Evening all,

Just a quickie really.

My christmas game from my wife this year was going to be the new World Of Warcraft but doing abit of reading on their website I realised just how big this world is. I mean I did realise it was big but the amount of games etc available i wouldnt even know where to start.

Would someone be kind enough to give me a good starting point? Being a complete "noob" on these types of games but being a very willing learner I am unsure as to which game to start on etc. For example, can I just start with the new World Of Warcraft game (WTLK) or is this an add on to the original game? Should I be starting with the original WoW?

It is so big I just dont know where to start. I have read a few forums but none really aimed at complete first time WoW players.

Any help is most appreciated as always

I know this tread aint new, but if your still watching mate here is some help.
I myself have been playing the game since release, getting a bit tired of it though.. Reckon i just need a break

Anyway, u need all the games: That meens Ordinary WOW, WOW-Burning Crusade and WOW-Wrath of the lich king.. Just buy the first one, and then if u want u can puchase the 2 others online at Blizz or just buy them all together. Its gonna take the best of half a day to install everything, but when your all done you also have a very long lasting game

Btw, if your using Vista, then run as admin when u put in the different discs/dvds... Enjoy!

I don't understand why anyone would want to play WOW its a pile of shit, it really sucks balls.

Hmm.. Guess it depends on the eyes looking at it, 10 million people disagrees

Well those ten million people would clearly be wrong.

wow->tbc->wotlk


good luck

ignore what others say, if its the type of game you like then you will enjoy. i'm kinda bored of the re-skinned FPS that are always coming out

on the WoW-eu forums there is section for new starters

Don't play WoW. you'll never be the same again!

Amen to that...

have to say, sessioned it for months, spending multiple week nights in "raiding" and mate it fucked me up. Its wierd though, havent played it for months, i would do if i had a sick character, the idea of leveling up again.. well id rather beat myself. But its addictive as fuck, even now after 6 months or so without playing, it still enters my mind every now and then. Do yourself a favour, dont start.

Strikes me as the zenith of MMORPG's - no skill whatsoever required, just hours spent online to get a better character. So the gods of characters are just spods who spend their whole life in the game, doing all the shitty little things every day to earn that little bit more experience and get that little bit more money for those little bit better weapons. So if you start now you're never gonna be as good as some tool who's been in the game since day 1. So why bother ?

not quite like that boojum, but that element is certainly there!

Theres alot of skill required in some parts, also none in others.

To get THE best gear and "epics" there is a decent amount of dedication, skill and effort involved. Top of the range PVE (player vs environment) is extremely difficult and only several guilds (clans) in the world have completed em. They arent all spods as you call em, i was one of them, had a girlfriend, blazed bare weed, school. Just a very busy boy.

i would go for lord of the rings online, imo its much better, plus all items are player created so everyone is equal. meaning that you carnt get a unfair advantage by paying more, the only extra charge is to move a char from server to server

Only someone who hadn't played the game at the endgame level would say that there is definitely skill involved.

good man nausicca, a bit of backup! You still playing now? If so, whats the details? I wanna pick it back up :O

Fair enough.

And how much did you pay to get to endgame level ?

Worms Armageddon - proper game!

They probably took me for £300, £8 a month over 3 years give or take, the basic subscription + a few extras like server transfers (3) at £15 I seem to remember and name changes (2) at £8.

I don't play any more Openthebox, I have a somewhat addictive personality and after ruining my chances at uni due to WoW and then basically loafing about for a year doing nowt but play, I decided I needed to get away from it. I haven't looked back really, it really is just a massive time sink and it totally destroys your social life in exchange for a flimsy online community full of drama queens and people who are 'socially broken'.
But when I did play I was in one of those guilds who usually gets within the top 10 world first kills etc on new content, and I can safely say it takes a lot of skill, i mean you have to organise 40 or 25 people to move as one for up to 15-20 minutes with no room whatsoever for anyone to mess up, with nothing but voice comms and on screen representations. The 5 man content is nothing like the endgame content but sadly most people don't get to see it, because it takes such a monumental time investment, at the worst of it i was probably doing 12 hours a day and sleeping around noon.

