I just had a nerdgasm.

HazeHaze O RLY? Join Date: 2003-07-07 Member: 18018Members, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">(related to WoW and the Warcraft universe)</div>Just saw the re-enactment of the cinematic of <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=luuUE0x7-TY" target="_blank">Grom Hellscream's Redemption</a> in the World of Warcraft. I don't think I've shivered in delight as much as I did just now - the entire thing had the cinematic's voiceovers matched with the game's text, as well.

<img src="http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/7813/nerdgasm2co8.png" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

<img src="http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/1197/nerdgasm1al1.png" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

Shamefully this is making me roll ANOTHER warrior with my renewed vigor. I'm sure my little steam engine will run out again, but... it was so beautiful. *sniffle* /merollsonRPserver
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  • enf0rcerenf0rcer intrigued... Join Date: 2003-03-16 Member: 14584Members
    I will never understand this stuff. Never played wow, never will.
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  • HazeHaze O RLY? Join Date: 2003-07-07 Member: 18018Members, Constellation
    The first screenshot kind of makes WoW look pretty...
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  • AnarkiThreeXSixAnarkiThreeXSix x_x Join Date: 2003-12-31 Member: 24894Members
    ^_- yeah? Still looks a bit colorful and cartoony to me :|
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  • TyrainTyrain Join Date: 2003-01-03 Member: 11746Members
    This makes me want to get the cds, reinstall and grind for hours... wait... no it doesn't.
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1620972:date=Apr 14 2007, 10:59 AM:name=AnarkiThreeXSix)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(AnarkiThreeXSix @ Apr 14 2007, 10:59 AM) [snapback]1620972[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    ^_- yeah? Still looks a bit colorful and cartoony to me :|
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    That's kind of what they're going for. That doesn't mean it's not pretty. In fact, plenty of people like the look.
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  • cshank4cshank4 Join Date: 2003-02-11 Member: 13425Members
    I like the graphics of WoW... but the grind is UGGGGGH.
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  • Sub_zer0Sub_zer0 Join Date: 2004-05-09 Member: 28569Members
    all mmos are like that. thats why I don't pay them to waste hours and hours of my life for nothing I can do that all by my self.
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  • Dethwish_JDethwish_J Join Date: 2007-04-01 Member: 60546Members
    Okay we all know I'm a WoW freak but... that makes no sense to me. I really hate RvP realms, probably why I don't get this.
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  • HazeHaze O RLY? Join Date: 2003-07-07 Member: 18018Members, Constellation
    No idea what you just said Dethwish.
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  • RustySpoonRustySpoon Join Date: 2003-07-10 Member: 18069Members
    Warcraft lore = Aweseom
    That = Cool
    All you cnuts = Wrong
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1621009:date=Apr 14 2007, 02:48 PM:name=Haze)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Haze @ Apr 14 2007, 02:48 PM) [snapback]1621009[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    No idea what you just said Dethwish.
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    QFT
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  • ScytheScythe Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
    Where is this ingame reenactment, and how do you trigger it? I'd love to go see it.

    --Scythe--
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  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1621008:date=Apr 14 2007, 02:44 PM:name=Dethwish_J)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Dethwish_J @ Apr 14 2007, 02:44 PM) [snapback]1621008[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I really hate RvP realms, probably why I don't get this. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Role versus Player, huh?

    Is that like where the Warrior has an internal conflict and doesn't want to be a Warrior anymore, and he wants to go to Japan and study flower arranging?
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  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1621035:date=Apr 14 2007, 08:38 PM:name=Zig)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Zig @ Apr 14 2007, 08:38 PM) [snapback]1621035[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Role versus Player, huh?

    Is that like where the Warrior has an internal conflict and doesn't want to be a Warrior anymore, and he wants to go to Japan and study flower arranging?
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    Intriguing, tell me more.
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  • AldarisAldaris Join Date: 2002-03-25 Member: 351Members, Constellation
    I think he meant the roleplay servers, which have nothing to do with the reenactment, or understanding what the reenactment is about.
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  • Dethwish_JDethwish_J Join Date: 2007-04-01 Member: 60546Members
    You're all a bunch of roleplaying hippes... that being said, yes WoW does look pretty.

    *Slowly walks away whistling*
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    WoW looks good if it was running on an N64.
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  • Dethwish_JDethwish_J Join Date: 2007-04-01 Member: 60546Members
    edited April 2007
    Yes it's cool to continually bash a game which is clearly making more money for Blizzard than any other game company at the moment and continually winning awards, because that too makes you look cool being a mindless sheep going with other "cool" people's opinion.

