WoW vs. Warcraft III roleplaying...

Here is a poll (or atleast me trying to put one up). What do you think is better? World of Warcraft roleplaying, or Warcraft III roleplaying? I say they counter-balance eachother out with their own pros and cons.

Warcraft III:
+Ability to build buildings and take control of multiple characters
+No threat of being attacked by Horde (or Alliance)
+Ability to shape the terrain (in the newer maps)
-An overdose of new players who are clueless to roleplaying
-Many griefers who join to piss you off
World of Warcraft:
+Equippable items (duh)
+Mounts
+Enterable 3D buildings
+Many, MANY players at any given time
+And something that has something to do with a certain private thing that's... technically illegal but will not be mentioned since I'm a good boy
-Many griefers who shun roleplaying
-The threat of being attacked by Horde (or Alliance)
-People who cyber
-People who could betray your guild

[Discuss] your opinions and what-not. I wanna hear them!

Originally Posted by I)eadnerzhul

-The threat of being attacked by Horde (or Alliance)

Reroll Normal RP server??
And what's so bad about the threat of being attacked by alliance?

See, on private servers (specially' the one I'm on), you usually have PvP servers. Sure, I PvP ALOT, but RP'ing is difficult on said servers. This all depends on your server, however. On the server I use RP'ing is both looked down on and enjoyed, and those who blindly hate it... Say you and someone else are Alliance. You roleplay. This Alliance player finds your "HQ", as they are called, and rolls a Horde to DELIBERATELY attack you. In most cases, people who RP on the private server suck at PvP, and we get squashed because of lack of skill.

Cyber? O.o this isnt diabli, how the hell can you cyber over WoW

Zippernoodle: Aww you make me so horny

mynameisbob: Oh yea show me whos boss

Zippernoodle: Aww man your naked lvl 68 Night elf its so hot and sexy, lets make CYBER BABIES

(Eh)

... Diabli...?

On to the topic:
I'd say Warcraft 3. Never played World of Warcraft, and don't plan to. I've seen it, and the RPing in it, and I really don't like that. On Warcraft 3 you have private games with people you know who wouldn't do stupid things. But that's getting harder, too... I just can't wait for Starcraft 2. Which, in my opinion, will probably bring back old Rpers and newer ones.

I believe that WoW provides a much better opportunity for individual roleplaying, your character can produce a wide variety of emotions, etc, that enhance realism.

in rping, WoW is better, but the game is so big, theres a alot of immature players.

It really depends. World of WarCraft is better in terms of developing storylines which you'll stick to for a long time (years, in some cases), and it's easier to progress your character.

Of course, in WarCraft 3 you don't need to follow Blizzard's lore, which is being beaten down right now (I believe that death knights loyal to horde/alliance, as any race, shall be the death blow). Oh, and as you're controlling entire kingdoms/empires etc. at a time (unless you like being wanderers), nobody can walk into a city and begin dancing naked to a guard, screaming insults out (like is seen on WoW, oh so many times).

Maybe it's just me, but in WoW the game itself always distracts me from RPing. I've always rolled on RP-PvP realms but I've only actually roleplayed a couple times because I always seemed to get pulled away to raiding or pvp.

Besides Wc3 gives you so much more control. :)

Well, WoW rping can get boring fast. That and "i can randomly summon my mount!" and the fact that you can-NOT roleplay as multiple people at once. Though I lack all the noobs and RP-haters because of the server I'm on.

Where as, WC3 RP allows for you to be 5 different people at the same time and make whatever you want. Sure -- the terrain is limited most of the time, but that's okay.

They're both good, but for different things.

When standing next to World of WarCraft, WarCraft IV would annihilate it completely. WarCraft III for the total win and best game Blizzard Entertainment has ever made, even though World of WarCraft became more financially successful.

~Craka_J

Let's look at the key words here. Would annihilate it completely. Would. As in it didn't happen yet, and probably won't because Blizzard likes to beat up the things it makes by turning it into an MMO.

Is could or should a better word?

~Craka_J

Should fits the bill perfectly, actually! Since they SHOULD make a new game, but they're too busy rolling around in the piles of cash.

Lol good one, I prefer wc3 roleplaying, as you have more controll and are not limited, and btw, I (and a hell of a lot of other people) have found a way to let people wear armours. (Just change the model of the Flag 'unit' you know, the one used for capture the flag and such)