Yeah, it had to be done… Sorry, a little slow on the verbiage here, was going to do a nice long review of Orcs Must Die, but I might have to circle back to that later…
Anyways, picked up this little gem for dirt dirt cheap an while I’ve never been a fan of “tower defense” type games, I have to say this was certainly enough to convert me! At first I was a bit hesitant, I mean, the main character looks like he’s missing his ultra high popped collar and maybe it was the little hippy angel on my shoulder shouting PETA propaganda against killing orcs, but man, I didn’t put a whole lot of stock into this game. And as per usual, that means I’ll eventually love it! Talk about gaming stockholm syndrome! Err, you get my drift.
In OMD (orcs must die), you play an obnoxious dude (and he’s supposed to be) that’s been tasked with keeping all the orcs from getting to the portals to someplace… Azeroth I assume… didn’t pay much attention. Anyways, you progress through the stages, each harder than the last, but get new tools and traps to help keep them pesky orcs at bay. You start off with a little money to spend on traps, but the more you kill on that stage, the more you can put down until you have an efficient orc murder machine that would be the envy of every chain fried chicken shop! And there are soooo many fun tools to roast an orc with! I swear, the developers are either geniuses or some kinds of closet sociopaths, because there are some pretty inventive ways of dealing with them green dudes.
Also, it’s not just a typical tower defender where you lay out traps, it’s actually more action oriented! Kind of 3rd person shooterish with a little hack and slash and magic in there. Like if Elder Scrolls had a zombie apocalypse, but with orcs. So it can be as hands on as you want it to be. And of course the replayability is pretty high; once you beat a level, you can replay once you’ve unlocked some nice new traps to beat it even faster and get more “skulls” which are used to upgrade your tools. Then there’s the super hard mode… haven’t gotten there yet, but it scares me a bit…
All in all, it’s an amazing game that you can sometimes find for an unimaginably low cost! Highly recommended, even if tower defense games aren’t your thing. Trust me, they weren’t mine, but try it out and you’ll be hooked!
So let’s hear it! What’s your favorite fantasy creature (well, the playable kind like in rpgs)? See, this whole OMD thing kinda turned me off at first cause I like the orcs. Sure, they’re a bit on the tough side, but you know under all those tusks and green skin is still a big ol squishy heart! They remind me of the Klingons a bit. You know, rough and warlike on the outside, but still sing opera and read poetry… Other than that, I’m a bit fond of the dwarves myself. Usually, given the choice, I end up with a dwarf hunter/ranger/archer or whatever I can possibly do to make it close enough to it… a hearty beard is sometimes enough to scrape by. >)
What are orcs? Everybody on horde plays goblins, blood elves, or tauren don’t they? (or maybe that’s just my server right now) Anyways come MoP everyone will be pandaren, it’s going to be disgusting, don’t you agree? Besides, city raids have nothing on classic world pvp, Crossroads fights with 200 people, for each faction, for the win!
poor orcs, one of the least played races… next to trolls of course. which boggles the mind, you know, cause of the smexy!
meh, not really into the whole panda thing yet. I’ll keep watching updates, but I’m just not sold on it.
ha! so you were there in wow-classic huh? man, those were the times! I remember getting caught in some crossroads raids and it was just pure chaos! or standing outside BRD and having a few horde/ally accidentally having raid night at the same time… not good for lowbies, but still a good show!
but even in wotlk, there was a dude on my server that would orchestrate a daily city raid tour and manage to get at the very least, a proper full raid of 40! sometimes 2 or 3! it was truly amazing! think by the time I left, he had over 100 raids done!
and talk about epic fights, remember when AV didn’t have timelimits and whatnot? I remember one that I was in for HOURS and ended up falling asleep… came back a few hours later to find that it was the same darn one! just amazing! don’t think I even saw an end to it actually.