    Jealousy is fickle liku, don't let it consume you. Kind of reminds me of the "nothing nice to say, don't say it at all" or the irony in me calling someone a troll, you troll!
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  • UltimaGeckoUltimaGecko hates endnotes Join Date: 2003-05-14 Member: 16320Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1621084:date=Apr 15 2007, 05:55 AM:name=Dethwish_J)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Dethwish_J @ Apr 15 2007, 05:55 AM) [snapback]1621084[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Yes it's cool to continually bash a game which is clearly making more money for Blizzard than any other game company at the moment and continually winning awards, because that too makes you look cool being a mindless sheep going with other "cool" people's opinion.

    Jealousy is fickle liku, don't let it consume you. Kind of reminds me of the "nothing nice to say, don't say it at all" or the irony in me calling someone a troll, you troll!
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    Well, considering it has a couple million players or whatever, I think cheering for it or bashing it could both be considered 'going with the flow' or 'blending in with the sheep' or '[Another euphemism to mean copying what a crowd is doing]'. Technically, nowadays, WoW looks like crap. You can't deny it, it was made years ago and it was decent for when it was made (I specifically remember posts on this forum saying "wow, that looks beautiful!"...and also people in the same thread bashing it then); but games do not age well graphically anymore.

    Then again, anyone who plays a game simply because it lacks graphical prowess is probably an idiot, and should be avoided. That said, I'm still not sure why everyone is so enamored with WoW...but what I hate even more is when a new MMORPG comes out and everyone shouts "dude, they totally ripped off WoW" as if WoW never stole anything (especially the Everquest userbase - ba-zing!). Like "the health, mana and fatigue bars are right next to eachother, that's totally a ripoff and not a logical design decision."



    I will say, as part of an aside, that the game is probably more popular with females (sort of like how the Sims (2) works), because it doesn't have hyper-realistic graphics and blood shooting out of everything you kill. That is just one of my minor conjectures (I'm (...but not really...)sure one of the 4 female gamers in the world said "THIS GAME NEEDS MORE BLOOD!" at some point...).
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    Come on, World of Warcraft doesn't even have <i>shadows</i>. It's just a circular blob under the character (or an oval blob under the horse). It might have amazing art direction but the engine's a clunker.
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  • RustySpoonRustySpoon Join Date: 2003-07-10 Member: 18069Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1621113:date=Apr 15 2007, 10:53 AM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Apr 15 2007, 10:53 AM) [snapback]1621113[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Come on, World of Warcraft doesn't even have <i>shadows</i>. It's just a circular blob under the character (or an oval blob under the horse). It might have amazing art direction but the engine's a clunker.
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    The visuals sucks, ergo the game sucks.
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  • cshank4cshank4 Join Date: 2003-02-11 Member: 13425Members
    Some of us don't like shadows :/


    (Seriously, I don't. They never actually look realistic to resemble an actual shadow, so, meh.)

    Thinking about picking up Burning Crusade and reactivating my old account.
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  • MoquiaoMoquiao Join Date: 2003-05-09 Member: 16168Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1621033:date=Apr 15 2007, 01:27 AM:name=Scythe)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Scythe @ Apr 15 2007, 01:27 AM) [snapback]1621033[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Where is this ingame reenactment, and how do you trigger it? I'd love to go see it.

    --Scythe--
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    quoted for great truth and justice..

    is it on the greatmother chain? or wha?
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  • sherpasherpa stopcommandermode Join Date: 2006-11-04 Member: 58338Members
    no shadows guys dont play the game
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  • HazeHaze O RLY? Join Date: 2003-07-07 Member: 18018Members, Constellation
    Greatmother chain.
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  • SurgeSurge asda4a3sklflkgh Join Date: 2002-07-14 Member: 944Members
    NS doesn't have shadows, awful game.
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  • SmoodCrooznSmoodCroozn Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22310Members
    Hmmm... this is of the cutscene in War (cookie-cut) craft 3 right?

    I could care less about the look in games.

    I just hate RPGs because it takes so long to level and whatever. Hours of slashing at stupid AI monsters just for the chance to grab some epic loot or whatever...

    Gimmi CS or MTG anyday.
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1621084:date=Apr 15 2007, 03:55 AM:name=Dethwish_J)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Dethwish_J @ Apr 15 2007, 03:55 AM) [snapback]1621084[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Yes it's cool to continually bash a game which is clearly making more money for Blizzard than any other game company at the moment and continually winning awards, because that too makes you look cool being a mindless sheep going with other "cool" people's opinion.

    Jealousy is fickle liku, don't let it consume you.
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    Cool? Not really, I post my negative opinion because I don't find the game enjoyable. Jealous isn't the right word.
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  • DaxxDaxx Join Date: 2002-04-16 Member: 460Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--quoteo(post=1621134:date=Apr 15 2007, 01:59 PM:name=Haze)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Haze @ Apr 15 2007, 01:59 PM) [snapback]1621134[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Greatmother chain.
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    Is that Horde only?
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  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    I totally did that whole chain but don't remember that reenactment. I remember Thrall coming down from Org... maybe I just glossed over that part or something, I was so focused on leveling <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
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