WoW Phase 3

[schild]

He's a furry.

Thanks for clearing that up.

[Signe]

He's a furry.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Bastard.  You made me spill my coffee all over myself.

[schild]

Bastard. You made me spill my coffee all over myself.

No, this will.

You wrote this, am i rite?

Edit: Damn, I'm bored. I definately blame JoWood for my lack of entertainment today.

[Johnson101]

but wow made by blizz how cud be bad?

[schild]

I rest my case.

[Krakrok]

Literally, "High Hand". Fuguratively, very skilled, ghetto, or godly. Generally a collective term that means anything awesome.

Since when was ghetto a synonym of "very skilled", "godly", or "awesome".

[NiX]

We're talking about STARCRAFT. Duck is probably another way to call someone an ass sucking jerkoff.

[Sky]

Cuz yo playahs be ghetto when they step all up in yo ass on starcraft!

[schild]

We're talking about STARCRAFT. Duck is probably another way to call someone an ass sucking jerkoff.

Don't be such a duck.


QUACK

[Alluvian]

I am still telling myself it is a gimmick account.  I must mainain SOME hope for humanity.  There is sure as hell no way I am going to converse with it.

[Signe]

Don't worry, Alluvian, it'll be ok.  You're my friend and I'll help you through this.  I'm here for you.

[Murgos]

Thanks for the linkage.  I like this one:

gosu   

    A sub-human who sacrifices his or her social and sex life in exchange for ungodly Starcraft or Warcraft abilities. There have been actual cases where many 'gosu' players had starved to death because of playing Starcraft for too long.

    Gosu: "Hahahaha! I can make 82973 zerglings before you can even send your SCVs to the minerals! I'm the best! I FEAR NOTHING!"
    You: "...except natural light."

Someone was quite angry when they wrote this...

"Actual cases where many gosu players had starved to death" (emphasis mine)  What?  Were a bunch of gosu players sitting in a room falling over thier keyboards one by one in the last agonies of death by starvation while the survivors played on?

Well thats certainly set my mental image of what Gosu means.

[Sky]

Ooo!

Gosu Survivor!

6 contestants enter the LAN Party, one exits alive!

[HaemishM]

I'd pay to watch that.

But only if I could control the button that activated the electrodes attached to their testicles. With my hand at the trigger, we'd be assured of sterilization of the gosu species.

Johnson101... that has to be a gimmick account meaning "College Class focused on learning how to be a dick - 101."

He R freshman dick, kekela.

Please tell me he's Korean and such an eloquent grasp of Engrish is owed to it being his fourth language. You know, after Zerg, Retard and Mongoloid.

[Soukyan]

Ooo!

Gosu Survivor!

6 contestants enter the LAN Party, one exits alive!

There was a "sci-fi" novel written by a Japanese author about something similar. Can't remember the name or the author but it was a banned book in Japan for a while. Anyhow, the premise was that a junior high class was taken to a remote island. They were all given guns and left there. The last one surviving wins.

[Murgos]

There was a "sci-fi" novel written by a Japanese author about something similar. Can't remember the name or the author but it was a banned book in Japan for a while. Anyhow, the premise was that a junior high class was taken to a remote island. They were all given guns and left there. The last one surviving wins.

Was it called "Paradise Lost:  Nippon Style"?

[Soukyan]

There was a "sci-fi" novel written by a Japanese author about something similar. Can't remember the name or the author but it was a banned book in Japan for a while. Anyhow, the premise was that a junior high class was taken to a remote island. They were all given guns and left there. The last one surviving wins.

Was it called "Paradise Lost:  Nippon Style"?

No. I found it. It's called Battle Royale.

[AOFanboi]

No. I found it. It's called Battle Royale.

Which was also made into an excellent film.

[Numtini]

I got a code from a friend on friday. Um, does the gameplay change at some point? It's pretty simplistic.

[Signe]

WoW beta sign-ups for Europe start 5 July.

http://www.blizzard.co.uk/

[schild]

I got a code from a friend on friday. Um, does the gameplay change at some point? It's pretty simplistic.

It's Blizzard. Wtf do you expect? Complication like Civ? Patriarch?

