bobby12 0 Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/ I started playing this game last week and I have been on it about 8 hours a day since! Totally addictive, amazing game. Anyone else a player...? Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 Nope, but have heard it's good. Football Manager 05 is my addiction right now. Link to post Share on other sites
maoriboy 0 Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 dont mention FM 05......just starting to wean myself off it.....very moreish!!! Link to post Share on other sites
Hokkaidough 4 Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 Is that the one done by the same people as Champipnship 4? Link to post Share on other sites
tsondaboy 0 Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 I was a big fun of Blizzard games for many years. I failed the forth semester examination when I was in the university, because I was playing Diablo. I failed the sixth semester because I was playing on-line Starcraft. If I get my hands on Warcraft World I will probably fail the Doctors course! P.S. currently playing Settlers IV Link to post Share on other sites
maoriboy 0 Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 yeah same one Hokkdaidough...dont go near it if you value other things in life....like relationships, food, drinking etc Link to post Share on other sites
happyhappy 0 Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 Who'd have thought it in the day of graphics-are-all games. THeres hardly any in there at all is there? Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 Great game great game. Great game. Link to post Share on other sites
fukdane 2 Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 I've been tempted but resisted so far (Warcraft) - still destroying your life bobby? Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted March 14, 2005 Author Share Posted March 14, 2005 sorry, I have just resurfaced after a 3 day session in WoW. Love this game Love this game. To me its just like watching TV - if theres nothing going on I will play the game. There are things you can do in the game that dont take concentration, like trading in cities, fishing, or running across terrain (there are subways and griffin birds you can use to move faster but its cheaper to just run) so if theres something good on the TV I will do something like that and watch TV. Then when I have time to spare I will go in a dungeon and put in a few hours of killing and levelling up. Last night I was involved in my first war. I was going about my business in this sort of ghost town area with ghouls/skeletons etc. Anyway, suddenly 20 enemy players turned up (I had never seen them before because the enemy players all live on a seperate island) and started attacking the town in that area, so everyone had to rush back into town to fight them. It was amazing, it was just like how inter-town wars would have been fought 1000s of years ago. First everyone was trying to shoot from distance, then someone just charged in and get pummeled. In the end we kicked their ass though Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 How do you control all of this action? It sounds awfully complex. Link to post Share on other sites
happyhappy 0 Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 Just read a review of that: "Far easier than most online RPGs, but still involves lots of number crunching. Expect to be slaughtered by veteran gamers. Take comfort in the knowledge they've never had sex." Link to post Share on other sites
metroid256 0 Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 nice one. great game though. Link to post Share on other sites
snowboard_freak 0 Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 I never got into WOW. Diablo on the other hand. I love that series. Diablo 2 still gets a pretty regular play. It's way to easy to find yourself wide eyed at the computer screen at 4am. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 Diable gets the thumbs up from me too. Great game. Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted March 22, 2005 Author Share Posted March 22, 2005 never played diablo, is it an RPG? Link to post Share on other sites
SKI 15 Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 bobby, it looks interesting but don't you have to pay a monthly fee to play that one? you think it's worth it? Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted March 24, 2005 Author Share Posted March 24, 2005 its about 20 pounds for three months - not a lot. its totally worth it, i have already played more than 6 days of solid game time, which is much more than it took to complete Half Life 2. I am only halfway through WoW in terms of getting to the maximum possible level (60), and they are always adding content (new dungeons, quests, items, monsters, features like auction houses, and so on) so I think it is well worth it. Even if it was a single player game this would be better than any other game on the market - the fact that it is a MMORPG makes it incredible! Last night I met another Japanese speaker (well someone japanese) and we are gonna set up a guild for japanese speakers in the game. Link to post Share on other sites
guzzlers-baps 0 Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 Did you like Half Life 2? Guzzler is addicted to that one. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 So is the game cheap to buy in the first place or do you still have to shell out for it? I've heard good things and I remember seeing Warcraft 3. But is there any value just playing on your own (offline), or can you even. Link to post Share on other sites
bong 0 Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 If you have a PC that can cope with it, Half Life 2 is just incredible. Excellent game. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted March 25, 2005 Share Posted March 25, 2005 I didn't know you had to pay monthly. As far as I know big-will, the game costs normal price in the first place. Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted March 25, 2005 Author Share Posted March 25, 2005 its about 25 quid to buy with one months free play. the nature of the game is that most of the characters in it are other players. so there are maybe 1000 other humans playing alongside you, in this massive world. in fact, there are around 100,000 people playing at any one time but there are many different servers so in actuality you can only interact with about 1000. basically you run around fighting monsters and doing quests (kill 10 spiders, get me ingredients to make frogs leg soup, bring me the head of Sir Dethman etc) and getting cool armor and weapons. u can do the quests alone or in groups of 5 people. u can chat to people in your group, in your guild, people nearby (ie. you can see them), people in middle distance (you can 'yell') or to everyone on the same part of the map as you. this chat is stuff like 'im selling a blue pearl for 30 silver' or 'does anyone know where doug blacksmith is?'. the game world is about 100x the size of that in half life 2, full of dungeons. each area of the map is different and stunning - e.g. highland area, jungle area, caribbean area, desert, forest, death valley etc. it would probably take you 2 hours to run from the bottom of the world to the top, assuming no monsters killed you. Link to post Share on other sites
JellyBelly 1 Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 bobby, question....... can I get used to it all and play around with it offline before starting my time online and paying? or do you have to sign up straight away and start learning from there? Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted March 27, 2005 Author Share Posted March 27, 2005 no its a 100% online game. dont feel pressured by that, when you start you are in a 'newbie zone' so everyone around you will also be in their first few hours of being in the game. so you can make friends and groups straight away, with people who are equally fresh as yourself. there are always solo quests u can do too if no-one is around. only after around 6 hours of playing or so will you be able to move into the better and main areas of the game without getting killed :-) the first month is free so if u dont like it you can just quit after that first month. Link to post Share on other sites
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