Computer Science Canada World of Warcraft... (and other Blizzard goodness) |
| Author: | TokenHerbz [ Wed Apr 26, 2006 3:51 pm ] |
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1st, i want you guys to answer the poll.... Next, if you play it / tried it / or want to play it, answer why... 
I hear its an awsome game, but is it worth the money it costs to buy it and keep it going? Will you get bored of it ever? hows the game play / graphics? Anyways, just wanted to know how many people here play that game. |
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| Author: | md [ Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:07 pm ] |
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I want you to stop posting stupid polls in off-topic. Or dumb discussion topics. Please. |
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| Author: | 1of42 [ Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:50 pm ] |
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WoW sucks. Period. |
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| Author: | Mazer [ Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:08 pm ] |
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Yeah, get an epic post, noob. The value of an MMORPG really depends on whether you as an individual are stupid. That's a joke. But in all seriousness, as stupid as games are (and even I'll agree they're stupid), an MMORPG is even worse. With a regular game, you waste some time and get nothing out of it. With an MMORPG, you waste ALOT of time, and quite a bit of money... and get nothing out of it. I've played WoW, I was impressed in the beginning. I made a Gnomish engineer named Stuart (50 bits if anyone can correctly guess the reference. Hint: recent CBC cartoon show). But it got boring. I didn't get past level 15 playing regularly because it got old pretty quickly. I have yet to get past level 27 and doubt that I ever will. Some people play RPGs because they don't like that you don't get anything out of other games (like action). That is, you could play counter strike for a while and get lots of money and good weapons, but next time you play you'll have to start over. The thing with MMORPGs is that you can develop your character and get better gear, but so can everyone else. And you know that lots of people will have better gear and stats than you do simply because they'll sink much more time into it. By all means, go ahead and get into World of Warcraft if you really want to, but may I suggest a hobby? Try unicycling, it looks like it could be fun, and would probably impress some people. |
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| Author: | zylum [ Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:29 pm ] |
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unicycling isnt extreme enough.. how about pogo sticking? http://www.xpogo.com/  |
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| Author: | chrispminis [ Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:42 pm ] |
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ohhh unicycling is xtreme... you can do tricks on unicycles too, and pimp it out, different wheel sizes and seat heights. Not to mention, people stick rockets on their unicycles! wonder if hydraulics would work ?  |
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| Author: | Mazer [ Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:05 pm ] |
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I meant unicycling as an actual mode of transportation rather than doing ins4n3 tr1ickz and such. I mean, bikes are cool, and I have no experience with a unicycle but... meh. It's a thought. |
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| Author: | Clayton [ Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:06 pm ] |
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i havent played it yet, but i would like to, i mean you have the 1 month trial offer right? try it out, if you dont like it cancel it. that simple |
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| Author: | Tony [ Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:53 pm ] |
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well my brother plays WoW, so I just keep a character on his account. I mostly PvP, as running instances(dungens) is plain stupid. You get 39 of your closest friends that you've never met in real life to spend 5 hours with you fighting a dragon at the end of a long long tunnel just to have a 1/40 chance to get an epic item that's a few stat points higher than a decent "good quality" item. Oh, and if you don't get that item, you're probably at a loss due to repair costs. yey! Instead I blow my gold on loads and loads of materials to make expensive bombs to blow up in Alliance's noob face  |
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| Author: | [Gandalf] [ Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:42 pm ] |
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1of42 wrote: WoW sucks. Period.
