Originally posted by ProfRed

Originally posted by girlgeek

Originally posted by Sober_Sean

The opposing faction, in my case Order.  They did a great job in instilling a real sense of faction rivalry here.

 

After only playing to rank 17 and RR 14, I've grown to already absolutely despise Order.  All their ugly Dwarven healers and tanks, stupid ugly orange Bright Wizards, goofy looking androgynous elves and pets...I can't stand the site of them and have quickly grown to feel at home amongst the Super-Model-Sexy Dark Elves, the cute and cuddly goblins, the ferocious and battlehardened Chaos and the extra fearsome bloodthirsty Orcs.

 

The fact that Order turtles like they were born with a shell on their back in every single scenario where they can turtle it up with their 6 rune priests 4 archmages and invincible ironbreakers holding on to the relic/pacifier/flag like they would die in real life if they ever let anybody near it makes me despise them all the more. 

 

I'll close this by saying this is quite a far cry from WoW where it didn't matter what faction you were on as you shared the same city and just kind of /waved and /danced with members of the opposing faction as if they were your butt buddies in real life.  I really enjoy the sense of "Omg if I see one more freaking Ironbreaker getting heal botted by 4 rune priests and 3 archmages as they hold the relic for 15 minutes at their spawn I will scream at my computer like the angry german kid..." 

Mythic has nailed the whole feeling of cross faction rivalry as it should be.   I mean, I actually start to enjoy seeing the dead dwarves being tied to a cross in my Warcamps and tortured Empire citizens being chased by hell hounds in the Inevitable City, I think "Serves them right.", before I start to realize that I'm thinking this about a NPC for crying out loud.  Well done, loving it and I can only sense the loathing growing stronger as time goes by and we start battling it out for control of one another's city.   I really really want to see those Order players suffer and lose all their chips and will do what it takes to make sure my side is victorious.  I'm sure there are many Order players feeling the same way I would guess.

 

 

 

Hmm, that's funny.  I have ALWAYS hated the Alliance in WoW that much.  The only game I've ever played that didn't seem to have that good vs. evil hatred, really, was EQ2.  I have to say, that playing EQ2, even HAVING opposing factions makes no sense, because the game does nothing to instill the animosity  that SHOULD be felt toward the opposite faction.

I'm assuming that you never played WoW on a PvP server, or RP/PvP server, or even a PvE server that was "feisty."  OUR server is very "feisty" and Alliance and Horde hate each other's very guts.  You do NOT see gnomes waving "hello" to Taurens or nightelves dancing with trolls.  Doesn't happen.  You DO however, see them flaming the hell out of each other on the forums because.....waaaah QQ....you evil mean Hordies killed 4 of our leaders last night in SW and IF.....boooo f***ing hooo.

So you're not entirely accurate by saying  WAR is a "far cry from WoW" in this particular regard, unless you're making that statement based just on the server YOU happened to play on.  It certainly depends on what server you are on, and the people that are there.

And before anyone gets their panties in a wad about me saying something positive about WoW, and maybe NOT so positive about WAR, let me inform you that I also played from the preview weekend up until now, although only to level 15 and RR gear, and I found Warhammer to not feel very immersive at ALL.  To me, it felt like CS Source wrapped in an MMO wrapper.  I felt like I was simply playing a game fighting other people playing a game.  For ME....Warhammer had no sense of immersion, and I never felt a real "hatred" for Order.  I was just busy trying to get the battle over with, gain some influence, renown and level, so that I could get to that next set of RR gear, rinse and repeat.  Oddly enough, this is how many WAR players describe how THEY used to feel in WoW BGs.  I didn't find scenarios to be much different than WoW BGs, other than they were a LOT smaller, and keep "raids" also felt about the same as raiding Stormwind or Ironforge except they were smaller as well.  (Granted, you get to use a "battering ram", and some other nifty little gadgets....meh.)

I guess the thing I found MOST "kewl" about Warhammer RvR is the effect that it has on the progression of your city, as your faction's gains affect the growth and influence of Inevitable City (in my case), or of Altdorf.  That's a nice touch.

Needless to say....Warhammer is now an unused icon sitting on my desktop and....

I'm playing WoW.   (Among numerous other games.)

Same in this thread as in all others......

People simply have different taste in games.  We're NOT ever going to all like the same game, and THAT....is a good thing.  Competition in the market, just makes games better for us, the consumers.

By the way....I did find a lot of things in WAR to be mildly enjoyable, and I do NOT think it's a "bad" game.  It's just not the game for ME.

 

I hate quoting this much but I couldn't agree more.  People just have a different taste in games. 

Oh and when I played WoW at launch when all the Tarren Mill and other cities were a huge brawl I hated Night Elves.  I would ignore everyone else, run past full groups of alliance just to get to that one Night Elf, and it felt good to kill them.  I agree WoW did well with rivalry regarding World PvP.

Vanilla WoW was great but when TBC came out all they did is make the game autistic friendly. Warhammer is really good I like the RvR/Quest/PQ system and how they worked on the interface and I've never hated the other faction so much.

Only thing that's horrifying about this game is the awful grind past 65 and the amount of money you have to spend to actually benefit at 100%. In my opinion this game had a great concept/gameplay but those two things just ruin it. I would much rather pay a monthly fee than having to pay for XP+, the item reduction tool, the skill reset item and the mount which only last for 30 days or 90.

I've played this game for 2 months a few weeks ago I quit because of the lack of end game content, they have been announcing patches for months and its just a big tease so far they just keep doing stupid maintenance for technical shit but no real updates the game is really still in beta state. I spent ~100$ on this game and I regret it... I'd wait before putting any money into it.

EDIT: On a side note, past level 63 the game get's really mind numbing because of the grind.. you NEED to have premium and having people to AoE grind with helps but if you like grinding 24/7 thats your thing.. I can make 1% XP each 30 mins If I'm lucky with Premium + 30% XP.

The only horror in this game is the grind.. I don't know why they call it an "HORROR" MMORPG.

I also thought it was an adult MMO but you'll still get stuck with the good old underage kids.

I know I make it sound horrible but It's really a good game with a great concept you should give it a try but I highly suggest to not spend any money like I said previously anyway good gaming to you sir.

The best MMORPG PvP right now is World of Wacraft then again It's mostly arenas but they are very competitive and require a lot of skill. Of course there's the cookie cutter team composition factor but other than that It's pretty great but the game itself is pretty much dead. Age of Conan, I didn't even have to play that game to see it sucked.. I just looked at a gameplay trailer and saw you had to click to combo skills it looked awful I think I read somewhere here that AoC was the next ultimate PvP MMO I laughed hard at that one. Warhammer is the next MMORPG that everyone's going to move on to in my opinion.