That game looks fucking stupid.
haha thats;s not even the game, its just a cg movie to bring the hype upBull3t wrote:
That game looks fucking stupid.
good pointNinja_Monkey wrote:
ea fuck everything they touch up and bilard turn wathever they touch to gold
so no thier not worried
Well before you go saying that EA is copying WoW... you should know that Warhammer Online was "made" before Wow.. but due to lack of funding (I believe) it was set on hold until a year ago I think.. anyways I never thourght about playing wow, but this I could play.. huge wars and sieges + I have a hell of a lot of miniature figures from when I played Warhammer fantasy and 40.000... the sweet thing about Warhammer online is that the models/characters in the game are exact copies of some of the figures from the board game..
The high elf staff?... don't knock the High Elves - I have quite a few HE models.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
As for the video, the kamikaze orks were the best. The rest of it was too random, and that freaking magic staff sounded like a Protoss structure getting put up.
While I won't be getting it, the rendering does look pretty cool in showing what is 'going on' in the table top game. Know what I mean, right?
Mcminty.
Go die in a fire.mcminty wrote:
The high elf staff?... don't knock the High Elves - I have quite a few HE models.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
As for the video, the kamikaze orks were the best. The rest of it was too random, and that freaking magic staff sounded like a Protoss structure getting put up.
While I won't be getting it, the rendering does look pretty cool in showing what is 'going on' in the table top game. Know what I mean, right?
Mcminty.
Bloody elves...
Tomb Kings or Lizard Men for me. Can't beat the servants of the Old Gods.
Whoa... Can't believe these forums are still kicking.
Just because people play the figurine version of warhammer doesnt mean they will commit to a computer game. and i know, i know - warhammer has had a few computer games out but whether or not that crowd is from the original figurine fan base or not is a new matter.Flecco wrote:
Three quick points about Warhammer: Age of Reckoning (WAR for short...)...Sentinel wrote:
Video was awesome. I think it might make a better movie than a game.
EA have potential, but they do screw things up preety bad sometimes.
WoW is well establised, this warhammer game is going to have to offer something preety damn special...and, for EA's sake, lets hope that the majority of the RPG fans out there never played BF2...the patches...oh god the patches...
1) It's made by the lot who made Dark Age of Camelot... EA Mythic... Dark Age has been out for five years, is still making money and has a large playerbase, has 7 financially successful expansions released and EA Mythic have been a part of EA for a long, long time.
2) W:AR has that as an acronym for it's name for a good reason; it's focus is PvP unlike WoW's. It is designed almost entirely around "Realm vs. Realm" PvP. It will not be for the casual gamer crowd that WoW has targeted mostly.
3) Warhammer has a far more estabelished fan base than Blizzard did at WoW's launch. Haha, Blizzard doesn't have a monthly magazine; Games Workshop does.
I've been following WAR for a while and it does look good. Dig a little deeper Serge, the trailer doesn't show this games potential for the pvp mmo scene.
Oh and Sentinel... BF2's patches were fucked because the original dev team split after making the game and a different studio (DIce Montreal) made the patches from 1.2 onward... BF2 was fucked by office politics...
And of course WAR will have a bigger potential fan base compared to WOW when it came out - WOW was the first of its kind! How can you have a fan base for a genre that doesnt exist yet?
And besides, id say that the fanbase for Warcraft, and indeed Blizzard games would have rivalled that of Warhammer figurines.
World of Warcraft captured a non-existant market - it is THE benchmark for mmorpg games, and WAR will have to pull something crazy out to compete. WOW already has subscribers, and has a solid and matured platform within the genre. Its been going strong for 3 years, and that doesnt seem like its going to slow anytime soon. Blizzard and WOW dont need to compete with anyone, WAR will have to prove its worthiness.
And as far as White Dwarf goes, i am of the understanding that a lot of the more 'diehard' fans are not very happy with the content and quality of this magazine.
Ok, and if office politics screwed with BF2, is it not possible that office politics could screw with WAR?
