05-10-2006, 10:57 PM
MongoJerry,May 10 2006, 01:22 PM Wrote:*Shrug* From someone who never played the Warcraft series, the new histories sounded pretty cool.
I played everything blizzard made except WC2X - and I have tried a couple of times to find a copy of that which will play on a modern machine.
Right now, I'm just in shock that they are going to get up front of thousands of people and sell them a hack job of this magnitude. If you are going to change the very start of your lore, the event nearly all conflict in your universe starts with to justify a plot twist... have it make a shread of sense. Why would an ancient race of shaman/sorcerers/priests, with access to dimensional ships and powerful extradimensional ships be so sad, and have the crap kicked out of them by the orcs, and allow their planet to be destroyed without even attempting to influence events?
WC3 had an excellent storyline, as far as games go. Arrogence, pride, mystery, corruption, betrayal, heroism, redemption, and a nice big cliffhanger to set up WoW. As far as I know, there are no glaring holes in its plot.
WC1 and WC2, I kindof give a pass to. I'm pretty sure they were made before Bliz was big enough to have somebody on the WC story full time. They also had an odd structure for telling a story, where when you play from each side, the same events turn out differently. WC3 was different, where you played the racial campaigns sequentially. In the expansion, for example, the NE campaign tries to track down Illidan as he attempts to gather artifacts to destroy Ner'zul. His aborted attempt is what forms the forsaken. Then you follow Illidan as he establishes himself as the lord of outland in the human(really bloodelf/naga/draenai) campaign. The first half of the undead campaign is the Forsaken breaking free, and the last half is Arthas racing to rescue Ner'zul from Illadin.
Not just breaking, but completly destroying the continuity of the story which I have followed for over a decade feels like it is turning the game into a purple hunt. It feels like there is no limit to how they will change the story now. It makes me think there will never be any kind of explanation for Balnazzar's survival (he was killed in WC3X). Maybe the human flying mount in the outlands will be black dragons - why not you could just go back and change the story to make it fit. Why follow the story or care, it's just going to be changed.
Quote:I'd be interested in reading your comments down in the shaman talents thread. Rereading your comments there, I don't see any criticisms of this calibre, so perhaps you can elaborate there.
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It's not that the shaman review is game breaking. It's just that I have this cherished illusion that a little bit north of me, there are a few hundred really smart people who really get games. If they screw up every now and again, it's because makeing a thing of this complexity is Hard. This illusion has taken several hits - 1.9 being a patch nightmare despite being a pretty minor patch, C'thun not having a trick to him, just being untuned, etc.. Two hits in a week are making me go "Why have I pretty much stopped playing other games, and am scheduling a portion of my life around a game if a sizable portion of the company apparently doesn't care what they are putting out?"
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