QFT One of the most overrated games I know of, after Halo and such. |
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| Author: | Boo-chan [ Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:56 am ] |
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Halo isn't overated but it is highly addictive. |
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| Author: | Dan [ Thu Apr 27, 2006 3:51 am ] |
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I both love and hate WoW. Rant: First the good: The game is admzaing form a MMORPG ascpect and realy shows what the next generation of the genera is witch live aucation batles, fully 3d worlds and admazing grapshics and sound. It is also admzsaing form a marketing stand point consdiering just how much moeny they are making per month. They have over 5 million users paying $15 a mont + $50 for the game to start with. Thats $250,000,000 in game sales + $75,000,000 a month. And there are more users every day puls they whont to put out an exapsion peoleop whould have to buy for another $50. Thats alot of moeny. I also am quite admazed at the world they have created witch is quite exstsives and large and realy deperstares the consepct of virutal worlds. The oh so much bad: Have you ever gone to the WoW forums a posted a genreal question? Or asked for help on a server? The cahnces are you will be greated with a firedly Screw you noob, go level. Or other combaints of falmes and torllings. Simpley the magority of the peoleop in this game are 12 year old noobs that hate eveyr one and every thing. Hostly i do not under stand the levels of pure hate that come off this game. The hate for the other faction, the hate for other players, the hate for evyething and every one. Now i am shure if any one reads this they will reply saying not every one is bad witch is true but in my option the magority is. A great example of this is how much ganking gose on, i have played RPGs where you could kill any one at any time and there was less PKing and hate. In almost every other MMORPG i have player there has been a realy frendaly comunity that whould help every one and play together and have fun. Now on to the aucatal game, 1stly it is buggy as hell and leaks memory faster then a bucket of water that has gone threw a few mashen gun ranges. Also servers they are trying to run this thing on can not take it, they fill up to fast and they do not whont to spend moeny on fixing them so there is masive lag and crashes. Also the game client only works great on the compley average computer. And when you can not conect for days or it makes you have random restarts or can't even get the game to install there is almost no help from blizzard. Speaking of witch the help bilzard gives is negtive at best, they do not stop any of the real abusesrs in the game or even enforec there own rules. They have no real perstive of what gose on in there game and they don't care as long as there checks are geting there. Also there banign system is crazy, they do mass bans that an lite script some where is decsing on and not a real person. Poleop have been baned incuding my self for doing things like runing WoW in wine on linux. And when you contact them about being baned they don't repsoned or just say that there is nothing they can do. Yet gold farmers rome free. Now bethond the crapy progaming and peoleop there are fundmenatl falws with the game play that peoleop seem to ingore. In most RPGs death happens but in reality not that offten. In other MMORGs one coudld go a few hours with out dieing unless they did somthing stuided. In ones like runesacpe one whould go days to moths, and in RO it was a somthing that olny happened if you did somthing stuiped or where solining for a few hours. But in WoW you go seconds to mins btween deaths some times, the monsters are crazy. I have never seen the type of coltive NPC pwing to real players in any other RPG. Most rpgs it is realtively easy to kill somthing your level and you get a fair amout of exp for it so taking on 3 or 5 is no big issue. But in WoW 2 or 3 mobs your level means sercnt death unless you train them threw other player witch is aucaty a violation of the ToS and could get you banned if there was any one listing to player complaited in billzard. I realy lost my train of thougth so.....ya....WoW bad it steals your life away. |
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| Author: | codemage [ Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:54 am ] |
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I refuse to pay a monthly fee to continue to play a single game that I already paid for. If the game were free, then that might be more of an incentive. If the game weren't down for server maintenance and overload issues (read: too many chinese farmers online at once) every third day... that might be an incentive as well. |
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| Author: | Mazer [ Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:09 am ] |
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That is so you, Andy. 
I've never really had too many problems on Aegwyn regarding downtime, bugs, and lag... sure the server's going to be down once in a while, but I always took that as a sign to go do something else. |
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| Author: | Andy [ Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:27 am ] |
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Mazer wrote: That is so you, Andy.
hey, leave me and my cousins alone... when i was in china last summer, there were alot of people playing WoW.. and i mean ALOT. every internet cafe was pretty much full. I dont know if they were all farmers, or just regular players, but people go in at 10 am and come out at 8pm |
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| Author: | TokenHerbz [ Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:57 pm ] |
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http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/screenshots/screenshot.aspx?ImageIndex=244&Set=0 http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/screenshots/screenshot.aspx?ImageIndex=244&Set=0 The above us cause i dont nkow which makes it a useable link. Anyway, check out some of them screen shots, pretty awsome.. I asked this same thing in another site, and got more resualts of people playing WoW, then again it was a game site? maybe its bias? but i dont know.... Check out that pic though, it just shows how much time people have to waste!! lol, i seen another with like 40 users piled up near a big dragon, |
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| Author: | Neo [ Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:04 pm ] |
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The N64 is capable of handling WoW graphics. |
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| Author: | TokenHerbz [ Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:13 pm ] |
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many concols are... For some reson, i prefer computer over any consol, even with live (like XBOXlive) Computers = best entertainment, in my opninion. |
