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World of Warcraft

Ovid on 2006-01-25T02:41:55

If you know me, you know that I'm not much of a gamer. I have played them from time to time, but I really don't get into them. I enjoyed the Thief series quite a bit as that appealed to me, but other than that, I play a game and very quickly get bored. That's why I don't "get" why people are so enamored of World of Warcraft (WoW). Well, until now. Blame Schwern.

I'm "Corinnanaso" on "Twisting Nether". Useless bonus points if you know how I picked that user name.

One thing I thought was interesting was the opening cinematics. Needless to say, while they're very well done, the actual game graphics can't hold a candle to them. However, in 10 or 15 years, the opening cinematics will be the game graphics.

heheheh

Alias on 2006-01-25T05:15:28

You fool! You foolish fool!

That's what you get for not investing in a self-limiting game, like Allegiance or single player $something.

Horde or Alliance?

offerk on 2006-01-25T06:53:35

> I'm "Corinnanaso" on "Twisting Nether".

Horde or Alliance?
I'm Solidstate on "Twisting Nether", Horde.

"Twisting Nether" is a PVP server, so regardless of which faction you are, I'll see you online, one way or the other ;-)

Re:Horde or Alliance?

Ovid on 2006-01-25T07:55:49

I'm Alliance. Figured since I've never done this before, I might as well be one of the good guys (even if I am a rogue).

Scripts

luqui on 2006-01-25T09:57:26

Though I don't play WoW myself, I have some friends who are addicts. I was impressed by its scriptability. Blizzard chose Lua, which is designed for embedded scripting, instead of half-baking their own crappy language like everybody else (where "everybody else" in the game market is... well, basically nobody).

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Aristotle on 2006-01-25T14:55:29

However, in 10 or 15 years, the opening cinematics will be the game graphics.

I don’t think so. We heard that 10 or 15 years ago as well. And by the standards of the time, today’s game graphics could be cinematics – but the quality of cinematics has not stood still in that time, so today’s game graphics cannot hold a candle to the opening cinematics any more than they could 15 years ago.

I think it’ll be a while before the quality of cinematics tops out and the game graphics get a chance to close in.

In other notes: my condolences about your free time. :-)

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Ovid on 2006-01-25T18:55:18

I wasn't meaning the the graphics of the game would match what we see in cinema. I was meaning that the graphics we see in games will match the the opening graphics that we see on WoW today.

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Aristotle on 2006-01-25T19:22:05

What I thought you meant was that in-game graphics would match the game’s intro sequence graphics; not that the graphics would match cinema.

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Ovid on 2006-01-25T20:27:30

Ah, OK. I misunderstood your misunderstanding of my vagueness :)

Blame Schwern

speters on 2006-01-25T16:23:58

Blame Schwern.

Don't we all? ;)

Hah, another addict

sri on 2006-01-25T23:26:31

Angat, lvl60 Warlock (rogue killer), EU Server Turalyon :)