30 Day Trial: World of Warcraft - Part 01

If y'all got the itch, <Bomb Squad> on Zul'jin US is still around! Since we're pre-expansion I'm the only guy playing right now and I need friends!

@beachthunder:

Never seen an Endurance Run?

That's because Shaman is exactly the class everyone wants.

I don't know how you guys manage it (Star Trek Online, The Matrix Online) , but you somehow make MMOs interesting every time.

Also, Jeff was spot on about Mario Sunshine :)

ARGH PICK SHAMAN!

Such a great feature, I will defintely stick through all of these videos.

I always have been interested in WoW and MMO's in general, but the combat always feels like shit. Whenever I tried WoW I stuck with it for a few days and just ended up playing diablo since diablo actually had fun combat.

I've never played an MMO and likley never will. I played a couple of hours of Diablo 1 (it was boring).

Please let me know how someone is SUPPOSED to know the information that everyone else is calling obvious? I read through all the comments on this video and didn't see a single reference to a central community, guide, book, anything! The "right thing to equip" thing being super obvious really bothered me. I played crgps (going back to Ultima 2 and stopping at Baldur's Gate and 2/neverwinter's night), and a bunch of JRPGs, I've never heard of that convention and I don't see why that should be obvious.

At least Dark/Demon souls make it clear that things will be obscure and require either trial and error or turning to a larger community to be playable. Am missing a fundamental information not included in the stream? Does the installer recommend a primer that new players can read? Or is this simply the case that this game is intended for people who played Everquest and AC before this?

OH GOD JUST LET HIM PLAY

I view this videos as a vehicle for Dan to run up to something and say "YA!" while attacking it.

Worth the premium subscription.

Yeah, I think they picked the worst possible race/class combination. Goblins and Worgens (I presume Panda too) have really interesting starting zones and quests. Blizzard really raised the bar for MMOs in the expansions, this human stuff looks like it was barely updated.

I wish you never had to leave that Goblin island, I'd play a whole game of just that.

I don't think Dan plays RPGs. A lot of single player RPGs have a very similar interface to WoW so being completely unfamiliar just makes me think he's not an RPG kind of person in general.

@hawkinson76 said:

You're referring to a bunch of games that are way more complex. The obvious things to wear in something like World of Warcraft kind of come down to a few things. You started with a 2 handed sword? Equip better 2 handed swords. You get armor, hover over it holding shift and if the numbers are better then the numbers of the thing you currently have equipped you equip the thing you found. It literally comes down to "Is Number A larger then Number B."

At some point Dan will level up and get a skill that says "Needs 2 Handed Sword to use" and then he's back on the right path as long as he reads the information provided to him. No need for everyone to panic about a half hour using a Staff.

FUCK YOU DAN for shitting on the Halo books. The early ones were pretty good.

Also, I love you. Don't ever change. You're a great addition to the site.

I'm guessing the name of the one-word MMO Dan was trying to remember was called Love. I played it briefly back when it was a paid thing; if I recall correctly, all player avatars were unique-looking but had incredibly vague features and the player had no control over how they looked or what they were named, but it was amazing seeing people work together cooperatively on battles and base-building.

Oh my god!

I like this feature a lot, but oh my god!

Huh. This game kinda looks like ass. Visually I mean. I've never played it.

Maybe because it came out a decade ago.

yeah but they have done like, 2 graphical overhauls haven't they? I heard people talking about that, at least. Sure doesn't look like they did anything.

Am I the only one that spent the first 10 minutes shouting SHAMAN!!! at the screen when Dan was asking for magic / melee lol. This stupid video series may cause me to relapse back to WoW...especially since Blizzard offered a free copy of MoP. DAMN YOU GIANT BOMB! lol

Wow, Dan wasn't kidding when he said he never played an MMO before. This is like watching someone pick up a controller for the first time. Really entertaining though.

Too bad they picked WoW. That game seems incredibly boring to me. I tried playing it 5 or 6 times since it launched, but I don't think I ever made it past level 15-20 or something like that. And I even remember that goddamn church and those woods.

Edit: And the 4 letter word MMO that Dan was talking about is probably Rift. People REALLY liked it for like 3 weeks.

Probably waaay too late to comment, but has anyone else noticed the lack of game audio as a problem in recent videos? Still fun to watch, just wondering what you guys think.

Dan sneaks around the name filter then doubles down on calling Halo book readers huge nerds just to troll them. Classic Dan!

Dan and Jeff combo is the best.

36 minutes in, talking about how unreasonable it would be to expect fully voiced quest dialogue. DCOU does this, and it's one of the reasons I loved that game. Get a mission, take off in the direction of the map arrow and Superman fills you in on the way.

Someone here has missed the part that Dan has never played an MMO.

Cerebralass battles the mighty kurtok the slayer, a mighty battle to behold cerebralass barely holding onto life but surviving the battle at hand... Real shame Dan was just talking about lingerie and didn't notice

The only MMO I've ever played is Star Trek Online for the simple reason I love Star Trek. Unfortunately STO is a pretty terrible game overall, but it's interesting to see how much it stole from WoW.

Fun watching Dan play this, plus now I know this isn't a game for me.

huh i've never seen this before

world of warcraft's intro towns are so insanely boring lol

how the hell did i never see this

god i love that mop main menu theme... best xpack. damn half an hour into the video and the urge to resub is rising fast... watching him go trough the mechanics as a first timer really brings back nostalgic feelings as someone who has been playing on and off since 07. I'm totally with Jeff , questing in a busy area is a nightmare in any MMO, and now that WOW has the crossrealm zone feature it's gotten so much worse, since the wow leveling experience has been pretty much degraded to a single player path there should just be an option to "zone out" and get an instanced version of the area to quest in peace

All this time later and I finally picked it up. Funny enough playing overwatch so much led me to it. That battlenet launcher kept me eyeing it down. My curiosity finally broke me and I started the trial. I'm surprisingly having an okay time with it so far. I think I'll stick with it till I get to lv. 20 then see from there.

Shaman sounds like what Dan wanted. Melee with lots of magic.

HOW... HOOOOOWWW did I never know this existed?

Drink a shot every time Jeff says "You Know" in this video.

Actually, don't. You'll die before the 30 minute mark.