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21 Apr 2005, 14:27
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World of Warcraft
This will probably be my last post on GD for quite a while because it rocks.
Or I must have nothing to do at work.
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21 Apr 2005, 14:28
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Re: World of Warcraft
indeed.
plus pvp patch tomorrow \o/
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21 Apr 2005, 15:08
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Re: World of Warcraft
Which server are you on?
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21 Apr 2005, 15:29
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Re: World of Warcraft
Shadow Moon.
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21 Apr 2005, 15:30
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Re: World of Warcraft
Al'Akir here... just because lots of Dutch people are on that one.
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21 Apr 2005, 15:51
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Re: World of Warcraft
That PvP patch is going to turn the servers into a blistering nightmare straight out of hell.
Also Shadow Moon.
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21 Apr 2005, 16:17
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Re: World of Warcraft
Why is it so good?
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21 Apr 2005, 16:21
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Re: World of Warcraft
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Why is it so good?
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Not just because he has a suit, but because he knows about business and stuff and he has a tie.
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21 Apr 2005, 16:25
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Re: World of Warcraft
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Not just because he has a suit, but because he knows about business and stuff and he has a tie.
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21 Apr 2005, 16:37
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about 5, though i've cleaned up some chars lately.
shattered hand has my l37 human pally
silver moon has my l22 dwarven priest.
i have chars on argent dawn and thunderhorn too, but i've not played any of those lately.
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Re: World of Warcraft
just got it on wednesday
have a character on sylvanus (something like that anyway )
putting a character on argent dawn sometime soon though as some of my RL mates have a guild on there
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21 Apr 2005, 16:52
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just got it on wednesday
have a character on sylvanus (something like that anyway )
putting a character on argent dawn sometime soon though as some of my RL mates have a guild on there
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21 Apr 2005, 16:55
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Re: World of Warcraft
its very tempting, although you will be levels and levels ahead of me are either/both of you in a guild or something?
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Re: World of Warcraft
i've got a l12 char on argent dawn
I -could- start a new one but i've got too many already
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Re: World of Warcraft
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its very tempting, although you will be levels and levels ahead of me are either/both of you in a guild or something?
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21 Apr 2005, 18:49
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21 Apr 2005, 20:34
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Re: World of Warcraft
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Al'Akir here... just because lots of Dutch people are on that one.
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My main is a level 60 Paladin on Bladefist also called Hicks.
I doubt I'll be on again until the mass of raids is over with and everyone is playing normally.
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21 Apr 2005, 21:01
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Re: World of Warcraft
gw > wow
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PvP has been a bit hit and miss on the yank servers.
Servers are now lagging like an absolute bastard with every man and his dog farming honour for the epics that 99.99% of us are never going to get.
Some of my guildies are up to 1500+ kills already, in two days or so since patch, personally I'm at 200 and quite happy. Feedback from those not at 60 yet is, you're ****ed.
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Re: World of Warcraft
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Originally Posted by Rids
PvP has been a bit hit and miss on the yank servers.
Servers are now lagging like an absolute bastard with every man and his dog farming honour for the epics that 99.99% of us are never going to get.
Some of my guildies are up to 1500+ kills already, in two days or so since patch, personally I'm at 200 and quite happy. Feedback from those not at 60 yet is, you're ****ed.
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It should sort itself out in a few days. Fortunately I'm away at the weekend and so will miss the initial european shitstorm.
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21 Apr 2005, 22:35
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Re: World of Warcraft
why isn't this thread on the RPG forum?
it must qualify.
you're talking about 'orks' and crap like that
you've got your own shit secret language
and you're not making any sense.
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21 Apr 2005, 22:40
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Re: World of Warcraft
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You do realise that... kills don't equal honour points? Especially kills of lower levels?
It should sort itself out in a few days. Fortunately I'm away at the weekend and so will miss the initial european shitstorm.
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We have a kill of Cairn Bloodhoof last night which hasnt been translated into honour yet, so that should add a shitload to our scores. All in all, I'm not a huge fan of the PvP farming, I do it because its something to do, but I dont find it all that enjoyable. I'll be happy to get the 2nd or 3rd rank so I get the anti-fear, caster shanking trinket.
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21 Apr 2005, 22:43
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Re: World of Warcraft
i rest my case
utter gibberish.
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21 Apr 2005, 22:53
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Re: World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft isn't a "role playing" game. The only ones I can really think of, in the strictest interpretation, are Planescape: Torment and Knights of the Old Republic 2.
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21 Apr 2005, 22:58
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Re: The PvP system, I don't think it will last in its current incarnation. The actual playing of the game will get screwed up for far too many people if the constant zerging stays like this.
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Re: World of Warcraft
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Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri
World of Warcraft isn't a "role playing" game. The only ones I can really think of, in the strictest interpretation, are Planescape: Torment and Knights of the Old Republic 2.
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we are not beholden to your internal squabbles such as:
"so and so is not a 'real' role player"
we do not care.
you are each as bad as the others in our eyes.
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21 Apr 2005, 23:07
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Re: World of Warcraft
I'd love to watch a role player civil war
we could televise it. the whole nation could sit behind tv sets screaming "why don't they get it? they have to physically hit the ****er typing it out doesn't work"
a bookies dream.
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21 Apr 2005, 23:37
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The Twilight of the Gods
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Originally Posted by Yahwe
the normal people get to define what role playing is.
we are not beholden to your internal squabbles such as:
"so and so is not a 'real' role player"
we do not care.
