All Posts by Deathstiny

Originally posted by PapaLazarou

Crysis
STALKER
Spore
Star Wars: TFU
Rock Band 2
 

funny - I think it's a bad time for those games to launch. I was really looking forward to SW:TFU and Rockband 2 but now I won't even bother looking at those games. The day of reckoning is upon us...Woot!

actually I find the idea of "open" ruleset rather silly. Most players will spend most of their time at max level (like any MMO). Whgen you reach that level 90% of the zones you will be venturing in are open RvR anyways. The game is alread PvP centric so the "core" servers are optimized for that.

heh! I'm sure they will take away more than maps

Originally posted by GreenChaos

On the desto side all greenskins are male only.

Not to be nitpicky but technically all greenskins are gender neutral. they are all grown like plants and are asexual but yes they do look like guys

I was one of the top mages in WoW for two years and I used and still use a $9.95 Dell keyboard. You can macro all you want, a skilled player will always beat you. Most times it's not a matter of how fast you can execute abilities but chosing the RIGHT abilities at the RIGHT time and responsing to opponents' abilities the RIGHT way. Macros will only help you so much there. Skill > Macro. Those keybpards are fine with me. My goblin shaman and my ghetto keyboard are not scared.

yeah I don't know where that's coming from either. WAR's PvP always felt fast and furious to me. Imagine WoW combat but with every class doing damage and not just sitting back and healing or mining for minerals .

Then imagine WoW combat and times the number of people per battle x 10. Then you have WAR.

1.) Vanguard

2.) SWG

3.) Horizons

oh boy where to even start ....

The new darkfall videos are horrible. See if you do an MMO there are two ways you can go with graphics. The "right" way which is following a certain theme (haters often call it "cartoony" or the "wrong" way which is making graphics look as realistic as possible. Why is realistic wrong? Simple - consider the lifespan of an MMO. Example: Darkfall. When Darkfall was first announced in 1971 (sarcasm) the first screenies looked breathtaking. Now in 2008 the graphics look like EQ 1.5. WoW and WAR will look decent 5 years from now due to their style (polygon count matters less there).

It takes an entire legion of developers and testers to release a polished MMO. The way DF is heading it will have a similar launch as Vanguard did - IF it EVER launches and that is a big if. If it DOES launch I'll call a 50% chance of it being a sony station pass wellfare game within 6 months.

Don't get me wrong I wish DF all the best but comparing it to WAR is like comparing .... well it's like comparing DF to WAR LOL !!!

vaporware

I love how the OP goes WAR has nothing on WoW except for RvR. Well since WAR is a 100% RvR game isn't that kind of saying WAR has nothing on WoW except WAR?

RvR > WoW PvP

Public quests > 5 man instances

WAR IP > WoW IP (the original is usually better than the clone)

Say what you want...the day of reckoning is coming

as somebody who played EQ back in '99 I agree that everything since then felt like a clone. Having said that, the "WOW MY FIRST MMO FEELING" came back during my first public quest. WAR = WIN

Originally posted by greymann

Originally posted by Deathstiny

Originally posted by greymann

I am a veteran wow (yes, my first mmo, sorry) player

 

stopped reading there...

 

Well then you're ignoring the views of the vast majority of mmo players.  Maybe you can afford not to care about wow players' views but EA/Mythic cares...a whole lot.

first of all "veteran" and "WoW" don't go together in the same sentence. Second, I'm not ignoring WoW players in general just somebody whose first MMO was WoW and thinks it's the golden standard that all other MMOs should be meassured by. It's like comparing all flavours of ice cream to vanilla. Blant!

Originally posted by greymann

I am a veteran wow (yes, my first mmo, sorry) player

stopped reading there...

once again.....

WARhammer NOT Fishinghammer...

as been said numerous times before....

this is not craftinghammer, bakingcookieshammer, or standaroundanddonothinghammer. This is WARhammer. Everybody fights....just the way it should be

"Veteran" and "WoW" don't go together in the same sentence

what's really disturbing is part of me thinks you are not being sarcastic

Originally posted by Galadourn

OP, your bashing AoC on the grounds of wanting WAR to "win" leaves much to be desired in the field of maturity on your part...

I assume this is your first time to these boards so let me say "welcome"

I 100% disagree with this. Sure the AoC forums are filled with useless whine posts much like the WoW forums. However, they are also an invaluable sorce for players to share information, make friends, find solutions to issues etc. Not having any forums and having the community scattered all over the internet is a major strike agaist WAR.

Alright so I've been a WAR fanboi for quite some time and I've been bashing AoC on numerous occasions on these boards (see my posting history if you have any doubts). I didn't bash AoC because I knew anything bad about it (I was not in BETA). I simply wanted MY game (WAR) to "win". I know that is not a mature reason but I'm sure many here can relate and I wanted everybody to understand from what perspective I'm writing this. Further info: I am currently in WAR Beta but won't compare AoC to WAR as I'm respecting the NDA.

My computer: Dell XPS 630 - Quad core 6600 - 4gigs DDR2 - Gforce 8800 GT 512mb - Windows Vista Premium 32bit. That system currently retails for about $1200 to $1400 depending on some options.

Alright, so Funcom huh? Ouch I was there for Anarchy Online Launch so I was prepared for uglyness. But I was bored and since I pretty much buy every single MMO that comes out I figured meh! May as well give the competition a try so I can "bash with experience".

I was not prepared for this. First of all the game looked absolutely amazing. And I don't mean just "good". I mean generations ahead of its time. And the fact that my system runs it anywhere between 40-80fps (city vs. outdoor) on MAX settings is a blessing.

Alright, so I didn't hate the graphics. Big deal, the servers will probably crash every few minutes and there will be hours upon hours of downtime right? WRONG! The servers have been up almost permanently (one 5 hour downtime exception that bothered me). For a release that is quite a feat. Of course I may just be lucky and servers are only up when I'm playing but considering I'm playing a lot I can safely say it's been a smooth lauch (as smooth as launches go).

Alright, so the game looks great and is stable. Surely there must be tons of broken quests. Wrong again! I've done dozens of quests and they are working just fine. Plus many of them are actually quite entertaining and tell a great story.

But the community is full of tards right? "Sadly" no. OOC is the new barrens chat but other than that I have met lots of great people already. The player base is defintely more mature than WoW and that's great news all around.

How about the classes? All crap right? I've tried 9 out of the 12 classes so far and besides the Dark Templar I like em all. WoW a priest that nukes so he can heal better? What a great concept. You mean I'm no longer forced to spam 1 button and play healbot? Who would have thunk? Seriously the classes are great. Sure some balancing is required but honestly WoW has been out for what 3 years and classes need balancing. Or hey! Ask an EQ1 wizzy (9 years game life) how their class balance is compared to zerker and rogue dps on raids. Yeah, Funcom is doing alright ....ack can't believe I said that. BLASPHEMY!

Alright, well combat must really suck then right? Well, you probably have guessed by now how this review is going. Sorry! I will NEVER EVER play and autoattack MMO again. Combat rocks! After level 10 a whole new world opens up and boy oh boy I can't believe we played MMOs the way we have all these years.

Okay, I'm not going to bore you much longer. I just need to say a couple mroe things. First of all a big sorry to my previous attitude towards the game. A big congratulations to Funcom. AoC will be my MMO for years to come. THQs WH40K is the only thing on the horizon right now and that's at least 3-4 years away.

As for WAR. I won't be playing it. I'll keep testing it here and there and fullfill my duties as a beta tester and I do hope it will do well as I like the license but my home is now Hyboria.

I can't believe I'm about to say the following but ... THANK YOU FUNCOM !!!