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Rockgod99
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I promised the wife that i would try to quest with her.
So today i made a solid effort.
I bought a 5 dollar copy of the original client and started making characters.
I decided to roll on a pvp server.
Attempt 1:
First creating a Undead Hunter, I put the games graphical settings on ultra.
I honestly didn't remember the undead looking that bad... I hardly made it passed the third quest.
Not only were the chracter models horrible but the world graphics also were so lacking I instantly went to create another character...
Attempt 2:
Next up a Dwarf Shaman.
This attempt was a bit better, dwarves have always looked terrible in WoW but through my love of all that is dwarf i hand crafted a very acceptable looking character. Animations are still the same but i dont mind that.
The dwarf area doesnt look as asstastic as the undead area so i was in the clear. I grab my quests and I went. I liked the flow of the quests but found the overall simplicity and lack of quality story telling annoying. For a quest based mmo I expected more from them since this is a revamp.
I've always considered WoWs combat and animations top of the line. I mean it didnt matter how bad i bitched about WoW I could never ever say anything bad about the games combat and character animations... Sadly after playing other games and then coming back to WoW the game is showing its age. Combat simply doesnt feel as responsive as I remember it and the recycling of old and tired dwarf animations kinda killed it for me.
I am happy to say that i finished the initial dwarf area but shortly after i decided to give another race/class combo a try.
Attempt 3:
Gnome Warrior.
Now this new area was cool. I've always wanted to take back gnomer so i was hyped when i made this little guy. Again obviously the graphics were bleh and surprisingly gnomer being a new hub for gnomes kinda looked outdated...
I just couldnt put my finger on it but the quests in the area just didnt flow. so sadly i logged off.
This obviously pissed off my wife bigtime... So to keep my ass from sleeping on the sofa i logged in a couple hours later.
Attempt 4:
Night Elf Mage.
The zone was hardly different and the laziness on blizzards part of not redoing Male Night elf cast animations was major fail. I mean they alread had bad casting animations, this is why druids got tree and moonkin forms because NE males look like shit casting...
So moving on...
Attempt 5:
I didn't want to make any more characters so considering I love dwarves i just logged into my little shaman and this time with the wife we decided to quest a bit.
I decided to follow her around healing and pulling mobs so she could get tanking practice lol. It was more fun bullshitting than doing the new content...
She's so cute trying to multi tank mobs lol!
She kinda got the hint...
Sorry people I dont think ill be returning to WoW anytime soon, five bucks wasted but who gives a shit.
WoW is simply an inferior quest based mmo in my opinion, with a lazy developer and aging graphics, combat and animations. Not even the stylized excuse is valid anymore. The game looks bad, plays average and its just too damn simple.
A good solid story would have held me but WoW simply doesnt offer that, you feel rushed and you can tell what the developers intentions are. Rush them to endgame and stick them in the token hamster wheel...
Hate me all you want guys but im being honest... And atleast I gave it a try.
Peace.
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I guess no dinner for you tonight.
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Not sure what you're trying to establish here, but umm.. good job! I hope you practice good fire safety. You'll need it.
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thanks I was thinking about playing WOW .. wont bother.
Thanks for sharing!!
Harsh, but I have to agree with most points. I love WoW, it 'was' a great game. If cataclysm is an improvement, I don't know and never will care to know, but I feel it doesn't matter. I've been saying it for awhile now, blizzard has gotten fat and lazy. If you felt that way in the starting zone I'd bet your impression of endgame would be 10x worse then what you've re-experienced lately. End game consists of instances that are exciting for your first maybe second clearing. PvP is great, but the BGs have aged, I'm sick to death of repeating WSG, AV, AB and EotS. Arena is bad, pillars are VIP due to LoS. Guess I should add that I despise the siege PvP in WoW, so new BGs featuring Siege combat give me zero reason to return. And lastly, I was sick of doing dailys after 5 days of them on the isle in TBC. Throw in reclycled bosses and standing in capitol cities at level cap because of instant-queue-no-reason-to-travel-gameplay you've just experienced endgame. I guess you could craft, if that's your thing. But I'd argue WoWs crafting is only mediocre and isn't enough to hold anybody to the game alone.
Awesome! Good try!
Wow offers a great story...
You didnt try, you went in wanting to hate it so you did and you found any excuse to do so.
All of your complaints amount to - bad graphics, bad animations and level 10 beginner quests are too simple.
Congratulations, you spent $5 and an hour just to prove you still hate WoW.
You came into this post wanting to hate it, so you avoided reading.
Example, you say he complains about animation.
OP: I've always considered WoWs combat and animations top of the line.
Btw OP, you I forgot to mention the player base. This is a perfect example.
