Wow characters needs a faceliftFollow

I was actually surprised that Cataclysm featured a low level facelift. Sure, level 1-60 take up a good chunk of the game, but to invest that much time to updating it tells me that they're going to keep World of Warcraft running in case Titan falls through.

I'm anxious to see what Titan will be. They say it'll be different from World of Warcraft so as to not steal subscribers, but I can't imagine what that would be. Blizzard has only ever produced role-playing and real-time strategy games. Maybe Titan will be an isometric game. Like an MMO Diablo or something.

Anyway, I'm just waiting for Star Wars: The Old Republic to be released so I can figure out if I love or hate it. Here's hoping it's a free roam game like the old Galaxies was. If it's more like Guild Wars, I'll stab someone.

Wait a minute, StarCraft: Ghost is relaunched as an MMO?

That would be awesome, though odd.

Blizzard is very good at keeping things secret. All we've heard for certain at this point is that it is a new universe mmo independent from the Diablo and *craft universes.

Rumor has it that it is going to be scifi. Further rumors are that it'll be FPS. But about the only thing we know for sure is that it's an MMO that's not Starcraft/Warcraft/Diablo, and that it's been in development for a very long time at this point.

Though Mengsk as a boss would be kind of cool, I guess.

Edit: From the wiki:



Edited, Jul 29th 2011 6:33pm by IDrownFish

Titan was the code name of the Halo MMO that got canceled (oh yeah, there were plans for this), not the first Halo game. But that was most likely just coincidence.

Incidentally, the Halo MMO was being made by Ensemble Studios, the guys behind Age of Mythology and Age of Empires, not the Halo series. They made Halo Wars, but that's it. Bungie wasn't ever really involved.

What's interesting is that Ensemble's Project Titan, the Halo MMO, was meant to be a "WoW killer" (source).

The MMO had been in production for three years before it was canceled, and allegedly had a budget of $90 million. It was going to be big. But then the Wii was a smash hit, Microsoft decided it wanted a slice of the casual pie, and Ensemble's Titan was canceled.

Honestly, the name similarity was just a coincidence. What's interesting is that when Ensemble Studios shut down in '09, Blizzard did pick up quite a few of those employees themselves. So it's entirely possible that Blizzard's Titan will have some of the same people working on it.

Weird how things work out, huh?

Edited, Jul 30th 2011 9:23pm by IDrownFish

Am I the only one who has the cape disabled on every character? I find them ugly as sin and to completely class with the rest of the outfit.

Maybe if they pit PhysX on them.

Also, this post took forever to type on my iPhone. I'm drunk and had to go back and edit pretty much every word.

I like some of the cloaks. I hated the 359 spirit cloaks. They looked like an easter egg barfed on them or something. The other 359 caster cloaks, the periwinkle/ER 346 cloaks, and the new Firelands rep cloaks I love. Then again, I really like purple so my opinion may be biased. They'll totally clash with the orange of most of the casters' gear, but oh well.

Very good point! Although honestly it kind of makes me sad that shadow form is so... encompassing? It's not quite as bad as the different druid forms of course, but I actually like showing off my gear. When it matches. Right now I think I look ridiculous with my toilet bowl shoulders and teal gloves and orange robe/belt.

I hide it only on my rogue.


See! I told you people only look at the asses anyways.

I disable hats on every female character, and cloaks on every female character or character with a 2-hander strapped to its back.

Only in the same way you "hide" your armor when you start dancing on that mailbox Maz.

It puts its lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again...