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Whats with the little fluffy race trend?
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would gibberlings be like tribbles?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45h9uCDpGh0&feature=related
Sex Sells and now Fluffy things are selling too, now imagine when they merge...
i can see these Allods things walking in "a frenzy orgy train" and Lltlle Lalafells girls dressing underwears showing all their Fur..
The Popori(OMG PO-PO-RI WTF is that) are so lol that they are the only fluff i would play.
There are people that like cute races what can you do? kill them in real because they like cute races?
Also in pvp games being short helps against people that target with mouse or in hack and slash games.
THIS
thumbs up if you think the original poster looks similar to a little fluffy race, in real life.
Thats probably why he is so UMAD BRO?
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What makes you think I am mad?
I'm mad. I'm a fuzzy little creature. I hate how we are portrayed in games.
"Never met a pack of humans that were any different. Look at the idiots that get elected every couple of years. You really consider those guys more mature than us? The only difference between us and them is, when they gank some noobs and take their stuff, the noobs actually die." - Madimorga
Thanks for that I'll be saving it on my pc
npyw its on photobucket if you lose it thats where I got it from
Well OP it is as old as the hills, the trend started at the time of the Greeks apparently so it's unsurprising that it's in modern mmos.
"Come and have a look at what you could have won."
lol people say stuff like that and think its actually a valid point.
Did I say that modern MMOs INVENTED small fluffy animals? No!
I'm saying its a trend for them to be a playable race in MMOs these days.
The cutesy eyed teddy bear races and other similar ones of the sort originated in Anime/cutesy MMOs and now they are throwing them in as races in regular fantasy MMOs to grab a wider array of attention.
It's a marketing technique thats easy to spot. I don't get why you have a hard time seeing it. Bringing up stuff about ancient greece, lol. There was another guy who tried to do the same thing, bringing up classical fairy tales. We're talking about MMOs within the least few years, not the history of all humanity, sir.
Lol it was a joke, in ancient greek plays and oral legends there was 'The Furies' not the furries.
Tbh aside from for specific anime themed games, or where there is some clear advantage in playing one (short toons in a fps game or where there is a hit box) then I feel they look a 'bit odd'. Still people seem to like them so c'est la vie.
"Come and have a look at what you could have won."
could be worse,
they could be gnomes...
Yeah I knew the picture was a joke, but I did think you were serious about greece and such having small animals in their mythos, because people earlier in the thread did try to bring up classical fairy tales and say that it wasn't a "new" trend. I thought you were trying to do the same.
Full of win.
It just makes the game look like a children's game to me. Don't mind if there is PvP. I will have my team focus fire on your cute ass first invariably, cause I don't wanna look at you.
"Never met a pack of humans that were any different. Look at the idiots that get elected every couple of years. You really consider those guys more mature than us? The only difference between us and them is, when they gank some noobs and take their stuff, the noobs actually die." - Madimorga
I agree with this. If it's outside of the appropriate environment of a game....SURE, then it makes sense to stay away from such "frivolity," but when we're talking high fantasy.....I don't see the harm. And...like I said...different players have different preferences. Even some men like a sense of whimsy.
THIS made me laugh!
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What's with the fluffy race trend? I would say that it's mostly to attract females to play their games and guys that think its funny to watch small cute creatures lay the smack down on larger and more menacing looking mobs.
You've seen it before in movies where some guy tries to pet a cute animal only for it to jump on the guys face and try to claw his eyeballs out. It's entertaining.
It is what we call a lack of imagination. This is an ongoing trend in the growing population of people playing games. They can not identify with anything else but that what they already know. For example, most casual gamers prefer any realistic FPS over a SF FPS (eventhough UT or Q3 are much better in creating the competitive environnement they crave than any realistic FPS) and even when it comes to mere visual style these people tend to prefer realism over SF. These people, lets call them the mainstream, woudl rather have the next CoD to have a similar setting as the previous titles (modern warfare) than a SF setting. Why? Lack of imagination. Lack of the ability to identify with anything else that goes beyond their personal, daily experience.
Games, imho, are created to escape from realism. To be different from the boring things we already experience every single day. However, the big gaming crowd seems to disagree. They prefer not to put effort in learning or apreciate something different or refreshing, and prefer to consume the same content presented to them in a slightly different color or shape. This is why you see the ongoing trend in the game industry pooping out sequel after sequel for the main reason that they sell. You can actually read some recent statements by big companies like Ubisoft claiming they will focus more on sequels for this very reason.
