All Posts by Tyfreaky

If my memory serves me corretly Vanguard was tailored for the Hardcore. That was their base audiance.

And even the hardcore reviewers and critics suddenly figured out why WoW was so popular after they played Vanguard a while. When even the hardcases are saying "Uhmm I know we wanted oldschool but this is to oldschool" then you have issues.

Both Conan and Vanguard were tailored more for the hardcore gamer than the rest of the gaming public.

And look what happened: Vanguard is barely staying afloat and Age of Conan better get their act together really soon or Warhammer Online and Wrath of the lickking will destroy it.

The problem with hardcore is people get use to things. Your Grampa may talk about the 'good old days' a little to much, but he sure as hell is not going to give up his airconditioning, Plasma TV, superior medical and phone technology.

No dice for me either. I was told by a pretty reliable source that not everyone who got the collectors will be in due to system configurations and such. Also, that some of the emails may come in the next few days.

Its still rather distressing though. Its like being 5 years old and invited to a birthday party and having to send a present ahead of time. Then you find out that before the party there is will be a special event, that all the other kids got an invitation to.

I feel like that kid. And its easy for someone else to say "Its no big deal you still get to go to the open beta"< Most of those people saying that stuff have their codes and letters for the closed beta.

To be absolutely honest I feel more than a little slighted. I paid my money as well. Why no invite? Not everyone can afford a new computer every year but mine is not horrible at all. I'm just a tad upset about the whole damn process.

And if someone says "Its no big deal dont worry about it" I want them to give up their beta code and invite to someone else. If they are not willing to do that then they are just full of it and need to keep quiet.

I have my towel.

I have my collectors edition pre-order

I do not yet have an email from mythic even though my beta center says Im signed up for the collectors edition preorder.

I am starting to panic...

Its one thing to say they are busy and have lots of the things to send, its another when you see 12 pages of people who already have their letter and are downloading the client.

Who do I email or call to get my letter post haste? Do I have to call gamestop EB? Email Mythic? Because I'm freaking the frag out here?

Of those in this thread who said they would try this game, how many of you actually like it?

I just wanted to know the general opinion of the game before I consider downloading it.

Thats a shame, i just started to get interested in the game in the last few days and, then i find this thread.

Its sad but all things must come to an end.

buy the game and stop being so cheap!

I play no more MMO's until I try the Trial first, it saves a lot of time and money.

And yeah I'm cheap, not everyone is made out of cash, and its wintertime... its Tabula Rasa or Natural Gas, and Tabula Rasa wont keep me warm on cold nights, or give me the ability to cook on my stove.

So I would rather try it then purchase. when I get the money.

Originally posted by sookster54

 

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Originally posted by Tyfreaky

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Originally posted by Tunango

 

Get the free trial from this website and try it,
everyone has bad things to say about every game, so just try it for yourself.

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Its no longer possible to get the free trial, they have run out of keys.

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I blame the credit spammers, I've noticed they 've quieted down lately since they too probably can't find more keys after getting account banned 5 seconds after the initial advertisement by a GM.

 

Unfortunatley they currently (I think) Let anyone who joins MMORPG.com get a key.

Which is unfortunate because I really wanted one.

Originally posted by Tunango

Get the free trial from this website and try it,

everyone has bad things to say about every game, so just try it for yourself.

Its no longer possible to get the free trial, they have run out of keys.

(Edit: I meant to quote PoopyHead)

If a game is not specifically made for PVP from the get go, it generally takes a long time till its worth playing.

And honestly the only PVP game that I know that most people don't have an issue with is Guildwars. And thats because from the get go it revolved around PVP.

And does every major MMO have to have PVP now? Because in my opinion you really need to either:

A) Focus completely on PVE

B) Focus completely on PVP

If I want to PVP I go to either GuildWars, Eve, City of Heroes/Villians or (when it comes out) Warhammer Online.

I really want a major MMO with the fortitude to be just PVE, but everyone wants to attract as many people as possible.

No offense to the op, but when I first read his post I thought I was on the Official World of Warcraft  boards...

Honestly everytime a game does a balance tweek, somebody gets pissed.