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| Author: | Neo [ Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:20 pm ] |
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What I meant to say is that WoW graphics are really bad... |
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| Author: | person [ Thu Apr 27, 2006 7:24 pm ] |
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and i dont uderstand the screen shot can u eplain it to the none wow players cuz all i see is a bunch of polygons that are meant to be shaped like ppl gather together |
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| Author: | TokenHerbz [ Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:19 pm ] |
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it spells WoW, lol and i think their graphics are good.. |
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| Author: | Clayton [ Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:56 pm ] |
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why does yall care about graphics, honestly, gameplay is what makes a game a game. if a game has the best ultimate graphics in the world, but absolutely no point to it, would you still play it? no, who cares if it doesnt look the best, the graphics are just about as good if not better as wc3 and look how popular it is, i mean cmon....... |
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| Author: | Tony [ Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:55 am ] |
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omg, check out teh graphics on this Half Life 3 screenshot!  |
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| Author: | Andy [ Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:41 am ] |
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LMAO!!! |
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| Author: | Mazer [ Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:45 am ] |
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You think WoW graphics are bad? Go hump your Doom3 box, you retard. |
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| Author: | Andy [ Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:49 am ] |
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WoW graphics are not bad.. they dont use it in benchmarks because its an rpg game and thus relies on cpu more heavily than gpu. |
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| Author: | Blade [ Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:25 am ] |
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zomgwtfbbqsawcz! t3h graffix on t3h hl3 r t3h swet, i r go by as soon as it r comes oot. zomg zomg i r t3h excyted. all j00's graffix r b3long to m3h. i r t3h liv fo t3h graffix of doom! |
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| Author: | TokenHerbz [ Fri Apr 28, 2006 5:37 pm ] |
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/me slaps blade around a bit with a large troute. Anyways... i don't really care for graphics, its a nice features though... I LOVE Brood war, thats the expo of StarCraft... my fav game 
Online is too much fun, i think its cause i so damn good at it, err war: Didnt play for a few months cause this comp's cd drive busted and NICE HALF LIFE PICS! |
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| Author: | [Gandalf] [ Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:07 pm ] |
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You should see those hard core fans of "next-gen" consoles. They're insane about graphics... One misplaced polygon and they automatically think the game will suck. TokenHerbz wrote: Online is too much fun, i think its cause i so damn good at it, err war: Didnt play for a few months cause this comp's cd drive busted
Is that a challenge? |
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| Author: | rownale [ Fri Apr 28, 2006 7:35 pm ] |
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Wow is awesome it is definately the best MMORPG (the best offline one is oblivion; which i havent played but it is supposed to be) it is really glitchy though i have to run in openGL mode for some reason but it reduces city lag when i do this. Wow is still awesome though i dont think that wow graphics are all that great but they are very freakin excellent for a MMORPG (like 1000x better than runescape) |
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| Author: | md [ Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:54 pm ] |
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[Gandalf] wrote: You should see those hard core fans of "next-gen" consoles. They're insane about graphics... One misplaced polygon and they automatically think the game will suck.
TokenHerbz wrote: Online is too much fun, i think its cause i so damn good at it, err war: Didnt play for a few months cause this comp's cd drive busted
Is that a challenge? I was inclined to think that at first too. Then I realized that he said something was "too much fun", which doesn't make any logical sense. Fun is not quantitative. Something is either fun or not fun; there aren't levels of fun-ness unless your comparing two activities and one is more fun then the other. Besides... one well times zerg rush and he's toast. |
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| Author: | [Gandalf] [ Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:03 pm ] |
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Cornflake wrote: I was inclined to think that at first too. Then I realized that he said something was "too much fun", which doesn't make any logical sense. Fun is not quantitative. Something is either fun or not fun; there aren't levels of fun-ness unless your comparing two activities and one is more fun then the other.
Besides... one well times zerg rush and he's toast. Indeed, indeed... Well, I was thinking more along the lines of a photon cannon planted nicely beside his command structure.
rownale wrote: i dont think that wow graphics are all that great but they are very freakin excellent for a MMORPG (like 1000x better than runescape)
Wow... You are definately comparing World of Warcraft to the best of the best. I mean, Runescape, common! |
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| Author: | Mazer [ Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:21 pm ] |
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rownale wrote: i dont think that wow graphics are all that great but they are very freakin excellent for a MMORPG (like 1000x better than runescape)
Well, Pokemon Blue had some really nice graphics too though. But if you wanted to talk strictly MMORPGs... have you even played any? Unless you're doing a google search for "free mmorpg" you'll be hard pressed to find one that looks as terrible as runescape. |
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| Author: | Neo [ Sat Apr 29, 2006 11:15 am ] |
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Mazer wrote: You think WoW graphics are bad? Go hump your Doom3 box, you retard.
Hacker Dan wrote: Simpley the magority of the peoleop in this game are 12 year old noobs that hate eveyr one and every thing.
