THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Borys on December 01, 2008, 11:12:32 AM
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500+ hours of grinding and searching for slutmonster antlers to craft faggot ass armor sounds soooo fun
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Beaten like Borys' wife
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que lastima
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Wrath is really fun.
It does this really crazy thing that I haven't seen in MMOs before. A lot of the quest chains you complete change the game world, presumably forever, and presumably only for you.
The Death Knight starting area is full of stuff like that. The framing is that you're a newly risen Death Knight, and Arthas wants you to go get your feet wet by wiping out this town of humans. So you head on down, and the town is split into 3 areas, and the undead are attacking the first area. So you do some quests and what not, and you eventually get sent back to the DK citadel or whatever, and when you come back, the area that you were fighting in is now totally under undead control. This happens a couple more times until the total zone has been raised and is controlled by your guys.
There's also an event in the Dragonblight zone that is kind of awesome and also kind of lame, because it's very Final Fantasy. There's an honest to God cutscene and everything. But again, once you complete the quest, the zone changes, and as near as I can tell, it changes forever. I found another example last night, in some Horde town the boss character was a real asshole, and at the end of one of the quest chains, you and the boss' sister team up to kill her. Now the old boss is nowhere to be found, and her sister has taken the spot of the town's "boss."
As far as I know, this is a first for WOW, and maybe for the genre. Everyone always complains about how these games have no sense of accomplishment because as soon as you kill the big, bad dude at the end of the dungeon, he comes right back to life like nothing ever happened. I get the feeling, from this stuff appearing in Wrath, that Blizzard recognizes that shortfall of MMO games, and is actively looking to correct it.
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haha wasnt there someone in a sales thread saying it'd sell less than gears or something.
That being said i can already see lots of bitter console fans in here. Can ya play both PC and console? come on
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no distinguished mentally-challenged fellow
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YES
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WoW Wotlk is great, shup
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demi's here let's get this party started :rock
Real-talk: no MMORPG ever will top WoW success, not even WoW2 or WoStarcraft from Blizzard
What party, you don't even play WoW. You're like, whatever term it is for people who are stupid.
Polack!
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No real surprise. Managers jumped out windows earlier this year when we had to comp against the prior year's Burning Crusade numbers. Most stores even had a midnight launch for Wrath of the Lich King, which is pretty surprising considering its a PC release.
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You always try and beat the prior year's sales numbers for the particular date and week. The week that GameStop went against Burning Crusade numbers, especially since nothing of real note came out, was a sad day for all.
Comp stands for comparable, btw.
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I never played WoW.
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I can't wait for Lich King to hit WoWScape.
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I don't get it... why does blizzard distribute on disc a game which is played online? People pay a monthly fee, so there's a credit card associated with their account. Why doesn't Blizzard just let them pay an extra fee for the download, and eschew the whole middleman of EB Games?
Yes, I'm ignorant. I've avoided WoW because it causes me all kinds of fear. I've had compulsive MUD playing, and I've seen stronger peeps than I cave to WoW... so I've just said "no," like Nancy "Frank had my buttocks" Reagan.
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I don't get it... why does blizzard distribute on disc a game which is played online? People pay a monthly fee, so there's a credit card associated with their account. Why doesn't Blizzard just let them pay an extra fee for the download, and eschew the whole middleman of EB Games?
Yes, I'm ignorant. I've avoided WoW because it causes me all kinds of fear. I've had compulsive MUD playing, and I've seen stronger peeps than I cave to WoW... so I've just said "no," like Nancy "Frank had my buttocks" Reagan.
you can download it. :lol
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demi's here let's get this party started :rock
Real-talk: no MMORPG ever will top WoW success, not even WoW2 or WoStarcraft from Blizzard
What party, you don't even play WoW. You're like, whatever term it is for people who are stupid.
Polack!
Polacks rule your face, Canadian :rock
Demi isn't Canadian. :rofl He lives in the States.
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demi's here let's get this party started :rock
Real-talk: no MMORPG ever will top WoW success, not even WoW2 or WoStarcraft from Blizzard
What party, you don't even play WoW. You're like, whatever term it is for people who are stupid.
Polack!
Borys is a cheerleader in everything he does, he watches from the sideline.
In PC gaming, in being a Pollack, in everything.