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How do you feel about Orcs as a Playable race in Fantasy setting MMORPGs?
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I was just curious. But speaking generally, how do you all feel about playable Orc race in fantasy MMOs? Are you against this sort of thing? If so, please share why.
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How do you feel about Orcs as a Playable race in Fantasy setting MMORPGs?
- How do you feel about Orcs as a Playable race in Fantasy setting MMORPGs?19 votes
- I am cool with Orcs as a Playable race78.95%
- I dont like Orcs as a playable race21.05%
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It is just huge resource waste....'
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Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
NM, I forget, they are called Drow or something already.
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In lineage 2 they were more like klingons. I thought that was a much better way of portray them.
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I mainly played Ork in Eternal Crusade! Green Skin the Best!
Again, depends on the game.
Games like Warhammer, Oh hell yah! In fact playing Orks is an integral aspect of the game.
Games like EQ, or some such where Orks are mainly just savages an traditional NPC's.. Kinda meh.
Games like DDO, where half orc is a playable race, but Orc is not normally seen as one, then Halforc is what would fit in the game, and Orc is not.
Tolken-esque games, where they died in sunlight and wallowed in their own fecal matter... hard pass.
oh yah.. and humans too.
But yah.. I would love to able to play a mind flayer or somesuch.. gonna go suggest that on their forums, as the next playable race. I mean they already have mind flayers in the game itself, so.. making a character model should not be that hard, I mean really it's just a head on a human armature with some funky skin patterns when you think about it.
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Though I loved Orcs as well. And that leads me to the topic at hand. I have nothing against Orcs(or Elves or Dwarves etc), provided they're more than 2d or, failing that, just epic 1d fun like in Warhammer. Sure, I'm often drawn towards other fantasies, towards Knights and Witch Hunters and Elves etc, but I have nothing against Orcs, they're a very solid fallback fun method. Provided they don't get all WoW-y and fail, you know.
If they weren't green and orcish, it would be a cool design.
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I felt one of the biggest weaknesses of LoTRO was not being able to play Orcs, Trolls, Ogres, etc. And no monster play doesn't count.