Poll: GW2 vs WoW, who will win?
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In that case...Look into GW2. It's nothing like WoW. In fact, it's pretty much different in every way imaginable. Gameplay and story are the biggest focuses.SamuraiShinrai said:
But Guild Wars 2 isn't really claiming to be a WoW killer as far as I remember just other people say it is.SamuraiShinrai said:
Checked some gameplay a long time ago, and from what I recall it still looks like a Korean game to me, but I might be wrong.EmperorSubcutaneous said:
I'll probably look into it more when it's released, but if there's even a hint of wings; I'm outta there. ;P
The pointless grind was a pre-cataclysm problem, cataclysm fixed it with the phasing.Gxas said:
And "technically" impacting a story isn't a very interesting or fun way for a story to develop, players want to see obvious changes that are visually noticeable, not text on a piece of paper that vaguely implies that there is a technical purpose for the grind to make the gameplay work if there are millions of players (come on, THAT'S BORING AS HELL!). And having to wait for an expansion to see any change isn't going to cut it either.
But enough about the grind. Cataclysm fixed it with more varied quests, npc dialog and actions outside of the quest description, phasing, cutscenes, etc.
The only thing that will beat WoW is Blizzard. Either they alienate their subscribers with too many bad decisions or make a new MMO.
Besides, you don't need a super computer to play it. Theres no way GW2, Rift, or TOR would run on my crappy PC.
Besides, you don't need a super computer to play it. Theres no way GW2, Rift, or TOR would run on my crappy PC.
Definitely no wings, no need to worry about that.[/quote]EmperorSubcutaneous said:
That's good to hear.
There might be hope for this game afterall!
For the love of my own sanity, do we need to keep explaining this?
WoW is far more likely to eventually kill itself, then have another game directly take it down. Its taken WoW years to get to the subscriptions it has now, and its competitors when it was released were nowhere near as big as it is.
The idea that it needs to kill WoW to be a success is also ludicrous - as someone else said, I assume all other FPS games are failures until they sell more than CoD.
WoW is far more likely to eventually kill itself, then have another game directly take it down. Its taken WoW years to get to the subscriptions it has now, and its competitors when it was released were nowhere near as big as it is.
The idea that it needs to kill WoW to be a success is also ludicrous - as someone else said, I assume all other FPS games are failures until they sell more than CoD.
As opposed to a BioWare MMO using the far more popular Star Wars IP?USmedik said:
I think it's great you don't need visuals to be entertained, and even I sometimes enjoy questing even with nothing but the words of the quest-giver put on a pamphlet but this may not appeal to the average teenager or 12-year old...Gxas said:
Live in peace.
Ah. But that was Turbine and a different setting.USmedik said:
BioWare could maybe pull it off, depending on how good they actually are at making MMOs.
[sub]I mean, they'll never do it since they already have something like $300m invested in TOR, but still.[/sub]
For all the people voting that admit they don't know anything about GW2, and are just assuming a ton of stuff, here are some links to some of the really cool innovations that I like about GW2. It is very different from GW1 in many ways.
http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/dynamic-events/dynamic-events-overview/
http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/personal-stories/personal-story-overview/
http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/combat/healing-death/
http://www.arena.net/blog/jon-peters-talks-combat
Edit: Oh, and for those that don't like to read - video of the manifesto pretty much summarizes everything.
http://www.guildwars2.com/en/media/videos/
http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/dynamic-events/dynamic-events-overview/
http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/personal-stories/personal-story-overview/
http://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/combat/healing-death/
http://www.arena.net/blog/jon-peters-talks-combat
Edit: Oh, and for those that don't like to read - video of the manifesto pretty much summarizes everything.
http://www.guildwars2.com/en/media/videos/
Wow > GW2. Why do I say this? I don't know if the game itself is better, however I have watched at least 5-7 "WoW Killers!" fade off into nothing. I remember everyone declaring Warhammer online, EVE, LotRO, Champions Online, etc etc etc would be the end of WoW. World of Warcraft however has 11-12 million subscribers and a lot of hardcore fans. It will not die that easily.