Edit: NE animations are bad and remain bad. I'd say he has a valid complaint, this isn't a rare complaint either. And asking for new additional animations. Since when was that a bad thing?
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Waiting on: GW2, BP
I can't agree with WoW being unresponsive. It's the most responsive MMORPG out there.
All the rest is just personal opinion from a guy who felt forced to play with an attitude that it was going to suck.
People should base their research for a game to try on review sites, not this guy.. WoW is universally critcially acclaimed, and this guy is not a critic.
Still waiting for your Holy Grail MMORPG? Interesting...
I sort of agree here. Not pointing fingers, but how can you expect to give a unbiased review if you jump in the game already biased? You need an open mind and from what I've read it appears the OP was not in such a state of mind. A pity.
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I don't know what is OP trying to prove here? that he tried to play a MMO he knows he will hate? but went ahead anyways to tell us the obvious? ok...
Who could have thought that WOW could bring super power like USA to its knees?
Originally posted by Arcken
To put it in a nutshell, our society is about to hit the fan, grades are dropping, obesity is going up,childhood the USA is going to lose its super power status before too long, but hey, as long as we have a cheap method to babysit our kids, all will be well no?
Im picking on WoW btw because its the beast that made all of this possible
I thought the same thing, but decided not to pursue such topic of discussion in my earlier post. Lol >.<
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I'm no critic but WoW is definitely outdated. I agree with everything the OP had said. The other bad thing about WoW is that you pretty much have to download mulitple 3rd party programs just to play the game more comfortable.
There are many games out now that would surpass WoW imo but alot of you hardcore WoW players would never agree because you're too stuck on this game to give anything else a chance.
well, seeing as you didnt even scratch the end-content of the game you cant judge it properly. Caring only about graphics and animations is pretty shallow if you ask me. I myself have been severly criticizing WoW but after years(!) of f2p crap and turtle mmos like Lotro i have to say: WoW is a really good game. Therefore please refrain from scareing new players away with your superficial impressions.
sir, would you tell me some of those titles please? But remember, they got to be gold, p2p and fantasy themed.
3rd party programs? Now you're just being silly. If you mean UI enhancements, then yes. I agree that they are a bit overwhelming, but those aren't programs. They are xml files.
Spreading hate propaganda... especially when you have no idea what you're talking about.. is detrimental to the flow of the forums.
And the topic of graphics is a debate on opinion, not on fact. Since I'm of the opinon that I care not what a game looks like so long as it is fun, then I can't agree with your assessment.
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Surpass WOW in terms of content and quality? nope. And i have tried every MMO in existence.
Who could have thought that WOW could bring super power like USA to its knees?
Originally posted by Arcken
To put it in a nutshell, our society is about to hit the fan, grades are dropping, obesity is going up,childhood the USA is going to lose its super power status before too long, but hey, as long as we have a cheap method to babysit our kids, all will be well no?
Im picking on WoW btw because its the beast that made all of this possible
Agreed. What other game do you know of that can destroy their own world and make it better? And don't say SW:G!
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I have played Wow for 4 years. I have also tried and played many others including Age of Conan, Aion, Lord of the Rings and Warhammer, Runes of Magic, Eve, etc. While i can say i have grown tired of Wow over the years and would like to see something come out that would be my next MMO ( FInal Fantasy XIV was my biggest hope but we see what happened there ). Anyone that says Wow is an inferior game to the current MMOs out are either blind or just simply trolling because there is a reason its on top. Sure its graphics are not top notch, they do that mostly so people with average computers can play without spending a ton, and dont give the excuse that u can buy a gaming computer for 400-500 bucks, dont kid urself u cant. Play Age of Conan or Final Fantasy XIV on a base computer see what u get. Its about accessibility and ease of play. For the so called Hardcore crowd that cry around about the game, its a damn game, its not something to be proud of saying that u are so hardcore into a video game that u neglect all other aspects of ur life. Blizzard may not be ur favorite developer, or Wow may not be ur type of game, but there is a reason its on top and the rest have either went F2p or not even on the radar. Hope the next batch of MMOs coming out will be different but will have to see it to believe it.
Applications for MMO guilds??? Sorry not that pathetic just yet
I bought the game for the $5 deal, being a former vanilla player,
I mean, there are bits that get up my nose, like facerolling instances etc, but if your friendly with people you will find friendly people back, so far ive got a level 22 Priest and a level 23 Warrior, both undead. and im having fun. There are fun quests they sprinkled in the areas if you bothered, doing bombing runs, defending docks with cannons, shooting off raiders while mounted on a kodo escorting a caravan, having a companion phased nexto you helping you with some quests (darnell in undead starting area), i honestly don't think you bothered, going through southern barrens and seeing the zone literally torn in half actually hit me emotionaly, spending so much time here raiding crossroads in early vanilla, i then was swiftly killed by deathwing who decided to pop up (lol!) i got an achievement atleast.
