› ›

Howdy, Stranger!

It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!

Sign In Register

Quick Links

Is it just me...

ConverseSCConverseSC Member Posts: 572
in Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
Or does this game look a lot like Warcraft?  Not just WoW, but Warcraft in general?  I really think this stems back to the Warcraft dice game released in 1962.   The Warhammer tabletop was clearly heavily influenced by it back in 81, and since then both have flourished and become moderately succesful.  I guess my question is..why didn't Warhammer switch up its art style so it wouldn't be compared to WoW?


«1

Comments

  • PrecusorPrecusor Member UncommonPosts: 3,589

    Why.. is that a problem?

  • ConverseSCConverseSC Member Posts: 572
    No, it just seems like they would switch it up to aviod comparison.


  • MalsethMalseth Member Posts: 5
    Originally posted by ConverseSC
    Or does this game look a lot like Warcraft?  Not just WoW, but Warcraft in general?  I really think this stems back to the Warcraft dice game released in 1962.   The Warhammer tabletop was clearly heavily influenced by it back in 81, and since then both have flourished and become moderately succesful.  I guess my question is..why didn't Warhammer switch up its art style so it wouldn't be compared to WoW?
    I noticed this mself too, but just thought it was coincidence. As for the art style, i guess they're obviously copying WOW because of its massive success. Let me explain to you how this works: you see, the corporations finance Warhammer Online, and then Warhammer copies WOW's art style... and the corporations
    sit there in their... in their corporation buildings, and... and, and
    see, they're all corporation-y... and they make money.

  • PrecusorPrecusor Member UncommonPosts: 3,589

    Lol

  • Distortion0Distortion0 Member Posts: 668
    You do realize that you are the 23 person to post this same exact post and get the same exact answers right?
  • CelestianCelestian Member UncommonPosts: 1,136
    I'll respond in the only way he will understand (being a wow player I guess)

    lolnoob




    http://www.greycouncil.org/

  • Distortion0Distortion0 Member Posts: 668


    Originally posted by Celestian
    I'll respond in the only way he will understand (being a wow player I guess)

    lolnoob



    lol! You pwnd him!

    Warhammer for teh win!

  • ConverseSCConverseSC Member Posts: 572
    Originally posted by Distortion0
    You do realize that you are the 23 person to post this same exact post and get the same exact answers right?

    Actually, you didn't read my post carefully enough. image
  • COAgamerCOAgamer Member Posts: 190
    Why would GW change the art style they invented? (not graphics, the art and backround of the world)

    Modjoe86- Gambling is a sin.
    Laserwolf- Only if you lose.
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Waiting for= PSU, WAR

  • MMHELMMHEL Member Posts: 313

    WAR is  L337 and UB3R. WoW is for little n00blets and teh litlle 13 year old.

  • VolkmarVolkmar Member UncommonPosts: 2,501


    Originally posted by ConverseSC
    Or does this game look a lot like Warcraft?  Not just WoW, but Warcraft in general?  I really think this stems back to the Warcraft dice game released in 1962.   The Warhammer tabletop was clearly heavily influenced by it back in 81, and since then both have flourished and become moderately succesful.  I guess my question is..why didn't Warhammer switch up its art style so it wouldn't be compared to WoW?


    you got it ALL wrong, duuuude.

    The Warcraft dice game was a CLEAR rip-off from the Warhammer Poker hold 'em out game played in the wild west, 1800s something! Duuuuuude get your facts straight!

    Not to speak that you know? medieval people used Warhammers..... beat that ah! Warcraft Shamcraft, bah!

    "If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime"



  • scaramooshscaramoosh Member Posts: 3,424


    Originally posted by MMHEL

    WAR is  L337 and UB3R. WoW is for little n00blets and teh litlle 13 year old.

    So you then

    ---------------------------------------------
    image
    Don't click here...no2

  • callmetobycallmetoby Member Posts: 302


    Originally posted by MMHEL

    WAR is  L337 and UB3R. WoW is for little n00blets and teh litlle 13 year old.

    Please disregard the leetspeaking doofus.  He has been staring at a screen far too long. 

  • GalbrynGalbryn Member Posts: 3
    Warhammer came first.  Warcraft was modeled after Warhammer a long time ago.

    <insert witty retort here>

  • MageliteMagelite Member Posts: 22

    Uh-huh. Warcraft Dice game? 1961? What are you smoking?

    Warhammer came first, warcraft is warhammer crossed with mickey mouse.

    "Two things are infinite-the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe"-Albert Einstein

  • pulse104pulse104 Member Posts: 2
    Originally posted by ConverseSC
      I really think this stems back to the Warcraft dice game released in 1962.



           BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 1962? lololololol
     
            Most of the Blizzard Employs who made Warcraft were still 10 years old or in their Nappies...
           Warhammer was created many years before Warcraft was even thought up. Warcraft was heavily influenced by Warhammer not the other way around.
           All that is left to say is...lol.


    Pain is only Temporary, Death last forever...

  • zollenzollen Member Posts: 351
    Originally posted by ConverseSC
    Or does this game look a lot like Warcraft?  Not just WoW, but Warcraft in general?  I really think this stems back to the Warcraft dice game released in 1962.   The Warhammer tabletop was clearly heavily influenced by it back in 81, and since then both have flourished and become moderately succesful.  I guess my question is..why didn't Warhammer switch up its art style so it wouldn't be compared to WoW?
    You are right. I have been suspecting that too. Ever since John F. Kennedy began the "Warcraft" project to fight the martians global domination. The project was so successful they later found the Blizzard company so they can continue their work in Iraq because they thought Sadden Hussein was the last martian rebel. It turned out Sadden copied the idea of "Warcraft" project, renamed it as Warhammer and distributed it across other terrorist organizations. Those warhammer extermists have been releasing laughing gas against US troops in Iraq....

    image


  • VolkmarVolkmar Member UncommonPosts: 2,501


    Originally posted by pulse104



    Originally posted by ConverseSC
      I really think this stems back to the Warcraft dice game released in 1962.





           BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 1962? lololololol
     
            Most of the Blizzard Employs who made Warcraft were still 10 years old or in their Nappies...
           Warhammer was created many years before Warcraft was even thought up. Warcraft was heavily influenced by Warhammer not the other way around.
           All that is left to say is...lol.


    Maybe we should add a "sarcasm revelator" to this forums?

    So many have missed it :P

    "If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime"



  • sjonasjona Member Posts: 194

    "its very simpel economics, stan.. i dont understand it at all!"

    i dont get it?

    so you are saying warcraft in 1962 came before the warhammer flute play in 1780?!?!

    OWNED LORE FTW 0M6 LYL B00Z

  • VideoXPGVideoXPG Member Posts: 268
    Originally posted by Magelite
    Uh-huh. Warcraft Dice game? 1961? What are you smoking?Warhammer came first, warcraft is warhammer crossed with mickey mouse.

    I was going to say something similar, until I realized this is just another of the same old "WoW clone" threads with the op just trying to seem smart. Same old, new coat of paint.
  • PrecusorPrecusor Member UncommonPosts: 3,589


    Originally posted by Magelite

    Uh-huh. Warcraft Dice game? 1961? What are you smoking?
    Warhammer came first, warcraft is warhammer crossed with mickey mouse.

    Lol so true image
  • MorskittarMorskittar Member Posts: 67
    ConverseSC, you're such a retard.  The dice game wasn't first, Warcraft pogs were released in '58.

    What's funny, is that Games Workshop is still able to claim Warhammer came first, because in '83 Rick Priestly took an entire sheet of acid and managed to catapult his concsciousness forward to 2009, where he inadvertently posessed the body of a nun. 

    After soiling her purity for a week straight, Priestly discovered that Microsoft had just released Windows Vista XP 2009 SP7 RC2 XP*3, version five.  One of the key release components of this software was (or will be) able to power a XX103000 Nvidia Physics/GPU/SECS card to travel back in time.  Utilizing the nun's body and a stolen WinVisXP09SP7RC2XP*3 enabled cellphone, Priestly then travelled back to '57, and broke into Blizzard's headquarters (then based in New York, as California hadn't been built yet), and removed the brain of Arthur McThrallerson, Blizzard's founder.  After eating this brain, Priestly was able to extract the yet-unpublished Warcraft/Warhammer art style.

    The first publication, then was actually Warhammer Fantasy Battles, 1st edition, which was scribbled on a beer-soaked napkin in a bar in NY, in late 1957.  It's rumored that when Rick Priestly was catapulted back to the '80's, the napkin was shunted to Britain in the early 20th century, where a young man by the name of Tolkien found it.

    Thus, Tolkien totally ripped of GW, who totally ripped off WoW.  Get it right!



  • ConverseSCConverseSC Member Posts: 572

    There are way too many people who didn't take me serious in this post.  You ruined my childish fun.

    I remember in my Eve topic, everyone thought I was serious, with lead to many hours of my mirthful laughter.

    Thanks for ruining my glee, you bunch of asshats.

    image


  • TheGhostlordTheGhostlord Member Posts: 30


    Originally posted by Morskittar
    ConverseSC, you're such a retard.  The dice game wasn't first, Warcraft pogs were released in '58.

    What's funny, is that Games Workshop is still able to claim Warhammer came first, because in '83 Rick Priestly took an entire sheet of acid and managed to catapult his concsciousness forward to 2009, where he inadvertently posessed the body of a nun. 

    After soiling her purity for a week straight, Priestly discovered that Microsoft had just released Windows Vista XP 2009 SP7 RC2 XP*3, version five.  One of the key release components of this software was (or will be) able to power a XX103000 Nvidia Physics/GPU/SECS card to travel back in time.  Utilizing the nun's body and a stolen WinVisXP09SP7RC2XP*3 enabled cellphone, Priestly then travelled back to '57, and broke into Blizzard's headquarters (then based in New York, as California hadn't been built yet), and removed the brain of Arthur McThrallerson, Blizzard's founder.  After eating this brain, Priestly was able to extract the yet-unpublished Warcraft/Warhammer art style.

    The first publication, then was actually Warhammer Fantasy Battles, 1st edition, which was scribbled on a beer-soaked napkin in a bar in NY, in late 1957.  It's rumored that when Rick Priestly was catapulted back to the '80's, the napkin was shunted to Britain in the early 20th century, where a young man by the name of Tolkien found it.

    Thus, Tolkien totally ripped of GW, who totally ripped off WoW.  Get it right!


    At least this one has some imagination to throw in the mix...I'll grade this essay a B+ for effort.

    He did however forget to include the fact that the Warhammer was a sturdy weapon in the 10th-15th century,and therefore,surely Warcraft must be based on Warhammer.

  • MorskittarMorskittar Member Posts: 67
    Originally posted by TheGhostlord At least this one has some imagination to throw in the mix...I'll grade this essay a B+ for effort.

    He did however forget to include the fact that the Warhammer was a sturdy weapon in the 10th-15th century,and therefore,surely Warcraft must be based on Warhammer.




    Damn.  I forgot about medieval weaponry.
Sign In or Register to comment.