Star Wars = old...stale...nothing new. Its done, over, everyone hated the prequels. There is nothing new in that IP to entice a new generation of gamers.Woodsey said:
Dragon Age...new, stylish, and FUN. Star wars is not fun (IMHO). The fact that attempts at a star wars MMO have failed (badly, I might add) adds to that opinion.
DA > SW
I've been playing World of Warcraft since The Burning Crusade, been hooked on it ever since. I've tried multiple MMOs. Short answer: No. Long Answer: World of Warcraft has a strong and dedicated fan base, Cataclysm has reaffirmed most peoples faith in Blizzard and World of Warcraft, and many subscriptions have been renewed. World of Warcraft is now riding high, with revamped mechanics, revamped levelling, and revamped difficulty. Levelling is no longer a grind, although I guess everything you do in games can be considered a grind, but it doesn't actually feel like one.
I do not understand why people feel the need to hype up games in order to try and discredit World of Warcraft. In reality all you are doing is going to piss off a lot of people by saying a game will 'kill' World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft is going to be around as long as Blizzard want it to, and until Titan World of Warcraft will be the #1 MMO. Yes you may not like Activision, you may not like Blizzard, you may not like World of Warcraft, but if that is the case, please enjoy your World of Warcraft clone in peace, and stop annoying the rest of us who are perfectly happy with World of Warcraft.
This is a rant on people in general who hype up new MMOs, I recently just came from a Thread on another website where someone was talking about how Rift is going to kill World of Warcraft so I'm still kinda annoyed about that.
EDIT: Also, World of Warcraft is strong in storytelling and has a rich lore, both of these are used from the creation of your character. Take Undead for example, you are ressurected, you are told that due to the fact that the Forsaken cannot reproduce they are starting to ressurect their own undead. You are immediataly shown the plight of your race, and you immediately get to start working on helping them out, and through phasing you can actually see your handiwork. You can see how you impact your environment, like an ordinary game, so it's not like 'Oh I killed 100 undead and there is like 100 still over there' it's more like 'AWESOME I just got to jump in a cannon and slaughter 100 undead and now the earth is all covered in small craters and there are no more undead!'
I do not understand why people feel the need to hype up games in order to try and discredit World of Warcraft. In reality all you are doing is going to piss off a lot of people by saying a game will 'kill' World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft is going to be around as long as Blizzard want it to, and until Titan World of Warcraft will be the #1 MMO. Yes you may not like Activision, you may not like Blizzard, you may not like World of Warcraft, but if that is the case, please enjoy your World of Warcraft clone in peace, and stop annoying the rest of us who are perfectly happy with World of Warcraft.
This is a rant on people in general who hype up new MMOs, I recently just came from a Thread on another website where someone was talking about how Rift is going to kill World of Warcraft so I'm still kinda annoyed about that.
EDIT: Also, World of Warcraft is strong in storytelling and has a rich lore, both of these are used from the creation of your character. Take Undead for example, you are ressurected, you are told that due to the fact that the Forsaken cannot reproduce they are starting to ressurect their own undead. You are immediataly shown the plight of your race, and you immediately get to start working on helping them out, and through phasing you can actually see your handiwork. You can see how you impact your environment, like an ordinary game, so it's not like 'Oh I killed 100 undead and there is like 100 still over there' it's more like 'AWESOME I just got to jump in a cannon and slaughter 100 undead and now the earth is all covered in small craters and there are no more undead!'
You're letting your personal taste get in the way.USmedik said:
Star Wars is more popular, and this is evident by the sheer number of people who simply choose to ignore the prequels so that they may rave about the original trilogy.
Dragon Age on the other hand, is a riff on old-school RPGs. I'm not one to call it a generic fantasy, but trying to say its new is a tad silly, considering the obvious influences of the likes of Tolkien that have come to define the fantasy genre.
Consider the huge popularity of KotOR, the Jedi Knight and the Battlefield games. People didn't like the prequels for the most part, that doesn't mean shit. Star Wars is massive.
Star Wars Galaxies was even quite successful until a rather disastrous attempt at updating the game's core mechanics - it didn't die because it was Star Wars, it died because, as a game, it fucked up.