radical ideas have flopped. People seem to want evolution. Evolution may lead to different paths of course, but it is unwise to ignore the past knowledge. Look at it this way. Would you respect a film director that produces films that please the critics or the audience? |
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murphys123 1/26/07 2:03:30 AM
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Originally posted by Xasapis
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Xasapis 1/26/07 2:10:30 AM
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Originally posted by fasaEVE is different. It's not necessarily better or worse than it's fantacy counterparts. It's a different setting and it plays in a different way. It's one of those very few games that tried to be different and succeeded. So I guess people in this site like it because people tend to like the outsiders. It was a gamble to deviate from the norm, back in the days of EQ gameplay style. A gamble that paid off. |
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tadpol 1/26/07 2:18:21 AM
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Originally posted by Floppy I have played every WC game as well. The Burning Legion? didn't exist in WC2, there were demons and they did shit but there was no titans and great cosmic army out to ruin everyones day. Rend? killed him. Illidan? killed him as well. That Prophet dude in WC3? he got killed in WC2. Nightelves? kinda funny how everyone had forgotten about a race that spawned about 1/2 the inteligent species on the planet and saved the world, no? Drenai alive? nope, they got wiped out by orcs. Drenai as Eradar? lol even the guy who writes the crap admited he stuffed up. Tauran druids? lol yeah they forgot to mention that one. As for the books, you know everything that happened in the games didn't actualy happen teh way you played it because get this a dragon disguised an elf, an orc, a human went back in time (they should have all walked into a bar but I didn't write the joke that is the WC novels). They hung out with Furion, Illiadan and dragons dude past self who doesn't know he is and they like saved the world instead of letting the Night Elves do it themselves. Thus changing history forever. Now personaly I've seen better plots in porn movies but if thats the sort of thing that you can admit to enjoying, fine by me. Paying attention to WoW lore is like watching the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers as an adult, it doesn't realy make sense, they keep bring back the villains, the acting is poor and everything seems to have homosexual overtones. That being said its probably great if your stoned |
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tadpol 1/26/07 2:24:16 AM
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Look at it this way. Would you respect a film director that produces films that please the critics or the audience? I respect film directors who do original stuff instead of trying to imitate the Holywood recipe. So yeah if an MMO did something original and it worked I would respect them alot more than the hacks that just took WoW or EQ and put a slightly different look on it. |
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fasa 1/26/07 2:25:50 AM
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