The prove might not be scientific, but just by looking at the games of these days you can clearly see this tend. Games like Psychonauts that have original and refreshing gameplay sell poorly compared to a sequel that is fundamentally the same as the previous title with upgraded graphics and a new generic story with scripted 'epic' events(CoD, GoW etc).In fact these scripted events is what worries me the most. Really what is that people are so easily impressed by scripted content. Aka gameplay that is in fact not gameplay, but rather footage that will always happen regardles of the player's input. The whole lack imagination comes back here aswell. People prefer to be TOLD that they are a hero and badass in a linear storyline and take this for granted, eventhough every single other player of that game gets told that THEY are the hero aswell, therefore the player never really was a hero by his own actions, but because the game told him so and directed him to be one. As long as the player has the feeling of being badass, it doesn't matter to him how many times he is actually playing the same content. However when he is asked to be creative, to acutally be a hero and to actually create his own story by his own imput in the game, he feels disconnected and found himself not to be entertained at all.
Last example before I end this rant that is fully based on my own opinion and is not fact in the slightest, the monster boxoffice hit Avatar. Avatar is visually stunning, other than that it is actually a rather poor movie. The fact that it still managed to entertain so many people has nothing to do with it having a great script or anything else, only with the unimaginative public it was dedicated to. The script was laughable and actually everything but the effects were. I saw people praising James for being so creative while both the script and the world Pandora were anything but creative. Really, the parallels between our world and Pandora are so big, that its essentially the same planet with a marine style to it. Horses with 6 legs used as primary transportation methods, blue indians that have indian like rituals and behavior, using bow and arrow as their main weapon. Any animal on pandora seems very similar other than a few details to animals living on our own planet. Humanlike indians(do you even know how small the chance is that there is live in the universe that has evolved in a similar way as ours, now imagine, if you can, the chance that they are at allmost in the exact same point in evolution as us). The script was a poor version of Dances with wolves (a prety long movie that the public would probably find boring) in space with epic battles and retarded dialog trown in to appeal to the crowd. It was one big actonflick cliche that people had seen for at least a 100 times before put in a nice visual jacket and the people loved every singly second of it. Really this was basicly like someone on a stage telling the public they were retarded idiots without any personality or creativity and the public answering with applause and praise, confirming this very statement. To think people actually killed themselves over the pathetic movie that Avatar was it rather depressing....
I have to agree with the lack of imagination point. I've even always thought it strange when someone rolls a human in a fantasy game..... ???? I mean, seriously? Don't we "play" a human EVERY SINGLE DAY? I mean, I can understand if someone rolls one human out of a whole mess of characters, but I know people who will ONLY play humans. I find that WAY more odd than playing something fuzzy and cute, short and drunk with a beard, or....you know....anything else really. At least people who play something other than human have enough imagination and sense of whimsy to find that compelling.
Maybe some people are just BORING people?
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I dunno...I think Avatar was great and I believe I have a great imagination..
Was it the most imaginative? no,but I wont turn away from anything new or different either.That goes for MMO's(or any game) as well.I'll be trying that little alien looking race in GW2 for sure as I prefer smaller races to all else,Just not cutesy ones pointed at the female gender perhaps.Does that mean I want them out of the games altogether? naaa, I dont mind playing beside them...and I love gamer chicks
I can see your rant having merit with alot of people though.
....did people really kill themselves over that movie?!
There are those that play these games that imagine themselves in the role of the avatar they're playing. Therefore they try to find one that resembles closest to themselves as possible.
I don't know why this seems so strange or odd to some folks.
EDIT: Not that I agree with the OP either. If I don't care for a race I simply don't play it. Doesn't matter to me that it exists. The more variance the better I say in an mmorpg. Besides, even some races that I wouldn't personally care to play I still get a kick out of watching in action.
1. For god's sake mmo gamers, enough with the analogies. They're unnecessary and your comparisons are terrible, dissimilar, and illogical.
2. To posters feeling the need to state how f2p really isn't f2p: Players understand the concept. You aren't privy to some secret the rest are missing. You're embarrassing yourself.
3. Yes, Cpt. Obvious, we're not industry experts. Now run along and let the big people use the forums for their purpose.
Grow up
Dunno how someone else looks really bothers so many people. Perhaps they need to get over themselves and understand that's the beauty in itself.
Plus these 2 saved the fucking day and i wouldn't question either.
I dont understand why fluffy races are a bad thing. My gf loves that kinda thing. Alot more woman play mmos then people t hink. I for one play wow with a guild that may be half female.
If every game goes orc, elf, dwarf,human and then adds on u really just end up with a bunch of games with the same old same old. Its nice to see a game like tera change that a bit.
I for one think it would be cool to play as a cute little bear or bunny rabbit. It doesnt make a person gay
i dont understand why gay is bad. The f word to describe homosexuals is alot worse. Gay actualy means happy i know its used as a slur but gay is no wear near as bad as the f word.
If we keep up gettign offending by every little thing no words in the english langauge will be allowed to use. We willa ll have to go mute.