Good point. |
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| Author: | TokenHerbz [ Sat Apr 29, 2006 4:50 pm ] |
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i like 1v1 or 3v3 in BW most... and rush's are nothing.. You can play some really skillfull players, iv'e had a few games where 2 of my allies and myself lost to a terran, (after we killed his 2 partners) i got the replay cause he micro'd so well... flawless |
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| Author: | Cervantes [ Sat Apr 29, 2006 4:58 pm ] |
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Yeah, you can't beat that sick micro. |
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| Author: | chrispminis [ Sat Apr 29, 2006 5:59 pm ] |
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Andy wrote: WoW graphics are not bad.. they dont use it in benchmarks because its an rts game and thus relies on cpu more heavily than gpu.
WoW = rpg? rts = real time strategy? Mistake or are you thinking of Warcraft? Gandalf wrote: Cornflake wrote:
I was inclined to think that at first too. Then I realized that he said something was "too much fun", which doesn't make any logical sense. Fun is not quantitative. Something is either fun or not fun; there aren't levels of fun-ness unless your comparing two activities and one is more fun then the other. Besides... one well times zerg rush and he's toast. Indeed, indeed... Well, I was thinking more along the lines of a photon cannon planted nicely beside his command structure. Wink Hmm I'll take any challenges... that is as soon as I recover my cd key from those koreans... lol. In Korea starcraft > tae kwon do for national sport. Just search google video for starcraft and find all the korean sponsored tourneys. Anyways, I play zerg, using either the classic mutaling or hydralurk. But my micros an ass with defilers so... be warned. Also I exploit psionic storm to the point where I should be arrested. I pwn I don't play terran much, cuz I suck with them, and I only ever tank crawl.
I normally play either 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, or free for all zero clutter fastest maps. We need an official starcraft thread? |
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| Author: | Andy [ Sat Apr 29, 2006 6:11 pm ] |
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yeah oops when i was thinking up the post i said rpg, but when i typed it it came out rts |
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| Author: | [Gandalf] [ Sun Apr 30, 2006 12:22 am ] |
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chrispminis, I challenge thee! chrispminis wrote: We need an official starcraft thread?
Well, what do you know... I only restarted playing a few days ago, and just yesterday I faced someone who was amazing with those psi storms. Don't know how he did it, but he held back my mass rushes and in the end won. That is to say, he and his teammate together hehe. Was it you? :o *edit* Oh, and I've got to mention: What's up with all these damn backstabbers on StarCraft nowadays? 6 out of 10 of my recent games have involved bsing of some kind. |
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| Author: | Tony [ Sun Apr 30, 2006 3:44 am ] |
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[Gandalf] wrote: What's up with all these damn backstabbers on StarCraft nowadays?
that's why you've got to play with someone you know. My buddy and I would play ether in the same room or get some voice chat going, and then talk so much trash in the general channel to confuse our opponents. 2v2 fastest SC:classic ownage |
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| Author: | [Gandalf] [ Sun Apr 30, 2006 3:47 am ] |
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Hehe, yeah, true. Only problem is, all the people I know are newbs.
Tony wrote: 2v2 fastest SC:classic ownage
Definately agreed there. Generally, I prefer SC over BW and fastest is quite a good map. |
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| Author: | TokenHerbz [ Sun Apr 30, 2006 2:07 pm ] |
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I absoliutly hate fastest maps... The ONLY money map i'll play is Big Game Hunters (BGH), which isn't even that fast. I like Lost Temple (LT) and other NON money maps... I love terrans, (i like them most, (very hard to play well with)), followed by protoss, and im not the best with zerg unless im not attacked for a little while, im a slow zerg builder... As for backstabbing, i get very little of that, though it does happen. Such is why my record is 10-some big number-50, i just quit befor a actually win.. Anyways, i find fastest maps to be boring, and unskillfull.. And i play the rare 8 player FFA, non money map, which is really fun |
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| Author: | Tony [ Sun Apr 30, 2006 2:31 pm ] |
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the thing about "fastest" is that it's a completely different gameplay. There's less emphasis on strategy and micro becomes virtually useless. instead it's about the efficiency of your build order, being able to execute it as fast as possible and be able to constantly pump out more units per time than your opponents. That being said I tihnk I've mastered this type of gameplay, and will probably try to return to official maps (BGH and Lost Temple) Btw: this thread has now been officially changed to all Blizzard games |
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| Author: | chrispminis [ Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:04 pm ] |
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Re: Fastest maps, I only play fastest if its free for all. Fastest maps do still involve skill and a little more macro than micro. BO is extremely important and it allows for quicker and more decisive beginnings. Most of all, it allows larger scale armies and battles and while it may seem micro is not as important, it is. In fact, it may be harder for those who are used to non money maps, since it involves large armies utlizing a great variety of units, and someone with excellent micro can emerge from a large scale battle without ANY casualties. Retreating, luring, and especially flanking are HUGE in this. The only problem is Terran Turtles... thankgod for guardians .