BAHAHAHA... Sentinel, I laugh at your post.
MMORPGs have existed for far, far, FAR longer than WoW... Do some reading on the concept of a MUD sometime. WoW was competing with Evercrack (4+ successful years) and it's successor, Ultima Online, Dark Age of Camelot (5 years and 7 expansions later), Anarchy Online (4 or so years and 3 expansions... Still going, not so strong though) and the likes.... WoW didn't start the MMO market, it just popularised it; it being the first MMO with a massive development budget. Visit the WoW forums sometime, half the posts I read by Warriors, Mages and Shammies (classes that have been nerfed extensively) mention moving to Conan or W:AR. WoW is losing out with some of it's community at the moment. Just as BF2 did after 1.2 and the EF debacle.
Oh and I personally know 3 people who bought Dawn of War because it was a 40k game, who previously didn't play much other than their xboxes (they have since moved on to CoH and C&C3, they unlike me, have some natural ability at RTS... ). Five others who played PC games and got it because they used to collect 40k miniatures. Now, while my involvement with the hobby for a few years might put me in a unique position to observe this and is probably the only reason I met them (though they are good friends now) the fact that W:AR, DoW and any other Games Workshop related video game recieves coverage in the GW monthly mag means that the crowd that collect the models are at the core of the public audience....
Would like to meet some diehard fans who are unhappy with White Dwarf as they have a survey every year to see what people want...
Office politics... Eg, EA purchasing DICE half way through the dev cycle, the Montreal studio doing patches for code they didn't write and stuch... Mythic only has one studio, office politics didn't fuck their last game and probably wont affect this one.
Sorry if that seems like I'm attacking you but yeah... I took issue with some parts of your post because you seem to have assumed much/ignored the history of MMOs completely...
MMORPGs have existed for far, far, FAR longer than WoW... Do some reading on the concept of a MUD sometime. WoW was competing with Evercrack (4+ successful years) and it's successor, Ultima Online, Dark Age of Camelot (5 years and 7 expansions later), Anarchy Online (4 or so years and 3 expansions... Still going, not so strong though) and the likes.... WoW didn't start the MMO market, it just popularised it; it being the first MMO with a massive development budget. Visit the WoW forums sometime, half the posts I read by Warriors, Mages and Shammies (classes that have been nerfed extensively) mention moving to Conan or W:AR. WoW is losing out with some of it's community at the moment. Just as BF2 did after 1.2 and the EF debacle.
Oh and I personally know 3 people who bought Dawn of War because it was a 40k game, who previously didn't play much other than their xboxes (they have since moved on to CoH and C&C3, they unlike me, have some natural ability at RTS... ). Five others who played PC games and got it because they used to collect 40k miniatures. Now, while my involvement with the hobby for a few years might put me in a unique position to observe this and is probably the only reason I met them (though they are good friends now) the fact that W:AR, DoW and any other Games Workshop related video game recieves coverage in the GW monthly mag means that the crowd that collect the models are at the core of the public audience....
Would like to meet some diehard fans who are unhappy with White Dwarf as they have a survey every year to see what people want...
Office politics... Eg, EA purchasing DICE half way through the dev cycle, the Montreal studio doing patches for code they didn't write and stuch... Mythic only has one studio, office politics didn't fuck their last game and probably wont affect this one.
Sorry if that seems like I'm attacking you but yeah... I took issue with some parts of your post because you seem to have assumed much/ignored the history of MMOs completely...
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Whoa... Can't believe these forums are still kicking.
Doesn't change the fact that they totally ripped an old sound effect to show it off. Me, I preferred the Dawn of War opening cine.mcminty wrote:
The high elf staff?... don't knock the High Elves - I have quite a few HE models.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
As for the video, the kamikaze orks were the best. The rest of it was too random, and that freaking magic staff sounded like a Protoss structure getting put up.
While I won't be getting it, the rendering does look pretty cool in showing what is 'going on' in the table top game. Know what I mean, right?
Mcminty.
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