WAR (Warhammer Online)

the combat looks turn based. the characters look like they are juwww.youtube.com/watchst standing there and occasionally moving thier sword arb to jab the other player. it makes me cringe too because it reminds me of WoW. the attack speed is so slow. they look like they are just waiting for thier sword attack to recharge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvOfdehteBE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDEFPam9U0M

now I'm gona use aoc as an example here. the game may be halfbaked but the combat looks fluid and realistic. the characters look like they actually trying to kill each other hacking as fast as they can, not fencing like pensioners. notice there is no downtime between attack animations.

www.youtube.com/watch <- suggested video

files.filefront.com/Best+At+Both+Worlds/;11055335;/fileinfo.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbcKlCz_s1c

also the flashy effects and sounds are soooo kiddy and asian mmo style, I want to throw up a little in my mouth. I know aoc has some flashy effects also, but come on... please lose the pokemon special effects

the design for this game always sounds terrific and I plan on trying it out, but the style of the game is hidious. I guess its just comes down to personal tastes.

PS: also mentioned it before but : dark elves w/o repeater crossbows != dark elves

edit: put a new WAR vid in. please post your own if you want to try and prove me wrong.

Haveing seen wow and Wars Animations... Yeah they need work... But AOC having good ones... we musta not played the same game then, To me they are as crappy as wars, More Fulid yes but still crappy.

And im with you on the DE and no Repeater Crossbows thing.

The horridly slow combat with global cooldowns between everything is the big turn off for me also , AoC I cannot stand any more because of Funcom's horrid and nonexistant Q/A dept on these patches they have done

Quit playing the closed beta , and going to just wait and play the open beta and head start -

if the head start is fun I'll open one of my CE and add the code and keep playing , if not then no loss in $$ I'll sell it along with the other extras I bought on Ebay

oooo,  yeah that was kind of painful to watch.  Animation and sound plus the special fx definitely need work and hopefully can be improved upon.  But at this stage of the game I doubt it.

Lol, that was the first video of the month in 2006. It s nothing like that now.

I love how trolls bring up ancient videos for their examples....sorry AoC every video I've seen for it new and old look bizarre and rather gay in my opinion.  Honestly if I want to point and click for combo's I'll play a console where atleast the control style is more fluid and natural.   Then again I dont want to pay 50 bucks for a buggy POS game that has a POS company behind it.  Failcom  kills good games dead.

Originally posted by Consensus

the combat looks turn based. the characters look like they are just standing there and occasionally moving thier sword arb to jab the other player. it makes me cringe too because it reminds me of WoW. the attack speed is so slow. they look like they are just waiting for thier sword attack to recharge.

www.youtube.com/watch

now I'm gona use aoc as an example here. the game may be halfbaked but the combat looks fluid and realistic. the characters look like they actually trying to kill each other hacking as fast as they can, not fencing like pensioners.

files.filefront.com/Best+At+Both+Worlds/;11055335;/fileinfo.html

also the flashy effects and sounds are soooo kiddy and asian mmo style, I want to throw up a little in my mouth. I know aoc has some flashy effects also, but come on... please lose the pokemon special effects

the design for this game always sounds terrific and I plan on trying it out, but the style of the game is hidious. I guess its just comes down to personal tastes.

PS: also mentioned it before but : dark elves w/o repeater crossbows != dark elves

Huh, I was almost sure that your post would have read..."My testies had been removed at birth"

Nice, good job using an ancient video. And spell effects were rampant in DAoC - in fact, they were some of the best for a game of its time. The buffs were awesome in particular. So if you don't like it, go watch unrealistic splashes of red pixels splatter your screen. That's so much more realistic.

Wait until launch, or at least NDA lift, to judge the animations/spell effects...the Beta animations are just basics, just like the graphics. Mythic isn't wasting time making it pretty when they need to test core concepts, unlike another game...and we all know how that turned out...

You've got to be kidding me! You actually want to compare that old footage to the new MMO's? Just look up the vids for the new beta footage and you'll see a huge difference. Since I'm not allowed to post the links to them just do a search for beta links. Then come back and tell us what you think.