World of darkness MMO

As many of you probably already know, the world of darkness mmo is rumored to be released sometime during 2011. Not much info has been released so far. With good reason too I'd say. There's actually a Twilight mmo with sparkly vampires coming, plus we have Funcom's Secret World. The whole Vampire thing has seen a real hype boom the past years, just like in the early 90's.
I am rambling now, so,, to the point. Crowd Control Productions (CCP) merged with White-Wolf a few years back, and CCP of course is the makers of EVE-Online, renowned for it's sophisticated and mature system. CCP is the guys making this WOD mmo. And here is a very early snack showing cloth animation, yes, I said Cloth animation. So, watch this in HD, and full screen, and don't pay too much attention to the model animations, although it might give you a pointer as to how good a rig you will need to play the game.
Enjoy




Feel free to discuss anything about this game.

I said Holey moley!

Nice ass graphics, only downside for me personally is that I'll need to buy yet another computer.
A bigger better one.
And bigger internet.

Wishfully I'd love to play this game.
Realisticly I cant afford to yet <.<
We'll see when 2011 hits us shall we?

Yes, it does indeed look quite nice. The facial things will be better further down the line too. So I think we can expect a very realistic game. 

My guess is that the game won't be released until early 2012, by that time you'd only need to spend 6000 kr for a more than average gaming rig which you'll be able to enjoy for many years. I still play on my PC, and that pc is 6 years old. Still run most new games on max graphics. I paid 10.000 6 years ago. 

What's interesting is that no one knows what gamelines will be introduced. Mortal? Vampire? Werewolf? Mage? Most people speculate that Vampire will be the one, but there are lots of chatter that the 3 major gamelines will be playable, either from the get go, or as expansions.

Alright, so. I've found some pictures at CCP, witch I find rather interesting. Looksie:


A lot of fear inducing pictures wouldn't you say?



This wall is littered with post-it thingies with many interesting places and things.

Locations? (yellow)
secondhand bookstore
military surplus store
salvation army clothing store
illegal gun shop
penthouse clubs
pet store
American city: gated neighborhoods, helter skelter (unsure) in every school, if you're black (??)
European city: nude (??), pedophile clubs, soccer hooligans
airplanes and helicopters flying overhead
opera house
dirty 7-11
End of the world (??)
huge libraries

Stuff that makes the world tick? (pink)
conversations overheard that lead to something
death sentences
"Times Square"
able to enter every generic building
half built houses, (??)
swimming pools by (??)
NPCs addicted to drugs while human
overgrown gothic garden (??)
atheists denying everything
home for the retards lonely people (unsure)
prisons
Amish families
Underground mazes!
Theater
Kittens =^.^=

More details? (orange)
Identification papers
"Venice" canals



Even more pictures and concept art that seem to fit the world of darkness very well.



And here are some concept art, it's not much, but it is all I have found that is solid.










What do you think by looking at this? Will the game be mature or not?

God, I am looking forward to this game. If I don't have a computer that can play this by the time it is released, I will begin selling internal organs until I can buy a computer capable of playing it.
That is how much I want this game.
To say the least, I have WoD withdrawal.

Yeah, by the things I've managed to dig up here, I'm realy starting to think this might turn out real good. It will be mature, that is for sure.

I hope it won't be just Vampires, although that would be easiest for the developers, next to human. But man, if Mages will be playable, damn, I'm dumping WoW without hesitation. Fuck Death Knights, I am going to be a damn Space mage bitch^^

Yeah. Most of the chatter around the interntet is that it would be probable that we will be able to play as Mortal and Vampire, because the vampire line is the biggest in WOD, and mortals, well, they are a step stone to all the other supers. Doing it that way makes it easier to implement Werewolf and Mage, or even Hunter expansions. Start out as mortal, then depending on your choices early ingame, you'll either be Embraced, Awaken, or whatever Werewolves do to become one.

Sounds nice if you ask me.

Uh, werewolves aren't created, they are born. The bite only allows others to know that the werewolf is a werewolf or something.

Okey! Nice!

It would make it a bit difficult to 'become' a werewolf then, since werewolves who haven't yet 'awoken' to put it that way, are still werewolves and have some of the traits, like higher aggression and a rather distinct smell. And often Spirits try to attack them as well.

I disagree, the "character" does not know that he is eligible to become a werewolf, hence it does not matter

no, but the player needs to know, so he can roleplay the werewolf traits.
Which brings up a good question, how will roleplay be in this game?

Yeah, but if your a mortal your not supposed to know much of the supernatural at first, so there is no need for a mortal to roleplay a werewolf now is there? When and if you achieve a super-template I recon you'll be filled in on the how's and why's. But in teh end, we don't know how this will play out

Role-play? By now, that's anyones guess. That is the aspect I hate about MMO's, most people don't care to roleplay. It's hard to enforce without resulting to some ridicolous rules. Nah, it's even hard to enforce with stupid rules.