Warhammer Online
polycounter lvl 18
If there was already a topic for this, my bad.
But, I really want this game.
Warhammer is just the kind of thing I love. Dark, gritty, violent. Primitive technology, all that stuff. I want this. Screw WoW, I'm getting this when it comes out.
But, I really want this game.
Warhammer is just the kind of thing I love. Dark, gritty, violent. Primitive technology, all that stuff. I want this. Screw WoW, I'm getting this when it comes out.
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Too bad lizard people aren't playable, that would rock my face off.
A 'lil blue lizard slaughtering hundreds of animals = Win.
- vampires
- me on the beta list ASAP!
- A more personal aproach then WoW. In wow everybody looks the same, and has the same skills. Make every player unique, it'll rock!
But talk about beating a dead horse. Why did'nt they just use 40K? Tons of original races/creatures there.
i posted the ones withthe most horrible compression i could find.. cause they were teh first ones i found..
Worthplaying had some nice ones: http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=33155&mode=thread&order=0
50 bucks says it'll play like every other MMO too, grind grind grind, mine mine mine, sell sell sell, no cutscenes, no endgame aside from pvp, same terrain, same time period/theme, same weps, same races.. same everything. from a business standpoint yeah they'll make tons. but i have little free time to waste on these repeats, so i'm picky. Tell me that does'nt look like WOW, same races, same cartoonish proportions, better textures.
The art is great, but the concepts are getting old fast. maybe i'm just sick of orks and dwarves?
I'm so sick of MMO games, but I'm a huge Warhammer fan so I'll be playing the hell out of this game. Woo!
arsh hopefuly soon
http://media.pc.ign.com/media/748/748723/img_3501592.html
I painted my brother's Slaneshi Blood Bowl team and converted a beast "man" mascot with a single giant exposed titty and massive erect penis. Everyone in the league agreed that he had the best painted/coolest team.
As for who did what first, what does it matter. You know how many titles i can name off with orks and dwarves? It's getting stupid.
Like I said the game looks great, but i'd like to see something different. If you think thats trolling, well you may want to find some actual trolls threads.
Cause it sounds to me like you cant' take crits, and single out people when you can't defend it.
Huh, are the trolls playable or whatever?
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Maybe, but the trolls tk did weren't built to the player character system.
It seems like some were going for a grittier, more realistic (and pixelated) art style while the other half of the texture/skin art looks painterly WoWish, with the models however not following that cartoony style... which makes it all look kinda weird. It's not the one nor the other style.
The old cancelled warhammer MMO had a much more darker and realistic look which seemed to go better with the harsh environment warhammer is.
Isn't that how the tabletop game was, anyways?
Now, obviously when first looked at WO seems a lot like WoW; orcs, goblins, dwarves, etc. but what will be the difference maker, I hope, is in the gameplay.
I'm with downsizer in wishing for more original titles - be it MMO's or other genre.
I think they nailed the art style! Maybe their first few races are gay choices, but I'm sure you'll be able to play Chaos Dwarfs, a Tomb King, or a Slaan before too long.
I just wonder why the weapons are several quality levels below the rest of the game.
I'm assuming the weapons are WIP.
downsizer, although coming off as crude, does have a point in lack of originality within this industry, so much so that less and less of the industries demographic is playing games.
Now, obviously when first looked at WO seems a lot like WoW; orcs, goblins, dwarves, etc. but what will be the difference maker, I hope, is in the gameplay.
I'm with downsizer in wishing for more original titles - be it MMO's or other genre.
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thats like saying "this ghost in the shell movie is crap, why it's just copying the matrix"
ever bothered to think where orks and shit really became popular?
I am really disappointed by the choices for playable races though. Now I realize that Warhammer was the grandaddy of all things we see in WoW, but that's not the reality of the market today. WoW beat WO to the punch, so 99% of all gamers who see this one on the shelves are going to think 'Son of WoW' before anything else.
Why not have the Skaven, Lizardfolk, Chaos Dwarves, etc. from the get go? For goodness sake, do something to set it apart to the uninitiated. Not everyone is going to look at it and go, 'Sure it looks just like a higher rez WoW, but I'll get it anyway and see if the combat system, crafting etc. is slightly different..."
Too many times these MMO's come out and you can almost feel the sheepishness of the devs in the interviews you read online and in magazines.
"Well sure it's just generic MMO world #257, but we've fine tuned a very unique crafting system and have a streamlined combat system that eliminates grinding (always a lie). We're really excited about it."
I'm not saying this is necessarily the case for WO, but goodness, why display shots of burly Orks and Dwarves running around in hopes to entice folks AWAY from WoW? If I were a WoW player, why would I leave a sure thing for a crap shoot if it looks nearly the same?
Maybe I'm in the wrong demographic for all this.
remember the first attempt!
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I'd prefer the first attempts style with Mythic's more professional skills.
Its sad i dont know who wins between eq2 and the first try at warhamer.... they both use normal maps really badly so i dont know who to call the looser...
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I hate EQ but I think we can all make a safe assumption here....