World of Warcraft

Originally posted by Recant

 

My God.... Kids... playing games?   I would like to see your evidence sir, for that is a serious claim.

Oh wait, you mean Warhammer has less kids.  Right. 

Well now, some people like playing MMO's with cartoony graphics and pretty colors. Thats cool, to each their own.

Personally, I'd rather play a fantasy MMO that doesn't look like it was drawn by the people who did the Pokemon cartoons, but thats just me.

Gotta raid 'em all!

I like WoW because of the variety and balance in their spells and classes.  In WAR I like the public quests, the pvp drive behind it, the idea of raid vs raid castle fights, and realm vs realm.  But WAR does not have the polish WoW did, which is very sad.  I will be staying away from WoW because after awhile it becomes a boring repetative grindathon that you cant win compared to the people who have more time, but they sure have some unique and fun spells.  WAR's combat is not nearly as animated (in WoW you can tell which spells are being cast when which is nice) nor in depth.  They are both nice, but because WoW has frustraited me i will lean twoards WAR.

Originally posted by n8webb

Ive been a "biased" Blizzard fan for 10-15 years now and have owned and enjoyed every game (+ x)  that they have put out----but i liked what i saw of war so i spent $50 to see what all the fuss was about--------its good.......really good.  it has all that WOW does and much more-- some stuff needs work and im sure it'll get it, but this game has much more to offer.  I always thought i liked the "cartoony" graphics that WOW has until I played WAR-----its excellent, and WOTLK or no, i think ive found a game for a long time--theres just sooo much more in the game already and sooooo much more room for improvement.  you cant lose with this game and if you are a "flamer" --whatever that is---then you are cheating yourself.

So you chose one WoW expansion over the other?

Get it *winkwink*?

Originally posted by sandboxy

Originally posted by n8webb

Ive been a "biased" Blizzard fan for 10-15 years now and have owned and enjoyed every game (+ x)  that they have put out----but i liked what i saw of war so i spent $50 to see what all the fuss was about--------its good.......really good.  it has all that WOW does and much more-- some stuff needs work and im sure it'll get it, but this game has much more to offer.  I always thought i liked the "cartoony" graphics that WOW has until I played WAR-----its excellent, and WOTLK or no, i think ive found a game for a long time--theres just sooo much more in the game already and sooooo much more room for improvement.  you cant lose with this game and if you are a "flamer" --whatever that is---then you are cheating yourself.

 

So you chose one WoW expansion over the other?

Get it *winkwink*?

lol nice.

I'm playing WAR and it is fun but in no way am I in love with the game. If people don't like WAR then it is no skin off my back, it's really their preference. Right now WAR has an advantage because other than WOW there is no really good mmo out there that people are in love with. Thpugh I admit, as soon as Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 hit the stands its goodbye WAR and mmos for quite awhile.

Anyone judging an MMO it's launch month is pretty goofed in the head.  I seem to remember a certain Blizzard MMO with serious issues with lag, bugs and queue's at launch.   But that's aside the point.

WoW players will stay with WoW, and I'm glad for it.  You an spot the WoW head's in WAR all ready.  "But I need my gear" types, the ones that dont' get that winning the objective in a scenario is worth it and go chasing a single player while the other side rushes off to win...

It's pretty obvious who get's it and who does not.  WAR is not WoW, despite the superficial similarities between them.  In the end, WAR will appeal to anyone sick of grinding the computer, and WoW will appeal to those that prefer the more steady challenge OF the computer.

I for haven't touched WoW in two months.. and ya know what?  I don't miss it a whit.   WAAGGHHH!!!

Originally posted by coffee

played WAR... wasnt impressed at all, WaR has just 1 thing WoW does not currenty "RVR" but WoW has so much more that WAR does not.....but thats my opinion.

In short WoW offers more then WAR.. WAR offers RvR and thats it.

I can just tell by your big fat signature you hate everything not Blizzard.

1 thing? RvR? And what exactly does WoW have?  Guess what it is? Its 1 thing.  Gear.

The game is 100% Gear based.  And from what Ive read from beta testers the gear gap just gets even bigger from 70-80.

So everything you do in WoW is for gear.  With out good gear you can no do anything.  So the game is 100% absolute gear based.

Now you may enjoy that but I sure don't.

How do you get gear? PvP "wellfare" epics and Raids.  Huge mondo time sinks.  The game was great wonderful game before they added in raids. 

RvR and pvp is the same shit, least you get to fight cross servers  vs other players not his BS were their are only like 4k to a server, and even servers that are full seem empty, and the game is all about BGS, so how is War not WoW?????? Scenarios = bgs, thats all ppl do and the Pve is horrendous

Originally posted by Recant

What a load of crap. 

I'm an MMO Veteran, starting with EQ in 2000ish Kunark Era and I found Warhammer to lack the control and brilliant game design of WoW.  It cannot possibly hope to touch World of Warcraft in every department.  The only thing it has is it's 'twist' of RVR.   Every MMORPG these days has their special 'twist' to try and seperate themselves from Wow, but their overall experience falls far short.  Even if RVR is soo important to you that you have to play the game just for that feature, the  overall experience will always be far diminished compared to WoW.

WAR feels rough and outsourced, like every part has been outsourced at the last minute and tied together.  The game doesn't have the flow of WoW, theres no internal consistency and it just doesn't feel fun to play.

WAR feels like a game designed by Javascript "programmers" instead of game designers.

There is just no comparison.   The Scenarios are nothing more than blander, more imbalanced battlegrounds with poor design and a few useless 'twists' that serve no purpose than to lure people into thinking the gameplay is deeper.   The combat is disgraceful, it's far more poorly designed than WoW, where everything connects and flows and it just feels like superior design compared to WAR's patchwork quilt of a game.

And the general gaming population know this to be true.  Not most of you guys for sure, but our opinions here are not superior to the silent masses, nor are they indicative at all of what's going on in the real world.   This place is a hotbed of negativity and you cannot see the wood for the trees, WoW is a far superior game and this is not personal opinion or blind fanboism, this is simply the way things are.  You don't have to like it, but to deny it is just lying to yourself.  You will never understand why you enjoy gaming until you accept and understand the fantastic aspects of WoW, even if not to your personal tastes, to hide behind ignorance by making false claims that your game of choice exceeds in every area is self-dellusion.

Warhammer is an OK game, it will forever be OK and will forever live in the shadow of WoW and perhaps the game that eventually surpasses it.

You will most likely shake your head violently and dismiss me as a troll, yet with your petty MacDonalds and Britney spears analogies  that you come up with in bouts of pseudo-intellectualism, and your pretentious 'wow is just a kiddie game, RVR is where its at!' excuses are transparent and as false as the promises of all of these hyped MMORPGs.

I'll no doubt see you on these boards not long after WAR is just a memory eagerly anticipating the next 'WoW killer'

And all I can say, as I have said time and time again to people on these boards waiting for Hellgate, LOTOR, Tabala Rasa,  Archlord, D&D online... bloody dozens of the things.. is.. I told you so.

Bumped up for greatness !!!

What was that yesterday night on this forum: the invasion of the Wow "haters" or something?

Personal insults and attacks on persons known to love an MMO named Wow ?

If this continues I am going to call 911. We need protection.

Tx Recant for putting everything in place. This forum is worse than fighting the invasions in Mount Hyjal. We had a blast there last night. Far better than looking into the post of these threads.