If even half the people who claim that 'this is the most horrible patch ever" actually did leave WoW, then the game would have collopsed years ago.

And comparing a patch tweak, no matter how impact it has, to the NGE is like comparing a freshwater pond to a salt water ocean. Sure they are both water but there ends the difference.

The NEW GAME ENGINE was just that a new game engine with new mechanics and new graphics, almost the entire game had been REWRITTEN.

Where as the entire core gameplay of TR is still there, just now players and mobs are tougher. Did you even play SWG? There is absolutely no comparison.

To the Op: This will happen every patch, people will get pissed no matter how good the patch is, if sometlhing they like is changed then the crying starts. Even if the something they liked was game breaking or a bug.

Check out the WoW forums sometimes after a patch. Every time a game bug is fixed... "I can't play my class, because such and such , and the bug compensated for that, and now I have a useless class.."

Its always the same old song and dance. Just stick it out till the next patch. And the next. And the next. If your going to complain about games getting patched and tweaked I suggest you get a console and some Old school RPGs.

Remind me to avoid rolling a 'toon on your server...

Everyone is entitled to their opinion..

I would just like to know what MMO's doe's this person find that are not  'cookie cutters"?

I don't post nearly as much as I use to because I hang around the Warhammer Alliance forums. The developers post there regularily, like they use to do here when Richard Mythic was still around.: www.warhammeralliance.com/

I kind of hate to say it, but Mythic has done what they said the y would not do and have 'favorite' sites they like to visit. Which is why so many people wanted a official forum instead of fan forums... but thats another topic/thread.

And this topic comes up there fairly often and I must say, even the most 'innovative' new MMO is generally based on its predecessors.

Look at WoW, all it did was stream line the MMO genre: It took a Honda and turned it into a 'rice rocket'. Not innovative but appealing none the less.

Its kind of like walking, there may be other ways to get around, but eventually your going to need to walk once in a while. Its boring but reliable, and fun if you have the right company

Kind of like an MMO.

Shifty 360 had it right,

Those were young dwarves, that s why short beards.

I gave you two links about dwarves for Warhammer fantasy banner, both official. if you had read them I would not need to explain this.

See the short beards are only on young dwarves, they never ever ever ever cut them,.

Even Slayers dont cut their beards. I am sure they will have short styles in the game, but the beards will get longer. much, much ,much, longer.

And before I start sounding like some lore crazy idiot, you have to understand that beards are a BIG part of the dwarven character in 40k.

If you notice Orks always talk about how they are they biggest and the greenest. Dwarves always talk about there beards.

And honest to god i was not ignoring you but the articles I linked did give you all of the info, I really did not think it would be necessary to write that those were adolescent dwarves, gain the article I linked was official and did state that dwarves NEVER cut there beards. So it seemed kind of obvious to me that you would get the idea of why those beards were short...

Anyway the only reason I made a big deal about it was because well ingame it is a big hairy bearded deal.. as I said, unbearded dwarves just don't exist in Warhammer fantasy battle, there are no models in the last 30 years of tabletop of a beardless dwarf, not even as a joke....

And I should not have made a huge deal about it but like I said you may as well have said 'I really wish orks were pink with stripes"

Its not going to happen and its not even reasonable to ask it. And honestly for someone who spends so much time in a forum for a MMO, you would think you might be interested in the actual IP the game is based on. to each his own.

Originally posted by spikeynorman

arent chaos also supposed to get more mutations too? and Ive been wondering what other races will get any ideas?

 

Paul mentions pudding a lot

Heh dwarves without beards would not ruin my immersionm, remember I mentioned Dark Sun and I loved that campaign setting.

I was just saying that your request seemed a bit ridiculous considering the fact it was Warhammer, it would be like asking for Elves without pointy ears.

Heck they have already broken Warhammer lore repeatedly for 40k, I was just saying that you wanted them to change an iconic racial feature thats been around for 30 year.

To me thats the same as asking for purple striped orks because you dont't like the color green.. it would pretty much change the IP

And I see from your last post that your not really into warhammer lore.. there is a class of outcast dwarves and they are called Troll Slayers, they basically run around naked with axes and attack the biggest thing they can find hoping that it kills them.