While brd was fun outside pvp it had nothing and I mean NOTHING on AQ. My guild at the time of AQ was kinda largish, we opened the gates, forced the guy we had opening them to buy a new computer just so he wouldn’t crash, then of course our server crashed kalimidor for three days straight, but we got it done, anyways, we had a full 40 man for AQ40 with 50+ people who had to sit outside the instance the entire raid time just for the chance to fill in, well with AQ20 being just around the corner you can imagine the chaos that ensued due to the top alliance guild on the server raiding at the same time as us… wiping in raid and the run back was always interesting, especially when we were doing c’thun and ouro. Additionally, speaking of crossroads, I played a shaman, I loved the fact I could stand behind the “veil” and make alliance think “where the !@%$* did that lighting come from that just killed me?!”.
Regarding city raids, we actually did those a little differently in classic, we would team up with the other top 2 horde guilds on the server and raid alliance cities or we would bring “pets” and by “pets” I mean we would train world bosses to the cities, GMs didn’t like it much when we did this for some reason…
Speaking AV, I recall when I came back to WoW after about a year long break, I had moved, and I joined an AV and was like “what the !@*%$ I set aside an entire day for this and it’s over already?!”
oh god! I missed the AQ event some how! but I hear it was just an epic amount of mass murder! good times…
uhg, they ruined warzones… not exactly happy with how they did the bgs now. >\
On the comic: I haven’t played this one, but I have played OMD2 and maan that game. I love it soo much. Just the sheer carnage in itself is amazing. But as a former Alliance member (sooo much better than Horde :P) beating up orcs is a major plus.
On the poll: I’m surprised at you sir that you would leave out Vampires/Werewolves/etc. For shame.
But I’ve always loved Elementals the most, and I wish more games had it as a playable race (and not just something to beat up on/with). Just the thought of being able to control an aspect of nature, even if its just one, is fascinating because, if you lose control, you can throw the balance of nature completely out of whack by changing just one element. Having to exercise restraint is also an interesting aspect to an elemental’s character because of that very reason.
Spirits are equally as awesome, as long as they aren’t attached to something like Heaven or Hell cause then they are kinda boring :\. Same goes with demons, though demons should just be allowed to never care about where they are aligned and do what they want.
I like elves too, but man are they ever overdone. I mean, for a race that’s supposed to be mysterious and secretive, there sure are a lot of em prancing around doing whatever they want with their magics because they can.
Dwarves and Gnomes never get enough love in my opinion (mainly cause most games to care to give them any so nobody wants them and then the people who play them are like “QQ why nobody play this race” and RQ and role as elves.
Let me go on record to say that being a centaur would suck. Majorly.
Goblins also don’t get enough love, but other than being super rich, I don’t see what they have going for them. :\ Although in some cases its the Trolls who make ze monies and the goblins just harass children. Which is a plus I guess.
In a clear case of my vanity, I could never be an orc/ogre/troll. I just. No -_- (another reason I can’t be Horde. Yall are cool and all, but the only pretty ones are snobs. And I hate snobs….)
Did I miss anything? I don’t think so. I will stop rambling now XD
oh, how was 2? looks good too!
ah man, you’re right! though I wonder if you could roll werewolves in with the druid/shapeshifters?
you’re right though. elves are just way over done! I tend to be them if there’s no other good choice though… hell will freeze over before I play a human. but yeah, I do love me some of the short folks though! good ol dwarves! goblins I also like, maybe cause they’re short. >) and they remind me of gremlins.
Well dragons, blue dragons and nothing else for me…
my blue eyes!!! lol, yeah, dragon races are fun when you get to be them. though that tends to be kind of sparse in gaming.
Gotta be Orcs. Whether they are more sophisticated Horde…or Bloodthirsty ones. Whether they are Crazed trap fodder orcs or be the space pirates they are in Warhammer universe ( which is my 2nd favorite after the Horde ) I always seem to like them.
The only time they were not ”likeable” was when they were not much of a redeeming quality in LOTR but even then I was able to smile at their reactions on such occasions of when Rohirrim charge at them…when they put themselves on their catapults and so forth :D
orcs in pipe hats and monocles you say? jolly good!
yeah, those lotr orcs were kind of meh… but they seemed to appear a bit more on the ogre side than the big green teddy bears we know they really are.