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yawgmoth
What in god's name does enjoying spell effects have to do with one's age?
Most people grow out of the "more special effects = better" stage of entertainment around 12, much the way people grow out of the "jingling car keys = mentally stimulating" stage around 2.
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Post by
Noxnoctem
Just what we need. Another Korean Grind-Fest.
In the end, it's just another MMO with flashy graphics. How many times have you seen an MMO with nice graphics,
but the exact same gameplay? Guild Wars is a good example.
WoW brings what so many other MMO's don't see. They think people want to completely role-play, and just want to get from here to there, and finish a quest. What makes WoW fun is the bad graphics. I remember before starting thinking "Eew, these look so old." Now, I've played it non-stop for almost 4 years. It gives it a casual cartoony look to it, making you remember that you're having fun. Not only that, but what separates it from Point-A-To-B gameplay is stuff such as the Auction House, Achievements, Full-person raids, lore, and basttlegrounds.
Sure Aion has 80 vs. 80 Battlegrounds.
Too bad WoW doesn't have those.
Wrong. How many mmorpgs have you seen where they limit your skill bar to 8 skills and everyone has the same equipment, thereby relying on skill rather than how much one has grinded for their gear and using it as a crutch?
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Post by
Milayu
Aion is a new Asian MMORPG and another rumored '
WoW-killer
'.
And this is why I won't be playing it. As you said in the rest of the post, it's overhyped. Wasn't Kill.Switch supposed to a Halo-Killer? The Zune an iPod killer? It just doesn't work. It's never as good as the thing it's supposed to be killing.
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ArgentSun
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And what age is that?
I am not mentioning a specific age, because every person matures at a different point of time - both mentally and physically, although we don't care about the latter one here. Might be 10 for one, 14 for another, 8 for a third... 30 for a fourth... But there is a point when a person starts spending more than 3 seconds on average before finalizing their thoughts. That's the moment I am talking about.
Do understand that I don't talk about all the people in the world. If you are a one of the few exceptions of my rule,
excellent
for you! But for every one like you, there are 19 that fit my description.
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Post by
doublediamond410
Really tho, I'm just waiting for Diablo 3, and I bet alot of people are doing the same thing.
Ditto.
Post by
xaratherus
I bought one of my favourite games ever the other day - Xcom: Enemy Unknown. It's old - circa 1990. I mentioned this to my gf's younger brother who is also a big computer games fan - and showed him it. He wasn't impressed and the first thing he said was..."Eeuurgh. It looks rubbish, the new Harry Potter game looks so much better..."
Xcom was an amazing turn-based strategy game. I still sometimes reinstall Xcom: Apocalypse when I'm in the mood for some old-school fun. The gameplay was solid, and while the graphics weren't all that, it didn't matter because the game was fun.
People don't play Monopoly because they make the board shiny and the money transparent and the tokens shaped like cool things - they play it because the fun is there regardless of what it looks like. I think WoW is the same.
I started my MMO life with City of Heroes, and frankly, it's a better-looking game; the graphics are crisper, the powers are gorgeous, the environments are incredibly detailed, and it looks real rather than cartoonish. There are so many options during character creation that you could easily create a very cool-looking unique hero every day for a year and never repeat a style.
However, the gameplay bites. 50% of the quests are instanced, and there are only about 15 different tile sets for those quests. For whatever reason, WoW's quests, while similarly structured, don't seem anywhere near as monotonous as CoX's.
The only MMO that I'm interested in that's on the horizon officially is the Old Republic, because I really do prefer the sci-fi genre rather than fantasy. Until then, I'll stick with WoW, because for what it is and what it does, it is clean and entertaining and it does its job very well.
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