05-10-2006, 09:47 PM
MongoJerry,May 10 2006, 05:22 PM Wrote:*Shrug* From someone who never played the Warcraft series, the new histories sounded pretty cool. I guess I also have more tolerance for allowing stories to change and evolve over time, especially when it comes to video game stories that, like too many action movies, are usually written on the fly to form an excuse for the action and gameplay. Stories and even histories evolve over time, depending on who tells the tale and what is known by the teller at the time.
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The irritating thing here isn't that the change in lore will affect myself (or any of us, really) in a real-world way. Tomorrow the sun will rise and the world will continue. But we expect better stewardship of the lore from Blizzard. Lore Geeks expect that Blizzard's devotion to continuity means that they won't go back and have Greedo Shoot First, if you will.
For those of us who enjoy the deep lore behind WoW, this breaks the immersive quality in the same way that seeing the cracks in the structure of Azeroth breaks the immersive experience of the game. Sargaras and the Eredar aren't real, but we want to believe the stories we've been told about them to be accurate and solid, not malleable at each turn of the plot.