Re: Classic vs. BW Personally I like BW only for lurkers and medics. Classic I like cuz there are no pesky valkyries and corsairs to go bountyhuntingfor your overlords =\. Re: Official Starcraft Thread Eh, thought I saw that before. but wasnt sure. Re: Backstabbers Yeah, I bs a lot. It makes it interesting, especially if you are doing TOO well. Re: Psionic Storm Yeah, perhaps the #1 death for guardian swarms. |
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| Author: | Mazer [ Sun Apr 30, 2006 6:02 pm ] |
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One of my problems with MMORPGs is the same as one of my problems with your usual RPGs. They aren't fucking RolePlaying games. Sure it's more of a misnomer than a real problem, but I felt the need to bitch about that. |
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| Author: | [Gandalf] [ Sun Apr 30, 2006 6:26 pm ] |
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Most interesting... TokenHerbz wrote: Such is why my record is 10-some big number-50, i just quit befor a actually win..
Then maybe you could explain to me why people do this... I've played with quite a few people who've left the game after winning, and I wonder why you would do this? Is it to show how amazing you are, that you don't care about record? 
chrispminis wrote: Yeah, I bs a lot. It makes it interesting, especially if you are doing TOO well.
Why must you be so evil? One game that pissed me off was this 2v2. I beat one of my opponents by myself, and what do you know my ally and the remaining opponent attack me. And the thing is, they weren't even that good, almost beat them both after they surprise attacked my base. Quote: Fastest maps...
They do require skill, just a different kind. It's the same in most games. Really, both BGH and LT-type maps and money maps are an art of their own. The official maps definately require more micro managing than money maps, but without at least decent skills in microing you will be screwed in any kind of map, especially if there is no rush time limit. Same goes for macroing, there are some 'skills' that money maps require that official-type maps don't (as much). On that note, what do you all think of rushing time limits? The good old no rules, or nr10? 15? 20? Personally, I was surprised to see, after returning from about a year or so of not playing at all, games called "3v3 nrmm zero clutter". MM, eh? I tried it out, and it seems that it means "map maxed" or something along those lines. |
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| Author: | Cervantes [ Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:20 pm ] |
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No rush games are pretty stupid, in my opinion. But then again, I haven't played for a several years. |
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| Author: | chrispminis [ Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:15 pm ] |
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Blegh, personally I don't play no rush maps simply because rushing is fun, and it adds a lot to the game. I can see why you wouldn't, and its really just there if you want to make sure you're playing out a "full" game. It also allows for some verrrry verry sneaky placements of men. Particularly lurkers and/or sunken/bunkers/cannons/tanks etc. |
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| Author: | Tony [ Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:32 pm ] |
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At the beginning of the game there's an important decision to be made in the build order - should I construct the next expensive building or build some more units first? It's a choice that advances you through the tech tree and build power at the expence of having a risk of being attacked. It's a fair tradeoff. And since you're usually at an advantage of fighting in your own base when being attacked (you have bunkers, cannons, and buildings to hide behind) you should be fine as long as you play smart. What "no rush" means is that you don't build any units but workers for the first 10~15~20 minutes, and just shoot through the tech tree. Expend Expend Expend and grab all the minerals you can without worry of having your workers jumped. So when it's time up, the first enemy unit you'll see is a dozen of upgraded Carriers being warped into your main base. Owned. Rush is fair game, especially on "fastest" since a good player would have hit the 200 unit limit before the time limit. |
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| Author: | TokenHerbz [ Sun Apr 30, 2006 10:58 pm ] |
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I hate fastest.. lol I tried it befor and it was a NR 20, (and i play with NO RULES) so i didn't care. Anyways, i ran 2 fire bats into each base and killed all there miners who where stacked on the mineral in a few secs, i got alot of cussing and quitting... lol Anyways, i much prefer non money maps because you have to secure another base, grow, and each unit is important cause it costs you rescourses. Gandalf: I quit at the end of the game for a few resons: 1) i dont care about my record, i mean, whats it really mean... 2) This is so i dont have to wait for gay Bs'rs to ally to win... 3) i think a loss records cool... 4) I play for fun too once in a while, like me and 2 frends will hold the middle, and wont attack, or we will all just stay in our base and see who dies first.. little compitions to ourselves for the hell of it... like we played who can get the most nukes off fastest.. i teched so hard, i didn't even make anything but 3 ghosts, and 3 drop ships, and i won the bet, i got 3 sicessful nukes off, he got 2, of course we died, but it was ammusing. Anyways, we should get some game id's and servers you play on, and have some games once in a while I have to remake my account, which ill do in a week or so, cause i havn't played for a while so it was deleted, unfortunatly... |
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| Author: | Tony [ Sun Apr 30, 2006 11:30 pm ] |
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the record really doesn't mean anything.. ladder is hacked and otherwise it's just a number. my buddy's warcraft2 record is something like 30-3000-whatever - he quits every game right before the end. This is actually an interesting approach because even if you loose, your record number increases
That being said I just don't understand players who start crying and asking for allied victories once they are in a clear defeat. It's just a number, pff  |
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| Author: | [Gandalf] [ Sun Apr 30, 2006 11:50 pm ] |
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Yeah, I don't care about win/loss ratio, but I don't care if I get a win either.
