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Want to play as a Goblin

BruceYeeBruceYee Member EpicPosts: 2,556
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I'm looking for any type of online game where I can play as the Goblin race. It can be mmo, single player, side scroll/2d, top down etc.

Been missing playing my goblin in Vanguard and need something to fill the void.

Thanks

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  • SeratusSeratus Member Posts: 6

    World of Warcraft has a playable goblin race.

    Hope that helps!  Best of luck finding your game!

  • L0C0ManL0C0Man Member UncommonPosts: 1,065
    WoW has a playable goblin race, though if it's Vanguard you miss, might not be your cup of tea.

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  • cmorris975cmorris975 Member UncommonPosts: 207
    Hell man, I want to BE a freakin' goblin!  Take it to the next level with me!
  • DerivativeDerivative Member UncommonPosts: 85

    If your looking for a single player experience, and your into stealth games, there is Styx - Master of Shadows

     

    http://store.steampowered.com/app/242640/

  • GhabboGhabbo Member UncommonPosts: 263
    This...

    store.steampowered.com/app/242640/
  • GhabboGhabbo Member UncommonPosts: 263
    Lol, beat me by a few seconds ;)
  • grindingamergrindingamer Member Posts: 65
    I cant ever play a goblin...killed too many in my runescape days. #lvl3sunite
  • HelleriHelleri Member UncommonPosts: 930
    You can play as an Orc in Lotro (basically the same thing). But, I think it's a purchased unlock. And, I don't trust Turbine with access to my wallet.

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  • BruceYeeBruceYee Member EpicPosts: 2,556
    Thanks guys for the responses - I'll be checking some of these out.
  • ArtificeVenatusArtificeVenatus Member UncommonPosts: 1,236
     
  • Cosmonaut79Cosmonaut79 Member UncommonPosts: 175
    I fell like Vanguard is just what I need right now...
  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,939
    Originally posted by Cosmonaut79
    I fell like Vanguard is just what I need right now...

    As soon as I saw the title I thought "Vanguard ... oh wait ..."

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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,439
    Best Goblin race ever was in Warhammer Online. But they cancelled it in 2013, officially the game was "retired". Corporate-speak at its finest.
  • AdamantineAdamantine Member RarePosts: 5,094

    Aaarg !

    Damn you !

    Now I miss playing my Vanguard Goblin Shaman !

    Drat.

    P.s.: Actually, with a bit of thinking - I miss my Goblin Disciple even more. But the Shaman was fun, too !

     

     

    Originally posted by Helleri
    You can play as an Orc in Lotro (basically the same thing).

    What ... the ... ORCS ARE NOT GOBLINS !!!!

    Because Orcs are ugly ! While Goblins are beautiful ! There, now you know it, too !

  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,439
    Originally posted by Adamantine

    Aaarg !

    Damn you !

    Now I miss playing my Vanguard Goblin Shaman !

    Drat.

    P.s.: Actually, with a bit of thinking - I miss my Goblin Disciple even more. But the Shaman was fun, too !

     

     

    Originally posted by Helleri
    You can play as an Orc in Lotro (basically the same thing).

    What ... the ... ORCS ARE NOT GOBLINS !!!!

    Because Orcs are ugly ! While Goblins are beautiful ! There, now you know it, too !

    Orcs are most definitely not goblins, don't make Tolkien turn in his grave. :D

     

  • Po_ggPo_gg Member EpicPosts: 5,749
    Originally posted by Scot
    Originally posted by Helleri
    You can play as an Orc in Lotro (basically the same thing).

    What ... the ... ORCS ARE NOT GOBLINS !!!!

    Because Orcs are ugly ! While Goblins are beautiful ! There, now you know it, too !

    Orcs are most definitely not goblins, don't make Tolkien turn in his grave. :D

    Nah, he's not that spinning kinda fella :) And certainly not for this case, since Helleri is right, Tolkien used goblin and orc for the same foul creature, goblins of the Hobbit are the same ones he called Orcs in LotR.

     

    PJ and Turbine however treating them differently, so Helleri's statement is not entirely correct :)  you can play Orcs in LotRO, can do it without your wallet too, since the Reaver is free to everyone, but in the game orcs and goblins are different. Goblins are those small buggers with a spear, mostly working as travelling agents for dye-making scholars since they keep yelling Dye, Dye! Or maybe die, just their accent of Common is weak? :)

    (probably not, since they're so weak they couldn't kill even a fly, let alone a well-fed hobbit...)