Worse than heroin honestly.

wow, sounds nigh enough bang on to me too mate. In exactly the same boat, can i ask what guild/character you played?

about the addictive personality... whatever you do..


DONT START THE CRACK.

I played a Horde Shaman the whole time, did WoW up to end of Naxx, then cleared all of TBC up to KJ, pretty much every boss in the game untill I quit after Sunwell.

I won't give out my old guild if you don't mind, it's conceivable there's still pictures of me floating about and I had the same forum/character name.

thats what i wasnt sure about, the name nausicca rings a bell haha! Good man, also.. good riddance to the game.

i would rather become a skag addict than become addicted to this

You just have to wait until you have shelled out a few of hundred quid and wasted a couple of years farming monsters to notice that there is skill involved then.

Sounds like there is more of a skill realising the game is a con and playing something like Neverwinter Nights 2 on a RP server for free.

Just make things fun and get on Guild Wars for the PvP....tactics and game play rule the roost in Team Arenas, a solid test of 1's skills
the PvE is good also, if you like that sort of thing

Level 72 FrostMage :-)

People hating on WOW I dont get it...Just because its not your thing doesnt mean that everyone shares your opinion.

You know some people hate Mary Jane!! ;-)

GRAND THEFT AUTO GAMES keep me amused for hours a time=) gwd times

I am not a fan of WoW myself but I can see the appeal, i can also see the addictive side to it. Although i am addicted to CoD4 can't stop playing.
Anyway don't worry about people slagging it off, they just think its geeky fantasy shit and don't actually have a clue, i have heard alot of my mates say its a good game, but don't get addicted.

Wackness

£10 a month to play a game.. i dont think ill be signing up

A family friend who's about 12 is hassling me to get into this, he's even given me the original discs so that I get involved but I just can't be arsed to be honest. I keep giving him the excuse that my ageing laptop doesn't have enough memory left to complete the install.

Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of it but as has already been mentioned, I can't be bothered with the whole levelling up business and I wouldn't take it as seriously as I reckon I should. I'd get stoned and do something like this, you go Leroy!:

respect to LEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROY!

This isn't quite true but is the reason why I don't like the game any more. It's quite enjoyable building up a character but it's makes a mockery of it when they release an expansion and the first bit of quest loot you get is better than the gear you spent the last 18 months building up to!

Guild Wars tops out at level 20 - then its all down to player skill

Dont do it. Game saps your will to live for anything other than wow.

I guess that answers that. I'd seen an advert for a free trial and was tempted but, given my response to the pirate game, I think if I started playing WoW you'd never see me again.

It's actually quite cheap once you get addicted and play 14 hours a day - thats 400 hrs+ per month for a tenner!

Seriously though if you have the slightest addictive personality,

WoW will consume you

No, Rule the Seas, cost me a bloody fortune.

I know I would love WOW and for that reason I wont play it. I love RPGs and fantasy worlds. I also have an addictive personality and am known to spend hours playing computer games (or on uk420). If I entered the world of warcraft it would consume me. I had a mate who was addicted to wow, we would be sitting in a field blazzing a spliff and hed go home to play wow because his guild was doing a quest. I thought im never gonna get like that. I want to play it but I dare not.

wake

Resuming,

its a fun game,
just dont abuse it,
like with everything,

have fun

riz

xx

WoW is a children's game, the level of complexity is aimed at teenagers and to be honest there's not a great deal to stretch your mind past that point. Personally I think you will find it to be too simple for you as an adult to gain much satisfaction after you're through the initial learning process.

I have played Anarchy Online for many years, initally as a free player to lean the basic game ... then after four years I bought a paid account with expansions. Before you spend money download the free version of AO and take it for a spin, I doubt you'll ever buy a WoW account after playing AO.