As much as i despise the achievements it is getting people to go raid earlier raid content, which i was quite impressed. they certainly 'dumbed down' alot of things, and i can take down mobs my own level in 5 or 6 seconds with my warrior without losing much hp, so theres no denying it is easy mode.
I'm sorry OP you didn't try hard enough, if you were expecting vanilla thats your problem, but if you go in with an open mind you see that its worth a casual play through. I bought BC and Wotlk while they were on special and am planning to sub until one of the upcoming mmos comes out (and has good reviews)
Now, to your major gripes, the models at first were shockingly bad i didn't remember them being that bad, but you get over it quite quickly, especially when you get some gear on your toon. While you lament the graphics, if you really did have them on ultra, then im honestly surprised you werent amazed, On ultra i saw a living, breathing world, i could be on the other side of the zone and see the zeppelin docking at the tower, i would be in durator on my way to orgrimmar and look to my left and be able to see the mountains of the barrens so clearly, thats right, seeing the environment from accross zones, ive never felt such depth in a game world that absolutely sucked me in, and if having low polygons is the cost for achieving that, then im all for it.
if you don't like Nelf animations, dont play Nelfs, i love undead animations, hence im playing undead, and its a 60 second walk to a zeppelin or boat to go to whatever starting zone you wish to go to, I have been through SFK(pretty standard, but they have changed it), deadmines (which is a bit whacky, but extremely entertaining as you get to use the cannons on the boat etc now), the jail under stormwind (where you now face hogger who is a level 25 boss lol, fun!) and WC (hasen't changed)
Because ive missed so much its great to just stop, alt tab and wiki up a new character thats part of the law, and read about the events that have unfolded.
I might post my own impressions later on once i hit the 30s or 40s in a week or two. yes thats right a week or two, expecting an mmo to entertain you for 8 hours a day for years and years is pointless, and the great thing about WoW is im planning to make three more classes, all of which will have totally different leveling experiences because of the diversity of zones i can explore and the amount of content there is.
I could easily be synical, and talk about how taurens can be paladins now (facepalm) and Nelfs and dwarves can be mages (double facepalm), but if you try to enjoy it for what it is youll be pleasantly surprised.
lol funny how you guys take peoples reviews/opinions so offensively. Relax, if it's how someone feels/thinks, let it be. We're not trying to change your mind about the game so don't try to change ours with any kind of "valid" or "invalid" arguments. This discussion can go for days but seeing how we're in the WoW forums, i'm not going to continue this.
There is nothing special about end game content for this game. It's run dungeons, get your epic armor, rinse and repeat. Seems more like a job than fun for me. But hey, that is just my opinion. If you guys want to flame, go for it.
A game doesn't have to be "Gold" to surpass WoW, it's my opinion that matters. For example, if I think Runescape is better than WoW, than so be it. (obviously I'm not serious)
No ones trying to scare anyone away from WoW. My GF even plays WoW, I may not like it and at times tell her to stop playing such a noob game, but tbh, I really dont care. If she enjoys it, oh well, i'm even going to buy her the new cataclysm.
So stop getting your panties in a bunch, dont take it to heart just because someone doesn't see eye to eye with you. You're not the developer/creator of this game so why are you getting offended. You're a player, another number, a no body to them that just keeps them going.
your saying 'don't attack us we're just giving our opinons' and then your attacking us for giving our opinions? >.>
End game is what you want it to be, roll another alt, faction grind, do arena, join a pvp guild, transfer/join a pvp server and open world raid. A majority of it is raiding yes but name a thempark that has better endgame, just do normal dungeons instead of heroics if you don't want to invest the time, i think some people have lost the ability to make their own fun, seriously.
just cos theres an achievement, or a yellow exclamation mark, doesn't mean you have to pursue it, there are so many quests now that i actually dropped some that were just kill x etc, and pickedu p ones that were fun, i turned off the track quest feature and actually read the quest instructions, sure its slower, but hey im in no rush, like you said end game aint that great,
I agree with the above. If someone doesn't like WoW, just agree with there opinion and know that you enjoy it. I liked WoW, and I don't even think BC or WoTLK destroyed it. WoW is, IMO, the second best themepark game. The only reason I'm not returning is I think it's just a grind to endgame by doing quests, then a grind at endgame to get the best gear, which repeats each expansion. It's not just WoW who does this though, most mmo's do. I just want something different. But don't let anyones opinion stop you from playing a game. If you have fun playing, then keep playing.
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