Comments on: The More Things Change…

By: Paul S

Paul S — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:07:47 +0000

Bit of a mis-step, this…

By: DragonSix

DragonSix — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:36:53 +0000

No lightmaps. It’s ugliest than wow Oo

By: Jahkaivah

Jahkaivah — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:45:09 +0000

@Iain

I know what you are saying, its just that when you consider that WAR is supposedly trying to continue the ideas from Mythic’s previous game, Dark age of Camelot, which WoW in many respects copied ideas from and mutilated in the first place. It seems pure cheek to say that Mythic are trying to copy WoW if they are actually trying to revive and improve the ideas they themselves made.

That said, the whole “We are trying to continue RvR” idea is a bit cloudy looking at their promotional videos, a common excuse is they haven’t got the number of testers needed to show something like that off.

But bottom line, even if it was the RvR trophy many hope to be, which back when I left it, seemed less and less likely. I’m personally not interested. But saying “its WoW” is largely ignoring some of the game it did promise.

OF course if your going to compare it to some of the more recently announced MMOs then it really does look like one in a heap of MMOs better left forgotten.

By: Joonas

Joonas — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:17:04 +0000

I was rather interested in this. Based on this video, I’m not anymore. What a load of rubbish, it doesn’t look anything like Warhammer should.

However, having checked out the footage linked in the comments above, my faith is restored… whatever their marketing is doing, it’s *wrong*.

By: yutt

yutt — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:49:04 +0000

I’ve been a World of Warcraft player since release, and desperately looking for an escape route. Unfortunately, this looks like WoW did 3 years ago, how is that supposed to interest me?

By: RichPowers

RichPowers — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:06:06 +0000

So the “regular” MMO players, the ones largely playing WoW, will see this and think “so it’s just a knock off of the game I already have?”

The would-be MMO players, the ones turned off by WoW, see this as a “knock off of the game I don’t want to play.”

Anyway, seems too “cute” for a fantasy universe typified by war, slaughter, brutality, and more war.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:40:24 +0000

I was much more excited about the Climax version, but I’d still kill to be in this beta.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:27:24 +0000

I think the movie must have been secretly released by Blizzard, because it definitely reduced by interest in WAR.

By: Will Tomas

Will Tomas — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:24:32 +0000

Yes, it does. WoW is built to be a parody. In Warhammer THERE IS ONLY WAR. Although perhaps a bit less war than 40k. The missing of the point is more about the tone than anything else. See the linked Climax trailer for a much more evocative idea.

By: KingMob

KingMob — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:23:23 +0000

Not really fair to compare a trailer and gameplay footage. But I agree Mythic doesn’t do themselves any favors by releasing footage that looks like this.

Let’s hope their marketing effort steps up a bit from now till September, otherwise I won’t have anyone at launch to play it with.

By: Jives

Jives — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:32:32 +0000

“Looks like a cross between WoW and some LOTR design aethetics. Oh dear. Rather misses the whole point about Warhammer, but there you go. Shame.”

Does it? warhammer is based of Tolkien, wow is based off warhammer

By: Will Tomas

Will Tomas — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:35:00 +0000

Looks like a cross between WoW and some LOTR design aethetics. Oh dear. Rather misses the whole point about Warhammer, but there you go. Shame.