  • dreamscaperdreamscaper Member UncommonPosts: 1,592
    Originally posted by Po_gg
    Originally posted by Scot
    Originally posted by Helleri
    You can play as an Orc in Lotro (basically the same thing).

    What ... the ... ORCS ARE NOT GOBLINS !!!!

    Because Orcs are ugly ! While Goblins are beautiful ! There, now you know it, too !

    Orcs are most definitely not goblins, don't make Tolkien turn in his grave. :D

    Nah, he's not that spinning kinda fella :) And certainly not for this case, since Helleri is right, Tolkien used goblin and orc for the same foul creature, goblins of the Hobbit are the same ones he called Orcs in LotR.

     

    PJ and Turbine however treating them differently, so Helleri's statement is not entirely correct :)  you can play Orcs in LotRO, can do it without your wallet too, since the Reaver is free to everyone, but in the game orcs and goblins are different. Goblins are those small buggers with a spear, mostly working as travelling agents for dye-making scholars since they keep yelling Dye, Dye! Or maybe die, just their accent of Common is weak? :)

    (probably not, since they're so weak they couldn't kill even a fly, let alone a well-fed hobbit...)

    I feel rather bad that as a Tolkien fan I wasn't aware of this. I did some quick googling and lo and behold, the above is correct. [Suggested Reading for the curious.]

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  • zzaxzzax Member UncommonPosts: 324
    Nothing is even close to Goblin race in Warhammer Online. The game has died, but you could search for some pirate server.
  • JemcrystalJemcrystal Member UncommonPosts: 1,989
    Goblin good alignment or goblin bad alignment?  To many games force us to be the hero.


  • OhhPaigeyOhhPaigey Member RarePosts: 1,517

    WoW says, whutup?

    When all is said and done, more is always said than done.
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,439
    Originally posted by dreamscaper
    Originally posted by Po_gg
    Originally posted by Scot
    Originally posted by Helleri
    You can play as an Orc in Lotro (basically the same thing).

    What ... the ... ORCS ARE NOT GOBLINS !!!!

    Because Orcs are ugly ! While Goblins are beautiful ! There, now you know it, too !

    Orcs are most definitely not goblins, don't make Tolkien turn in his grave. :D

    Nah, he's not that spinning kinda fella :) And certainly not for this case, since Helleri is right, Tolkien used goblin and orc for the same foul creature, goblins of the Hobbit are the same ones he called Orcs in LotR.

     

    PJ and Turbine however treating them differently, so Helleri's statement is not entirely correct :)  you can play Orcs in LotRO, can do it without your wallet too, since the Reaver is free to everyone, but in the game orcs and goblins are different. Goblins are those small buggers with a spear, mostly working as travelling agents for dye-making scholars since they keep yelling Dye, Dye! Or maybe die, just their accent of Common is weak? :)

    (probably not, since they're so weak they couldn't kill even a fly, let alone a well-fed hobbit...)

    I feel rather bad that as a Tolkien fan I wasn't aware of this. I did some quick googling and lo and behold, the above is correct. [Suggested Reading for the curious.]

    I don't accept that interpretation, sorry. :)

    It does say how hotly contested this all is. In my view like much of any authors background the idea of Orcs and Goblins as being separate evolved later on in Tolkiens mind. They are not racialy different, in other words they have the same source but are both culturally and physical different.

  • Po_ggPo_gg Member EpicPosts: 5,749
    Originally posted by Scot

    I don't accept that interpretation, sorry. :)

    It does say how hotly contested this all is. In my view like much of any authors background the idea of Orcs and Goblins as being separate evolved later on in Tolkiens mind. They are not racialy different, in other words they have the same source but are both culturally and physical different.

    That's not interpretation, that's fact :) I think Tolkien mentioned it himself somewhere, he added orc into the languages of ME because goblin was used in english for a creature which is not what he had in mind, but since the Hobbit used goblins, he left it in Common, so in LotR when hobbits referring to Orcs they sometimes call them goblins.

    There's a physically different Orc 'version', Sauron's and Saruman's Uruk-hai. The regular orc are the same ones the Company fought in Misty Mountains.