Anyway, yeah, what server do you all play on? I play mostly US East using StarCraft original. Dang, but I suck compared to long ago. 
Oh, and ladder is not "hacked" (well, that's a really general term, but my point is...) people just create bot accounts to get the wins off of. |
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| Author: | Tony [ Mon May 01, 2006 12:06 am ] |
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I guess most people here play on US East. Then again it's redicilously easy to just sign up on another if needed. |
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| Author: | chrispminis [ Mon May 01, 2006 8:05 pm ] |
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Haha, here's a fun bs story. It was 2v2 money map no clutter. Me and a friend vs. 2 other guys. My friend immediately turtles which pisses me off, but I manage to get him to support me when I take out the first guy with mutas. Then, since we were doing TOO well, I decided I was gonna completely sunken up the centre. I managed that and it was funny watching the remaining guy try a few attacks on my swarm of sunkens. Anyways, I was thinking of making hundreds of queens for fun, but then my terran ally offered to let me infest some of his command centres. So he procedes to construct a few and I quickly infest them. Now the fun... After building a few infested terran I "A attack" commanded them to attack his tank/bunker/goliath/turret choke point and demolished that. Then he got pissed off and I told him I would stop. So he begins to send his vultures in to finish off the remaining guy, and BOOM ALL his vultures die from my infested terran. I procede to send 2 of them to his minerals and kill ALL his SCV's. At this point his command centre is damaged and I get the fun idea to infest EVERY one of his command centres. So he was left with no SCV's and no command centres. I had just began destroying his factories and supply depots when he managed to finish off the enemy. |
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| Author: | [Gandalf] [ Tue May 02, 2006 12:23 am ] |
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chrispminis wrote: Haha, here's a fun bs story. It was 2v2 money map no clutter. Me and a friend vs. 2 other guys. My friend immediately turtles which pisses me off, but I manage to get him to support me when I take out the first guy with mutas. Then, since we were doing TOO well, I decided I was gonna completely sunken up the centre. I managed that and it was funny watching the remaining guy try a few attacks on my swarm of sunkens. Anyways, I was thinking of making hundreds of queens for fun, but then my terran ally offered to let me infest some of his command centres. So he procedes to construct a few and I quickly infest them.
Now the fun... After building a few infested terran I "A attack" commanded them to attack his tank/bunker/goliath/turret choke point and demolished that. Then he got pissed off and I told him I would stop. So he begins to send his vultures in to finish off the remaining guy, and BOOM ALL his vultures die from my infested terran. I procede to send 2 of them to his minerals and kill ALL his SCV's. At this point his command centre is damaged and I get the fun idea to infest EVERY one of his command centres. So he was left with no SCV's and no command centres. I had just began destroying his factories and supply depots when he managed to finish off the enemy. ...you say he was you're friend?  |
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| Author: | chrispminis [ Tue May 02, 2006 7:27 pm ] |
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Yeah, I know him in rl hehe. He was pretty mad but it was all in good fun. EDIT: Hmm, is there anyway to see like a bit log? Because it seems a mod or someone is taking away some of my bits and I don't know why :S |
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| Author: | TokenHerbz [ Tue May 02, 2006 7:28 pm ] |
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was that huge quote needed handalf? Anyways, iv'e has some really fun games, i like a challenge so when someone pro plays me, i bug him for remattch's...
