WAR (Warhammer Online)

http://mythicmktg.fileburst.net/war/us/home/flash/2008_03_VotM.html

Watched the latest VOTM and everything about the game screams dated...

- Animations and combat animations are horrible, they remind me of EQ back in 1999.
- Textures are sooo low detailed and lots looked smudged and nasty.
- Polygons everywhere like we used to get back in games like 8 years ago.
- Combat looks sooo slow and dull all they are doing is standing there click on one animation all the time. If you want to imrpess me how about making the combat look fun in the videos?
- The in game soudns from what I heard are just poor and low quality and I just hope I can turn off the bad music and hear ambiant noises instead... you just know they are gonna be as poor.
- Environments are bland and boring... doesn't have that handcrafted feel that WOW does and lacks soooo much detail and just looks horrible and empty like EQ2 does.
- Art style is pretty poor in game, it's again bland....... I see the concept art and it looks AMAZING but frigging look at it in game and looks pretty piss poor.


Frigging the game looks better than from previous years yeah but it's set to ship fall of this year and I just can't see all this changing by the end of the year. I mean frigging if these are the problems I can see and hear then I dread to think how bad and buggy the gameplay is going to be like.


Flame me all you like if you can't take the truth but the game just looks bad and this is a forum and i'm giving my feedback. Most of my friends who arn't hardcore mmo players and have only played games like COD and WOW just say they arn't going to buy the game cause the graphics suck. Frigging most of you say it's not about the graphics but you are confusing technical with artistic and besides the graphics are what you're looking at when playing so you have to like them.

The whole game just screams dated flop from the success everyone thinks it'll have atm, I reckon it'll just have a hardcore crowd of fanbois like 99% of the mmorpgs out there and slowly die like DAOC and most mmorpgs have been doing over the years. Not even Warhammer fans will like it because it just doens't say "Warhammer" to them and the way the game is set out is just DAOC and not Warhammer Table Top like the fans will want. It may have great sales but it wont hold many subs for long and I reckon after te first year it'll have around the average 100-200k subs most seem to have these days.

Yea because your opinion is definitly the truth and nobody else has one

I bet that video was made with lowest graphic settings possible? Haven't kept close eye on WAR but last time I saw some footage it looked alot better than that.

Giving feedback for beta videos is like giving feedback for a prostitute you saw working a corner.

O I thought this thread was how many votes of lameness we can give negative nancy OP...oh well nothing to see here move along! Move along.

If people chose games on beta graphics over actual final game play ...this would be a sad sad place of Crysis made Crap...pretty game..but pretty damn lame and boring and nothing exciting.

A Review of a Final Product based on BETA footage.
A challenge that we can not take the truth, based on BETA footage.

Nothing to see here, move along please.

So the point of the topic was what? You want us to argue with you or try to convince you that this game is better than you think? This would be like taking time to post on every single games forum that we have here stating that in my opinion, I was not impressed by any of them. It is just an opinion that doesn't really matter and doesn't really need to be said.

Warhammer is going to be huge. Whether you like it or not, there is a good chance you will be playing it one of these days. Correct me if I am wrong but it is refreshing to see beta testers actaully placing pre-orders instead of bashing. 

Originally posted by EEL85

Warhammer is going to be huge. Whether you like it or not, there is a good chance you will be playing it one of these days. Correct me if I am wrong but it is refreshing to see beta testers actaully placing pre-orders instead of bashing. 

*Points to his beta time in his signature*, I have pre-ordered two collector's editions, one for me, and one for my father ^^. Forget the normal pre-order!

I agree with the OP. Hopefully they will improve the combat animations. They look terrible.  In my opinion, the real problem that this game has is its name and trying to be similar to WoW. And although WAR will have RvR, the WoWish look and feel this game has is a turn off.  I like the races and the classes though.

I am going to wait until this game is released and see the finished product (I am will give it a shot). But so far, the more I see about this game, the more dissapointed I get.

Originally posted by Moretrinkets

I agree with the OP. Hopefully they will improve the combat animations. They look terrible.  In my opinion, the real problem that this game has is its name and trying to be similar to WoW. And although WAR will have RvR, the WoWish look and feel this game has is a turn off.  I like the races and the classes though.

I am going to wait until this game is released and see the finished product (I am will give it a shot). But so far, the more I see about this game, the more dissapointed I get.

 

 

They stated in a pod cast either last month or the month before that , that all of these videos they will be showing aren't actually in game beta tester footage, but scripted events that they did to show specific things in the game in small video of the month videos.