But being dwarves they still try to win the fight... and the reason these dwarves becaome slayers is for some act of lost honor... the most common of which is losing a beard (As in the War of the beard? See where I'm going with this?)Thats why they went to war, the diplomat was shaved by the elves and became a slayer, thus pissing off the Dwarven king.

What bothers me is that no one bothers to research the IP. This is not DOAC 2, you cant go by that MMO to judge Warhammer..

And I'm being serious.. If Mythic was doing a DND game on the Forgotten Realms, would you expect 10 foot halfling if they were in DAoC? Or red Drow if they had them in DAoC? Probably not.

That is my problem with your comment your basing a completely different IP and race off of a game with a completely different setting...

But what the hell do I know I am just some old geezer who has been playing Warhammer since he was 7..

Bring on the beardless Dwarves and Purple Striped orks... but if you did, it would not be Warhammer.. it would be another game....

Get my drift?

PS: And the crack about not fitting my expectations? Remember taht Warhammer is a Tabletop IP? Well there are NO beardless dwarf models...period: us.games-workshop.com/games/warhammer/dwarfs/background/default.htm

and

store.us.games-workshop.com/storefront/store.us,

Just like there are no female orc models (except the one that was made as a joke some 15 years ago).

Even in that article by GW it states that they NEVER EVER cut or trim their beards. Not even the outcast.

There is no such thing as a beardless dwarf unless they have been shaved against their will, not even the chaos dwarves go unshaven. Its a pretty standard feature of the IP...

If you don't believe me merely go to any Warhammer table top forum and ask about beardless dwarves... my reaction will seem tame, and next time check up on the IP before making judgements about it..

Originally posted by Kyleran

You know, that's the one reason I don't really care to play Dwarves, most games don't allow a beardless option, or at least a more styled short beard.  They always have these huge heavy tassels lthat literally obscure your chestpiece in some cases (WOW). 

I guess that's gaming lore/tradition, but I wish WAR would break the mold on this.  But if beards are supposed to grow longer with progression then my guess is I won't get what I want.  Oh well, lots of other races to play.

 

Errr... Dwarves have been heavily bearded since freaking Norse mythology....

The only time I have ever heard of dwarves without beards was Dark Sun.

So your telling us  that you don't want to play a traditional character class because they have said character classes  iconic feature?

[/Satire]

In honor of your decision I will refuse to play an elf unless there is an option NOT TO HAVE POINTY EARS because sometimes the ears clip through the helms.

I guess its tradtion but I wish mythic would break the mold on this... Who's with me? Come on lets have a boycott on pointy ears!!

Next Stop: Startrek and Vulcans!

And after we do that we can boycott black people because they have melonan and don't sunburn like white people...... Wait... I am black.... err lets make that Hispanics then...

[/Satire off]

I know that was a bit heavy handed but come on... really you have a problem with beards?

You do know that both D&D and Warhammer Fantasy battle are pretty much responsible for the image of dwarves with beards in popular culture right?

They helped frigging create said image, you also know this right?

And the fact that in Warhammer lore for the last 25 years that the reason Elves and Dwarves don't like each other is because the elves shaved the beard off a Dwarf? And said war that happened was called the "War of the Beard?"

I know its just your opinion but don't you think its a tad bit unreasonable for Mythic/GW to break the mold and allow beardless dwarves, when for the past damn near 30 years they have basically made Dwarves/beards/beer synonomis ?

Its a non issue, you should not have a problem intermingling with the other races

I would personally love a collector's edition..

and would even welcome a pet if it was a half naked Dark Elf Slave girl.....

Originally posted by Bladin

I think this thread, just rickrolled me.

Because at first, i honestly thought this guy was serious.

I'm going to have to go with Bladin on this one...

And honestly dude, was this an attempt at trolling?

Because asking how well a game is going to do on the games forums is like coming to Washington DC and asking someone if they like the Redskins.. when their wearing a redskins jersey and in a car painted red and gold...