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Warhammer mmo ever again?
Crcata24
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So the warhammer series is something I have recently gotten into alot. I love thier classes, specifically black orcs, and greenskins I'm general.
I know age of Reckoning tanked, though I enjoyed it.
Long post short...is there ever going to be a new mmo? Or mabye an "elder scrolls" style single player game? I can't seem to find anything about it. Any word?
I know age of Reckoning tanked, though I enjoyed it.
Long post short...is there ever going to be a new mmo? Or mabye an "elder scrolls" style single player game? I can't seem to find anything about it. Any word?
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On the other hand, Warhammer TW has pretty positive reviews and is selling quite well. Dawn of War 3 has been announced, Vermintide is still fairly popular, and Space Hulk: Deathwing looks amazing. Inquisitor: Martyr also looks pretty good.
If you disregard the horrible mobile games (was pumped for Freeblade until it was revealed as a RAIL SHOOTER!), the Warhammer and 40K franchises are finally seeing decent games. If they continue to be of decent quality and popularity, then yes, there's a very good chance somebody might try either an expansive open world RPG, or another MMO. But right now there's nothing I've heard of in the works.
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I have been debating getting TW Warhammer.
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It's really fun, the graphics are very nice, the fights are fun to watch, and there is some decent strategy involved.
The empire building is really in depth (although I have little to compare it to) and results in some very interesting occurences.
Easily a hundred hours of gameplay, probably much more...per faction.
Another thing that's made me hesitate to do that, is it played WAR in its prime, when it was full of players, and super active. I have a feeling I would start again and the world would be super empty and the nostalgia would wear off pretty quick.
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So far, there's only been a couple of games that truly captured the feeling of the Warhammer lore for me and those were the Dawn of War games, Vermintide and the new Total Warhammer. In fact, how Total Warhammer didn't happen before now is beyond me, as it was literally begging for the Total War treatment.
Warhammer Online always lacked that feeling of massive battles with high attrition on both sides that you get from reading the books and reading the source materials for the individual armies. It was both small scale and too... cartoony for me. It never felt dark, visceral and gritty like when you read a Dan Abnet novel and you can practically feel like you're in war.
Apart from the other games people have mentioned, Mordheim: City of the Damned is a kind of strategy rpg which looks pretty good (I haven't played it, but its on my wishlist) set in warhammer universe I think..
And - as you and others say - there are multiple Warhammer computer games and more coming out. Not of equal quality for sure and not necessarily played by Warhammer figure players!
If there ever was though I hope they would "simply" implement the current edition of the rules - or a sub-set of it - rather than start from scratch. The rules/mechanics have been refined over decades why reinvent them.
Last TW game I bought was Medieval 2, and it... well, it wasn't very good, though mostly due to bugs. And from what I've read, subsequent releases were similarly buggy. Haven't heard of many bugs with Total Warhammer though.
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I don't think there will be a good Warhammer MMO. I just don't think there are enough creative juices from a company partnering with Games Workshop to make a decent one come to market. The only way it can be successful is if it was directly from Games Workshop.
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I was so stoked for that game after Age of Reckoning bombed. Since the game got screwed, unsurprisingly, by EA forcing Mythic to rush the game out waaaay before it was ready. I still don't know why DMO was cancelled and quite frankly I don't really care what their reasons were, I just see it as they chickened out because of what happened with AoR. I spent many hours trying to play AoR, I would go off and explore all the epic, and completely empty, battlefields Mythic had created and was sickened by the lost potential
Age of Reckoning had potential. They were aiming for the large scale battles, fighting over territory etc to get the feeling from the board games. They had the iconic classes (loved my black orc!) and some great locations to visit. I admit I did most of the dwarf vs greenskin pve - the scenery was just great. However, they made some fundamental mistakes with game design plus partnered with EA.
The hardest thing about Warhammer or 40k is the scale. Getting massive battles into an MMO is technically very difficult, but without it then its not really warhammer.
I think like others, I'd rather get a solid open world single player RPG first (skyrim with 40k skin and better combat). I also want developers to stop focusing on skaven! Seems so many new warhammer games are pushing skaven, but they're a shit race! Orcs may be "generic" but warhammer orcs are the best type of orcs out there! Love em!
Also, total warhammer - loving it! Playing as greenskins and its already more challenging than all previous TW games I've played. Units look awesome, game runs better on my rig than empire did, world is awesome. Can't wait to unlock more heros / spells / units!
It is too bad, when the Warhammer fantasy roleplaying game came out it was something we never seen before and had top quality content ("The enemy within" is still considered one of the best P&P campaigns ever made). Mythic tried to make a light version of the miniature game without the adult content and with less humor instead of basing it on the P&P game as a MMORPG should be.
I didn't really like WAR because it didn't have the feel of Warhammer, they should just have skipped the RPG part and focusing just on combat or worked harder to make it truly feel like Warhammer. I have a lot of friends who like me like the IP and none played WAR very long. It was pretty clear to me that no-one on the team who made the game played much Warhammer besides maybe a little Bloodbowl or Heroquest/Warhammer quest (which is a very light version).
I think the best we can hope for is another RTS or turned based strategy game that get the IP right.