10-25-2005, 10:49 AM
Checking the reviews and stuff made me remember one of the biggest beefs I had with WoW and their alleged "open world": Mountain placement. Or rather ridiculous non-sensical bloody annoying mountain placement.
I checked the areas I remembered and started to recall what I did in them, and invariably managed to give low scores to those regions that have impossibly-high mountains for no good reason along the coast to force you into the "Blizzard-approved Right Pathâ¢". I'm looking at you Azshara. And the Dustwallow Marsh (Yeah, think you can just swim accross the channel? We'll just place a whole bunch of mountains around it in an otherwise plain flat area, now run around like you're supposed to!). Other places had at least the excuse of warding off unfinished areas (like North of Stonetalon Mountains, for example), but not those. The race track in Thousand Needles? Tough, go all the way around the Barrens and down the stupid lift and all the way around back because we felt like warding off the coast with mountains to make you travel and feel that the world is "large".
And hey, I actually liked the Darkshore. It had the right mood for my dark elves. These gnomes have no taste :P :lol:
I checked the areas I remembered and started to recall what I did in them, and invariably managed to give low scores to those regions that have impossibly-high mountains for no good reason along the coast to force you into the "Blizzard-approved Right Pathâ¢". I'm looking at you Azshara. And the Dustwallow Marsh (Yeah, think you can just swim accross the channel? We'll just place a whole bunch of mountains around it in an otherwise plain flat area, now run around like you're supposed to!). Other places had at least the excuse of warding off unfinished areas (like North of Stonetalon Mountains, for example), but not those. The race track in Thousand Needles? Tough, go all the way around the Barrens and down the stupid lift and all the way around back because we felt like warding off the coast with mountains to make you travel and feel that the world is "large".
And hey, I actually liked the Darkshore. It had the right mood for my dark elves. These gnomes have no taste :P :lol: