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Posted: January 23rd, 2008, 2:14
by Killavodka
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.
Posted: January 23rd, 2008, 8:09
by Baliame
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.
Posted: January 23rd, 2008, 16:52
by Killavodka
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...
Posted: January 23rd, 2008, 17:43
by Joose
Of course, the main reason it looks like WoW is that the original Warcraft was heavily influenced by Warhammer. Its all gone cyclical!
Posted: January 23rd, 2008, 18:42
by Dog Pants
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.
Posted: July 14th, 2008, 16:42
by Grimmie
Email inbox wrote:Congratulations, Lordgrimmie!
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.
Hot damn!
Posted: July 14th, 2008, 16:49
by Dr. kitteny berk
Shiny. lots of screenshots and such should be posted (in the waugh, if they NDA you)
Posted: July 14th, 2008, 17:09
by Dog Pants
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?
Posted: July 14th, 2008, 17:24
by Hehulk
WAR is still under an NDA...
Also, bugger, no beta for me
Posted: July 14th, 2008, 18:19
by Dr. kitteny berk
Hehulk wrote:WAR is still under an NDA...
who gives a fuck about NDAs?
they only ever catch the terminally stupid.
Posted: July 14th, 2008, 18:20
by Hehulk
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).
Posted: July 14th, 2008, 23:22
by Grimmie
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.
Client is 8500MB and still downloading. Oh my.
Posted: July 14th, 2008, 23:24
by Dr. kitteny berk
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.
same as most ndas then.
Posted: July 15th, 2008, 8:35
by Joose
Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
same as most ndas then.
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.
Posted: July 16th, 2008, 12:55
by Ballunatic
I say, Squire Grimmie of Grimmstown, do tell me when you're upon the beta so's I can dance the merry dance of war with you.
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 15:02
by MORDETH LESTOK
whoops...here's the right topic...
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 16:50
by Lexy
The NDA thingo has been lifted pretty much.
Videos can be provided and things but we probably already know this.
Posted: September 6th, 2008, 8:30
by Dog Pants
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.
Posted: September 6th, 2008, 10:32
by spoodie
Outlook not so good.
Still, I'm ignoring the STALKER review score and getting it anyway.
Posted: September 6th, 2008, 13:57
by MORDETH LESTOK
hmm...open beta is supposed to be tomorrow so I'm gonna try it out...but I already have bad vibes about it...