World of Warcraft

Published on March 1, 2005 By Amitty In PC Gaming

It is truely amazing where your life could lead you. I, for instance, never thought I would have quit FFXI for WoW.

First, let me add my two cents into the ring. It is a freaking good game. Blizzard took a game, made it ten times better than anything else it has ever made, then made it 100% better than that. So, by calculations, it is 1000000000 times better than the other MMORPGs. I exaggerate, but you get the point. Blizzard took all the promblems of the other games nad mad ethem disappear. No forced grouping, no complicated systems for stuff like crafting. All good. I am apt to say that retarded monkeys could play this game. But, more later. I had a killer shift and need to sleep, but I will wax more about WoW later.

Comments

Kobrano

on Mar 01, 2005

I found it boring. More of the same, but more polished and better presentation to mask the "More of the same" gameplay. The overall gameplay, level grind, endless slaying of pixels, and segregated content was pretty lousy. Add in the exponential leveling, and you pretty much have a generally poor concept in game design - but one that people are used to thanks to EQ.

I'm not shocked its so popular, look at the state of PC gaming in the last few years and you don't have to wonder. People are so used to being forcefed bad concepts, poor implementations and candy coated versions of the "Same old thing" that they just keep lining up for the next new-car-smell game.

I'll sit back, avoiding those types of games, and wait for someone to do it right. In the meantime, i'll be in the MMO thats about as close as you can get to right - Shadowbane.

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