so many replay's iv'e saved... I seen 3 marines kill 2 lurkers... YEAH!, how leet is that, (not on my end tho) i saved it cause i though he was hackin hard... skill tho :S, i tryed it and got pwned, but practice makes pro  |
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| Author: | chrispminis [ Tue May 02, 2006 7:30 pm ] |
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Wow, I can kill 1 lurker with 1 marine, but it's much easier with less marines. Where were the lurkers placed because otherwise crossfire would make that a very difficult feat. |
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| Author: | TokenHerbz [ Tue May 02, 2006 8:48 pm ] |
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one marine would take so much time... it wouldn't be worth it because your other things wold fall behind.. anyways my lurkers where like... X X |
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| Author: | [Gandalf] [ Tue May 02, 2006 8:56 pm ] |
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Yeah, there is a bit log, but it's been down for ages. I'm guessing that's one of those things you're going to have to wait to get in v3. TokenHerbz wrote: was that huge quote needed handalf?
Who's handalf? And that quote is hardly huge, especially comparing it to the nonsensical code some people post directly on the forums. Besides, this is off topic. Besides, you are hardly the person to be moderating my posts. So anyone up for some challenges? |
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| Author: | chrispminis [ Wed May 03, 2006 9:38 pm ] |
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[Gandalf] wrote: Yeah, there is a bit log, but it's been down for ages. I'm guessing that's one of those things you're going to have to wait to get in v3.
TokenHerbz wrote: was that huge quote needed handalf?
Who's handalf? And that quote is hardly huge, especially comparing it to the nonsensical code some people post directly on the forums. Besides, this is off topic. Besides, you are hardly the person to be moderating my posts. So anyone up for some challenges? Gah, I would be up for some challenges if I had an actual cd-key I haven't played a battlenet game in like 3 years, and I've only played half-recently on LAN. Oh and Token, its quotes within quotes like this post that start to get really big. Its like a snowball going down a hill.
TokenHerbz wrote: one marine would take so much time... it wouldn't be worth it because your other things wold fall behind..
Oh I know that, I've never done anything THAT fancy in a game before, I just tried it with a friend to see if I could. |
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| Author: | TheFerret [ Thu May 04, 2006 4:31 pm ] |
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Is it... Anyways, I have played SC before with BW but I wasn't the greastest at it but I had fun doing it, I didn't like playing on fastest maps but thats what I played the most (go figure) and I also need to find a CD-key...
chrispminis wrote: [Gandalf] wrote: Yeah, there is a bit log, but it's been down for ages. I'm guessing that's one of those things you're going to have to wait to get in v3.
TokenHerbz wrote: was that huge quote needed handalf?
Who's handalf? And that quote is hardly huge, especially comparing it to the nonsensical code some people post directly on the forums. Besides, this is off topic. Besides, you are hardly the person to be moderating my posts. So anyone up for some challenges? Gah, I would be up for some challenges if I had an actual cd-key I haven't played a battlenet game in like 3 years, and I've only played half-recently on LAN. Oh and Token, its quotes within quotes like this post that start to get really big. Its like a snowball going down a hill.
TokenHerbz wrote: one marine would take so much time... it wouldn't be worth it because your other things wold fall behind..
Oh I know that, I've never done anything THAT fancy in a game before, I just tried it with a friend to see if I could. |
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| Author: | codemage [ Fri May 05, 2006 9:06 am ] |
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In refernce to my earlier post, this is the sort of fodder that keeps me away from WoW. Problems plague World of Warcraft Players are being left frustrated and angry by ongoing problems with online game World of Warcraft. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4974456.stm |
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| Author: | Tony [ Fri May 05, 2006 10:51 am ] |
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this is awesome above linked article wrote: In one example, some members of the same guild as Mr Lastowka were attending a conference together and arranged to play WoW via computers and a 50-inch plasma screen at a local research lab. |
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| Author: | codemage [ Fri May 05, 2006 12:14 pm ] |
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So that's why research labs have those big screens. The rig would have to have some serious graphics processing power to make that not look like crap, eh? |
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| Author: | Tony [ Fri May 05, 2006 2:07 pm ] |
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yeah... GPU would certanly be lacking (unless it's a "graphics" lab.. I donno, they could be "researching" design or something) From what I figure, the hardware used will depend on what kind of research one is likely to do in a specific lab. That's why we end up with 400 Mhz machines with 1GiB+ RAM |
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| Author: | md [ Fri May 05, 2006 9:40 pm ] |
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50 inch displays usually don't have that high a resolution actually. Big screen plasmas are big... but they don't have nearly the pixel density of your average LCD display. |
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| Author: | chrispminis [ Sun May 07, 2006 3:52 pm ] |
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Not to mention, they would "compensate" with the screen door effect. EDIT : actually, regarding my lost bits... when you delete your OWN post do you lose your 5 bits? Because that could've been it. |
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| Author: | MysticVegeta [ Mon May 08, 2006 6:04 pm ] |
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yeah, you lose 5 bits for every post that you delete (your owns that is) |
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| Author: | codemage [ Tue May 09, 2006 8:05 am ] |
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chrispminis wrote: Not to mention, they would "compensate" with the screen door effect.
