01-09-2004, 05:19 AM
Is anyone else here very excited about the upcoming Blizzard MMORPG World of Warcraft?
I have been following the game for some time and it looks very promising. In my opinion it looks the best out of all the upcoming persistant online worlds. (Competition includes - Everquest 2, Sigil's (Brad McQuaid's) game - Vanguard, City of Heroes, Mythica, Ultima X-O)
It boasts distinctive character classes, each with a lot of depth.
The Blizzard team includes a lot of hard core EQ (and other MMORPG) players who know some of the major common faults of the genre and are aiming to fix them.
The world looks like it will be one you can fully immerse yourself in.
Very well planned questing system to take away from the levelling treadmill.
They're not reinventing the genre, they are simply evolving it - Mostly by taking all the good points of the genre, and attempting to fix all the common problems. Something which a lot of the other new MMORPG's I believe have not done.
With the recent announcements of Beta sign-ups at the end of January (Meaning start of Beta at some time in February) - now is the perfect time to get excited about the game (and to try and get into Beta - although Beta is america, canada, korea only).
So is anyone else here a MMORPG fan? and in particular anticipating World of Warcraft?
I have been following the game for some time and it looks very promising. In my opinion it looks the best out of all the upcoming persistant online worlds. (Competition includes - Everquest 2, Sigil's (Brad McQuaid's) game - Vanguard, City of Heroes, Mythica, Ultima X-O)
It boasts distinctive character classes, each with a lot of depth.
The Blizzard team includes a lot of hard core EQ (and other MMORPG) players who know some of the major common faults of the genre and are aiming to fix them.
The world looks like it will be one you can fully immerse yourself in.
Very well planned questing system to take away from the levelling treadmill.
They're not reinventing the genre, they are simply evolving it - Mostly by taking all the good points of the genre, and attempting to fix all the common problems. Something which a lot of the other new MMORPG's I believe have not done.
With the recent announcements of Beta sign-ups at the end of January (Meaning start of Beta at some time in February) - now is the perfect time to get excited about the game (and to try and get into Beta - although Beta is america, canada, korea only).
So is anyone else here a MMORPG fan? and in particular anticipating World of Warcraft?