icemann on 24/12/2008 at 12:46
It sure is alot better than Burning Crusade
vurt on 24/12/2008 at 13:11
I liked TBC much better, loved the extremely varied settings. Shattrath is also the most atmospheric city in WoW imo, outland was great fun to explore. LK felt too much like their original settings, all i got was a very tired and uninspired feeling from it, i didn't care at all for it, exploring it was just dull, quests were as boring as ever.
On Topic: I suppose WoW fits in this category for me too. I was in the beta and i didn't like it all. Uninstalled it and didn't plan on ever trying it again, but my closest friends started playing and i joined, at first it was extremely dull and boring, but it really opens up once you get into it, the teamplay is fantastic, the battlegrounds were extremely fun. The whole game is just way more polished than any other MMO i've played (e.g LOTRO, Conan, WAR), it's really fun to plan your skills etc.. Loved what they've done to the whole skill system, the layout of it etc.
RavynousHunter on 24/12/2008 at 15:20
Surprisingly enough, the game that I didn't really expect much out of was Thief, my first thought was, "A game based around stealing? Sounds dull."
Holy crap was I wrong! Played the Thief II demo once and was hooked, I played it three times over that weekend... And many more times over until I got the real thing. Haven't stopped loving it since. :thumb:
Renzatic on 24/12/2008 at 18:28
Quote Posted by Vurt
Vampire Bloodlines...really shitty GFX...
Oh hell no. Limited size aside, I think Bloodlines sports some of the most thickly atmospheric and interesting sets I've seen in a game.
gunsmoke on 24/12/2008 at 18:35
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Do us all a favour and uninstall.
You owe me a laptop, as I just spit Newcastle ale all over it. :p Damn, that was a good one. :laff:
Andarthiel on 24/12/2008 at 21:30
There were a couple like that but the msot recent example was Call of Duty 4:Modern Warfare. I got it off my brother and started playing it just to see what it was like expecting to be yet another tiresome and bland war FPS but it actually surpassed my expectations by far. It was like watching an epic movie and I was the star, the music was brilliant as well. The mission varieties were really cool like with the sniper stealth mission and the gunship mission:D
mol on 24/12/2008 at 22:46
Quote Posted by vurt
I liked TBC much better, loved the extremely varied settings. Shattrath is also the most atmospheric city in WoW imo, outland was great fun to explore. LK felt too much like their original settings, all i got was a very tired and uninspired feeling from it, i didn't care at all for it, exploring it was just dull, quests were as boring as ever.
Wow, my experience is almost entirely the opposite. Not that I don't like The Burning Crusade & Outland - it's just as you said, very varied settings, fun to explore - which has always been the great thing about WoW for me. Exploring.
But The Lich King - I find that Northrend is amazing. It's brilliantly varied, and places like the Howling Fjord just blow my mind. When I first went to the Crystalsong Forest I was all ooh-aah! Grizzly Hills is great, Zul'Drak fantastic, Dragonblight has tons of variety. Only Borean Tundra was a bit like the Hellfire Peninsula in TBC, not bad, but lacking that 'wow' factor. I've yet to see Icecrown or the Storm Peaks, in Lich King.
The quests, while there still are your usual grinders, are much more story driven and epic in scale in Lich King, full with cinematic movies in places to tell the story. The origins of the Death Knights, the creation of your Death Knight and the first few levels to establish their background and why they seek redemption, is nothing short of brilliant. On the whole, you feel much more like there's actually something major happening in the world, and you're playing a role in what's transpiring. On the whole, a fantastically varied place, inspired, gorgeous, fun; driving siege machines, flying and rescuing missions, silly and funny quests, moral choises - I think it's the best WoW has had to offer so far. And the world in whole is now staggeringly massive! You create a character now, you simply will not have any idea what's ahead of you, how HUGE the world is, and how much there is to do.
Oh, and yes, like someone said earlier, never expected anything of Thief back in the day, either.
Ended up playing it almost daily for about 6 years, and still consider it in a class of its own, in solo playing games.
vurt on 24/12/2008 at 23:13
Quote Posted by Renzatic
Oh hell no. Limited size aside, I think Bloodlines sports some of the most thickly atmospheric and interesting sets I've seen in a game.
That old hotel was kind of creepy, i'll give them that.. The rest was quite shitty imo, invisible walls everywhere, ultra linear design, extremely small zones that require loading (waaaay worse than HL2 even though it's the same engine, i mean how did they even accomplish that??), way too much copy/paste work too. GFX was on pair with Deus Ex 1 almost, which is rediculous considering that they used Source Engine which looks great even to this date. Facial animations that looked great in HL2 looked horrible. It had some great music, voices were good, some cool settings (ruined by crappy gfx and loading which killed the immersion).
Matthew on 24/12/2008 at 23:33
Oh hell no. The facial animations were not horrible.
