Originally posted by Argo951

Originally posted by Toxilium

Originally posted by Argo951

Rightly or wrongly, all MMO's are matched up to WoW as it is the most popular game of all time, and nothing currently out comes up to WoW.

WoW is no where close to being the most popular of all time...Most popular MMO? Yes. Most popular game? No, not even close in today's market. Games like Halo Reach, Call of Duty, Pokemon, they've all stomped on WoW's hours in the dirt. The Sims alone has sold 20+ million copies, compared to WoW's 12 million.

EDIT: Actually, it may not even be the most popular MMO for that matter. F2P games like Maple Story have boasted 90+ million accounts. It's the most popular P2P MMO though.

There is always someone. Reading comprehension should be a class needed for acceptance onto the internet.

/sigh.

Maybe we should learn to be more clear in our communication? I am not at fault for reading comprehension in the slightest. You simply mistyped the sentence.

Also what the heck is with people and /sigh? You really can't argue a point enough so you need to add in emotes to help express it?

When exactly does it get stuck? Is there an error message associated with it? We need more info...

Originally posted by Argo951

Rightly or wrongly, all MMO's are matched up to WoW as it is the most popular game of all time, and nothing currently out comes up to WoW.

WoW is no where close to being the most popular of all time...Most popular MMO? Yes. Most popular game? No, not even close in today's market. Games like Halo Reach, Call of Duty, Pokemon, they've all stomped on WoW's hours in the dirt. The Sims alone has sold 20+ million copies, compared to WoW's 12 million.

EDIT: Actually, it may not even be the most popular MMO for that matter. F2P games like Maple Story have boasted 90+ million accounts. It's the most popular P2P MMO though.

I read the word "WoW" too many times and ignored anything you wrote.

HRM, an MMORPG, or massively multiplayer online ROLE-PLAYING game in first-person? Thus, forcing you to get into your role more? PREPOSTEROUS! I agree with everyone here, an RPG where you play as the person is stupid and dumb!

/sarcasm

All classes deal damage, they devs wanted that from the start. You can't go in thinking like WoW or EQ with healers, tanks and DPS-only classes. I'm fire currently and I both tank and do DPS at the same time. Though my damage isn't as high as a controller (buffer/damagers/debuffer/pets) I still output quite a bit. There are also healing power sets like nature which can also put out poisons and other damaging abilities. Heck, as a tank, some of my abilities of taunting require me to do some AoE attack persay.

It seems that gear and power choice will determine your "spec" but most powers are versatile.

You guys are leaving out a HUGE leverage DCUO has over Champions.

The PS3.

DCUO may not be all that hot on this particular website, but imagine all the little kids who'll run into BestBuy or Blockbuster yelling at their parents for the cool new Batman game they see? Who cares if it has a sub, they still buy the game thinking its like Spiderman 3 or the Hulk.

For a hardcore fan of the comic since 2005, and someone who's been watching zombies since they were born, I loved it. I attended their panel at NYCC and knew it wouldn't disappoint.

Hint: the season ends coinciding with the comic's issue 6. I asked Bob Kirkman.

Originally posted by Mellkor

Which server you on so we can F*** S*** up together :)

lol, Bleeding Hollow alliance. Same name.

Originally posted by Rdlaban

Dunno if you answered this before. Its a question about professions.

 

Do the professions use already in game materials to level up? And if so; what materials?

You level to 525 in Cataclysm. Everything is pretty much the exact same, except for the addition of Archaeology. The materials and all that jazz aren't in game yet and still being worked on.

I generally go outside or talk to friends over Skype when my games aren't working rather than typing out lengthy essays. Why am I posting this than? I can't sleep, I'm done with games for the day, people are offline and it's dark outside.

nuff said.

I'm a nerd first and a geek  second. They're different things, and I really dislike when people confuse the two. Geeks tend to like a certain genre or subset of a genre a lot, or a series relating to such. For example, you're a geek if you're deeply into World of Warcraft, which is just an MMO, a subset of role playing ames. Nerds on the other hands are generally individuals who excel at academics. I know the two are often heavily linked, but they are different things. I have a friend going to U of Waterloo for nanotechnology, and he straight out doesn't take part in video games, geeky movies, or anything, often being cynical towards geek culture. He's a nerd who likes mainstream media, that's it.

