On November 09 2013 11:13 Alaric wrote: Edit: after watching the trailer, I don't remember Nova being portrayed like that. Wasn't she supposed to be a very serious and professionnal character?
Whatever character concept they had went out the window when the first widely marketed art was dat ass.
Seeing as it's a MOBA they're probably taking after the League model of having all the female heroes have that T&A. Easier to sell skins that inspire thirst that way.
Well yes, given a largely heterosexual male audience, it's expected.
On November 09 2013 11:13 Alaric wrote: Edit: after watching the trailer, I don't remember Nova being portrayed like that. Wasn't she supposed to be a very serious and professionnal character?
That really depends on which Nova she is. Upon finishing training, if my memory from the Nova book still holds, their memories are wiped outside of the essential parts of their training. Who Nova was before she was a ghost, how she changed during her training(her life was pretty rough before that), and who she became after that was over are vastly different people. Blizzard has always left bits of her mischievousness in i.e. the non-canon help nova subplot ending and her sticking around on the cargobay cloaked with the ghost rifle. Maybe there's newer Nova stuff I'm not aware of, I dunno.
Due to the nature of the game I'd expect all the characters, especially given Nova's current iteration, to be shifted slightly. Right now she's just a killing machine pointed in a direction.
I found it....interesting? on their decision to not have a "good" warcraft character in the video.
On November 09 2013 11:13 Alaric wrote: Edit: after watching the trailer, I don't remember Nova being portrayed like that. Wasn't she supposed to be a very serious and professionnal character?
Whatever character concept they had went out the window when the first widely marketed art was dat ass.
Well yeah I was basing my assumption off of her portrayal in SC2 (I didn't read the books but wiki'd her past before training, and knew about the memory wipe so I guess up till now SC2 is the "most canon" source regarding "current" Nova) where she seemed quite the "cold efficiency" type to me.
On November 09 2013 07:50 red_ wrote: Please, all you young kids don't know the glory of Gharbad the Weak or Blackhand, Blizz better throw some nostalgia bombs in with Diablo 1 and Warcraft 1/2 heroes/villains.
ghaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarbad
blackhand, wat a monster id serve him again anytime edit maybe im thinkin doomhammer also ANDUIN LOTHAR
D2 was my first Blizzard game, so I don't know about all those old ones, but Rakanishu could be really cool... BTW, anyone know if they'll introduce more alternatives to the hearthstone heroes? Like, instead of Garrosh you can play Cairne or Valarian as a warrior, and so on...
On November 09 2013 07:50 red_ wrote: Please, all you young kids don't know the glory of Gharbad the Weak or Blackhand, Blizz better throw some nostalgia bombs in with Diablo 1 and Warcraft 1/2 heroes/villains.
ghaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarbad
blackhand, wat a monster id serve him again anytime edit maybe im thinkin doomhammer also ANDUIN LOTHAR
Both were Warchief of the Horde at different times(and for different games) so you could be thinking of either.
Blackhand was more of a bloodthirsty kill everything monster though, so probably him.
you can still play diablo 1 wtf if only there were some decent challenges that i could think up because playing singleplayer is eventually going to lose appeal without some kind of challenger to do with someone else
On November 09 2013 07:50 red_ wrote: Please, all you young kids don't know the glory of Gharbad the Weak or Blackhand, Blizz better throw some nostalgia bombs in with Diablo 1 and Warcraft 1/2 heroes/villains.
ghaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarbad
blackhand, wat a monster id serve him again anytime edit maybe im thinkin doomhammer also ANDUIN LOTHAR
WC1\2\3 cinematics still rock. Medivh's prophecy, Arthas killing his father, Mannoroth, Archimonde, etc.
Same with the D2 cinematics. So creepy and disturbing. Marius traveling with the Dark Wanderer.
Heroes of the Storm gameplay. Looks like wc3 old school dota... with upgraded skins and new heroes. LoL easily going to stay the superior moba. Cutesie things + support the casuals = win.
On November 10 2013 02:09 Badboyrune wrote: No clue if the gameplay is actually any good but Kerrigan running around in a warcraft setting looks ridiculous.
Agreed.
It weirds me out that everyone gets the same levels all the time. Fixed experience intake + No gold / items = How the fuck a better player get any advantage?
I've heard stiches is if pudge started at level 16. It's pretty funny. The game plays like end game league at all times. 2-3 team fights winning a game while baron/objectives completely winning games by themselves.