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Two-Headed Ogres Added To World Of Warcraft
An anonymous reader writes "It's official: Blizzard Entertainment is proud to announce that two-headed ogres, each head controlled by a different player, are now a playable race in World of Warcraft, their upcoming PC massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Giving two separate players simultaneous control of a single body, this new race introduces a unique cooperative gaming experience never before attempted. Current beta testers should expect to see these innovative new game mechanics added in the coming weeks."
I'm holding out for the 3-headed Knight option.
How about King Ghidrah, with different player for each head ?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
I still can't believe that they lost all of their source code for Starcraft and had to start from scratch!
It's less annoying than April Fools.
// "Can't clowns and pirates just -try- to get along?"
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Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?
"Halt! Who art thou?" ..." ..."
"He is brave Sir Robin, brave Sir Robin, who
"Shut up. Oh, nobody really. just passing through."
"What do you want?"
"To fight and
"Shut up. Nothing really. just to pass through, good Sir knight."
"I'm afraid not. This is my bit of the forest. Find your own bit."
"I am a Knight of King Arthur's Round Table. I seek the Holy Grail - Stand aside and let me pass."
"You are a Knight of the Round Table?
"I am."
"Shit."
"In that case I shall have to kill you."
"Shall I?"
"Oh, I don't think so."
"I'm not sure."
"What do I think?"
"I think kill him."
Do i get to pk my better half ?
no i'm talking about wow, im serious !
today's press release concerning the 0.999~ = 1 debate was also a bit humorous. (although that only really applies to those who frequent the war room)
It would be awesome if you could request another character to be with and/or have AI control if the other player isn't available.
Arguably, this might be just what MMORPGs need... something that enforces sociability and cooperation with a person who they don't get to choose. It's possible that two people creating an ogre character end up with personalities that mesh well, but in any other case the users would be forced to come up with a system of compromises and rules for how things will be done.
One particular book, Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman proposes the idea that humans which are forced into interacting with each other continuously will ultimately gain an empathy with humanity as a whole that will result in peacefulness and civility.
Yes, the book I mentioned is Sci-Fi, though the idea isn't too far off from reality. At a recent meeting of PUMUG, we had a demo of a recently released group-programming tool that was essentially just a text editor for more than 1 person. Most of the folks at the meeting had the program up and running, so we shared a common text file for editing. The chaos of ~10 people was incredible, though a sense of order was eventually established with the understand that each person got a particular line or set of lines to write on (with no outside interference) and that people would refrain from huge text pastes or deletes. There were the occasional annoyances, but most people that stuck it through were civil about it and managed quite an interesting conversation that entirely distracted from the meeting.
So yes, it is April 1st, but this is one story that I would hope might be real. If it were, I might very well play an ogre myself. Feel free to look for me... the name'll probably be something like Grantor\/\/1zzz3|2D, and I'll be going insane. Cheers.
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Has anyone seen any other online game where you have to cooperate this much? I think it is feasible, and not only that, I also think it is balanceable. Basically, it would simply be a matter of balancing when only one player plays, to make sure that noones try to be this only to have more hit points. For the movement, it could be "surimposed" If both press foward, it goes foward, if one presses forward, it goes foward. If one press foward the other left, it does both. If both press opposite direction, it cancel out.
It could be a mess to tie the control thogeter on the devs. side. But it would really create a new experience! Diverse experiences is what these games need to keep old players who want to try new things. I would hope it would be possible to choose who you will play with or go random. Maybe have rituals to transplant your spirit into another body too(changing partner). Etc.
Agreed, the idea is pretty cool, I hope it'll be in the game.
A couple of years back, Blizzard announced that it'll add a new race to Warcraft III, the Panda race, it was an April fool.
however, last year Blizzard added the Pandaren Brewmaster to Warcraft III's expansion, The Frozen Throne.
The IT section color scheme sucks.
Two heads isn't enough to have an orgy! That's just normal sex. It takes three or more. By the way, they even spelled it rong.
How ya like dat?
They also announced the Diablo II cow level on April 1. And everybody thought it was so funny, because it was an old joke from the first Diablo. And then it was true. Right out of the box. And then they all got to laugh at everybody else for not believing them.