WOW: Mists of Pandaria And Kungfu Panda
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Ok seriously as much as I enjoy playing WOW, I seriously hate the idea of a well known brand in the game industry, mildly ripping off one's concept completely in front of public and claiming as their own. :poly118:
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Differentiate!!!!!
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EDIT: And apparently, they'd already had lore about the place before the KFP movies were made.
And it's not an unique concept to have martial arts pandas either, i'm pretty sure they existed way before 2002 and 2008... so to call it a Kung Fu Panda ripoff is ridiculous
I haven't kept up with WoW, when did it come out of the closet?
Not to mention Kung Fu Panda 2 revealed that there is a whole hidden colony of kung fu pandas...
And could they not have varied the timing a little on the pandas at the very end? It just looked shoddy. What is happening over at Blizzard? Hope this is not what all those amazing artists that are getting hired are being wasted on... I wanna see WoW 2 (I've never played an MMO though, purely out of artistic interest)
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Oh... well I guess that makes me look stupid!
Just now bro.
On a relevent issue, where do they actually fit into the lore from the original? I didn't complete the War3 campaign so these look a little bit out of wack when theyre following on from all the previous expansions, not that I really care as I wont play the game again haha.
The scene with the peach tree in particular with the bright pinks and dark purples are almost short for shot.
Both also happen to have the same vivid stylistic styles.
The Pandaren does not fit in as easily as the rest of the lore, since they were birthed from a joke, but were eventually included in wc3 expansion, but none the less, they are a part of it now.
But seriously. Pandas? What. The. Actual. Fuck?
I'm watching the live blogs eagerly waiting for Ashton Kutcher to appear with a camera crew...
Surely this is a joke... Pet battles... Pandas as playable characters?
Up next: the announcement of their next gen MMO; featuring Kinect integration, free2play subscription model with in game store, full 3D support and augmented reality toys that sing famous Blizzard soundtrack songs in harmony when you complete the set.
Supposedly the fun thing about WoW is raiding, and you either like it or you don't.
So lets see.
About 2 months casual playing to 70, experimenting with classes and seeing what you like. -$30-$60
Buy wotlk - $40
Another month to 80 - $15
Buy Cataclysm - $40
Another few weeks to 85 - $15
Yay time to raid!!
This is horrible, good thing I only spent... $155...
yay...
Blizzard is full of dickheads to let this happen. Seeing as how it is all buffer/timey content until the supposed "fun" comes. They make you pay to find out if you like their game.
I blame Activision for this shitty 'expansion'. They're just pumping out content for more $$$$ now. Seeing as how the original WoW creators are long gone.
Shovel shit to earn a bigger shovel, just to shovel bigger piles of shit.
There was a rumor that they wanted to do Panderans a long time ago, but didn't because then they wouldn't be able to release in China. Never found out if that was true, or just a silly rumor, but I wouldn't be surprised.
I know it is from Warcraft 3 TFT (ONLY) And it is ofcourse a wow pet that you buy from Blizzard store. The CHARACTER ONLY was presented in few stages in WC3 TFT and in DOTA All star. ONLY. Its a neutral race. They havent been in any WOW expansions except for one pet.
I thoroughly research about the stuff that is from Blizzard unless it is related to WOW, since World of warcraft has a history of end game "W...T...F" moments. To prove it to you, I'll just tell you that you wont see me arguing about Diablo and Starcraft series (I play those as well).
Dont break it down into monthly installments like that can even begin to sum up what playing WoW is like.
Why do i even bother replying to these people, fuck knows.
Plus I went through almost all of BC/WOTLK without ever setting foot in a raid instance, all I did was Arena. Raiding is just one means of giving players something to do once they've hit the level cap and finished the quests, it's not the point of the game at all and it's not the only thing that's fun about it.
This is not a good idea nor funny.
Read up on their Pet Battle system.
You will be able to collect, level, and battle with companion pets.
It will be accessible to all players.
Works with almost every pet
Pet Customization, you will be able to name your pet, give them visual abilities, etc ...
There will be "Wild pets", you can find them in the world and engage in battle with them. You will then be able to get that pet and add it to your Pet Journal.
Pets have random stats, some of them will be very good at tanking, some will have a CC ability, etc ...
Some pets will only be found during a specific season, while it's raining, or during the day or the night. Some of them will only spawn in the spring, when it's raining, in elwynn forest at night!
Most pets will become tradable, even after it's leveled, etc ...
Pets will be account wide
Your pet journal will display info on all your pets, including stats, skills, and also drop locations and lore info for the pets you don't have yet!
Winning battles earns you experience, and levels your pets.
You will learn new abilities. Every pet can use 3 abilities in a battle at one time.
Every time you level you will also increase the stats of your pet.
You will level multiple pets to build your team.
You have 3 battle slots, one for each pet in your team.
PvE and PvP Battles
It will be turn based.
A simple combat system.
Fight with a team of 3 pets
Queuing system, you will be able to find a fight pretty fast depending on the level of your pets.
Seems like they're really stretching to fill in every void of this game to keep people paying.
It won't be long before the trading card game gets into WoW itself and people can play that in WoW too. Battle against NPCs if they make eye contact!
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gnolls!
Pokemon? In WoW? If I can use my Mini Diablo... :x
I'm actually surprised the Padaren are being put into the game. I saw the previous post about the Chinese govt. I was also under the assumption that they took issue with the use of Pandas, or at least the death of Pandas. *shrug* This is the same govt. that refused to pass WoTLK because of Skeletons and the such.
Anyway, this is the silly circle, warcraft 2 players complaining that warcraft 3 ruined warcraft, warcraft 3 players complaining that wow ruined warcraft, and now wow players complaining that an expansion ruined warcraft.
You sir, have it wrong. When world of warcraft came to be, the classic one that is, was really great. The downfall of that epicness started when Wotlk was released.
Ofcourse there are going to be people who wouldnt like the change and whine before wow exp, but it wasnt like blizzard was producing wow exps out of their asses before.
Well, the mild ripoff part is there. I really hope this exp is as it is promised.
I'd buy the expansion if I was still playing WoW. The no-auto attacking thing really struck a chord with me
I'm not a player since i have a addictive personality and low bank balance but that seems like handing a shit on a golden tray. Art is well done but the theme, the names? why? oh god why?
If they were set on it they should have made hybrids of a panda and 'X' other animal. Then, then it'd be more interesting but pandas? Panda's are dying out because they refuse to fuck each other (amongst other things ofc but mainly not fucking) There the most boring, lazy ass creature I've ever seen.
Screw the cutey naww crap, mix the bastards with great white sharks! have Pandhark's or Paharark's running around not giving two fucks. They can do martial arts and bite your face off. Problem sorted.
Considering the studio is called Activision Blizzard....
Really?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision_Blizzard
Kudos to the Blizzard art team for getting the most out of the engine.
Nope, Rob Pardo, Jeff Kaplan, and Tom Chilton all still work at Blizzard.
Pardo and Chilton still play a direct role in Wow's development I believe and Kaplan is working on project Titan.