Dog Pants wrote:Shame they're using levels. The Warhammer pen-and-paper RPG had a great career system with primary and secondary classes and associated skills, and I think you could dabble in as many mini-careers as you liked. You upped your skills with experience points rather than levelling. Was quite a grim game actually.
SWG had this, which was great. Instead of earning experience to level you hit a mob with a sword, you got sword experience; Heal somebody and you would get heal experience. I'd love to see a game with that sort of thing again.
On another note I believe the reason its not out yet is because they released an early beta and everybody cried wow, so they took it back to the drawing board.
Dog Pants wrote:
My point is though that unless you've played the beta you can't really make assumptions like that. It might look similar (although I've yet to see a screenshot) but that doesn't mean it will play the same.
Yes, I believe I might be slightly biased by screenshots.
Lee wrote:
It does have a similar graphical style to Magical Gaaay Fairy Land but in my opinion thats a good thing since it looks good while not needing a powerful PC and it ages well unlike alot of MMOs that look horrible even on the release day. Hopefully that's the only thing thats similar though.
In fact, you do probably need a middle-high or high-end PC for WoW if you plan to do end-game PvE as developers though it would be awesome to add 30 effects to a single spell of the boss. 'Old PC makes it look like a comic sometimes.
Dog Pants wrote:My point is though that unless you've played the beta you can't really make assumptions like that. It might look similar (although I've yet to see a screenshot) but that doesn't mean it will play the same.
I have a reliable friend who played the first beta and he said it was too much like Wow. However I think they have changed a lot since then and I will give it a go myself and form my own opinion...
Joose wrote:Of course, the main reason it looks like Magical Gaaay Fairy Land is that the original Warcraft was heavily influenced by Warhammer. Its all gone cyclical!
Indeed. I've never seen any damning proof, but there are a lot of similarities and Warhammer was certainly there first by a long shot.
We are pleased to invite you to the beta test of Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. You will have the opportunity to take part in refining the long-awaited MMO inspired by the legendary Warhammer Fantasy Battle game. Join the army of Order or the army of Destruction, explore the lands, undertake quests, fight in RvR combat and share your opinions to help us improve the game.
I'm interested to see how this turns out. All it'll take is one decent game to break the Warcraft formula and we'll have a winner. Also, going for a MMONG Grimmie?
I was trying to be subtle and agree with you that discussion, just for paranoia sake, on it should be in the waugh until the NDA gets lifted (Which apparently isn't that far off).
Yeah, their NDA is pretty specific. To the point at which they've basically said I can't even talk about it outside the WAR forums.
I might have the beta taken off me, AND face a fine.
Grimmie wrote:Yeah, their NDA is pretty specific. To the point at which they've basically said I can't even talk about it outside the WAR forums.
I might have the beta taken off me, AND face a fine.
Thiers is exactly the same as every NDA ever. As long as you don't put anything in a public facing bit of the site, they wont even know, much less give a shit.
Possibly got the wrong end of the stick here, but...
Ross Atherton (Editor, PCG) wrote:We regularly give scores which are seen as "low" or "bad" to big-name games; an example in the current issue is Stalker Clear Sky (68%), and there's one in our next issue which I think will cause some uproar.
Ross wrote:Re WAR - basically, yes. Review is in the Sept 25 issue.
The 'yes' was in reference to someone asking if the reviewer got pre-made high level characters so that they could test higher level stuff. If it's not WAR it's probably going to be L4D or Fallout 3, but my money's on WAR.
who gives a fuck about NDAs?
