Genre?

[Vincent Van Ghoul]

Oct 17, 2015 15:33:52 GMT -6 Matt said:

Oct 16, 2015 14:45:27 GMT -6 Vincent Van Ghoul said:

Could you elaborate on the "many computer games had just died out now" part? Do you mean the ones you used to play, or computer games in general?

It Just seems that less people play online computer games now. Plus the ones I used to play died out.

Actually, I think there's more people than ever who play online. More and more people now have internet access than had it 10 or 15 years ago, and there's a much bigger market. World of Warcraft's sitting at over 5 Million players, still. League of Legends has tens of millions of players each month too, and It's like this across the board.
Even new genre games like Hearthstone has over ten million players.

[Matt]

Actually I see hearthstone ads all the time on this forum, what's it about?

[Vincent Van Ghoul]

It's a card game based on the Warcraft mythology. I've yet to play it, but I've watched a lot of gameplay from it, and It looks incredibly fun to play.

The basic concept is that you can play as a number of classes, e.g. Warrior, Mage, Paladin. And your class largely determines what cards/spells you play, and generally sets the tone for your playstyle. The reason I haven't dived into yet, is that they lack the Death Knight class, my preferred one from WoW, thematically and gameplay wise.

Here's a very good first look at it from Totalbiscuit:

[Matt]

Oct 17, 2015 17:14:46 GMT -6 Vincent Van Ghoul said:

It's a card game based on the Warcraft mythology. I've yet to play it, but I've watched a lot of gameplay from it, and It looks incredibly fun to play.

The basic concept is that you can play as a number of classes, e.g. Warrior, Mage, Paladin. And your class largely determines what cards/spells you play, and generally sets the tone for your playstyle. The reason I haven't dived into yet, is that they lack the Death Knight class, my preferred one from WoW, thematically and gameplay wise.

Here's a very good first look at it from Totalbiscuit:

See im not that big on games like world of warcraft and stuff.

[Vincent Van Ghoul]

Oct 17, 2015 20:25:33 GMT -6 Matt said:

Oct 17, 2015 17:14:46 GMT -6 Vincent Van Ghoul said:

It's a card game based on the Warcraft mythology. I've yet to play it, but I've watched a lot of gameplay from it, and It looks incredibly fun to play.

The basic concept is that you can play as a number of classes, e.g. Warrior, Mage, Paladin. And your class largely determines what cards/spells you play, and generally sets the tone for your playstyle. The reason I haven't dived into yet, is that they lack the Death Knight class, my preferred one from WoW, thematically and gameplay wise.

Here's a very good first look at it from Totalbiscuit:

See im not that big on games like world of warcraft and stuff.

The only similarity between Hearthstone and WoW, is the general theme. They're entirely different kinds of games.

[Matt]

Oct 18, 2015 12:26:29 GMT -6 Vincent Van Ghoul said:

Oct 17, 2015 20:25:33 GMT -6 Matt said:

See im not that big on games like world of warcraft and stuff.

The only similarity between Hearthstone and WoW, is the general theme. They're entirely different kinds of games.

What exactly is world of warcraft about anyway?

[Vincent Van Ghoul]

It's a high fantasy series, generally it revolves around the many species of the fictional world of Azeroth, divided into 2 factions. It's hard to summarize almost 20 years of lore and games into a short post.

[Matt]

Oct 18, 2015 12:31:50 GMT -6 Vincent Van Ghoul said:

It's a high fantasy series, generally it revolves around the many species of the fictional world of Azeroth, divided into 2 factions. It's hard to summarize almost 20 years of lore and games into a short post.

has that game really been around for 20 years?

[Vincent Van Ghoul]

The series has. The first game was released in '94, and It's 2 sequels like the first, were RTS games. WoW was launched in '04 and Is still going today. Then of course they also released Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm.

[Matt]

Oct 18, 2015 12:42:06 GMT -6 Vincent Van Ghoul said:

The series has. The first game was released in '94, and It's 2 sequels like the first, were RTS games. WoW was launched in '04 and Is still going today. Then of course they also released Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm.

Wow thats an old series.