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If WoW is an RPG, then, following the only comparable interpretation of the terms, so is any game with an avatar. Except DoW. Boom boom.
I don't care about "real" RPG's, it's just that the only games I can think of where you choose a role and play it are Torment and KOTOR2.
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Re: World of Warcraft
don't try to suck me into your sick little roleplayer factions.
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Re: World of Warcraft
If there was even a teeny weeny bit of skill involved, I might have been convinced to ignore the awful graphics and boring gameplay and play. There isn't, so I won't.
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Re: World of Warcraft
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I might have been convinced to ignore the awful graphics
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Re: World of Warcraft
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If there was even a teeny weeny bit of skill involved, I might have been convinced to ignore the awful graphics and boring gameplay and play. There isn't, so I won't.
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Skill? No. Gamplay? No. Graphics? Very possibly, because you need all settings at their lowest to get decent FPS.
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ITT Boogster hasn't actually played WoW. What kind of PC do you have that can't get a decent FPS in WoW ? While the graphics are pretty they're hardly the most demanding out there, if you can't get a decent FPS with WoW then there isn't much you're going to be playing.
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I agree on one point with Boogster which is about the skills. There is no such thing as real, raw skill requirement to do well in a mmorpg. Ofcourse, with some better understanding of the mechanism of your character you will be doing a bit better but talking about pure skills, they're not involved or at least unnescecary in such games.
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Re: World of Warcraft
and so
the nerd war begins
all the rest of the world can ony wait, quietly, patiently, hoping, praying praying to god
that there are no survivors.
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22 Apr 2005, 08:49
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Re: World of Warcraft
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Skill? No. Gamplay? No. Graphics? Very possibly, because you need all settings at their lowest to get decent FPS.
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Runs fine on my computer, and I made this thing a year ago for £300.
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Originally Posted by SilverSmoke
I agree on one point with Boogster which is about the skills. There is no such thing as real, raw skill requirement to do well in a mmorpg. Ofcourse, with some better understanding of the mechanism of your character you will be doing a bit better but talking about pure skills, they're not involved or at least unnescecary in such games.
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If there was even a teeny weeny bit of skill involved, I might have been convinced to ignore the awful graphics and boring gameplay and play. There isn't, so I won't.
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If you think the gameplay is boring, then this genre really isn't for you. WoW is by far the most varied and interesting MMORPG I've come across. Have you played Morrowind? That's the thing that most springs to mind as a similar game.
Re: The graphics, yeah they don't have a high polygon count. But, like Warcraft III (you know, the game this looks most similar to) it's got an excellent design philosophy and is, at the very least, neat and well put together. Picture of actual gameplay! (I can't remember what settings they are, but they get an average of 60 fps, except when I'm taking photos)
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WoW runs fine for me too with my p3 800, geforce 4 64mb and 892mb ram
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Yeah, certainly, just put off some details, it still will look great.
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22 Apr 2005, 09:37
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You are pushing the minimum spec, mind.
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Re: World of Warcraft
Ieft DOAC to go to WoW
Went back to DAOC post haste, WoW just lacks depth
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it also runs perfectly fine on my duron 950 with 256 RAM and a radeon 9200SE 128Mb card yes some of the options are turned down, but it still looks very pretty to me
(also, and possibly quite sadly, i was really really pleased when i hit level 10 last night )
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I came to lvl15 yesterday. Levelling is slowing down quite fast ATM and I'm not sure what to do to boost my level. Questing takes a long time to complete and killing monsters doesn't give a lot of XP (the ones that I can actually take on). I've been running along Westfall for a while now and am running out of decent quests in that area, and I've found Loch Modan but I don't really know my way in that area. Luckilly I found out about thottbot to help me find quests.
Sadly my Radeon X800 Pro card crashes constantly (yes, the card itself) which isn't really adding to the experience. VPU-recover kicks in after every fart. I ordered a new PSU hoping that fixes the prob.
BTW, teamspeak is really cool with WoW. I was invited into a Dutch guild with two old schoolmates and some other high-level people, it's funny to hear them speak the game's abbreviations out loud.
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Re: World of Warcraft
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BTW, teamspeak is really cool with WoW. I was invited into a Dutch guild with two old schoolmates and some other high-level people, it's funny to hear them speak the game's abbreviations out loud.
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Re: World of Warcraft
To be honest, Anarchy Online, still impresses me the most out of all mmorpg's I've played purily looking at the game mechanics, diversity, amount of items ingame, diversity in character builds etc.
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Re: World of Warcraft
I played the European beta and found it very boring.
I played Shadowbane last year for a few months, that's a cool MMORPG with some good PvP content.
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I dunno...
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Sorry, I was a little abstruse. I meant that on Planetside the graphics are poor, because you need all settings down low. I stand by my original statement though:
RPGs, as a genre, require no skill - just hard graft (ie. time spent online), or lots of mates.
As a result, RPGs suffer from stale gameplay.
And WoW's graphics are below the standards set by recent games.
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Raaaaaaaah!
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Re: World of Warcraft
Quote:
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RPGs, as a genre, require no skill - just hard graft (ie. time spent online), or lots of mates.
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Re: World of Warcraft
can someone give me one of those trial thingies?
if you are kind, let me know and i'll pm my email or whatever i need tod o
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Rawr rawr
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I'd have given you mine if I hadn't accidentally used it instead of my real retail key.
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