“We don’t want to be The Monkees,” says WAR creative director

Warhammer Online creative director Paul Barnett has told Gametrailers in a video interview that WoW is like The Beatles, “and if you try and be like the Beatles, you’ll and end up like The Monkees. We don’t want to be The Monkees,” he said. “We’re Led Zeppelin.”

Quite. More down below.

By Mike Bowden

11 comments

Tiger Walts
19/08/08, 10:31 am

The band was called ‘The Monkees’.

morriss
19/08/08, 10:34 am

*blushes*

Cheers, Tiger.

Blerk
19/08/08, 10:37 am

Morriss shows his lack of age.

Tiger Walts
19/08/08, 10:41 am

It’s not the kind of thing you’d think of checking, mind. Why would it be spelt any other way. On the other hand, I always spell Zeppelin wrong and would have had to have checked that.

EdwardTivrusky
19/08/08, 10:42 am

I think that Monk-ies fits in more with the Warhammer/WoW fantasy genre. Just tell people it was meant as a pun, morriss.

morriss
19/08/08, 10:45 am

I don’t think you’re that much older than me, Blerk-o!

I watched all of the TV series when I was a kid. My favourite was Micky Dolenz.(sp?)

I just totally didn’t think! (excuses, excuses)

/is 33 in 6 weeks. :’(

Blerk
19/08/08, 10:45 am

For some reason my spell-checker doesn’t flag ‘The Beatles’ as a spelling error. Did ‘Beatle’ make it into the dictionary?

morriss
19/08/08, 10:47 am

AAARGH! All done now.

Whizzo
19/08/08, 10:57 am

I’d be more concerned about ending up as The Rutles, although with an MMO I suppose “All You Need Is Cash” to keep going.

#10

ruckus
19/08/08, 12:03 pm

They want to be Zeppelin? Well after reading ‘THE THIEVING MAGPIES: Jimmy Page’s Dubious Recording Legacy’ I’m not so sure he wouldn’t want to be The Monkees :/

#11

Tiger Walts
19/08/08, 12:08 pm

I’d say that they’re more Milli Vanilli than anything else.