Okay, thank you! :)

which games?  AAA?

Thanks for the response... Everyone in my guild quit... Im not sure whether to even try it or just wait.  Or play something else like EQ2 or Lotro.  Cant go back to WoW...

I quit WoW, and havent played games in over a month.  Getting that itch... is this game worth buying?

Originally posted by elocke

Originally posted by aithieel

Maybe go play just an RPG game?

Name ONE that comes close to offering a VG/FFXI experience.  Trust me I've tried.  

FFXII For PS2.  It's basically a single player FFXI.  Huge world, insane secret bosses and gear, "hunts" (optional hardcore bosses), fully explorable open world with unlockable hard to find regions.  About 75% of the game is hidden and unlockable... Game is fucking MASSIVE.

Originally posted by nomss

DCUO, Rift, Tera, SWTOR, Guild Wars 2.

DC is the only one thats released!!  Hook a brother up with Rift/Tera beta access!

In my 14 years of MMORPG playing I've pretty much seen it all.  I'm currently back in WoW, but only raiding 2 nights a week so I need a game to play on off-nights.  I really love Titan Quest, Diablo 2, and torchlight but I desire a more compelling community and that gratifying meaningful progression that MMORPG's offer.  

I've tried Some F2P games like Dragon Saga and Maple Story... yikes.

Am I missing anything?  I've tried LoTRO, Aion, AOC, WAR, Guild Wars....

Where is this info?

My current LS is all 75s who ignore me :(

I am 14/7 want to play BLM fulltime in endgame. I came from WoW 5 yrs hardcore raiding, im not a noob I just need people to hang out with and play with!

Want to do it all! let me know.

Originally posted by Khrymson

Originally posted by rebelleon

a tutorial  on how to set up things like better draw distance to high screen resoltion or other things to make mondels and textures look nicer would be appretiated here!

 

Links within a multitude of threads for such have been disscussed in great detail on how to do this on these forums and at many others....Search and google are your friend...I tire of repeating it!

You've posted these images in a handful of threads here, but described your process in none.  If you have already posted this somewhere and "tire of repeating it" then please post links to where you posted it.  Google reveals nothing.  What purpose does posting your screen comparisons to the community serve other than to boost your ego if you don't share the step-by-step instructions with other players?

The funniest is, my girlfriend and I didnt sleep at all... I woke up at 2am, 3am, 4am, 5am, finally got out of bed at 6am because I couldnt sleep.... she rolled over and said: "barbarians?"  I said "YESS!!!!"

Just to give you guys a look at our hardware over here:

Im running the game on 4GB RAM, with the new 9800, max settings on Vista.  GAME LOOKS INSANE.

BUT WAIT:

My girlfriend is playing on my OLD box, old 7800 BFG card, 2 GB RAM, and a 3 year old AMD processor and THE GAME STILL LOOKS GREAT on medium-ish settings.

Funcom delivered!

Originally posted by Indo

I'm hesitant of AoC simply because it's EA backed. If it doesn't produce stellar numbers, EA will pull the plug even if it's the best MMO ever made.

/fail

Logged on around 5PM... created a character and jumped right into the action without a problem.  The game is AWESOME.  super violent fast combat, great graphics, and.... dare I say it -- this could definitely be THE MMO for the next 5 years.

My girl and I come from a seriously dedicated line of endgame raiding and experience and are looking to get in early into a PVE west-coast late night (8-9pm) raiding guild.  Send me a PM ASAP if you have any leads or are looking for a talented tank/ranged DPS

Originally posted by NotNiceDino

 

Originally posted by Randem

Why should Warhammer change the way that their art looks? It's familiar to the fans, and it was theirs first.

 

 

Simple, because it's been done to huge success recently and we don't need any more right now.

Here's the thing: I have no doubt that War:AOR is going to play/feel/act diffrently to WoW, but it's going to look exactly the same because WarCraft and Wahmmer are conceptually practically identical, owing to WarCraft having been from it's very beggining a completely blatant and thoroughly unashamed rip-off of Warhammer.

Here's my take, and while this is MY OPINION, I'm sure I'm not alone:

I played WoW for years. I am not a WoW hater. I had a lot of fun playing WoW. But I am done with WoW. Like I said I'm sure War:AOR is a very diffrent game, and probably a very good game, but I just spent SO much time playing WoW that I look at War:AOR and see a bunch of places I've already been and I really don't want to go back. That whole style... just... no more. I can't take it, I really can't. I think a lot of players out there need something that is in no way similer, gameply or artistically to WoW, and I think those who don't are still playing WoW and aren't likly to stop any time soon (and may God have mercy on their souls).

Now that said, obviously there is a market out the War:AOR and there are a lot of people looking forward to it, and I hope it's everything those people want it to be. But if a lot of gamers are turned off because of this games (even superficial) similarities to WoW, it should be and understandable reaction.

And yes, Warhammer was the first to come up with the art style, but WarCraft was the first to make it into a go-gillion subscribber MMORPG, as they say: Thems the bricks.... or something.

^^^ Basically exactly how I feel but put MUCH more eloquently .  Thank you -- Yes, agreed completely.  It just looks all too familiar.  I got shudders of Barrens, Goldshire, Westfall, etc....  just by looking at the screenshots.  Places I dont want to soon visit again.

I think, and its just my opinion, that WAR should have explored some of their other artwork that they've done for their RTS titles. MUCH more visceral, grizzly, dark, and frightening... Would be much more appealing to see these orcs and goblins more realistically... rendered with much more detail and menace.

As it is, WAR looks like a saturday morning cartoon.

NO!!!

Quite the contrary -- I have two collector's editions on preorder.  I'm just concerned after seeing the latest screens I'd assumed much would have improved since EforAll in terms of animations and look... Im just being honest for me I felt like I was playing a WoW Battleground when I play-tested it.  I didnt have that "ohhh woahhhhh" moment that I had wanted.

Ill admit the characters looked cool but I was looking for that warhammer style but REALLY pushed graphic-engine wise.

Unfortunately that didnt happen.

Its not only the art STYLE that is wayyy too familiar and likened to WoW, but it's the quality.  These graphics are pixelated to shit and chunky.

Yeah Yeah, I get it.  Warcraft is a complete carbon copy of the original Warhammer orcs against humans template.  Even the steampunk/guns/tanks/etc are basically all from Warhammer...

Youd think then, that Warhammer would at LEAST TRY to look different that WoW when they come into their own MMO ?   With the exception of the faces and some improvement on character detail this game looks like 2004, chunky monkey cartoon neon graphics that WoW has already given us.

They could have really pushed it here and gone for some of the realism and gloss of their RTS games... why didnt they take their own direction?

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