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I can't be the only one to to notice this expansion is TOA. [Locked] |
Riftstar Posts: 5
Registered: 2006-4-15 14:52:13
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I can't be the only one to to notice this expansion is TOA. |
It DID remind me of ToA, but done much better IMO. I actually enjoy this expansion, which was not something I could say about Trials of Atlantis.
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IvanDF  Title: Veni, vidi, vici
Posts: 190
Registered: 2004-11-28 11:24:08
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Not to defend the OP, cause I don't have a clue who he is, but I think you're putting words in his mouth by saying he thinks that cata will do to wow what toa did to daoc.
At least that's now how I read his message. Maybe that's what he meant, if so then he's a troll, but... what ever.
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Darcry Posts: 30
Registered: 2007-2-2 08:27:33
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1/1/00 12:01am
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I can't be the only one to to notice this expansion is TOA. |
Boone-Eldar posted:
MinionX-DW posted:
Seriously, think back to TOA... remember how those zones were laid out..
Notice anything familiar.
The only resemblance is an underwater zone. Other than that not even close.
This. I swam around in the underwater area and within 5 mins I was asking in /g if anyone else thought it felt like toa. The resounding anwser was yes. No other zones feel like anything close to toa though. Although, do I care that the water area feels like toa? No. The only thing that really bothered me about the underwater area were the insta spawns. I had many that popped up as soon as I got that last hit on the one I was fighting (mainly the scavanging goblins.) In my opinion, its about time something actually halfway worth while is under wow's waves.
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kedz20xx Title: Entertained
Posts: 80
Registered: 2008-5-7 09:09:17
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1/1/00 12:01am
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regulator_cracka posted:
The_Korrigan posted:
MinionX-DW posted:
you tried completing Battle at the Abyssal Breach yet?
On two chars so far. No problem.
Same here. Troll more.
This, and hell has frozen over because I agree with Regulator.
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kedz20xx Title: Entertained
Posts: 80
Registered: 2008-5-7 09:09:17
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I can't be the only one to to notice this expansion is TOA. |
Broken_Kayfabe posted:
The TOA comparisons are interesting, but I think WoW has actually followed the EQ experience a lot closer than the DAoC one when it comes to expansions and developer attitudes/mistakes. TBC was like a hybrid mix of Kunark and Luclin. The atmosphere certainly resembled a much better done version of Luclin (the EQ dev staff split in two during Luclin's development, with many going to EQ2, and the half-arsed mechanisms started but never finished (aka Katta vs Seru) were omnipresent) while the gameplay changes were reminiscent of Kunark, with new races and starting areas and a more cohesive set of zones. WotLK was Planes of Power. Scarily so. Total emphasis on an endgame mechanic and tier system with virtually no thought given to the older world. And now we have Cataclysm, and the similarites continue - this time, Lost Dungeons of Norrath and Gates of Discord. On the LDoN side, we have the culmination of a change in design philosophy to something alien to most of the people who were there at the start; it is effectively a different game, appealing to an entirely different kind of player. In particular, the casual is artificially boosted upwards without increasing the difficulty in doing so (technically started before Cataclysm was released but was based on its principles; WoW patches content in that EQ left for expansions). On the GoD side, the dramatic uptick in NPC power, the graphical upgrade, and core systems changing, all under the umbrella of rapidly increasing levels of mudflation. The similarities from a development point of view is uncanny. The details are different, but in general the same breakthroughs, the same direction choices, and the same mistakes SOE made are being repeated by Blizzard. Interestingly enough, GoD is when EQ crashed and burned.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I got the ToA feel when I stepped into certain zones and it basically stopped there.
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Arcilite_I  Title: VN's Most Wanted
Posts: 1,260
Registered: 2002-1-27 08:46:24
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I can't be the only one to to notice this expansion is TOA. |
I don't know what I love more....your icon or your sig 
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kedz20xx Title: Entertained
Posts: 80
Registered: 2008-5-7 09:09:17
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Arcilite_I posted:
I don't know what I love more....your icon or your sig
Both are equally sexy. However - even if you're a woman - Turk and JD are far more gay.
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siujoey  Posts: 280
Registered: 2001-12-26 09:10:44
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kedz20xx posted:
Arcilite_I posted:
I don't know what I love more....your icon or your sig
Both are equally sexy. However - even if you're a woman - Turk and JD are far more gay.
/thread.
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Rhapsedy Posts: 13
Registered: 2004-7-26 09:11:48
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1/1/00 12:01am
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I can't be the only one to to notice this expansion is TOA. |
I haven't really seen the how cata equals to ToA yet but I can remember the one that I hated more than anything from ToA was the water area's. I hated them in ToA. I hope they are not like that in Cata.
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kyrv Title: Lord Logicus
Posts: 263
Registered: 2002-1-31 13:09:58
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1/1/00 12:01am
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I can't be the only one to to notice this expansion is TOA. |
IvanDF posted:
Not to defend the OP, cause I don't have a clue who he is, but I think you're putting words in his mouth by saying he thinks that cata will do to wow what toa did to daoc.
At least that's now how I read his message. Maybe that's what he meant, if so then he's a troll, but... what ever.
Well I'm going by the...thread title.
The OP is very smart and a long time gamer and poster, I think they know the difference between something having a few similarities and something being the same thing.
A Lexus shares many many things in common with a Cadillac, but a Lexus is not a Cadillac.
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