I went to Comic Con and it was a prime example why geeks are still not main stream. The New Yorkers would walk by giving strange glances to even someone wearing a Star Wars t-shirt. People would line up for hours  to get Katee Sackhoff's autograph. Really? She was only in a TV show (and such one that heavily used the deus ex machina; debate that with me in another thread). I know movies like Star Wars, Spiderman and The Dark Knight look mainstream. Sometimes they truly are. But those are just the movies; easily accessible, cheap and fun. How many people do you think actually read into the comics or other basis of lore behind the movies? Hell, half the time the screenwriters make things up for the sake of Hollywood.

Still don't believe me geeks aren't mainstream? Try this. Walk up to anyone who you consider a "normal" person, and simply ask them what their favorite sci-fi series, anime series, comic hero, anything, is. I guarentee you most of the time you'll recieve either a dumbfounded look or an answer along the lines of "Batman I think, like that guy who was in Dark Knight?"

I hardly ever talk about my life on the Net outside my smaller group of geeks (most of whom are nerds and we end up talking about automobiles or architecture anyways, nothing geeky at all), most of the time having a feeling of shame when I talk about it with "non-geeky normal" people. Don't tell me that's a lie, I bet most of you get this too.

We may have more movies being made for us, and more shows being shown to us, but the core reason is this: Hollywood has realized we have loads of cash. We are not mainstream, not yet anyways. We just have a more noticable market share now, which companies like Disney and Warner Bros are exploited in the fullest sense of the word (Transformers 2, anyone?).

And once again: nerd =/= geek.

Thanks for the responses so far.

I pre-ordered the game. Sent them my Paypal receipt from Steam. I didn't get a confirmation page or email saying I sent it, so I'm a bit worried. That was 2 weeks ago. I now see preorders are getting beta invites, and now I'm even more worried. I scoured spam folders and inboxes on my email and can't see anything. Any help?

I played the game first hand. It was fun, it looks fun, and I pre-ordered. Will I buy the DLCs/cosmetic items? Oh hell no. That should be free, but it's not affecting my leveling or fun, I don't care if other players buy them. When it becomes the point of selling actual items, gear and weapons, that's when I get mad. Yes DLCs are becoming the wave of the future (look at the ridiculous MW2 DLC at $15) and it's a horrible trend, but just boycott DLC. Simple as that (unless if it's a full expansion pack, i.e. Cataclysm).

Originally posted by kiern

Originally posted by gotha

Hell other games have world PvP systems.  They can have some missions that are PvP missions only in the open world.

I'm not sure what you mean by "world PvP systems".

• Warcraft's failed attempt at Plageland towers.

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  Warhammer's failed attempt at a lot of things.

• Darkfall's sieges.
• Fallen Earth faction and town systems

The only reason the trailer was cool was because it showcased a large battle. If this were a movie, you would have way too many branching storylines for each different villain or hero, it would seem muddled and silly (like most serious superhero movies). The trailer is just thus, and it's good in it's own right.

tldr; i overthink things too much.

I played a short demo at New York ComicCon and can honestly say DCU had the most fun combat I've ever played in any MMO. It was a sword/melee character fighting Harley Quinn's goons, and I just had a blast. It felt like a mix between God of War's combat and Champions Online power ups. I played with the PS3 controller and keyboard/mouse, and it felt very fluid on both. Never watched this game before and that demo alone made me preorder it.

This doesn't need two topics. For those daring to click the link, it's just your ordinary recruitment message for a guild they claim largely comprising of mature players.

In terms of pure narrative and hype surrounding such, I found WotLK to be my favorite. There's no real combat, death, or anything. It's just Arthas, with a foreboding speech given to him by his deceased father about ruling an empire, then you see him in an ironic nature, raise an army of undead. The BC and vanilla cinematics just showcased some of the new races and bosses, and Cataclysm's was a Roland Emmerich trailer.

Originally posted by choujiofkono

My opinion =  Who cares.  "Cinematics" as you guys call them are an entirely different skillset to make than a game.  The models are many times more detailed, the rigging is much more intricate, the timing and animation need to be tracked and paced and the textures are completely different.  There is also lighting techniques used that you can't use in a game engine and layers and filters that you can't use in a game engine.  So pretty much these movies that you see made for MMO's are nothing more than another marketing tool and I can guarantee you the hand that makes the games is not the hands that make the movies.  You can label it as "Blizzard" all you want but it has no real bearing on Blizzard or it's standards and practices at all.  They needed a movie made and they paid someone to craft one.  Simple as that.  There is no real data to gather by comparing these movies to each other or to the game because they were probably made with different teams.  It is what it is.

Also, do you know if Blizzard makes their own CG, or if they contract it out to anothe studio, like ILM?