Thread: World of Warcraft
Hy there people. I dont know how many of you know about Warcraft the game's or about the "new" Online World of Warcraft. I was wondering if anyone else here played, so we could maybe talk about it...which server your on..race class..faction. And maybe even sign up for one server and all play together!! I just thought it would be cool-...IF anyone even knows about WOW that is! So...if you do, check in here for a sec..lets talk about it.
Only played Warcraft 1 & 2, sorry!
Heh, ok Vir. Thanks for posting at least.
So there's nobody else here that even knows about WoW?
So there's nobody else here that even knows about WoW?
I guess not, I don't play any games online and still have fun replaying my five or fifteen year old computer games. I've got 'Secret of the Silver Blades', 'Tomb Raider Gold', and 'Pool of Radiance: 'Ruins of Myth Drannor' currently in progress.
I've heard about Warcraft, but never played it. I prefer to play Total War; Medieval. That game is so much fun!!!
You should check out WoW, Its fun couse its online-you can have fun with your mates, its fantasy-magic, monsters and the like.., and its WARCRAFT!!! and we all love warcraft..
Grondy, Myth Drannor? That's from the 2. edition Dungeons & Dragons! I play D&D! the real one i mean, not on a computer 3. edition thou...
If you like D&D games you should try out Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights. Their all great ( a bit older, as you like em Grondy ) D&D games.
Grondy, Myth Drannor? That's from the 2. edition Dungeons & Dragons! I play D&D! the real one i mean, not on a computer 3. edition thou...
If you like D&D games you should try out Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights. Their all great ( a bit older, as you like em Grondy ) D&D games.
Yeah, I can endorse Baldurs Gate as a quantum leap (at least one) above the old TSR/SSI games (and I LIKED SSI; Cosmic Balance FOREVER!!!) The engine for that game is stellar, as is the live action graphic rendering of character and other action. At the same time, you can pause the action with the space bar so if you need to retarget your spells or attacks you can (and auto pause it after, say, a spell goes off and you need to start the timer to cast another, or that big bad meanie you were pounding finally goes down and you need to have everyone hit the next.) Still, Azure Bonds and the rest were fun, even if I prefer hitting Beholders in the Baldurs Gate sequel (mainly because THOSE characters can hack it more easily.)
If you go that route, I recommend doing the Multiplayer/Serial Connection thing so you can design your whole party, not just one character (just save the characters as you finish them, then import them to a multiplayer game and save.) Also, while there's ONE, count 'em ONE of each of the infamous manuals to raise stats, you can save a character with each of them, have that character drop them and save the game, then import said character until you have as many as you need to get your whole party straight 25 stats (and lemme tell ya, a Fighter/Thief backstabbing at high levels with an enchanted sword, well, that hurts; I've seen some pretty high level NPCs just disintegrate from 100+ pts of dmg, so I reached a point where I didn't have Thieves target the same NPC, it's too wasteful.) Who needs Ioun Stones? ;-p
The nice thing is you have decent graphics, but all the annoying mechanics of dice rolls and mapping are taken care of by the game so you can just point and kill but with essentially all the old AD&D 2nd ed. rules we know and love (Drizzt Do'Urden even pops up a few times, and in the sequel to Baldurs Gate you can actually get characters powerful enough to mug him for his Frostbrand and Defender, then hand them out to your party, but be careful: Drizzt has friends, and they've been known to show up and take his stuff back from you.)
And no, I don't do the WoW thing, but good luck with that.
If you go that route, I recommend doing the Multiplayer/Serial Connection thing so you can design your whole party, not just one character (just save the characters as you finish them, then import them to a multiplayer game and save.) Also, while there's ONE, count 'em ONE of each of the infamous manuals to raise stats, you can save a character with each of them, have that character drop them and save the game, then import said character until you have as many as you need to get your whole party straight 25 stats (and lemme tell ya, a Fighter/Thief backstabbing at high levels with an enchanted sword, well, that hurts; I've seen some pretty high level NPCs just disintegrate from 100+ pts of dmg, so I reached a point where I didn't have Thieves target the same NPC, it's too wasteful.) Who needs Ioun Stones? ;-p
The nice thing is you have decent graphics, but all the annoying mechanics of dice rolls and mapping are taken care of by the game so you can just point and kill but with essentially all the old AD&D 2nd ed. rules we know and love (Drizzt Do'Urden even pops up a few times, and in the sequel to Baldurs Gate you can actually get characters powerful enough to mug him for his Frostbrand and Defender, then hand them out to your party, but be careful: Drizzt has friends, and they've been known to show up and take his stuff back from you.)
And no, I don't do the WoW thing, but good luck with that.
Is it something that I have to pay for? Cause then I probably won't be able to do it.
Yes, I am afraid that you do have to pay for WoW, although, friends who do play say it is well worth the price. There is the one month free offer so you can determine if it is the right game for you.
Beware, it can be rather addictive and of course one loves to get value for their money, so the more you play, the more you get for your buck ($15 US, the last I heard). The danger of this is that you sometimes start to neglect your real life family, friends and pets.
It is a massively mulitplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG), so you can interact with other players. Nice graphics, too.
I don't play it, however, my son did until life got too busy for him to get his money's worth out of it. I play a much less expensive MMORPG, which does have a free to play version, however, it is also very addictive.
Nell hears groans coming from the chatroom
Beware, it can be rather addictive and of course one loves to get value for their money, so the more you play, the more you get for your buck ($15 US, the last I heard). The danger of this is that you sometimes start to neglect your real life family, friends and pets.
It is a massively mulitplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG), so you can interact with other players. Nice graphics, too.
