Joining the crowd
Jan. 18th, 2006 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khaosworksSo after much nudging from various friends and casual discussions with best friend ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
logam, I bummed a set of World of Warcraft discs off a colleague and signed up for a 10-day free pass.
To be honest, CoH and CoV are still fun, but has been getting a bit of a grind. I've never quite recovered from the loss of Level 40 Battlebug a couple of Christmases ago, and now that I barely get to play with the rest of my supergroup anymore, it's been getting more and more tiresome (I'm not blaming you guys — I still love y'all — it's just bad scheduling on all our parts). So, figuring that five million players must be on to something, I decided to check WoW out.
I haven't played it all that much - just a couple of hours. I created a Dwarven hunter named Stoutfoot (I think only logam will know that reference out of everyone who's reading this) on the Bronzebeard server and in a couple of hours made level 4.
First impressions? The worst part about WoW is traveling, and apparently you don't get mounts until Level 40. But that's really a small thing. The most impressive part about WoW is how fucking huge the place is, and the ability to move between game areas seamlessly. It's mind-boggling, I have no idea how they do it, but not having to wait for the next zone to load really keeps you immersed in the game. As to the rest, the interface is intuitive enough that you don't really need a tutorial, the textures are really pretty and detailed, if a bit cartoony, but hey, I play City of Heroes — cartoony isn't really a problem. And what logam says is true: I'm not even looking at my XP bar to see how I'm doing most of the time.
More updates after I play some more tonight. I'm not cancelling my sub to CoH just yet. Just want to see if WoW's all that it's hyped up to be, and if it's a better gaming experience for my buck.
logam, I bummed a set of World of Warcraft discs off a colleague and signed up for a 10-day free pass.To be honest, CoH and CoV are still fun, but has been getting a bit of a grind. I've never quite recovered from the loss of Level 40 Battlebug a couple of Christmases ago, and now that I barely get to play with the rest of my supergroup anymore, it's been getting more and more tiresome (I'm not blaming you guys — I still love y'all — it's just bad scheduling on all our parts). So, figuring that five million players must be on to something, I decided to check WoW out.
I haven't played it all that much - just a couple of hours. I created a Dwarven hunter named Stoutfoot (I think only logam will know that reference out of everyone who's reading this) on the Bronzebeard server and in a couple of hours made level 4.
First impressions? The worst part about WoW is traveling, and apparently you don't get mounts until Level 40. But that's really a small thing. The most impressive part about WoW is how fucking huge the place is, and the ability to move between game areas seamlessly. It's mind-boggling, I have no idea how they do it, but not having to wait for the next zone to load really keeps you immersed in the game. As to the rest, the interface is intuitive enough that you don't really need a tutorial, the textures are really pretty and detailed, if a bit cartoony, but hey, I play City of Heroes — cartoony isn't really a problem. And what logam says is true: I'm not even looking at my XP bar to see how I'm doing most of the time.
More updates after I play some more tonight. I'm not cancelling my sub to CoH just yet. Just want to see if WoW's all that it's hyped up to be, and if it's a better gaming experience for my buck.