If you have a 50" plasma screen TV, you're clearly compensating for something. |
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| Author: | md [ Tue May 09, 2006 8:22 am ] |
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Unless of course you have lots of money; in which case clearly you should be giving the money to me |
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| Author: | War_Caymore [ Wed May 24, 2006 12:43 pm ] |
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I tried WoW and it was great! I'm a Gnome Mage and i die alot (dam those level 6 bores ) Right now i'm jsut getting past the second town and i'm doing ok. Send me mail my user name is Caymore. |
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| Author: | Mazer [ Wed May 24, 2006 1:08 pm ] |
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"second town"? Do you realise how many towns there are? I'm guessing you're talking about Kharanos, in which case, OK. I recently made a Night Elf, but as soon as I learned enough of my hunter skills I hopped on a boat to the Eastern Kingdom. Elfland sucks. |
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| Author: | Dan [ Wed May 24, 2006 9:59 pm ] |
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What server do you guys play on? I got a shaow preist who whonts to mealt some faces. (or at least throw some peoleop off boats, that never gets old). |
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| Author: | Mazer [ Thu May 25, 2006 9:16 am ] |
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Hacker Dan wrote: What server do you guys play on? I got a shaow preist who whonts to mealt some faces. (or at least throw some peoleop off boats, that never gets old).
hahaha this 1 time, liek, i wanted 2 get frfm ratchet 2 booty bay, n ther was a fuckin lamer orc rogue (lvl ??) kept trying to kill me. the first time, i just jumped off the boat before it left and he jumped too but landed in the water lol he died so i got an hk for it. the second time i soulstoned myself before getting on the boat then i let him kill me (it woul'dve hapen neways) and ressurected just when we got to the other harbor. the fag tried kiling me again an teh goblins totally pwnerd him. i got another hk for that ^^ after that i just started throwing down the /chickens and the /lols lmao! I'm on Aegwyn. Horde sucks. |
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| Author: | Cervantes [ Thu May 25, 2006 4:02 pm ] |
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You're way too good at that. |
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| Author: | Mazer [ Thu May 25, 2006 4:56 pm ] |
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Actually, I think I could've done it better (?), but I had other things to do. A big issue that a real WoW lamer would've killed me for is the spelling of "rogue". Really, it's pretty ridiculous how many players spell it "rouge" and only about 5% of them actually get it. |
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| Author: | axej [ Thu May 25, 2006 8:48 pm ] |
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i used to switch then quit and switched to guild wars and ive been playing that ever since... starcraft was really good, its funny how the servers are still packed with people, should go back and play my beloved terran some time soon |
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| Author: | [Gandalf] [ Thu May 25, 2006 10:16 pm ] |
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Quote: starcraft was really good, its funny how the servers are still packed with people, should go back and play my beloved terran some time soon
Yes you should. Do I have to start bragging to get people to challenge me? |
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| Author: | codemage [ Fri May 26, 2006 7:47 am ] |
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Mazer wrote:
A big issue that a real WoW lamer would've killed me for is the spelling of "rogue". Really, it's pretty ridiculous how many players spell it "rouge" and only about 5% of them actually get it. I'm glad I'm not the only one that's noticed that. Lots of games have that same issue. I've run into quite a few clans/guilds that spell it wrong too. Quote: So... your guild is the "rouge warriors", huh? So... you're a bunch of berzerkers who like to wear women's cosmetics? Er... nifty. I'll let you get back to your slumber parties and snapping each other with wet towels then. |
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| Author: | ZeroPaladn [ Mon May 29, 2006 9:27 am ] |
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It's ok [Gandalf], you dont have to brag, but I'll play you just the same. *SIGH* It has been so long since I've played Starcraft. Imean, since I've been playing nothing but Diablo II, WoW, Warcraft, SilkRoad, argh... too many games I own..., RuneScape, Dune 2000, C&C. I'll just shut up now. If you still want to play Sc with me, just ask. |
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