I don't play it, however, my son did until life got too busy for him to get his money's worth out of it. I play a much less expensive MMORPG, which does have a free to play version, however, it is also very addictive.
Nell hears groans coming from the chatroom
Well, Guild Wars is for free, and from what I've heard as least as good as WoW. Haven't tried it myself, though. I'm not into this game genre.
I have played Baldurs Gate and its sequels and expansions; as well as Ice Wind Dale and its; and Torment. I also like Dungeon Siege and its expansion, but can't play Dungeon Siege II because I'm still running Windows 98 at 700 MHz, though I do have a 200 GB harddrive. I've played all, except the newest of the Tomb Raiders: TR: Chronicles was quite buggy, but I made it through to the end; and TR: Angel of Darkness, though a disaster because of the controls, was challenging, especially against that slime throwing penultimate Lady Boss and having to use Lara's clutzy boyfriend, the stupid twit who always ran towards the enemy if you needed to shoot while moving. His reflexes were so slow and his only finding one clip at a time was a real pain.
The most annoying part about TR : Angel of Darkness was the 'grip bar'... Lara could only hang off a ledge or get hold of a wall for a limited period of time. I often plummeted to my death because I hadn't made her legs 'stronger' yet.
I remember in TR : Chronicles that in the end you had to make a cyborg-boss follow you over a bunch of pits (whilst a military helicopter was chaingunning Lara), and that sometimes he'd fall into one of them pits... which would make it impossible to finish the game for the cyborg couldn't get out of the pit.
I remember in TR : Chronicles that in the end you had to make a cyborg-boss follow you over a bunch of pits (whilst a military helicopter was chaingunning Lara), and that sometimes he'd fall into one of them pits... which would make it impossible to finish the game for the cyborg couldn't get out of the pit.
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which would make it impossible to finish the game for the cyborg couldn't get out of the pit.
I figured out that when that happened you needed to go back inside and run through the gunners gauntlet rooms to the switch room, throw it again, return outside where he would climb out and chase you so you could then trap and gas him. I sent this to Stella who added it later to her walkthrough.which would make it impossible to finish the game for the cyborg couldn't get out of the pit.
Last time I played TR:Chronicles, I got bogged down in the second shooting gallery and gave up not wanting to undergo the rest of the agregation needed to win the game. That was my third time through it, having completed it the first two times.
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The very reason I have avoided playing WoW like the plague. Having spent a 20 year chunk of my life addicted D&D and Rolemaster, WoW would have been my perfect game. I would have immersed myself totally within it, waved goodbye to my wife, children and friends, and become Zorc the Orc.
One of my best friends has done this, actually. He's been playing it pretty much from when it was released, and very quickly became the leader of one of the larger "evil" clans. Last time I saw him, which was before Christmas, he had given up his ’30,000/year job to free up more time to play. I would be the same.
Myself, I'll stick to playing Freelancer online. I can put that down after a couple of hours.
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Beware, it can be rather addictive and of course one loves to get value for their money, so the more you play, the more you get for your buck ($15 US, the last I heard). The danger of this is that you sometimes start to neglect your real life family, friends and pets.
Beware, it can be rather addictive and of course one loves to get value for their money, so the more you play, the more you get for your buck ($15 US, the last I heard). The danger of this is that you sometimes start to neglect your real life family, friends and pets.
The very reason I have avoided playing WoW like the plague. Having spent a 20 year chunk of my life addicted D&D and Rolemaster, WoW would have been my perfect game. I would have immersed myself totally within it, waved goodbye to my wife, children and friends, and become Zorc the Orc.
One of my best friends has done this, actually. He's been playing it pretty much from when it was released, and very quickly became the leader of one of the larger "evil" clans. Last time I saw him, which was before Christmas, he had given up his ’30,000/year job to free up more time to play. I would be the same.
Myself, I'll stick to playing Freelancer online. I can put that down after a couple of hours.
I understand Valedhelgwath. It takes a lot of self control not to become like this friend of yours, so i dont reccomend it to the weak willed. But i myself have no problem controling myself...i play only 1 hour a day, and not even every day. Now im a 45 lvl. mage.
Only an hour a day... I've heard tales from some of my friends that they spend that just letting their characters go fishing. I haven't a clue what level they are now. When i last saw them at Christmas, they were 60th level then.
Any new players here? Ice?
YEP!!! ICE IS HERE!!!! lol...I finally discovered the world, actually, a month ago, like, today, lol. So, let's talk..heh heh...
If you want a piece of me, I'm a level 1 Orcish tavern keeper. Visit "The Prancing Three-legged Tellurian Donkey" in the town of Shk’kkal’kall’k.
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Myself, I'll stick to playing Freelancer on-line. I can put that down after a couple of hours.
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Myself, I'll stick to playing Freelancer on-line. I can put that down after a couple of hours.
I have that game, but don't play it on-line anymore. I actually had downloaded the game before it hit store shelves and played it virtually before almost anyone even bought it.
It was an amazing game when it first came out, such a huge universe to explore, but i found it gets pretty repetitive and like i said though, i don't really play it much anymore.
For all those wondering, heh heh, who do play WoW, I'm a level 15 undead warlock...heh heh..I'm a newb, and I play on the server Gnomeregan. My name on there is Kyarii...cuz Japan rocks!
Wow...nobody plays WoW anymore..that sucks, lol
i heard of wow but only played w3 reign of chaos
hi hi hi my 100th post!
hi hi hi my 100th post!
I play WoW. Just on a different server.
Ooh..coolios...I try to stick to same server, because all my friends are also on the server, heh heh