Drop everything, flush your life down the drain. Just give up on doing anything else, because PopCap has put Peggle into World of Warcraft.
It's like cutting heroin with meth. Two of the most addictive substances in all of gaming, suddenly and irreversibly combined into one life-stealing, girlfriend-angering, social-life-destroying elixir. Peggle, PopCap's psychedelic pachinko clone, and World of Warcraft, Blizzard's titanic MMOG. Together. At the same time.
The Bejeweled add-on was bad enough, but Peggle in WoW is a whole other story. This time, the intrepid coder behind both games, Michael Fromwiller, has taken a dip into game design as well, adding some Warcraftian twists to the Peggle formula.
All the stages (which are apparently brand new) are WoW themed, backdrops taken from different locales in Azeroth. Beyond that superficial change, Peggle in WoW adds "talent points" to the Peggle formula. Just like talents in WoW itself, spending these points (which are won after beating stages), nets you gameplay-altering skills, like a multiplier for style shots, or something called "Rolling Ignition," which gifts you with an extra green peg if you land a ball in a bucket after hitting a green peg.
And, just like in WoW, shots can "crit" for bigger scores. Crit rates can be increased with the right skills, too.
There's also a substantial multiplayer element to the add-on as well. You can challenge friends to high score contests where you each play a round and compare scores afterward, but the highest stakes competition comes in the form of the /peggleloot command. If you're the Master Looter in a raid or group, you type in that command and everyone with the add-on has to take a shot in the game. Whoever makes the highest score wins the loot.
I quit World of Warcraft some time ago, but I might just come back for this. Maybe. The biggest downside I can see is that there are only two characters in the game: Bjorn the stupid unicorn and Splork the alien. Where is my Spooky Ball, dammit?
You can download the add-on here, and to run it in-game, just type /peggle. You have been warned.
Does it still play "Ode to Joy" when you win, or does something else come up?
Sucks that only two masters are available right now.
Also, the fact that you can use Peggle to determine who gets fist pick at loot is going to mean a lot of people are going to be standing around a corpse for no apparent reason. I can't wait for a screenshot of a forty-man raid party just standing there for several minutes.
humanity might as well surrender themselves to a life of staying in front of the computer all day lol... good thing i don't play either game, i don't think i should either, considering the reputation they have of being life-destroying lol
There went any chance of my being productive in raids ever again.
You play a Druid, right? You were never productive to begin with.
We have battle rez and innervate :(
So if other people fail at their jobs then you become useful :P
No, that is just one of our many, many uses. Man, we have some of the best buffs in the game, a Boomkin or Feral can put out great DPS if they know what they're doing, Bear tanks are always useful, and Restos are really good efficient and mobile healers with a more proactive bent. Druids are awesome \m/
There went any chance of my being productive in raids ever again.
You play a Druid, right? You were never productive to begin with.
We have battle rez and innervate :(
So if other people fail at their jobs then you become useful :P
No, that is just one of our many, many uses. Man, we have some of the best buffs in the game, a Boomkin or Feral can put out great DPS if they know what they're doing, Bear tanks are always useful, and Restos are really good efficient and mobile healers with a more proactive bent. Druids are awesome \m/
It was a joke XD My main character is a druid. Being able to dps tank and heal in any raid/group is great.
I believe that tonight's raid will be the most fun of all. Ever.
I have dominated Bejeweled while waiting in WoW, and got "too many" of my raiding guildmates also into it. Now... we shall add Peggle to the reasons "why isn't anyone talking?!" questions!!!
Kuliani: I believe that tonight's raid will be the most fun of all. Ever.
I have dominated Bejeweled while waiting in WoW, and got "too many" of my raiding guildmates also into it. Now... we shall add Peggle to the reasons "why isn't anyone talking?!" questions!!!
Kuliani: I believe that tonight's raid will be the most fun of all. Ever.
I have dominated Bejeweled while waiting in WoW, and got "too many" of my raiding guildmates also into it. Now... we shall add Peggle to the reasons "why isn't anyone talking?!" questions!!!
Were you playing Anzac Hold 'Em back in the day?
No, I've never been a big fan of poker, so the few guys from the guild that did play did not enjoy my company.
Seriously, I've heard about this at least a year ago. I think -66% off Orange Box is more worthwhile. I mean, $10/10 EUR? Even if they are overpricing EU countries, it's much, much less than retail shops.
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Peggle Invades World of Warcraft
Drop everything, flush your life down the drain. Just give up on doing anything else, because PopCap has put Peggle into World of Warcraft.
It's like cutting heroin with meth. Two of the most addictive substances in all of gaming, suddenly and irreversibly combined into one life-stealing, girlfriend-angering, social-life-destroying elixir. Peggle, PopCap's psychedelic pachinko clone, and World of Warcraft, Blizzard's titanic MMOG. Together. At the same time.
The Bejeweled add-on was bad enough, but Peggle in WoW is a whole other story. This time, the intrepid coder behind both games, Michael Fromwiller, has taken a dip into game design as well, adding some Warcraftian twists to the Peggle formula.
All the stages (which are apparently brand new) are WoW themed, backdrops taken from different locales in Azeroth. Beyond that superficial change, Peggle in WoW adds "talent points" to the Peggle formula. Just like talents in WoW itself, spending these points (which are won after beating stages), nets you gameplay-altering skills, like a multiplier for style shots, or something called "Rolling Ignition," which gifts you with an extra green peg if you land a ball in a bucket after hitting a green peg.
And, just like in WoW, shots can "crit" for bigger scores. Crit rates can be increased with the right skills, too.
There's also a substantial multiplayer element to the add-on as well. You can challenge friends to high score contests where you each play a round and compare scores afterward, but the highest stakes competition comes in the form of the /peggleloot command. If you're the Master Looter in a raid or group, you type in that command and everyone with the add-on has to take a shot in the game. Whoever makes the highest score wins the loot.
I quit World of Warcraft some time ago, but I might just come back for this. Maybe. The biggest downside I can see is that there are only two characters in the game: Bjorn the stupid unicorn and Splork the alien. Where is my Spooky Ball, dammit?
You can download the add-on here, and to run it in-game, just type /peggle. You have been warned.
(WoW Insider)
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