[Numtini]

It's Blizzard. Wtf do you expect? Complication like Civ? Patriarch?

No just something as complicated and entertaining as Shadowbane PVE...

[Soukyan]

It's Blizzard. Wtf do you expect? Complication like Civ? Patriarch?

No just something as complicated and entertaining as Shadowbane PVE...

Is it really more simplistic than that? Please, share info.

[Numtini]

Gameplay so far is more or less EQ dumbed down to the point where you can solo anything. I haven't really had to use tactics, other than obvious things like use ranged attacks if I'm a caster, heal myself if I'm a healer, send in the pet first if I have one. It's really really hard to die, I've only died twice bringing several characters up to 8th and 9th, once when I went afk because I needed to stir dinner.

And you don't to group, other than to zerg bosses in the once every 5 or so level boss mobs. And grouping is pure zerging, the sum of the parts is not greater than the parts together. No class synergy. Really it's not even a zerg, just need a partner.

All games start slow, the newbie game in EQ gives no hint of the complexity of the later game (though 1st level in EQ is more challenging than anything I've seen in WOW). I'm just sort of wondering if anyone has played higher and if WOW changes and evolves as you get higher because I'd have expected it to start doing so at the levels I've gotten to.

[Murgos]

To be fair, first level in EQ for say - a Dark Elf Enchanter with no previous game experience (i.e. a noob) - is probably one of the most frustrating and difficult things you can try to do online.

[Alluvian]

The game is being made for those who loved diablo and warcraft.  I am holding out about zero hope that I will like it or that it will make a fun and engaging mmorpg.

[boley]

To be fair, first level in EQ for say - a Dark Elf Enchanter with no previous game experience (i.e. a noob) - is probably one of the most frustrating and difficult things you can try to do online.

Heck, the challange of finding your trainer at level 1 in EQ was harder than 99% of the content in other mmogs.  Finding some of the the darkelf trainers (and that one human rogue trainer) was just cruel.  

Not that any of that was a good thing mind you.

B

[Sable Blaze]

You should have played a dark elven shadowknight. The whole Lodge of the Dead was hidden in some backalley past a hole in the wall. Simply finding it took the better part of a whole night.

Spent the rest of the night figuring out how to get OUT of Neriak, just so I could hunt.

Fun fun fun!

[Aslan]

Sonofabitch.  I am NEVER going to get into WoW beta.  *sigh*  Just wanted to vent.  Thankeesai.

[Soukyan]

Sonofabitch.  I am NEVER going to get into WoW beta.  *sigh*  Just wanted to vent.  Thankeesai.

You can wallow in misery with me, then. I've resubscribed to AO to while away the time. Actually having a fun time of it, too, but I'd still like to test WoW on those rainy days.

[HaemishM]

The game is being made for those who loved diablo and warcraft.  I am holding out about zero hope that I will like it or that it will make a fun and engaging mmorpg.

Does it have the Horizon-style gigantic signs with arrows on them that say helpful things like "Monster" and "Resources?" Although, with Blizzard, there probably needs to be signs for "Exploit" and "ZergKekeLA."

[Numtini]

Does it have the Horizon-style gigantic signs with arrows on them that say helpful things like "Monster" and "Resources?"

No, instead NPCs with giant exclamation points over their head direct you at all times exactly where to go in order to accomplish quests.

So in spirit, the answer to your question is really "yes."

[WayAbvPar]

To be fair, first level in EQ for say - a Dark Elf Enchanter with no previous game experience (i.e. a noob) - is probably one of the most frustrating and difficult things you can try to do online.

Heh- I had forgotten all about that. The n00b DE experience was miserable, but really made me appreciate how much easier everything else was in comparison. Misty Thicket was a paradise for n00bs to start in, for instance.

Someone tell me an EQ horror story, quick- I am getting nostalgic.

[HaemishM]

13-hour plane raid. Nuff said.

[Mesozoic]

For those looking for a more complex n00b experience, Verdantine in AC is up, and the game is downloadable for "free" ($12.95 but the 1st month is free) at the Turbine site.

Once my eyes got used to the graphics, I started enjoying it.