Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Comments by Oli Welsh

Clothes by Games Workshop. Hair by Girls Aloud.

It's a crap hairstyle. Tho I can talk since I basically have an afro if I let it grow.

i was gutted, and i do mean GUTTED by the delay.

But everything in my bones tells me this game will be great.

Will it touch WoW for numbers, no, it won't.

At the same time, Westlife sell millions of albums. Doesn't mean i'm listening to them, or that every artist other than them sucks.

I cannot, cannot, cannot CAN NOT wait for this game.

A decent and relatively honest interview. Is this going to be EA's only MMO>? If it is, I can see why they're prepared to get the quality right before they release it.

That said, I doubt I'll play it - I'm still waiting for the MMO that does things so significantly differently that WoW becomes severely old hat.

I really, really hope all this time and polish pays off. I love Warhammer and I've had my eye on this game for years, looking forward to it and praying it's all that it promises to be.

This might be the first game to tempt me into the life-consuming realm of MMORPGs. I can't wait for it.

http://www.notaddicted.com/node/173

"Once upon a time, there was a game I’d been waiting for. A game I was terribly, terribly, excited for. A game whose website I used to frequent, eagerly anticipating the newest “podcast video update”... There's this guy that works for the marketing department of this game, his name is Paul, and listening to his little videos about the game made me smile in my apartment. This is the the kind of guy that gets religious folks all worked up and wanting to puhraize the lawd when they hear his gospel. This was a game whose email newsletter I had voluntarily signed up for, for fuck's sake. This game was going to rise up and blow Blizzard's World of Warcraft out of the water once and for all. It was going to do everything right that WoW does wrong, and it was going to do it with a vengeance...

So, how does it play?

Is it as awesome as I had anticipated? Were smiling angels birthed from my computer's floppy disk slot? Did my computer shudder in ecstasy as the last file was installed and the desktop shortcut created? Did Chuck Norris die just a little bit on the inside, feeling a disturbance in the force field of the Barrens, as if one soul had somehow escaped its bitter grasp? Let me put it this way: my resto Druid alt farmed up 8 Primal Lifes last night in the Outlands of Warcraft last night. "

Very much looking forward to this and have pre-ordered the shiny CE. It'll probably be the first boxed PC game I've bought in over a year by the time it releases. Having said that, I'm eager to get into a beta (even just the open one before launch) to see how it is - don't want to pay money for it if it's crap after all!

this game is going to be so awesome, i just ordered the collectors edition there.

i donta care about the delay, in fact it suits me.

Very tempted to give this a go. Of course I said that about LOTRO but it just wasn't different enough to WoW, here's hoping.

/me goes back to 4th EVE alt...

Looks fucking shit.

If this wasn't warhammer ip no one would give a toss. The art direction looks unintresting. They haven't captured the warhammer"essence" to me. I think it'll be a turd.The only thing that's attractive is the pvp aspect to me.

It's going to rock, the fact that they're taking the time out for polish is a VERY good sign. This is something that plagues a lot of mmo's at launch.

The fact that they're taking their time is great. The fact that the game looks complete balls a bit less so.

@Gurgeh

1) that guy/girl just broke an NDA
2) he is judging an incomplete game
3) i personally think guys a liar, such a WoW fanboy, that if his computer was giving him handjobs, he'd still go back to WoW, and then bitch about it
4) i seriously, seriously doubt he farmed 8 primal lifes in one night, unless he won EVERY single roll, which either makes him a ninja or the most lucky man ever
5) personally, he just sounds like a jack ass

magnus, your not very good at grinding primal life, are you?

8 primal lifes is easy.

But yeah, Im sure this will be good, but I doubt it offers enough to make it a more worthy time-sink than WoW. And all this fluff about RvR... who gives a toss what realm your opponent is from, it's faceless.

sounds to me as if there is little actual game that players are expected to repeat over and over to get some reward I better not doubt or else I might stop playing.

Very glad to here they are looking deeply at the sword swings/interface/spell stuff. WoW has spoilt us all with it's UI and also how good the game feels. Anytime I try something else it just never has the same sense of quality about it. Hard to put into words but like rear wheel drive vs front wheel drive. You never know how good rwd is until you get it :)

Basically put:

WoW timesink - kill 10,000 boars to get a big shiny weapon to kill another 10,000 boars to get another shiny weapon to kill... you get the idea

WAR timesink - kill 10,000 boars to unlock lore/information in the tomb of knowlege and opens a quest to kill 10,000 boars get a big shiny weapon to smash someone's face in

Getting more than just an item that lasts until the next dungeon and actally learning about the world with having actal players to actally USE the item on stright away, is much more rewarding timesink

Wasn't a Xbox 360 version in the works?

I thought I was done with mmo's after wow and ffxi, but I might just give this one a go.

I thought I was done with mmo's after wow and ffxi, but I might just give this one a go.

Interviews with this guy always worry me about the game.

"Is this going to be in it?"

"Could be! Maybe. Maybe not. It's in the game. Isn't it?"

"Well if it's in, how important a mechanic is it?"

"Vital! If it's in. If not, then it doesn't matter to the game at all. But it might."

This might be hard to avoid but...having ads for a game up (front page) at the same time as a review/preview/article always feels a bit awkward ;c

and I think EA is going to go, "oh my Lord, we finally have an MMO". And they're going to be happy as hell

What does that say about the future of Mythic EA's other games at the moment, DAOC and UO?

Better to interview MbJ himself. He makes more sense to me, and is to the point.

@ Amajiro:

Try EVE maybe? I haven't played it, but I hear it's different to WoW-style MMOs.