     

    But that's not important, since Turbine separates them as well (maybe for having more enemies in game :) ), so for OP LotRO is not a good fit, can't play goblin there (http://lotro-wiki.com/images/b/bf/Goblin-town_Jailor.jpg) just a Reaver (http://lotro-wiki.com/images/0/0a/Blogmal_Soldier_Appearance.jpg) which is different, and not only in size.

     

  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,439
    Originally posted by Po_gg
    Originally posted by Scot

    I don't accept that interpretation, sorry. :)

    It does say how hotly contested this all is. In my view like much of any authors background the idea of Orcs and Goblins as being separate evolved later on in Tolkiens mind. They are not racialy different, in other words they have the same source but are both culturally and physical different.

    That's not interpretation, that's fact :) I think Tolkien mentioned it himself somewhere, he added orc into the languages of ME because goblin was used in english for a creature which is not what he had in mind, but since the Hobbit used goblins, he left it in Common, so in LotR when hobbits referring to Orcs they sometimes call them goblins.

    There's a physically different Orc 'version', Sauron's and Saruman's Uruk-hai. The regular orc are the same ones the Company fought in Misty Mountains.

     

    But that's not important, since Turbine separates them as well (maybe for having more enemies in game :) ), so for OP LotRO is not a good fit, can't play goblin there (http://lotro-wiki.com/images/b/bf/Goblin-town_Jailor.jpg) just a Reaver (http://lotro-wiki.com/images/0/0a/Blogmal_Soldier_Appearance.jpg) which is different, and not only in size.

     

    Sauron (not Saurman as in the film), redesigned them over time, goblin to orc to uruk-hai. The goblins in the Misty Mountains are culturally separate from the orcs seen in say Mordor. I do realise this has more to do with having a great time with my goblin in WH than Tolkien lore, but I am sticking with that interpretation. :)

     

  • stevebombsquadstevebombsquad Member UncommonPosts: 884
    Originally posted by Scot
    Originally posted by Po_gg
    Originally posted by Scot

    I don't accept that interpretation, sorry. :)

    It does say how hotly contested this all is. In my view like much of any authors background the idea of Orcs and Goblins as being separate evolved later on in Tolkiens mind. They are not racialy different, in other words they have the same source but are both culturally and physical different.

    That's not interpretation, that's fact :) I think Tolkien mentioned it himself somewhere, he added orc into the languages of ME because goblin was used in english for a creature which is not what he had in mind, but since the Hobbit used goblins, he left it in Common, so in LotR when hobbits referring to Orcs they sometimes call them goblins.

    There's a physically different Orc 'version', Sauron's and Saruman's Uruk-hai. The regular orc are the same ones the Company fought in Misty Mountains.

     

    But that's not important, since Turbine separates them as well (maybe for having more enemies in game :) ), so for OP LotRO is not a good fit, can't play goblin there (http://lotro-wiki.com/images/b/bf/Goblin-town_Jailor.jpg) just a Reaver (http://lotro-wiki.com/images/0/0a/Blogmal_Soldier_Appearance.jpg) which is different, and not only in size.

     

    Sauron (not Saurman as in the film), redesigned them over time, goblin to orc to uruk-hai. The goblins in the Misty Mountains are culturally separate from the orcs seen in say Mordor. I do realise this has more to do with having a great time with my goblin in WH than Tolkien lore, but I am sticking with that interpretation. :)

     

    Actually they are one and the same. If you read the appendices, Tolkien even interchanges them like when he referenced the Dwarf and Goblin War in the Hobbit , and then referred to them as orcs when referring to the war in Appendix A of the Lord of the Rings. You are welcome to your own interpretation though.....

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  • Flyte27Flyte27 Member RarePosts: 4,574
    I've always seen depictions of Goblins as skinny creatures with pot bellies.  They basically look like some creepy, green, bald, pervert.  Their depiction of them in the Hobbit cartoon is how I saw them in various children's books when I was growing up.  People had some creepy had creepy imagination then.
    I have not seen many depictions of Orcs until things like D&D stared getting popular.  They seem to always be depicted as large, strong creatures.  The often appear to look like a wild boars/humanoids and make a snorting sound.
    It seems like both creatures (weather they are one and the same or not) are supposed to be more animal then human and act on their base instincts (which is why they do evil things).

     

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